What are the best tips for visiting Santorini on a cruise? — featuring Cruise Lifestyle

0:00 if you're planning a cruise to the Greek Islands chances are you'll be visiting Santorini you've seen the gorgeous photos but so has everyone else and their dog which means crowds crowds and more crowds what can you do to make the most of your day in santerini we're sharing our top tips for visiting

0:16 santerini on a cruise with you lovely people so you don't get stuck in a huge queue for the cable car and you can make the most of your day on this beautiful Greek island we've just spent the day in sanini on a cruise and here are our top tips to get around our day in sanini started very early in the morning as the

0:31 sun was Rising cruise ships have to enter the Caldera from a certain direction and this means you generally get to pass by Oya spelled o i a on your approach as you can see there were another couple of cruise ships ahead of us including an MSC ship which was around the same size as our cruise ship

0:47 and we' calculated that there were going to be potentially 9,000 Cruise passengers in sanini on the day we were visiting we had a game planned to try and see as much of sanini as possible and this involved getting up early to get in line for tender tickets so let's begin with our first

1:02 tip so we're going to start off with probably the biggest tip we can give you and that is get off the ship as early as possible sanini is a tender Port so you're going to have to get tender tickets in the morning potentially and then you'd want to get off as soon as possible because you will have to try

1:18 and get up from where the tender drops you in some way to fearer or ear tip two please don't use the donkeys it's cruel we've seen it it's horrible we would suggest that you get the cable car and that cost you only €6 yeah one way 6 unfortunately you can't get your return tickets you have to then queue up

1:40 uh to then go down and get your tickets but at least it's not that expensive so use the the six- year cable car and save the donkeys so if you're planning to take the cable car here's what you need to do once you get off the tender booat take a left and head to the far end where you'll find the entrance to the

1:56 cable car the cable car takes you from where the tenders drop you off up to the town of fera if you're feeling energetic you could walk up the 600 steps instead but we think the cable car is a safer less sweaty option as we've already mentioned the cable car is €6 each way and you can't book tickets in advance

2:14 whatever time of day you arrive you have to queue up and buy a ticket from the kiosk before you can board if you are lucky enough to arrive early in the morning like us the queue won't be long we were on the first tender from our cruise ship and it took us no more than about 5 minutes to get on each car holds

2:29 six people and there are six cars per Journey once you're on board you can sit back and enjoy the ride [Music]

3:05 [Music] when you get off the cable car you can walk straight out into F and if you take an immediate right turn you'll get a great view of the Caldera and your cruise ship it's here where you'll also find the top of the 600 steps that the donkeys and people use [Music]

3:39 one of the best things that you can do by getting off early is enjoy the quiet streets it was literally like dead when we went up there when we got back to Thea at toward lunchtime it was really really busy wasn't it it was too busy too crumbed so make the most of the early start enjoy the quiet streets and

3:55 also that means then that you've got more chance of getting the photos that you want of the incredible views [Music] so if you don't have the luxury of getting to sanini early because your cruise ship doesn't arrive until later in the day we would recommend potentially taking a boat trip and that

4:15 will take you from the dock where the tender drops you off straight to I and then you can get also within that ticket you can get bus back to F again but if you arrive before 9:30 boats don't start until then so the boat trips only start start from 9:30 a.m. onwards the public transport here is

4:35 fantastic you can get from F to ear quite easily for just €2 fantastic takes around about 25 minutes yeah yeah yeah 20 to 25 minutes the bus goes every half an hour um you just need to find the bus station but that's really really easy and yeah €2 one way for a bus from F to IA and then you can just get the bus

5:00 back where you dropped you off um 4 return can't beat that when you arrive in Aya make a note of where the bus drops you as this is where you'll return to get the bus back you can then head up the gradual Hill to the Main Street the first Landmark you're likely to come across is the Orthodox

5:17 church so we'd say definitely if you can try and visit I and F you're going to be dropped off pretty much in F anyway but we would definitely recommend going to ear because we think it's far prettier there's a lot more accommodation isn't there like little houses um and little um apartments in the cliff a so

5:37 definitely more picturesque but there are two kind of ends to ear one really really busy and one quieter yeah the the at one end the streets are so narrow it's it's actually virtually impossible for two people to pass however when you go to the other end it widens out and you don't even you don't even see as

5:57 many people at that point yeah it gets big busy on the um on the narrower streets because everyone is going to see the three blue domed um roofs that the that the that you went to and you struggled to get down which was a nightm it was it was ridiculous yeah um there's actually not that many Blue Dome

6:16 churches in Santorini uh so there's one view where you can see three and that's what draws all those people to that one end but like Craig said the other end is actually got wider um walkway and it's it loads better definitely go both sides but if you're looking for somewhere quieter with some

6:34 nice views when you get off the bus turn left don't turn right turn yeah but equally the views from wherever you go are absolutely Sensational not to be missed so just be aware santarini is one of the most expensive Greek Islands so if you plan to eat and drink on land by all means do just be prepared that it's

6:58 probably going to be more expensive than some of the other Greek Islands that you might be visiting on your cruise be aware in Santorini that we heard and we didn't know this but apparently it's quite R for pick pocke in so just be aware and keep your valuables safe at all times and finally our final tip for you

7:20 is that actually if you are going to be getting off early in sanini it does mean that you're probably going to be then able to get back on board your ship earlier it means that the cable car then is going to be quieter to get back down we did this around lunchtime and actually people were still in sanini so

7:35 they weren't thinking about coming down we only waited like literally 5 minutes on the cable car to go down yeah very lucky and uh obviously we came back then and enjoyed an extremely quiet if you're finding this video helpful please hit the like button to help others find it so despite the cue for the cable car

7:52 to come back down being very small by lunchtime the queue for the cable car to go up to F was pretty long this was the queue we were met with as we were walking back to the cruise ship the queue for the cable car can be up to an hour and a half in peak season we visited at the beginning of October and

8:09 as you can see the line for the cable car is still quite long still going still [Music] going and there's the end of the queue if like us you love exploring new places on a cruise why not check out this video where we share how to spend your day in

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