Car, Scooter & ATV Rental in Mykonos

Picking up in town suits you if you arrived some other way and only want a car for part of your stay. You can't drive into Chora: the centre is a maze of pedestrian lanes. The supplier brings the car to your hotel or sends you directions to their office, and confirms which after booking. If you're staying in the lanes, the handover is at the nearest street a car can reach, and you walk out to it with your luggage.

The Old Port, on the north side of town, is not a ferry pick-up: it's where the Delos boats and the sea bus to the New Port leave from.

Parking in Mykonos Town

• Old Port car park: the large public car park on the north side of town, by the Old Port bus station, is a 5-10 minute walk from the harbour front. In summer, expect to wait for a space in the evening.
• Fabrika: the car park by the bus station on the south side is closer to the centre, but it is smaller and unpaved, and often full by mid-morning in July and August.
• Prices: both car parks are free at the time of writing.
• Windmills: there are a handful of roadside spaces near the windmills, almost never free in season.

Parking at the beaches

• Most organised beaches have free car parks, many of them unpaved. In July and August they fill by late morning, so arrive early.
• Psarou has very little parking, and a space is hard to find in high season.
• Park once, take the boat: in season, caiques leave Platis Gialos for Paraga, Paradise, Super Paradise, Agrari and Elia, so you can leave the car at one beach and hop along the south coast.

On the road

• Narrow roads: the main roads are paved, but the roads down to the beaches are narrow and winding. Be ready to give way on single-lane stretches.
• Super Paradise: the road down to the beach is very steep. Take it slowly in a low gear, both ways.
• Summer traffic: on summer evenings the queues into Chora can stretch for several kilometres, and the drive back from the south-coast beaches can take far longer than the distance suggests. Head back from the beaches early or late.
• Quads and scooters: in summer they're everywhere, often ridden by visitors who are new to them. Give them room, especially on bends and on the steep beach roads.
• Riding one yourself: a helmet is compulsory for rider and passenger on scooters and quads alike. Riding without one costs €350 each, and the rider loses the licence for 30 days. The alcohol limit for scooter and motorbike riders is 0.2 g/l.
• Fuel: there are seven stations on the island. Six are within about 2 km of Chora, on the ring road and the roads to the airport and Ano Mera; the seventh is in Ano Mera. There are none on the north coast or at the east-coast beaches, so fill up before heading to Fokos, Agios Sostis or Lia.