24h in SANTORINI | what to do & how to NOT get DISAPPOINTED?
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- Santorini, Greece Travel Guide. How to travel Santorini in 24 hours & everything you NEED TO KNOW about Greece's most popular island. What to do in Santorini, best place to stay, Oia or Fira? And why Santorini is not what you see on social media?
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0:00 Is Santorini worth the hype?
0:55 Arriving in Santorini, transportation, how to get to Fira or Oia?
1:40 What is better Fira or Oia (and why I choose Fira)
2:30 When to travel Santorini? What to AVOID? + best local Greek food in Santorini (Stani Tavern)
3:00 Budget hotel in Santorini (how much does a night in Santorini cost?)
4:35 Why people get disappointed by Santorini? (why sunset in Santorini is not worth the hype)
8:10 Top attraction in Santorini (what can you actually do here?)
9:40 Best place to watch sunset in Santorini
11:00 Hike from Fira to Oia (What to know?)
15:50 Oia (best view point)
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As you did state in the video "Santorini is one of a kind". It's not about beaches, it's about appreciation of a great and unique place.
I agree :)
Your static shots are great, you really know how to put yourself in the frame. In fact, for a one person operation, your videos are extremely well made and edited.
Thanks for this series of videos on Greece... it was super entertaining to follow you around.
Thank you!! It means a lot ❤️
Spot on !! Everything you said is correct !
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Thanks for an honest review.
The place is gorgeous and one of a kind definitely. I hope to see Santorini in person early next year. Sooo looking forward to it.
This girl is presenting Santorini on a budget and is missing so much including the wonderful historical offerings of Santorini. When you are staying in one room by yourself on 50 Euros and eating Gyros - you are limited. Some of the exceptional and romantic accommodation, incredible restaurants, boating opportunities and historical sights really make Santorini special. Even some time in Pyrgos is wonderful - something she is not considering. There are some great little beaches you can also access by boat. I agree that July and August are not the best times to visit - too many people. These vlogs can provide some nice shots of the scenery and one person's often narrow perspective - but there are many ways to experience a location.
Our last 2 nights in Santorini, we rented a car and stayed near Akrotiri. It was so peaceful after the crowds and noise of Oia and Fira. we had a perfect caldera view from our room.
Love your voice, it's so chill!
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I returned from Santorini yesterday and after watching your videos before going travelling around Greece, we have also decided to do the hike from Fira to Oia! Such an amazing experience! Thank you so much for this amazing idea! 🤭✨
So glad to hear!! ❤️
What I actually liked about your videos is that you express your opinion honestly even if you don't like something, you're not like the vloggers that present everything ideal or they say that everything is great in the places they go. I appreciate that, because the videos are really helpful if you want to visit those places.
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Fabulous vlog Kaja, and yes, you make perfect sense.🤣 I've been to Santorini on a cruise, only had a couple of hours. Must go back sometime.👍😊🇮🇪🇬🇷
thank you!!
New subscriber here. Your editing is awesome. We're learning so much from other creators. Santorini in the summer is a hard pass for me. But we loved being there in October!
Thank you! I appreciate it!
@@KajaKubicka hope we might see you on our channel too.
Santorini is truly a unique place. This is because there is no other place where buildings come together in such a blend of white and a hint of blue. The rounded dome shapes and the absence of sharp corners in the walls provide a sense of comfort to anyone who sees them. It is a healing experience in itself. The blue sea stretching out below only adds to the magnificence of this place, making it even more special.
Thank you for these vlogsss!!! Love your vibe and this is helping me see different ways to travel in Greece! Super helpful to get a picture of what it’s like before I travel there solo as well :) also in general love your vlogging style! I’m happy there’s these kinds of travel videos!!
thank you!! so glad to hear you like them!
Thanks voor these realistisch vlog💖🤗
I'm going in a few weeks and your videos have been so helpful!
so glad to hear!
Yes! Especially the Fira to Oia hike!
I went to Santorini this June and was blown away by its beauty. You just have to be prepared it's touristy place. However for me only center of Fira was too much on that point. Highlight was definitely a walk between Fira and Oia and best town was Pyrgos.
Nice vlog 🥰
Thank you!
