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Moldova Highlights: Cricova Winery, Old Orhei, and Curchi Monastery Tour
4.9
163 Ratings
Chișinău
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!
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
- Manastirea Curchi - We will visit Curchi Monastery complex, that is around 30 km from Old Orhei reservation. Cultural, religious and historical essential background of over two centuries makes Curchi Monastery highly qualified heritage among the most significant monuments of Moldavian religious architecture.
- Old Orhei Archeological Complex -…
- Manastirea Curchi - We will visit Curchi Monastery complex, that is around 30 km from Old Orhei reservation. Cultural, religious and historical essential background of over two centuries makes Curchi Monastery highly qualified heritage among the most significant monuments of Moldavian religious architecture.
- Old Orhei Archeological Complex - Visit the popular Old Orhei with its famous Cave Monastery, Butuceni Ethnographic Museum from beginning of XX century, ruins of Tartars city Shehr al-Djedid (14th - 16th centuries). It is a just an unique natural and historical complex in the open air.
- Cricova Winery - Cricova Winery is situated at a depth of 60-80 meters, representing a real underground city. Cricova Winery represents a unique underground kingdom well-known all over the world by its huge labyrinths, and especially by its excellent wines. Here we will have a 2,5 hour tour, that includes excursion in Cricova’s wine sections and wine tasting (3 types of wines, Nuts, biscuits, water).
- Old Orhei - Time for lunch in a local old-fashioned restaurant, which serve authentic, ecological Moldavian food. Fabulous traditional food while visiting the Ethnic Village.
What's Included
- Private transportation
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Entrance fees
- Wine tasting
- Professional Guide
- 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
- Lunch at Old Orhei
- Souvenirs
- Tips for driver/guide
Additional Information
You will get an excellent opportunity to visit one of the oldest wine productions in Moldova - the wine cellars of Cricova Winery, most visited in Moldova. It represents an unique underground city, well-known all over the world by its huge labyrinths of streets, & especially by its excellent wines. It’s also a good way to visit the most valuable natural…
You will get an excellent opportunity to visit one of the oldest wine productions in Moldova - the wine cellars of Cricova Winery, most visited in Moldova. It represents an unique underground city, well-known all over the world by its huge labyrinths of streets, & especially by its excellent wines. It’s also a good way to visit the most valuable natural and cultural heritage of Moldova - Old Orhei reservation, together with Curchi Monastery, which is one of the most beautiful monasteries in our country. A full day Tour to see Best Sights of Moldova. Depending on the number of bookings, sometimes the tour could be private or shared with small groups, up to 8-10 people. But from our experience most of our groups are 3-4 or 5 people.
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.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.9
(163 Ratings)
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793mike
Oct 3, 2025
Great tour of Old Orhei and of the Cricova Winery! - I had a great tour of Old Orhei and of the Cricova winery! Our guide, Slava, was very well informed, a good driver and was very friendly too. We visited a number of beautiful, photogenic and historic old monasteries in the historic region and nearby. We then went to a nice, authentic though inexpensive restaurant for lunch. In the afternoon we went on the Cricova winery tour. It was a fascinating tour with miles upon miles of underground caverns where wine is produced and aged. This was the deluxe tour where we were among only a handful of people who got a nice wine tasting of a variety of wines. This was guided and described by one of the professional staff from the winery. And then Slava dropped us each off to our hotels. It was a pretty big day but I never felt like we were being hurried. And while group size can vary, our group was one of only three people. It was just great and well worth the money!
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Oliverkr3252gx
Sep 22, 2025
Great experience - This is the tour to take if you have only one day and want to discover nice places out of Chisinao. Especially lunch in the cave restaurant Epoca de Piatra was amazing!
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Clara_r
Sep 5, 2025
Loved the tour - Loved the tour, Slava was a great guide, always ready with information, very communicative and we had a great time. We did change the winery to Milestii Mici since it is a World Guinness and it was perfect.
