I just got back from a trip in the middle east and on my way back i chose the route by boat from Haifa to Athens (Piraeus). We went together with the bike and i don't think that this was a very good idea. It was very expensive, 250euro for motorbike, 250euro for driver, and it took us three days to get to Athens. Salamis lines is the owner of the ship, a cargo RO-RO, quite old, built in 1977 apparently. The crew was mixed, greek, indian and ucrainean, but they were very nice with us, we had a good 3 person cabin, clean, food was ok. On the downside, it is very booooring, takes an incredible long time, ship goes about 27km/h, and we waited for 5 hours outside pireaus to get to the port, so i were to do it again, i would definetly ship the bike and go by plane. But considering this being the first time my motorbike went by ship, i chose to stay by her.
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