6 nights, Piraeus (Athens) to Piraeus (Athens)

The itinerary, port by port

6 calls over 6 nights, round-trip from Piraeus (Athens). Open any port for my full day-ashore guide, what to see, when to go, and how the day actually runs.

Getting there: Flights to Piraeus (Athens) (ATH) open around July 2027, about 11 months before you sail. I track that window for booked clients and flag it the moment it is worth booking. When to book your flights →

1. Embark
   Piraeus (Athens)

   Piraeus is the port of Athens, and the day belongs to the ancient city about 10 km inland. Port guide →

2. 2
   Skiathos

   Skiathos is a small, green Sporades island whose whole appeal is concentrated in one compact harbor town and a coastline of pine-backed coves. Port guide →

3. 3
   Thessaloniki

   Thessaloniki is Greece's second city and its most layered, stacking Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman monuments along a curving seafront promenade rather than around a single ancient ruin. Port guide →

4. 4
   Istanbul

   Istanbul straddles the Bosphorus across two continents, a city layered from Byzantine Constantinople through the Ottoman Empire to the modern Turkish metropolis. Port guide →

5. 5
   Mytilene (Lesbos)

   Mytilene is the capital and main port of Lesbos, the large North Aegean island near the Turkish coast that gave the world the poet Sappho and a long tradition of ouzo. Port guide →

6. Disembark
   Santorini

   Santorini is the rim of a flooded volcanic caldera, and ships anchor inside that drowned crater with the whitewashed towns of Fira and Oia stacked along the cliff edge above. Port guide →