Perissa Beach Santorini: The Long Black Sand Coast

Perissa beach Santorini is the longest stretch of black sand in the Cyclades and the cheapest place on this island to have a proper Greek beach holiday. It sits on the south east coast behind the great rock of Mesa Vouno, directly opposite Kamari but separated from it by an entire mountain, and it runs south without interruption into Perivolos and then Agios Georgios. Seven kilometres of dark volcanic sand, sunbeds at a few euros, beach bars with music from lunchtime and tavernas charging what tavernas charge in the rest of Greece rather than what they charge on the caldera. We drive this coast every day of the season, and our Santorini Tours collect from Perissa as easily as from Fira or Oia.

The honest framing before you read another word. Perissa beach Santorini has no caldera view, no white cave houses and no famous sunset. What it has is space, sea, cheap beds and a genuinely good time. If that trade sounds fair, this page is the whole picture from people who live here.

The Short Answer

Long, black and cheap. That is Perissa beach Santorini in four words, and every other fact on this page follows from it.

Seven kilometres of continuous sand running south into Perivolos and Agios Georgios, which is why the beach never feels full even in August.

The cheapest coast on the island for rooms, food and sunbeds, comfortably below the caldera and noticeably below Kamari.

The black sand gets brutally hot by ten in the morning. Bring something for your feet or you will regret the walk to the water.

The beach bars are the best on Santorini, and the ones at Perivolos are the liveliest thing on the island outside Fira.

No direct bus to Kamari, despite the two beaches being twenty minutes apart on foot over the mountain and an hour apart by road.

The Island Beyond the Beach

Perissa Beach Santorini at a Glance

Detail	Reality	Notes	Watch for
Where	South east coast, behind Mesa Vouno	25 minutes from Fira	20 from the airport
The beach	Black volcanic sand, coarse and dark	Runs unbroken into Perivolos and Agios Georgios	Roughly seven kilometres end to end
The water	Clear, cold at first, deep quickly	Shelves away within a few metres	Not a paddling beach for toddlers
The front	Sunbeds, beach bars, tavernas, a few shops	Busier and louder than Kamari	Quiet again at the southern end
Prices	The cheapest coast on the island	Rooms, food and beds all below the rim	The main reason people come
Sunbeds	Everywhere, and cheap	Often free with a drink or a meal	Ask before you sit down
Beach bars	The best on Santorini	Music from lunchtime, loudest at Perivolos	Not a quiet beach in August
Wind	Exposed to the meltemi like all the east	Can close the beach for a day	The bays are calmer than the open front
Ancient Thira	On the ridge above, shared with Kamari	Steep path from the north end	Start early or drive round
Who it suits	Younger travellers, budget trips, long stays	Flat, cheap, sociable	No caldera view, no famous sunset

The last row is the trade. Everything Perissa beach Santorini gives you and everything it withholds sits in that single line, and nobody who books a room here should be surprised by either half of it.

Where Perissa Actually Is

Geography explains this beach better than any description of the sand. Mesa Vouno is a limestone mountain that drops into the sea on the south east corner of the island, and it splits the east coast in two. Kamari is on its northern side. Perissa is on its southern side. From the beach you can see the summit of Ancient Thira on the ridge above, and from the ridge you can see both resorts at once, which makes the hour-long road journey between them feel absurd.

South of the village the sand simply keeps going. There is no headland, no river mouth and no visible boundary. The name changes to Perivolos after about a kilometre and a half, and to Agios Georgios about a kilometre after that, but it is one beach and it is walkable end to end in an hour and a half at the water’s edge. Most people who talk about Perissa beach Santorini are really talking about this whole southern shore.

Behind the sand the land is dead flat, which matters more than it sounds. There are no steps, no donkey paths and no cliff. A suitcase rolls. A pushchair rolls. An older traveller who found Fira exhausting can walk the entire front here without once climbing anything, and that is the single practical argument for this coast over the famous one.

Inland it is farmland: vineyards trained into low baskets on volcanic soil, a scatter of villages at Emporio, Megalochori and Vothonas, and the airport twenty minutes north. The interior of the island is nearer from Perissa beach Santorini than it is from the caldera villages, which is why our wine tours from this side of the island are shorter and cheaper.

The Black Sand, Honestly Described

It is not sand in the Caribbean sense. It is coarse volcanic grit, somewhere between sand and small gravel, dark grey to true black depending on the light and how wet it is.

