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Top 10 Things to do Good for Big Groups in Oia, South Aegean
Oia is carved out of the cliffs, and visitors can see houses built for Venetian sea captains as well as the more typical "cave houses" of the villagers. You’ll find the pure white buildings with colorful roofs that are typical of Greek architecture, and you’ll probably enjoy poking around the town. But don’t breeze through in an hour—you must stay for the sunset. It’s legendary. Watch from a café, or, better yet, from a boat—you’ll be spellbound.
Restaurants in Oia
1. Barbarossa Sailing
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5.0 based on 472 reviews
5 hours (daytime or sunset) - or full day - sailing tours around the Caldera. Book a private or semi-private tour and Sail with us like true pirates do!!
2. Santorini Private Day Tours
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5.0 based on 122 reviews
Probably the best way, one can discover the many places of interest, picturesque views, historical structures and archeological treasure in the Santorini island, is to take Santorini private tours. What sets private tours apart from the regular Santorini tours you hire, is that with private excursions, you can customize your tours to suit your preferences, time and budget. Our company specializes in private tours for years with experienced and friendly guides, comfortable and fully air-conditioned vehicles and all this at the best prices.
3. Brama Catamarans Sailing Cruises
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5.0 based on 147 reviews
The perfect highlight to a wonderful stay in Greece is an equally memorable sail to Santorini. Sail with our new all-inclusive thematic cruise excursions. Five options for travelers to sail to one of the world’s most iconic locales. Wine Cruise, Full Moon Cruise, Lover’s Cruise, Rock and Roll Cruise and Culinary Cruise. Rates for the Thematic Day Cruises Starting from 140 Euro per person with children under 14 years of age sailing free of charge. Minors over the age of 14 sail for 50% off any all-inclusive cruise. Brama Catamarans was founded in 2004 to provide the utmost in Mediterranean cruises for either crewed or bare boat charter. .
4. The Pirate Private Fishing Tours
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5.0 based on 198 reviews
Enjoy a real fishing experience around the Caldera and discover the most beautiful beaches and picturesque gulfs of Santorini. With our fishing tour, you can uncover hidden fishing spots, go swimming in inaccessible beaches and hot springs, go snorkeling to admire the Caldera’s underwater life. Discover Santorini with your private boat and an expert captain and fisherman that will let you in on the island’s secrets. Experience first hand the Santorini hospitality and uncover the geological history of the island; relish the beauty of the Caldera and visit Thirassia, the two volcanic islands and the white island. Taste the local wine and savour a meal with traditional greek dishes and fresh fish as the main dish -we grill on board the fishes caught during the fishing tour. You can choose between a morning and a sunset sea excursion.
5. Explorer1 Yachting
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5.0 based on 21 reviews
As a family and independent company we take you and your requirements very seriously and it is as important to us, as it is to you, that your experience with us becomes a personal and truly unique memory .Our goal is to give our quests a highly enjoyable and entirely worry-free experience with high quality and exclusive services, making them feel comfortable and relaxed. Explorer1 is committed to providing the highest degree of hospitality. Having a superb safety record, we have raised the level of service throughout the day charter Industry due to our passion and love for what we do.
6. Amoudi Bay
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4.5 based on 3,828 reviews
Reviewed By stardust2newyorkcity - New York City, United States
Ammoudi Bay feels like a quintessential Greek island experience to me. You can walk a rustic path from the town of Oia down to the bay...smelling donkey doo-doo then entire way and chatting with fellow travelers and locals along the way. Once down at the water's edge there is a path for walking around the rocky coast and exploring a bit...you can watch the famous Santorini sunset from here...AND you can have an amazing lunch at the Sunset Ammoudi Tavern--here you can gobble sun-dried octopus, grilled squid, fried red mullet, fried sardines and anchovies, and grilled whole scorpion fish--absolutely wonderful! We love Ammoudi Bay and the restaurants down here...be sure to come down here if you visit Santorini, it has the best views and best dining on the island.
7. The Castle of St Nicholas
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4.5 based on 570 reviews
Reviewed By R6874UWjoshuap - Wilmette, United States
This place is absolutely amazing! This is the spot from where people take pictures of the famous Oia windmills, although many people know this and take advantage of this making it a very popular destination for tourists during sunset. Best time to go here would be after dark. You'll have the place to yourself and get the gift of seeing the beauty of Santorini being bathed in ambient light!
8. Sunset Oia Sailing Cruises
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4.5 based on 2,700 reviews
As an expert of organized sailing tours, Sunset Oia organizes yacht excursions and romantic private and semi cruises around the breathtaking caldera bay including the therapeutic waters of hot springs and the famous red and white beaches. Sunset Oia invites you to embark on a thrilling Santorini island adventure as well as the most romantic private or semi yacht sailing tour in Santorini from the port of Ammoudi in the picturesque village of Oia.
9. Domaine Sigalas
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4.5 based on 656 reviews
An award winning winery and restaurant of Santorini that offers Wine Tasting, Menu Degustation, and Private Tours. Domaine Sigalas was included in the 2016, 2018 and 2020 Top 100 Wineries in the World by Wine & Spirits magazine (US).
Reviewed By RyanBJ - Birmingham, United Kingdom
Highly recommend visiting this winery. We chose the €50 tour and tasting, the tour consisted of about 20mins walking through the vineyards talking about the history of the winemaking on the island and of Domaine Sigalas - our guide Pablos, was superb and answered any question I threw at him, really fantastic knowledge. The wine tasting consisted of 8 wines - 6 whites, 1 rose, 1 red and 1 dessert wine. A real great introduction to Santorini wine, providing a broad range and showing the differences achievable with Assyrtiko wine (the main produce of Santorini). At the end we decided we would buy the dessert wine to take home but ended up buying the more expensive one after our host kindly offered us a tasting when we were deciding which to buy (it’s a 4.3 on Vivino and simply glorious). Overall strongly recommend this tour and tasting and give a huge commendation to Pablos for making the whole experience.
10. Sunset in Oia
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4.5 based on 9,564 reviews
Reviewed By iaink2001 - Southend-on-Sea, United Kingdom
I'm so glad I managed to get to travel to Santorini and take in it's beautiful sights. If you get a chance it's an island you must visit at least once in your lifetime, amazing white washed villages against the blue and volcanic backdrop is a site to behold. Although the sunset wasn't as good as normal when I went to Oia, as there were clouds on the horizon which covered the sun in it's final moments before dipping into the Aegean. Even in these times there's still a large crowd that gathers on every spare vantage point, so give yourself a bit of time before sunset and get ready with your camera, you won't regret it.
