Santorini, Greece Port Reviews

Not sufficient time.

We chose a Small Group Wine Tasting Experience as our excursion. I highly recommend an excursion here as it gets you a priority path off of the ship as this is a Tender port. There isn't any wine tasting until almost 11am so the first part of the trip is around the island and sight seeing. The big thing on this island is the return to the ship - we agreed to get in line and test the movement for taking the tram back down. This was a good thing. We saw many head down the steps assuming that the tram was a 1 or 2 hour wait. For our day and time, the line wrapped around the shops for what appeared to be around 150 to 200 yards. It was less than 45 minutes and the trip down was easy - compared to the steps.

Beyond words fabulous.

We did the Volcano hike which was nice but a very aggressive hike. Because this was the excursion we chose we did not see any of the actual town, nor did we go up the hill or the cable car.

Disappointed with Santorini unfortunately. There were 4 other ships docked at the same time meaning it was a 3 hour queue for cable cars, same with on the way down.

Too crowded.. too many ships in Port at one time

I was looking forward to visiting because of all the pictures shared by others. Avoid Santorini if you are on a cruise. The line for a cable car was 2 hours long at the bottom and the top. It produces so much anxiety. You are so worried about making it back to your tender before the ship leaves. It was so crowded, the streets were so narrow, and this was the off season. People in line were fed up and hateful, understandable. It was a miserable experience.

The pier at the base of the mountain to where most cruise ships tender is narrow and tiny making for chaos when hooking up with an excursion. Heading up to the top of the mountain from that location is either via stairs (this is like climbing stairs of a 30 story building), cable car, or mule (they're not donkeys). The way down is the same except one can wait a good two hours for the cable car. OR, do a non-ship excursion like ours that put us on a boat to a different pier where we boarded a coach bus taking us up the mountain with an island tour. After time to walk and eat, we boarded the bus back down the hill to meet our private boat that tendered us directly back to the ship.

Took the first tender, no line for the cable car. Almost alone in town, business was not opened yet. Came back before the rush.

I enjoyed the excursion/ Great scenery & views