Santorini. Driven to the exact spot your hotel uses, with the cases and the last steps planned.

The centres of Fira and Oia are pedestrian. Cars do not enter them. Vehicles stop at village car parks or at the nearest accessible lane, and the last stretch to the hotel or villa is on foot, often down steps cut into the caldera. Some hotels send a porter with a trolley; some send a small vehicle to a specific corner; some do neither and expect you to know.

So the useful question at the quote stage is not which car, but where exactly the car stops and who meets it. We ask your hotel or villa for the drop point they actually use, and we tell you the answer before you travel rather than discovering it at midnight with four suitcases.

Access on the island has tightened in recent seasons. The municipality has restricted vehicles on the road down to Ammoudi, the footpath and mule route below Fira has been closed after a wall collapse in the summer of 2026, and traffic around Athinios port is controlled around ship arrivals. These rules change; we check the current position for your dates rather than repeating last year's.

Odyssey owns its cars and employs its chauffeurs in London and Manchester, and works through a trusted global network everywhere else. On Santorini the cars are arranged through operators we know, and the local knowledge of drop points is the reason we use the people we use.

Direct European legs work well in a midsize jet, and the runway here is more forgiving than Mykonos. Many clients still route through Athens in high summer, either because the slot suits or because the yacht is lying at Alimos or Flisvos and the island is better reached by sea.

Arriving by yacht changes the ground plan completely: tenders come ashore at the old port below Fira or at Ammoudi below Oia, both of which are access controlled, so crew movements and guest movements need planning separately. Tell us which and we will build the car around the tender, not the other way round.