Private Tour
Delphi Private Full Day Tour from Athens
Overview
Available languages
10 hours
Mobile ticket
Visit the most famous oracle of the antiquity and feel like an ancient pilgrim who waits for an oath from Pythia but be careful because the answer is always in your soul! That was the way ancient Greeks were thinking. Climb up one of the sites that UNESCO protects and feel the awe about the landscape and the humans’ intellect!
Additional Info
Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Specialized infant seats are available
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
The drivers are not licensed to accompany you inside any site or museum. If you require a licensed guide to tour the sites with you, you need to hire one additionally. If you have any questions you can contact us on the phone number provided by Viator.
The duration of the tours is approximate, the exact duration will depend on the time of day and traffic conditions.
Our company complies with all the health instructions of the World Health Organization about COVID-19.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What‘s Included
Bottled water
Hotel/ AirBnb/ Port pick up & drop-off
Professional Drivers with Deep knowledge of history. [Not licensed to accompany you in any site.]
Transport by private vehicle
Delphi Arch. site & Museum, Hosios Loukas Monastery
Licensed Tour guide upon request depending on availability [Additional cost - 380 €]
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
What To Expect
Livadia
Livadeia is a town in central Greece. It is the capital of the Boeotia regional district, it lies 90 km north-west of Athens.
Mount Parnassus
We will be on the slopes of Mount Parnassus before reaching Delphi.
Options
Delphi Private Tour
Pickup included
Reviews
79 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
The best driver to Delphi!!
Renee S,
Sep 27, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Dimitris was the most wonderful driver to Delphi! Great conversation regarding Delphi. Pointing out all and or any interesting sites along the way. We would definitely recommend Dimitris and Olive Sea Travel for another trip! He was the BEST!! Thank you
Best Guide Ever! (Manos)
justintO7662GK,
Aug 21, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00This was such a great tour! Our guide, Manos, was friendly and knowledgeable. He went out of his way to make sure we got amazing pictures and had a great time. I highly recommend doing this private tour.
Wonderful time with Chris!
GrandTour763359,
May 26, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Four friends scheduled a full day tour to Delphi with a stop at a monastery along the way. We also paid extra for a private tour guide to walk us through Delphi museum and the ruins. Chris was a great driver and was very knowledgeable. He took us to a delicious restaurant with a wonderful view for lunch. Even with some car trouble on the way home, he made sure our safety was a priority. We made it back to our hotel safe and sound and even beat the traffic due to the delay!
Delphi in a day
mikesJ3696SN,
May 15, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Our guide, Andreas, was amazing. He was very friendly and knowledgeable. We really enjoyed our trip. The day started from Plaka so the day was long but everything went great .
Manos is your man!
241ritikaa,
Apr 15, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Manos from Olive Sea Travel is an excellent driver. He has a great sense of humor and loves to share his depth of knowledge. The car was clean and comfortable. He made a few impromptu stops and is a professional photographer (so that’s an added bonus). We had a great day trip to Delphi.
Andreas did a great job.
0JohnG,
Feb 24, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Andreas was very well informed with the history of the area and made the journey most enjoyable as well as educational. I/we would highly recommend hiring him for your guiding and driving requirements.
Had a fantastic day trip to Delphi with Olive Sea Travel! Alexander was knowledgeable, friendly, and incredibly helpful!
Sriram N,
Jul 28, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Had a fantastic day trip to Delphi with Olive Sea Travel! Alexander was knowledgeable, friendly, and incredibly helpful!
