Lindos Imperial Resort & Spa, Kiotari, Rhodes, Greece.

I’m just back from our family holiday staying at the Lindos Imperial, rated 4*Plus by Jet2. The hotel rates itself as 5*. The Lindos Imperial is the kind of place where it’s easy to switch off and relax. It offers the perfect blend of sunshine, swimming, great food, and enough activities to keep our daughter and my restless husband entertained. So much so, I managed to read two books in a week!

Being me, I decided to splash out on a room with a shared pool. This really made our holiday; swimming is a big deal for our family. Having a 20-meter lane right off our balcony meant every morning began with a swim. This pool was only shared by eight rooms, and we often had it all for ourselves. Our mornings were spent enjoying the peace, listening to the birds and reading on our balcony, with intermittent dips in the often completely private pool.

Our room (5008) was spacious and modern. A king-size bed, plus a full size single/sofa for our 9-year-old. The room included a pod coffee machine, with pods, teas, plus a bottle of wine and 6 large 2litre water bottles on arrival. Plenty of wardrobe space, a fridge, and safe. The bathroom was modern with a decent walk-in shower and the room itself was large.  The balcony was closer to a terrace with sun loungers and table and chairs, leading straight into the pool. The room was in a quiet spot, only a few minutes’ walk from reception, the main buffet restaurant and just up the lift was the water park pool and the nearest bar.

We opted for All inclusive and it seemed most guests at the hotel did the same. Staying for 7 nights our all inclusive included the dine-around option. Meaning that 3 evenings a week we could book into one of the 6 a la carte restaurants at no extra charge. All the restaurants focused on a different type of cuisine. We dined out at the fish restaurant, the Asian and the Greek. Our favourite being the Greek however all were enjoyable. The best part of the Greek restaurant was the enormous sharing platter they serve for starter. We could barely move walking out of there!

Top Tip-I recommend booking a la carte restaurants as soon as you arrive. They get busy. If you struggle with the hotel app. Customer relations by reception can book these on your behalf, open every day 12-2pm. Also, if the app states the restaurants are fully booked, this may not actually be the case. They release additional tables every few days.

As well as the a la carte restaurants there are the main buffet restaurant and multiple snack bars, including a creperie! There is absolutely no excuse to be hungry at the Lindos Imperial. We were impressed with the main buffet, every meal had ample choice, we loved the Greek corner with endless salads, olives, houmous, tapende. There were all the usual home comforts such as English breakfast, pancakes, chips. Huge amounts of fruit. And a great many varied hot dishes to suit everyone, including your typical child fussy eater. (Another tip-all the a la carte restaurants can also serve nuggets and chips for your little treasures if they don’t fancy what’s on the menu). The buffet always had a vegetarian corner as well as the impressive salad bars. However, I didn’t see a vegan area. The buffet restaurant is large, but we never had to queue for a table, and we always opted to sit outside on the balcony as it was a great deal quieter noise-wise and had a beautiful sea view. The restaurant and buffet were also incredibly clean, with excellent staff. Drinks for lunch and dinner were table service. The restaurant has a dress code, no wet swimsuits allowed!

If you prefer to stay by the pool at lunch, every pool area has a snack bar. The snack bar at the waterpark focuses on pizza and chips plus salads. The main pool area had a fried chicken snack bar. The beach snack bar served a mixture of fried chicken, burgers, hot dogs and salads. These snack bars are open for most of the day. Alongside, every snack bar is an actual bar, just show your all-inclusive wrist band and enjoy all day drinks! The bars were always well staffed, and you rarely had to wait longer than a minute or two to be served.

As the number of snack bars suggests, you may realise the hotel is large. As well as our own pool, there is the water-park pool, the main pool by the restaurants, the quiet pool and the beach pool. Plus, the actual beach. We never once struggled to find a sun lounger and really enjoyed the variety of choosing a different pool each day.

The beach was around a 10-minute leisurely downhill walk from our room. It’s a Blue Flag beach, complete with a hotel snack bar, bar, and water sports center. The water sports center is independently run, so all activities come at an additional cost. There was a good range on offer, including inflatable sofa rides, ring rides, banana boat trips, jet skiing, boat hire, local boat excursions, and parasailing. Some of the bigger activities, such as parasailing, needed to be booked in advance, but most of the quicker, fun options could be enjoyed on a whim. Prices felt reasonable too; for example, we paid €15 each for a ride on the inflatable sofa.

