Santorini Greece Tours

Santorini Classic Catamaran Cruise with BBQ, Drinks and Transfers

★★★★★ 4.8 (4,166 reviews · 5 hours)

Sail the inside of the caldera on the most-booked Santorini Greece boat tour on the island, with a minibus collecting you from your hotel and dropping you back afterwards. The catamaran runs past the Red and White beaches to a swim stop at Mesa Pigadia, then anchors off Palea Kameni so you can swim into the warm sulphur water. A barbecue lunch, local white wine, soft drinks, towels and snorkelling gear are all inside the fare, and the boat carries no more than 22. Daytime and sunset departures both run, and the sunset one books out first.

1. Hotel pickup by air-conditioned minibus
2. Board the catamaran at Vlychada Marina
3. Sail past Red Beach and White Beach
4. Swim stop at Mesa Pigadia Beach
5. Hot springs swim off Palea Kameni
6. BBQ lunch and local white wine aboard
7. Return to Vlychada and hotel drop-off

From $106 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Private Santorini Tailor-Made Tour: Choice of the Guest

★★★★★ 5 (2,666 reviews · 3 to 12 hours)

Pick the stops yourself on the cheapest Santorini Greece private tour with its own car. A local driver-guide meets you at your hotel, the port or the airport and the day runs anywhere from three to twelve hours, priced by the hour rather than the head. The published stop list is a menu of eighteen places, from the Oia sunset and the black sand at Perissa to the Wine Museum and a brewery, and you choose. Water, live commentary and a deluxe air-conditioned van are included; entrance fees and the cable car are not.

From $59 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Santorini Wine Adventure with 12 Wine Tastings, Tapas and Sunset

★★★★★ 5 (1,910 reviews · 4 hours)

Taste twelve wines across three estates on the Santorini wine tour that most people on the island end up booking. A Mercedes van collects you from your hotel or Airbnb and runs out to Estate Argyros, the cliff-top Santo Wines and Domaine Sigalas, with an expert guide rather than a cellar-door pour. Local cheese and cold cuts come with the tastings, and the evening option puts you at the cliff-top winery as the sun drops. It is an adults- only afternoon, capped at fifteen, and the wines are mostly the whites and dessert wines only Greece's volcanic soil grows.

1. Hotel or Airbnb pickup by air-conditioned van
2. Taste at Estate Argyros
3. Cliff-top tasting at Santo Wines
4. Finish at Domaine Sigalas
5. Twelve wines with local cheese and cold cuts
6. Drop-off back at your hotel

From $177 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Half-Day Exclusive Catamaran Cruise in Santorini with Meal and Open Bar

★★★★★ 4.9 (3,982 reviews · 5 hours)

Swap the coach for a deck on this half-day Santorini Greece catamaran tour, which collects from your hotel and works three stops inside the caldera. Twenty minutes at Red Beach, twenty at the volcano and half an hour off Thirasia is the shape of it, with the lighthouse and White Beach passed on the way. Shrimp, mussels, a barbecue, Greek salad and pasta come out on board, alongside an open bar with local white wine, beer and a glass of Prosecco. The boat runs to eighteen, and a guide sails with it rather than just a crew.

From $140 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Luxury Santorini Catamaran Cruise: Lunch, BBQ, Drinks, Transfers

★★★★★ 5 (397 reviews · 5 hours)

Board at Vlychada Marina thirty minutes before a ten o'clock departure and give the day to the water of Greece's one flooded volcano. This catamaran works the southern shore, stopping an hour each at Mesa Pigadia beach, the volcano and Thirasia, with snorkelling gear, towels and wifi aboard. Lunch, beer, wine and soft drinks are all in the price, and the boat runs to a maximum of twenty travellers rather than a full deck. You will want a windbreaker even in August, because the meltemi finds the caldera in the afternoon and the crossings are open water.

