The Best Golf Resorts in Rhodes
Rhodes has exactly one 18 hole golf course, Donald Harradine's 1973 par 73 at Afandou, and no hotel owns it, which makes this the most honest resort ranking in our guide: it is really about which excellent Aegean base puts you closest to the first tee with the least friction. Five properties get the balance right, from a twelve minute commute to a doorstep view of the fairways.
Photograph: Afandou Bay, by Matjaz Podborsek, via Google
How we chose
This list was researched and written by the GolfForKings editorial desk, with the golf facts and hotel details checked against published sources in June 2026. The course comes first: Afandou Golf Course, designed by Donald Harradine and open since 1973, is a flat, walkable, old school par 73 on the plain behind Afandou Bay, about 20 kilometers south of Rhodes Town. Visitor reports through 2026 put a round at roughly 60 to 90 euros depending on season and inclusions, with nine hole rates around 45 euros, indicative; always confirm directly before booking. It is friendly, unhurried and tamarisk lined rather than manicured, and the right expectations make it a lovely day; the full access picture is in our guide to how to play golf in Rhodes.
Since no resort has golf inside the gate, we ranked the five bases that combine real quality with a short, painless run to the tee, leading with the Kallithea to Faliraki shoreline ten minutes north of the course. The island works April through October with sunshine to spare, and every property below is bookable by anyone. One planning truth up front: golfers come to Rhodes for a holiday with golf in it, not a golf trip, and the ranking honors that.
The best in Rhodes, ranked
Rodos Palladium Leisure and Wellness, Kallithea
The golfer's default. The Rodos Palladium sits on its own Blue Flag stretch of the Kallithea shore with the island's most useful golf math: eight kilometers, a twelve minute drive, to the Afandou first tee, close enough for a morning round to cost nothing from the beach day. The hotel earns the spot on merit too, a grown up, well run five star with a serious spa and wellness floor, multiple restaurants and gardens that absorb the summer crowds, pitched at couples and families who want polish without all inclusive wristbands. Rhodes Town's old city is twenty minutes the other way for the evenings. Our verdict: the best blend of quality, calm and tee time logistics on the island.
Access: hotel public, golf booked directly with Afandou; mornings beat the heat from June. Check stay and play rates.
Amada Colossos Resort, Kallithea
The all inclusive powerhouse. The Amada Colossos commands the Kallithea beachfront a short hop north of Faliraki with the scale to keep an entire multigenerational party busy: pools for every age, a water park practically next door, kids clubs, and an ultra all inclusive food and drink program that takes the arithmetic out of the week. The golfer slips out to Afandou in about ten minutes, plays for less than the family's lunch would cost elsewhere, and returns before anyone notices. It is bigger and louder than the Palladium next door, which is precisely its job. Our verdict: the family pick, where the golf disappears into the package painlessly.
Access: hotel public, golf booked directly with Afandou. Check stay and play rates.
Mitsis Selection Alila, Faliraki
The food first flagship. The Alila is the Mitsis group's selection tier showpiece on the Faliraki sand, and its calling card is the dining spread: eleven restaurants and grab and go spots plus six bars inside one ultra all inclusive rate, the strongest eating week in this ranking by a distance. The 313 rooms run modern and bright, the spa is genuinely good, and Afandou's first tee is roughly ten minutes down the coast road, with Faliraki's nightlife strip walkable when the younger half of the group demands it. Our verdict: the pick when the table matters as much as the tee, and the best Faliraki address for a mixed group.
Access: hotel public, golf booked directly with Afandou. Check stay and play rates.
Afandou Bay Resort Suites, Afandou
The doorstep entry. Afandou Bay Resort Suites is the one address on the island that actually looks over the golf course, planted between the fairways and the long pebble sweep of Afandou Bay, so the commute every other hotel on this list manages in minutes disappears entirely. The property is a relaxed, suite led four star plus rather than a luxury palace, and the rate reflects it, which makes the math sing: the savings against the Kallithea five stars fund a week of 60 to 90 euro green fees on their own. The village's tavernas, not a resort buffet, do the evenings. Our verdict: the golfer's value play, and the only true walk to the tee stay on Rhodes.
Access: hotel public, golf booked directly with Afandou; ask for course facing suites. Check stay and play rates.
Lindos Blu Luxury Hotel and Suites, Vlycha Bay
The grown up splurge. Lindos Blu terraces its 70 rooms, suites and private pool villas down the hillside above Vlycha Bay, four minutes from Lindos and its acropolis, and runs the most flawless adults only operation on the island, with an infinity pool over the Aegean that recent guests rightly call the highlight of the stay. The honesty clause: Afandou is the best part of half an hour north, the longest golf commute in this ranking, so the course becomes a twice a week event rather than a daily habit. For a couple marking something, that trade will not be debated for a second. Our verdict: the finest hotel on this list; let the golf orbit the hotel, not the reverse.
Access: hotel public, adults only; golf booked directly with Afandou, hire car advised. Check stay and play rates.
Course history, fees, distances and hotel details verified June 2026 by the GolfForKings editorial desk from course and hotel published sources and 2026 visitor reports. Rates shown carry their season and year and are indicative only; always confirm directly with each property before booking. Afandou tee times can also be compared via our tee time partner.
Plan a Rhodes golf trip
Tell us roughly when and who is traveling. One concierge pairs the right base with Afandou tee times, prices the week honestly, and adds a second island if the trip wants one. We reply within one working day, with no obligation.
Building the trip
A Rhodes week is a holiday first: pick one base from the list, give Afandou two or three early mornings before the heat builds, and spend the rest among the old town's medieval lanes, the Lindos acropolis and the beach. Shoulder months are the golfer's friend, with May and late September trading a few degrees for empty tee sheets. Hungrier golf appetites should treat Rhodes as one stop on a wider Greek swing; our Greece golf holidays page maps the mainland's modern courses at Costa Navarino against the islands, our ranking of the best golf courses in Greece shows where Afandou sits nationally, and the best golf on Rhodes covers the island's own short list. The continental context lives in the best golf resorts in Europe, and plan my trip turns the shortlist into one priced brief.
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Researched and written by the GolfForKings editorial desk. Afandou's Donald Harradine design, 1973 opening, par 73 and indicative 2026 fees of roughly 60 to 90 euros were verified June 2026 against course published information and 2026 visitor reports; the Rodos Palladium's 8 kilometer, 12 minute distance to the course is the hotel's own published figure; Amada Colossos, Mitsis Selection Alila, Afandou Bay Resort Suites and Lindos Blu locations, facilities and adults only status verified against hotel published pages and current listings. Last reviewed June 2026.