Ionian Charter Itinerary

Ionian Itinerary

Ionian Yacht Charter
The Ionian is the green side of Greece. It rains here, which the Aegean rarely does, and the result is olive groves, cypress and pine running down to the water instead of bare rock.





It is also more sheltered. The meltemi does not reach this far west, and the islands sit close enough to string together without long passages. The character shifts from Venetian in the north to something wilder around Kefalonia and Zakynthos, where the cliffs take over.





Every route we shape is a starting point, not a fixed schedule. Stay a second day where the light is right, move with the weather, or follow a captain who knows the cove worth the detour. That freedom is the point of chartering. What follows is one considered way to read the Ionian; the rest we tailor to you.
Day 1

Corfu

Corfu was held by Venice for four hundred years and never fell to the Ottomans, which is why the old town looks the way it does ’ arcaded streets, two fortresses, and a cricket ground left by the British. Walk it in the morning. Visit the Achilleion if you like an empress with a taste for Homer. Sail at sunset.
corfu yacht for charter
Day 2

Antipaxos

Antipaxos has perhaps twenty permanent residents and two beaches that would not be out of place in the Caribbean ’ Voutoumi and Vrika, white pebble shelving into water so clear the yacht appears to float above its own shadow. Swim, run the toys, take a long lunch at anchor. There is nothing else here, deliberately.
greece yacht for charter
Day 3

Zakynthos

South to Zakynthos, and the Ionian shows its dramatic register. Navagio ’ a rusting freighter run aground on white sand beneath four hundred feet of cliff, reachable only from the sea. The Blue Caves on the northern cape turn the water an electric blue at midday. Sunset from the Keri cliffs, if the schedule allows.
zakhyntos yacht for charter
Day 4

Kefalonia

Kefalonia is the largest of the islands and the most rugged, with Mount Ainos rising to seventeen hundred metres and fir forest found nowhere else. Myrtos is the beach on every poster ’ a white crescent between two headlands, the water an almost artificial blue. Melissani is an underground lake in a collapsed cave, lit from above.
greece yacht for charter
Day 5

Paxos

Paxos is small, low and covered in olive trees said to have been planted by the Venetians, who paid islanders per tree. The west coast is a wall of white limestone pierced by caves; the east is a series of harbours. Gaios sits behind a wooded islet that hides it from the sea. Dinner ashore, unhurried.
greece yacht for charter
Day 6

Lefkada

Lefkada is joined to the mainland by a causeway and separated from it by everything else. The west coast holds Porto Katsiki and Egremni, beaches beneath white cliffs, reached by tender. At Cape Lefkatas, Sappho is supposed to have thrown herself into the sea. Windsurfers gather at Vasiliki for the afternoon breeze.
greece yacht for charter
Day 7

Corfu

Sail north again for a final anchorage on the Corfu coast ’ one of the quiet bays on the north-east shore, where the Durrells lived and wrote and swam. A last lunch, a last swim, and back into town. The Ionian asks less of you than the Aegean, and gives back just as much.
corfu yacht for charter

Ionian Yacht Charter Enquire

Enquire about chartering in Ionian to receive current yacht availability, seasonal guidance and expert insight into the cruising areas, anchorages and experiences that best fit your preferred style of charter, creating a clearer route to the right itinerary.