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Tavern at the Amphitheater in Limenas Thassos

How to get to Thassos

Booking a hotel

This item in preparation for an independent trip is the very first, since from 2014 to get a Schengen visa you need to prepay the hotel at least 30% of the period of stay. If you plan to live, where you will not be able to provide proof of your reservation (payment will be in cash, for example) - you will have to arrange payment for these 30% for example, on booking, at any hotel. And there you either already say goodbye with this prepayment right away, or you can return it - depending on the conditions of booking a particular hotel.

* Amendment. Since 2016, the prepayment for the hotel has been canceled again.

Prepare a visa

Ordinary Greek Schengen. You can order at the agency, you can apply to the consulate yourself. The movement of the body, the expenditure of time, will yield in both cases approximately the same number. Prepared documents-handed-took. In this case, the agency will pay a commission for assistance in obtaining a visa. If you do the visa yourself - you can get all the information on registration on the website of the embassy or consulate, and also call by phone. Answer in detail and understandably.

We buy tickets for the plane to Thessaloniki

You can buy a ticket to Athens, but this way is more expensive in time and money. From Athens, you will need to get either to Kavala (again by plane) or by bus to Thessaloniki (5-6 hours by road). For obtaining a visa, air tickets are not needed, you need a prepaid hotel reservation. Therefore, tickets can puzzle closer on a trip, you may be able to catch a burning ticket for a charter.

From Thessaloniki to Thassos - how to get there.

From the airport of Thessaloniki the easiest transfer to Thassos. Rather, it is the easiest one from the airport of Kavala (then to Thassos only 1.5 hours by ferry), but you can not fly to Kavala from Russia without transplants.

So, you have two options to get from Thessaloniki to Thassos.

Go along the route from Thessaloniki to Kavala
Go along the route of Thessaloniki-Keramoti

< p> This is the same road, just Keramoti is a little further than Kavala. From any of the two towns can be reached by ferry to the island.

Thessaloniki - Kavala, Keramoti

We fly to the airport of Thessaloniki, from where we need to get to the town of Keramoti or Kavala, up to the island. Variants:

we rent a car (then it will be necessary to pay for its transportation to the island by ferry),
we take a taxi (very expensive),
we go by bus (comfortable with air conditioning, not expensive, you can sleep after the flight). On the road it takes about 2.5 hours.

Thessaloniki-Kavala Bus

Sending the bus to Kavala from the Thessaloniki bus station every hour. To get to the bus station from the airport, it takes about 20 minutes by bus or taxi. The distance of Thessaloniki-Kavala is about 130 km. The ticket price is about 16 euro per adult.

Ferry

From Keramoti ferries run much more often and arrive in the main port of the island of Thassos - Limenas. The journey time is 40 minutes.

If you choose the more rare ferries from Kavala - take a ferry to 1.5 hours and arrive at the port of Prinos, this is the second port of Thassos. If you are closer from Prinos to the hotel, you may need to choose a ferry from Kavala.

Port of Thassos

Once in the port of the island to get to the hotel, you will have to use a taxi service or rent a car immediately.

In the port, cars are not the cheapest, so you can rent only for a day, and then look for an option better. You can also find out the bus schedule and use it. But believe me, after such a long transfer you hardly want to wait for municipal transport with suitcases at the ready, especially in the siesta. And the bus is unlikely to stop at the doorstep of your hotel, he does it at the stops.

Hotel in Thassos

At the hotel, unpack the suitcases, take a shower and go to the tavern

Welcome to the island!

Here is a way to be on Thassos with a flight from Russia. If you drive by car to Greece from the east, from Turkey or Bulgaria - there are other options.