Absolutely beautiful port town and we loved your tour, Rachel and Wills. Just stunning views and beautiful beach! Some great ideas for folks to visit. Love to visit! Thanks for bringing us along with you.
Hi Rachel and Wills, love this, what a stunning place. We enjoyed your tour. Love the coloured pavements. The water is so gorgeous. Can see why it's so popular. Hope you are getting good weather this weekend. Best wishes Dave and Dawn ❤️
What a fabulous tempting video to visit Mykonos. You've showcased it wel. Chapeau on the attractive editing. Loved the paved streets ( well alleyways then) and the chapel interiors. I'd not be sitting along that narrow ledge on water's edge I'm thinking.Early on I had a wee smile- on that square there were only white vans parked. Perfect color co-ordination (@2:33). I'd say in full season it'd be so crowded so early or late might be best time to visit? The white and blue make this indeed an attractive place to visit. And with the flowering Bougainvillea a stunning display.Thanks for my early morning holiday outing. Most enjoyable way to spend my morning. 🩷😎🙋♀🥝
Omg Mykonos looks absolutely stunning. Great looking shops, the beach & the sea. I’ve just got to go there now. I love Greece 😍Thanks for taking us along Rach & Wills x💞
Not a bad walk in by the looks. Nice views across the bay. Good to see the town is traffic free. And good to know there are toilets 🤣. Ooh dodgy route with wet feet. Windmills with no sails 🤷🏻♂️. Soo many cats. Good old google maps. Ah interesting door info. Ours is grey 🤷🏻♂️🚪. Wow lunch looked awesome. Brilliant beach and the water looks so inviting. It’s always best to just wander. The sea bus is a fab idea. Great video guys really enjoyed it. Top work. 👍🏻🚶🏻♂️🚶♀️🍻
It's a beautiful place. White washed building and cats for days! It's a top place for a wander for sure (just make sure you've got maps!!). Cheers for watching 🍻
Would absolutely love to visit Mykonos, it looks absolutely STUNNING. This vlog didn't disappoint either, you showed off Mykonos so beautifully. Love the walk into the town but the water boat would be fun too! Awwh, Greek Kitty's so sweet. So cute seeing all the churches and the port, absolutely beautiful. An interesting design of church having many churches on top of one another, can see why its so popular! Didn't expect to see the windmills lol, so cool! Those whitewashed streets around Little Venice are cute and super romantic, loving it. It hasn't taken much guys, but i'm convinced and i'd love to visit here with thanks to you showing it off! Interesting about the door colours too!! Mm, that food looked yum. Truly a beautiful and picturesque place, amazing experience, thank you both for the wonderful video!🌟🌟
It's so so beautiful. We love it there. White washed streets and loads of cats - what's not to like! We hope you get to visit one day, we'd love to see a pinned version! Cheers guys 🍻
Great video. Mykonos looks beautiful. We are heading there in August with Celebrity cruises. Can't wait. Thanks for all the information. We prefer to do our thing too when we cruise. Thanks again. Cheers ..😊😃
Cheers. The plan is one day to do a Greek island hope seeing some of the lesser known islands using local ferries. We do love Mykonos though. Cheers for watching 🍻
Yes, our coating switched the days around as there were less ships this day, it can get unbearable when there are a few mega ships in! We love getting up early and seeing it quiet. Cheers for watching. 🍻
Rachel and Wills, looks like you guys had a fantastic day in port. Mykonos is definitely on our list! Good to know about the taxi! Great tour of the city guys, we're definitely just port explorers and looks like there's plenty to see on your own. The water does looked amazing, and so awesome they have a water chair. That little beach is a great find, now if it only had cocktail service LoL The taxi back definitely looks like the way to go, great tip! It doesn't seem like there's a bad spot around the town, thanks for taking us with you guys!
