Ios Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Water

Ferry

There are at least four daily connections with Piraeus (€30.50, seven hours), Paros (€12.50, 2½ hours) and Naxos (€11.50, 1¼ hours). There are daily boats to Santorini (€8.50, 1¼ hours), five-weekly boats to Sikinos (€3.80, 30 minutes), Folegandros (€5.60, 1½ hours) and Anafi (€8.20, three hours) and four-weekly boats to Syros (€19.50, 2¾ hours).

There are three boats weekly to Milos (€14.10, 3½ hours) and Mykonos (€12.70, seven hours), two boats weekly to Kimolos (€9.40, 2½ hours), Sifnos (€11.10, five hours), Serifos (€12.20, six hours) and Kythnos (€16.20, 8½ hours).

One boat goes to Amorgos on Saturday (€9.70, 2½ hours).

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Boat

Fast boat & catamaran

There are daily catamarans to Piraeus (€49.50, 5½ hours), Santorini (€15.50, 40 minutes), Naxos (€20.20, one hour), Paros (€18.90, 1½ hours), Mykonos (€26.10, two hours) and Iraklio and Rethymno on Crete (€35.80, 2½ hours).

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Air

Until suspension of operations in July of 2007, AirSea Lines (21094 02012; www.airsealines.com) ran one seaplane flight a day from Thursday to Monday between Lavrio and Ios. Due to upgrading requirements the company suspended its Aegean schedule in July 2007. The schedule was still suspended at the time of writing (September 2007). The company states, however, that it will resume its Aegean service as soon as possible and readers are advised to check the company website.

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