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Half Day Melissani Lake and Drogarati Cave Tour with Myrtos Swim Discover beautiful Kefalonia
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48 Ratings
Argostolion
Explore the stunning beauty of Kefalonia. This tour can be customized to your preferences. Experience the luxury of private transportation. The friendly driver will gladly capture memorable moments for you. Create cherished keepsakes that will last a lifetime!
Explore the stunning beauty of Kefalonia. This tour can be customized to your preferences. Experience the luxury of private transportation. The friendly driver will gladly capture memorable moments for you. Create cherished keepsakes that will last a lifetime!
Duration:
4 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Melissani Cave - Located just outside Sami in Kefalonia, Melissani Cave is one of Greece’s most stunning tourist spots. Inside the cave, there’s a picturesque lake surrounded by lush trees and forests. The cave has a unique B-shape, and centuries ago, the roof of one of its halls collapsed, allowing sunlight to stream in beautifully. The lake’s…
- Melissani Cave - Located just outside Sami in Kefalonia, Melissani Cave is one of Greece’s most stunning tourist spots. Inside the cave, there’s a picturesque lake surrounded by lush trees and forests. The cave has a unique B-shape, and centuries ago, the roof of one of its halls collapsed, allowing sunlight to stream in beautifully. The lake’s depth ranges from 20 to 30 meters. After a brief transfer, you can enjoy a boat ride on the lake, a natural wonder. Around seven rowing boats, each accommodating about 10 people, are available. Guides will explain the lake’s formation.
- Drogarati Cave - A must-see in Kefalonia, Drogarati Cave was discovered 300 years ago and opened to the public in 1963 after an earthquake revealed its entrance. This impressive cave features stunning stalactites and stalagmites and is estimated by speleologists to be around 150 million years old, making it a rare geological marvel. Note that there are approximately 150 steps down into the cave, with handrails installed, though some areas can be uneven and slippery.
- Myrtos Beach - Myrtos Beach is a top attraction in Kefalonia, located 29km north of Argostoli in a picturesque area surrounded by beautiful hills. It has gained international fame and has been voted the best beach in Greece multiple times!
- Koutavos Lagoon Argostoli - The Koutavos Lagoon is a fantastic nature reserve home to wildlife such as the Caretta Caretta turtle and various bird species. Situated near the head of Argostoli Bay, the town’s largest park is a shady forest of eucalyptus and pine trees, accessible by walking or cycling along the wide trail that circles the lagoon from the harbor front. Before the Drepano Bridge was built in 1813 to improve access to Argostoli from settlements across the bay, the lagoon was an almost impassable bog plagued by mosquitoes and malaria. A small islet in the lagoon’s center is off-limits to visitors as it serves as a nesting and feeding area for waterfowl.
What's Included
- Bottled water included
- Bottled water included
What's Not Included
- ENTRANCES to Caves are not included ENTRACE FOR TWO CAVES 13 E
- Entrance fees
- ENTRANCES to Caves are not included ENTRACE FOR TWO CAVES 13 E
- Entrance fees
Location
Argostolion
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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(48 Ratings)
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765elenai
Oct 5, 2025
Great trip, thanks a lot Giota and Thalassa - Great day trip to Half Day Melissani Lake and Drogarati Cave Tour with Myrtos Swim with Giota, she's special, funny, well iinformed, generous (thanks for the wine and snaks and joy while car battery was off). Kefalonia is wonderful especially when travelling with lovely people. Definitely recomend this trip with Giota and any other with Thalassa Agency, they are so kind, helpful and welcoming people.
Big hugs,
Elena
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Gerasimosg835
Aug 27, 2025
Amazing staff and locations - Thanos was an amazing tour guide who was very mindful and knowledgeable about all of the locations visited. He also made sure to avoid the long line at Melissani which was extremely helpful. All of the staff was very accommodating and flexible which I greatly appreciate.
