Private & Small Group Experiences from Chalkida
Discover Evia through a collection of carefully designed day experiences combining local culture, coastal beauty, authentic flavours and effortless comfort. Guests are picked up directly from their hotel and enjoy a seamless half-day or full-day outing with selected stops, memorable scenery and refined hospitality — each one designed to reveal the true spirit of the island.
Why Choose Us
We do more than organise excursions. We design experiences that reveal the spirit of each destination through a balance of comfort, authenticity and style.
Every experience includes:
- Hotel pickup and return from Chalkida, Eretria and selected nearby areas
- Thoughtfully selected locations and itineraries
- Authentic local character and storytelling
- Gastronomy, wine and island flavours
- Comfort, aesthetics and personal service
- Private or small-group hospitality
- Instagrammable Stops & Guided Content Creation
- Audiovisual Memory Package
- Exclusive Local Access
- Gifts, a small taste of Evia to take home
Also you can choose your own daily visits:
- Athens City Tour
- Agios Ioannis / Osios David / Drimonas Waterfalls
- Kimi and Traditional Baklava Preparation
- Karystos, Dragon Houses, Demosari Gorge
- Aidipsos, Thermal Springs and Lihadonissia
- Delfi Archeological Site
- Meteora
EXPERIENCE 01 — Chalkida Signature Experience
A stylish immersion into Evia’s vibrant capital — where an ancient tidal wonder, Ottoman heritage and Aegean flavours meet in one effortless morning.
Duration: 4–5 hours Pickup: 10:00 from your hotel Return: Early afternoon
Description: Experience the living miracle of the Euripus — the tidal phenomenon that baffled Aristotle himself, where the waters reverse direction up to fourteen times a day, defying every known oceanographic pattern. From there, explore Chalkida’s layered history through a relaxed walk along its scenic seafront promenade, through the Venetian Kastro quarter, past the historic Red House and the Ottoman Mosque — each stop a quiet revelation of a city that has been at the crossroads of civilisations for millennia. The experience closes with an early lunch or food stop at a carefully selected waterfront venue, where Aegean seafood, local mezedes and a tsipouro or wine tasting complete the picture.
Itinerary:
- 10:00 · Hotel pickup
- 10:20 · The Euripus Phenomenon — guided storytelling at the old bridge
- 10:50 · Waterfront Promenad, Red House & Ottoman Mosque
- 11:45 · Kastro & Museum
- 12:30 · Xenia castle Cafe Experience with Instagram Photo Shoot
- 13:30 · Wine tasting at local Winery
- 14:30 · Local Flavours — early lunch or tasting experience at a selected venue
- 16:00 · Return to hotel
What’s Included:
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Private guided exploration of Chalkida
- Storytelling around the Euripus tidal phenomenon
- Guided walk through the Kastro, Red House and Mosque
- Scenic waterfront promenade with photo stops
- Light lunch or tasting experience at a selected venue
- Local wine or tsipouro tasting with mezedes
- All transfers, guiding and logistics
Ideal for: Couples · First-time visitors · Leisure travellers · Cultural guests
Experience Style: Coastal · Authentic · Easy-going · Elegant
Price: 180 euros per person (min. 4 persons) Private (upon request)
Whatsapp booking: 00306948349392 & E: giannakisge@gmail.com
EXPERIENCE 02 — Truffle Hunting & Mountains of Evia
History, sea breeze and the thrill of the hunt — an immersive cultural day combining ancient Eretria, truffle foraging on Dirfys and seaside gastronomy.
Duration: 5–6 hours Pickup: 10:00 from your hotel Return: Early afternoon
Description: Designed for travellers who appreciate depth and atmosphere, this experience brings together two of Evia’s most compelling dimensions — its ancient past and its extraordinary natural landscape. The day begins in Archaeological Sites, where Euboean history comes to life through artefacts and storytelling. From there, the experience ventures into the fir forests of Mount Dirfys for a seasonal truffle-hunting outing with an expert guide and trained dogs — an activity that is genuinely unique in all of Greece. The day closes with a relaxed lunch at a traditional restaurant, with local Manu, wines and time simply enjoyed by the river.
