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GETTING TO PAXOS
TRANSFERS BY SKIPPERED
YACHT
AND DAY TRIPS
If you
will be celebrating a special occasion while on holiday,
or simply fancy something a bit different, then why
not
start or finish your holiday on Paxos with a 2-, 3- or
4-day mini-cruise aboard one of our Skippered Yachts
instead of the usual journey by hydrofoil or ferry?
Or
perhaps a sailing day trip during your holiday?
For full details see the
'Skippered Yacht Charter' pages of our website.
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 2015, several companies,
including easyJet, Ryanair and Jet2, will be operating scheduled services
to Corfu.
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.
Tickets need to be booked well in advance through
Corfu
Tourist Enterprises (tel 0030 26610 49800/80444).
Paxos Life Activities cannot book your tickets for you.
• Passenger Ferry - There is now also a high
speed passenger ferry, the Despina P, that runs
at least once a day in summer and takes about 90
minutes. Tickets need to be booked in advance either
through the operator, Kamelia Lines (tel 0030 26620
32131 or 0030 26610 40372), or one of their agents. For
full details, including the timetable for Summer 2015,
see
www.kamelialines.gr .
Paxos Life Activities cannot book your
tickets for you.
• Car Ferries - There are
car ferries on most
days but these take four to five hours as they go via Igoumenitsa on the mainland.
Paxos Life Activities cannot book your
tickets for you.
• 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.
Paxos Life Activities cannot book the sea taxi for you.
• Skippered Yacht - We now have
four yachts with
their own skipper available for charter, so why not
start or finish your holiday on Paxos with a 2-, 3- or
4-day mini-cruise, instead of the usual transfer by
hydrofoil, ferry or sea taxi.
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,
Trieste, 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.
Holiday accommodation on Paxos: If you have
not yet booked your of
holiday accommodation on Paxos, then you
might like to take a look at the wide selection of
rental properties on offer from
specialist tour operator,
Travel à la carte. Travel à la carte's
properties are mostly in and around the pretty
village of Loggos but also in other parts of the
island, and they range from studios, apartments
and one-bedroom villas with private pools for
couples to four-bedroom villas and adjacent
properties that can be combined to accommodate
families and larger groups. The company also offers
holiday villas and apartments for rent on the
coast of Epirus, Kefalonia, Ithaca
and Symi.
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