Top-Tip for the beach bring water shoes! It is really rocky, as in Laxey beach rocky. Something I hadn’t realised and ultimately meant we spent more time by the pool because I’m a soft sand kinda girl.

Beach towels were included in our all-inclusive package and could be collected from the spa after paying a small refundable deposit. Towels could be exchanged every other day at no extra charge, which I thought was a great touch. The spa also offers a full menu of massages and treatments for anyone wanting extra pampering, available at an additional cost. We also made use of the sauna and Jacuzzi, which were included in the all-inclusive package, although these did need to be booked in advance.

The Lindos Imperial offers a great number of activities on site, such as a staffed kids club, tennis courts, Padel, beach volley, a mini football pitch, fully equipped gym and a schedule of exercise classes every day. My favourite being aqua aerobics. I would say my daughters’ favourite was the water park. The water park included 7 slides; I managed to complete 5 of them with the help of some all-inclusive drinks. The slides certainly offer enough of a thrill to keep most children busy for a few hours. The water park is called the activity pool, it is where the exercise classes take place, the entertainment staff encourage participation with fun games by the bar and music is played all day. We loved it as an option to dip into and then retreated to the peace of one of the other more chilled pool areas. There will soon also be a toddler splash park at the activity pool, it was being put together during our stay.

Immediately outside the hotel reception there is a bus stop. We used this to go and see the nearby historic town of Lindos. It couldn’t have been easier to get on the local bus and only cost 3 euro each way. I strongly recommend getting up early and getting the first bus of the day at 8am. This gets you to Lindos before the crowds and the heat of the day. The Acroplis at Lindos (entrance fee) is one of the best examples in all of Greece. After viewing the Acropolis, we enjoyed walking the white stone wash streets of Lindos, shopping and Lunch on a roof top terrace. Before hopping on a bus back and being dropped off right outside the hotel.

Top Tip-Lindos town is down a very steep hill from its bus stop. There is a small shuttle bus that regularly runs up and down the hill to the main bus stop. Cars do not fit into the town itself and the walk uphill to the Acropolis is brutal but saying that I managed!

There are many guided tours and excursions available to book with your Jet2 rep. Either in person at the hotel or in the Jet2 app.

Back at the hotel it’s worth a mention to say the Wi-Fi is excellent. My husband had to work a few hours every day and managed internet calls, emails and all usual work-related stuff from our room. Each room has its own Wi-Fi network in addition to the free Wi-Fi around the resort.

In the evenings the hotel puts on a full entertainment programme, with a kids’ disco and then live music or shows afterwards. I have to say we preferred to spend our evenings in the hotel bar enjoying cocktails and playing family card games. We were often asleep by 9:30pm, missing the entertainment.

Top-Tip if you want proper coffee head to the hotel bar. Nothing better than a morning latte, even better when the husband delivers it to your pool!

On our last day, we had a very late flight, and standard check-out was 11am. For an additional charge, the hotel allowed us to keep our room until 6pm, which made a huge difference and meant we could enjoy the day properly before travelling home. If you’d rather not pay for late check-out, there is also the option of requesting a shower room free of charge so you can freshen up before you leave.

Final note, the weather was fabulous; we travelled the last few days of May into the beginning of June (TT school holidays). The temperature reached 27’c every day, barely saw a cloud in the sky and experienced long days of much needed brilliant sunshine. And never saw or heard a motorbike.

Next year’s TT school holidays are also for 2 weeks, lucky us. Here is an example of pricing for the Lindos Imperial Resort and Spa for TT 2027, Travelling with Jet2 Holidays.

Example pricing for Wednesday 2nd June 2027, flying from Manchester

• Superior Double Room, garden view – 2 adults and 1 free child place: £2,932 (plus £90 tourist tax payable at the hotel on arrival).
• Shared Pool Room – 2 adults and 1 free child place: £3,238
• (plus £90 tourist tax payable at the hotel on arrival).
• Family Room, garden view – 2 adults and 2 children (1 free child place): £4,266 (plus £90 tourist tax payable at the hotel on arrival).

Booking information

Prices are based on a live booking system and were accurate at the time of writing on 10 June 2026.

The prices include return flights from Manchester, 23kg hold luggage per passenger, coach transfers, and all-inclusive board at the Lindos Imperial Resort & Spa, Rhodes. A deposit of £60pp is payable at the time of booking.

If you like the look of the Lindos Imperial and would like a quote for dates that suit you, please feel free to get in touch with me at Escape The Rock Getaways. I’d be delighted to help.