🧾 Essentials
The taxes and fees you will pay
A per-night resilience fee on every room, a cruise passenger fee, and VAT already in the price — lower on some small islands, but not on the famous ones.
The Climate Crisis Resilience Fee
Every overnight stay carries a fee per room, per night, paid by the guest — usually at checkout, and separately from a booking you have already paid online. It depends on the type of accommodation and the season. From April to October: €2 for 1–2★ hotels and rooms to let, €5 for 3★, €10 for 4★, €15 for 5★ hotels and for detached houses over 80 m², and €8 for short-term rentals. From November to March the rates drop sharply (for example €3 at a 4★ hotel). The full table is on what Greece costs.
On a week at a 4★ hotel in summer, that is €70 per room you should budget for on top of the rate.
The cruise passenger fee
Since 1 July 2025 cruise passengers pay a per-person fee when their ship calls. At Santorini and Mykonos it is €20 from June to September, €12 in April, May and October and €4 from November to March; at other Greek ports €5, €3 and €1. It is collected through the cruise line. Santorini also caps cruise arrivals at 8,000 passengers a day.
VAT
Prices you see are VAT-inclusive. The standard rate is 24%, with 13% on food, restaurants, hotels and transport, and 6% on some basics. A number of smaller islands have rates cut by 30% (17/9/4%) in 2026 — among them Kos, Symi, Lesvos, Chios, Samos, Leros, Patmos, Karpathos and Kalymnos. Santorini, Mykonos, Crete, Corfu and Rhodes are not among them.
Site tickets
There is no general tourist tax at archaeological sites beyond the ticket itself — but ticket prices went up sharply in 2025 (the Acropolis to €30, most major sites to €20).
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