A private transfer from Heraklion Airport to Chania Airport covers 149.0 km (92.6 mi) in about 2 hr 8 min and costs a fixed fare from €170 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Airport, or the departure run back from Chania Airport 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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Standard | Skoda Octavia, VW ID.3 | up to 3 | 3 | €170 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €184 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €195 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €210 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €350 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €855 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Chania Airport back to Heraklion 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 Heraklion Airport (HER) to Chania Airport (CHQ): 149.0 km (92.6 mi), about 2 hr 8 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 Heraklion Airport, holding a sign with your name on it. Your transfer starts there rather than at a taxi rank, so there is no queue to join and no fare to agree on the spot.
Heraklion International Airport (HER) is Crete's main gateway and handled 4,039,249 international arrivals in 2025. Heraklion International Airport concentrates its arrivals into one short terminal, which keeps the walk from baggage reclaim to the meeting area brief even at peak season.
The driver confirms your name and destination, loads your luggage, and leaves from the airport car park. Nothing is settled on the day when you have paid online, and the fare on your voucher does not change.
The airport sits on the coast road immediately east of Heraklion city, which puts every eastern resort on a direct run without crossing town. Westbound journeys join the same national road in the opposite direction.
Inside the arrivals hall, past baggage reclaim, at the transfers meeting area. Your driver holds a name sign that matches the booking.
Look for the sign rather than a taxi rank or a car park level. The phone number on your voucher reaches a person who can locate your driver, if the sign is not where you expect it.
Give us your flight number at booking. Your pickup is then scheduled against that flight rather than against a clock time, and the driver is told to arrive later when the flight lands late.
Tell us as early as you can when a flight is cancelled or rerouted, so the driver can be reassigned.
Chania Airport, named after Ioannis Daskalogiannis, is the western of Crete's two main airports, on the Akrotiri peninsula east of Chania. Chania Airport handles the flights that serve the west of the island, and it is the arrival point for Chania, the Apokoronas coast, Rethymno and everything out to Kissamos and Palaiochora.
The terminal is small compared with Heraklion's and the road out of it crosses open upland rather than any built-up area.
Distances from here are what decide whether it suits a holiday: Chania is 14.9 kilometres, Rethymno 70.3, and the eastern resorts are three hours or more.
We drop you at the departures entrance, or meet you inside the arrivals hall with a board showing your name.
For a departure, give the flight number at booking so the pickup is timed against the check-in your airline asks for. For an arrival, the driver waits inside rather than at a rank outside.
The drive crosses the island west, 149.0 kilometres in about 2 hr 8 min, from one Cretan airport to the other.
Most passengers booking this have a flight pair that does not match: in to Heraklion, out of Chania, or the other way round after a holiday that moved. The fare is fixed per vehicle for the whole crossing, which is the part worth knowing when the alternative is two coaches and a connection that has to hold.
Your driver meets you in the arrivals hall and the car is on the national road within minutes. Ammoudara passes first, then the cliffs above Agia Pelagia and Lygaria, then Fodele, Bali and Panormos on the headlands.
Rethymno arrives at 80.5 kilometres, a little past halfway, and Georgioupolis and the Apokoronas slope follow. The road climbs over Aptera with Souda Bay below, and Chania is skirted on the bypass at 142.0 kilometres.
The last twenty minutes are what separate this from every other route down the same road. Instead of carrying on to the western strip, the car turns up onto the Akrotiri peninsula and climbs to the open upland the terminal stands on.
That climb has a price on it. Agia Marina, on the coast at exactly the same 149.0 kilometres, costs €155 for a Standard car and is quoted at about 2 hr 5 min; the airport is €170 and about 2 hr 8 min. Same distance, different ending.
Chania Airport is a single-terminal airport and the approach road is short and open, so the drop is at the departures entrance rather than at the back of a rank.
The reverse pairing is not sold as its own route. A Chania Airport to Heraklion Airport transfer is this same booking run the other way, at the same fixed fare.
The public route is a coach to Chania and a second vehicle out to Akrotiri.
Getting from this terminal into Heraklion comes first, then close to three hours west on the intercity coach, then the airport service or a taxi across the peninsula. Three legs and two waits, with a flight at the end that will not wait in turn.
The return leg is the same journey in reverse: 149.0 km (92.6 mi), about 2 hr 8 min, and the same fixed fare from €170 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Chania Airport at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Airport.
Chania Airport back to Heraklion Airport covers the same 149.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
Eastbound the descent from Akrotiri is quick, and the Rethymno bypass and the Heraklion approach shape the rest. On a connection between two flights the pickup is set against the second one rather than the first.
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 2 hr 8 min of driving, the check-in and security time your departing airline asks for, and a real margin for the Akrotiri climb at the end.
Give us both flight numbers at booking, the one you land on and the one you leave on. We track arrivals, so a late inbound moves the pickup rather than costing you the transfer.
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 Heraklion Airport to Chania Airport 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 Heraklion Airport to Chania Airport costs a fixed €170 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €210.
Agia Marina is also 149.0 kilometres from here and costs €155. The airport is €170, and the difference is the climb up onto Akrotiri at the end of the drive.
Yes. The reverse is the same booking at the same fixed fare; it is not sold as a separate route.
No scheduled service links them, which is why the transfer exists. The road is the connection.
Give us both flight numbers and we track the arrival. The pickup moves with the landing rather than being lost.
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 €170 for a Standard car to Chania Airport.
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. Heraklion Airport to Chania Airport and Chania Airport to Heraklion Airport are the same journey at the same fixed €170, 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.