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Timetable leaflets and maps are also available from racks in the airport’s thoroughfares and the Arrivals Hall, which has an Information Desk (closed at night) near the exit. A pricey but useful Left Luggage store is at the southwest end of the Arrivals-level pavement. A Sofitel Hotel, cheaper if booked on the Internet, is directly opposite. This is a busy workaday airport with only one outside terrace – at Departures level – but seating there attracts smokers. If you have a long wait between flights one solution is to visit Rafina, a nearby coastal resort.

By ferryboat (from Piraeus)

A passenger-and-vehicle ferryboat vessel is, usefully for visitors, understood as ‘ferryboat’ by the Greeks, although they will call it a ka-rar-vee.

Greece has many islands, and many competing shipping lines, so that ferryboat travel is very complex. There are fast, moderate and slow services, and at busy periods all three types may depart for the same destination almost at the same time. Boat travel is time consuming and tiring if the sea is rough. It is preferred by people who do not like flying and, for those who do not take a cabin on overnight trips, it is also much cheaper. That method may only work out if you can sleep well enough in the reclining seats of ‘deck-class’, or on deck, although some ferryboats have very little outside deck space.