THE TRUTH ABOUT SANTORINI HOTELS (Watch this before you book your stay)

the real reason you're here let's talk money just in case you're new here we are also just as happy in an eight dollar a night cute little hotel room in rural vietnam but here in santorini things cost a little bit more in our four years of travel we've shared that life on the road isn't all staged photos and slow motion twirls we're tim and finn and whether we're stuck in the mud stuck in the rain or stuck at the border we're sharing the unfiltered reality of it all subscribe to join the adventure on tripped this iconic island winds up on just about everyone's travel bucket list at some point in their life with good reason santorini's whitewashed buildings on seaside cliffs mixed with incredible food infinite blue water and arguably one of the best sunsets in the world it's no wonder it's so popular a lot of the times though popular means expensive but before you blow your entire year's travel budget on one short trip to one island we want to help you decide how to spend not only your time but your money in santorini [Music] the real reason you're here let's talk money just in case you're new here we are also just as happy in an eight dollar a night cute little hotel room in rural vietnam but here in santorini things cost a little bit more the room rate at this specific room in this hotel is anywhere between 800 and 1300 euro a night so in order to dip our toe into this experience i'm just using 85 000 marriott points to stay here and so no it is not a free night because we're influencers no it's not a free night because i use points because points have a value and 85 000 marriott points could take your family to paris for five nights so the question we're going to be visiting in this video is is this worth it more so than maybe any destination i can think of your hotel choice in santorini is so important so if you're shopping for your hotel night i completely feel you if you're new here we yes make youtube videos so i understand we're kind of like influencers but we own our own travel gear company and so the experiences that we're sharing are things that we are paying for so we actually do review things as opposed to just get really cool free hotel night stays i'm so excited that we just checked in and are staying at the most expensive hotel we've ever stayed in together and i'm ready to document what it feels like to really go go for it and book that expensive vacation in a place like santorini for basically my entire adult life i've been so excited about staying in a place that has a view like like this but i'll do a quick hotel tour then we're gonna talk a little bit more this is what i expect and want a santorini hotel to look like so cool carved into the rock it's so cool and nice in here in this cave as you'd expect in a five-star resort there's a gorgeous king-size bed with really nice linens which just so excited to have a nice night rest and i mean for all of your instagram pictures and needs like this is very aesthetically pleasing come with me into the tunnel that's a cave bathroom to the cave bathroom this you know bathrobe included have enough space in here for our own pool in this jacuzzi tub which they offered to fill for us and a beautiful view out the window to the pool and the gorgeous caldera [Music] [Music] this is a wine glass of chips it is a wine it's cold gin though so it's classy it's not like drinking hot gin out of a bottle oh my god dude we can't drink that is the largest martini i've ever had you know it's great you're going to be real funny later oh my gosh happy to say the pool is working out great here you know sometimes you go to a pool it's awkward depth look at this this is perfect for cocktail hour and when you want to go do that [Music] isn't just about the room it's also about the amenities and having a infinity pool in santorini might be on your bucket list so you can look for an experience like we're having here where we have our own room with a great view and then a shared pool but you can also look for hotels that of course have a private pool on your own balcony that doesn't mean that you need to spend necessarily more than what we're paying for here this is such a luxury property so that's why if you want a luxury room and a private pool you might be looking more at 3 000 us dollars a night but before you get discouraged check hotels or booking.com for more boutique hotels that might have a cheaper price point like in the 300 range and then you might be able to find a luxury room at that boutique hotel in the 900 range that has a private pool so look at that it's a little bit more tedious because you have to click on each individual listing and look at the better rooms but you might find what you're looking for santorini is known for its million dollar sunsets which is kind of funny considering if you're booking a thousand dollar night stay here you're not even going to see it that is true this strip of hotels here is the most luxurious strip here in the town of via you have some very iconic hotels with the highest price points on the island and they are all advertising the rooms with the caldera view it is beautiful you can see the volcano here this is obviously beautiful however if the sunset is very important to you you would need to leave your luxurious resort and then go into ia which might be just under a mile about a kilometer down the road so that is one of the reasons why we would maybe recommend a different price point there's just not big luxury resorts in ia because it's such a populated town but you could potentially find a boutique hotel that still has a private pool you'd just be very very congested but still have that sunset view from your own private balcony if you can't already tell where this video is going we have a lot of great budget options in this video and sunset a free sunset is one of them so stay tuned until later where we talk about a lot of great places to go see the sunset sunset at this specific property happened at about six o'clock behind the buildings here sunset on the island currently is at about 8 30 at night on the horizon we have been able to see all the sunset cruises go out here but it has been interesting talking with the other people sitting staying here at the hotel who were a little disappointed that they thought maybe they would have a sunset view because they are technically staying in the town of ia this infinity pool has it all gin martini is the size of goblets of ale new friends from south carolina and just a short walk up to where you can pass out into bed before dinner upon returning from the pool because we are trying to be fair in all this we did get turn down service which is an amazing thing to walk into because i don't know that i've ever had that before and look even a chocolate mint there's no arguing though with any spot on this island at night probably looks like a painting until i stepped into the frame so i will leave and let you enjoy this view [Music] this is the view from the balcony of our room and one of the perks even though sunset isn't quite it of staying at a big hotel resort is we do have a little bit more privacy because all of this space is all resort so the rooms are a little bit more spread out there's more walking paths whereas in a small boutique hotel in town you might be sandwiched on on top of other rooms and more