A private transfer from Chania Airport to Almyrida covers 33.3 km (20.7 mi) in about 46 minutes and costs a fixed fare from €62 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Chania Airport, or the departure run back from Almyrida at the same fixed fare.
Fares are per vehicle, not per person, and cover the whole car, so a family of four pays once. The price you see is the price confirmed on your voucher; it does not change with traffic, time of day, or a delayed flight.
| Vehicle | Typical models | Passengers | Bags | Fare | |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €62 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €101 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €169 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Almyrida back to Chania Airport costs the same as the arrival leg. Child and booster seats are added at booking, at no extra charge.
Your driver meets you inside the arrivals hall at Chania Airport, holding a sign with your name and the company name on it. Your transfer starts there rather than at a taxi rank, so there is no queue and no fare to agree on the spot.
Chania International Airport (CHQ) sits on the Akrotiri peninsula, on high ground east of the city. Chania International Airport handled 1,574,043 international arrivals in 2025, which makes it the island's second gateway after Heraklion and the natural entry point for western Crete.
The airport's position matters for what happens next. The road down from Akrotiri joins the national road just east of Chania, so Rethymno, Georgioupolis and the whole north coast run east without entering the city, while Platanias, Kissamos and the west coast run through or around it.
Chania Airport is a single-terminal airport, so the walk from baggage reclaim to the meeting point is short even when several flights land together.
Inside the arrivals hall, at the exit, where your driver waits with a name board.
Look for the board rather than heading for the taxi rank. If your flight arrives late at night, the driver is still there: the pickup is set against the flight, not the schedule.
Give us your flight number at booking. Your pickup is scheduled against that flight, and we track it, so a delayed landing moves the pickup rather than costing you the transfer.
Tell us as early as you can when a flight is cancelled or rerouted, so the driver can be reassigned.
Almyrida is a small resort on the Apokoronas coast east of Chania, set on a shallow sandy bay at the foot of the Drapanos peninsula. Almyrida sits 2.4 kilometres from its larger neighbour Kalyves and shares the same stretch of protected water, which stays calm and shallow a long way out.
The resort is compact. Tavernas and shops line the seafront, the beach runs directly in front of them, and the accommodation is mostly apartments and villas rather than large hotels.
The shallow bay and the afternoon breeze make Almyrida one of the places on this coast used for windsurfing, and the hill villages of Plaka, Kokkino Chorio and Gavalochori sit immediately above it.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, on the seafront or up in the lanes behind it.
Many Almyrida addresses are villas on the hillside rather than numbered streets. Give the property name and the owner's directions when you book, so the driver has more than a street to work from.
The drive leaves Akrotiri, joins the national road above Souda and turns off into Apokoronas for the last stretch to the coast. Almyrida is 33.3 kilometres away and takes about 46 minutes, a ratio explained by the final section, which is village road rather than highway.
The first part is quick. The car crosses the peninsula, passes above Souda Bay with the naval harbour below, and climbs past Aptera, the hilltop archaeological site that overlooks the whole inlet.
The turning for the coast comes soon after. From there the road drops through Apokoronas farmland to Kalyves, which sits 2.4 kilometres short of Almyrida on the same bay, and the last kilometres run along the shoreline between the two.
Almyrida itself is small and the seafront is the road. Villas above the village are reached by lanes that climb sharply from it, and those last few hundred metres are the slowest part of the whole journey.
No public service runs from the airport to Almyrida.
The public route is the airport bus into Chania, then the Apokoronas bus towards Kalyves, then a taxi or a walk for the final stretch. Three legs, and the last connection of the day leaves Chania early in the evening, which rules it out for most afternoon and evening arrivals.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Almyrida. There is no central drop-off point and no walk with your luggage at the end. These are properties in the resort we transfer guests to regularly; if yours is not listed, it is still covered, so enter the name when you book.
Villas, apartments and private addresses in Almyrida are served the same way. Add the address at booking and the fare stays as quoted.
The return leg is the same journey in reverse: 33.3 km (20.7 mi), about 46 min, and the same fixed fare from €62 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Almyrida at the agreed time and takes you straight to Chania Airport.
Almyrida back to Chania Airport is the same 33.3 kilometres in reverse, at the same fixed fare.
The village lanes are the slow part in the morning rather than the national road, so pickups from a hillside villa are set a few minutes earlier than a seafront address.
Book both directions together and the return is held at the same fare. Switch the form at the top of this page to Departure, or select a return when you book.
For a departure from Almyrida we work back from your flight: about 46 minutes of driving, plus the check-in and security time your airline asks for, plus a buffer for the climb out of the village.
Give us the flight number at booking and the exact pickup time is confirmed on your voucher.
The fare covers the whole vehicle rather than each seat, so 4 people pay the same as 1. The price on your voucher is the price you pay, with no booking fee and no card surcharge.
Your driver waits in the arrivals hall holding a sign with your name on it. You walk out of baggage reclaim straight to the car, without joining a taxi rank or agreeing a fare on the spot.
Child seats cost nothing extra. Reserve the seat in the booking form and state the child's age, so the correct seat is fitted before the driver sets off.
Cancel at least 24 hours before your pickup time and you pay nothing. Plans change; the booking does not lock you in.
The vehicle carries your party and nobody else. It runs from the pickup point to your exact address, with no intermediate stops and no waiting for other passengers.
Your pickup is set against your flight number, not a clock time. Transfers run at any hour, which covers night landings and pre-dawn departures.
Every booking is confirmed by a person and carries a voucher showing your route, vehicle, pickup time and fare.
These are the questions guests ask most often about the Chania Airport to Almyrida transfer, answered with this route's own distance, duration and fares.
Anything not covered here is answered when we confirm the booking.
A private transfer from Chania Airport to Almyrida costs a fixed €62 for an SUV carrying up to 4 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €101.
The last section is village and coast road rather than national road. Almyrida sits below the highway on the Drapanos peninsula, and the descent to it plus the lanes inside the village account for most of the difference.
No, they are priced separately. Kalyves is 28.1 kilometres from the airport and Almyrida 33.3, and the two sit 2.4 kilometres apart on the same bay.
Yes, with the property name and the owner's directions given at booking. Many Almyrida villas sit on unnamed hillside lanes, so a street alone is rarely enough.
Per vehicle. The fare covers the car and everyone in it, up to that vehicle's passenger and luggage limit. Two people and four people pay the same €62 for a Standard car to Almyrida.
Yes, at no extra charge. Reserve the seat in the booking form and state the child's age so the correct infant, child or booster seat is fitted before the driver sets off.
Give us your flight number when you book. We track the flight and move the pickup to match the actual landing time, so a delay does not cost you the transfer.
Inside the arrivals hall, at the exit, where the driver waits with a board showing your name. You do not need to find a taxi rank or a car park level.
Yes. Cancel at least 24 hours before your pickup time and there is no charge.
Pay by card online when you book, or in euros in cash to the driver. There is no card surcharge and no booking fee either way.
You receive a confirmation email with your route, vehicle, pickup time and fare on it. Check the details and tell us if anything is wrong. An automated receipt on its own is not the confirmation. The emailed voucher is.
Yes. Chania Airport to Almyrida and Almyrida to Chania Airport are the same journey at the same fixed €62, and both directions are booked from this page. Select a return when you book and the price is held for both legs.
Those routes are priced the same way as this one: a fixed fare per vehicle, confirmed before you travel. The same applies to every taxi in Crete we run, from the airports and ports to the resorts and villages along both coasts.