About our Santorini boat tour company
One Lagoon catamaran, shared or private. One RIB, private to your group. Every price we charge is on this site, and nothing on this page is a claim we cannot show you.
We are a family-run Santorini boat tour company, based in Fira since 1927. We run a Lagoon sailing catamaran and a RIB. A shared cruise and a private charter both leave room to move, because we never fill the deck. The RIB is private to your group. Every price is published on this site.
Most about pages are a founding story. Ours cannot be, because the dates and names attached to this business could not be verified, and we are not prepared to invent them. So this page is the other thing an about page can be: a list of what we run, what it costs, how we make decisions, and what we refuse to say until we can show you the evidence.
What we can tell you, and what we will not claim yet
The left column is on this site because we can point at it. The right column is not on this site, and each line says why.
| What we can tell you | What we will not claim until we can prove it |
|---|---|
| The boat. A Lagoon sailing catamaran with a wide, level deck and cabins below, cruising at about 12 knots. | A guess at anything. Two different founding years were in circulation on the old site. We waited for the owner to confirm one rather than pick the better-looking one. |
| The deck. Comfortable for everyone aboard — we sell for comfort, not for the most the deck could hold. | A licence number. We are insured and the fee is inside the ticket price, but there is no number we can point you at. |
| The price. €100 per person shared, €1,200 for a private boat up to eight, and the rest on the prices page. | Any rating we cannot source. The figures the old site carried supported nothing, so they went. The 5.0 from 26 reviews we show now is the one on our Google profile, and you can go and count it. |
| The crew. Two or three aboard the catamaran, two on the RIB, working in Greek and English. | Crew names or years of service. Several names were circulating. None of them survived a check, so none of them are here. |
| The base. Fira, which is the address on our Google Business Profile. Where we sail from. Vlychada Marina, on the south coast; the included car takes you there and brings you back. | Anything the owner has not confirmed. Three lines left this column in August 2026 — the departure port, the founding year and the review count. Each moved because it was confirmed, not because we wanted the column filled. |
| The policy. Free cancellation seven days out on a shared cruise, and a full refund whenever the captain cancels for weather. | Fixed opening hours. Two contradictory sets were published before. WhatsApp reaches us through the day in season; that is what we will say. |
| The food. Lunch cooked on board, with Santorini wine, beer and water in the price. | Photographs of our boat, crew or food. The old picture library was not ours to use. New ones are being shot. |
Every line on the right is one confirmed fact away from moving to the left. When it moves, it moves with its source attached.
The two boats
| The catamaran | The RIB | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Lagoon sailing catamaran | Rigid inflatable, no cabins |
| Departure | Vlychada Marina, on the south coast | Fira Old Port, Ammoudi or Athinios, by route |
| Deck | Wide and level, with a shaded cockpit and cabins below | Open, fast, no cabin |
| Crew | Two or three | Two |
| Speed | About 12 knots | About 20 knots |
| Guests | 15 shared, 17 private | Private to your group |
| Sold as | Five scheduled catamaran cruises, day and sunset, shared or whole-boat | RIB tours, the water taxi and shore excursions, priced by route |
More detail on the catamaran, including what is where on deck, is on the catamaran.
Why this site was rebuilt in 2026
This site was rebuilt in 2026. The version before it carried text and photographs that were not ours: they belonged to a different and unrelated company, and they should never have been on our pages. We took all of it down.
That included the four testimonials. We could not trace a single one to a guest of this boat, and one of them thanked somebody else by name. It also included a rating and a review count that nothing supported, and two contradictory sets of opening hours.
We would rather have a thin page than a false one. The reviews page now says exactly that, and asks you to judge us on the answer you get on WhatsApp before you book.
How we work
Four rules, and one thing we say out loud more often than most operators would.
- Comfortable on a shared boatWe sell for comfort rather than for volume. That is a seat in the shade for everyone, somewhere to put your bag, and a swim platform that is not a queue.
- The captain calls the weather, on the morningThe decision is about the sea, not the schedule. If he cancels, you move date or take the money back in full. He may also reorder the stops or drop one, for the same reason.
- The whole price is on the site€100 per person shared. €1,200 for a private boat up to eight, then €100 each. Transfers, lunch, wine, fuel, insurance and port fees are inside those numbers. Nothing is collected at the boat.
- One number, and a person on the end of itThe number on this site reaches the people who decide whether the boat sails. There is no call centre and no agency between you and the crew.
- We will tell you when it does not fitA five-hour cruise plus two road transfers rarely fits a cruise-ship day. If your plan does not work, you will hear that before you book, not afterwards.
Where we sit among Santorini catamaran operators
A directory listing on santorini-view.com, read on 25 August 2026, carried 20 shared catamaran products in a market band running from about $92 to $193 per person. A Viator listing for a shared catamaran, seen the same day, stated a maximum of 50 to 55 guests on board.
Our shared seat is €100 and the boat is deliberately uncrowded. We are at the bottom of that price band and near the bottom of the guest count at the same time. We would rather write that down than call the boat premium and let you find out what the word meant.
Ask us the thing this page did not answer
If something here matters to your decision and we have said we cannot prove it, ask anyway. You will get a straight answer, in writing, the same day.
Call the harbour office+30 698 977 1888
Common questions
Are the crew experienced and friendly?
We have not published crew names, qualifications or years of service, and we are not going to claim numbers we cannot show you. What we can tell you is the shape of the crew: two or three aboard the catamaran, two on the RIB, working in Greek and English. Ask us and we will put the detail in writing.
What is the capacity limit of the vessels?
We sell 15 seats on a semi-private cruise and 17 on a private charter, so there is always more deck than there are people. The RIB is private to your group. A larger group becomes a different conversation, so message us.
Do you run the boats yourselves, or are you an agency?
We run them. A Lagoon sailing catamaran and a RIB, working out of Fira. The number on this site is answered by the people who decide whether the boat sails, which is why WhatsApp gets you a real answer about a specific date rather than a booking-engine response.
Where are your reviews?
On our Google profile, where there are 26 of them averaging 5.0. We do not reprint any on this site. The four the old site carried were not ours — one of them thanked a different company by name — so we deleted all four rather than republish them. The reviews page explains the reasoning.
Where are you based?
Fira, on Santorini. That is the address on our Google Business Profile, and it is where the business sits. The boat sails from Vlychada Marina on the south coast, which is a different place — but you do not have to get there yourself, because a car collects you from your hotel and brings you back afterwards.
Santorini Boat Tour - Water Taxi is a catamaran cruise and water taxi operator based in Fira, Santorini.
Updated August 2026