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daily and Oct–May Fri & Sat) or at 10am (Oct–May Mon–Thurs); buy tickets from

Agenzia Rizzo, Via Borgo Italia 22 ( 0923 911 120, siremar.it). Ustica Lines
operates hydrofoils to Trapani from June to Sept only; buy tickets from Agenzia
Minardi, Via Borgo Italia 15 ( 0923 911 502, usticalines.it).

GETTING AROUND

By bus Local buses make regular departures from Piazza Cavour to all the main
villages on the island, with reduced or no services on Sundays. Buy tickets in advance
from any tabacchi for €1, or on the bus for €1.20.

Destinations Bugeber (3 daily; 20min); Khamma (9 daily Mon–Sat; 25min); Rekale (9
daily Mon–Sat; 20min); Scauri (9 daily Mon–Sat; 20min); Siba (4 daily Mon–Sat;

30min); Tracino (9 daily Mon–Sat; 30min).

By taxi Consolo, Piazza Castello ( 0923 912 716 or 339 715 7586).

Bike rental Viva Pantelleria, Vicolo Leopardi 5 ( 0923 911 078 or 349 619
9210), charges €12 for up to 2hr, €15 for half a day. Escorted bike tours and kayak
rental are also available.

Car and scooter rental Autonoleggio Policardo is at Via Messina 31 ( 0923 912

844, policardo.it) and at the airport. Expect to pay up to €65 per day for a Fiat 600,
€60 per day for a scooter, less in low season.

GETTING TO AND AROUND PANTELLERIA

You can reach Pantelleria by ferry (year-round) or hydrofoil (summer only) from

Trapani. Flights from Trapani or Palermo take under an hour and are convenient if
more extravagant alternatives – however, taking the overnight ferry on the way out
effectively negates the longer journey time while saving a night’s accommodation
expense.

Siremar ferries do the journey in around six hours (June–Sept daily; Oct–May
daily except Sat), leaving Trapani at midnight, for a deck-class fare of €34 one-way

(slightly less in low season). The summer-only hydrofoil service is equally frequent
and a lot quicker (daily in summer; 2hr 30min). For €5.50 you can reserve a
reclining chair (poltrona), an expense worth considering since the regular seats are
difficult to sleep in and uncomfortably close to the TVs; or there are couchette-

cabins for around €15 (without WC) or €21 (with WC) per person. Tickets are on
sale in the Siremar office at the Stazione Marittima in Trapani ( 0923 24 968,
siremar.it), right up until departure.

Pantelleria is just a forty-minute flight from Trapani (3 flights daily) or a fifty-