There are ferries from Piraeus that leave daily usually in the afternoon. The islands on the same route as Kos are Patmos, Leros, Kalymnos and Rhodes. These islands can be reached daily from Kos. There are occasionally boats to Syros and to Samos and Thessaloniki. There are daily boats to Bodrun in Turkey leaving at 8:30 each morning and returning at 4 in the afternoon. You can get info at one of the local agencies in the port. In the summer you can take the hydrofoil to Rhodes, Samos, Ikaria and Fourni. There are excursion boats which go to various beaches on the island as well as to the islands of Kalymnos, Pserimos, Plati, Nisyros and Giali.
Kos is connected throughout the year with Athens by Olympic Airway flights. The flights takes 50'. There are also many other flights, both on other Greek airlines and on charter flights from all over the world, whose destination is the airport of Kos. There are three flights a day between Athens and Kos. You can take a taxi to the airport or the Olympic Airways bus leaves the Kos office two hours before the flight.
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By sea there are numerous daily connections from Piraeus (the main port of Greece) and from several islands in the Dodecanese like Kalymnos, Nisyros, Patmos, Leros and Rhodes. There are also the hydrofoils to Rhodes, Patmos, Leros, and Samos.
For additional information and for up-to-date timetables and schedules for ferry boats and hydrofoils, please contact the following:
CODE PREFIX: +30 22420