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Hotels and Travel Information for Mykonos

Booking Hotels on Mykonos

For Hotels in Mykonos and island combinations including Mykonos the best advice I can give you is to contact Fantasy Travel in Athens who have great rates on hotels and provide excellent service. I have received hundreds, maybe thousands of e-mails from people who have used their services which I have put on my Fantasy Travel Customer Reviews Page untill it seemed silly to add more because nobody was going to read all of them. From the moment you arrive in Athens and they meet you at the airport, til the day you fly home you will be well taken care of. If there are any problems they will be dealt with and you probably won't even know they existed. Their agents speak fluent English, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Russian and even work through the weekends.

For Affordable Luxury on quiet Saint Stefanos Beach go to the Princess of Mykonos (Photo on left) I stayed here and it was great. The beach is family oriented for those who have a fear of running into nudists, there are several good restaurants in the area, buses and taxis into town and a pool bar and restaurant for those who want to stay close to home for their daily and everning entertainment. 

For an affordable hotel right in town, yet within walking distance of the beach I highly recommend the Hotel Adonis owned by Ros and Michalis who are excellent hosts. The rooms are large and comfortable and you can't beat the location.

For more hotels visit the Cyclades/Mykonos page at www.hotelsofgreece.com .

Budget travelers should visit www.greecetravel.com/budget-travel for an itinerary that includes Mykonos and Santorini. If you are looking for inexpensive hotels in Mykonos go to www.hotelsofgreece.com and there are 2-star hotels and rooms with low rates.

If you are the type who would rather bypass a travel agency and book hotels and coordinate ferries on your own you do you can also find hotels at my Mykonos Hotel search page

For more hotels in Mykonos contact Dolphin Hellas Travel in Athens or Aegean Thesaurus Travel in Sifnos. Both are excellent agencies that can take the uncertainty out of your travel arrangements. Don't show up in August and expect to just find a room. Besides being the busiest period for the tourists, all of Greece take their holidays and the majority also go to the islands.

New Economical Packages: Fantasy Travel has put together a number of packages that offer quality accomodation for economical prices. Most packages that seem too good to be true are actually not as good as they seem, often using hotels that are in areas you really don't want to stay in, to keep the price down. But Fantasy's economy packages feature hotels in and around the Plaka in Athens and are all good quality hotels. I recommend Fantasy Travel's program The Pursuit of Pleasure which is 12 Days and 11 nights in Athens, Mykonos and Santorini including hotels, ferries, transfers, tours, admission to archaeological sites and breakfast starting at 940 euros per person. You can't beat the price for these hotels and this itinerary. Or their 8 day package that includes a 4-day cruise plus Athens-Delphi-Meteora which starts at 595 euros per person. For these and more visit Fantasy Travel's Special Offers Page

Far from the Maddening Crowd: In response to the travelers who worry that recent demonstrations in Athens may disturb their sleep pattern, at my request Fantasy Travel has put together a 10-Day Athens-Mykonos-Santorini package which includes a tour of Athens and all transfers and ferry tickets. The package starts at 790 euros per person. What makes it unique is for the Athens part of the trip you will be staying by the beach in Faliron, just 20 minutes from downtown by taxi or 30 minutes by bus or coastal tram. For more information see www.fantasytravelofgreece.com/farfromcrowds.html

More Travel Information

Rental Cars: Contact Swift Rent-a-Car in Athens who have great prices and an office in Mykonos. Also any of the above travel agencies can provide a car in Mykonos.

To rent a sailboat or a yacht and visit Mykonos in style stopping at other islands along the way see www.charterayachtingreece.com

There are hotels that cater strictly to gay clientele. For information contact Fantasy Travel at www.fantasytravelofgreece.com

There is camping at Paradise Beach and Paraga Beach. There are two diving centers if you are interested in scuba or snorkling adventures. One is at Paradise Beach and the other at Psarous. There are island tours, sunset cruises and a large variety of things to do, all advertised with cards, flyers and brochures in hotels and cafes. Motorbikes are available for renting. Drive carefully because nobody else does.

New! This is a great way to plan and book your trip if you have an idea of what islands you want to visit. Fill out my Create-an-itinerary-form and a travel agent will come back with a price.

Ferries and Flights to Mykonos

There are several ferries a day to Mykonos during the summer. Some are highspeeds which take about three hours and the others are regular ferries which take twice as long. Getting reliable ferry information is not that easy especially in advance. I recommend using one of the travel agents who can also give you objective opinions and in many cases discounted rates on the hotels. There are also a couple boats a day to and from Rafina. There are daily or almost daily connections in the summer to Paros, Crete, Syros, Tinos, and of course Santorini. You can find the ferry schedules from Athens at www.athensguide.com/greek-island-ferry-schedules but keep in mind these change weekly and if it is February and you are trying to get an idea of the schedule for your trip in June, this page won't help until probably a couple weeks before your trip. But even in the way-off season there is at least one ferry to Mykonos from Pireaus and from Rafina, usualy stopping in Andros and Tinos.