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Smi32d75
Aug 10, 2025
Great trip, friendly guide who went above and beyond - The tour exceeded our expectations, partly down to our fantastic tour guide Thanos who provided useful information, humour and even helped us to book a gluten free meal in a restaurant for the following day. He went above and beyond. Each site was busy and you only needed about 15-20 min in the caves and lagoon. The beach was 1hr which was plenty in the heat. We also had a private mini van to ourselves as a family of 8 including grandparents. The lagoon and caves are a must but make sure you don’t arrive too early or too late.
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Gtiger
Aug 1, 2025
Melissani Lake, caves and Myrtos beach photo stop. - The tour bus picked us up from our hotel which was a bonus. The tour guide, Patricia was very knowledgeable and accommodating. She spoke English, Italian and Greek. The tour was breathtaking and luckily the lake was not too busy with many tours. I would definitely recommend this tour to someone visiting Kefalonia.
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Adventurer687666
Jul 24, 2025
Melissani Cave was amazing and Myrtos Beach. - We have visited Melissani cave it was worth our time and Myrtos beach. Thassos is one of the best tour guide. Thalassa group tour is highly reccomended if you are visiting Kafelonia.
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Hollylh4986yc
Sep 21, 2025
No tour, just transportation. - Transportation was provided in a comfortable van which was air conditioned. The excursion included a lot of driving and a lot of waiting in line. The one down side was that we were expecting our tour guide to give us somewhat of a tour in between sights. He didn’t speak any English and so there wasn’t any kind of “tour”.
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Bobfj811tf
Aug 13, 2025
Poor guide, late departure time and poor site time mgmt, lack of willingness to work with customers. - Arriving at the Argostoli port on Aug 6 at 10:20am for a 10:30am scheduled excursion, we were told to go to the Thalassa office and were told to wait only to depart over 40 mins late! Our tour guide was only able to speak broken english. We started with Drogarati Cave which was impressive. We then drove to Melissani Lake only to find a 2+ hour waiting line. Given our back-to-cruise-port time and the tour length, the driver suggested we skip it and go straight to Myrtos. We asked about compensation for missing 1/3 of our tour and because of his broken english, our driver called and had me speak with the Thalassa office where they offered "there is nothing we can do about it...just go to the beach". Even with skipping the lake, we only had 45 mins for the swim on a VERY rocky (but beautiful) beach...so it was doubtful we could have done all stops even if there had been no waiting line at the lake due to our late departure. We felt the tour company could have offered an english speaking guide, could have departed on time, could have done better planning regarding realistic time mgmt of sites visited, could have divulged that Myrtos beach was rocky and really required surf shoes to swim, and they could have compensated us for missing over 1/3 of our excursion due to lines and a late departure! While the sites we were able to see were impressive, I wouldn't recommend working with this company to visit them!!!!!!!
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Graham_s
Aug 7, 2025
Beach was great, about all we did - We did the first thing we did was the plain cave. LOTS of steps there too. We didn't do the cave of the nymphs because of the 1.5 hour wait. We did get an hour at the beach which was beautiful. We drove about half the time and left late. We then had to ask for the water. I'd do just the beach.
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Thomaskm1722ti
Sep 9, 2025
Just a Car Ride, dropoffs - This is just a car ride to the places, dropoff and pickup when finished - the driver waits. If you are more than a single person, it's much better to hire a private car. It's not a guided tour (no history, background, description). Our driver was a sweetheart but didn't speak English. Made the most of it but would
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Janet_h
Aug 6, 2025
Not worth the time or money. - This was one of the worst excursions I have been on during a cruise, and I have been on many. We were 45 minutes late leaving because we were waiting on 2 people, we were only given 20 minutes to walk up and down the steps to the cavern, we didn't even get to go to the cave because the wait was over 2 hours, we only got a little over 45 minutes to see/swim at the beach, and we never saw or stopped at the village we were supposed to do so shopping for souvenirs was out as well. While nice, our driver spoke so English so it was a silent ride. We are used to someone telling us about the area or things we pass so that we can learn about things, but that didn't happen. Overall I would be hard pressed to recommend this tour to anyone. 😒
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