Flights and buses to Paxos and other Paxoi Island, Greece Transportation Tips

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Category: Airplane
Getting TO/AROUND: If you aren't lucky enough to be able to get a cheap charter flight to Corfu, there are several flights daily from Athens to Corfu and then you can get the ferry from there. The Paxos ferries from Corfu leave from opposite Hotel Atlantis and are quite frequent during the high season June - September since there are lots of car ferries coming over from Italy which stop at both Corfu and Paxos. However, the hydrofoils are quicker at around an hour and run several services a day. Schedules at
http://www.paxos-greece.com/how_to_get_to_paxos.htm#Traveling%20Overland%20+%20Ferry%20Crossings

There used to be a bus service run by Bouas Tours of Paxos, leaving Athens 3 times a week - Tuesdays and Thursdays at 06.30 and Fridays at 24.00, from Hotel Vienni, 20 Pireos Street, Athens. However, the Bouas website no longer has details of this, so it would be wise to email them to check it out before travelling - info@bouastours.gr Alternative routes would be via either Patras or Parga, which probably have a more regular bus service from Athens and have daily ferries over to Paxos.

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Category: Other
Getting TO/AROUND: This service started up in November last year (2004) and is currently only operating between Corfu, Paxos and Ioannina but there are plans to run scheduled flights all over the Ionians and to Brindisi and Patras next summer.

The current service cuts the travel time between Corfu and Paxos from an hour on the dolphin to 14 minutes by seaplane.

It's not cheap at €35 one-way, but I should think it's worth it, if only for the experience of getting a bird's eye view of the Ionians.

Photo reproduced from Airsealines website.

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Website: http://www.airsealines.com/schedule.htm

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Category: Ship/Boat
Getting TO/AROUND: For a lot people, their first experience of Paxos is on a daytrip from Corfu. There are many organised trips available, but most of them only seem to give you a couple of hours actually on Paxos and time for a quick swim when the boat moors off a beach on Anti Paxos, so are more about the trip itself than actually seeing Paxos.

For anyone who is more interested in "being there" than "getting there", I'd recommend going independently by either hydrofoil or seaplane. The seaplane only takes about 15 minutes, as opposed to an hour by hydrofoil, but the timings mean that on a daytrip you don't actually get that much longer on Paxos than by taking the hydrofoil . However, the views from the seaplane are supposed to be breath-taking, so it's worth considering the extra expense for at least one leg of the trip

If travelling by hydrofoil, I would recommend going on a Wednesday or Sunday, when the Paxos Flying Dolphin leaves Corfu at 9.30 am and returns from Gaios at 5pm. This gives you around 6.5 hours to either explore Paxos, using a combination of bus and taxis, or to get one of the express boats that run from Gaios to Anti Paxos about once an hour throughout the day.

Anti Paxos is a beautiful island and well worth a visit, but it has little natural shade and so in high season it's not good for walking during the middle of the day. If you go in July or August, you'll probably spend most of your time there sitting in a taverna or on the beach under an umbrella and it's a long way to travel from Corfu just for that. So if the weather's very hot and sunny, I'd stick to exploring Paxos and save the Anti Paxos trip for when you go back to stay on Paxos ;o)

Hydrofoil and seaplane schedules are on the website below.

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Website: http://www.paxos-greece.com/how_to_get_to_paxos.htm#Passenger%20Ferry%20Boat%20Crossings