It gets dangerously hot. Black absorbs everything the Aegean sun throws at it, and by ten in the morning the surface is genuinely painful. This is the single most common complaint about Perissa beach Santorini and the easiest to solve.

Bring water shoes or flip flops you can swim in. Not a suggestion. The walk from the sunbed to the water is twenty metres and in August it will hurt.

It does not stick to you the way fine sand does, which is the compensation. You leave the beach clean.

It is comfortable to lie on once you are on a towel or a bed, firmer than soft sand and less inclined to blow about in the wind.

Children love it for the same reason adults find it odd. It is heavy, it holds shape and it builds well when wet.

The colour changes down the coast. Perissa proper is darkest; by Agios Georgios it lightens slightly and mixes with more pebble.

There is pebble at the waterline in places, moved about by winter storms, and it shifts from year to year.

Swimming and the Sea

The water is exceptionally clear. The dark sand of Perissa beach Santorini under clear sea gives an unusual deep blue that photographs badly and looks superb in person.

It shelves quickly. Within a few metres of the edge you are out of your depth. This is the defining safety fact about Perissa beach Santorini and it catches families out every summer.

It is colder than the caldera side. Deeper water, more exposure, and a noticeable difference in June.

September is the warmest month in the sea here, not August, because the water lags the air by several weeks.

Lifeguards operate on the main organised stretches in high season, not along the whole seven kilometres.

Undertow is real on windy days when the swell is running. If the flags are up, believe them.

For toddlers, go elsewhere. Monolithos on the far side of the airport has the shallowest, calmest water on Santorini and it is twenty minutes away.

Snorkelling is only fair here; the bottom is sand rather than rock. The bays near Akrotiri are far better, and our Red Beach guide covers them.

Sunbeds, Bars and the Front

Sunbeds run the entire developed length of Perissa beach Santorini in pairs under a straw or canvas parasol.

They are cheap, and cheaper than Kamari. Many places charge nothing at all if you buy a drink or eat lunch.

Ask before you sit. Every operator has a different rule and none of them are posted. Thirty seconds of asking saves an awkward conversation later.

The free sand is at the far northern end under the mountain and at the southern end past Agios Georgios, and there is plenty of it.

Beach bars are the thing Perissa beach Santorini is genuinely famous for. Music from lunchtime, day beds, cocktails, and a crowd that stays until dark.

The loudest are at Perivolos, a kilometre and a half south, where the island’s best known beach clubs sit in a row.

The quietest are at the northern end, immediately under Mesa Vouno, where there is shade in the late afternoon and almost nobody.

Showers and changing rooms exist at intervals along the organised sections, free and functional.

Watersports operate from several points: jet skis, ringos, paddleboards, and a diving centre. See the things to do guide for the wider list.

Perissa or Kamari? The Question We Are Asked Most

Two black sand resorts on opposite sides of the same mountain, twenty minutes apart as the crow flies and an hour apart by road. Guests ask us to choose between them more often than they ask anything else about this coast, so here is the comparison without the tourist-board language.

The beach. Perissa is longer by a distance, running seven kilometres south. Kamari is a single contained bay of about a kilometre. If you want to walk, Perissa beach Santorini wins outright.

The sand. Effectively identical. Both black, both coarse, both painfully hot by mid-morning.

The water. Both shelve steeply. Neither is a paddling beach. Kamari is marginally more sheltered.

The front. Kamari has a proper paved promenade closed to cars. Perissa has a road behind the sand with businesses either side, which is less elegant and less safe for small children on bicycles.

Price. Perissa, clearly. Rooms, food, sunbeds and drinks are all cheaper, and the gap widens the further south you go.

Nightlife. Perissa and Perivolos, no contest. Kamari is quiet after eleven; the beach clubs here are still going.

Families with young children. Kamari, for the car-free promenade and the open air cinema.

Groups in their twenties. Perissa, for the hostels, the bars and the cost of everything.

Older travellers. Kamari, marginally, for the promenade and the slightly quieter evenings.

Long stays. Perissa, because a fortnight here costs what a week costs on the caldera.

The airport. Kamari is ten minutes away, Perissa about twenty. Both are trivial compared with Oia at forty five.

Getting to Fira. Kamari twenty minutes, Perissa twenty five. Both have frequent buses in season.

