Deciding where to stay in Santorini matters more here than on almost any other Greek island, because the place is really two islands joined by a ridge. On one side a cliff of villages above a flooded volcano, expensive and…
The single most useful fact about the Santorini taxi system is how small it is. The island has a famously limited fleet, licensed in numbers that made sense decades ago and never expanded to match the visitor numbers, which means…
The Santorini bus network is cheap, useful and much more limited than visitors expect, and understanding both halves of that sentence is the difference between a holiday that works without a car and one that quietly misses half the island.…
Santorini airport is small, busy and considerably more chaotic in August than its size suggests, and almost every problem visitors have with it comes from expecting a normal European regional terminal. It is a single building on the flat east…
Buying Santorini ferry tickets looks simple until you meet the three things the booking sites do not tell you: the island has two ports and they are nothing alike, high speed sailings are cancelled by wind far more often than…
There are more things to do in Santorini than the island’s reputation suggests, and most published lists cover the same six of them. This is a working guide rather than a highlights reel: what each thing actually involves, how long…
The Santorini cruise port is unlike any other in the Mediterranean, and almost everything that goes wrong on a call here traces back to one fact: there is no dock. The caldera is a flooded volcanic crater with water three…
Three days is the length of stay we are asked about more than any other, and it is genuinely enough — provided the days are shaped correctly. The mistake almost every three day plan makes is treating the island as…
Akrotiri Santorini means two different places, and confusing them is the most common mistake visitors make here. One is an archaeological site on the south coast where a Bronze Age town lies preserved under volcanic ash and a modern roof.…
A Santorini volcano tour is the only way to stand inside the thing that made this island. The caldera everyone photographs from the rim is a drowned crater seven kilometres across, and the two black islets in the middle of…