coach excursions from Plakias

[robludlow]

Hi everybody
We'll be in Plakias in mid- September for a couple of weeks.  If you have just returned (or are there right now) would you have any idea of whether there are some interesting coach excursions to go on at the moment- we are not to keen on driving a hire car while we are there, but love to get a bit further afield if we can.
Best wishes, Robert

[Mike from Sussex]

I am not awarer of any coach excursions (perhaps other members know better), but there are boat trips (leaving from the jetty) and you can use the bus service to visit e.g. Rethymnon. If you are up for some fairly heavy climbs, you can explore the surrounding area by pushbike, which can be rented in Plakias.

Good luck,

Mike

[LinR]

Hi, I remember going on a reps tour years ago to Knossos, it was well worth a visit.

Lin

[Tony and Sandra Smith]

We have done a trip with a very early start fom Plakias to the Samaria gorge for an early morning decent and then back in the afternoon to Chora Sfakion then a hair raising coach through small narrow villages back to Plakias. The travel companies in the town can usually arrange the trip.
Also the car rental place/herbshop/olive wood shop on Damnoni beach run 4 by 4 safaris several times a week up into the mountains.

Tony

[Barny]

There is a lot of stuff advertised at the place next to Lamon on the corner of the road that leads up to the chemist, I didn't read it but looked like trips out.

                               Barny, (back in England)

[Hugo V]

We have no experience because we always rent a car and travel independently, but I seem to recall that Anso Travel is advertizing excursions from Plakias. They are located on the main road in the center of Plakias.  Here is their website:
http://www.ansovillas.com/pages/active-holidays.html.
Have fun in Plakias.  We will be back on October 11.
Hugo

[harribobs]

                               Barny, (back in England)

arrr  poor barny....

least you got there
 

[Barny]

I did, but seems ages ago now!

                Barny.

[robludlow]

Many thanks to the kind people who replied to my post with various tips and suggestions - yes, we will check out the travel agents.  Last year one of the good things about staying near Kolymbari on an Olympic package was a variety of good coach trips out - we saw some mountain villages we just wouldn't have fancied driving up to by ourselves.
Cheers to all
Robert