A private transfer from Chania Airport to Stavros covers 10.3 km (6.4 mi) in about 17 minutes and costs a fixed fare from €40 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Chania Airport, or the departure run back from Stavros 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 | €40 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €68 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €135 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Stavros 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 Stavros: 10.3 km (6.4 mi), about 17 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.
Stavros is a village at the northern tip of the Akrotiri peninsula, on a near-circular bay under a bare rock face. Stavros is best known as the location where the final scene of Zorba the Greek was filmed, and the mountain behind the beach is the one that appears in it.
The bay is shallow and almost enclosed, which makes it calm in most conditions, and a second more open beach lies alongside it.
The village is small and the road ends here. Beyond Stavros the peninsula is empty, which is why it stays quiet despite being close to both the airport and Chania.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, at the bay or on the slopes above it.
Stavros is small but its accommodation is spread across the hillside on unnamed lanes. Give the property name and the owner's directions when you book.
The drive stays on the Akrotiri peninsula for its whole length, 10.3 kilometres in about 17 minutes. Stavros is at the northern tip of the same headland the airport sits on, so this is the only route from Chania Airport that never goes near the city.
The road leaves the terminal and turns north across the plateau, through open upland with the Akrotiri villages signposted off it.
The landscape stays bare most of the way. There is very little between the airport and the coast here, which is why the drive is quick despite the road being local rather than national.
Stavros arrives at the end of the road. The bay is almost circular and closed by the rock face that appears in the final scene of Zorba the Greek, and the village occupies the flat ground between the two.
This is the only route from Chania Airport that never approaches the city, and the distances show it. Chania Town is 14.9 kilometres from the terminal and Souda port 15.2, both further than Stavros at 10.3, because reaching either means leaving the peninsula while this drive simply crosses it.
A bus runs from Chania to Stavros a few times a day, timed for the village rather than for arriving flights.
Reaching it means going into Chania from the airport first, then coming back out to the peninsula, which is a long way round for a journey that stays on one headland. Outside the summer months the service thins further.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Stavros. 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 Stavros 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: 10.3 km (6.4 mi), about 17 min, and the same fixed fare from €40 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Stavros at the agreed time and takes you straight to Chania Airport.
Stavros back to Chania Airport is the same 10.3 kilometres in reverse, at the same fixed fare.
The route avoids Chania entirely, so morning city traffic does not affect it. Departures from here are among the most predictable we run.
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 Stavros we work back from your flight: about 17 minutes of driving, plus the check-in and security time your airline asks for.
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 Stavros 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 Stavros costs a fixed €40 for an SUV carrying up to 4 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €68.
About 17 min for the 10.3 km (6.4 mi) route. The whole drive stays on the Akrotiri peninsula and does not touch Chania, so traffic rarely changes it.
The final scene was filmed on the beach here, under the rock face that closes the bay. The mountain behind the sand is the one that appears in it.
Chania is reached back across the peninsula, further than the airport is. Stavros sits at the northern tip and the city is on the mainland side of the headland.
Yes. Stavros is 10.3 kilometres away against 14.9 to Chania Town, because both the airport and the village sit on the Akrotiri peninsula and the drive never leaves it.
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 €40 for a Standard car to Stavros.
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 Stavros and Stavros to Chania Airport are the same journey at the same fixed €40, 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.