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…
Santorini to Ios is the shortest ferry hop from this island and the easiest one to underestimate. Thirty-five to fifty minutes on a high speed boat takes you to an island with the best sandy beaches within reach, a hill…
Thirassia Santorini is the island you have been looking at all week without knowing its name. It is the long dark shape across the water from Oia and Imerovigli, the western wall of the same volcano, separated from the main…
Santorini to Paros is one of the most useful crossings in the Cyclades and one of the least dramatic, which is exactly why we recommend it so often. Two to two and a half hours on a high speed ferry…
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…
Santorini museums are small, cheap and almost entirely overlooked, which is a shame because two of them hold objects that would headline a national collection anywhere else. The frescoes lifted from Akrotiri are among the finest surviving wall paintings of…
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…