A private transfer from Chania Town to Kolymbari covers 26.7 km (16.6 mi) in about 27 minutes and costs a fixed fare from €42 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Chania Town, or the departure run back from Kolymbari 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 | €42 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €66 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €108 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Kolymbari back to Chania Town 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 Town to Kolymbari: 26.7 km (16.6 mi), about 27 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 comes to the door of your hotel, apartment or address in Chania at the time on your voucher. City pickups are door-to-door, so there is no meeting point to find.
Chania's old town sits behind the Venetian harbour, and most of it is pedestrianised. Chania's harbour lanes take no traffic at all, so where a hotel sits inside that zone the driver arranges the nearest point a car can legally stop, usually a few minutes' walk away, and confirms it before the day.
Tell us the hotel name as well as the street when you book. Old town addresses are frequently unnumbered and are far easier to find by name.
Journeys east to Rethymno, Georgioupolis and the north coast join the national road within a few minutes. Journeys west and south, towards Kissamos, Falasarna, Elafonissi and Paleochora, leave on slower roads that climb through the hills.
At your accommodation's entrance, or the closest legal stopping point when the address sits inside the pedestrian zone of the old town.
Your driver calls ahead if there is any doubt about where the vehicle can wait.
Give us the pickup address and a contact number at booking. Your driver waits at the agreed time and calls if the entrance is not reachable.
Tell us as early as you can if your plans change, so the driver can be rescheduled.
Kolymbari is a village at the base of the Rodopos peninsula, on the coast west of Chania where the beach strip ends and the headland begins. Kolymbari is built around a working harbour and a long pebble beach, and it keeps the feel of a village rather than a resort.
Gonia Monastery stands at the northern edge of the village, above the sea, and the Orthodox Academy of Crete sits beside it.
The road north from here runs out along the Rodopos peninsula, an empty limestone headland with no settlements on it, which is why Kolymbari is the last village on this stretch of coast.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, in the village or along the coast road either side of it.
Kolymbari's lanes towards the harbour are narrow. Where an address sits on one, your driver stops at the nearest point a car can wait and confirms it before the day.
Your driver comes to the door of your Chania address at the time on the voucher. Where that address sits inside the old town, which most of the harbour quarter does, the car waits at the nearest point it can legally stop and you are told which one before the day.
The drive runs west for 26.7 kilometres and takes about 27 minutes, ending where the beach strip stops and the Rodopos peninsula begins.
The resort coast comes first: Stalos, Agia Marina, Platanias, Gerani and Maleme, one after another along the same shore.
Tavronitis is the junction where the road south to Paleochora leaves, and the coast road carries on alone from there.
Kolymbari is entered along the shore. Gonia Monastery stands above the sea at the northern edge with the Orthodox Academy beside it, and the harbour and pebble beach lie below. The road north out of the village runs onto the peninsula and stops, which is why nothing passes through here. The village works as a base for the west without being remote from the city. Kissamos is 40.0 kilometres from Chania Town and Fallasarna 55.2, both reached along the same road, while Chania itself stays under half an hour away for an evening. Distance from the city is what separates this from the airport route. Kolymbari is 26.7 kilometres from Chania Town and 43.1 from the airport, so a guest already in the city is a little over twenty-five minutes from the monastery and the harbour.
The KTEL coach towards Kissamos stops at Kolymbari regularly through the day.
It leaves from Chania's central station rather than your accommodation and sets down on the main road above the village. That is a short walk rather than a long one, but the first leg from an old town address is the awkward part.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Kolymbari. 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 Kolymbari 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: 26.7 km (16.6 mi), about 27 min, and the same fixed fare from €42 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Kolymbari at the agreed time and takes you straight to Chania Town.
Kolymbari back into Chania is the same 26.7 kilometres at the same fare.
The strip east of the village is the slow section in the morning. From Kolymbari itself the road is clear at any hour.
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.
Twenty-seven minutes of driving plus whatever you are catching, and a margin for the resort strip if you are travelling in the morning.
The confirmed pickup goes on your voucher once you send the details.
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 Town to Kolymbari 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 Town to Kolymbari costs a fixed €42 for an SUV carrying up to 4 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €66.
A working harbour, a long pebble beach, and Gonia Monastery above the sea at the northern edge of the village.
Only onto the Rodopos peninsula, which is empty and has no settlements, so no traffic passes through the village.
Kissamos is 40.0 kilometres from Chania Town against 26.7 to Kolymbari.
It sits on the road to Kissamos at 40.0 kilometres and Fallasarna at 55.2, with Chania under half an hour back east.
26.7 kilometres, about twenty-seven minutes. From Chania Airport the same village is 43.1 kilometres.
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 €42 for a Standard car to Kolymbari.
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.
The driver arranges the nearest legal stopping point and confirms it before the day, so nobody is left waiting on a pedestrianised lane. Give the accommodation name as well as the street when you book.
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 Town to Kolymbari and Kolymbari to Chania Town are the same journey at the same fixed €42, 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.