The tour agency was always a whatsapp away with fast answers and resolutions.
I would definitely recommend this tour, guide and agency.
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Ligiamihai19
Aug 28, 2025
Great experience - Very interesting experience. We've learned a lot about Moldavia. Cricova wine cellar is amazing. The guide, Natalia, told us a lot of interesting things. Alexandru, the driver, extremely good. Strongly recommend.
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Barbub2024
Aug 27, 2025
Good experience on cold day - Wonderful, nice experience,beauty,nice raions, history, peisaged and best presented amd exposed by the guide Cristina. Best teams Cristina&Alexandru.
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Acdvb
Aug 27, 2025
Amazing tour for our first Moldova trip - Our trip to Moldova was truly amazing! A huge part of that is thanks to our incredible tour guide. From the very start, he is organized and friendly and full of knowledge about every place we visited. He went above and beyond to ensure we were comfortable, informed throughout the journey. We can't recommend our guide highly enough!
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Ligia_m
Aug 27, 2025
excellent journey - Very interesting experience. We've learned a lot about Moldavia. Cricova wine cellar is amazing. Strongly recommend.
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Jessicarizer
Jul 21, 2025
Great Overview of Moldova - This was a really enjoyable day tour and a great way to see some of Moldova’s highlights. The itinerary had a nice balance of activities with historic sites, beautiful scenery, and the fascinating underground tunnels at Cricova Winery.
The wine tasting was fun and very memorable, even if the wine itself wasn’t my favorite. Lunch was also great, and everything was well organized.
Our guide was friendly and helpful, and the whole day ran smoothly. Highly recommend if you want a relaxed and full day exploring the area.
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Ioana_t
Aug 5, 2025
Overall, we enjoyed the... - Overall, we enjoyed the tour very much mainly to our guide Valeri who is very knowledgeable and can give you a good overview of past and present Moldova. However, there are a couple of points that could be improved. We were four during the tour and the transport was in a regular car. It was a bit crowded and uncomfortable for an entire day. The tour at Cricova was in Russian as no English tours were available. We were warned about this with the promise our guide will translate, but the translation was basic. We enjoy wines very much so we would have been keen to get the specifics of the winemaking process in Cricova. But all in all, a nice experience.
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Michael_h
Aug 9, 2025
False Advertised as a PRIVATE tour - This tour is deliberately advertised falsely and deceptively as “EXCLUSIVE FOR YOU AND YOUR GROUP”, meaning a PRIVATE tour. Imagine my surprise when we were picked up 15 MINUTES LATE to a van already full of other tourists! Not only did it turn out to be a GROUP tour, we were the last picked up and the only remaining seats were in the very back of the van.
I avoid group tours when I can for many reasons, and this validated it.
I’m prone to motion sickness and riding in the very back of a bouncy van on rough bumpy rural roads, with a driver who frequently drove hard, kept me feeling bad all day.
The tour guide, Ecaterina, while a friendly lady, proved to not be a good tour guide. She barely gave any information during the long drive to the various locations and when she did speak, it was only loud enough that the people in front could hear, even after telling her we could not hear her in the back. At the various sites, while trying to explore and enoy the experience, she rushed ahead to the next location with a few of the group members and apparently talked a bit about the next site. When I caught up to her, she had mostly finished with whatever she was saying and moved on. I learned almost nothing from her about any of the sites.
I paid the price of what was advertised as a PRIVATE tour and ended up on a GROUP tour that was average at best. The price was on par with other company’s private tours. It was significantly more than competitor’s group tours. In other words, I significantly overpaid for a below average group tour that was advertised as a private tour.
The only reason I’m being generous with a 2 star rating, versus 1 star, is the sites themselves. They are interesting to visit to get away from Chisinau and learn more about Moldova. I recommend touring these sites, just with caution of the tour operator.
I contacted the tour operator but what can really be done? Rescheduling is not an option when on holiday.
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