Hire cars are available locally from Heli Cars and Pop’s Cars or you can hire at Athens International Airport with Avis, Hertz and others.

If you don’t want to drive yourself you can always use Giannis taxi service to collect you from the airport, organise day trips in Argolis or take you on an evening excursion to the Ancient Theatre of Epidavros to see a performance.

• From Athens International Airport you head towards Attiki Odos which is a new toll road / motorway and costs you about €3.00 at the moment.
• Follow the signs for Elefsina / Korinthos (Corinth) along the E94, until they divide into Korinthos and Elefsina, in which case you keep on (left) towards Korinthos.

• This leads to the Ethniki Odos / National Road 8 (Athens-Corinth) where you will pay another toll of around €3.00 and stay on route towards Korinthos. You’ll start seeing signs for Epidavros and depending on if you want to stop at the Corinth Canal for a break or not, you take one of two exits as you approach Corinth interchange.
• The first exit, Exit A, towards Epidavros takes you to the Corinth Canal, from where you can then get onto the Corinth – Epidavros (Korinthou – Epidavrou on the map) road for Porto Heli.
• The second exit, Exit B, takes you under a bridge straight to the Corinth – Epidavros road where you then turn left, following signs for Epidavros and/or Spetses.
• If in any doubt, the ONLY way by road to Spetses is through Porto Heli so just follow the signs for Spetses. For some reason signs for Porto Heli itself are not particularly frequent. See the map below, showing the junction and the exits.

• If you don’t stop at the Canal, there is a Shell petrol station on your right a couple of hundred metres along with snacks and drinks and gifts, a garden area where kids can let off steam and a spotless WC (although no baby changing facility). I can personally recommend it because I’ve stopped there often myself.
• Keep heading towards Epidavros / Spetses through the pine forests of the Sofiko region with the ‘dangerous bents’ until the signs for Epidavros and Spetses split directions (somewhere after Nea Epidavros) and then follow the Spetses signs.
• You’ll exit on the right, come to a stop sign and turn left under the bridge. After the turn, stay on the right side of the road and keep going up the hill without turning off anywhere and keep going uphill (to your left) at the next junction.
• Traxeia, about 200m from the junction is renowned for very good bread, cheese and sausages – you’ll see signs outside all the shops. I usually stop at the first place on your left as you enter the village: tasty produce, good food if you stop for a meal, friendly service and clean WC.
• From Traxeia you keep bearing right, following the signs for Spetses, Porto Heli or Kranidi and a few hundred metres before Kranidi there is a Lidl supermarket on the right, keep right at the next junction using the Kranidi ring road rather than driving through Kranidi and in about 10 minutes time you’ll be in Porto Heli.