The Santorini cable car is the little six-cabin lift that drops from the rim at Fira to the Old Port at Skala, three hundred metres below. It exists because there is no road down that cliff, and for anyone arriving…
Oia Santorini is the most photographed village in Greece and the one visitors most often describe as both extraordinary and disappointing in the same sentence. Both are correct, and the difference between them is entirely a matter of what time…
Fira Santorini is the island’s capital, its transport hub and the place most first-time visitors should base themselves, and it is also the town people are most often rude about. Both reactions are earned. Between eleven and five in high…
The Santorini hot springs are the most oversold and most misunderstood item on the island’s excursion menu, and we would rather tell you plainly what they are before you book. They are not a spa, there are no pools, no…
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…
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…