About us

105 Olives travel boutique is a family business with local residents of Crete and high-class tourism experts in Greece.

Each service we create not only gives our customers an unforgettable experience but will also ignite their passion for travel even more.

The main goal of our work is our customers. We do everything possible, and sometimes impossible, to make our service meet their wishes. We create a special travel experience in Greece. With us, customers will see another Greece and enjoy VIP service and expert advice at a reasonable cost.

Our main destinations are Crete, Mykonos, Santorini, and Athens.

Nice to meet you

My name is Katerina, and I have been living in Greece (Crete Island) for 17 years and working in tourism for 22 years.

I sincerely love traveling, drawing inspiration, and having positive emotions. I have visited about 40 countries, and I know what truly engaged travelers need. I worked in travel agencies and hotels, worked as a guide in Thailand and Croatia, led the service departments of large tour operators in Greece, gathered all my experience, and opened my boutique tour operator agency in Crete, “105 Olives,” 5 years ago.

Each itinerary, program, and accommodation option is developed and selected by me personally.

We want to show you Greece as we would show our best friends.
People fall in love with Greece slowly, and they fall in love forever. And our goal is to show you this country correctly.

Therefore, 105 Olives go the extra mile to give you the best, carefree travel experience. However, all this would never happen if I did not have the support of my husband, Manolis.

My name is Manolis, and I was born on Crete Island. I have been working in tourism for 20 years.

In tourism, I chose a special department: the Department of Transferring Guests around Crete. I started my career as a bus driver and ended up opening my own transport company in Crete. To be honest, for professional drivers responsible for the lives of dozens of passengers, almost the same selection is needed as for pilots. In providing transportation services for our guests, we provide a high-quality performance of our professional duties in terms of responsibility, accuracy, cleanliness, patience, stress resistance, safety, and attention.

My life values are Honesty, Loyalty, and Family, therefore, our business is built on a stable foundation.

Legend

Once upon a time, many centuries ago, young Perseus from the island of Sifnos came to the island of Crete on trading business. Walking through the streets of beautiful Chania, he met a girl no less beautiful than the island of Crete. Perseus fell in love with a stranger at first sight, but she did not pay any attention. The beauty was as cold as white wine from a cold cellar on a hot day. Nothing impressed her—neither the gifts brought by the servants from the ship of Perseus nor the young and hot Perseus himself.

Having failed, Perseus, dejected, returned to the ship, when suddenly an old man came out to meet him.

“I know how to help your trouble,” said the old man. – Beauty AGAPI is enchanted; her name means “love”, but she cannot feel it. She can be awakened by creating something as beautiful and perfect as herself. And with these words, the old man disappeared.

Perseus stood puzzled. And then the answer came to him. He remembered how his father told him as a child that there was nothing in the world more perfect than olive oil. And to achieve the perfect taste, there must be 105 olives in a bowl of oil, and they must be collected throughout Greece since each island has its own unique taste of olives. Anticipating a quick victory, Perseus ran back to the ship and, having ordered the mooring lines to be given, went to collect olives. He sailed for 7 days and 7 nights, landing on the islands and going in search of olive trees. When he found an olive tree, he took only one, the ripest olive, avoiding the temptation to pick more and quickly completing his difficult mission. Until, finally, the barrel of olives was filled to the brim with ripe and tasty fruits—there were exactly 105 of them. And Perseus returned with a bowl of olive oil to the beautiful AGAPI. She tasted the wonderful oil, which had a perfect taste and looked at Perseus with different eyes. And they immediately played a magnificent wedding, which was served with olive oil of perfect taste and a host of other gastronomic delights that Greece is famous for.

In the same way, we hand-pick all the best in Greece, preparing for each of our guests a wonderful cocktail of emotions and impressions with the perfect taste and aftertaste.