Between the two. No direct bus, which surprises everybody. Walk over the mountain in about ninety minutes, drive an hour round by Fira, or take a taxi boat in high season.

Our answer. Families and older guests to Kamari; everybody counting money, anybody under thirty and anyone staying more than ten days to Perissa. Our where to stay guide sets both against the caldera villages, and the Kamari beach guide gives the other side in full.

Perissa, Perivolos and Agios Georgios

One beach, three names, three quite different atmospheres. Knowing which is which is the difference between booking the holiday you wanted and the one next door to it.

Perissa is the northern end, under the mountain, and it is the village with the church, the bus stop, the supermarkets and most of the cheap rooms. Busiest, most walkable, most facilities.

Perivolos begins about a kilometre and a half south and is the beach club strip: day beds, DJs, cocktails and the liveliest sand on Santorini. Newer, smarter, a little more expensive.

Agios Georgios is further south again, quieter, with a handful of good tavernas and a mostly Greek clientele. This is where we send guests who want the beach without the volume.

The far south past the last taverna is empty sand, and on a weekday in June you can have a kilometre of Perissa beach Santorini to yourself.

Getting between them is a walk on the sand, a short taxi, or a hire car. There is no bus along the coast road worth waiting for.

Where to book. Perissa for facilities and price, Perivolos for the bars, Agios Georgios for quiet. Perivolos has the newest hotels of the three.

Things to Do Beyond the Sand

Ancient Thira. A classical and Roman city strung along the ridge directly above Perissa beach Santorini, with the sea a very long way down on both sides. The path starts at the northern end of the beach and climbs steeply for about an hour; the road route from Kamari is easier. Go before nine or after five, take water, and allow two to three hours. Our museums and archaeology guide puts it in context.

The walk over Mesa Vouno to Kamari. The best short hike on the island and the only sensible way to understand why two beaches this close have no road between them. Ninety minutes, steep in both directions, and unforgettable in the last light. Full route notes are in our Santorini hiking guide.

The Church of the Holy Cross. The large domed church at the northern end of the village, unmissable from the beach and worth five minutes.

Watersports. Jet skis, ringos, banana boats, paddleboards and windsurfing all operate along the organised stretch, and the wind that ruins the sunbathing makes this the best coast on Santorini for a sail.

Scuba diving. There is a long established dive centre on the front, running trips to the wrecks and the caldera walls. Beginners are taken out most mornings in season.

Boat trips to the volcano, the hot springs, Red Beach and White Beach can be joined from this coast. Our volcano tour and hot springs guide explain what each one actually involves.

Wine estates. Some of the island’s best sit ten to fifteen minutes inland at Megalochori, Pyrgos and Exo Gonia, and they are closer to Perissa beach Santorini than to Oia. See our private wine tour.

Emporio. The largest and least visited old village on the island, a fortified maze of vaulted lanes fifteen minutes inland, and completely free. It is in our villages guide.

The bus to Fira for the caldera, the museums and the cliff walk. Twenty five minutes, frequent in season.

Vlychada and its extraordinary wind-carved cliffs, ten minutes west by car, and the quietest good beach on this side of the island.

Doing nothing. Which is what most guests staying on Perissa beach Santorini actually came for, and there is no better place on the island to do it cheaply.

Eating, Drinking and Evenings

Tavernas run the whole front, and prices on Perissa beach Santorini are ordinary Greek prices rather than caldera prices. A full meal with wine costs roughly half what the same meal costs in Oia.

Fish is the obvious order, and the tavernas at the Agios Georgios end are where the Greek families eat.

Gyros and souvlaki shops along the main road behind the beach feed you properly for a few euros, which is how the long-stay crowd survives.

Beach clubs at Perivolos serve all day and turn into bars in the evening without anyone appearing to change anything.

Breakfast at the bakeries on the main street costs a fraction of the hotel buffet, and they open early.

Self catering. Two supermarkets and a butcher in the village make a studio with a kitchenette genuinely economical for a fortnight.

Late bars. Perissa beach Santorini has the most sustained nightlife on the island outside Fira, mostly relaxed music bars rather than clubs. The nightlife guide maps it properly.

Inland for a change. Emporio, Megalochori and Pyrgos cook better than the front and cost less again. Ten to fifteen minutes by car or taxi.

