From June 2026 a cruise passenger stepping ashore on Mykonos pays €20 for the privilege. A tender from a yacht pays nothing. The island is now explicitly pricing how you arrived.
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Every destination on this list has an unwritten hierarchy of arrival. Mykonos is the only one that has written it down. Greece’s cruise-arrival levy charges €20 per passenger to disembark at Mykonos or Santorini between 1 June and 30 September 2026, and €12 in the shoulder months of April, May and October. It is charged once per port call regardless of how long you stay, it applies to all ages, and it is generally waived if you never go ashore.
Twenty euros changes nobody’s holiday. As a signal it is enormous: a national parliament has formally distinguished between arriving on a ship carrying four thousand people and arriving on one carrying eight. Mykonos is also the most crowded island on this list, which is what produced the levy in the first place — and the reason the genuinely knowledgeable answer to “when should I go to Mykonos” is now a shoulder month.
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Every number, date and rule above was verified against a live source on that date. Taxes, seasons and access rules change — if you are booking on the strength of one of these figures, confirm it at the source below. The judgement calls in “reads as insider” and “reads as first visit” are exactly that: judgement, not fact.