Itinerary:
- 10:00 · Hotel pickup
- 10:30 · Archaeological Site
- 11:15 · Traditional village
- 12:00 · Truffle Hunting on Mount Dirfys with expert guide (seasonal)
- 13:00 · Forest Bathing & Mindfulness experience
- 13:30 · Lunch by the river
- 15:00 · Return to hotel
What’s Included:
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Visit though the Archaeological Site
- Truffle hunting experience on Mount Dirfys (seasonal)
- Expert guide with trained truffle dogs
- Lunch at a traditional restaurant
- Meditation & Forest Bathing
- Tasting of local products and Euboean flavours
- All transfers and logistics
Ideal for: Couples · Mature travellers · Cultural guests · Small groups
Experience Style: Cultural · Tasteful · Relaxed · Atmospheric
Price: 220 euros per person (min. 4 persons) Private (upon request)
Whatsapp booking: 00306948349392 & E: giannakisge@gmail.com
EXPERIENCE 03 — Wine Roads of Central Evia
A premium journey through Evia’s wine country — barrel rooms, ancient vines, guided tastings and a gourmet pairing that lingers long after the last sip.
Duration: 4–5 hours Pickup: 10:00 from your hotel Return: Early afternoon
Description: The Chalkida–Central Evia wine region carries a winemaking heritage that stretches back to antiquity, yet remains one of Greece’s best-kept secrets. This experience takes guests into the heart of that tradition — through a guided visit to a selected estate, a structured tasting led by the winemaker or sommelier, and a gourmet lunch or curated pairing platter that brings the island’s flavours into full focus. The drive itself is part of the experience: central Evia’s landscape of hills, olive groves and vineyards provides a setting that feels far removed from the usual tourist circuit, and entirely its own.
Itinerary:
- 17:00 · Hotel pickup — scenic drive through central Evia
- 17:40 · Winery arrival — guided vineyard and cellar tour
- 18:30 · Structured wine tasting with expert guidance
- 19:00 ·Mediterranean curated pairing platter with olive oil / honey
- 20:00 · Return to hotel
What’s Included:
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Private transfer through central Evia’s landscape
- Guided tour of winery and vineyard estate
- Structured wine tasting with expert guidance
- Curated pairing platter
- Local cheese, honey, olive oil and seasonal accompaniments
- Scenic stops for photos and relaxation
- All logistics and expert guiding
Ideal for: Couples · Honeymooners · Premium travellers · Incentive groups
Experience Style: Premium · Gourmet · Local · Sophisticated
Price: 120 euros per person (min. 4 persons) Private (upon request)
Whatsapp booking: 00306948349392 & E: giannakisge@gmail.com
EXPERIENCE 04 — Slow Day: Sea, Wine & Local Flavours
This experience does not sell sightseeing — it sells a feeling. Made for couples, honeymooners and those who travel to truly arrive.
Duration: 4–5 hours Pickup: Flexible — tailored to your day Return: Leisurely
Description: There are no fixed stops, no timed departures and no agenda. This is a day designed around pace, atmosphere and presence — for guests who already know what a good holiday feels like and want more of it. A beautifully chosen scenic or coastal spot. A relaxed winery stop with a glass of Euboean white. A long lunch at a table that was chosen specifically for the view, the light and the quality of what comes out of the kitchen. Free time that is genuinely free. This experience works because it does not try to show you everything — it simply gives you somewhere worth being, and leaves the rest to you.
Experience Flow:
- Flexible pickup from your hotel — no rush, on your terms
- A view worth pausing for — a curated scenic or coastal spot
- Winery detour — a relaxed tasting, not a tour
- The lunch — a beautifully chosen table, local cuisine at its finest
- Free time and gentle return
What’s Included:
- Flexible hotel pickup and drop-off
- Curated coastal or panoramic scenic stop
- Relaxed winery visit with wine tasting
- Carefully selected lunch venue — coastal or countryside
- Local seasonal cuisine and Euboean wines
- Unhurried pacing — no agenda, no rush
- Personal hosting throughout the experience
- All logistics privately arranged
Ideal for: Couples · Honeymooners · Luxury travellers · Anniversary stays
Experience Style: Seaside · Intimate · Refined · Unhurried
Price: Upon request
EXPERIENCE 05 — Evia Sunset Experience
As the Aegean turns to gold — a late-afternoon journey through Evia’s most beautiful light, ending with a sunset that few travellers ever get to witness.