Mykonos really does look beautiful guys ❤. Your videos to the Greek Islands last year has actually had a big influence on us planning a Greek adventure ourselves later this year. Pete has never been to Greece, and we both really fancy it. It won't be Mykonos this time, but we would love to visit here one day. Totally agree, the best way to get a feel for a place is to have a wander and an explore, one of our fave things to do too! The churches and the white washed streets are so pretty, and the beachfront, just gorgeous! Got us daydreaming about holidays again for sure! 🌞. Bring on the good times!🍻 Thanks for sharing, and have a brilliant week guys, Shell and Pete 😊👊👍
Ah we can't wait to see you guys in Greece. We love Greece we really do. Our dream is to do our own island hop and spend a few days in some of the lesser known ones. Cheers for watching and have a great week. 🍻
We have to visit Mykonos one day! The streets do look the same as the islands we did go to though. Views With the beer were incredible! Beautiful vlog 😭
Thanks guys. Hope you're well. We want to do an island hop one day and so some of the lesser known islands. We love the Greek islands. Cheers for watching 🍻
Mykonos looks lovely,this was one of our favourite stops on your cruise. Yikes those Octopi sounded truly hanging! Ah Greek Churches, arent they lovely? I love the Greek Mediterranean colours, im a fan. very unusual windmills. A museum? I would have thought they would all be AirBnBs now! Very interesting about the doors. Primarni is a treat for us! We window shop there! 😂 so much new footage on this video from your cruise vlog guys, very well put together, prepared and thought about, it also made us excited for our hols in a couple of weeks! Mykonos and its lovely cats going on the list guys, thank you 🍻
Ah thanks guys. We did have a lovely day there and it's so picturesque! It does get a tad busy when there are a few mega ships in, but if you go ok early, it's idyllic! We're not shoppers at all, we don't get it! We can't wait to see you on our hols! It's nearly time! Cheers as always for your support. 🍻
@@PostcardAndAPint ah we cant wait guys. We are back in the Picos in just a couple of weeks. The heart of the mountains, in bear territory, all facilities, two bedrooms, a mountain terrace and BBQ for €51 a night. With spirits coming in at less than €5 and wine at just over €1? Surely we should just stay or move there!
Mykonos! One of my dream destinations!! Actually was even thinking of buying a little property there back in around 2010...should have, but other priorities took precedence. Hoping a cruise will on day take me there! Awesome!!
Oh wow! We also had the same dream way back when! I think the thought would be better than the reality! Anyway you live in a stunning place!! Cheers for watching and wandering the streets with us. 🍻
Mykonos looks absolutely stunning. I love Greece. Choppy waters there 😂 Are those windmills still working? Aah museums. Soooo pretty. What fab looking shops. 🤣😂Will The food in Greece is great. Everything tastes so much better 👌🏻 Look at that beautiful sea & beach aaaah! That’s it, I want to go there now, where’s Watto I need to speak to him 😂🤣 Thanks guys that looked absolutely fab. Cheers to the good times 🍻🍹
You get Watto down to that travel agents now!!! It's a beautifully place and a stunning picture around every corner. We'd love to see the pics you'd take there. We love Greece too, especially the islands. An island hopping trip ourselves is a dream for the future. Cheers 🍻
Did you hear the “Aaaaaahhhh Love Mykonos” sounds all the way from Northamptonshire??? Lovely to revisit this wonderful place with you guys. We need to plan a return!
I am so happy I found your video. I am traveling there in August with my hubs, son and DIL and grands. Do the water taxis take you back to the Royal Caribbean ships also? TY in advance.
