Mykonos Windmills & Beach

[sherims]

In Mykonos, what's the best way to get to the windmills? Also, which beach is nice/easy to get to from the windmills?

Thanks! 

[Hlitner]

4 hours ago, sherims said:

In Mykonos, what's the best way to get to the windmills? Also, which beach is nice/easy to get to from the windmills?

Thanks! 

Once you are in town the best way to the windmills is to walk.  As to beaches, there are multiple beaches accessible by buses from the Farbrika station (more like a tiny bus parking area) not far from the windmills.  If you are looking for popular beaches, with facilities, you might consider Paradise or Platas Gialos.  There are times when we just walk over the bus station and make our beach selection based on where the next bus is headed.  

 

Hank

[Milhouse]

IMO, the touristy part of Mykonos town is small enought that you can't really get lost but there are the occasional dead ends.  One of the issues in the early part of the day is dodging the small trucks making deliveries. 

FWIW, what we do is walk in the general direction of the windmills.  Knowing where the water is kind of helps keep our bearings.  And the Fabrika bus station 

kind of marks the far boundary where we need to turn towards the water to head to the windmills.

 

Fabrika bus station was a gong show when we went two weeks ago.  People queuing for tix.  People queuing for the buses.  People cutting in line. 😠 Buses trying to park/back it in.  Cars and scooters trying the weave through the queues.  

 

This trip we took a bus (1.80e pp) from Fabrika to Ornos Beach which was a quick ride (15min?) south of Mykonos town.  The ride back was slightly longer (20min?) as it stopped at some of the other beaches along that stretch.  It has beach chairs, umbrellas, restaurants, and nice views.  Pretty much all the beach is seemingly spoken for so you pretty much need to rent a chair if you want to sit on the beach.  We were going to take a water taxi to Paradise Beach to beach hop a bit but they wanted 15e per person one way or 20e for a day pass so we just stayed at Ornos.  

 

Some locals were frolicking on the sandy area on the eastern part of harbour (Paralia Chora Mikonou?) but there are no facilities.  

[NCteacherlovescruising]

On 6/26/2023 at 4:45 PM, Milhouse said:
We were going to take a water taxi to Paradise Beach to beach hop a bit but they wanted 15e per person one way or 20e for a day pass so we just stayed at Ornos.  

 

That’s cheaper than our NCL beach transfer. Are water taxis readily available to get us back to the ship?

[Milhouse]

39 minutes ago, NCteacherlovescruising said:

That’s cheaper than our NCL beach transfer. Are water taxis readily available to get us back to the ship?

Sorry, I can't say definitively as I had only  researched going between beaches.  However, while we went watching too closely, they did seem to appear multiple times within an hour.

 

Other points to note however:

Some ships tender to the old port just north of Mykonos Town/Chora by the northern bus station.  

Some ships dock at the new port further north.  There is a water shuttle for 2e that takes you btw Mykonos Town to the new port.  See:  https://www.mykonos-seabus.gr/

FWIW, on their map in town, it seems to show a water taxi route to Paradise Beach.