Kos can be the beginning, the end or an intermediate station of your summer holiday. Having Kos as your starting point or your final destination you can travel and move to other islands of the Dodecanese and the Aegean.
Places with direct route to Kos with airplane are Rhodes, Heraclion, Kalymnos and Lemnos.
By ship, direct daily routes go to Kalymnos, Patmos, Rhodes and Nisyros.
With a smaller number of weekly routes (some days of the week) you can go to Karpathos, Lero, Syro, Santorini, Astypalea, Amorgo, Kastellorizo, Lipsi, Simi, Tylos and Halki.