From $120 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Santorini Luxury Catamaran Sunset Cruise with BBQ, Drink and Transfer

★★★★★ 4.9 (394 reviews · 5 hours)

Step aboard the Ipanema 58, a boat wide enough that the deck lounges are not a figure of speech. The route gives half an hour at the hot springs, half an hour at the Red Beach and ninety minutes at the White Beach, all reached only by water. A full Greek barbecue, beer, wine, juice and soft drinks are inside the fare, along with hotel pickup, towels and snorkelling gear for up to twenty guests. Check the season before you book, because after the clocks change your boat runs from half past twelve to sunset at about half past five.

From $153 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

1-Day Boat Trip: Santorini Volcano, Thirassia & Oia Sunset

★★★★☆ 4.4 (771 reviews · 14 hours)

Cross the whole caldera in one day on the only trip here that lands on Nea Kameni, swims at the hot springs and still reaches Oia for the sunset. A bus collects you and runs down to Athinios, where the boat picks up the crater island, the warm shallows off Palea Kameni and two hours ashore on Thirasia. Keep five euros in cash for the National Geological Park, which collects at the landing, and something for lunch, since neither sits inside the fare. Fourteen hours is a long day, and no other boat tour in Greece covers this much water.

From $66 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Santorini: Top Sights Day Trip, Wine Tasting & Oia Sunset

★★★★★ 4.7 (3,383 reviews · 9 hours)

Take nine hours by coach and let somebody else handle the order of your day in Greece. Profitis Ilias at the island's highest point, the alleys of Pyrgos and the Venetian fortress at Emporio come first, then free time on the black sand at Perissa and the sunset from Oia. Pickup, drop-off, a live guide and a tasting of three local wines are inside the fare, while food, drinks and tips are not. Book a winter date knowing your day starts earlier, because the sun sets before six.

From $60 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Santorini Highlights Small-Group Tour with Wine Tasting option

★★★★★ 4.9 (723 reviews · 5 to 7 hours)

Start outside the Fira bus terminal and cover the island's headline stops in five to seven hours. Fifty minutes on Oia's main street, forty at the kasteli in Pyrgos, twenty at the Profitis Ilias monastery and fifty at the Artemis Karamolegos winery is the published shape, with Akrotiri and the Red Beach on the longer version. A minivan, a local tour leader, water and all taxes are included; the wine and the Akrotiri ticket are not. Read the group size before you book, because this one runs to twenty-four travellers.

From $65 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Santorini: Horse Riding Trip to Black Sandy Beach

★★★★★ 4.9 (1,548 reviews · 1 hour 30 minutes)

Learn the basics from an instructor and then take a horse down onto Santorini's volcanic black sand. Ninety minutes covers the fields above Vlychada, a stretch of the dark beach, and a pause on the shore for photographs before the route loops back to the stable. Riding instruction, drinking water and a photo stop are inside the fare, and the listing names hotel pickup and drop-off among its inclusions. Children under twelve and anyone with back trouble are not taken, and your shoes matter more here than they sound.

From $98 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Santorini in a Day: Private Custom Santorini Tour with Pickup

★★★★★ 4.9 (707 reviews · 4 to 8 hours)

Take four to eight hours with a Mercedes van, a driver-guide and no fixed route. Oia, the black sand at Perissa, the Three Bells of Fira, the Prophet Elias lookout, the Akrotiri lighthouse, Pyrgos and Santo Wines are the stops the operator publishes. This is also the one listing here that states it is wheelchair accessible, with a private viewpoint at a blue- domed church written into the inclusions alongside water and pickup from any hotel or port. Cruise passengers pay their own cable car fare, and your clock starts only when you meet the driver.

From $207 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Santorini Must-See Highlights Private Tour

★★★★★ 5 (672 reviews · 3 to 7 hours)

Set your own pace across three to seven hours in Greece with a guide who has only your group. Oia's main street, the blue dome at Imerovigli, the Three Bells of Fira, Megalochori and the black sand at Perissa are the stops the operator lists, and the order is yours. Pickup covers the cruise port, your hotel, the ferry or the airport, and the vehicle carries wifi; groups of one to three travel by car and larger parties by minivan. Museum and winery entrance fees sit outside the fare, which keeps the headline price honest.