Thank you so much for watching. With the water taxis - if you dock, like we did at the new port, yes the water taxis go back there. If you tender, then your own ships tenders will pick you up. When we were in, the tenders for the celebrity ship were going from the bus stop, about 30 mins into our walk. If you get dropped there, it's only a 10 min walk into the town. Have the best time. 🍻
Mykonos reminds me of Chania! How beautiful! However, I’m confused did you go on another cruise recently? I paused the video and looked at your playlist. I feel like you’ve brought us here before. Maybe it is Ibiza I’m thinking either way just stunning!!! We LOVE Greece! Thank you for taking us along! ~Cara ❤
Hey both, no, not been on another cruise (yet, although, watch this space haha). This is the footage from last year. We saw people has been asking about what to do in port, and it’s so busy here at the moment, we’re not able to go out every week getting new footage, so we decided to compile footage from our cruise last year to make this stand alone vlog. It was actually really nice re visiting the footage again. Cheers both, hope you’re well and d looking forward to seeing you soon 🍻
It's my story voice and the one that gets me booked most of Fiverr!!! When we don't host a video as such or recap at the end we don't do a joke! Feel glad you had a week off Wills terrible jokes!!! Cheers 🍻
Good question! We haven't been to Paradise beach for years, but our guess would be yes! Food in Mykonos town can be wherever you want it to be. There are some incredibly pricey restaurants (usually those with a good view) - we didn't pay much at all for our Tziki and bread (under 10 euro). Have the best time ever. 🍻
What a top spot. You should do more videos about Mykonos. It's been ages since the last one. 😂 This was really excellent. Very tempted to hit Greece and the Balkans next year airline gods permitting. Actually, where are you going next, ex-UK that is?
We didn't use them this time, but from memory they were pretty good. I can't say we've. Ever noticed toilet at a church. There are plenty of bars though - we tend to buy a cola and use the toilets then. Cheers for watching 🍻
It is a very sad and disappointing thing to know that Mykonos, once the island selected by authors, painters, sculptors and people aiming to experience the natural beauty of this island that was a rather poor stronghold for pirates for centuries has now become a place where prostitution, drugs, alcoholism, rudeness and complete disrespect of almost any lawful behavior rules. Hotels, restaurants, beach bars and cafeterias charge exorbitant prices (usually without issuing any receipt), they employ young Greeks or illegal immigrants at monthly wages below (sometimes way below) the minimum wage, without any social security compensations and having them work 12-14 hour shifts 7 days per week treating them like slaves,, while beach bars and hotels occupy beaches charging ridiculously high prices for an umbrella and two chaise longues, forbidding people who are not willing to use them and pay for them from swimming in the beach (by Greek law all beaches are public and freely accessible to everybody). Much of the tourist economy of the island is in the hands of the Russian mafia and its oligarchs much of the supply of food, equipment and fuel a part of the building business is ruled by the Albanian mafia. Corruption runs high, as you can open any sort of shop almost anywhere if you have "the right connections" and you can build whatever you wish or can afford without feeling restricted by any building permits, Greek laws on the use of land or any public space demarcation. Local Mykonians, once happy and proud of their island, are questioning whether they are going to have the means to keep their properties on the island, are more and more threatened by the shady people that make Mykonos their summer residence and by the myriads of people landing on their island in the summer, as tourists seeing Mykonos as the paradise for heavy drugs, easy free and paid sex, wild partying and a chance to engage in any sort of extreme, unhinged nightlife "entertainment" of all sorts. Mykonos was recently characterized as the "Colombia of the Mediterranean Sea", if that adds a layer of description to the fast, sad and possibly irreversible disintegration of this very beautiful island. What a shameful waste!
Wowsers, you sound like you really know your Mykonos. All we see as tourists is the beautiful little town and winding streets once used by the pirates. This was our first visit back since 2007 - we both felt that is wasn't as expensive as it was. We did find that a decent restaurant back then was sooo much! This day we ate at Little Venice right on the front and it wasn't too bad at all. I can imagine though that the sleepy village for the bohemians has long gone which is a shame. We have such a soft spot for this island and it's a very special place for us. Thank you for watching and sharing your knowledge. 🍻
i LOVE that you showed that accessibilty thing for getting into the public beach! i've watched oodles of videos on Mykonos and never seen that!
To be honest o don't know how long it's been there as we'd never seen it before. It's great though isn't it? Cheers for watching 🍻
Absolutely beautiful port town and we loved your tour, Rachel and Wills. Just stunning views and beautiful beach! Some great ideas for folks to visit. Love to visit! Thanks for bringing us along with you.
