Tours & Attractions - Nantucket, Massachusetts



1. Cape Air

City: Nantucket, MA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (508) 771-6944, (800) 352-0714
Address: 660 Barnstable Rd.

Description: Cape Air offers hourly flights, with year-round shuttle service between Hyannis and Nantucket, and regular service from New Bedford, Boston, Providence, and Martha’s Vineyard. Seasonal service from Provincetown is available as well. In the peak season, the company offers more than seven flights daily from Boston. Flights from Hyannis leave every hour; these are approximately 15-minute flights. Flights from Boston leave at hour intervals. These are approximately 50-minute flights. Charter service is also available, as are connections to an increasing number of locations around New England.


2. Continental Express

City: Nantucket, MA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (800) 525-0280

Description: This carrier offers non-jet regular seasonal service from Newark, New Jersey; Boston; or Martha’s Vineyard to Nantucket.

3. Island Airlines

City: Nantucket, MA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (508) 228-7575, (800) 248-7779

Description: Island Airlines, a Nantucket-owned business, offers approximately 20 scheduled flights daily year-round between Hyannis and Nantucket.

4. Nantucket Airlines

City: Nantucket, MA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (508) 228-6234, (800) 635-8787

Description: Nantucket Airlines, affiliated with Cape Air, flies between Nantucket and Hyannis. Fights leave from Hyannis on the half hour and Nantucket on the hour every day.

5. Nantucket Memorial Airport

City: Nantucket, MA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 14 Airport Rd.

6. Ocean Wings Air Charter

City: Nantucket, MA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (800) 253-5039

Description: Ocean Wings offers 24-hour year-round service to any New England, U.S., or Canadian destination. This company has a private hangar and offers flight instruction. Ocean Wings also has winter service based in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean.

7. Us Airways Express

City: Nantucket, MA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (800) 428-4322

Description: This carrier provides daily flights in season to Boston, with connecting flights to La Guardia and also to Martha’s Vineyard.

8. Freedom Cruise Line

City: Nantucket, MA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (508) 432-8999
Address: 702 Main St.

Description: Sailing from Saquatucket Harbor in Harwich Port, Freedom Cruise Line offers daily passenger service to Nantucket, and you can bring along your bicycle and pet, too. The trip takes about an hour and twenty minutes. A round-trip fare is $68 for adults and $51 for children; one-way fare is $39 for adults and $29 for children; children under two pay only $6 round-trip ($3 one-way), and bicycles are $12 round-trip. Freedom is an 80-passenger ferry, so reservations are recommended for day trips. There are also restrictions on how many “overnighters” the line can leave on the island, so reservations are necessary. There is free parking for day-trippers.

9. Hy-Line Cruises

City: Nantucket, MA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (508) 778-2600, (800) 492-8082
Address: 22 Channel Point Rd.

Description: Hy-Line offers a year-round ferry between Hyannis and Nantucket. It takes less than two hours to journey by ferry from Hyannis to Nantucket. Round trip fare is $43 for adults and $22 for children. Hy-Line’s High Speed Ferry, the Grey Lady, makes the crossing from Hyannis to Nantucket in about an hour, and a round-trip ticket costs $75 for passengers 12 and older and $51 for children ages 5 to 12. It’s a good idea to call ahead for reservations, especially if you plan to travel during a holiday weekend or during July and Aug. Ferries leave from Dock One, Ocean Street, Hyannis.

10. The Steamship Authority

City: Nantucket, MA
Category: Tours & Attractions

11. Nantucket Regional Transit Authority

City: Nantucket, MA
Category: Tours & Attractions

12. Cook’S Cycle Shop Inc.

City: Nantucket, MA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (508) 228-0800
Address: 6 South Beach St.

13. Holiday Cycle

City: Nantucket, MA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (508) 228-3644
Address: 4 Chester St.

14. Nantucket Bike Shops

City: Nantucket, MA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Telephone: (508) 228-1999, (800) 770-3088

15. Young’S Bicycle Shop

City: Nantucket, MA
Category: Tours & Attractions
Address: 6 Broad St.
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