Lovely drive through countryside to visit Delphi and monastery
Lynn K,
Jun 27, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00My husband and I hired a driver through Olive Sea Travel and Viator to take us to Delphi. It took us 2.5 hours for Babis to drive the 121 miles from Athens to Delphi. We had a wonderful day with our driver Babis. He is an interesting and knowledgeable Greek who speaks perfect English. He told us about the beautiful Greek countryside that we drove through. Because Babis is not a licensed guide he could not accompany us inside the Delphi Archaeological Site or t he Delphi Museum. Thankfully the signage was fairly good at both places, so we could understand a lot about what we were seeing. It was helpful that I read the Delphi section of Rick Steves’ Greece tour book. It would have been nice to have had a licensed guide, but we waited too long to request one. Babis was an excellent guide for the part of the trip not inside the Delphi archaeological site and its museum. He is a safe and expert driver, which matters on mountainous roads. The views at Delphi are spectacular and inspirational. It is easy to understand why the site had religious significance for so many years. At Delphi’s Temple of Apollo supplicants asked questions of the priestess know as the Oracle or Pythia. The Oracle’s ambiguous prophesies were interpreted by the temple’s priests. The supplicants made donations which were stored on site in treasuries. The buildings date to 7th to 4th century BC. Although the view from Delphi’s Temple of Apollo is fantastic, the remaining buildings at Delphi are more like structural shells. You see the footprint of the building, but almost nothing in the way of friezes or sculptures. (However, make sure you look for the replica of the Omphalos cone-shaped boulder (navel of Gaia) that marked the center of the universe. The original Omphalos is in the museum.) All the valuable Delphi sculptures, friezes and wall paintings are displayed in the lovely adjoining Delphi museum. The indoor storage protects them from rain, snow, pollution and theft. There are some beautiful pieces of art. Because the museum signage was not exceptionally clear, I could not understand which frieze came from which Delphi ancient building, although that probably doesn’t matter. After we toured the Delphi site and museum, Babis took us to the Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia a half mile (?) from the Delphi museum. The parking here is very limited so we were lucky to get a spot. (This stop is not on the official itinerary but we had time.) At this spot lay an older cult site, possibly dedicated to Gaia (the Earth). The site was quiet, with no employees or facilities and few visitors. The views of the mountains and valleys are similar to those at Delphi, but at a somewhat lower elevation. The Sanctuary of Athena Pronaia has a spectacular circular-shaped monument that I found very unusual and beautiful. I did not see other circular ancient structures during our 18 day visit to Greece. This structure is called a Tholos. According to my Rick Steves tour book, many photographers like to photograph this temple/sanctuary. Part of the described itinerary for our tour was to visit a monastery. We thought it might be skippable, except for a bathroom break. We did not know how long it would take us to visit the Delphi ancient site and museum, so we asked to visit the monastery on the way back to Athens. It turned out that visiting the Monastery of Hosios Loukas was a wonderful experience. A month after our visit I still savor the memory of sitting on the patio under the shade of some huge trees, admiring the peace and tranquility of the surrounding agricultural fields and rolling hills and mountains. A monk sat nearby. It was idyllic. We enjoyed a cold cappuccino fredo, refreshing on a hot day. The Byzantine Monastery of Hosio Loukas was founded in the early tenth century. Serving as a pilgrimage site, the monastery likely had a large number of monks in the past, but now has only six. Babis said several years ago a brush fire had approached the monastery but had been stopped just in time. The monastery is a large graceful series of connected brick buildings. We toured the small museum. We visited the monastery’s church. It had beautiful marble floors. Candles were lit. It was a nice experience. We are glad we visited. We recommend this tour to Delphi and the monastery. Ask that Babis be your driver.
Highly recommend
xiaoyingzhong,
Jun 1, 2024
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Awesome tour! Our driver / guide Alexander was super nice and knowledgeable - great stories and lessons on Greek Mythology :) we also had a wonderful lunch at Delphi with incredible views.
Wonderful day with an enthusiastic driver, who was extremely well educated and enthusiastic!
Bonnie H,
May 20, 2024
- Review from Viator
5.00Our day was perfect and our driver was exceptional. He was very qualified to tell us all pertinent information throughout our drive, and his enthusiasm was wonderful. It was the first tour, of 4 and it was perfect! We really enjoyed his wonderful personality, and depth of knowledge. He stopped at all the right places we wanted and he was a pleasure to spend the day with! We highly recommend this tour company. It didn’t say a couple of things that another company listed, but all we had to do was say we wanted to stop, and he did!
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