Rhodes International Airport to Lindos
Fifty kilometres south with no direct airport bus; taxis run a fixed fare of about €75, or ride into Rhodes Town and take the KTEL coach for around €5.50.
White cubic houses stacked below an acropolis on a headland, with St Paul's Bay curled beneath it — the island's most photographed place and, in August, its most crowded.
Every way to get there
Our verdict: for Lindos, a private transfer is the easiest door-to-door option (from €65). Travelling light on a budget? The bus is cheapest (from €8) 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 | €8 | €65 | Bus |
| Couple · 2 travellers | €16 | €65 | Bus |
| Family of 4 · 4 travellers | €32 | €65 | Bus |
Which option should you choose?
| If your priority is… | Our pick | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest price | Bus | From €8, 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
Taxi
An hour down the east coast. Cars cannot enter Lindos village itself, so you're set down at the car park above and walk in; donkeys and luggage porters cover the last stretch for those who want them.
Where to catch it: Priced as a fixed fare rather than metered because of the distance — commonly quoted around €75. Agree it before loading.
Best for small groups in a hurryBus / shuttle
Under nine euros all in against a €75 taxi, which is a real saving — but budget close to two hours with the change, and the coach also stops above the village rather than in it.
Where to catch it: Airport bus to the KTEL station in Rhodes Town (about €3), then the Lindos coach from the same terminal (about €5.50).
Best for solo & budget travellersPrivate transfer
Worth arranging the return leg at the same time: Lindos is an hour out and early-morning departures from Rhodes leave before the coaches start.
Where to catch it: Level with the fixed taxi fare, so the argument is a car waiting at a named time rather than money saved.
Best for families, groups & late arrivalsCar rental
The village is pedestrian-only and the car parks above it fill early in summer, so a car is for exploring rather than for Lindos itself — though it puts Prasonisi, Monolithos and the southern beaches within reach.
Where to catch it: An hour on the coast road, which is a good drive with sea views most of the way.
Best for travellers who want to exploreLindos & Rhodes in photos
Buying tickets in Rhodes
Rhodes has no rail and two separate bus companies, which is the thing to get straight on day one. KTEL runs the green intercity coaches covering the island — the airport line into Rhodes Town (about €3), the seasonal direct service to Faliraki, and the east-coast route to Lindos (roughly €5.50 onward from town). RODA runs the blue urban buses in and around Rhodes Town only. A KTEL ticket buys you nothing on a RODA bus and the two use different stands at the Averof terminal. Pay the driver or the kiosk in cash; there is no island travel card. The airport stop is outside the arrivals terminal to the right, and services thin out considerably in the evening.
Taxi scams & safety in Rhodes
Rhodes taxis work to a published tariff rather than negotiation, which removes most of the usual friction — reckon on €27–29 into Rhodes Town on the daytime rate and a fixed fare near €75 for Lindos. Two legitimate charges catch people out and are not scams: the night tariff, and the fixed pricing on long runs like Lindos and Pefkos. Use the rank outside arrivals rather than accepting an approach inside the hall. The genuine risk here is car hire: photograph the vehicle from every angle before leaving the lot, read what the excess actually is, and be wary of a very low headline rate attached to a large deposit. One practical point rather than a safety one — no vehicle enters Rhodes Old Town or Lindos village, so every journey to either ends on foot over cobbles.
Getting from RHO to Lindos
Lindos It sits is fifty kilometres away, and there is no bus that goes there. Not an infrequent one, not a seasonal one — the airport coach network simply does not reach the far east coast. Every public route runs through Rhodes Town, which means two tickets, one change and about two hours. The alternative is a fixed-fare taxi at roughly €75. That gap, nine euros against seventy-five, is the decision this page exists to help you make.
What the two-stage bus journey actually involves
Airport coach into the KTEL station on Averof, around €3 and half an hour. Then the Lindos coach from the same terminal, about €5.50 and a further hour or so down the coast, calling at Faliraki, Kolymbia and Archangelos along the way. Total: under nine euros, and realistically two hours once you have waited for the connection. The coaches run roughly hourly through the summer and much less often either side of it. If you are travelling light, arriving in the morning and not in a hurry, this is a perfectly civilised way to see the coast and save sixty-odd euros.
Seventy-five euros buys an hour of your day back
The rank outside arrivals quotes Lindos as a fixed fare rather than running the meter, commonly around €75. Agree it before the boot opens. An hour, door to — well, not quite door. Which brings us to the thing everyone discovers on arrival.
Nothing drives into Lindos village
The white village below the acropolis is a maze of lanes barely wide enough for a donkey, which is not a figure of speech — donkeys still work the route up to the castle. Vehicles stop at the car park above the village and you walk down. That applies equally to the €75 taxi, the €8.50 coach and a hire car. The walk is five to fifteen minutes depending on where you are staying, downhill on the way in and uphill on the way out, on stone that has been polished by several centuries of feet. Porters with trolleys wait at the car park in season and charge a few euros to take your cases down; in August that is money well spent.
Book the return before you need it
This is the practical advice that saves the most grief. Lindos is an hour from the airport and departures from Rhodes cluster early in the morning — well before the first coach of the day leaves the village. Arranging your outbound transfer when you book the inbound costs the same and removes the scramble on your last evening, when every other departing guest is trying to do the same thing. Transfer operators quote €65 to €90 for the car, roughly level with the fixed taxi rate, so the choice is about having a vehicle at a named time rather than saving money.
St Paul's Bay and why people stay rather than day-trip
Worth knowing what you are travelling for. Lindos has an acropolis on a limestone headland with a Doric temple, a Byzantine church with fifteenth-century frescoes below it, and St Paul's Bay — a near-enclosed cove reached by a path from the village. The day-trip coaches arrive from every resort on the island between ten and four, which is precisely why staying overnight is a different experience: the village empties in the evening and the acropolis lights up above it. That contrast is the argument for the hour of travel each way.
The car question has an awkward answer
Around €25 to €55 a day, and a car cannot enter the village, while the car parks above it fill by mid-morning in summer. So it does nothing for Lindos itself. What it does is open the southern half of the island — Prasonisi where two seas meet, Monolithos castle, the empty beaches below Gennadi — none of which the coach network serves properly. If you are basing yourself here for a week, hire for a few days rather than the whole stay, and accept that parking will be the daily irritation.
To summarise: light luggage and a daytime arrival, take the two coaches for under nine euros. Anything else — cases, children, a late flight — the €75 fixed fare is the honest answer, and either way you finish the journey on foot.
