Santorini Private Tour: Customizable 4-8 Hour Sightseeing
Overview
Explore Santorini at your own pace with a private driver-guide and vehicle — just for your group, no strangers, no shared seats.
Choose your tour length: 4 hours for the essentials, 5 hours for more sightseeing, or the 8-hour VIP Experience, a fully curated day with a private winery visit, an exclusive sunset spot, and help booking dinner.
Every tour starts with pickup from your hotel, the Fira cable car, cruise port, or airport, in an air-conditioned vehicle sized to your group.
See Oia's whitewashed streets and caldera views, the Monastery of Profitis Ilias, and Perissa's black sand beach. The 5-hour tour adds the caldera villages of Firostefani and Imerovigli. The 8-hour VIP Experience shapes the day around what you're looking for.
Add a wine tasting stop to any tour, priced per traveler, or extend by up to two hours, priced per group.
This is a private tour — only your own group travels in the vehicle.
What's Included
- Bottled water Provided complimentary throughout the tour.
- 8-hour VIP Experience extras
- Pickup and drop-off from a wide choice of points around the island
- Private vehicle and driver-guide, exclusively for your group
- English-speaking, local driver-guide
- Lunch Not included, unless you add the Wine Stop
- Cable car tickets for cruise ship visitors
- Personal expenses
- At your discretion
Meeting and Pickup
Choose the pickup point that's closest to your hotel or villa from our list. If you don't see a good match, let us know your accommodation and we'll point you to the nearest option. Arriving by cruise? Ships dock at the old port, so you'll take the cable car up — we'll meet you at the top of the cable car station, one of our regular pickup points.
This activity ends back at the meeting point.
Detailed check-in instructions, including the exact address, are provided with your booking confirmation.
What To Expect
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Oia's Main Street
1 hour Admission Ticket Included
Castelli of Pyrgos (pass by)
Firostefani
30 minutes Admission Ticket Free
Imerovigli
30 minutes Admission Ticket Free
Perissa Black Sand Beach
1 hour Admission Ticket Included
Megalochori - Traditional Village
1 hour Admission Ticket Free
Monastery of Profitis Ilias
30 minutes Admission Ticket Included
Red Beach
45 minutes Admission Ticket Included
Additional Info
- Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Refunds will not be issued if tour/activity is missed due to late or non-arrival of cruise ship
- Minimum drinking age is 18 years
Frequently Asked Questions (8)
Q: What is the cancellation policy for the Santorini Private Tour: Customizable 4-8 Hour Sightseeing?
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Activity code: C-71100P1
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Frequently Asked Questions (8)
The answers provided below were previously given in response to questions from Cool Shore Excursions customers.
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- For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the tour start time.
- If you cancel less than 24 hours before the tour start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.
- Any changes made less than 24 hours before the tour start time will not be accepted.
- Cut-off times are based on the tour local time (EET).
- Bottled water. Provided complimentary throughout the tour.
- 8-hour VIP Experience extras.
- Pickup and drop-off from a wide choice of points around the island.
- Private vehicle and driver-guide, exclusively for your group.
- English-speaking, local driver-guide.
- Lunch. Not included, unless you add the Wine Stop.
- Cable car tickets for cruise ship visitors.
- Personal expenses.
- At your discretion.
This tour requires good weather. If it’s canceled due to poor weather, you’ll be offered a different date or a full refund.
Apr 2025There is no minimum age for this tour, so bring your wee one along for an adventure..
Apr 2025If a date or time is not listed on the calendar, it’s sold out or unavailable for another reason. Support cannot assist further if a date or time is not on the calendar.
If you find a date and time that works for you, book it NOW because things always sell out at this time of year.
Apr 2025Accessibility information for the Santorini Private Tour: Customizable 4-8 Hour Sightseeing is as follows:
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Detailed check-in instructions – including meeting point address, Google map, and parking information – for Santorini Private Tour: Customizable 4-8 Hour Sightseeing will be included in your confirmation email from Cool Shore Excursions. Please be sure to double and triple check your email address is correct at checkout so this important email makes its way to you!
Mar 2024Once your refund is processed, it usually shows on your card statement within 5–10 business days. The exact timing depends on your bank or card issuer.
Want it sooner? When you cancel, choose Receive a refund to my wallet instead. The credit is in your Wallet straight away and is applied automatically at checkout on your next booking when you’re signed in with the same email. You can see your balance any time in My Wallet.
If you paid part of your booking with Wallet credit, that part always goes back to your Wallet. Trip protection isn’t refundable.
Oct 2026What's Included
- Bottled waterProvided complimentary throughout the tour.
- 8-hour VIP Experience extras
- Pickup and drop-off from a wide choice of points around the island
- Private vehicle and driver-guide, exclusively for your group
- English-speaking, local driver-guide
- LunchNot included, unless you add the Wine Stop
- Cable car tickets for cruise ship visitors
- Personal expenses
- At your discretion
Additional Info
- Confirmation is instant and will be received at time of booking
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
- Refunds will not be issued if tour/activity is missed due to late or non-arrival of cruise ship
- Minimum drinking age is 18 years
