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…
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 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…
Santorini nightlife is not what most visitors expect, in either direction. People who arrive expecting Mykonos are surprised by how early the caldera villages go quiet, and people who arrive expecting a sleepy volcanic island are surprised to find a…