This video just convinced me to change my 3 night Santorini trip to a 2 night one haha. It's a beautiful island, but I agree that it looks like you don't need too long here!
I am afraid now so much. I am thinking if ONE night will also be ok? Around 1000€ for 2 nights of crowds - i am so afraid right now! What do you think? 1 night enough?
@@Selphful I just got back and I do think 1 night is enough there lol (for me)
Thanks for sharing, it's so beautiful!
We stayed in Alkotiri in the south. Check out the best view on Santorini from The Edge restaurant. Still managed to do Fira and Oia in one day. They're wonderful, but so cramped.
I don't know about that, the view of the town and ocean in Santorini looks majestic, as well as a signature scenery.
true!
👍 Agreed; All of Santorini is absolutely Beautiful. It’s best to go when the crowds have lessened a bit :)
I agree with you!
Love your video! I went to santorini 2times in last year. In May and October when is not a high season. I had an amazing time but I want to say October was little better than may. Because water wasn't that cold, so I can spend some good times in the water often. And I definitely want to go back. Never enough ❤
So glad that you liked it! :)
Santorini is a beautiful island and i've been there a lot of times couse i'm from Heraklion and it's very near..August,May,September..and i always had a great time there..Yes there's a lot of people but not everywhere..Of course every one sees different a place..Others like it and others dont..For me its OK to be there..-))I love your videos and keep up the good work!!
Thank you! 😊
You should go to Ikaria, it is famous for the longevity of its people and I think you would love it. I would certainly like to see you go there in a video at some point, and I would also love to go there too.
Thanks so much for your information- I agreed with you 100%
I’m planning to be there mid September worried if Ferries will be operating? I been checking on Ferry Hopper and they do not have any schedules after September 8?
I appreciate any info on this. Thank you
Wow parfeck video
Hi Kaja! I am more comfortable with less people. I hope the crowds stay in Santorini and Mykonos. Yes visit for the views and the food. There are many things to do. BUT...Milos, Paros/Antiparos, Naxos or Ios for me! Thank you for your great videos and the honest opinion about your experience! Beautiful, amazing GREECE.😊
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so, one of the most well known and touristic islands of the world has too many people during the summer.. who would have guessed?
A lot of photos and videos of Santorini you see online make it seem it's a relatively tranquil place... She basically made an expectations vs reality point because of that.
Hi, great vlog! Can you tell me what camera you used for this video please
Canon g7x and iphone :)
Kaja, on your second trip to Santorini, what month of the year did you visit?
going in May hopefully not too crowded
what time of day did you start the walk?
Thank you for the video! Now i am totaly afraid of going there. We will departure from santorini so now i need to decide whether one night or two nights (as planned) staying there. I will be so much disappointed!
Hi, may I ask what is the name of the hotel/hostel where you rented this room?:)) Thank you!!
try out the smaller Islands, way cheaper and less people = More fun!
Hi what vlogging camera do you use? Thank you 💛
Canon g7x :)
I need some help cos I have booked all my accommodation, where and when did you book? I am going in September, and I have booked way in advance to avoid higher cost, do you have any recommendations?
I went to Santorini and spent like no time in Oía. Off the beaten path was amazing. Hanging out in Akrotiri, stopping along the way and going into the villages was a great way to spent the time and do it like the locals. I recommend renting a buggy, great and fun way to travel on the island.
getting off the ferry... Sheshhhhh
I know, it's crazy..
Yes... most vloggers skip that part, they just magically appear on top of the cliffs. LOL Better have the full picture.
Oia is like Times Square at night with so many tourists on the paths. I stayed there x 5 nights.Rented a car and drove to Akrotiri , Melagalochori , Firostefani, Pyrgos, . You can see the beautiful sunset from many others perches on the Island as well as Oia.
May i ask the name of your accommodation, pls? thanks :)
Hi, did you travel solo here? I am traveling to Athens and Santorini next month, July, and I am going solo. Is it safe for a solo female traveler?
I've booked a 5 night to Santorini in October. It will be my first time. I'm going to Kamara. I'm worried now.
You have missed a lot of great things about this island. Perissa is very relaxing, there’s also Kamari and many other areas. You have to rent an ATV and go around the whole island
Crowded but you found so many places where you we’re basically by yourself. How did you find these little hide outs away from the crowds?
