Santorini boat tours and a water taxi, both from Fira
A Lagoon catamaran, capped for comfort, not the most the deck could hold. Lunch cooked on deck. And, on cruise-ship days, a private boat that takes you off Fira Old Port without the cable car queue.
We run catamaran cruises and a private water taxi in Santorini, both from Fira. A shared five-hour cruise is €100 per person with lunch, wine and hotel transfers included. A private catamaran is €1,200 for up to eight guests. The water taxi is a private boat for up to eight, priced by route.
Comfortable for everyone aboardWe sell for comfort, so there is a seat in the shade for everyone.
Lunch is cooked on boardChicken and shrimp off the coals, Greek salad, pasta, dolmades and the dips. Wine and beer are in the price.
Cancel free seven days outSeven days or more before you sail, you get everything back. If we cancel for weather, the same.
One number, one boatThe number on this page reaches the people who run the boats. No call centre, no agency.
Who we are
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Who we are
One boat, one crew, and the whole caldera
A Lagoon sailing catamaran with two or three crew aboard: wide, level, shaded where it matters. We sell for comfort, not for volume.
That gap is the whole point. Fifteen guests is a seat in the shade for everyone, a place at the table when lunch comes off the grill, and a ladder you do not have to queue for.
The same boat runs the private cruises, so a private day is not a different vessel. It is the same deck with nobody else on it.
Comfortable for everyone aboard
Never a crowded deck. Nobody sits on the trampoline because the benches are full.
Lunch is cooked on board
Chicken and shrimp off the coals, Greek salad, pasta, dolmades and the dips. Wine, beer and water are in the price.
Transfers both ways
A car collects you at your hotel and brings you back. It is not an extra.
Since 28 July 2026 the stepped path from Fira Old Port has been closed after a landslide. That leaves the cable car as the only way up from the tender pier — and it moves 600 people an hour in each direction while four ships tender at once.
There is another way out of Skala, and it does not go up. A boat meets you at the tender pier and takes you along the caldera by sea: to Ammoudi under Oia, to Athinios for a ferry, or on a half-day of swimming stops built around your ship's all-aboard time.
You spend the queue on the water instead of in it.
The caldera is a drowned volcano about 11 km across. Almost everything worth seeing on this side of Santorini has no road to it, which is the whole argument for a boat.
The loop, and the coast around it
Numbered points are the day cruise, in sailing order. Tap any point to read what is there. Every point has its own page.
A private boat never costs less per head than a shared seat — it runs from €150 each at eight guests and falls as the group grows. What you buy is the route, the timing and nobody else's music. The full table, RIB and water taxi included, is on prices.
Hour by hour
What five hours looks like
The semi-private day cruise, start to finish. Times move through the season with the sun; the ones on your confirmation are the ones that apply.
We collect you
A car picks you up at your hotel. The transfer both ways is in the price.
Lines off at Vlychada
Shoes off on deck, bags below, and a short briefing about where the life jackets and the toilet are.
Red Beach
The first swim stop, under the red cliffs, in the clearest water of the morning. The boat anchors off — there is no jetty anywhere on this coast.
White Beach
A cove no road reaches. Pale pumice above you, dark pebbles below, and snorkelling gear on board if you want it.
Mesa Pigadia and the Akrotiri cliffs
The quiet end of the south coast: high rock, deep water, and coves the road never found.
Round the lighthouse
The 1892 Akrotiri light marks the southern corner. From here the caldera opens up and the volcano is straight ahead.
The volcano swim
Anchored off Nea Kameni's black lava, you swim inside the flooded crater itself. The grill is already working.
Lunch and the Fira panorama
Plates round the cockpit table as the whole crater opens — Fira, Firostefani and Imerovigli stacked high above the Old Port.
The run home
The wrap first: round the volcano and down the channel between the two burnt islands, with the warm springs when the sea allows. Then bows south, one last look up at the lighthouse.
Ashore
Back on land, and the car is waiting.
The order changes when the wind changes. That decision belongs to the captain and is made on the morning.
On board
What is in the price
The same list applies to every catamaran cruise on this site, shared or private.
In the price
Return road transfer between your hotel and the boat
Greek and English speaking crew
A meal cooked on board: BBQ chicken and shrimp off the coals, Greek salad, pasta in tomato sauce, vine leaf rolls, and Greek dips with bread
Santorini white wine, cold beer, soft drinks and water
Snorkelling gear
Towels
Captain, crew, fuel, insurance and port fees
Not included
Walking on the volcano (the boats anchor offshore)
Nea Kameni national park entrance fee
Gratuities
Guest book
Reviews
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A shared five-hour catamaran cruise with us is €100 per person, including hotel transfers, lunch cooked on board, wine and beer. A private catamaran is €1,200 for up to eight guests and €100 for each guest after that. The full table is on our prices page.
Where do you depart from?
The catamaran sails from Vlychada Marina on the south coast, and the water taxi works from Fira Old Port. Road transfer from your hotel and back is included in every catamaran cruise, so you do not need to find the marina yourself. Your exact meeting point is confirmed with your booking.
Morning or sunset — which cruise is better?
The morning cruise has the calmer, clearer water, which suits swimming and families; the sunset cruise gives you the caldera lit from the west and dinner on deck, at the cost of the afternoon wind. Both are five hours and €100 a seat. If you are prone to seasickness, take the morning.
Is the boat shared or private?
Both run on the same catamaran. A semi-private cruise is shared with up to 14 other guests at €100 each. A private cruise is the whole boat: €1,200 for up to eight, then €100 per extra guest. Private always costs more per head; it buys you the route and the timing.
What happens if the wind gets up?
The captain decides on the morning of the cruise whether the sea is safe. If he cancels, you move to another date or take a full refund. He may also change the route or the order of the stops on the day, for the same reason.
Can you pick us up from the cruise ship tender port?
Tell us your ship, the date and your all-aboard time and we will tell you what is possible. Since the stepped path from Fira Old Port closed in July 2026, leaving Skala by sea is the only way to avoid the cable car queue entirely.
Santorini Boat Tour - Water Taxi is a catamaran cruise and water taxi operator based in Fira, Santorini.
