Santorini Volcano Tour: 3-Hour Adventure to Volcano Craters and Palaia Kameni's Hot Springs

The Santorini Volcano Tour offers a 3-hour exploration of Santorini’s volcano, its craters, and the Hot Springs of Palaia Kameni, all accessible by boat.

Duration: 3 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Santorini Volcano - The Santorini volcano tour begins at the charming old port of Fira.
    Gialos, the Old Port, is situated below Fira, nestled at the base of a rocky cliff. Visitors will be amazed by the steep slopes of the Caldera, and eventually, the small port will emerge beneath these towering rocks and the cave houses that appear to hang from…
What's Included
  • Boat trip to the famous Santorini volcano
  • Explore the Hot Springs
  • Guidance from a professional tour guide
What's Not Included
  • Pick up from and to your hotel
  • Entrance fees
Additional Information
  • Due to the force majeure and the measures of the greek goverment for the seismic activity on the island of Santorini, the old port of Fira will remain closed until the 24th of May. Therefore, until then, the tour will be operated only with transfers departing from the port of Athinios until the 25th of May.
Location
Ormos Firon
You need to proceed to Santo Star travel to exchange the tickets at the old port - https://goo.gl/maps/REAPgq3ZbSmWNUDB9 You can reach old port from Fira cable car station, donkey ride or stairs. If you need assistance, please do not hesitate to call: +302286024355 Please be there 30 min in advance
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Ashley_g
Sep 17, 2025
This was a great tour!... - This was a great tour! The volcano hike is long but worth it for the views up top. Swimming was refreshing!
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G1891zhbradh
Jun 20, 2025
Great trip - We really enjoyed the volcano and the boat ride over. There was a snack bar for food and drinks. The guide was great and very informative.
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Brenda_h
Sep 22, 2024
Loved it - Loved the volcano hike; lovely to cool off in the “hot springs” (barely warm lol) afterwards. Highly recommend
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Julia_j
Aug 6, 2025
Half day trip - Perfect for doing a half day trip and still see much of the volcanos. Left with a lot of info and views but in short time. Thanks!
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Robint512
Sep 9, 2024
A Great experience - amazing views of the Caldera. - Amazing views of the caldera and cliff top houses from the boat journey and volcano itself. The order of our trip changed starting with the hot springs swim and then onto the volcano. History of Volcano’s eruptions and islands evolution is provided. Take a towel and wear your swim clothes ready for the plunge (or steps) into the sea. Only limited changing areas on board, but drinks available to buy on the boat. A few places of shelter on the island but intensely hot in summer. Wear trainers as path is mainly small rocks and stones. Very good value for money. 5 Euros each for volcano entrance.
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Nagc2014
Aug 14, 2025
Not Worth it! Save your money! - In a nutshell, better watch the volcano from Santorini and save your money... First, a boat took us to one of the volcano islands. Although the tour was not cheap, they still made us pay 5 euros each to go up the volcano top. They could have included that in their price... Then we had to hike for what seemed liked an eternal amount of time in the roasting sun to reach the top, where we were wondering where the crater was since you just see the top of a hill and a mini valley which seemed to have been the crater, but no one from the tour thought it necessary to come and explain anything... Then we went down again in the sun and back on the boat to go to the second island where there are hot springs. First, and although they had stairs, they made us jump from the boat (what would old people and toddlers do?) with floating noodles thankfully, then swim around 40m to reach the hot spring location, which was an ok experience but not like the bubbling thing you would imagine, just hotter water. However, get with you black swimsuits because the sulfur stains and takes a lot of time to be removed from swimming suits! And they only tell you this the night before in an email when you dont even have time to buy a dark swimsuit for the next day! Back on the boat using stairs (which miraculously appeared) and then back to santorini, burnt and disappointed from a day lost that you could have done something else with or chilled at some beach...
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Sarahgd8749ez
Oct 6, 2024
Can you save yourself - Pure mass event. The boat only takes you to the volcano. Access to the volcano must be paid extra. The climb to the highest point is via a scree path, so bring good shoes and water/sun protection, because there is hardly any shade on the way. The guide has hardly really explained anything. He was more there to drive the group (about 60 people) up and down once. What I noticed very negatively was that he even encouraged tourists to take stones/lumps of sulphur as souvenirs! A "professional" guide should never do such a thing! After the hike on the volcano we went to the "hot springs". Handwarm is more likely to hit... You had to jump off the boat into the water and swim a short distance to the shore to see the bubbles. It wasn't 30 minutes. More like 15min. Swim once and back. If you haven't experienced it, you haven't missed much either.
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Valerie_h
Jul 17, 2024
Don't waste time or money - If you are only in Santorini a day. Don't waste your time. You can barely get in water maybe 20 minutes. Volcano isn't that cool more like a hill and it is extremely hot.
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Sabaurore
Jul 15, 2024
Bof - Excursion, volcano , warm waters and Thirassia , the volcano is not only paying (5€ per person on top of the excursion Award) We walk in the mountains at the peak of the sun , we just have time to go up and down , the volcano itself has no interest but I admit that the view from the summit and spectacular!
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Melissa_h
Oct 3, 2025
Would not recommend. - Communication around how challenging it is to get to the meeting point was never given. So we had no idea it would take as long as it did to get there and the tour had left without us. No one was at the office either to see if there was a different tour we could switch to (after walking down the deadly stairs, I wouldn’t have even cared if I still had to pay to see something else.) I requested a refund and was denied; so considering I wasn’t on the tour, and also didn’t receive a positive customer service experience there’s nothing positive I can say about this experience or this tour company.
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From $47
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).