Larnaca International Airport to Limassol
About 65 km west; the Limassol Airport Express coach costs €10 adult and €5 child, while taxis range from around €48 pre-booked to €86 metered.
Cyprus's second city and its commercial engine — a long seafront park, a medieval castle in the old town, the marina's restaurant quarter and a skyline of new towers that has changed the place in a decade.
Every way to get there
Our verdict: for Limassol, a private transfer is the easiest door-to-door option (from €48). Travelling light on a budget? The bus is cheapest (from €10) 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 | €10 | €48 | Bus |
| Couple · 2 travellers | €20 | €48 | Bus |
| Family of 4 · 4 travellers | €40 | €48 | Bus |
Which option should you choose?
| If your priority is… | Our pick | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest price | Bus | From €10, 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
Shuttle
Much the best value on this route and the reason few people take a taxi to Limassol. It calls at several points across the city, including the port area and the centre, so pick the stop nearest your hotel.
Where to catch it: A dedicated coach operated separately from Kapnos, loading outside arrivals; €10 for an adult and €5 for a child.
Best for budget travellersTaxi
Pre-booked fixed fares start around €48 while the meter can reach €86 on the same journey, especially after the 20:30 night tariff kicks in. This is the LCA route where asking the price first saves the most.
Where to catch it: Either metered or on a quoted fixed price — the spread here is unusually wide, so establish which before you set off.
Best for small groups in a hurryPrivate transfer
Fifty minutes on the A5 motorway. If there are three or four of you, it works out close to the Express coach per head and drops you at the door instead of a city stop.
Where to catch it: The business travel that fills Limassol books this way as a matter of course — a fixed figure on the expense claim rather than a meter reading.
Best for families, groups & late arrivalsCar rental
Limassol's seafront is walkable and parking in the centre is metered and busy, but a car opens up Kourion, the Troodos foothills and the wine villages inland.
Where to catch it: Straight motorway run west; left-hand driving applies from the moment you leave the car park.
Best for travellers who want to exploreLimassol & Larnaca in photos
Buying tickets in Larnaca
Cyprus has no railway. From Larnaca the cheap way into town is an ordinary city bus — Cyprus Public Transport (Zenon) routes 425 and 429, roughly €1.50 to €2.40 paid to the driver, running about every 30 minutes from 05:55 to 23:25. The stop is outside the Departures hall at the far left end of the terminal, not outside Arrivals, which catches most first-time arrivals out. For everywhere else there are coaches: Kapnos Airport Shuttle to Nicosia (€9), Ayia Napa (about €13) and Paphos, and the separately-run Limassol Airport Express (€10 adult, €5 child). Buy coach tickets online in advance or at the desk in arrivals; luggage travels in the hold.
Taxi scams & safety in Larnaca
Cyprus taxis run a day tariff and a night tariff that starts at 20:30, raising both the flag-fall and the per-kilometre rate. A great many charter flights land after that, so a higher fare late at night is usually legitimate rather than a scam — but it is also why you should establish the basis of the charge before setting off. For long resort runs drivers normally quote a fixed price instead of metering; agree the figure and the exact hotel before the boot opens. The Limassol route is where this matters most, with fixed quotes starting around €48 against meters that can reach €86 for the same journey. Use the rank outside arrivals rather than accepting an offer inside. If you hire a car, remember Cyprus drives on the left, hire cars carry red plates, and most agreements have specific terms about crossing the Green Line — read them before you attempt it.
Getting from LCA to Limassol
Limassol is the one Cyprus destination where asking the price first saves the most money. The same sixty-five-kilometre journey from Larnaca airport is quoted at anywhere from about €48 pre-booked to €86 on a meter, which is an unusually wide spread for a straight run down the A5 motorway. And underneath both of those sits a dedicated coach that does it for €10.
The Limassol Airport Express is €10 and separate from Kapnos
Worth being clear about, because people conflate the two. Kapnos runs the eastern and Nicosia services; the Limassol Airport Express is a different operator running the western route, loading outside arrivals, charging €10 for an adult and €5 for a child. It calls at several points across the city including the port area and the centre, so pick the stop nearest your hotel when you buy. About an hour end to end. On value it is not close to anything else on this route, and it's the reason relatively few people take a taxi to Limassol despite the city being full of business travellers.
Meter or fixed price — establish which before you set off
Larnaca taxis will do this run either way, and the difference is substantial. A pre-arranged fixed fare starts around €48. The same journey on the meter, especially after the 20:30 night tariff starts, can reach €86. Nothing about the drive changes; only the basis of the charge does. So the single most valuable sentence at the rank is asking whether it's metered or fixed and what the figure will be. Drivers are used to the question and it's entirely normal to ask it.
What the city has turned into
Limassol has changed more in a decade than anywhere else on the island. The marina district — restaurants, berths, apartments — was built on reclaimed land and did not exist in its current form fifteen years ago, and a line of towers has gone up along the seafront. Underneath that, the old town around the medieval castle where Richard the Lionheart is said to have married still works as an old town, and the seafront park runs for kilometres. It's a working commercial city with a beach attached rather than a resort, which is why the arrivals here skew towards business and long-stay rather than package.
Business travel books the car, and for a good reason
Booking ahead costs €48 to €70 and puts a fixed figure on the expense claim rather than a meter reading that depends on the hour. That's most of why this route is dominated by booked cars among the corporate traffic. For three or four people sharing, it also works out close to the Express coach per head while dropping at the office or hotel door rather than a city stop. For a solo traveller with time, the €10 coach is very hard to argue against.
The car makes sense if you're going inland
Reckon on €25 to €55 a day. Limassol's seafront is walkable and central parking is metered and busy, so a car is a liability for a city-only stay. But Kourion's clifftop theatre is twenty minutes west, the Troodos wine villages — Omodos, Lofou, Vasa — start climbing behind the city, and Aphrodite's Rock is on the coast road towards Paphos. That's a genuinely good day out and there's no practical bus doing it. Drive on the left; hire cars carry red plates.
If you're flying into the wrong airport
Limassol sits roughly midway between the island's two airports — about sixty-five kilometres from Larnaca and sixty from Paphos. If you have a choice of flights, the transfer cost and time are near enough identical either way, so pick on fare and schedule rather than assuming Larnaca is closer. And if you're flying into one and out of the other, a one-way hire car with an airport drop-off is often cheaper than two transfers.
In short: €10 on the Airport Express unless there's a reason not to. If you take a taxi, ask whether it's metered or fixed before you get in — that one question is worth up to €38 on this route.
