A guide to Naxos, plan, explore, relax.
Where to eat when nobody is watching. Which beaches are worth the drive and which are not. How to get around an island with no ride-hailing apps and a rank that empties when the ferry lands.
Everything we know, in six places.
Not a blog. Six guides we keep current, revised every spring before the season opens.
Getting around Naxos
No Uber, no Bolt, and a rank that empties when the ferry lands. Buses, car hire, transfers and what each one actually costs.
Read the guide Eat and drinkWhere to eat in Naxos
Tavernas in Chora, in the villages and on the sand. Graviera, potatoes, kitron. The places we go on our own nights off.
Read the guide The islandThings to do in Naxos
Mount Zas, the abandoned kouroi at Flerio, boat days to the Small Cyclades, and where the light goes at seven.
Read the guide The coastNaxos beaches
The longest run of sand in the Cyclades. Which ones need a car, which ones need wind, which ones need nothing.
Read the guide AccommodationWhere to stay in Naxos
Chora, the beach strip, or up in the mountains. Choose wrong and the island gets a great deal smaller.
Read the guide Start hereDiscover Naxos
The whole island, region by region. How Naxos fits together and where to point yourself first, before you dive into the rest.
Read the guideWhere to sleep, how to arrive, what it costs.
Get picked up at the port
Fixed prices in writing, flight and ferry tracking, drivers who know every road on the island. Private tours by arrangement.
Naxos Private TransfersGet your base right
Villas, hotels and rooms across the island, and what each area is actually like to wake up in. Read this before you book anything.
Where to stay in NaxosPlan the trip
Ferries, flights, when to come, what it costs. The practical guide, without the padding.
Plan your trip