Car hire Kangaroo Island Airport

The main air gateway to South Australia's Kangaroo Island lies eight miles from Kingscote, the island's biggest town, with car rental in Kingscote Airport. The airport's several direct Regional Express Airlines flights to Adelaide last roughly 35 minutes and were boarded by slightly over 54,000 people between 2009 and 2010.

Kingscote Airport facilities

The airport terminal opens each early morning and closes after each day's final scheduled flight. Car hire in Kingscote Airport through Hertz or Avis is highly recommended on this island which has no taxi or other public transportation service other than ferries from the town of Penneshaw. Coffee and cool drink machines, public toilets, a water fountain and tourism brochures are some of this airport's other attractions.

Kingscote Airport excursions

Kingscote is not only Kangaroo Island's most populated community, it is the first settlement which Europeans established on the island. The vast majority of the island's over 140,000 annual visitors arrives by air or ferry from Penneshaw, Kangaroo Island's second-biggest settlement. Kangaroo Island is home to a colony of some of the world's smallest penguins, the world's oldest bee sanctuary and Flinders Chase National Park. The south coast's massive sand dunes are known as Little Sahara.

Best time to visit

Kangaroo Island enjoys a Mediterranean climate with winters which are wet and mild between June and September, while summers are dry and pleasantly warm. Most Kangaroo Island rain falls between May and September, and the cool ocean waters prevent summers from becoming unbearably hot. Kingscote is one of Kangaroo Island's least rainy areas.

Car rental in Kingscote Airport

Getting a vehicle on Kangaroo Island is preferable to obtaining one on the mainland, as some mainland car hire companies do not allow vehicles to be driven on the island. Visitors who compare car hire must book in advance to ensure they have transportation around this island, whose three largest settlements are within an hour's drive of each other. Fuel stations are fairly scarce, especially on the island's more isolated west side, and prices are costlier than those on the mainland.