Kalamata Airport (airport code KLX) is situated in the city of Kalamata in Greece. It is mostly busy with charter flights in the summer season. The facility is precisely located between Messini and Kalamata. It was upgrade in 1991 after having operated since 1959, so that it could comfortably handle the increasing holiday traffic. Kalamata Airport is fairly small and mostly busy when tourists are coming for their vacations in the summer season. It has enough services to serve the needs of the travelers, although when you need sophisticated services such as accommodation, you will need to head to the city where you will find the comfortable hotels.

Airport Transfers

When you land at Kalamata Airport, you will need to take a bus or taxi, which will take you to the city where you can hire a car for use when on vacation here. You will definitely need a rental car when you need to move around, which you have to when doing your sightseeing, and that will mean that you have to visit a car hire company in the city of Kalamata. Buses carry passengers from Kalamata Airport to the city only and if your destination is on a different direction you will need to hire a taxi to take you where the buses do not access.

Online Booking is the Best

In order to save time after you land at Kalamata Airport, you should book your hired car online so that you can find it waiting for you at the airport. The car hire providers can offer a driver if you need one, at an added cost. Another feasible way to avail your hired car is to organize with your hotel to arrange for a car hire that you will use while in Kalamata. This becomes cheaper because it is discounted as a single package, together with accommodation and the expenses in the hotel.

Places to Visit and See

Kalamata is full of history ready to be discovered, starting with its name that was derived from an icon of Virgin Mary, (Kalo Mata) which used to work miracles, the capital city is constructed on Pharai’s site. You can see the icon that is kept in the oversized cathedral of the city.

Drive your rental car down to the old town that was that was almost swept by the Turks, during independence war. French engineers later reconstructed it back in 1830s.

There are more places to drive your hired car to and enjoy the beauty of Kalamata, before you fly out of Kalamata Airport when your vacation is over.