Tilos Travel Schedules 2026

Tilos Travel is an agency rather than a shipowner. It sells and arranges crossings between Turkey and the Greek islands, and says it has been doing so for 25 years. That distinction matters when something goes wrong: the boat belongs to someone else.

Two crossings that have nothing in common

Fethiye to Rhodes and back take 85 minutes, twice a day each way. Bodrum to Leros is 60 minutes, once a day at 08:30, returning at 17:00. One links a Turkish resort to the Dodecanese capital; the other reaches a much smaller island most visitors have never heard of. They share an agency and nothing else.

These are international crossings

Every sailing here leaves one country and enters another. You need a passport, you clear immigration at both ends, and check-in closes earlier than on a domestic ferry — often an hour or more before departure. The 85 minutes on the timetable is the sea time, not the elapsed time from arriving at the port to walking out of the other one.

Leros gives you one day and one chance

Out at 08:30, back at 17:00: the Bodrum–Leros pairing is a single fixed window with no second option. If that return is cancelled — and on a one-boat international route it can be — you are staying overnight in another country. Build that possibility into a same-day plan rather than assuming it away.

Why an agency exists on this route at all

Cross-border ferry tickets in this region involve passenger manifests submitted in advance, differing document rules by nationality, and operators whose own booking systems are frequently Greek- or Turkish-only. The agency layer exists because the paperwork is the hard part, not the boat — which is also why an agency can appear in a timetable as though it were the carrier.

Confirm the operator, not just the crossing

Because the vessel and the seller are different companies, the practical advice on this route is to find out which operator is actually sailing on your date before you rely on a departure time. Schedules on Turkey–Greece links change with season and demand more than on most routes in this data.