pedestrians walking by so yes a little bit more our privacy here and these are all the rooms at the hotel the pool and we'll be having dinner right up here looks like a fairytale [Music] [Music] wow the restaurant here led by a french chef was absolutely phenomenal and even the greek wine blew us away the wait staff was incredibly knowledgeable about the dishes and knew more than you could ever want to know about the wine list and considering the price of the room out the door for 150 euro was totally fair for a restaurant of this caliber and with this view that being said would i stay here again or recommend it to a friend after five years of full-time travel we really don't understand why it's so expensive we met many other american travelers who also were staying because it's in the marriott collection but no one's status was recognized nor any standard benefit like early or late check-in or room upgrade was granted despite being platinum elite we really only stayed here because we had enough marriott points and wanted to film this fun thousand versed video snazzy title in santorini but didn't want to actually pay the cash and i'm glad we didn't our ac unit was leaking all over the floor the front desk staff wasn't very helpful no one carried our luggage the list goes on but if you're really dying to have this iconic experience look for something in the three to five hundred dollar range in ia or fira if that's out of your budget the rest of this video is for you and you're not going to believe it [Music] welcome to your budget accommodations here on santorini now what do you get for under a hundred dollars a night the big thing is you get a beer you get to be in santorini this specific place is walking distance to the beautiful black sand parissa beach you're gonna be spending most of your time out there but when you are at your hotel yeah come on in look at this we've got all the basics covered this this is a pen you sleep on it it's beautiful it's white it's clean you're getting all that at the basic rate where i'm from if you pay under a hundred dollars a night for a hotel room pretty quick but can i sit here can i sit here look outside and drink my coffee i can because there's a place to sit there's coffee cups there's a kettle there's a little coffee over there you got a little fridge there must be a dark secret hiding back there there must be shared bathrooms somewhere no we have our own beautiful bathroom it's really nice wow i can get all this this must be an internet live there's no way that's under 100 on santorini well on top of all that it's a truth and right outside we're poolside you know what they call that that's a bargain there's enough time in here the whole point of being in santorini is being in santorini let's get out there this pool is beautiful but we are also so close to the beach come on santorini is home of some black sand beaches and that is why we love parisa let's take you there [Music] [Music] here on perissa beach you just come on down to one of these beach clubs order some food some drinks you get the umbrella and the lounge chairs for free i like that the salad and this is the mm-hm gorgeous it's so awesome thank you so much this is the same price as chipotle at home or something that's a feast this is a beach feast [Music] why am i so excited i don't know [Music] well there's obviously a lot of these they all have a different vibe they're all different size they probably have a little bit different price points but not that much and there's little shops along the way and restaurants you can spend the whole day here even if you are staying all the way up in ia here in paris things are a little bit more spread out you have a little bit more space and things are just less expensive so we're going to take you into the market to see how much things cost interestingly enough eating out is affordable compared to how expensive the groceries are so if you are on a budget i recommend not necessarily doing an airbnb thinking that you're going to have cheap groceries it doesn't really work like that you're better off having a hotel with amenities like a pool and just grabbing a three dollar euro when you're hungry [Music] we saw this five years ago and thankfully it's still here oh wow something light refreshing just perfect wine for a hot day do you want to go on a date with me absolutely i do [Music] the price hasn't changed in five years oh do you get what you pay for you get what you pay for hold on hold on poorly will it work yeah little that'll do the job i mean there are apples [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] now something that costs no money here and he uh is going for a swim out in a moody bay and no surprise you don't have to look very hard to find a cliff to jump off of one of the very best things to do here in eu is come out to moody bay it is super budget friendly it's free [Music] if you're looking at travel blogs for coming to santorini one of the top things that's recommended to do is to hike between fida and ia it's quite far if you love hiking you might really like to do it a lot of it is a pathway but in a certain point the hiking path meets the busy road right here and one of the top sites to see is this beautiful iconic door it's just the entrance to a hotel you can also stop here anytime when you're driving around the island so if spending four hours on a really hot hike isn't for you then you could just stop here and get your picture at the door like this [Music] to cap off our budget friendly day here we are doing sunset on the south side of the island at the lighthouse it's free the most budget friendly [Music] santorini is shaped like a crescent moon and we are down on the southern tip ia is at the north tip this is pretty uh epic view but what's also really cool is you can see all the way on the other point in the caldera this is our wonderful special occasion for oh for a perfect plug for trip travel gear our two cube is the perfect size of a liter and a half a bottle of local rose that water is designed it's pretty perfect i've been using it like this because it helps it from sweating mostly water rose well rose all day anyways it has a handle so we've been using that yeah i know and i didn't even start drinking it yet probably not gonna finish all this here that's definitely the best three dollar rose i've had it comes as an absolute surprise to no one that sometimes in life the best things actually are free what an incredible two-week trip through the greek islands visiting mykonos naxos paros milos and santorini if you aren't subscribed yet what are you doing next on this channel a new show all about bucket list travel set a reminder for sunday october 3rd for a whole new series you won't want to miss thanks for sticking around till the end of the video here's your bonus contact this off him i got that on a flight from iceland it went back to the united states filled in florida michigan um and now it's going to be enjoyed and santorini before we fly there wait it's also now been to six greek islands sometimes food is better if you like take it to see the world oh and it's been to the frankfurt airport in germany that's this is the fourth country that's been too sponsored by scrutiny is it good [Music] you

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Length: 22min 56sec (1376 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 05 2021