revised 09/02/2012

SO I AM NOW IN A POSITION TO COMPLY WITH YOUR ORDERS. So please let them roll!

The Agents, shops etc., will not get their stock for a month or two yet, so you are best ordering them from me, by letter enclosing a cheque, as described in the "Where to Buy" page.

Having said the above, I am pleased to be able to say that, even so early as January, they are selling like hot cakes!

Before leaving this page, let me say a little about my website.

It was set up some years ago by a friend living down the road. Unfortunately he later moved away and was unable to up-date it for me.

I have struggled with at least 3 web-building programmes trying to keep it up-dated myself. Repeatedly I downloaded it, revised it and then attempted to up-load it: nothing happened!

Years rolled by - or so it seemed, then someone pointed-out that re-opening a website from the Bookmark facility was no use unless you had emptied the Memory first. In such ways are one's foolishnesses revealed!

So now I can, at last manage some simple up-dating, though I have yet to discover how to deal with photographs etc.

The website is one thing - the Booklet is another!

At the start I tried to make the former comprehensive by listing LINKS to Air-Lines, Villa Agencies, Ferry Companies etc. but keeping these real and up-to-date proved too much for me - and few co-operated by giving me Links in their websites - so I have decided to stop trying.

In the BOOKLET however, as now revised (2012) I have comprehensively listed all the Villa Agencies who I know enough about to recommend. New ones seem to be springing-up all over the place but unless I have personal experience of them, I let them pass. They may well be excellent, I just don't know. Mind you; were they to properly introduce themselves, I might change my mind?

Airlines are so easily found by web-searching, that it would only confuse things were I to try and list them. All I will say is that 1) There are no Scheduled Flights to Corfu (sometimes listed as Kerkira or even Kapodistria) as it is not rated as an International Airport, so all flights are Charter ones. 2) They are available from many UK Airports but Gatwick and Manchester are the most frequent and often cheaper. Beware though, that they only operate May to mid-October. 3) If you want to get there outside the season you will have to fly via Athens, Thessaloniki (which is now probably more accessible by road than Athens) or travel by ferry from Italy.

Flights were traditionally always on Mondays but in recent years there are a few on Fridays & Saturdays (and the Monday crush in Corfu Airport which can be horrendous, is thus avoided). Beware, if booking your own flight, that you get one timed to arrive in Corfu no later than mid-day, otherwise you will miss the ferry and there is not always one in the evening. (Some Agencies, particularly G.I.C., charter their own ferry to suit their client's flights.) Allow at least an hour at Corfu Airport on Mondays, waiting for your luggage.

Should your flight be delayed, or if the sea is too rough for the ferries to sail - and it is, sometimes - the Atlantis Hotel is right by the Ferry Terminal and is well used to accommodating stranded Paxos clients.

If you book a package from those Agencies which let their villas etc. thus; all is simpler and they will sort out both flights to Corfu and ferries thereon to Paxos; even taxis from Corfu Airport to the Ferry Quay.

Ferry times are very difficult to forecast accurately as they don't publish timetables until about mid April for the season ahead. Some of the Villa Agents I list will book ferries for you, even if you are not using their villas. Paxos Magic, Routsis and Planos, spring to mind.

There are 3 types of ferry, 2 of which leave from what is called The New Port in Corfu Town.

There are the Vehicle Ferries, large vessels, able to sail in almost all weather conditions, which, though primarily vehicle carriers, do take passengers too. They are relatively slow, take longer going via Igourmenitzia on the Greek mainland, but are spacious, comfortable and, to my mind, become part of the holiday.

Secondly, the high-speed hydrofoil ferries which normally have an early morning trip Corfu/Gaios/Corfu and another sailing about 14.00 Corfu/Gaios. Sometimes there may be an early evening one Corfu/Gaios about 19.00 but in the absence of the Timetables, cannot be relied upon.