Home › Travel Guides › Europe Travel Guide › Cyprus › Travel to Cyprus
Image gallery

Bellapais Abbey, Cyprus

© 123rf.com / Vlasis Vlasidis

Travel to Cyprus

Flying to Cyprus

The national airline is Cyprus Airways (CY) (www.cyprusair.com). All flights to the north are via Turkey with Turkish Airlines (TK) (www.thy.com) or Cyprus Turkish Airlines (YK) (www.kthy.net). Tourists can also now fly into the south and travel across the border in Nicosia into the north.

Flight times:

From London to Pafos and Larnaca is 4 hours 30 minutes, to Ercan, in the north, via Turkey is five hours 30 minutes.

Departure tax:

None.

Getting to Cyprus by boat

Since 1974, the Cyprus government declared the ports of Famagusta (Ammochostos) and Kyrenia, and the airport of Ercan, all in the northern part of the island, as illegal ports of entry to Cyprus.

Ferry operators:

For detailed information on ferry boats and shipping lines, contact the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (see Contact Addresses). One-day cruises are organised from May to October, weather permitting. Several cruise lines call at Cyprus.

Recommended Sites:

Protect yourself from malaria
Before you travel, find out if your holiday destination is in a malaria zone.
(An educational initiative organised and funded by GlaxoSmithKline Travel Health. UK/MARK/0173/10 September 2010)
Travel insurance
For residents of over 150 countries. High levels of medical, evacuation, emergency & most adventure activities covered.