Gran Canaria Airport to Puerto Rico
About 50 km around the coast; Global's 91 express does it for €6.25 in around 50 minutes, taxis for €55–75.
A sun-trap resort built into a steep ravine on the south-west coast, with an artificial beach, a busy marina running dolphin trips and boats to Amadores, and apartment blocks terraced up both valley sides.
Every way to get there
Our verdict: for Puerto Rico, a private transfer is the easiest door-to-door option (from €55). Travelling light on a budget? The bus is cheapest (from €6.25) but slower, with a change in the city.
What it costs for your group
The bus is charged per person, while a taxi or private transfer is one price for the whole car — so the more of you there are, the better door-to-door value looks.
| Group | Bus (per person) | Private transfer | Best value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Solo · 1 traveller | €6.3 | €55 | Bus |
| Couple · 2 travellers | €13 | €55 | Bus |
| Family of 4 · 4 travellers | €25 | €55 | Bus |
Which option should you choose?
| If your priority is… | Our pick | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest price | Bus | From €6.25, though slower with a change in the city. |
| Speed & comfort | Private transfer | Door-to-door, fixed price, a driver waiting for you. |
| A group of 3–4 | Transfer or taxi | One flat fare splits cheaper than several bus tickets. |
| A late-night arrival | Transfer or taxi | Both run 24/7 when buses and the tram have stopped. |
By transport mode
Bus / shuttle
€6.25 and worth booking online for the discount on a fare this size. Puerto Rico's stop is up on the main road above the resort, and the resort is built on a slope — check whether your block is a walk down or a walk up.
Where to catch it: Line 91 is the fast west-coast service — Las Palmas, the airport, then down past Maspalomas to Puerto Rico and Mogán. Board at the arrivals stops.
Best for solo & budget travellersTaxi
€55–75 by day. This is the LPA route where the taxi–transfer gap narrows most, so it's worth pricing both before you fly rather than defaulting to the rank.
Where to catch it: A long metered run down the GC-1 and then the coastal motorway west.
Best for small groups in a hurryPrivate transfer
Priced level with the meter on this run, so the argument is the hill, not the money. Ask for the complex name and block letter when you book.
Where to catch it: The valley's apartment complexes climb in tiers with narrow access roads; a driver who takes you to the right terrace saves a genuinely steep walk.
Best for families, groups & late arrivalsCar rental
Parking in Puerto Rico is difficult and mostly paid, and the resort works fine on foot plus the water taxi to Amadores. Hire a car for the mountain days, not for the base.
Where to catch it: Motorway most of the way, then a drop into the ravine on tight switchbacks.
Best for travellers who want to explorePuerto Rico & Las Palmas in photos
Buying tickets in Las Palmas
There is no train on Gran Canaria. Two bus operators matter: Global runs the green intercity guaguas including every airport line, and Guaguas Municipales runs the yellow city buses inside Las Palmas only. Airport routes are line 60 to Las Palmas (€2.80 to San Telmo, €3.45 to Santa Catalina), line 66 south to San Agustín, Playa del Inglés (€3.90) and Faro de Maspalomas (€4.05), and the 91 express west to Puerto Rico (€6.25) and Puerto de Mogán (€6.90). Buying through the Global app or website is normally about 20% cheaper than paying the driver, and takes a moment while you wait for bags. You can also pay cash on board for any journey.
Taxi scams & safety in Las Palmas
Gran Canaria's airport is straightforward and taxi fraud is uncommon: cars are metered, the rank sits directly outside arrivals, and rates are regulated. Join the official queue rather than going with anyone who approaches you in the hall. Expect roughly 20% more at night and at weekends — that is the published surcharge, not a driver inventing a number. Because the airport sits between the capital and the resorts, the most common genuine mistake is not a scam at all but taking the wrong bus terminus: line 60 ends at two different points in Las Palmas, four kilometres apart, so check which one serves your hotel before boarding. For car hire, inspect and photograph the vehicle before leaving and confirm what the excess actually is.
Getting from LPA to Puerto Rico
Puerto Rico is built into a ravine. That single fact governs everything about arriving here — where the bus stops, why the taxi costs what it does, and why the difference between two apartment complexes with almost identical addresses can be a hundred metres of vertical climb. Fifty kilometres from the airport, around forty-five minutes on the motorway west, and then a drop into a valley with buildings terraced up both sides of it.
The 91 is the express, and it's the cheap way west
Global's line 91 runs Las Palmas–airport–south coast–Puerto Rico–Puerto de Mogán as a limited-stop service, and it'll take you the fifty kilometres for €6.25 in about fifty minutes. That's the dearest airport bus fare on Gran Canaria and roughly a tenth of the taxi, so the online discount is worth having on a ticket this size. Departures run through the day and thin out in the evening. As the fastest public option to the west coast it does a lot of work, and the coach is a proper one with luggage space rather than a city bus.
Up or down: the question nobody asks before booking
The 91 sets you down on the main road above the resort, because that's where the road is. Puerto Rico's accommodation runs from the beach at the bottom of the ravine to blocks near the top of both slopes, and the vertical difference is substantial — this is a place with public lifts and inclined walkways because walking it is genuinely hard work. Before you decide the €6.25 bus is obviously right, find your complex on a satellite view and see whether the bus stop is above it or below it. Above and downhill: fine. Below and uphill with two cases in August: not fine.
The meter and the transfer come out level, so choose on the hill
A metered taxi is €55 to €75; a booked transfer is €55 to €75. On most routes one clearly beats the other, but on this one they overlap almost exactly, which changes what the decision is about. It stops being a price comparison and becomes a question of whether the driver knows the resort. Puerto Rico's complexes climb in tiers reached by narrow access roads that loop back on themselves, and a driver with the booking in front of him takes you to the right terrace. One taking a fare from the rank may well drop you at the nearest point the car can reach, which is not always the same place.
The marina is the reason people come, and it's at the bottom
Worth knowing for orientation. The harbour sits at the mouth of the ravine with the artificial beach beside it, and it's where the dolphin trips, the fishing boats and the water taxi to Amadores beach leave from. Amadores itself — the pale-sand bay a headland to the west — is about fifteen minutes by boat or a walk around the cliff path. Almost everything visitors do in Puerto Rico happens at sea level, which means the walk back up in the evening is the recurring feature of a holiday here. Some complexes run their own shuttle bus for exactly this reason; it's worth asking whether yours does when you book.
Hire cars solve less than you'd hope
The desks quote €20 to €42 daily, but Puerto Rico is one of the harder places on the island to keep a car. Parking is difficult, mostly paid, and the ravine's roads are narrow with tight switchbacks. The resort works fine on foot plus the water taxi, and the coast road west to Mogán is well served by the 91 and the local buses. The genuine case for hiring is the mountains — the road up the Mogán valley into the interior is superb — but that's a two-day exercise rather than a reason to collect at the airport on arrival.
If you're comparing Puerto Rico with the dunes
Fifty kilometres versus thirty, €6.25 versus €4.05, forty-five minutes versus thirty. Puerto Rico is meaningfully further west than Maspalomas and the journey costs and takes correspondingly more, which is easy to miss when both are described as "the south". If your plans involve regular trips to Playa del Inglés or the airport, factor in that you're an hour from the terminal rather than half an hour, and that the last buses back run earlier than you'd like.
To summarise: €6.25 on the 91 if your block is below the main road, and a booked car — priced the same as the meter — if it's above it. The hill decides this one, not the money.
