Private airport transfer · from £100
Larnaca AirportFamagusta (Gazimağusa)
- Distance
- 58–62 km
- Typical drive
- 60–80 min
- Crossing
- Deryneia · Akyar / Strovilia · Beyarmudu / Pergamos
- Prices from
- £100
The final price depends on your destination, the number of guests and the hour. We confirm it on WhatsApp before you book — no hidden fees.
What's waiting for you
Famagusta is the island's great historical set piece: an intact ring of Venetian walls around a compact old town, with the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque — built as a Gothic cathedral — at its centre. Othello Castle guards the port. Just north, the ancient city of Salamis runs down to the water.
It is also a living university city, thanks to Eastern Mediterranean University, so it has more cafés and less hush than the ruins suggest. And on its southern edge stands Varosha, the quarter emptied in 1974 and now partly reopened to visitors.
This route avoids Nicosia entirely. Your chauffeur crosses on the eastern side of the island — at Deryneia, Akyar or Beyarmudu, whichever is moving fastest that day.
A different border, and a different road
This is the one route where people are most often surprised, because it does not go through Nicosia. Famagusta sits on the east coast, so the drive runs east from the airport and crosses at Deryneia, or at Beyarmudu (Pergamos) a little inland — never Metehan.
That makes the journey shorter than the map-reading suggests: roughly 58–62 km, with no capital city to skirt around. It also means the crossing you use is a quieter one than the main Nicosia gate.
What you are arriving into
Famagusta is the island's great historical set piece — an intact ring of Venetian walls around a compact old town, the Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque that was built as a Gothic cathedral, and the ruins of Salamis a short drive up the coast.
The hotels are mostly not in the old town. Yeni Boğaziçi and the Salamis road hold the beach resorts, while the city hotels sit closer to the walls and the university. It is a ten-to-fifteen minute spread, so the hotel name is what fixes the final leg.
Where we drop you
We drive to any address — a villa, a marina, a friend's door. These are simply the places our guests ask for most.
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Salamis Bay Conti Resort Hotel & Casino
Beach resortYeni Boğaziçi
Beachfront resort and casino north of Famagusta, next door to the ancient city of Salamis.
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Arkın Palm Beach Hotel
Beach resortFamagusta (Gazimağusa)
Five-star seafront hotel at the edge of the walled city, looking out over the beach at Deve Limanı.
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Grand Sapphire City Hotel
City hotelFamagusta (Gazimağusa)
City hotel in central Famagusta with a spa and indoor pool, five minutes from the Salamis road.
Hotel names are listed for orientation only. We are not an agent for any of them, and we take no commission on your stay.
Worth your afternoon
The walled city
Famagusta's Venetian ramparts, largely intact, enclosing a compact old town you can walk in an afternoon.
Lala Mustafa Pasha Mosque
Built as the Cathedral of St Nicholas in the 14th century — a Gothic façade with a minaret, and the finest building in the city.
Othello Castle
The Venetian citadel by the port, named for the play Shakespeare set in "a seaport in Cyprus".
Salamis
The ancient city on the coast north of Famagusta — a gymnasium, a theatre and a Roman bath complex, right beside the sea.
Varosha (Maraş)
The quarter left empty since 1974, partly reopened to visitors. A sober, strange, unforgettable walk.
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