It's such a beautiful place, we love it there. We're glad we could take you there with us. Cheers 🍻
Thanks!
Thank you so much Ken, that's really kind of you 🍻
What a great video and perfect timing - I’m going on a cruise in July with a stop in Mykonos!
Oo we're very jealous. Have a wonderful trip and enjoy Mykonos. Cheers for watching 🍻
Hi Rachel and Wills, love this, what a stunning place. We enjoyed your tour. Love the coloured pavements. The water is so gorgeous. Can see why it's so popular. Hope you are getting good weather this weekend. Best wishes Dave and Dawn ❤️
The weathers been amazing today! I've been washing costumes!!! Mykonos is such a beautiful place. We love it. We're glad you did too. 🍻
Mykonos is on the list! Just love the colours, so pretty!! The water looks SOOOOO nice! Hope you enjoyed it guys!
It's so beautiful there and well worth getting up early to beat the crowds. Cheers for watching 🍻
This video is amazing! Thanks for sharing. It’s very helpful as I’ll be in Mykonos next week.
Have the best time ever. Cheers for watching 🍻
What a fabulous tempting video to visit Mykonos. You've showcased it wel. Chapeau on the attractive editing. Loved the paved streets ( well alleyways then) and the chapel interiors. I'd not be sitting along that narrow ledge on water's edge I'm thinking.Early on I had a wee smile- on that square there were only white vans parked. Perfect color co-ordination (@2:33). I'd say in full season it'd be so crowded so early or late might be best time to visit? The white and blue make this indeed an attractive place to visit. And with the flowering Bougainvillea a stunning display.Thanks for my early morning holiday outing. Most enjoyable way to spend my morning. 🩷😎🙋♀🥝
It's so beautiful there. You can't fail to just love those narrow winding streets. Thanks for joining us for a Greek stroll. Cheers 🍻
Omg Mykonos looks absolutely stunning. Great looking shops, the beach & the sea. I’ve just got to go there now. I love Greece 😍Thanks for taking us along Rach & Wills x💞
Cheers Kim 🍻
Not a bad walk in by the looks. Nice views across the bay. Good to see the town is traffic free. And good to know there are toilets 🤣. Ooh dodgy route with wet feet. Windmills with no sails 🤷🏻♂️. Soo many cats. Good old google maps. Ah interesting door info. Ours is grey 🤷🏻♂️🚪. Wow lunch looked awesome. Brilliant beach and the water looks so inviting. It’s always best to just wander. The sea bus is a fab idea. Great video guys really enjoyed it. Top work. 👍🏻🚶🏻♂️🚶♀️🍻
It's a beautiful place. White washed building and cats for days! It's a top place for a wander for sure (just make sure you've got maps!!). Cheers for watching 🍻
Another fab video, we were there 2 weeks ago, beautiful place ❤
It's gorgeous isn't it. We hope you had the best time. Cheers 🍻
Would absolutely love to visit Mykonos, it looks absolutely STUNNING. This vlog didn't disappoint either, you showed off Mykonos so beautifully. Love the walk into the town but the water boat would be fun too! Awwh, Greek Kitty's so sweet. So cute seeing all the churches and the port, absolutely beautiful. An interesting design of church having many churches on top of one another, can see why its so popular! Didn't expect to see the windmills lol, so cool! Those whitewashed streets around Little Venice are cute and super romantic, loving it. It hasn't taken much guys, but i'm convinced and i'd love to visit here with thanks to you showing it off! Interesting about the door colours too!! Mm, that food looked yum. Truly a beautiful and picturesque place, amazing experience, thank you both for the wonderful video!🌟🌟
It's so so beautiful. We love it there. White washed streets and loads of cats - what's not to like! We hope you get to visit one day, we'd love to see a pinned version! Cheers guys 🍻
Great video. Mykonos looks beautiful. We are heading there in August with Celebrity cruises. Can't wait. Thanks for all the information. We prefer to do our thing too when we cruise. Thanks again. Cheers ..😊😃
Have the best time ever! Celebrity cruises - very nice!!! Enjoy every moment and cheers for watching 🍻
What an amazing place it is - enjoyed in full by Millionaire Paul 👍
It's so beautiful. Cheers 🍻