Duration: 4–5 hours Pickup: Late afternoon (approx. 16:30) Return: After sunset
Description: Evia in the late afternoon is a different island entirely. The light changes the colour of the water, softens the landscape and turns even the most familiar view into something that stops you mid-sentence. This experience is built around that hour — a carefully timed outing that begins with a transfer to a handpicked viewpoint above the Euboean Gulf, continues with a curated aperitif of local wine, honey or island spirits as the sun descends, and closes with a relaxed evening walk along the Chalkida waterfront as the city finds its evening rhythm. Simple in structure, extraordinary in effect.
Itinerary:
- 19:30 · Hotel pickup — timed to catch the best light
- 20:00 · Sunset viewpoint — panoramic views over the Euboean Gulf
- 20:45 · Aperitif and local tasting (mezedes) — wine, island spirits
- 21:30 · Evening stroll along the Chalkida waterfront
- 22:00 · Return to hotel
What’s Included:
- Hotel pickup and evening drop-off
- Transfer to a curated sunset viewpoint
- Panoramic views over the Euboean Gulf
- Curated aperitif — local wine, honey or island spirits
- Seasonal local accompaniments and tasting
- Relaxed evening promenade along Chalkida waterfront
- Personal hosting and storytelling throughout
- All logistics privately arranged
Ideal for: Couples · Honeymooners · Romantic getaways · Special occasions
Experience Style: Golden · Intimate · Sensory · Unforgettable
Price: 120 euros per person (min. 4 persons) Private (upon request)
Whatsapp booking: 00306948349392 & E: giannakisge@gmail.com
EXPERIENCE 06 — Hot Air Balloon over Lake Yliki
Rise above Evia at dawn — where Lake Yliki, the Euboean Gulf, the monasteries of Sagmata and the silhouette of Dirfys come together in one breathtaking panorama.
Duration: 4.5 hours Pickup: 05:00 — pre-dawn departure
Description: There are experiences that are enjoyable, and then there are experiences that change the way you see a place entirely. Floating above Lake Yliki at sunrise belongs to the second category. As the balloon lifts from its launch point overlooking the lake, the landscape unfolds in every direction — the turquoise surface of Yliki below, the Euboean Gulf stretching towards the horizon, the monasteries of Sagmata clinging to the hillside, and the peaks of Dirfys and Parnassus rising like a painted backdrop in the early morning light. The flight lasts up to three hours and can be accompanied by music on request. Before and after, a curated team-building activity and a traditional breakfast buffet with local products — and an optional wine tasting — complete an experience that is as much about connection and memory as it is about altitude.
Itinerary:
- 05:30 · Arrival at the launch site overlooking Lake Yliki
- 06:00–06:30 · Team-building activity, traditional breakfast buffet with local products, optional wine tasting
- 07:30–08:30 · Hot air balloon flight over Lake Yliki, the Euboean Gulf and the landscape of central Evia
- 08:30 · Landing and return
What’s Included:
- Transfer to and from the launch site
- Team-building activity at the lake viewpoint
- Traditional breakfast buffet with local products, drinks and refreshments
- Optional guided wine tasting of local varieties
- Hot air balloon flight of up to 3 hours
- Optional in-flight music on request
- Personal hosting and accompaniment throughout
- All logistics and safety equipment
Ideal for: Adventure seekers · Couples · Groups · Special occasions · Bucket-list travellers
Experience Style: Extraordinary · Aerial · Dawn · Immersive
Price: From €250 per person / minimum 4 passengers
Whatsapp booking: 00306948349392 & E: giannakisge@gmail.com
EXPERIENCE 07 — Evia by Night
Greece at its most alive happens after dark — bouzouki strings, village squares, tsipouro flowing freely and a table that does not end until everyone has said everything worth saying.
Description: There is a version of Greece that most visitors never quite reach. It exists after dinner, after the sunset has faded, after the tourist restaurants have closed their kitchens and the streets have filled with the people who actually live here. This experience is an invitation into that version.
The evening begins at the waterfront with the Greek ritual of tsipouro — served neat, cold, with a succession of mezedes that arrive without being ordered and keep coming until the table is full. From there, a proper Greek dinner at a carefully selected taverna: grilled fish straight from the Euboean Gulf, slow-cooked lamb or goat, rough village salads and carafes of local wine that are refilled before they are empty.
Later, the music starts. Bouzouki, rebetiko or laïká — depending on the night and the season — at a live music venue where the locals come too. This is not a performance arranged for tourists. It is simply where people go on a Tuesday in August, or a Saturday in October, and the fact that you are there makes you part of it.
