Kalithea Rhodes Island, Greece

Kalithea is a beautiful beach near the Rhodes town of the Rhodes Island in Greece. Rhodes Island is one of most sort after tourist resort in Europe known for its history, ancient artifacts, sunny and mild weather.

Rhodes Islands in Greece are one of the best known holiday destinations in Europe known for sunny weather, its history, priceless and well kept ancient sites and artifacts beautiful beaches. The Rhodes Islands (also called Rhodos) have an area of 1400 square kilometer with length of nearly 80 Kilometers and maximum width of 38 kilometers; they have a coastline of 220 kilometers. Rhodes island one of the biggest, greens of Dodecanese Greek Island in the Aegean Sea.

Kalithea is a municipality on the Rhodes Island with an area of 109.75 square kilometers and a population of over 10,000. It is near to the capital city of Rhodes and municipality of Kalithea is based in Kalvthies.

Kalithea is known for beaches and famous beach resort of Faliraki is a part of the municipality. The beach has plummeting mountains are in background.

Kalithea beach is a favorite with locals and tourist as it is away from Rhodes town and also due to facts that magnificent baths were build here by Italians. These magnificent hot medicinal springs are no longer operational as it is under renovation. It is wonderful place with beautiful pine and palm trees and building influenced by Arabic architecture. Kallithea's cove has sand and shingles beaches.

Kalithea beach offers sun beds, water sports, scuba diving. You see clear green water tiny inlets and coves with sculptured rocks. The beach has very idyllic scenery and it is very beautiful. You can pre-book scuba diving and there is a good selection of water sports. Also it has an advantage of being quite close to Rhodes town. Basking behind on beautiful sands of Kalithea gives you a head start for sightseeing or shopping at Rhodes Town or fabled night life of Faliraki beach. There are number of hotels available on and near the Kalithea where all kind of accommodation is available. It is a good place for holidays and is getting popular year on year as this a place to pamper and spoil yourself.

Kalithea is also getting popular as the natural bathing spa also Water Park is also very popular for daytime fun. The Kalithea also have a variety of bars and restaurants making it a resort that appeal entire family, couples, honeymooners and sightseers.

The beach evolved as a holiday resort mainly due to large luxury hotels that came up the road that links Faliraki and Kalithea Spa. The night time entertainment is visiting bars and restaurants. It also has one disco while some more adventures like to hit night spots at Faliraki or Rhodes Town. The restaurants offer Greek food and large range of international cuisine.

There is a Supermarket on the edge of the resort otherwise there are small shops in Kalithea. The beach is nearly of 15 Km of Rhodes Town. The Rhodes Island can be reached by sea or air. The nearest port and airports are in Rhodes town and transfer time is 1 to 1.5 hours. The climate is sunny and mild.

Rhodes Island is served by charter, domestic and international flights. Airlines that fly to Rhodes and offer competitive return airfares are:

Cyprus Airways (either via Athens or via Heraklion, Crete)

Olympic Air (from major European cities through Athens)

Aegean Airlines (from major European cities through Athens)

German Wings (from Germany)

Thomas Cook Airlines (from Belgium, Germany, UK)

Transavia Airlines (from Netherlands & Paris)

Martinair Airlines (from Netherlands)

Ryanair (from Milan (Bergamo) and Pisa)

Easy Jet (from London Gatwick & Milan, Italy)

Jet Air Fly (from Brussels or Liege or Ostend-Bruges)

Jet2.com (from Leeds Bradford, Manchester and Newcastle)

Corendon Airlines (from Netherlands)

Norvegian Airlines (from Norway, Sweden and Denmark)

Smart Wings (from Czech Republic)

Condor Airlines (from Germany)

Air Berlin (from Germany, Switzerland & Mulhouse, France)

TUI Fly (from Germany & Mulhouse, France)

Blu Express (from Rome, Italy)

During the summer season, charter flights also fly regularly to Rhodes.