Just walking around in the middle of the day when it’s extremely hot so majority of people stay away haha but keep in mind that I try to film when people are not passing by which doesn’t mean that they are not there :(
That analogy realy makes sense. I like more "touchy" destinations. However I think Ill give Santoriny 24hs. Thanks for the video
Spent six hours on Santorini like you not my cup of tea at all, beautiful yes but I went there in August, my trip back to Paros, Koufornecia is a place I would stay in next time
I don't agree with some points this girl mentions and it also shows that she herself lacks quite a lot of knowledge not just of Greece but also of Santorini. Which is to be expected but the unfortunate part is that they come across as "this is the real knowledge" when it's swiss cheese knowledge with more holes in it than you can count. And she has already made more videos in which she said things that clearly is not reflecting the actual truth whatsoever.
1). Expectations.
*Santorini can almost not disappoint anyone especially not when you are educated on the island before you go (key!).* It's very easy to impress the visitor profoundly. It is a truly gorgeous island and in essense dumb and ill informed people may get disappointed not knowing whatsoever what they want to do, expect, and want to aim for with completely off aims due to lack of educating themselves before you go. You also don't go in a dense forest when you are on a volcano. or you wont find bears in the sea. Really, there are people who say they expected forests when going on Santorini. The vast majority is utterly filled with forests of the most diverse kinds. Go to mainland and you will be overwhelmed by it. But Santorini is a Volcano island and the Largest sea caldera in the world.
So don't expect dumb things. So people that are "dissapointed" will be only very rare. If you do and visit all the things you can do on the islands (which are many more than plenty here realise) you will have a truly extraordinary experience.
2). The island
*Also this girl yet again is not correct in her information. It's the same as some other people who arent educated enough when they speak.*
She says you can do a lot on other islands and that this is the reason there isn't that much on the island to do. Well it's just completely wrong.
For example. What makes Santorini special? it's its geology. It starts from there. It's a volcano. It erupted 3600 years ago. You can visit Vlychada beach which only very few people know or visit as just a simple example of how little people know when they visit the island. This beach has 70m high layers of pumice that was bombarded here by the Thira eruption that happened 3600 years ago. This beach is so unique you cannot find it anywhere else. Santorini is famous for it's tomatoes and grapes. You say you can visit also some things on other islands, but Santorini is literally famous for it's tomatoes and unique own selection of wines. So to try Vinsanto wines or Domato keftedes dish or Santorini fava or Tomato museum (close to Vlychada beach) are absolutely worth your while.
then you have literally Akrotiri one of the most important bronze age sites in the Mediterranean which is the Pompei of Greece but much much older and incredibly impressive and gives the island this depth of layers of what it is about than just being an island with the most beautiful sunsets in the world and caldera views. And there are more sites on the island you can visit and hike.
You can do a boat tour, and since the caldera is one of a kind with many gorgeous geology beauties around the island, a boat tour will make you admire it. You cant see it from your hotel or place of staying.
You can visit the center of the island and swim in natural hotsprings in a unique Santorini way. there is a light house on the south end. Wine tastings as I already mentioned.
*plenty to do and see on the island comfortably for a week if you want to.* and in a way that you can only see or do in Santorini.
3). more expectations.
Santorini also has black and red sand beaches and I would find the red sand beach more impressive. But if people go to Greece and visit Santorini as their to go to place and then go swimming at black sand beaches, they could have expected something else. In the sense that there is nothing wrong with these beaches. They are perfect. But these are black pebbles or sand and they absorb all the light. So you don't have those immensely blue colors that you have in many other types of beaches in Greece. Hence its again what you should expect. Which is based on your knowledge. And since many people have the research capability of a 2 year old and the unwillingness to spend 10 min of their time, they can be dissapointed, but ultimately by their own inability.
O I am sorry. You did watch some Insta stories of people with gorgeous views of Santorini. Yes. You can easily have them for yourself in 100 ways on Santorini. But I am talking about knowing the actual island. You cannot find them on your average insta story because these people too fall in the same cathegory of being highly unwilling to know what the island is actually about and uneducated to the core when visiting
I have been to Greece 50+ times and Santorini 3 times. I know what I talk about when I speak regarding the entire nation. Santorini is like all of Greece gorgeous and unique. Yes Greece is an incredibly hospitable country.