When the calendar allows, the evening takes a different direction entirely: a village panegyri — a feast in the square of a small Evia village, with long tables, a band, a priest and an entire community dancing until long after midnight under the open sky. If you encounter one, you will understand immediately why it cannot be described adequately in advance.
The night closes on the waterfront promenade of Chalkida, with a final drink and the particular silence that comes from an evening that was genuinely lived.
Itinerary:
20:30 · Hotel Pickup Private transfer as Chalkida transitions into its evening character — the waterfront illuminates, the cafés fill and the bridge over the Euripus takes on a different light entirely.
21:00 · The Tsipouro Ritual — Aperitif & First Mezedes Begin the Greek way: tsipouro served neat, ice on the side, with a procession of small plates — grilled octopus, taramosalata, fava, fried saganaki and whatever the kitchen has decided is best tonight. No menu. Just trust.
21:45 · Waterfront Taverna Dinner A full Greek dinner at a carefully selected restaurant on the waterfront — grilled fish, slow-cooked lamb or goat, village salads and carafes of local wine or retsina that keep reappearing without being asked for.
23:00 · Bouzouki Night & Live Greek Music Move to a live music venue — bouzouki, rebetiko or laïká depending on the night and the season. This is not a performance for tourists. The locals are here too, and that is the point. Dancing is expected. Sitting still is not.
Seasonal · Village Panegyri — If the Calendar Allows When a village feast falls on the right night, we go. A panegyri in Evia — tables in the square, a priest, a band, a whole village dancing until long after midnight under the stars — is the kind of thing travel was invented for.
00:00 · Nightcap by the Euripus A final drink on the waterfront — cocktail, ouzo or Greek coffee — as the lights of Chalkida reflect off the strait. The bridge at midnight is a different thing from the bridge at noon.
00:30 · Return to Hotel Private transfer back — comfortable, unhurried and with the particular satisfaction of a Greek evening properly lived.
What’s Included:
- Hotel pickup and late-night drop-off
- Tsipouro aperitif with traditional mezedes
- Full Greek dinner at a selected waterfront taverna
- Grilled seafood, mezedes, local wines and carafes
- Live bouzouki / rebetiko / laïká music venue
- Village panegyri visit when seasonally available
- Nightcap on the Euripus waterfront
- Personal hosting and local guidance throughout
- All transfers and logistics privately arranged
The Greek Night — What to Expect:
- Dinner in Greece starts late and ends when it ends
- The mezedes arrive without warning and in unexpected quantities
- Bouzouki music gets louder and better after midnight
- A village panegyri in a square under the stars is unrepeatable
- Everyone at the table eventually dances
- This is how Greece actually lives — and you are welcome to it
Ideal for: Couples · Small groups · Friends travelling together · Cultural immersion · Special occasions
Experience Style: Authentic · Festive · Soulful · Unscripted
Duration: 4–5 hours Start: 20:30 from your hotel Return: Late evening (approx. 00:30) Availability: Private & Small Group Advance booking required
Price: 240 euros per person
>> Optional closing note for the website page:
Village panegyri dates vary by season and location. When available, this is always the preferred option — and always worth rearranging the evening for. Ask us what is happening during your stay.
Ready to experience Evia beyond the ordinary?
Whether you are staying in Chalkida, Eretria or the surrounding area for a few days or a full week, our curated day experiences offer the perfect way to discover the island at its most authentic. From coastal elegance and cultural depth to wine, flavours and golden-hour escapes, each experience is privately arranged, personally hosted and designed to leave you with a true sense of place.
Available as:
- Private Experiences
- Small Group Experiences
- Tailor-Made Requests for couples, FITs and small groups
Pickup Areas: Chalkida, Eretria and selected nearby hotels Languages: English · Greek Advance booking required
Contact: T: +30 694 834 9392 E: giannakisge@gmail.com
Also you can choose your own daily visits:
- Athens City Tour
- Agios Ioannis / Osios David / Drimonas Waterfalls
- Kimi and Traditional Baklava Preparation
- Karystos, Dragon Houses, Demosari Gorge
- Aidipsos, Thermal Springs and Lihadonissia
- Delfi Archeological Site
- Meteora
Contact: T: +30 694 834 9392 E: giannakisge@gmail.com