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Santorini Private Sightseeing Tour

  • Private tour
  • Duration: 5 h
  • By car
  • Up to 15 guests

Overview

Santorini is the rim of a drowned volcano, and everything on the island follows from that: the cliffs three hundred metres above the water, the black sand, the pumice the houses are cut into, and the vines grown in baskets on the ground. On this private tour the guide and vehicle are yours, so you can linger where you want to and skip what you do not.

The tour covers:

  • Firostefani and Imerovigli on the caldera edge
  • Oia, its cave houses and its lanes
  • The monastery on Profitis Ilias, 567 metres up
  • Megalochori, a wine village of the 17th century
  • Perivolos, the black beach, with time for lunch

You are refunded in full if your ship skips the port.

Please note that the tour order and the time spent at each venue may vary.

What you will see

  • Five hours with a local guide and a vehicle for your party
  • The caldera left by an eruption around 1600 BC
  • Oia, cut into the cliff at the north end of the island
  • Imerovigli and Firostefani on the edge of the cliff
  • Black volcanic sand and the vineyards behind the beach

Itinerary

  1. Meeting at the port

    Meeting after tendering ashore in Santorini, where your guide and vehicle are waiting. The start time is adjusted to your ship's arrival.

  2. Firostefani

    Firostefani, on the cliff edge just north of Fira and about three hundred metres above the water. The caldera below is what is left of a volcanic eruption around 1600 BC, one of the largest in human history, which blew the middle out of the island and is thought to have crippled Minoan Crete. The blue-domed church here is the one on every poster of Greece.

  3. Imerovigli

    Imerovigli, the highest of the cliff villages, whose name means the place of the day watch because lookouts posted here could see pirates coming. It has the widest view over the caldera and the rock of Skaros, where the medieval capital of the island once stood.

  4. Oia

    Oia, at the northern tip, where whitewashed houses and cave dwellings cut into the pumice run down the cliff in steps. Much of the village was destroyed by the earthquake of 1956 and carefully rebuilt. There is time for the lanes, the shops and the view down to the old port of Ammoudi.

  5. Profitis Ilias

    Profitis Ilias, the highest point of the island at 567 metres, crowned by a monastery founded in 1711. From the ridge you see the whole of Santorini at once, the caldera on one side and the vineyards and beaches on the other.

  6. Megalochori

    Megalochori, a village of the 17th century built by wine merchants, with vaulted houses, bell towers over the lanes and old canavas, the cellars where the wine was made, dug into the rock beneath the houses.

  7. Perivolos beach

    Perivolos on the south coast, a long beach of black volcanic sand. The vineyards behind it explain the island's wine: with almost no rain and constant wind, the vines are woven into low baskets on the ground so the grapes ripen inside them, and the Assyrtiko grape makes the dry white the island is known for. A wine tasting can be added at extra cost. There is time here for lunch at a beach restaurant if you wish.

  8. Return to the ship

    Back to the port in good time for tendering

Price includes

  • Comfortable, air-conditioned bus
  • Certified local guide
  • Safe driver services
  • Full refund if your ship bypasses this port

Not included

  • Food and drinks

Prices

PeoplePrice per person
1€980
2–3€475
4–5€269
6–8€215
PeoplePrice per person
9–10€172
11–12€139
13–15€124

Book this tour

from €124 / person

Estimated total €950

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