What is missing. Fine dining, and the sunset view you have seen in photographs. Both are on the other side of the island and both are twenty five minutes away.

Staying on Perissa Beach Santorini

The case for. The cheapest beds on the island, flat ground, seven kilometres of sand outside the door, an airport twenty minutes away and a bus to Fira every half hour in season.

The case against. No caldera view, no sunset, and a journey each time you want the famous half of Santorini.

Who should. Budget travellers, groups, long stays, families with teenagers, anyone who wants a beach holiday rather than a photograph.

Who should not. Honeymooners, and anyone whose reason for coming is the caldera. Book Imerovigli or Oia instead.

Accommodation type. Hostels and dorms at the northern end, studios and apartments through the village, and a run of decent mid-range hotels with pools towards Perivolos.

The pool matters here. On a windy day the beach can be unusable, and a hotel pool is the difference between a lost afternoon and a good one.

Perivolos for newer rooms. The best hotels on this coast are at the southern end rather than in Perissa village itself.

Book a kitchenette if you are staying more than a week. It is the single largest saving available on Perissa beach Santorini.

Position. Front row costs more and gets the beach bar music. One street back is quieter and barely further from the sea.

Aircraft. Audible on the approach in high season but far less present than at Kamari, which sits under the flight path.

Our view. For a first trip on a real budget, or for a stay of two weeks or more, Perissa beach Santorini is the base we recommend more often than anywhere else on the island. Our full Santorini on a budget guide is built around this coast.

Season by Season

April and early May. Green, quiet and cheap, with the sea still too cold for most people. Half the beach businesses are shut and the bars have not opened.

Late May and June. Warm, swimmable, everything open and prices well below peak. The best value window of the year on this coast.

July. Hot, busy and windy. The black sand is at its worst underfoot and the beach clubs at their best.

August. Peak in every sense: fullest, hottest, priciest, and the meltemi at its strongest. Book early or accept what is left.

September. The warmest sea of the year, thinning crowds and softer light. If you can choose your month, choose this one for Perissa beach Santorini.

October. Still swimmable in the first fortnight, with businesses closing steadily through the month.

November to March. Shut. Not quiet, shut. This is a seasonal resort and it closes properly; our winter guide explains where to stay instead.

The wind is the variable nobody plans for. Check it the night before and go west to Vlychada or south to the sheltered bays when the meltemi is up. Our weather guide has the month by month picture.

Getting There and Around

From the airport. Twenty minutes by road. Taxis are scarce and there is no direct bus, so a booked transfer is the reliable option. See our airport guide.

From Athinios port. Twenty five to thirty minutes, and the ferry arrivals are the worst moment of the day to hope for a taxi. Our ferry guide covers arrival timings.

To Fira. Twenty five minutes by frequent bus or car.

To Oia. Around an hour, changing buses in Fira.

To Kamari. No direct bus at all. An hour by road via Fira, ninety minutes on foot over the mountain, or a seasonal taxi boat.

To Akrotiri and Red Beach. Thirty minutes by car, and awkward by bus. Our Akrotiri guide has the detail.

Parking is free and easy, which is not true anywhere on the caldera.

Car hire makes more sense from Perissa beach Santorini than from anywhere else on the island, because everything you want is inland or on another coast. See the car hire guide.

ATVs and scooters are everywhere here and rented cheaply. Read our ATV guide before you sign anything.

Taxis number about forty on the whole island. Book ahead or use transfers; the taxi guide explains why. The bus guide covers the public network.

A Day on Perissa Beach Santorini

07:30. Swim before anyone else is up and while the sand is still cool enough to cross barefoot.

08:30. Breakfast at a bakery on the main street for a euro or two.

09:30. Claim a sunbed, or walk twenty minutes south to the empty sand past Agios Georgios.

12:00. The sand is now too hot to cross without shoes. Stay put or move to a beach club at Perivolos.

13:30. Lunch at a taverna behind the beds, which will usually waive the sunbed charge.

15:30. The worst heat of the day, spent in shade, in the water or asleep.

17:30. Shade arrives at the northern end as Mesa Vouno blocks the sun, hours before the rest of the coast.

19:00. The front comes back to life and the beach clubs turn the music up.

21:00. Dinner, late and unhurried, at half caldera prices.

23:00. Music bars along the front, or a taxi to Perivolos if you want it louder. This is the part of Perissa beach Santorini that the guidebooks underplay.

