Take a break from Santorini’s black sand beaches on a full-day tour of its Minoan excavations, traditional villages, ancient capital and buried settlements. End the day at Oia and watch the sunset from the islands northernmost tip.Following a pick-up from your hotel, transfer by air-conditioned coach to the archaeological site of Akrotiri (**please note that from November till end of March the archaeological site of Akrotiri will not be included**). Explore an ancient city that was frozen in time after a volcanic eruption 3,600 years ago. Step inside with your guide and learn about the Minoan city before the devastating event occurred. Meet your guide again in the early evening for the transfer to Oia, a quintessential Greek village that’s known for its sugar cube houses and blue-domed churches. Join the legions who flock to Oia to watch the sunset, and stroll down streets nestled into the side of the cliffs overlooking the spectacular caldera.
Posted By : Sheri_B
We had a wonderful time on this tour. The tour was put together beautifully with ample time to enjoy all of the stops. Our tour guide and bus driver were professional and took care of us greatly. Nikolas is the best driver! We met some fantastic people on the tour as well. Would highly recommend this tour.
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Posted On : 2023-10-27 12:11:58 
Posted By : Tracey_Y
They started off as little hectic as we were picked up in one bus. And then told that we had to change and get on to a big, huge bus, which was not fun. As the tour was now about 30 people instead of about 10 period the person who was the guide was not overly friendly.
We period period but I guess that's just the way it goes.
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Posted On : 2023-10-18 14:18:36
Posted By : maryfrances_m
The tour did a little of everything, views, venitian castle, black beaches, wine tasting, small villages and sunset , etc ,the guide , Giánnis (pronounced Yannis in case I spelled it wrong) was a fantastic source of information about santorini and local areas, I highly recommend this tour, it was well planned.
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Posted On : 2023-10-03 08:00:50
Posted By : Bev_H
So happy we took this tour. Alex our tour guide was amazing! He was a wealth of knowledge and so friendly!!! We were able see alot of this beautiful island and now we know where we want to explore during the remainder of our holiday. Definitely take the Akrotori tour. It’s an amazing part of history!
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Posted On : 2023-09-12 05:15:12
Posted By : Adrian_A
Very informative and fun trip. This gave us a great overview of Santorini and we're able to check out multiple things we wouldn't have been able to on our own. Nick the driver and Christina were great hosts.
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Posted On : 2023-08-23 03:42:53
Posted By : Olena_L
If you have any self-respect book with someone else. They just want your money, they don’t care about you. We never made it to the tour because there were too many cruise ships in Santorini. MTM DMC Ltd., the provider of the tour, barely communicated with us. I received a random message on WhatsApp 12 hours prior to the tour only after I contacted Viator support team. I asked for money back and I said that I didn’t trust this provider and only then I got the message from them and when I said that we might not be able to be on time, the person on the other end just laughed and said that he’s keeping 100% of my money! After that, he wished me a good night with a :-) and never responded again. These people do not deserve a penny of your money and they really need to rethink how they treat their customers. Never will I ever book with them again.
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Posted On : 2023-07-05 05:42:56
Posted By : D_M
Trip overall was value for money . See the island , coach driver (Nikos) was excellent.
Penny at Akrotiri and Gianni were good guides .
Gave a good tip for “all “of the staff ….. hope this was shared …however , was left uncertain because did not view it going into “the pot” . Ended up leaving another for the coach driver when leaving coach because of this .
Always find that this aspect of any trip turns into a far more expensive day out…. and ruins aspect of the trip.
JWhy are tips and the fees for Akrotiri not built into the overall costs ? Have found more and more as a single person that whenever on holiday always end up feeling compromised and pay literally a small fortune in tipping when using the 10/15% rule because never wish to appear mean and thankless. Ie could go on another holiday !
Greece in general and compared to Mauritius and Australia appears to prefer use of cash and found it difficult overall to change large notes into small more usable notes for such occasions .
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Posted On : 2023-06-28 00:17:06
Posted By : sudharsanan_G
The trip was good with ample amount of free time to explore the villages like emporio and perissa by ourselves. The guide was very very knowledgeable as she gave the clear picture with timeline on the past, the present and how the future might be of santorini. The sunset in oia is the cherry on top but it was super crowdy. However our guide Katherine suggested alternative places to see the sunset from which kind of saved us.
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Posted On : 2023-06-19 12:38:13
Posted By : 613narellep
The company failed to pick me up for the tour at all. I would not recommend for anyone to book this tour through Viator. It would be much better to book any tours through your hotel once you arrive in Santorini as the communication can be clearly through the hotel. I had chosen my hotel specifically as this tour said it would pick up from this hotel. I went through hundreds of hotels to find one that they would. Then there was a last minute change of the pick up point that apparently was sent to me via email but I never received. I sat waiting for 45 mins for my pick up - never came
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Posted On : 2023-06-03 20:28:37 
Posted By : Michelle_S
Tour of Akrotiri and the Venetian fort and old town were really interesting. Guide was great and informative. Enjoyed the lunch time at the beach in Perissa. We are not wine drinkers, so the wine tasting was sort of lost on us, but everyone else seemed to enjoy it!
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Posted On : 2023-05-27 13:32:28
