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What Tinos costs
How expensive is Tinos?
We cannot answer this from receipts. Our Tinos evening was July 2024, before this site’s price log began, and nothing on the island was logged — no ticket, no meal, no crossing. A two-year-old recollection of a price is exactly the kind of number this site refuses to print, so this page carries none.
This page has no figures on it, and the reason is worth stating plainly rather than hiding behind a thin paragraph of generalities.
Our Tinos evening was July 2024. This site's price log began in 2025, so nothing from that visit was recorded at the time — not a crossing, not a coffee, not a candle. We have nine photographs and a timestamp range, and photographs are evidence of a place rather than evidence of a price. Two years later, any number either of us produced would be a recollection dressed as a receipt, and this site was built specifically to not do that.
It would be easy to fill the gap. Ferry fares are published, and an average taverna figure could be lifted from anywhere and set in a confident sentence. That is precisely the move this page refuses: a researched number carries no more weight for having been placed next to our own photographs, and putting it here would quietly borrow the credibility that the dated figures elsewhere on this site actually earned.
So the honest position is the empty one. What we can tell you about Tinos is what the church is like, because we stood in it. What a day there costs is not something we know, and the difference between those two is the whole standard.
The Greece-wide record holds every figure we do have, each one dated and located. Tinos joins it the next time we are on the island with the log running — and when it does, these numbers will have a date and a venue attached, like all the others.
Common questions
We have no record either way, and we are not going to guess at the admission policy of a working pilgrimage church from memory. Candles and offerings are a separate matter and were never logged.
No logged figure exists on either side of that comparison, so this site does not answer it. Our Cyclades summers predate the price log entirely.
On the [Greece-wide record](/planning/what-greece-costs), every one of them dated and located. Tinos gets its own entries the next time we are on the island with the log running.