Travel to Santorini: Α useful guide for Summer 2021

Where is Santorini & How to get to Santorini Island for Vacation?

Travel to Santorini: A useful guide for Summer 2021

Santorini is one of the most famous and popular tourist destinations in the world. The island’s unique landscapes – the result of a Megavolcano eruption during prehistoric times – and its scenic villages – known for the white-washed houses perched on the cliffs of the island’s caldera and the blue-domed churches – are photographed by literally millions of people each year, especially during the summer. If you are looking to plan a trip to Santorini, Greece, here’s everything you need to know in order to get started. Let’s start with the basics:

Where is Santorini & How to get to Santorini Island for Vacation?
Where is Santorini? As you probably know, Santorini is located in Greece, which in turn is located in the south of Europe. To be more precise, Santorini is part of the Cyclades island group in the Aegean Sea and it is really close to Athens, which is very important.
How to get to Santorini? Getting to Santorini is rather easy. The island has an international airport and during the summer, it can be reached via a direct flight from just about any European capital or major city. If however you can’t book a direct ticket from your country, you can still get there via Athens, either by plane or ferry. In other words, you can get to Athens and get on a plane or a ferry from there to Santorini island.

How long should you stay in Santorini and what is there to do?
How many days to spend in Santorini? This is a very tricky question. Santorini is a relatively tiny island, but it has a lot to offer to her visitors. If you only care about photographing the Caldera and enjoying the island’s gorgeous sunsets, you can stay there for just a couple of days or so. However we recommend that you spend at least five days on the island in order to enjoy it as much as possible. You could get bored if you stay there for more than five days or a week at maximum, since the island is very small.

What to do in Santorini: There are many things to see and do in Santorini. First of all, you can visit the towns of Fira, Imerovilgi and Oia in order to enjoy the island’s gorgeous sunsets and to photograph its scenic sunsets. You can visit the prehistoric town of Akrotiri, one of the best preserved and most important archaeological sites in Europe and the world in general. You can also check out the island’s museum. Finally, you can enjoy delicious local food in the island’s many restaurants, many of which are headed by world-class chefs. Those are the things that one simply must do during a Santorini vacation and just a fraction of what the island has to offer.

When to book your hotel and tickets
Before you travel to Santorini, it goes without saying that you will have to book your transportation and accommodation first. Well, there are definitely some things that you should be aware of and pay attention to. Depending on when you intend to visit Santorini, you may have to travel way ahead of your travel date. Santorini is EXTREMELY popular during the summer, but less so between the months September and May.
If you intend to visit Santorini during the summer and especially during the months of July and August, you should know that you are just one of millions of people from all over the world who are planning the same trip. If you want to a find a nice hotel to stay in as well as transportation tickets, you need to act fast. You need to make your bookings at least eight months in advance!