Symi

Beautiful Island with such friendly locals and businesses. Our family enjoyed our day trip here, from tasty food to great little shops to beautiful scenery. So glad we came.

There were a lot of fish swimming. And very clear water from what I’ve seen I don’t find this island really spectacular but it is worth the 40 euro to make the visit.

Symi Island left me with the most wonderful impressions. I reached it from Rhodes by high-speed boat, and along the way we were lucky enough to see playful dolphins dancing in the waves, which was an extraordinary bonus! Upon arrival, I was mesmerized by the sea’s extraordinary deep blue color. The houses lining the harbor are painted in bright, unique colors creating an unforgettable, postcard perfect atmosphere. The island’s architecture is stunning: from neoclassical mansions to narrow stair lanes up to Ano Symi, with charming churches and old fortress walls. One of the highlights is the beautiful Monastery of Archangel Michael at Panormitis, still active and richly decorated, a place filled with spiritual and historical energy. Here, you can enjoy authentic Greek food, swim in the crystal-blue waters, and of course, purchase natural sea sponges, the island is famous for an incredible variety of them. Symi is a place that stays in your heart long after you leave. Fantastic experience!

Absolutely loved every second of visiting this island. So stunning, friendly people and so many beautiful shops to see. The local fried shrimp 🍤 are a must if you love seafood 😋

Very first time.to visit a tiny village ,but amazingly beautifull ancient style house, just infront of vrystal.blue clear water of Agean Sea, yes.busy during summer.period and alots of people.from.all.over europe.and other continent of the worl🌏 Its good to.stay here for a couple.of days for relaxations🏖 Overall its very beautifull Island😍🇬🇷🏝

Beautiful little island. Beautiful houses, cute cats, delicious ice cream and fun souvenir shops! Highly recommend doing a day trip to this island. We stayed for about 4 hours and it was perfect!

Symi is a beautiful island of Greece, with a beautiful harbour, clean water, beautiful laneways with nice architectural detailing. Spending a day trip or spend a week, it’s just a nice place, and was more enjoyable than Positano in Italy. Very relaxing and is well visited by the local Mediterranean country’s such as Greek, and Italian families. Food options are varied but generally found food to be of a high quality no matter where we ate. Getting there is via Ferry. And we found the ferry service on time and reliable, if travelling in the busy periods do allow extra travel time in between ferry rides 2 hours is suggested for good reason. Only failure is signage when arriving to your destination on most of the islands not much signage to help in where you need to go, especially the first ferry ride coming from another country.

Beautiful beautiful beautiful!! That’s all I can say. Simi is so picturesque. We done the tour from Rhodes old town to simi and monastery (will get to monastery) Simi is busy but you can just walk and chill, no hassle! Cobble stones so comfortable footwear a must! It’s a postcard perfect town with such great architecture. Very friendly people and food was great! You have to try the small Simi shrimp! You eat whole. They are seasonal but we got lucky. It’s around 1-2hrs boat ride from Rhodes old town, depending on boat. You can cut up alleys and you see all local parts, we found a local fruit seller and ate mangoes and oranges. We found a lovely place to eat on other side of port. Basically port is a horseshoe shape, so accross from boat docking, place was called taverna spitikos. Good food and friendly and very reasonable priced. We had a lovely day. The only negative was the monastery, we left Simi at 2pm, then was another slow ride of 1.5hrs to monastery, which we arrived 3.30pm. Then had to be back on for 4pm!! Absolutely waste of time as was so busy we never got to go in. Would have rather stayed on Simi,if that was the case. So double check your tour!! As our day from meeting coach at 7am and not arriving back to hotel at 730pm is as way to long! But again Simi is a must,monastery I only managed a picture!