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GETTING TO PAXOS
Although most visitors to Paxos fly to Corfu and then travel on to
Paxos by hydrofoil, there are many different ways of
getting here.
By air
– It is possible either to fly direct to Corfu
or via Athens
or
Thessaloniki, depending on the time of year and
departure airport. There are regular direct charter flights to
Corfu from the UK and most of Europe between May and
October and, for Summer 2012, easyJet is operating scheduled services from London Gatwick,
London Luton, Manchester and Bristol to
Corfu. EasyJet flights from all four airports start at
the end of March with flights from London Gatwick on five days a
week and from London Luton, Manchester and Bristol on two days a week.
The London Gatwick service becomes a daily service
from 26 April and the Manchester service increases to
three days a week from the end of April and to four from
the beginning of July. Easyjet flights
from London Gatwick, London Luton and Manchester operate until 27
October and those from Bristol until 26 October.
Transfers from Corfu
– There are several different ways of
reaching Paxos from Corfu.
• Hydrofoil - The
most popular way is by hydrofoil, which runs at
least once a day in summer and only takes one hour but
which does need to be booked in advance.
• Car Ferries - There are
car ferries on most
days which go via Igoumenitsa on the mainland, are very
cheap but take four to five hours.
• Sea Taxis - There are
sea taxis which take
between 30 minutes and one hour and leave either from
Corfu Town (1 hour), Lefkimi (40 minutes) or from Kavos (30 minutes)
at the southern end of Corfu.
Sea taxis can be very convenient if a group of people
are travelling together but otherwise they can be a very
expensive option. Sea taxis run at any time of the day
but do need to be booked well in advance, particularly
in high season.
By land and sea
– An increasing number of visitors to Paxos are
now choosing to travel overland across Europe to one of
the Italian ports on the Adriatic and then take a
car
ferry to Igoumenitsa on the coast of Epirus just
opposite Paxos. Driving from the UK, the journey can be
through France, Switzerland and Italy, through Belgium,
Germany, Austria and Italy, or indeed by any other route
and usually takes three or four days.
Car ferries for Igoumenitsa leave from Venice,
Ancona, Bari and Brindisi, so it is also possible to
have a short cruise at the end of the trip. From
Igoumenitsa it is then necessary to take another much
smaller car ferry to Paxos. It is also possible to
reach Paxos by travelling overland across Europe without a car, as there are coach and rail services from
London to Venice, and from there one just travels as a
foot passenger, in as much or as little comfort as one
chooses, on one of the car ferries to Igoumenitsa.
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