A private transfer from Chania Airport to Lentas covers 163.0 km (101.3 mi) in about 3 hr 5 min and costs a fixed fare from €270 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Chania Airport, or the departure run back from Lentas 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 | €270 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €304 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €456 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Lentas 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 Lentas: 163.0 km (101.3 mi), about 3 hr 5 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.
Lentas is a small village on the south coast of the Heraklion region, at the foot of the Asterousia mountains. Lentas is reached by a long descent from the inland plateau, and the road to it is the reason the village stayed small: it is slow, and there is nothing beyond it.
The settlement is a scatter of rooms and tavernas behind a shingle beach, with the remains of an Asklepieion, an ancient healing sanctuary, on the slope above.
The coast either side is largely undeveloped, and several of the beaches near the village are reached on foot or by boat rather than by road.
We drop you at the door of your rooms, house or hotel in the village.
Lentas is small and its lanes are unpaved in places. Your driver stops at the nearest point a car can reach and confirms it before the day. Give the property name at booking, since street names are of little use here.
The drive crosses to the south coast, 163.0 kilometres in about 3 hr 5 min, to the village below the Asterousia mountains at the end of its own road.
Twenty-two kilometres past Matala cost thirty-three minutes and sixty-seven euros. Matala is 141.0 kilometres from this airport at about 2 hr 32 min and €203 for an SUV; Lentas is 163.0 at about 3 hr 5 min and €270. The distance is modest and the last part of it is a long descent over the Asterousia, which is where both the time and the fare go.
Your driver meets you in arrivals and the car comes down off Akrotiri onto the national road east of Chania. Aptera and Souda Bay open the run, the Apokoronas villages follow, and Rethymno is skirted at 70.3 kilometres.
The climb south begins there, over the plateau past Armeni, and the Libyan Sea appears at Agia Galini at 115.0 kilometres. The road then runs east through the Messara past Mires before turning south again for the mountains.
Nothing continues past Lentas. The road ends at the village, the beaches either side are reached on foot or by boat rather than by car, and the Asterousia rise immediately inland, which is the whole reason the place has stayed as small as it is.
The shingle beach has tavernas and rooms directly behind it, and on the slope above the village are the remains of an ancient Asklepieion, the healing sanctuary of Lebena.
Oasis Apartments, Levinthos, Villa Tsapakis, Anatoli Apartments and Casa Doria Apartments are among the handful of properties here. Give the property name at booking, because there is no street plan to work from.
There is no practical public route to Lentas from this airport.
The coach network reaches the Messara from Heraklion, and the service down to Lentas runs rarely and not at all outside the season. Reaching even the start of it means crossing the island first, which makes the journey a two-day proposition rather than a long one.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Lentas. 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 Lentas 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: 163.0 km (101.3 mi), about 3 hr 5 min, and the same fixed fare from €270 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Lentas at the agreed time and takes you straight to Chania Airport.
Lentas back to Chania Airport covers the same 163.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
The climb back over the Asterousia takes the first half hour and sets the pace for everything after it, then the Messara, the plateau and the north coast, with the Akrotiri climb at the end. On a route this long an early flight means leaving in the dark.
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.
Allow about 3 hr 5 min of driving, the check-in and security time your airline requires, and a real margin for the mountain descent and the climb to the terminal.
Send the flight number at booking. On a run of this length the pickup is calculated from the departure rather than estimated, and the time appears 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 Lentas 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 Lentas costs a fixed €270 for an SUV carrying up to 4 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €304.
Matala is €203 for an SUV at 141.0 kilometres and Lentas €270 at 163.0. The extra 22 kilometres include the descent over the Asterousia, which accounts for 33 minutes of the difference in time.
The remains of an ancient healing sanctuary, on the slope above the village. Lentas stands on the site of ancient Lebena.
No. The beaches either side of Lentas are reached on foot or by boat, and the road ends at the village.
Considerably. Lentas lies south of Heraklion, so an arrival there removes the western half of this drive.
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 €270 for a Standard car to Lentas.
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 Lentas and Lentas to Chania Airport are the same journey at the same fixed €270, 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 Crete taxi we run, from the airports and ports to the resorts and villages along both coasts.