Alexandroupolis

Alexandroupolis (Greek: Αλεξανδρούπολη, Alexandroúpoli) is a city in Western Thrace, northeast of Greece. Understand Alexandroupolis is a small town with a harbour and an airport. Though the Lonely Planet describes it as "dusty", it has a rocky beach, and a typical Greek nightlife. Alexandroupolis is the last major Greek town before the Turkish border on the highway to Istanbul. Get in By plane There are four flight every day linking the city to Athens by Olympic Airlines [1], and Aegean Air [2]. By train There are several trains from Thessaloniki. Slow trains take 6h (9€), fast ICs take only 4 1/2h (16€). Train connections are relatively frequent to the rest of the country, though the rail link to Bulgaria via Dikea has been canceled until further notice. Trains are running only to Dikea, 15km short of the Bulgarian border. There are no buses from Dikea to the border city of Svilengrad, with taxi and hitchhiking being the only options to access Svilengrad and the extensive Bulgarian rail network for the time being. By bus National Network of Buses or KTEL operates a frequent schedule of buses to all the major cities of the country. Shutle buses depart twice daily to Athens (approximately 8–9 hours) and there are hourly connections to Thessaloniki. OSE, the national train operator, has set a daily bus shuttle to Istanbul that departs the main station early (around 7AM) every morning. Tickets are usually easy to find and can be booked in the ticket office. By car By boat Get around See Lighthouse.  edit Do Birdwatching. You can go birdwatching for sotos, a rare speciment of a bird that has resided for years in Balkans.  edit Buy Eat Drink Sleep There are no cheap youth hostels, but a couple of mid-range hotels by the seaside. Backpackers often just stay at the beach near the train station. There is also a camping located right on the beach. Contact Get out Ferries to the island of Samothrace just to south of city leave mostly twice a day—but irregularly. There is a fast one (taking an hour and costing €17.70 pp), and a slower one also for cars (taking 3h and costing €8.80 pp). Tickets have to be bought in a travel agency near the port. One of the reasons to visit Alexandroupolis is to take the train to the border station of Pythion and change to train to Istanbul there. Routes through Alexandroupolis Thessaloniki ← Komotini ←  W  E  → Greek-Turkish border → Keşan → Istanbul This article is an outline and needs more content. It has a template, but there is not enough information present. Please plunge forward and help it grow! This article contains content that was once found at Alexandropolis. View that page's revision history for the list of authors. This article contains content that was once found at Alexandroupoli. View that page's revision history for the list of authors.