Igoumenitsa ferry reservation

Time of the year and day of the week maybe make a difference, and if it is a holiday, but generally there is plenty of room on ferries.

You do need to be there early for loading, for a 9 PM sailing, you can't pull up at 8:55. I would hope the website of the ferry company would provide info

Depending on traffic, the trip from ATH Airport to Igoumenitsa can take 5 to 6 hours. If you pickup the car at 2:30 PM you should be fine, even with a short stop at the canal.

In mid-May, the last ferry to Corfu is at 10:30 PM with Kerkyka Lines.

Check the schedule: (change the week if necessary)

http://www.openseas.gr/IGO/CFU/2025-05-21/2025-05-21/itineraries

If you are taking your car on the ferry, I recommend being at the dock at least 30 minutes before the ferry departure, you will see other vehicles lining up.

All passengers other than the driver must exit the car.

Booking tickets in advance for passengers only is not essential, but be aware that car spaces are more limited. 115 vehicles with Kerkyka Seaways (ferry Agia Erini), and 100 vehicles with Kerkyka Lines (ferry Alkinoos)

If you book a ticket for the car and do not know the car's license plate, enter something like RENT123 in the license plate field.

Kerkyka Lines timetables:

https://kerkyralines.com/en/route/corfu-igoumenitsa/

Kerkyka Seaways:

https://www.kerkyraseaways.gr/en

Thank you, Paul and JoLui. I had previously looked up both ferry sites, JoLui, and taken note of the times, but thank you for sending the links. Your suggestion of "RENT123" is very helpful.

What we're trying to figure out is if so late at night the ferries still tend to fill up with cars (in which case we would have to set our reserved time ahead of time). We'd prefer to have time-flexibility, but wonder if that would be prudent.

Does anyone have enough experience with this ferry route to advise? Right now, we're leaning toward the 21:30 ferry just so we have the flexibility to eat a meal on the way, but that gets us into Corfu quite late.

Thank you!

Since it's impossible to predict availability to have a place for the car on one of the last two ferries of the day, and having no experience with this ferry connection, I'll tell you what I would do (not what you should do).

I wouldn't book the ferry in advance.

I would stop overnight somewhere between Athens and Igoumenitsa (for example, Mesolongi) in order to be in Igoumenitsa in the morning.

Once in Igoumenitsa in the morning, I would buy my ferry tickets for the first available ferry.

Mesolongi:

https://www.greeka.com/sterea/mesolongi/

Thank you, JoLui, for your creative idea. My guess is that we'll want to actually wake up in Corfu on the 15th in order to maximize our brief time there, but I will discuss your idea with my husband. I actually booked the ferries in both directions between Igoumenitsa and Corfu today, having missed your posting until just now. These can be cancelled, however. Kerkyra Seaways was, to my great surprise, completely booked for any of the times we were interested in, so we reserved via Kerkyra Lines which had tons of openings for two people with a rental car.

Again, thank you so much for all of your help with this!

JoLui - (Addendum to what I just replied) - It'a actually the Kerkyra Seaways schedule from Corfu to Igoumenitsa that was completely booked, not the one headed in the reverse direction. But the times available to Corfu wouldn't give us enough"error" time for getting to the port in case we stopped for a meal on the way. That's why we chose to go via Kerkyra Lines.

Thank you all for your input. We decided to book the latest night passage to Corfu on our desired date and a mid morning one returning. That should work fine.

We'll just need to let our AirBnb host note how late we'll be arriving.