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Rhodes International Airport Diagoras (RHO)

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Take the municipal DES RODA bus from the stop between the old and the new terminal buildings - €2.50 one way, paid on board, about 40 minutes to the west-side bus terminal on Averof Street in Rhodes Town.
It is the municipality's own network rather than KTEL, and it runs 39 times a day from the airport on the current sheet, so a 40-minute wait is the exception rather than the rule.
Tight budget? €2.50 on the bus against €27-29 in a taxi for the same 14 km and 20 minutes.
Staying on the east coast? KTEL's seasonal line 25 runs the airport to Faliraki direct for €3.50 with no change in town.

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Municipal bus (DES RODA) to Rhodes Town BEST FOR MOST
€2.50
The stop is on the west-coast road between the old and the new terminal buildings, a short walk from arrivals. On the sheet valid from 17 August 2026 there are 39 weekday departures from the airport between 06:50 and 00:45, and 45 from Rhodes Town between 05:15 and 00:00, so the service is genuinely frequent by island standards. Tickets are bought from the driver on board, in cash. The route ends at the west-side bus terminal on Averof Street, by the New Market in Rhodes Town.
KTEL line 25 airport to Faliraki (seasonal)
€3.50
KTEL Rodou runs a separate seasonal line 25 direct between the airport and Faliraki, which saves the change in Rhodes Town. The edition in force for 1-15 October 2026 priced it at €3.50 one way. It is seasonal and the edition ends, so check the current timetable before you rely on it - outside that window the trip is the municipal bus into town and a second bus or coach out again.
Taxi to Rhodes Town (1-4 passengers)
€27-€29
The Municipality of Rhodes publishes a fixed table of taxi prices from the airport: Rhodes Town is €27-29 for one to four passengers and €37 for five to eight. The journey takes about 20-25 minutes. Taxis are dark blue with white roofs and rank directly outside arrivals; ask for the meter, because in practice drivers often offer a flat price instead.
Taxi to the resorts on the municipal table
€18-€79
The same published table covers the resorts: Ialysos €18, Kremasti €15, Ixia €21, Faliraki-Epsilon €31, Kalithea hotels €32, Kolympia and the Seven Springs €45, Lindos-Memories €74 and Pefki €79 for one to four passengers. The five-to-eight-passenger column runs roughly a third higher. These are the airport's own fixed prices rather than a meter estimate.
Pre-booked private transfer
from about €30
Transfer platforms sell fixed-price, flight-tracked pickups from Rhodes Airport from around €30 for a standard car, meeting you inside arrivals with a name board. That is within a few euros of the regulated taxi price to town, so the reason to book is the guarantee rather than the saving - useful in July and August, when several charter flights land within the same hour and the taxi queue stretches.
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The €27-29 town fare is not the whole bill

The municipality's own taxi table carries an extra-charge list underneath it: €4.00 for a pickup from the airport, €0.40 per piece of luggage over 10 kg, €1.80 counter start, and a tariff that doubles between 00:00 and 05:00. A late arrival with two large cases is therefore not a €27 ride. Bridge and motorway tolls do not apply here, but the airport charge and the night multiplier do.

Do this: ask the driver to run the meter and expect the airport charge plus the night multiplier on top of the table price
The airport bus is the municipality's, not KTEL

Most guides, and most transfer sites, call the Rhodes airport bus a KTEL service. It is not: it is run by DES RODA, the municipal network, and KTEL's own published stop map contains no airport stop at all. The two operators share the terminal on Averof Street in town but run different sides of the island, so a KTEL ticket bought in advance will not get you off the airport kerb.

Do this: treat the airport bus as a separate operator and buy the ticket from its driver
The airport bus does not go to the east-coast resorts

It terminates in Rhodes Town. Lindos, Pefki, Kolympia, Kalithea and Faliraki are east-coast destinations served from the town terminal by KTEL - so the airport-to-resort trip is two legs on two different operators, and both have to still be running when you land. The one exception is KTEL's seasonal line 25 to Faliraki.

Do this: ride into town and change at the Averof Street terminal, or take KTEL line 25 if it is in season
There is no ride-hailing app on Rhodes

Uber and Bolt do not operate on the island, and the ride-hailing habit that works in Athens falls flat here. The only app-based option is a pre-booked fixed-price transfer, which has to be arranged before you fly - there is nothing to summon from the kerb at 1am.

Do this: pre-book a transfer for a late landing instead of planning to order a car
The last bus into town is 00:45

On the sheet valid from 17 August 2026 the final weekday departure from the airport to Rhodes Town is 00:45, and the first is 06:50 - there is no night service. A flight that lands after the last bus leaves you with the taxi rank or a pre-booked transfer, and both cost many times the €2.50 fare.

Do this: check the last departure against your landing time before you decide to rely on the bus

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