Rhodes boat trip: all 15 boats on this site, from the east coast bays to Symi

It is a day on the east coast, and the east coast is the point. The boats on this site run along the sheltered side of the island, and the names that come up again and again in the operators’ own descriptions are Anthony Quinn Bay, Ladiko, the sea caves, Afandou and Kallithea. That is the stretch of water the island is known for underwater: shallow, rocky and clear. A Rhodes boat trip is, in practice, a sequence of swimming stops in those bays with sailing in between.

The fare buys hours, not sights. Three hours and six hours cost different money and deliver different days, and the sights barely change. $45 is two and a half hours and goes to the bays and the caves. $71 is six hours and goes along the same coast with a buffet lunch and unlimited drinks in the middle of it. Both are honest bookings. Reading the length before the fare is the single habit that stops people being disappointed.

Snorkeling is included on most of these, and guided on some. Nine of the fifteen listings print snorkeling in their own title. Two go further and put a marine biologist on board: $102 and $145, both of which snorkel at Stroggyli and watch for dolphins near Makri. One, $63, sells the guiding in the water as the whole product: a guided snorkeling adventure on a full-day boat trip, suitable for all ages. That is a real difference in what you get, not a difference in wording.

Three of the fifteen are priced for the boat. $740, $797 and $1,218 look expensive next to a $56 seat, and they are not comparable numbers: the fare covers the boat and the people on it rather than one person. $1,218 prints a maximum of twelve guests. For a family or two couples travelling together, those are worth dividing out before dismissing.

What it is not: a ferry, and not a promise about the water. Nothing on this page is transport. These are excursions that come back to where they started, and the operators sell the time at sea, not a crossing. And no page, including this one, can tell you what the sea will be doing on your date or how far you will see under it. The listings run roughly from May to October, and the conditions on the day are the operator’s call, which is what free cancellation is for.

Dolphins are wild animals. Two listings here watch for them near Makri and one puts their name in the title. Neither they nor we can promise you a sighting, and any page that does is selling you something nobody controls. What $102 does guarantee in writing is the biologist, the snorkeling stop and the underwater photos, and that is why it is our pick rather than the dolphin line.

If you want the best reason to be on the water: $102. Our top pick. Three hours, 4.8 from 993 reviews, and the only kind of listing in this niche that puts a marine biologist on board: you snorkel at Stroggyli, the boat watches for dolphins near Makri, and the underwater photos are included in what you pay. Three hours is short, and that is part of why it works — it is a Rhodes boat trip you can put in front of a beach day rather than instead of one.

If you want the day with the deepest record: $71. 2,483 reviews at 4.8, which is more than the next four listings put together. Six hours on a luxury catamaran along the east coast, swimming stops, a Mediterranean buffet lunch and unlimited drinks, and the listing is blunt about what it is for: escaping the crowded tourist boats. If you are booking one thing on this site and want the safest evidence behind it, it is this.

If the fare decides it: $56. Our fare from, 4.8 from 1,857 reviews, three hours over Anthony Quinn Bay, Ladiko and the caves, with a sofa, an open bar and unlimited drinks including frozen strawberry cocktails. It is the cheapest listing here that still does the whole job. $26 is cheaper and twice as long on a traditional wooden boat, but it holds 4.2 from 165 reviews rather than 4.8 from 1,857, so read the recent ones before you decide the money is the only difference.

If you have an afternoon rather than a day: $45. 4.9 from 508 reviews, the highest score on the site with a real body of opinion behind it, and two and a half hours along the east coast for swimming, snorkeling and hidden caves. This is the booking for a day that already has something else in it, and the fare is the second-lowest here.

If you want the guiding to be the product: $63. A full day, guided snorkeling, described as suitable for all ages, with swimming and time to relax at sea. It carries three reviews at 5.0, which is a signal rather than a record — what you are buying is the format: somebody whose job is the water rather than the wheel. That makes it the sensible pick for a Rhodes boat trip family booking where one adult would rather be shown than left to it.

If lunch is half the reason: $97 or $68. $97 is six hours on a traditional Greek caique with gourmet Greek food, an open bar and snorkeling in the bays, 4.7 from 625 reviews. $68 is six hours on the Cherry Catamaran to the east coast beaches with snacks, lunch and drinks, 4.7 from 378. Same length, different boat: one is wooden and Greek, the other is a catamaran deck.

