Santorini, Greece | Odyssey of the Seas, Royal Caribbean Cruise Line 

usually they announce the time you dock and the time you need to be back on the ship just the day before. Your cabin attendant will also remind you if ever :) I'm sure you will have time as we did when we went! we were going around Fira before finding a van that our group negotiated for price. Just communicate with your driver to make sure to get you back hours before the ship's call time :D

Thank you! This was around June of 2022 😀

It's complimentary from the cruise! We just had to get a (numbered) ticket to get a scheduled time going to the port since there's a lot of passengers.

@@ronnraseHi, thanks for your reply. One more question: how is it on the way back, are the tender boats available easily or is there are queue. If the cruise sails back at 11 pm, by when should we aim to come back at the cable cars? Thanks

@@siddharthgupta2715 they usually announce (prior to leaving the ship) and give you an idea of the last tender boat. From our experience, the tender boats were at the same place from where we got dropped off which was walking distance to the cable cars :)

Not sure if it would be different for each time you go but when we went, you just have to grab a ticket (first come first serve, and not part of an excursion). They usually annouce what time the ship will arrive at the port and the time tender boats are available/when they will hand out numbered tickets :) I believe you will have time to explore on your own time if that is what you choose to do!

Heard also like to know, about how long does it take to tender over to Santorini from the ship?

@@jboenker123 didn't take that long, maybe like 10-15mins to tender between the ship and the port if I remember it correctly

@@ronnrase thank you!! Did you happen to stop in Salerno on this trip? And if so did you tender?

For us, cable cars weren’t that bad. From tether boat to cable car to top of island only took us 35 min, but we were in group 1. Some of our friends who didn’t get up in time to get tickets, ended up in group 5, and they had a 2 hr wait. They ended up just walking the dock because there wasn’t enough time to see anything else. I over heard a few folks at dinner saying they weren’t even allowed to leave the ship because it was taking too long. RC said they were going to give out tether tickets at 7am, we got up there at 5:45. By 7am, the line was already ridiculous. Problem was, RC said they would start calling tickets at 9. Well at 8:15, they called groups 1,2&3 simultaneously. Smh. So it almost negated the fact that we were 3rd in line to get tickets, because the process to board tether boats wasn’t organized well. But that was the case for most of Greece/Rome. There are no true lines, people just crowd around line a mosh pit and try to squeeze in. Regardless of when the my got in line

For this one, we only took the tender boat to the shore. The tour around the town/city was not from RC as we didn't plan ahead of time on this one. We just happened to be with a group that found a deal to hire a van and take us around :)

omg nvm lol

@@JayemAndKath hahahhaha you sure you don't want the more adventurous path? ahha

Please don’t, it’s torture for them. They are abused, full of scars, given little to no water, poor babies. I walked up and down once and was exhausted, these babies are forced to do it all day. I just want to cry for them 😢

@@michelleuk4788 Very true! I wouldn't feel too good about it either!

@@ronnrase it still haunts me, there’s a petition, please sign it 🙏