I have been for a one week holiday to Rhodes. This airport offers me the perfect deal between my wife going to the sun and watching planes for me. I stayed in Valsami appartment where planes are flying right above you. Valsami offers rest and a very nice swimming pool. I have been here for the second time now and can really promote there appartments, also for kids. The beach is no sand beach, but spotting from the beach is perfect.
Reading registrations from the appartments is perfect except for the german aircraft that don't have registration on the wing. I asked at booking already for a room with view on the aircraft, and they seem to understand this request. We had the most beautifull apartment, with the best view on the landing planes. I hired a bicycle for the whole week and was on the airport in 10 minutes. Rhodos offers a great variaty of planes and countries they are coming from. I will share some pictures the coming days.
I am a plane spotter and like to photograph the special planes, so I don't go for the best photo results. I am also a lazy spotter. I could get much more out of it, but I also enjoyed staying there with my wife and enjoying the island and especially the swimming pool that is really required there. One tip, tell the greek that you are from Holland saves you a lot of trouble. Don't make them think you are German, then they are really friendly.
1. The Olympic DHC8-100 can be seen many times per day. It's always the same. There was a plane switch after the weekend.
2. Transaero can be seen all days and during my stay I saw 767 / 777 / 747 as well. I have seen the Tu204 2 times.
3. Filerimos (Gross) offers a great view over Rhodes. Good for us spotters is that this offers a great view on the landings on diagoros. But it offers an even better view on Maritsa, military base (very very slow traffic). I will post the pics in a different military subject. The Ryanair is flying over our department at the moment of the picture.
4. Rhodos is a 757 heaven. I photographed my favorite aircraft how a 757 should be photographed.
I can upload much more pictures if there is interest.