Its a lovely place 👍 we've had many great holidays around the Greek islands nice film guys 👍
Cheers. The plan is one day to do a Greek island hope seeing some of the lesser known islands using local ferries. We do love Mykonos though. Cheers for watching 🍻
nice guide of the cruise port there
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Thank you so much 🍻
Looks lovely and warm , and looks like their we’re a few cruise ships
Yes, our coating switched the days around as there were less ships this day, it can get unbearable when there are a few mega ships in! We love getting up early and seeing it quiet. Cheers for watching. 🍻
@@PostcardAndAPint yeah it would be busy with lots of ships for sure
Rachel and Wills, looks like you guys had a fantastic day in port. Mykonos is definitely on our list! Good to know about the taxi! Great tour of the city guys, we're definitely just port explorers and looks like there's plenty to see on your own. The water does looked amazing, and so awesome they have a water chair. That little beach is a great find, now if it only had cocktail service LoL The taxi back definitely looks like the way to go, great tip! It doesn't seem like there's a bad spot around the town, thanks for taking us with you guys!
Thanks for joining us. If you're port wanderers you'd love Mykonos, it's gorgeous. There so much to see and all of it stunning. Cheers for watching 🍻
Looks a great day. We are there in 2 weeks and really looking forward to it 😎
Have you beat day ever! It's a stunning place. Cheers for watching 🍻
Mykonos really does look beautiful guys ❤. Your videos to the Greek Islands last year has actually had a big influence on us planning a Greek adventure ourselves later this year. Pete has never been to Greece, and we both really fancy it. It won't be Mykonos this time, but we would love to visit here one day. Totally agree, the best way to get a feel for a place is to have a wander and an explore, one of our fave things to do too! The churches and the white washed streets are so pretty, and the beachfront, just gorgeous! Got us daydreaming about holidays again for sure! 🌞.
Bring on the good times!🍻 Thanks for sharing, and have a brilliant week guys,
Shell and Pete 😊👊👍
Ah we can't wait to see you guys in Greece. We love Greece we really do. Our dream is to do our own island hop and spend a few days in some of the lesser known ones. Cheers for watching and have a great week. 🍻
We have to visit Mykonos one day! The streets do look the same as the islands we did go to though. Views With the beer were incredible! Beautiful vlog 😭
Thanks guys. Hope you're well. We want to do an island hop one day and so some of the lesser known islands. We love the Greek islands. Cheers for watching 🍻
Mykonos looks lovely,this was one of our favourite stops on your cruise. Yikes those Octopi sounded truly hanging! Ah Greek Churches, arent they lovely? I love the Greek Mediterranean colours, im a fan. very unusual windmills. A museum? I would have thought they would all be AirBnBs now! Very interesting about the doors. Primarni is a treat for us! We window shop there! 😂 so much new footage on this video from your cruise vlog guys, very well put together, prepared and thought about, it also made us excited for our hols in a couple of weeks! Mykonos and its lovely cats going on the list guys, thank you 🍻
Ah thanks guys. We did have a lovely day there and it's so picturesque! It does get a tad busy when there are a few mega ships in, but if you go ok early, it's idyllic! We're not shoppers at all, we don't get it! We can't wait to see you on our hols! It's nearly time! Cheers as always for your support. 🍻
@@PostcardAndAPint ah we cant wait guys. We are back in the Picos in just a couple of weeks. The heart of the mountains, in bear territory, all facilities, two bedrooms, a mountain terrace and BBQ for €51 a night. With spirits coming in at less than €5 and wine at just over €1? Surely we should just stay or move there!
Mykonos! One of my dream destinations!! Actually was even thinking of buying a little property there back in around 2010...should have, but other priorities took precedence. Hoping a cruise will on day take me there! Awesome!!