Practical Tips From People Who Live Here

Water shoes. The single most useful item to pack for this coast, and the cheapest mistake to avoid.

Check the wind the night before. A meltemi day makes the open front unusable and the sheltered west coast perfect.

Ask about the sunbed rule before you sit down. Half the operators here charge nothing if you order lunch.

Walk south for space. Ten minutes past the last beach club and the crowd disappears entirely.

Do not plan on a bus to Kamari. There isn’t one, and people miss flights over this.

Book the airport transfer. Twenty minutes is nothing, but forty taxis serve the whole island and none of them will be free when your flight lands.

Take a kitchenette for stays over a week; the supermarkets in the village make it worth real money.

Go up to Ancient Thira early. By ten the path off Perissa beach Santorini is an oven with no shade whatsoever.

Keep two evenings for the caldera. One for Oia’s sunset, one for dinner in Fira, and book the transfer rather than gambling on the last bus.

Don’t judge the sea by June. It is several degrees warmer in September and the beach is emptier.

Perissa Beach Santorini: Common Questions

Is Perissa beach Santorini sandy or pebbly?

Coarse black volcanic sand with pebble at the waterline in places. It is not fine sand and it is not shingle either.

Why is the sand black?

It is ground-down volcanic rock from the eruptions that built the island. The whole east and south coast is the same material.

Is Perissa beach Santorini good for families?

Good for families with older children and teenagers. Less good for toddlers, because the water deepens within a few metres of the edge.

Is the water shallow at Perissa beach Santorini?

No. The shelf drops away quickly and you are out of your depth close in. Monolithos is the shallow beach on this island.

Perissa or Kamari, which is better?

Perissa is longer, cheaper and livelier; Kamari is more organised, has a car-free promenade and suits families better. There is no direct bus between them.

Is there a bus from Perissa beach Santorini to Kamari?

No. An hour by road through Fira, ninety minutes on foot over Mesa Vouno, or a seasonal taxi boat.

How far is Perissa from Fira?

About twenty five minutes by bus or car, with frequent departures in season.

How far is Perissa beach from Santorini airport?

Twenty minutes by road. There is no direct bus, so book a transfer.

Can you see the sunset from Perissa?

Not the famous caldera sunset. This is the south east coast and the sun sets behind the mountain and the island.

Are the sunbeds free?

Usually charged, and cheaply, but many operators waive the fee if you buy a drink or eat at their taverna. Always ask first.

Is Perissa beach Santorini windy?

It faces the meltemi and can be unusable on the worst summer days, when the west and south coasts are often calm.

What is the difference between Perissa and Perivolos?

The same beach. Perissa is the village end with the facilities and cheap rooms; Perivolos, a kilometre and a half south, is the beach club strip.

Is Perissa beach Santorini expensive?

It is the cheapest coast on Santorini for accommodation, food and drink, and considerably below the caldera villages.

Is Perissa beach Santorini good for nightlife?

Yes, and Perivolos next door is the liveliest sand on the island. It is the main alternative to Fira for a night out.

Is Ancient Thira worth the climb from Perissa?

Yes, if you start early. It is a full classical city on the ridge and the view from the top takes in both coasts at once.

Myths About Perissa Beach Santorini

“It is the cheap end of the island, so it must be shabby.” Perissa beach Santorini is cheap because it is not on the caldera, not because the rooms are poor. The hotels towards Perivolos are as good as anything at the same price in Greece.

“The black sand is dirty.” It is volcanic rock ground down over millennia. Perissa beach Santorini is cleaner underfoot than any pale sand beach, and nothing sticks to you when you leave.

“You can walk to Kamari along the coast.” You cannot. Mesa Vouno goes straight into the sea. The walk from Perissa beach Santorini to Kamari goes over the top and takes about ninety minutes.

“There is nothing to do.” Ancient Thira, the mountain walk, diving, watersports, the wine villages inland and the best beach clubs on the island. Perissa beach Santorini is short of a caldera view, not of things to do.

“It is a party resort.” Perivolos is lively; the northern end of Perissa beach Santorini under the mountain is one of the quietest places on this coast, and Agios Georgios is quieter still.

“You need a car.” You do not need one to enjoy Perissa beach Santorini, and the bus to Fira is frequent. A car is useful, not essential.

