Getting from Agios Efstratios to Antipaxos

If you are heading to Antipaxos from Agios Efstratios you are making your way from a small island in the northern Aegean to a tiny island just south of Paxos in the Ionian Sea, on the opposite side of Greece. It has beaches of a quality that would be famous if they were anywhere more accessible.

Take the ferry

There are no scheduled ferries from Agios Efstratios to Antipaxos. Antipaxos is accessible only by sea taxi or small boat from Gaios on Paxos, with the trip taking around 15 to 20 minutes. Getting to Paxos from Agios Efstratios means taking the ferry to Lemnos, flying to Athens and then either flying to Corfu and taking the ferry from Corfu to Paxos, which takes around 1 hour, or flying to Preveza and connecting via Igoumenitsa for the daily car ferry to Paxos.

Getting there by air

Antipaxos has no airport. The nearest airport is Corfu. Taking the ferry from Agios Efstratios to Lemnos, flying to Athens and then Athens to Corfu, followed by the seasonal ferry from Corfu to Paxos taking around 1 hour and the sea taxi to Antipaxos taking around 15 to 20 minutes, gives a total journey time of around 7 to 8 hours. In Greece, airlines do not operate direct inter island flights.

Your best option

Take the ferry from Agios Efstratios to Lemnos, fly to Athens and then fly to Corfu and take the ferry across to Paxos, then the sea taxi to Antipaxos. If you are traveling with a car, fly to Athens, drive northwest to Igoumenitsa and take the daily car ferry to Paxos from there. Antipaxos is most rewarding as a day trip or overnight from Paxos rather than a standalone destination as facilities on the island are almost nonexistent.