Flights & ferries

Flights to Greece or Turkey can easily be booked over the internet, which usually means cheaper tickets and more options. This page will enable you to organize your own ideal flights and travel arrangements.

For domestic flights within Greece you can best use Olympic airways and within Turkey the national Turkish airlines are recommended.

Note, that if you located the cheapest tickets for a (domestic) flight on a portal site (that compares flights from all carriers) it might even be cheaper to book directly with the airline company in question, evading the commission of these portal sites.

In Greece as well as in Turkey it is wiser to uses buses rather than trains, if domestic flights are not available.
Click on the map to the right to see the Greek ferry lines.

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Flights from the Netherlands

Beside the obvious airport of Schiphol, also consider for example Düsseldorf or Airport Niederrhein. My friends and I have frequently used Aegean Air to reach the smaller airports in Greece. For a comparison of flights and airline companies:

Flights from the UK

There are usually direct flights from either Manchester or Gatwick airports to Preveza - often only charter flights which serve from early May till the end of October. Expect to pay between €180 per person in low season up to €275 in high season.
Direct flights to Athens in Greece or to Izmir, Bodrum, Dalaman, Antalya in Turkey are more frequent and cheaper. For a comparison of flights and airline companies:

Flights from the USA, Australia, etc.

Expedia·com
Orbitz

Flights from Finland

BlueOne (with SAS) is flying Helsinki-Athens-Helsinki on Saturdays. Prices are reported to be less than half of what they are with Finnair.

Turkey - Bodrum - Dalaman

Aegean Flights

Lefkas island

Look for a direct flight to the nearby Preveza airport or a domestic flight to Preveza via Athens.
Via Corfu airport it takes about 3½ hours by taxi and ferry. Costs: 1 taxi /4 persons 80 EURO and ferry per person 3 EURO.
Via Italy: ferries from the east coast of Italy - such as Bari or Brindisi - to Igounemitsa on mainland Greece, followed by a taxi ride to Lefkas (1.5 hours, 100 EURO).

Skiathos island

It is notoriously difficult to fly directly on Skiathos for a reasonable price. Yet, the port seems part of the approach of this tiny airstrip so once landed you could actually walk to the charter yachts :-)
The second best option is not Volos airport, but Thessaloniki further to the north. Unfortunately, this involves several hours by bus and a subsequent ferry ride from Volos port to Skiathos port.

Other islands via ferries

The hydrofoils and ferries will allow you to travel between Athens' Pireaus port and the major yacht charter bases of Paros, Poros, Syros, Rhodes, Kos and the touristy islands of Mykonos and Santorini.

Kalamaki (Alimos) and Lavrion in Athens

Both the Alimos/Kalamaki marina as well as Lavrion can be reached with taxis from Athens International Airport (AIA) "Eleftherios Venizelos".
There is a convenient bus (X96 Piraeus - Athens Airport Express) that connects Pireaus port and the Airport; Kalamaki/Alimos is about half-way.
Bus (KTEL Express Service Regional Buses 10 and 11) connects the Airport with Lavrion.
Map of all bus services

Sailing resources

Charter guide :

Assisted bareboats
Bareboat requirements
Choosing a charter yacht
Catamarans & monohulls
Prevent seasickness
Greek sailing areas
When to sail in Greece
Yacht charter provisioning
Itineraries Ionian
Itineraries Argo-Saronic
Itineraries Cyclades
Flights & ferries

Yacht charter companies

Tower of winds
Acropolis

Greece :

Ionian Islands
Dodecanese Islands
Cyclades Islands
Northern Sporades
Peloponnese – Athens

Turkey :

Izmir – Bodrum
Bodrum – Marmaris
Marmaris – Fethiye
Fethiye – Antalya

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