Trips to Santorini Cable Car
Shore excursions
Trips to Santorini Cable Car
- Santorini Oia and Fira Highlights with Boat Transfer from Old Port $129 a person · 4 hours 30 minutes
Booked with our partner Shore Excursions Group
Santorini Cable Car
A three-minute cable car ride up the caldera cliffs from the Old Port to Fira, the island's capital. The car gives wide views of the sea and the whitewashed houses above.
About the Santorini Cable Car
The Santorini cable car carries visitors up the caldera cliff from the island's Old Port to Fira, the capital. It is the quick way up from the water, an alternative to the long winding staircase or the donkey rides that many people once used between port and town.
The ride takes about three minutes. The car gives views of the Aegean and the white houses above as it climbs, and at the top in Fira you can see a good part of the island. Visitors arriving by cruise ship can use the car to reach Fira, so a day here can be spent up top without the climb.
- About three minutes Ride from the Old Port to Fira
- 220 meters Altitude of Fira
Trips that go to Santorini Cable Car
Booked with our partner Shore Excursions Group. Prices are per person.
Santorini Oia and Fira Highlights with Boat Transfer from Old Port
Goes to Fira, Oia, Santorini Cable Car
Getting there, cost and time
From the Old Port, the cable car runs up to Fira in about three minutes.
A fee applies each way on the cable car.
About three minutes each way, plus time at the top.
Good to know
- The steps from the Old Port to Fira are winding and narrow in parts, with low walls, and are not clean underfoot. The cable car avoids them.
- A fee applies each way on the cable car, as it does for the steps by donkey.
- Dusk crowds gather in Oia, and the sunset falls near the end of a port day, so plan the return to the tender early.
Near the Santorini Cable Car
Fira
Fira is the capital of Santorini, a white town of cobblestone streets stacked on the caldera rim. Shops, tavernas, hotels and cafes line the lanes, and most visitors come up from the old port.
Imerovigli
Imerovigli is a village on the caldera rim just above Fira, and it is the highest point of the cliffs. People come for the views over the water and the town below.
Fira to Oia caldera trail
A walking route along the caldera rim from Fira to Oia, mixing cobbled village alleys with gravel and cliff paths. It takes in the caldera views the island is known for.
Nea Kameni
Nea Kameni is a small, uninhabited volcanic islet in the flooded Santorini caldera. Visitors land at a jetty and climb rocky slopes to look into the smoking crater.
Sailings that stop in Santorini
873 sailings on 19 cruise lines call here in the next twelve months. Totals are for two guests, taxes included.
Explora II
Viking Libra
Celestyal Discovery
Sources: Santorini Cable Car · Thira Municipal Port Fund · Thira Municipal Port Fund · Visit Greece · Nea Kameni, Wikipedia · Santorini, Wikivoyage
Photo: Bernard Gagnon, CC BY-SA 3.0