Mykonos. From the aircraft steps to the villa, the harbour or the yacht, with the season planned around you.

Mykonos has a single runway of roughly 1,900 metres. That is enough for most light, midsize and super midsize aircraft, and it is not generous for a large cabin jet on a hot August afternoon with a full load. Performance calculations that are routine in May become a real conversation in August, and the answer sometimes involves a lighter fuel load and a stop, or a different aircraft. Ask your operator the question early rather than assuming the type you want can do it.

Every private flight also needs a slot and a separate parking authorisation number, and in peak weeks both are contested. Whether the aircraft can wait for you is the other question worth asking at the outset; in the busiest weeks the usual answer is that it drops passengers and repositions, often to Athens, then returns for the departure. That is normal for the Cyclades in August, but it belongs in the plan from the beginning. See private jet charter and super midsize jets.

Most of the places people actually want to be, the beach clubs along the south coast and the coves beyond them, sit at the end of narrow roads with very little parking. By tender or sea taxi they are minutes apart and the arrival is simple. If you are on a yacht, the day is usually built around the tender, with a car meeting you at a fixed point rather than following you around the island.

Larger vessels use the New Port at Tourlos, just north of the town, or anchor off it, with tenders running into the old harbour at the edge of Chora. Chora itself is a maze of pedestrian lanes, so every arrival there ends on foot whatever you came in. The practical question is which of the two harbours your car should wait at, and that changes with the wind: the meltemi blows hard through the summer and moves tender plans at short notice.

Mykonos is rarely a standalone trip. Athens is about forty five minutes away by air and is the usual connecting point for long haul and for aircraft that cannot stay on the island. Santorini is a short hop by light aircraft or helicopter, and two to three hours by fast ferry, which is worth knowing when the wind has closed one option and not the other.

For a longer stay, a yacht turns the whole group of islands into one itinerary and takes the airport out of the middle of it. We arrange the aircraft, the yacht and the cars at both ends. See yacht charter.