Oh wow! We also had the same dream way back when! I think the thought would be better than the reality! Anyway you live in a stunning place!! Cheers for watching and wandering the streets with us. 🍻
Braw wee tour of the day folks, octopus sounds tasty 🦑 The streets are ripe for a wander! Will need to get a wee holiday here 😊
It's a wonderful place for a wander. We'll leave you to try the octopus though! Cheers 🍻
Mykonos looks stunning. One day to explore just isn't enough.
True, we were just so happy to revisit! We've spent a fair few weeks there over the years and we love it. Cheers Alice 🍻
Hey guys, that was another great video! Very naughty of them to not tell you about the water taxi! Bad Marella
I know! We'd watched afew vlogs before we went so did know about it, but they were hard selling their coaches!!! Cheers for watching 🍻
Mykonos looks absolutely stunning. I love Greece.
Choppy waters there 😂
Are those windmills still working? Aah museums.
Soooo pretty.
What fab looking shops. 🤣😂Will
The food in Greece is great. Everything tastes so much better 👌🏻
Look at that beautiful sea & beach aaaah! That’s it, I want to go there now, where’s Watto I need to speak to him 😂🤣
Thanks guys that looked absolutely fab. Cheers to the good times 🍻🍹
You get Watto down to that travel agents now!!! It's a beautifully place and a stunning picture around every corner. We'd love to see the pics you'd take there. We love Greece too, especially the islands. An island hopping trip ourselves is a dream for the future. Cheers 🍻
Did you hear the “Aaaaaahhhh Love Mykonos” sounds all the way from Northamptonshire??? Lovely to revisit this wonderful place with you guys. We need to plan a return!
Ah that's what it was!!! Isn't it just a gem. Were glad you enjoyed it. Get booking another visit guys!!! We'd love to see the Cooks there 🍻
I am so happy I found your video. I am traveling there in August with my hubs, son and DIL and grands. Do the water taxis take you back to the Royal Caribbean ships also? TY in advance.
Thank you so much for watching. With the water taxis - if you dock, like we did at the new port, yes the water taxis go back there. If you tender, then your own ships tenders will pick you up. When we were in, the tenders for the celebrity ship were going from the bus stop, about 30 mins into our walk. If you get dropped there, it's only a 10 min walk into the town. Have the best time. 🍻
CATS! Would have to take the wet route! Really want to go to Mykonos! Great video! 🍷
Thanks guys. It's a stunning place for sure. We'd love to see. Namy vlog from there. Cheers 🍻
Mykonos reminds me of Chania! How beautiful! However, I’m confused did you go on another cruise recently? I paused the video and looked at your playlist. I feel like you’ve brought us here before. Maybe it is Ibiza I’m thinking either way just stunning!!! We LOVE Greece! Thank you for taking us along! ~Cara ❤
Hey both, no, not been on another cruise (yet, although, watch this space haha). This is the footage from last year. We saw people has been asking about what to do in port, and it’s so busy here at the moment, we’re not able to go out every week getting new footage, so we decided to compile footage from our cruise last year to make this stand alone vlog. It was actually really nice re visiting the footage again. Cheers both, hope you’re well and d looking forward to seeing you soon 🍻
@@PostcardAndAPint ha! I didn’t think so. It was a beautiful video. Makes me want to return to Greece. We will stay tuned 🥰
I love the subdued, serious Rachel voice towards the end, however I was looking forward to Wills’ joke at the end. What happened?!?!🤣😂
It's my story voice and the one that gets me booked most of Fiverr!!! When we don't host a video as such or recap at the end we don't do a joke! Feel glad you had a week off Wills terrible jokes!!! Cheers 🍻
awesome 👍🙏💥
Thank you so much 🍻
Hello! We are going in two weeks. Do you have to rent the beach chairs at Paradise Beach, and how much? Also, what is the price range of food?
