Knossos Palace Guided Walking Tour: Skip-the-Line Entry This is a roughly 1.5-hour guided walking tour of the Palace of Knossos led by a licensed guide, with skip-the-ticket-line entry and the €20 site admission included in the price. It’s rated about 4.9 stars across 1,400-plus reviews, runs in English, and meets at the ticket booth. Because … Read more
Knossos Palace 3D Virtual Reality Audio Tablet Tour This is a self-guided tablet experience at the Palace of Knossos: you rent a mini tablet loaded with a 3D reconstruction of the palace plus audio commentary in eight languages, and follow it at your own pace. It costs from around €20 and includes skip-the-line access to … Read more
Knossos, Lasithi, Zeus Cave & Olive Mill Farm Combo Tour This combo day tour links four Cretan highlights in one trip: the Palace of Knossos, the Lasithi Plateau, the Zeus Cave at Psychro, and a working olive mill farm where you see how oil is produced. It runs as a guided group tour with transport … Read more
Knossos + Heraklion Museum Combined Ticket: The Facts The old official combined ticket covering both the Palace of Knossos and the Heraklion Archaeological Museum was discontinued in a recent Greek ticketing reform, so you now generally buy each separately — around €20 for Knossos and a separate fee for the museum. Pairing the two still … Read more
Free Entry Days & Discounts at Knossos: Who Qualifies The Palace of Knossos is free to enter on the first and third Sundays of each month from November to March, plus several national free-admission days such as March 6, April 18, May 18, the last weekend of September, and October 28. Under-18s and EU citizens … Read more
Knossos Entry Ticket + Digital Hellenic Heritage Guide This ticket pairs entry to the Palace of Knossos — Crete’s largest Minoan site — with a downloadable digital Hellenic Heritage audio guide you follow on your own phone. It costs from around €22, a little above the €20 official gate price, with the premium covering the … Read more
Knossos Entry Ticket + Heraklion Self-Guided Audio Tour This ticket combines timed entry to the Palace of Knossos — the largest Minoan site on Crete — with a self-guided audio tour of Heraklion you follow on your phone. It costs from around €27, a little above the €20 official gate price, with the premium covering … Read more
Heraklion Hop-On Hop-Off Bus Tour to Knossos, Crete The Heraklion hop-on hop-off bus is a flexible sightseeing service covering the city, the Ammoudara beach area and a stop serving the Palace of Knossos, valid for about 48 hours. It costs from around €15 with multilingual audio commentary. Crucially, it’s transport only — the Knossos entry … Read more
