Santorini, Greece

Entrance fee for Greek islands?

The Falstaff Travel Editors, 20.10.2025

Greece is planning to charge entrance fees for visiting beaches, harbors and old towns on the most popular islands in the future. 34 island communities in the South Aegean are calling on the government in Athens to approve an official entrance fee for day visitors.

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Following the example of the entrance fee for a visit to Venice, municipalities on numerous Greek islands are calling on the government to introduce a "compensation fee" for day visitors, according to the daily newspaper Kathimerini. Representatives of 19 islands in the Cyclades and 15 in the Dodecanese commissioned law professor Michael Papageorgiou to draft a bill to be submitted to the central government.

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