From $69 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Half-Day Santorini Private Tour

★★★★★ 5 (573 reviews · 3 to 6 hours)

Meet a driver at the cable car exit or your own door and see the caldera villages without arranging any of it. Firostefani, Imerovigli, an hour and twenty minutes in Oia, the monastery at Prophet Elias, Megalochori and two beaches make up the operator's route across three to six hours. Water, wifi, an air-conditioned vehicle and umbrellas, sunbeds and towels for the beach stop are all inside the price. Food, drinks and the cable car fare are not, and the vehicle is stroller-friendly with infant seats available on request.

From $58 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Santorini Sunset Wine Tour with Santo Winery Views

★★★★★ 5 (359 reviews · 4 hours)

Time your Santorini vineyard tour to end at the rim rather than start there. Three country wineries, twelve tastings and a platter of local cheese and cold cuts at Santo Wines are what the fare buys, with the last stop timed to the sunset. A deluxe minivan collects from any hotel or Airbnb on the island and an English-speaking wine expert runs the afternoon for a group of no more than fifteen. Minimum age is eighteen, and the pour leans heavily to whites and dessert wines, which is what the volcanic soil of Greece's driest island is good at.

From $201 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Santorini Family Farm Food & Wine Tour with Cooking Class

★★★★★ 5 (136 reviews · 4 hours 30 minutes)

Cook the island's food rather than watch someone else do it, on the one Santorini food tour here that puts you in an apron. The afternoon runs four and a half hours at Anydro Farm above Megalochori, with a local guide, a live cooking class, lunch and wine included. Pickup is not: the operator charges twenty-five euros a head for it, so factor a taxi or a car into the day. Groups reach twelve, it runs in all weather, and the produce comes off some of the most unusual volcanic ground in Greece.

From $100 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Santorini Wine Tasting & Premium Lunch at Award-Winning Winery

★★★★★ 4.9 (78 reviews · 2 hours)

Give two hours to one estate instead of three, and eat properly while you are there. Artemis Karamolegos at Exo Gonia is where this Santorini wine tour sits down: an hour and three quarters inside the winery, a guided tasting and a lunch that the fare covers rather than a plate of crackers. You meet at the winery itself, so you will need a taxi or a car to reach Exo Gonia, and the group runs to twelve. Adults only, and worth it if you would rather taste slowly than tick off estates.

From $130 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Santorini Shore Excursion: Private Tour with Tender Port Pickup

★★★★★ 4.9 (813 reviews · 3 to 6 hours)

Land off the tender and find a driver holding your name at the Old Port, which removes the worst hour of a Santorini cruise day. The tour runs three to six hours and the operator's route takes in the Three Bells, Imerovigli, Oia, Megalochori and two beaches, adjusted to your ship's timings. Getting up the cliff is still yours to arrange and the listing prices it plainly: about ten euros by cable car or forty by water taxi. Gratuities, lunch and the water transfer sit outside the fare, and the vehicle takes a stroller.

From $37 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Skip the Cable Car: Santorini for Cruise Ships with Boat Transfers

★★★★★ 4.8 (636 reviews · 5 hours)

Walk off your tender in Greece and straight onto a second boat, which is the point of this one. Instead of the cable car queue, the operator runs you round to Athinios by sea and back again, then covers Finikia, an hour in Oia, the blue-dome viewpoint, Megalochori and an hour on the black sand at Perivolos. A guide, an air-conditioned minibus, water, a guaranteed return to the ship and a full refund if your ship cannot dock are all inside the fare. Nineteen is the ceiling, and food is not included.

From $58 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.

Santorini in 5 Hours: Oia, Traditional Villages, Black Beach

★★★★★ 4.9 (54 reviews · 5 hours)

Meet at the top of the cable car and cover five villages in five hours, which is about the honest limit of a Santorini cruise day. Firostefani's blue dome, the quiet corner at Finikia, an hour in Oia, Megalochori and the black sand at Perivolos are the stops, in a new air-conditioned minibus with a driver-guide commentating. Cable car pickup and drop- off, water and free time for lunch come with it, and the operator refunds in full if your cruise schedule changes. The ten-euro cable car fare stays yours.

From $92 per person

Free cancellation up to 24 hours ahead.