“The sea is dangerous.” It is deep, not dangerous. The shelf on Perissa beach Santorini drops away quickly, which matters for small children and for nobody else.

“It is always windy.” The meltemi blows hard for a run of days in July and August and is barely noticeable in June and September. Perissa beach Santorini is exposed, not permanently unusable.

Our Verdict After Twenty Years of Driving This Coast

Perissa beach Santorini is the most misunderstood place on the island. The photographs that sell Santorini were all taken twenty five minutes away on the other coast, so this side is treated as the consolation prize. It is not. It is the half of the island where Greek families come, where a fortnight is affordable, and where the beach is long enough that August never quite fills it.

What you give up is real and worth stating plainly. There is no caldera, no white cave house, no sunset over the volcano. You will make a journey for those, and you should make it at least twice.

What you gain is a beach holiday rather than a photograph. Perissa beach Santorini gives you seven kilometres of sand, water clear enough to see your feet in five metres, sunbeds for the price of a coffee, dinner for half what it costs on the rim, and flat ground the entire way. For a family with teenagers, a group of friends, a solo traveller on a budget or anybody staying longer than ten days, that is the better trade and we say so to guests every week.

The people who regret booking Perissa beach Santorini are always the same people: honeymooners who wanted the view, and first-timers on a three day trip who did not realise how much of their time would go on the road. If you are either of those, book Imerovigli or Oia and come here for a day.

Everybody else: bring water shoes, take the northern end in the late afternoon when the mountain throws shade across the sand, walk south until the crowd runs out, and give Perissa beach Santorini the fortnight it deserves rather than the afternoon it usually gets.

Perissa Beach Santorini: Key Points

Perissa beach Santorini is the longest black sand beach in the Cyclades, running roughly seven kilometres south.
It sits on the south east coast behind Mesa Vouno, with Ancient Thira on the ridge above.
The sand is coarse volcanic grit and it becomes painfully hot from mid-morning onward.
The water is clear and deep close in rather than shallow, so it is not a toddler beach.
Perissa beach Santorini continues unbroken into Perivolos and then Agios Georgios under different names.
Perissa beach Santorini is the cheapest coast on the island for rooms, food, drink and sunbeds.
The beach clubs at Perivolos are the liveliest stretch of sand anywhere on Santorini.
There is no caldera view and no famous sunset on this side of the island.
No direct bus connects Perissa with Kamari despite the two beaches being close.
Fira is twenty five minutes away and the airport about twenty.
The coast faces the meltemi and can be unusable on the windiest summer days.
September has the warmest sea and the thinnest crowds of the whole season.
The ground is completely flat, which makes Perissa beach Santorini far easier than the cliff villages for anyone with mobility limits or luggage.
It is the base we recommend most often to budget travellers, groups and anyone staying two weeks or more.

Booking With Us

We collect from Perissa, Perivolos and Agios Georgios every morning of the season. Being on the flat side of the island means our vehicles reach your door rather than the nearest stepped alley, which is not something we can promise in Oia. Prices are per vehicle rather than per person, there is no deposit, and cancellation is free.

Most guests staying on Perissa beach Santorini book one full day tour to see the caldera, the villages and the sunset properly, plus an airport or port transfer at each end. That combination costs less than two days of taxis and saves the entire logistical headache of this coast.

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Planning Your Days From Perissa

Day one. Do nothing but the beach. Perissa beach Santorini rewards a slow first day more than any other part of the island, and it lets the flight wear off.

Day two. The caldera, properly, with a tour or a hire car. Oia, Fira, a winery and the sunset, then back to Perissa beach Santorini for a late dinner at half the price you would have paid up there.

Day three. The volcano and the hot springs by boat, or Ancient Thira on foot from the northern end of the beach if you would rather stay on this coast.

Day four. Walk south. Perivolos for the beach clubs at lunchtime, Agios Georgios for a quiet taverna afterwards, and the empty sand beyond it if you want the coast to yourself.

Day five. The inland villages: Emporio, Megalochori, Pyrgos. All within twenty minutes of Perissa beach Santorini and all cheaper and better than the front for dinner.

Day six. Another beach for contrast. Vlychada, Red Beach or Monolithos, each of them ten to twenty minutes away by road.

Day seven. Back on the sand, because that is what you came for and because a week on Perissa beach Santorini costs roughly what three nights cost on the rim.