A private transfer from Chania Airport to Gavalochori covers 36.9 km (22.9 mi) in about 47 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 Gavalochori 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 | €102 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €169 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Gavalochori back to Chania Airport costs the same as the arrival leg. Child and booster seats are added at booking, at no extra charge.
The line is the road a driver actually takes from Chania Airport (CHQ) to Gavalochori: 36.9 km (22.9 mi), about 47 min door to door. Pickup and drop-off are marked at the coordinates the booking engine quotes against, not at the centre of the nearest town.
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.
Gavalochori is a village in Apokoronas, inland from the coast between Chania and Georgioupolis. Gavalochori keeps an unusually complete village fabric: Venetian and Ottoman houses, stone-paved lanes, and a folklore museum in a restored building near the square.
The village is known locally for silk lace and for the old wells cut into the rock nearby, which supplied it before mains water arrived.
Its setting is olive country rather than coast. The sea is a few kilometres north, and the village itself sits among terraces and stone walls.
We drop you at the door of your house, hotel or villa in the village or its outskirts.
Gavalochori's lanes are stone-paved and narrow, and some take no vehicle. Your driver stops at the nearest point a car can wait and confirms it before the day.
The drive runs east then turns inland into Apokoronas, 36.9 kilometres in about 47 minutes. Gavalochori lies among olive terraces a few kilometres back from the coast, and the roads to it are narrow local ones, which is what the timing reflects.
The route crosses Akrotiri and joins the national road above Souda, with the bay below and Aptera on the plateau above it.
The inland turning comes past Kalyves, and the road climbs through farmland with stone walls between the terraces.
Gavalochori is entered along a lane rather than a road. The village kept its Venetian and Ottoman houses and its stone paving, and the folklore museum near the square is in one of those restored buildings. Those same paved lanes are why the last few hundred metres are slow and why some doors are not reachable by car at all.
The village is known for two things that predate any tourism here. Silk lace was made in Gavalochori and is still associated with it, and the rock-cut wells outside the village supplied it with water before mains supply arrived. The folklore museum near the square covers both.
There is no practical public route to Gavalochori.
The Apokoronas bus serves the larger villages on the main road, and the last stretch has almost no scheduled service. Reaching even that bus means going into Chania from the airport first, so the public option runs to three stages and an uncertain finish.
The return leg is the same journey in reverse: 36.9 km (22.9 mi), about 47 min, and the same fixed fare from €62 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Gavalochori at the agreed time and takes you straight to Chania Airport.
Gavalochori back to Chania Airport is the same 36.9 kilometres in reverse, at the same fixed fare.
Getting the car out of the village lanes takes a few minutes before the drive proper begins, so departures from here are set earlier than the distance implies.
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 Gavalochori we work back from your flight: about 47 minutes of driving, plus the check-in and security time your airline asks for, plus an allowance for the village lanes and the Chania bypass.
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 Gavalochori 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 Gavalochori costs a fixed €62 for an SUV carrying up to 4 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €102.
As far as the lane allows. Gavalochori is stone-paved and narrow in the centre, and some properties are reached on foot, so the driver stops at the nearest legal point and confirms it before the day.
They are neighbouring Apokoronas villages, both restored rather than rebuilt, at almost the same distance: Vamos is 36.4 kilometres from the airport and Gavalochori 36.9. Vamos is the larger of the two.
Almyrida is 33.3 kilometres from the airport and Kalyves 28.1, both a short drive down from the village.
The folklore museum near the square, the Venetian and Ottoman houses along the paved lanes, and the old rock-cut wells outside the village. Gavalochori is the smaller and quieter of the two restored Apokoronas villages.
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 Gavalochori.
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 Gavalochori and Gavalochori 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 private transfers in Crete we run, from the airports and ports to the resorts and villages along both coasts.