by Allan » 17 Mar 2011, 11:25
Hi Dr Phibes and welcome to the chat page.
Our more venerable members will no doubt be able to help you with tracking down Theo and Dimitris.
As for getting to Symi for the day, there will be several day-trip boats running but if you just want to spend as much time on Symi as possible and skip the obligatory trip to Panormitis the Dodekanisos Seaways pair of high speed catamarans are your best bet (the old Aegli has finally gone to hydrofoil heaven).
They have published a timetable for the summer season right up to mid September which is unheard of so early in the year. Being Greece, things could change of course but the timetable shows an early boat leaving Rhodes most days at 8.30 arriving at Symi by 9.25 and a return leaving Symi at 17.45, arriving Rhodes 18.30 It's a bit of an early start but you get a full day on Symi rather than the 3-4 hours you get on the much slower day-trip boats.
Check the times at the Dodekanisos Seaways website: