Paros Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Water

Ferry

There are around six boats daily to Piraeus (€28, five hours) and Naxos (€7, one hour), and three daily to Ios (€12.50, 2½ hours) and Santorini (€16.50, three to four hours). There are daily services to Mykonos (€6.80, 1¾ hours), Syros (€8.50, 1½ hours), Tinos (€8.80, 2½ hours) and Amorgos (€15, three to 4½ hours).

Six weekly go to Koufonisia (€15.50, 4½ hours); three weekly go to Sikinos (€7, three to four hours) and Anafi (€13.30, six hours), and four weekly go to Astypalea in the Dodecanese (€28.50, six hours).

There are three ferries weekly to Folegandros (€7.70, 5¾ hours).

There are two ferries weekly to Serifos (€7.80, 2½ hours), Sifnos (€4, two hours), Milos (€11.40, six hours), Kimolos (€9.60, seven hours), Schinousa (€10, 2¼ hours) and Donousa (€12.50, two to four hours).

There is one boat weekly to Thessaloniki (€37.50, 15 to 16 hours), Crete (€23.50, seven to eight hours), Skiathos (€29.60, 10 hours), Rhodes (€28.70, 12 to 15 hours) and Kalymnos (€22.70, 8¾ hours).

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Boat

Fast boat & catamaran

There are three services daily to Piraeus (€46, 2½ hours) and one a day to Rafina (€44.50, 2½ hours). There are also at least two daily to Naxos (€13, 30 minutes), Tinos (€21.70, 1¼ hours), Syros (€16, 45 minutes), Mykonos (€16.50, one hour), Ios (€18.90, 1½ hours), Santorini (€30.50, 2¼ hours) and Amorgos (€22.50, 1½ to two hours). There is also one service daily to Iraklio on Crete (€46.90, four hours), and to Folegandros (€16, three hours and 50 minutes).

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Air

Olympic Airlines (22840 91257; www.olympicairlines.com), at the airport, has daily flights to Athens (€57, 35 minutes).

Until suspension of operations in July of 2007, AirSea Lines (toll free 801 11 800 600; www.airsealines.com) ran one seaplane flight a day from Thursday to Monday between Lavrio and Paros. Due to upgrading requirements the company suspended its Aegean schedule in July 2007. The schedule was still suspended at the time of writing. 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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