Good question! We haven't been to Paradise beach for years, but our guess would be yes! Food in Mykonos town can be wherever you want it to be. There are some incredibly pricey restaurants (usually those with a good view) - we didn't pay much at all for our Tziki and bread (under 10 euro). Have the best time ever. 🍻
Amazing beauty🩷🩷🩷
It's such a stunning place. Cheers for watching 🍻
Are they required to paint everything white and clean it constantly?
I guess it doesn't rain too much so one good coat each year I'm sure does it!! Cheers 🍻
What a top spot. You should do more videos about Mykonos. It's been ages since the last one. 😂
This was really excellent. Very tempted to hit Greece and the Balkans next year airline gods permitting. Actually, where are you going next, ex-UK that is?
Hahahaha - come on it's been at least 7 months!!! Cheers for watching. We might just have booked a cheeky cruise to the med in July!!! Can't wait. 🍻
@@PostcardAndAPint colour me intrigued. There's one or two ports on the med 😂
How are the accessibility to public toilets? Are these easily available or can we use those at the churches?
We didn't use them this time, but from memory they were pretty good. I can't say we've. Ever noticed toilet at a church. There are plenty of bars though - we tend to buy a cola and use the toilets then. Cheers for watching 🍻
good❤
Thank you so much for watching 🍻
" hiya wall"
"Egg and bleeding chips!"😂
Like deployed 👍
Chips N egg!!! Love that film. Cheers for watching 🍻
Hopefully that covers the postage 🤣😂
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That looks so dangerous where Wills was walking
It was fine. We wouldn't have walked it later in the day. Cheers for watching 🍻
It is a very sad and disappointing thing to know that Mykonos, once the island selected by authors, painters, sculptors and people aiming to experience the natural beauty of this island that was a rather poor stronghold for pirates for centuries has now become a place where prostitution, drugs, alcoholism, rudeness and complete disrespect of almost any lawful behavior rules. Hotels, restaurants, beach bars and cafeterias charge exorbitant prices (usually without issuing any receipt), they employ young Greeks or illegal immigrants at monthly wages below (sometimes way below) the minimum wage, without any social security compensations and having them work 12-14 hour shifts 7 days per week treating them like slaves,, while beach bars and hotels occupy beaches charging ridiculously high prices for an umbrella and two chaise longues, forbidding people who are not willing to use them and pay for them from swimming in the beach (by Greek law all beaches are public and freely accessible to everybody). Much of the tourist economy of the island is in the hands of the Russian mafia and its oligarchs much of the supply of food, equipment and fuel a part of the building business is ruled by the Albanian mafia. Corruption runs high, as you can open any sort of shop almost anywhere if you have "the right connections" and you can build whatever you wish or can afford without feeling restricted by any building permits, Greek laws on the use of land or any public space demarcation. Local Mykonians, once happy and proud of their island, are questioning whether they are going to have the means to keep their properties on the island, are more and more threatened by the shady people that make Mykonos their summer residence and by the myriads of people landing on their island in the summer, as tourists seeing Mykonos as the paradise for heavy drugs, easy free and paid sex, wild partying and a chance to engage in any sort of extreme, unhinged nightlife "entertainment" of all sorts. Mykonos was recently characterized as the "Colombia of the Mediterranean Sea", if that adds a layer of description to the fast, sad and possibly irreversible disintegration of this very beautiful island. What a shameful waste!
Wowsers, you sound like you really know your Mykonos. All we see as tourists is the beautiful little town and winding streets once used by the pirates. This was our first visit back since 2007 - we both felt that is wasn't as expensive as it was. We did find that a decent restaurant back then was sooo much! This day we ate at Little Venice right on the front and it wasn't too bad at all. I can imagine though that the sleepy village for the bohemians has long gone which is a shame. We have such a soft spot for this island and it's a very special place for us. Thank you for watching and sharing your knowledge. 🍻
Overrated island
@@mariec.2776 maybe - but we love it cheers 🍻
@@PostcardAndAPint been there nothing special , I prefer Dubai lol
Not very Greek though?