Sujormik

Not much chatter about Celestyal here in cruisecritic.com, but I’m still gonna try to get some good advice! We arrive in Santorini early in the morning but are not doing the ship excursions so I know we have to wait to tender until after their groups debark. And there will be other ships in port and I know we will have to wait at the cable car. We have a private guide meeting us and will spend the day with him seeing the sites. Here’s my dilemma: our ship doesn’t leave until midnight. Which is good, but it means we have several hours after our guide leaves before we need to get back to the port. Also good. I’d really like to get to someplace like Imerovigli for dinner and sunset (Santorini sunset!!!) but am worried about getting there and back to the port without a car. Definitely don’t want to rent a car for half a day. Is anyone aware of reliable ways to get from the more remote parts of the island to the port? I’m aware there are very few taxis. Would really love for this to work! Thanks.

I have a private tour scheduled for May, do you mind sharing who you used? We will have ours for about 5 hours, but our ship doesn’t leave until midnight. I’d really like to find a restaurant with a sunset view for dinner but am getting worried about finding a taxi to get us back to the cable car after dinner.

Thanks again for sharing your trip for us celestyal newbies! I’d love to hear about your day in Athens too, if you’re up for it!

Thanks for the tip, wish we could get off first, but I may arrange our tours to begin a little later and not rush to the tenders. we are in St Petersburg, not sure if that’s near you in FL!

Your reports are so helpful, thank you. I’ve already decided to go with private tours on each of the islands except Ephesus, just don’t want to deal with waiting around for other people to tell me how to spend my limited time! Think we will try to eat meals on the islands as much as possible too!

Following, this is already so helpful. We’ll be on Journey in May, and I’m surprised at how crowded Santorini was for you in March! We aren’t expecting much from Celestyal so thanks again for your detailed posts.

But wondering if anyone will be on Idyllic Aegean May 19-26. We are looking at private shore excursions/tours if anyone wanted to discuss sharing. Maybe this thread will be allowed.

You need to let them know, and I don’t think they’ll discount your fare, but you should be able to disembark early.

I’ve been reading that it’s an absolute disaster. Filthy ship, hanging electrical wires, no ac, toilets not flushing. I came on to see what’s been reported, surprised nothing more here.

Your photos are gorgeous! I’ve asked a weird question on this forum, hoping you’ll take a look at it. Thanks.

My husband has a business meeting in LIsbon in May 2024. Because our air will be covered, we want to extend our travel to finally visit Greece! But our dates are fixed and we don’t have a ton of flexibility. The 7 night circle offered by Celestyal would work with a bit of tweaking and I wonder if anyone has any insight. We’d like to do a 7 nights Athens-Athens but not actually board the ship until day 2 in Thessaloniki. We are willing to pay for 7 nights and only stay for 6. There will be people boarding at Thessaloniki so that shouldn’t be an issue, but I’m wondering if you who know the line think it’s worth asking about. We could also simply board in Thessaloniki and exit Athens and miss the last night instead of the first, if that’s allowable. Does this sound insane? I welcome any insight. Thanks.

Didn’t realize about the title search option, I promise I did search Riverside in the main search function!

Anyone know anything about this line? Thanks.

There were at least a dozen on my cruise.

When you check in at a restaurant they ask your name and room number. I just had wine/beer with meals, didn’t do the bar. The package includes unlimited wine & beer at meals.