Crete to Santorini ( from Heraklion to Thira ( Santorini ) ) fast ferry, Catamaran, service by Hellenic Seaways will start this year on 14 April 2006.

Actual days and times are Yet To Be Confirmed !

( LAST YEAR the sailings were daily Excluding Wednesdays and departure from Heraklion was 9:15 in the morning, from Santorini departure was at 5:00 PM in the afternoon )

Sunny days and hours of sunshine in each day seem now to be outnumbering the opposite type (those unnecessary winter days of gloom, rain and shabby shade that were an absurd invention to begin with ! ).

A national strike on the 15th day of March did not help us – we don’t strike, we work, we proceed, we move forward we create, we conquer (you know who does strike, you know the ones who stop work – did they ever start….don’t you ? ).

We receive handfuls of enquiries every day from those who wish to know when a ferry, a catamaran, perhaps out of desperation even a piece of floating wood might sail from Crete to Santorini and vice versa in April, next month (a few days away). These have not yet been published but we expect them any day and will try to rush them out on our Crete website.
But why oh why should we go through this every year ?
Instruction to the Minister in Greece responsible for shipping, my dear Manolis Kefaloiannis: Manoli – change the system – you are in power now, have you noticed ( ? ) – and make it so that shipping companies are assigned confirmed routes a year in advance if necessary, providing they publish schedules at least six months or more in advance. Now I’m waiting and expect action – get on with it!

(We cannot expect all these wonderful visitors coming to Greece to keep waiting year after year for a supposedly European country to get its act together – you listening Manoli ? )

Hey its March! Am I not permitted a Spring rant…. ! ?

Sails 5-6 days/week from Heraklion to Santorini (in about 2 hours)
and Rethymno to Santorini on Tuesdays.

See the details and times here:
http://www.cretetravel.com/To_and_from_Crete/Ferries_Crete_Santorini.htm

(update published 20 May 2005)