Moldova Highlights: Cricova Winery, Old Orhei, and Curchi Monastery Tour

Explore the hidden treasures of Moldova on a full-day tour. Visit the famous Cricova Winery, delve into the underground city, and savor exquisite wines. Discover the natural beauty of Old Orhei reservation and admire the stunning Curchi Monastery. Uncover the best sights of Moldova in one unforgettable day!

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Curchi Monastery - The tour will include a visit to the Curchi Monastery complex, located approximately 30 km from the Old Orhei reservation. With a rich cultural, religious, and historical background spanning over two centuries, Curchi Monastery is a distinguished heritage site and one of the most significant monuments of Moldavian religious…
What's Included
  • Private transportation
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Entrance fees
  • Wine tasting
  • Professional Guide
What's Not Included
  • Lunch at Old Orhei
  • Souvenirs
  • Tips for driver/guide
Additional Information

Experience a fantastic opportunity to explore one of Moldova’s oldest wine producers - the Cricova Winery cellars, the most visited in the country. This unique underground city is renowned worldwide for its vast labyrinth of streets and exceptional wines. Additionally, it’s a wonderful chance to explore Moldova’s most treasured natural and cultural…

Location
Radisson Blu Leogrand Hotel, Chisinau
Strada Mitropolit Varlaam
We used to pick up travellers from downtown of Chisinau.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Jevevans
Mar 2, 2026
All In One Daytrip - 6 of us went on the tour of the monasteries and Cricova winery. You can do the trip for cheaper but this tour takes all the hastle out and the tourguide makes it. Thank you to Natalie who made our day very special, very knowledgeable, speaks every language ever spoken and happy to take whatever stupid photos of us we wanted. The winery tour is on fixed timeslots so if you're someone who likes to spend ages sipping wine then you might be disasppointed. I have no palate and like to chug jamshed so this didn't bother me at all. An easy 10/10 - I would book this again in a heartbeat if I came back to Chisinau.
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D_traveller0519
Jan 16, 2026
Excellent experience - It was a great private tour for us. We enjoyed all the place Circova, Orhei and Curchi. Our guide Slava is excellent and as well the service. We recommend this tour
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Anika_m
Jan 14, 2026
A good tour of the area’s highlights - Great guide who drove us around. Perhaps not great value for money given the cost of entry, so if there’s a group of you it might work out cheaper to take your own taxi. Nonetheless it was convenient and well done
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Stefano_v
Dec 31, 2025
Very recommended - Fantastic tour, Nikolai our guide was very nice. The monastery is charming, nestled in a unique landscape. We really liked the typical dishes that the guide recommended. The labyrinthine wine cellars are not to be missed. Very recommended
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Alexandera3084
Dec 28, 2025
Amazing trip with Nicolai - A wonderful trip with Nicolai. Even though the weather was not perfect, Nicolai still made the trip very enjoyable. He shared a lot of useful and funny information, not only about the places we visited, but also about the country in general. The monasteries were amazing, especially the one on the cliff. The wine trip was also great and very well organized. However, most importantly, Nicolai made the whole experience special. He is friendly and knowledgeable, which made the trip feel relaxed and fun. And therefore it was truly a pleasure to join this tour with him. 10/10, highly recommended without any hesitation.
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Armandoh223
Nov 26, 2025
Fun and history full tour - In short, this was a very educational and fun tour. Nicolai was full of information and historical facts. It was like going around with a knowledgeable local friend. In addition of the amazing winery tour and degustation and the monasteries we visited, it was great to learn about the history and politics related to Moldova. To see in the news the struggles and challenges that Moldova is facing to stay free and prosper is one thing, and another is to see it in person with an incredible background history provide by a local as our tour guide did with us. I got in one day a live long lesson of history about Moldova.
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Michael_k
Nov 22, 2025
Nice trip - This was well organized trip. The winery tour and testing is a unique experience and the old churches were well kept and refurbished. The tour includes all tickets so you do not have to buy on your own.
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Gr71
Oct 31, 2025
..... - Nice tour, no stress.. Guide Slava was helpfull, a lot of informations, good english. If we ask for something, no problem.
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Wander679362
Oct 30, 2025
Relaxed day out enjoying a variety of aspects of historic Moldova - We were taken on the trip by Slava who did a great job getting us around the sights and setting the scene. Very good use of time on a weekend break to Chisinau.
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Lucky_m
Dec 28, 2025
Tale of two halves - It was a tour of two halves! The morning tour with Natalia at Cricova winery was highly disappointing! She seemed a bit in a hurry and towards the end when we had to do the wine tasting, it was again very rushed. I didn’t even get to finish fully tasting the wines - especially having paid for it extra, the least I expect is to bloody well finish the glass that’s in front of me. In other similar tours I have done, not only you are allowed time to enjoy the tasting of wine, if time permits you can have another glass. At one point she was holding the door open as if for us to get up and get out of the hall where we doing the wine tasting - that was just extremely rude, I must say! Quite annoying! The other half of the tour with Slava was awesome! He was a star - patient, engaging and just friendly - seeing the sites with him was great! Overall, bit expensive for the value, especially for the wine tasting - which BTW you need to pay a premium for!
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From $110
up to 10 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).