Karpathos Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Water

Ferry

LANE Lines of Crete provides three services weekly to Rhodes (€18.50, four hours) via Halki (€11.50, three hours), as well as to Piraeus (€33, 18½ hours) via Kasos (€7.50, 1½ hours), Sitia (€17, 4¼ hours), Agios Nikolaos (€20, seven hours), Milos (€33, 13 hours) and Santorini (€26, 10 hours).

Tickets can be bought from Possi Travel (22450 22235; possitvl@hotmail.com; Apodimon Karpathion) in Pigadia.

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Air

In summer there are 10 flights weekly to and from Athens (€73), seven weekly to Kasos (€25, five minutes) and Sitia (€47, one hour), and up to three daily to Rhodes (€28, 25 minutes). Olympic Airlines (22450 22150; www.olympicairlines.com) is on the central square in Pigadia. The airport is 13km southwest of Pigadia.

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