If you want to earn the cave: $97. Four to five hours, 4.9 from 264 reviews, a guided stand-up paddle adventure on the east coast with swimming, snorkeling and a hidden sea cave, in a small group and described for all levels. It is the one listing here where you move the boat, and the rating says people are glad they did.

If you want the fishing rather than the sunbathing: $70. Five hours, 4.8 from 445 reviews, a fully equipped fishing vessel, locals teaching the work, swimming in the Mediterranean and fresh food on board. It is the only listing on the site where the day has a job in it.

If it is your group and your pace: $740, $797 or $1,218. $740 is four hours from Stegna beach to a quieter beach on a modern private boat. $1,218 is five hours over Ladiko Bay and Anthony Quinn Bay with a maximum of twelve guests and a BBQ on the return. $797 is six hours of sea kayaking to St. George Disalonas Bay on Symi with a picnic lunch. All three are young listings with no review record yet, so what you are buying is the format; check on the operator page whether the fare covers the boat before you compare it with a seat.

«Rhodes to Symi boat trip». The second-strongest thing people search here, and it needs an honest answer: Symi is a separate island north-west of Rhodes, and the usual way across is a scheduled excursion boat, not one of the swimming cruises on this page. What this site does sell on Symi is $797: six hours of sea kayaking to St. George Disalonas Bay with snorkeling and a picnic lunch on the beach. There is a whole page here on the Symi day, including what the kayaking version is and is not.

«Symi island boat trip from Rhodes» and «boat trip to Symi from Rhodes». The same question with the words moved around, and people usually mean the harbour, the monastery and a few hours ashore. That is a different product from a day of swimming stops, and the reason it matters is time: a crossing and a few hours on a second island leaves very little water in the day. If the water is what you came for, the east coast bays are a better use of the hours.

«Rhodes Symi boat trip» and «Rhodes boat tour to Symi». Worth knowing before you compare fares: a day that includes a second island is mostly sailing, and the swimming is the shorter half. Our two seven-hour listings, $145 and $63, spend that same length of day on the water rather than on a harbour front, and one of them lands on Alimia Island for a beachside BBQ. If a second island is the point, take the Symi page; if the sea is the point, take those.

«Symi boat trip from Rhodes», priced. A crossing-and-harbour day and a swimming day are not the same money for the same thing, so compare the hours in the water rather than the headline fare. On this site the seven-hour days start at $63 and the six-hour catamarans at $68.

«Rhodes boat trip to Lindos», «Lindos boat trip Rhodes» and «Rhodes boat tour to Lindos». Three ways of asking the same thing. Lindos is further down the same east coast, below the stretch these boats work, and none of the fifteen listings gathered here prints Lindos as a stop. What they do print is Anthony Quinn Bay, Ladiko, Afandou, Kallithea and the caves. Book these for the bays and the water; the village is a separate outing.

«Rhodes boat trip swimming». The plainest version of the search, and the plainest answer: swimming stops are the structure of the day on nearly every boat here. The operators print swimming or snorkeling in nine of the fifteen titles, the bays on the east coast are where they anchor to do it, and what differs between listings is how many stops fit into the hours you bought. On $45 that is an afternoon; on $71 it is six hours with lunch in the middle.

«Rhodes boat trip turquoise water» and «boat tour in Rhodes» with clear water. People checking whether the photographs are honest. The operators describe crystal-clear water in the bays on the east coast, and $797 uses the word turquoise about Symi. What nobody can tell you in advance is the visibility on your date: wind, swell and the number of boats in a bay all move it, and we do not pretend otherwise.

«Rhodes boat trip Anthony Quinn Bay». Four listings name the bay outright: $56 puts it first in its own title, $45 builds the afternoon around it, $26 includes it on a six-hour wooden boat run, and $1,218 swims there with up to twelve guests. It is the most photographed piece of water on the island and there is a page here about snorkeling it.

«Which month?» These listings run roughly from May to October, which is the answer to availability rather than to weather. We do not promise conditions on any date, on this page or any other; free cancellation is shown across the listings gathered here, and that is the honest way to book around a forecast.