4). And Santorini especially towards the end of the season may have people be tired out by the coldness of the people of the world passing by the island. Meaning. You can be a warm Greek which is also generally as Greeks truly are with incredibly warm hospitality, but if you see 2 million people passing by, with many people who are fleeing every day life from wherever they come from but some of them themselves incredibly cold people, this is what a Greek on Santorini is experiencing the whole day every day in the season. Ofcourse also warm experiences. But this is not the flow of plenty people visiting the island.
So yes. I turn things around. as Greeks are by nature very warm and this is also my general 99% expectation. You can have a busdriving that isn't kissing your feet or even not be at all times nice, although it all depends on what happened. Well if a bus driver may be rude then that is not accepted in my books. But I would also say I never experiience it because I don't visit Santorini in July August as I would do it in October or May (perfect) and I visit all of the rest of the country and always every time again keep experiencing on a daily basis incredibly warm people. Santorini does not reflect how Greeks are in general. And also on the island w full season of millions of travelers doesnt help you to be every second and moment of the day warm to everyone when you experience rude foreign people on a daily basis
Agreed 🙂
Agree! I’ve been to Santorini twice and Vychlada beach is amazing!! Incredible. The island is incredibly diverse, this girls has really missed a lot of history and information about this island. Can’t believe she didn’t even to to Perissa! It’s a totally different vibe..
@@susanmilne7463 right!?😄😄
Glad Im not the only one being expressive here, as I totally love Greece and am dumbfounded how much people are missing out on. Truly!
Santorini alone is so much more beautiful than what the instagrammers go for.
But all of Greece, both the mainland.and its islands is a paradise for so many reasons.
Have you been to other islands in Greece? And the mainland? And visited in periods like springtime?
I’m in Santorini now and I have to say it’s beautiful but a bit overwhelming.
exactly :(
Yes i was just there friday and totally agree, last time i will go to santorini, rather do another greek island. Wont be going back.
@@simplyme213100 I would definitely come back but in April or May. This was too much.
@@outlandguide i do suggest milos, we took ferry to milos for couple days and it was such a breath of fresh air and beaches so much nicer. Loved it. I wouldn’t spend more then a day in Santorini if i ever did go back. Rather do any other another island for me.
@@simplyme213100 Would you suggest a MUST do once in your life though? I'm definitely going to other islands when I visit, but im having a hard time adding Santorini and Mykonos in my itinerary.. but I also don't want to regret not going haha
Please share this hotel name
go to Naxos
Going alone to santorini on a budget is a bad bad idea.
What do you think?? Is Santorini worth the hype?
You have a right. but it is original.it has not lost authenticity from tourism.
traditional and modern buildings give a perfect mix
It is beautiful, but would probably not chose it for my main holiday summer destination. 2 nights there are more than enough! :)
Why don't you try Philipines island.
One random suggestion: Try to reduce brightness in your videos. They look too bright.
haha I intentionally make them brighter! ;)
If you do not have a motorbike or car in Santorini, you will not enjoy all that this island has to offer
Hate on? Where's the grammar? Nothing to do? Book some cruises, they're not too expensive and offer lots of adventure, culture and sights.
Not really good advice. There is plenty to do. And for some good advice on how to manage crowds Skip this video. if you are looking for someone who has something to say there are other videos by other travellers.
I was just there last week and was a bit dissapointed with how rude alot of the the people there are including majority of the bus drivers. Views are amazing but as a whole santorini was not what I expected. Over priced and over hyped. Rather do other islands next time. Milos was beautiful and more peaceful, less hectic
I found the bus drivers to be very abrasive but they did help me out trying from point a to point b. I found the other travelers to be SUPER rude.
@@outlandguide definitely super abrasive which made the whole experience stressful as far as bus system goes and yes even some of the people for some reason were rude as well which added to the disappointment
Visited that place. One day is enough.Nothing much to do. With donkey poops that are left to dry in their cobble stone street. My excitement faded too soon when I was there.