A private transfer from Heraklion Airport to Ierapetra covers 93.3 km (58.0 mi) in about 1 hr 20 min and costs a fixed fare from €100 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Airport, or the departure run back from Ierapetra 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 | €100 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €115 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €120 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €145 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €210 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €500 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Ierapetra 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 Ierapetra: 93.3 km (58.0 mi), about 1 hr 20 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.
The 93.3 km drive from Heraklion Airport crosses the island's narrow waist to reach Ierapetra on the Libyan Sea, the southernmost town in Europe, about 80 minutes door to door. Filmed along the route a private transfer follows.
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.
Ierapetra is the southernmost town in Greece and the main settlement on Crete's south-east coast, facing the Libyan Sea across a long seafront. Ierapetra is a working town before it is a resort, with a market, a fishing harbour and an agricultural belt of greenhouses spreading along the coast either side of it.
The Venetian fortress known as the Kales stands at the harbour entrance, and the old quarter of narrow streets sits behind it.
Boats to Chrissi, the uninhabited sand island about 15 kilometres offshore, leave from the harbour through the summer.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, on the seafront or in the streets behind it.
The old quarter near the fortress has narrow one-way lanes. Where your address sits inside it, the driver stops at the nearest legal point and tells you which before the day.
The drive crosses from the north coast to the south at the island's narrowest point, 93.3 kilometres in about 1 hr 20 min. Crete is only about 12 kilometres wide at the isthmus above Ierapetra, which is why a journey to the south coast takes barely longer than one to Agios Nikolaos.
The first part is the eastern coast road: the resort strip to Malia, the inland climb beyond it, then Agios Nikolaos and the shore of Mirabello Bay through Istron.
The turn south comes at Pachia Ammos. From there the road crosses the isthmus in a few minutes, and the Libyan Sea appears ahead almost as soon as the Cretan Sea has gone from the mirror.
Ierapetra is entered along its seafront. The greenhouse belt that supplies much of Greece with winter vegetables spreads either side of the road on the approach, which makes the last kilometres look unlike anywhere else on the island. Winter matters on this route in a way it does not elsewhere. Ierapetra has the mildest winters on Crete and its greenhouse economy runs year-round, so this is one of the few southern transfers we sell steadily outside the summer months rather than seasonally.
The KTEL coach reaches Ierapetra from Heraklion in about two and a half hours, usually with a change at Agios Nikolaos.
The first leg starts from Heraklion's bus station rather than the airport. The change is the part that costs time, and the service thins considerably outside the summer months.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Ierapetra. 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 Ierapetra 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: 93.3 km (58.0 mi), about 1 hr 20 min, and the same fixed fare from €100 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Ierapetra at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Airport.
Ierapetra back to Heraklion Airport is the same 93.3 kilometres in reverse, at the same fixed fare.
The isthmus crossing is quick in either direction, so the timing is decided by the resort coast west of Agios Nikolaos, which is slowest westbound through the middle of the morning.
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 Ierapetra we work back from your flight: about 1 hr 20 min of driving, plus the check-in and security time your airline asks for, plus a buffer for the Malia to Gouves stretch.
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 Heraklion Airport to Ierapetra 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 Ierapetra costs a fixed €100 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €145.
About 1 hr 20 min for the 93.3 km (58.0 mi) route. The crossing from the north coast to the south takes only a few minutes at the isthmus, so most of the time is spent on the eastern coast road.
Crete narrows to about 12 kilometres at the isthmus above Ierapetra. The road crosses it in a few minutes, which is why Ierapetra at 93.3 kilometres is not much further in time than destinations on the north coast.
Those are separate transfers with their own fixed fares, both further east along the south coast. Makrigialos is 118.0 kilometres from Heraklion Airport against 93.3 to Ierapetra.
Yes, steadily. Ierapetra works year-round on agriculture rather than tourism, and its winters are the mildest on the island, so the road and the town stay busy out of season.
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 €100 for a Standard car to Ierapetra.
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 Ierapetra and Ierapetra to Heraklion Airport are the same journey at the same fixed €100, 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.