A private transfer from Chania Town to Vamos covers 29.0 km (18.0 mi) in about 38 minutes and costs a fixed fare from €47 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Chania Town, or the departure run back from Vamos 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 | €47 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €63 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €114 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Vamos 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 Vamos: 29.0 km (18.0 mi), about 38 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.
Vamos is an inland village in Apokoronas, on the high ground between the national road and the sea east of Chania. Vamos was the administrative centre of the region under Ottoman rule, and the stone buildings from that period still line its main street.
The village is known for having restored those buildings rather than replacing them, and much of its accommodation is in converted stone houses rather than in new apartments.
Vamos sits away from the coast, which keeps it quiet, while the beaches at Kalyves and Almyrida are a short drive downhill.
We drop you at the door of your house, hotel or villa in the village or the surrounding hamlets.
Vamos has narrow stone lanes and several properties sit on tracks outside the village. Give the property name and the owner's directions when you book.
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 into Apokoronas and climbs inland, 29.0 kilometres in about 38 minutes. Vamos sits on high ground away from the coast, which is why this takes longer than a coastal village at the same distance.
The car leaves the city eastward with Souda Bay opening on the right, and passes below Aptera on its plateau.
The turning inland comes after Kalyves. From there the road climbs gradually through olive terraces and stone-walled fields.
Vamos is a village of Ottoman-era stone buildings restored rather than replaced, and much of the accommodation is in those same houses. Addresses here are property names rather than numbers, which the driver needs at booking. Vamos was the administrative centre of Apokoronas under Ottoman rule, which is why its main street carries buildings of a scale the surrounding villages do not have. Restoring rather than replacing them is what the village is known for locally.
Apokoronas is the belt of country between Chania and Georgioupolis, and it is priced village by village rather than as a region. Kalyves sits on the coast at 28.1 kilometres from Chania Airport, Almyrida at 33.3, Plaka above them at 34.7 and Gavalochori inland at 36.9, with Vamos among the highest of them.
A local bus reaches Vamos from Chania a few times a day.
It runs to a village timetable rather than a visitor one, and the last departure goes early in the evening. From an old town address the walk to the station comes first.
The return leg is the same journey in reverse: 29.0 km (18.0 mi), about 38 min, and the same fixed fare from €47 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Vamos at the agreed time and takes you straight to Chania Town.
Vamos back into Chania is the same 29.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
The descent to the national road takes a few minutes, and the Chania approach is slower westbound in the morning, so both go into a departure time.
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.
Thirty-eight minutes of driving, your own deadline on top, and an allowance for getting the car out of the village lanes.
Send the flight, sailing or appointment with the booking and the time is calculated for you.
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 Vamos 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 Vamos costs a fixed €47 for an SUV carrying up to 4 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €63.
The last section is inland village road rather than national road, and Vamos sits on high ground away from the coast.
Kalyves and Almyrida are both a short drive downhill from the village.
It is what we need. Vamos properties are let by name rather than street number.
It was the region's administrative centre under Ottoman rule, so its main street has larger stone buildings, and those have been restored rather than replaced.
Kalyves and Almyrida on the coast, Plaka on the slope above them and Gavalochori inland. Each has its own fixed fare rather than sharing a regional one.
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 €47 for a Standard car to Vamos.
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 Vamos and Vamos to Chania Town are the same journey at the same fixed €47, 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.