Rhodos på kvällen – transfer

We were dropped off in one place and told the pickup point was in a different place, we were not given any information or directions just told what the pickup place was called, things like that are fine if you are familiar with the surroundings but I was not it was my first ever visit to Rhodes and it left me feeling very vulnerable.

We were encouraged by our TUI rep to take the coach transfer to Rhodos instead of making our own plans to use a daily shuttle bus. The reason being it would take only 1 hour and be fully air conditioned. The bus was full and had no air conditioning, it was dirty and boiling hot and took 1 hour 30 minutes with lots of pick up stops. When we arrived in Rhodos there was no clear instructions given on where our pick up point was, a tour guide took the passengers doing her guided tour and left!

Coach journey was fine until we got to destination tour guide then got on the bus told us where we would be picked up and time which did not correspond with the email when we booked different location for pick up and different time very confusing for everyone who was on the trip we left Rhodes old town an hour before so we could start trying to find and get to pick up point in fear of missing the coach for return journey

Transfer itself was fine and Rhodes town is lovely. It was chaos trying to get back. The pick up location is different from drop off and this caused panic as it wasn’t explained well. On return, the guide told us the wrong bus number and it was carnage trying to find someone who could help given the hundreds of people and tens of buses leaving. Guides seem more interested in tour groups than transfer only customers. Transfer ran late both ways. A text with bus info/location would be better

The bus trip was very long due to all the pick ups on the way. The bus was easy to find at the end of the trip and left on time.

Picked up on time, transfer to Rhodes was as expected and the return trip was seamless