If you arrive from abroad and you need to get to Pireaus to catch the ferry to Mykonos I recommend George the Famous Taxi Driver. Plus if you have some time to spare, as some of you will, you can do a little tour of the city. For your return to Athens from Mykonos I also recommend using him to get to your hotel or the airport. When the ferries arrive in Pireaus there are usually just 3 or 4 taxis waiting for several hundred disembarking passengers. You will be very relieved to see a guy holding up a sign with your name on it. See his website at www.greecetravel.com/taxi

You can Fly from Athens to Mykonos which means you can book your whole trip from the USA, Europe or anywhere and just change planes. Flights are not easy to get if you wait til the last minute. For More info see www.greeceflights.com  If you are coming from Athens contact one of the travel agencies listed above.

Restaurants, Nightlife and More

These restaurants I recommend because they are still Greek and relatively inexpensive (not outrageously overpriced): Kounelas, Taverna Antonini (by the taxi stand in the square) Giavroutas, Ithaki (Paradise Beach), Vasoula (Agios Stefanos), and Caprice as long as there are no millionaires distracting the staff. There are  many fast-food places and some of them are terrific so don't be afraid that eating will send you home broke. For ouzo get the small pikilia at Sirenes on the waterfront. If you are hungry get the large. It's the last cafe from the taxi-stand. For traditional pastries and sweets visit Anastasia at Mandarinia near the taxi square. The beaches all have tavernas and restaurants, some like the one at Elia, can seat hundreds of people and has a diverse international menu that leans heavily on Greek and Italian food. Paradise beach has a cafeteria style restaurant which comes in handy if you are the type who needs to see the food to know if you want it. Menus are all in English as well as some other languages too and almost all the waitors in Mykonos speak English. In fact almost everyone you will meet will probably speak English.

There are so many cafes and clubs and bars that it would take all day to list them. Mykonos has the best nightlife in Greece and that means it has the best nightlife in the world. No kidding. There are flyers posted around town or handed out on the street with different events, concerts, openings and whatever.

There are a couple laundrumats and a couple internet cafes in town(see below). You can get just about any magazine you want at the foreign press as well as daily papers from almost every country. Lots of galleries, art shops, gift shops, CD stores, boutiques, pastry shops and famous name shops too.

As for beaches the only place I did not see nude bathing was in town and at Agios Stefanos. Super Paradise is an amazing beach but all the beaches are great and have lots of activities like scuba diving, water skiing, jet skis and of course once you get away from the sandy part of the beaches and go along the rocks the snorkling is great. Its clear anyway. You won't see massive numbers of tropical fish like in the Caribbean and there won't be anything big enough to eat you or take a bite out of you but there is a subtle beauty about the Greek underwater life with lots of cool rock formations and some interesting small fish.

Don't forget to go to Delos! You have to visit one archaeological site when you go to a Greek island and in Delos you have one of the best. Boats leave in the morning from the pier right behind the little church of Agios Nikolaos. See www.greektravel.com/greekislands/delos

It is hard to get bored on Mykonos so if you do you should either consider devoting the rest of your life to spiritual endeavors or considering the possibility that you may be clinically depressed and see a psychiatrist when you get home.

Island Combinations: If you feel compelled to visit Mykonos but want to combine it with a less touristy island then try Tinos right next door. There are frequent ferries, in fact just about every boat that goes to Mykonos also goes to Tinos. Don't stay in Tinos-town which is like a religious version of Mykonos town but without the charm. Stay in the quiet beach communist of Ag Ioannis Porto. You can read all about Tinos at www.greektravel.com/greekislands/tinos and if you are interested in a Mykonos-Tinos island combination you can request it at www.greecetravel.com/create-an-itinerary

Most people want to do Mykonos-Santorini and in the summer there are usually daily ferries but until the schedules are released nothing is certain and even after they are released sometimes they still aren't certain. So for the hundredth time, while traveling to the islands I recommend using a reliable Greek travel agency to coordinate ferries, hotels and transportation and save yourself the angst of uncertainty and allow yourself to have a holiday free from worries.

A Lone Red Apple by Aurelia: More than a well written Novel, this book has more helpful information about Greece and the island of Mykonos than many of the most popular Guidebooks. For excerpts, reviews and ordering info click here.

Questions? Don't be afraid to E-mail me at matt@greecetravel.com 
I love answering questions about Greece. It gives me a sense of purpose and since I am on the computer most of the day anyway you will probably get a reply quicker than you thought.

For other islands see my Greek Island Synopsis

Internet Access on Mykonos

At the central Bus Station of Mykonos (in Fabrika) is Fast Internet, said to be the coolest internet center of the island. Run by Alex Valassidis you can surf the Web, e-mail your friends, use the yahoo, aol, or msn messenger, scan, burn CDs, burn photo CD's, print, send or receive faxes, make international phone calls to the States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or anywhere in the world, in a fully air conditioned environment using wide flat screens in 24 working stations, using the FASTEST line on the island.

You'll also find a great variety of mobile phone, accesories, memory cards and digital cameras in case you need to purchase one while you're on vacation!

They are open all the season (from begining of April till the end of October) everyday, any day, including Sundays and holidays from early in the morning till' late at night.

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