Athos Sea Cruises Κρουαζιέρες στο Άγιο Όρος - Athos Sea Cruises Κρουαζιέρες στο Άγιο Όρος

I wasn't that bored since high school. I feel asleep after half an hour of not seeing anything interesting. Unfortunately i woke up in 15minutes and couldn't fell asleep again. So i had nothing else to do but watch the boring island from half of kilometer distance. I thought there will be at least some dolphins but unfortunately they didn't show up. Speakers on cruise ship are bad quality and you can't hear everything. 20€ for 3 hours of boredom. Trip was 1/5, but i have 2/5 because of the kind staff.

The most BORING boat cruise in my life. I fell asleep almost in the end of seeing last monastery and listening voice guide through the speakers which was monotonous and hard to understand. The monasteries are all the same, nothing special. If you want to have a great experience seeing monasteries even inside I highly recomended trip to Meteora which is definitely worth the time unlike this trip ??

BIG REGRET! Travelled with a group of friends and one of their property got stolen. Was promised a private beach - wasn't true. Arrived and there were plenty of other random people. Most of us ended up with no food when we arrived there as they had ran out food which wasn't ideal as we were on a boat for 4 hours before arriving to the private beach. One of us ordered a chicken sandwitch which had raw chicken in it! Their excuse was that there were so many of us that they felt under pressure. This is unacceptable! I feel like the whole trip was missold. I wanted to go as we were promised to stop off and visit the monasteries. We were never told that we were just going to sail past them and that's it. It was from such a far distance that I could barely see them. Lastly our trip got cut short by 45mins we were told to leave as a apparently a storm was coming and there was no storm in the end. Extremely unprofessional - didn't get compensation for the stolen property or at least a refund for the trip. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY.

Avoid at all cost. Mis-sold, was stuck on an old boat for 3 hours seeing monasteries from a far when we were told we would be visiting a monastery. Was promised a secluded private beach where our party of family and friends would have the beach to ourselves but when we arrived at the beach it was full of another boat full of people we didn’t know. The grassy seating area just above the beach was full of rubbish and filthy. My friend’s property was stolen while we were on the beach, so beware thieves operate on this beach. We were promised that we could buy lunch on the beach but the place serving food was poorly stocked and ran out of food, so there was no food for most of our party to buy, leaving lots of adults and kids hungry and unhappy. The small amount of food that was purchased was extremely slow to be made, as the place making the food was under staffed - our party booked the cruise the day before the cruise took place, so the place serving the food should have been prepared for our parties arrival and should have had adequately stocked with enough food. We were ushered onto the boat to leave the beach much earlier than we were promised, so the cruise was shorter than we agreed. The representative from the cruise called Tania promised a lot but in reality delivered very little. Really disappointed, would not recommend this cruise to anyone.

The cruise was good, the best view is from the seats on the left side of the boat. Bring some bread or bisquits, Seaguls are following the boat throughout the whole trip and you can feed them from hand. Monasteries visible from the boat are a mixture of really old ones (800 years +) with a few built in 19th century. If you have it, bring your binoculars with you since you will be cruising 500m from the shore and won't be able to see details without it. Beverages are cheap to buy on the boat.

The trip was fine. It took us more than 3 hours (and i think that this might be an often problem). I did not understand why on the way back, the ferry stayed even further from the shore than the allowed 500m distance.

Would NOT recommend. Was sold as, we will visit the monastery. We thought we would get off and walk around but they forget to tell you that you just sail past them at a distance. You can't really see much and you end up sitting on an old boat for nearly 3 hours bored. Then we was told we go to a private beach to have lunch. When we got there we couldn't even sit down it was so busy, took the other party nearly 30 minutes before they left. When we finally sat down to order food we had raw chicken and the rest had sold out so most didn't eat or just had to have chips. They then cut our stay short by 45 minutes (everyone was still swimming and having fun) and to top it off belongings were stolen with no compassion from the staff. Once they have your money they don't care. No refunds or compensation, basically felt scammed. TRUST ME, DONT WASTE YOUR MONEY.

The tour around the monasteries is inspiring. They play an audio recording with information of each passing monastery in 4 languages