Getting from Antipaxos to Agios Efstratios

If you are heading to Agios Efstratios from Antipaxos you are making your way from a tiny island in the Ionian Sea to one of the most isolated islands in Greece, sitting between Lemnos and Lesvos in the northern Aegean. It has a single rebuilt village and beaches that see almost no visitors outside a handful of Greeks who keep the place to themselves.

Take the ferry

There are no scheduled ferries from Antipaxos to Agios Efstratios. Antipaxos has no ferry port of its own and is accessible only by sea taxi from Gaios on Paxos. Getting to Agios Efstratios means taking the sea taxi from Antipaxos to Paxos, the ferry from Paxos to Corfu, flying to Athens and then flying to Lemnos, followed by the ferry from Lemnos to Agios Efstratios taking around 1 hour 30 minutes and running 4 times a week.

Getting there by air

Agios Efstratios has no airport. The nearest airport is Lemnos. Antipaxos has no airport either. Taking the sea taxi from Antipaxos to Paxos, the ferry from Paxos to Corfu and flying to Athens and then Athens to Lemnos, followed by the ferry to Agios Efstratios, gives a total journey time of around 8 to 9 hours. In Greece, airlines do not operate direct inter island flights.

Your best option

Take the sea taxi from Antipaxos to Paxos, the ferry from Paxos to Corfu, fly to Athens and then fly to Lemnos and take the ferry across to Agios Efstratios. Check the Lemnos to Agios Efstratios schedule before booking your flights as the ferry runs only 4 times a week. Bring everything you need with you as the island has almost no facilities and that is entirely the point.