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GETTING
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Whether you are visiting for a short one-stop escape or island-hopping for

Arriving by Air
AT A GLANCE
Most people travelling to the Greek Islands
PUBLIC TRANSPORT COSTS
arrive into Athens or Thessaloníki, which have
good onward connections to the islands on
VÓLOS TO SKÓPELOS
€30 seat
connected and have regular flights from Europe,
North America and Asia.
In Athens, Metro line 3 (blue line) links the
€80 for a car berth several domestic airlines. Both airports are well-
airport to Syntagma and Monastiraki in the city
centre every 30 minutes. The X95 bus runs from
ATHENS TO SANTORÍNI the airport to Synagma Square in the city centre
€42 seat every 10–15 minutes. Bus X96 runs from the
airport to Piraeus port every 20–25 minutes,
where you can catch ferries to the islands. You
€62 for a cabin can look up timetables on TrainOSE.
Some airlines, like Ryanair, Jet2 or EasyJet,
ATHENS TO RHODES offer direct flights from Europe – mainly from
the United Kingdom and Ireland – to larger
€64 seat islands, including Corfu, Lefkáda (Préveza
airport), Kefaloniá, Zákynthos, Crete, Mýkonos,
€111 for a cabin Santoríni, Rhodes, Kos and the northern
Sporádes (Vólos airport). Most, but not all,
islands with airports have some sort of
dedicated bus service to and from the airport,
but they don’t always dovetail well with flight
SPEED LIMIT arrivals and departures.
BUILT-UP COUNTRY EasyJet
AREAS ROADS ∑ easyjet.com
Jet2
30 80 ∑ jet2.com
Ryanair
km/h km/h ∑ ryanair.com
(18 mph) (50 mph) TrainOSE
∑ trainose.gr/en/
Arriving by Sea
MOTORWAYS
There are high-speed ferry services from the
120 Italian ports of Venice, Ancona, Brindisi and Bari
to the mainland ports of Igoumenítsa and Pátra,
km/h as well as Corfu. You can check ferry schedules
(75 mph) on Greek Travel Pages or Open Seas. Healthy
competition means that you can expect to pay
affordable fares except in high season. Winter
sees limited service. Smaller ferries make various
crossings from Turkey, although these are usually
more expensive.

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