Santorini Volcano Cruise Including Hot Springs, Thirasia and Optional Oia Sunset

Overall the experience was very disappointed. First stop @ volcano, we have around 1.5 hour, just barely enough for quick hike and come back. The tour guide was never waiting for the majority of the group member to reach the point of a site, before she start to explain the detail of the site. Second stop is swimming near hot spring, but NO LIFE JACKET was provided. Those which can't swim well could only wasting time waiting on the ship. Third stop, is a small fishing island with nothing much to see which were left for 2 hours. Lastly, we had booked the optional Oia sunset tour for additonal 22 Euro. What was included in this optional tour? Walk on your own @ Oia, with only a transport back to Hotel by 7:30pm from Oia. The worse part is, the map given for the bus pick up point is NOT CORRECT, and we had to asked around to go to the correct pick up point. There is similar tour available in viator, with half of the price compare to this tour, that cost use extra 60 Euro. The reason we booked this tour is for the Optional Oia sunset tour, which is nothing beside a transfer back to hotel. I can get my hotel private transport for Eur 25 for 2 pax, instead of Eur 44 for 2 pax to book this tour. I had very pleased experience booking tour via Viator previously, always. But this is the very very bad and disappointed tour provided by Viator, which affect my impression toward viator's tour.

is a beautiful experience but when we get to the hot springs we need to swim!!! and the ship did not give life vest. then people who did not how swim could not enjoy, and it was a bit irresponsible because the sea was deep.

Absolutely fabulous. You get everything on this trip - volcanoes, hot springs, a wonderful meal in Thirasia and a HUGE, aromatic climb up the caldera to Oia. Highly recommend this trip.

Our experience with this company was not the best. We were booked for the morning session, and we were given a pick up location and time. We got there way before the stated time, but we did not get picked up. After waiting for about 20 - 30 mins, I gave the tour operator MTM a phone call and we told that the driver got confused and forgot to pick us up. So we were then put on the afternoon session instead. We did go on the afternoon tour, but when we got back to the New port, our driver was no where to be found. So we had to wait around the port for another 15 minutes before we then picked up and then dropped back home. The food on the boat was a bit lack lustre too. The actual experience visiting all the sites was fantastic. So would recommend going with another tour operator

The tour is well organized, a little under pressure of time, but there are many things to do, so you must hurry. The guide was very good and effective. If you make this tour you need a medium phisical condition, because need to climb on the volcano for about half an hour, under the very hot sun. But the views are great. Hot springs are very interesting. You just need to swim a little to reach the springs. There was a bad aspect at the end of the trip. We did not book the sunset in Oia because we lived there. Normally we should been dropped off to the hotel, accordind to the offer. But the people who lived in hotels in Oia were debarked together with those who booked the sunset, so we had to climb more than 200 steps in a hot day, after a tirefull trip. This was not supposed to happen, and for some peaople it might be very difficilt, maybe impossible if they have some health problems. At least inform us before! Otherwise, is an interesting tour!

The trip itself was a breathtaking experience on the Aegean Sea! I particularly like walking up the volcano. The only thing I would suggest is that the transport to and from the ship be presented more clearly. We were led to believe that we would be picked up at the hotel and we were notified the day before that this changed. Also, there was some confusion at the end of the trip as to where to get our bus to return back to the pick-up place. Fortunately we found held on to our invoice, showed it to a bus driver, who then directed us to the correct bus. All in all, it was a great experience!

My wife and I booked this excursion as part of our honeymoon and it was a lot more physically demanding than we expected. The hot springs part was first and we were unaware that from where the boat stopped to the hot springs was going to be a solid 4-5 minute swim! The actual hot springs were great, we could feel the water getting warmer and rubbed some of the volcanic soil all over our bodies which made for some great pictures! Swimming back to the boat was the worst because there was one ladder for about forty people so we had to tread water for quite awhile. After the hot springs was the volcano tour. Hiking straight up the volcano in 110-112 degrees after that swim was not ideal. The views from the top are incredible, but it's a tough hike up to the top. We were also glad we didn't book the Oia sunset part. The guests that did had to depart our boat around 4-5pm and either rent a donkey/horse or walk up the 600 stairs to where the town is situated. Not to mention that it was 4 hours or so until sunset. Our guide was great, very informative and spoke eight different languages! It's worth the trip if you can handle it physically!