A private transfer from Chania Town to Rethymno Town covers 64.9 km (40.3 mi) in about 1 hr 5 min and costs a fixed fare from €99 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Chania Town, or the departure run back from Rethymno Town 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 | €99 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €132 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €216 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Rethymno Town 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 Rethymno Town: 64.9 km (40.3 mi), about 1 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 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.
Rethymno Town is the third largest city in Crete and the capital of the Rethymno region, set midway along the north coast between Heraklion and Chania. Rethymno's old town is the most complete Renaissance quarter on the island, built under Venetian rule below the Fortezza and left largely intact since.
The layout is unusually easy to picture. The Fortezza occupies the headland, the old town fills the ground behind the Venetian harbour, and one long sand beach runs east from the centre with the hotel strip behind it.
Rethymno lies 78.4 kilometres from Heraklion and 64.9 kilometres from Chania, which puts it roughly an hour from each and makes it the usual choice for a stay meant to cover the whole north coast rather than one end of it.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, in the old town or along the beach road east of it.
The old town is a grid of narrow one-way lanes and parts of it take no vehicle. Where your address sits inside that grid, the driver uses the nearest point a car can legally wait and tells you which one 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 east between Crete's second and third cities, 64.9 kilometres in about 1 hr 5 min. Both ends are old Venetian towns with pedestrianised centres, which is the thing this route has that no airport transfer does: the access problem happens twice.
The car leaves Chania eastward above Souda Bay and climbs past Aptera.
Apokoronas follows, with the exits for Kalyves, Almyrida and Vamos, then Georgioupolis and Kavros at the mouth of the Almyros.
The road climbs past Armeni and comes down through Atsipopoulo into Rethymno from the west, which puts the Fortezza in view on the way in and the old town before the beach strip. Where your Rethymno address sits inside those lanes, the same arrangement applies at that end as at this one. This is the one route in our network that runs between two Venetian old towns, and both have the same constraint at both ends. Rethymno's quarter is the larger and more complete of the two; Chania's is the one built around a harbour.
The KTEL intercity coach between the two cities runs regularly and takes about an hour and a half.
It is station to station, and both stations sit outside the old quarters. For two people travelling light that is a reasonable trade; for anyone with luggage it means two walks through streets no car can enter.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Rethymno Town. 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 Rethymno Town 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: 64.9 km (40.3 mi), about 1 hr 5 min, and the same fixed fare from €99 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Rethymno Town at the agreed time and takes you straight to Chania Town.
Rethymno back to Chania is the same 64.9 kilometres at the same fare.
Westbound mornings slow on the approach to Chania rather than anywhere in between, so a departure timed against something fixed in the city allows for that stretch.
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.
Sixty-five minutes of driving, your own deadline, and a few minutes at each end for reaching the car where the lanes do not permit it.
Send the details at booking and the pickup is confirmed on the 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 Town to Rethymno Town 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 Rethymno costs a fixed €99 for an SUV carrying up to 4 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €132.
Considerably, and it takes about an hour and a half. The difference is that it runs station to station, and both stations sit outside the old quarters.
As close as the lanes allow at both. You are told the stopping point before the day rather than on arrival.
The port sits on the city's northern edge, a few hundred metres from the old town.
Rethymno's is the larger and more complete Renaissance quarter; Chania's is built around its Venetian harbour.
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 €99 for a Standard car to Rethymno Town.
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 Rethymno Town and Rethymno Town to Chania Town are the same journey at the same fixed €99, 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.