Mykonos

Two kilometres does not sound far, but the road is busy and exposed and walking it with luggage is genuinely unpleasant. Three options:

• Sea Bus — a small passenger boat shuttling between the New Port and the Old Port for roughly €2, running frequently in season. It lands you in Chora itself, which no bus does.
• KTEL bus — runs between the port and the town. Note that the network was reorganised for the 2026 season, so check the current stop rather than an older guide.
• Taxi — available but Mykonos has few of them, and demand spikes when several ferries dock together.

Among the three most-visited Cyclades this is the middle case:

• Naxos — the quay is in Chora. You walk off into the town, no transfer at all.
• Mykonos — 2 km out, but with a €2 boat that drops you in the centre.
• Santorini — Athinios is 7.5 km below Fira and 20 km from Oia, with no direct bus to Oia and only 35–40 taxis on the island.

If arrival logistics matter to your plans, that ordering is worth knowing before you book.

Mykonos is well connected in several directions. From our timetable:

• Santorini — 4 sailings, about 2 h 10 m, Golden Star and SeaJets.
• Tinos — 3 sailings, just 30 minutes, the shortest hop from the island.
• Rafina — 3 sailings, roughly 4 h 20 m, with Fast Ferries.
• Naxos — about 90 minutes; Andros around 2 h 20 m; Samos a longer crossing east into the Aegean.

Mykonos is served from both of Athens's ferry ports and they are on opposite sides of the city. Rafina sits near the airport, about 20 km from it and roughly 30 km from central Athens; Piraeus is southwest of the centre with a metro connection.

If you are flying in or out, Rafina is usually the shorter transfer and the crossing itself is shorter too. If you are staying in Athens, Piraeus is the easy one. Booking the wrong port can cost an hour and a taxi fare at each end.

Mykonos is famously windy — the meltemi blows hard through July and August and the island's exposure is part of its character. High-speed craft suspend in conditions the conventional ferries handle, and Tourlos itself can be uncomfortable when the swell runs.

Practical consequence: if you have a flight home, do not book a fast catamaran on the final day. The conventional Blue Star sailings are the ones that keep moving.

The archaeological site on the neighbouring island is reached by dedicated excursion boats from the Old Port, not by the scheduled ferry network. Sailings are short, seasonal and weather-dependent, and Delos has no accommodation — you go and come back the same day.

That means the Old Port is still the one you want for Delos, even though your arriving ferry used Tourlos.

The full timetable belongs to June through September, when the fast craft add several daily options and the island runs at capacity. May and late September keep most of the connections with materially less pressure — and, on an island this exposed, slightly better odds that the fast boat sails.

Winter service falls back to the year-round conventional sailings on a much reduced schedule.