The crossing from Santorini to Naxos is one of the easiest in the Cyclades and one of the most useful. It takes between ninety minutes and three and a half hours depending on the vessel, it runs several times a…
The crossing from Santorini to Mykonos is the busiest island hop in the Cyclades, and for most of the year it is genuinely simple: a high speed ferry, two to three hours, several sailings a day. The complications are all…
Santorini villas divide into two very different products that share a word. On the caldera rim, a villa usually means a cave suite cut into the cliff with a terrace and a plunge pool, sleeping two to four, priced accordingly.…
Santorini in winter is a genuinely different island, and whether that is wonderful or disappointing depends almost entirely on what you came for. The caldera is still there, the villages are still white against the cliff, and the light in…
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…