New charter flights from Monarch:
Every Tuesday, between 5 May and 5 October 2010, flights from London Gatwick and Manchester to Santorini.
Flights start from £160 return, including taxes.
Website: www.monarch.co.uk
At last – the ferry times for Santorini to Crete and Crete to Santorini
Starting April 9th 2009 – the high speed catamaran service
Crete (Heraklion port) > Santorini > Ios > Paros >Mykonos.
09.45 In the morning depart Heraklion port Crete – arrive 11.25 Santorini
17.45 (5.45 PM) In the afternoon depart Santorini – arrive in Crete at Heraklion port at 19.25 (7.25 PM).
Prices remain the same as last year
This information will soon appear in Schedule form at
www.CreteTravel.com/ferries
Online ticketing at www.hellenicseaways.gr
Ferry Schedules have started to be updated (from 12 March 2009) and will continue to be added to over the next week – including sailings to Santorini, Crete and Athens (Pireas/Piraeus).
Santorini >
http://www.cretetravel.com/To_and_from_Crete/Ferries_Crete_Santorini.htm
Crete – still updating, ongoing as new schedules are compiled, announced and confirmed >
http://www.cretetravel.com/To_and_from_Crete/Ferries_Crete.htm
Plain sailing !
For those in Canada – Ontario to be a little more precise, an exhibiiton of photographs of Greece:
September 4 to September 28
Photographs of Greece by Jennifer Lawton.
Reception Sat. Sept. 6th, 2-6pm.
For information on this exhibition visit http://www.coldwatergallery.com
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For information about Santorini – paintings themed around Santorini featured in the previous exhibition at this gallery, of paintings by Martin Hirschberg – the guide to Santorini island is http://www.superbgreece.com/Santorini/index.htm
In the smaller and frankly more enjoyable hotels we include in our selections for Santorini and Crete, things are (despite the news of slowing travel volume around the world) booking and filling up fast for September and October.
So. A valuable word of advice, don’t wait long, use our free travel consultation advice to match you with the best small beautiful hotel for your tastes and desires. Book soon to visit the best Crete and Santorini offers…and if you are entering Greece via Athens, well the last Olympic games city is very busy in September!
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Santorini, information to learn about the place: http://www.superbgreece.com/Santorini/index.htm
Crete, the hotels, the delights: http://www.crete-hotels-rooms.com
As usual ferry (and catamaran) schedules between Crete and Santorini have been announced laughably late – but here they are in summary, at long last.
Service commencing 18 April 2008 – Catamaran high speed service between Crete and Santorini on Hellenic Seaways
- Depart Heraklion 0945 mornings *
- Depart Santorini 1745 (5.45PM) afternoons *
Sailing time is just under two hours.
* NOTE: No sailings “Every Other Wednesday” ( Go figure ! ! )
Commencing “Beginning of May” – Sea Jets – similar (but not yet firm) schedule to above…slightly earlier for both departure times “likely”.
Full schedules – Soon – at>
http://cretetravel.com/To_and_from_Crete/Ferries_Crete_Santorini.htm
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Where to stay when you do get to Santorini?
SuperbGreece.com has all the answers for you – and glorious they are.
Let me know if you see this news we sent the world’s press recently, about our Santorini hotels and our Santorini guide – or better still the information may help you in an article you would like to write:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/01/prweb641161.htm
Or if you want to see the hotels here they are in all their glory and all their romance:
http://www.superbgreece.com/Santorini/hotels.htm
You know it’s not easy choosing the hotel to stay at in one of the world’s “must-visit” places – let SuperbGreece.com help you ! Make it the best trip it can be.
The “caldera” in Santorini is the cliff-top rim from which The View is that magic, dream-like scene that your memory will store forever. Leaving you with a happy smile and a better view of the world!
How do you stay in Santorini and where?
This is the way: We have hand-picked, walked around and been thrilled – on your behalf – with these selected hotels http://www.superbgreece.com/Santorini/hotels.htm
We offer you our full all-questions-answered service ( answered by a real warm human being whose job and delight is to make sure to find out just what you like) experts in booking the best “summer lover’s” hotel for your visit.
Perhaps you just want a little briefing on Santorini? Not aproblem at all – just look here…>
http://www.superbgreece.com/Santorini/index.htm – Santorini explained.
Make a memory worth remembering – the Santorini you are looking for…from us to you
For over 4 days 40 degree-plus temperatures (asburdly high for June) have caused discomfort and increased health and fire danger throughout Greece, mainland and islands.
Thankfully this heatwave is over.
So if island-hopping is something you always dreamed of….a few days on one Greek island, several on another and then – after a week or some weeks hopping on and off ferries, a chance to review notes and pics, videos and sound files and compare island characterisics, rythms and style…..the updated information here will inspire and help you > http://www.cretetravel.com/To_and_from_Crete/Ferries_Crete_Santorini.htm (see the bottom of the page ! )
Greece: Ferries are the norm, a romantic and practical mode of transport.
So many have been asking, when will the schedules be published for the high speed ferries – the catamarans – between Crete and Santorini ?
They are now – at last you can plan your trip.
Santorini – Crete Schedules: http://www.cretetravel.com/To_and_from_Crete/Ferries_Crete_Santorini.htm
Enjoy the 2 hour trip ! And enjoy both islands.