Kalamata Getting there & around

Getting there & away

Water

Ferry

A weekly ferry service operated by ANEN Lines (www.anen.gr) runs from Kalamata to Kissamos-Kastelli (per person/car €23/82, eight hours), on Crete, via Kythira. Contact SMAN Travel/Maniatis (27210 20704; smantrv@acn.gr; Psaron), by the port, for the schedule.

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Land

Bus

In town, KTEL Messinia bus station (27210 28581; Artemidos) has buses to Athens (€18.90, 4½ hours, 13 daily) via Tripoli (€6.90, 1¼ hours) and Corinth (€13.50, 2½ hours), Kyparissia (€5.80, 1¼ hours, five daily) and Patra (€19.50, four hours, two daily) via Pyrgos (€10.90, two hours).

Heading west, there are buses to Koroni (€4.10, 1½ hours, nine daily), Pylos (€4.10, 1¼ hours, eight daily), Methoni (€5, 1½ hours, four daily) and Finikounda (€6.30, 1¾ hours, two daily). Heading east across the Langada Pass to Sparta involves changing buses at Artemisia (€2.10, 45 minutes). There are also three buses a day to the Messinian Mani, travelling as far as Itilo (€6.10, 2¼ hours) via Kardamyli (€3, 45 minutes) and Stoupa (€3.70, 1¼ hours). Sunday services are greatly reduced or nonexistent.

Train

Kalamata is the end of the line for the Peloponnese railway. There are three trains departing daily on the west coast line to Corinth (normal/Intercity €14/20), Pyrgos (normal/Intercity €2.80/6) and Patra (normal/Intercity €5/10, five hours).

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Air

Olympic Airways runs a flight (€76, three weekly) between Kalamata and Thessaloniki (but not Athens).

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