INC 2005 Travel Information

Samos Island is located 330 km East of Athens near the coast of Asia Minor. It is one of the major tourist attractions of Greece and thousands of Greek and foreign tourists visit it all around the year but especially in the summer.

Visitors can go from Athens to Samos either by boat (speedboat or conventional) or by plane.

Boats : Samos is connected via Ferry to many islands and ports of the Aegean sea such as: Kavala, Ikaria, Fournoi, Patmos, Kos, Leros, Kalymnos, paros, Mykonos, Syros, Tinos, Chios, Mitelene, Kusadasi (Turkey) and many more.

Boats, departing from the port of Piraeus, arrive to Samos after:
Conventional ship (ferryboat) – approximately twelve (12) hours depending of the intermediate stops to other ports.
Speedboat – six (6) to eight (8) hours depending of the intermediate stops to other ports.
The cost of the boat ticket is:
• Conventional ship (ferryboat) : third class costs approx. 20 Euros and first or second class (with cabin) from forty (40) to fifty-five (55) Euros
• Speedboat : Second class will cost you approx. forty (40) euros and first class approx. fifty (50) Euros.

In case you want to transport your car as well this will cost you seventy-five (75) Euros additionally. A motorbike is charged at approx. seventeen (17) Euros and a motorcycle approx. thirty (30) euros.

Additional ship schedules, as well as exact prices, can be found at the following links:

Ship Schedule TO Samos

Ship Schedule FROM Samos

Hellas Flying Dolphins

Nel Lines

Miniotis Lines

Airplane : Departing from Athens via airplane takes forty-five (45) minutes to get to the island and it costs approx. eighty (80) euros. The types of airplanes that fly to Samos are usually Olympic Airways’ ATR 72-202 & 42-320.

Other choices are flying to Samos from Thessalonica, Chios, Mitelene, Lemnos and other airports across the country.

For more information of air carriers schedules please visit:

Olympic Airlines' site or  GTP.

Each summer there are also many Flying Dolphin and other small ships that connect Samos with ports around the Aegean.

Starting on the 25th of March and till the 28th of October there are many charter flights connecting Samos with various European (mainly) countries.   These flights are organized by major Greek or Foreign tourist agencies and transfer the bulk of the summer tourists to the island.

Pythagorio is one of the best-known summer resorts of Samos Island. It is located on the south part of the island in a distance of 10 km from Samos town. Pythagorio has a large and picturesque port, filled with private sailboats. The port of Pythagorio connects the south part of Samos with many islands of the Dodecanese. There is a boat to Turkey (Ephesus) as well. On the main street, by the port, the visitors can find restaurants, small bars, commercial shops, tourist offices, banks e.t.c. We have to mention, that all around Pythagorio there are many important archeological sites, that the visitors should visit.