Who are we?

Dale Grote (PhD in Classics) and Wes Callihan (founder and CEO of Schola Tutorials) will be your guides. Together they have led more than 15 tours of Greece and Turkey for private groups, homeschooling consortia, colleges and universities.

We offer a couple of tour each year. If one of them fits your schedule and your interest, contact us and we'll see about including you. If, on the other hand, the dates of a pre-planned tours don't work for you, and if you have a small group of ten or so, we'd be glad to find a time that will suit your schedule and interests. 

Unlike prepacked tours, a Schola Experience tour is small, for no more than 14 members. We even drive our two vans ourselves in Greece. This gives us the flexibility to use small, family run restaurants and to navigate our way around large groups on the sites and in the museums. Dale does nearly all the presentations, so that unlike the boilerplate tours of local guides they can be tailored to your interests.

Dale also speaks Modern Greek, which opens doors for us in the small villages off the beaten parth we visit, where English is  minimal. Over the years, we have made many freinds along the way, who greet us like family when we stop by. We tour the major sites, but what makes a Schola Experience tour unique is what happens when we're not being tourists.

The price of the tour includes all your expenses in Greece: all meals in Greece except for two lunches, all entrance fees to musuems and sites, all transportation and tips. The price of your international airfare to Athens is not included. 

Once you've decided you want to join one of our tours, contact Dale. He'll send you the deposit schedule and payment options. The first day of the tour begins in our hotel in Athens at 5:00 PM. (Make sure you book your flight a day before the tour begins in Athens!) Getting to the hotel from the airport is easy but Wes and I try to meet as many as possible at the airport  Your departure time and date will have to square with our last day's schedule. More about that later.

All you need is a passport and a credit card for personal purchases in Greece. Check with your credit card company before your leave to see if you need to report and clear upcoming overseas activity.  You can withdraw euros from automatic tellers throughout Greece.

Nearly all modern cellphones work seamlessly in Greece. Please bring a headset or earbuds with you. For the more crowded sites -- Delphi, Olympia, Akrotiri on Santorini, the Acropolis in Athens, the New Acropolis Museum Athens -- Dale will prepare downloadable presentations to be used at various places on the sites and in the museums that you can listen to as we work our way through. 

You'll need a simple plug adaptor to use your electric devices in Greece. They are readily available in Athens for no more than $10  if you forget to pick one up before you leave.