A private transfer from Heraklion Airport to Lentas covers 70.8 km (44.0 mi) in about 1 hr 17 min and costs a fixed fare from €85 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Airport, or the departure run back from Lentas 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 | €85 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €95 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €105 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €170 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €204 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €430 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Lentas 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 Lentas: 70.8 km (44.0 mi), about 1 hr 17 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.
Lentas is a small village on the south coast of the Heraklion region, at the foot of the Asterousia mountains. Lentas is reached by a long descent from the inland plateau, and the road to it is the reason the village stayed small: it is slow, and there is nothing beyond it.
The settlement is a scatter of rooms and tavernas behind a shingle beach, with the remains of an Asklepieion, an ancient healing sanctuary, on the slope above.
The coast either side is largely undeveloped, and several of the beaches near the village are reached on foot or by boat rather than by road.
We drop you at the door of your rooms, house or hotel in the village.
Lentas is small and its lanes are unpaved in places. Your driver stops at the nearest point a car can reach and confirms it before the day. Give the property name at booking, since street names are of little use here.
The drive crosses to the south coast at the foot of the Asterousia mountains, 70.8 kilometres in about 1 hr 17 min.
Two figures on this route explain each other. Lentas is 70.8 kilometres from the terminal and Matala, further west on the same coast, is 66.0. Matala is quoted at about 1 hr 2 min and Lentas at 1 hr 17, so five kilometres more road costs fifteen minutes. Everything that difference buys is spent on the last descent.
Your driver meets you in the arrivals hall and the car is on the road south within minutes. Heraklion is passed and the route climbs out of the coastal plain into the hills, then crosses the Messara before bearing away towards the mountains instead of west towards Matala and the beaches around it.
Then the road drops. It works down through the Asterousia foothills in a long chain of bends, losing height steadily, and the village sits at the bottom where the slope meets the shingle.
The fare table is worth a look while you are choosing. Lentas costs €85 for a Standard car; Kalamaki, 65.0 kilometres from this airport and nearly six kilometres nearer, costs €88. The slower and more remote of the two is the cheaper booking.
Lentas is small enough to count. Oasis Apartments, Levinthos, Villa Tsapakis, Anatoli Apartments and Casa Doria Apartments are effectively the whole of it, so the property name at booking is not a formality; it is the address.
Above the shingle beach, on the slope behind the village, are the remains of the Asklepieion of ancient Lebena, a healing sanctuary that drew people to this shore long before the road did.
There is no practical public route to Lentas.
Buses serve the Messara market towns on a rural timetable, and the mountain stretch beyond them has almost no scheduled service at all. The first leg starts from Heraklion's bus station rather than this terminal, so even the beginning of the journey is a separate trip.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Lentas. 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 Lentas 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: 70.8 km (44.0 mi), about 1 hr 17 min, and the same fixed fare from €85 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Lentas at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Airport.
Lentas back to Heraklion Airport is the same 70.8 kilometres at the same fixed fare.
The climb out of the village comes first and it is slower than the descent, so a pickup here is set noticeably earlier than 70 kilometres would suggest. For an early flight that means leaving while the village is still dark.
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.
About 1 hr 17 min of driving, the check-in and security time your airline asks for, and a real allowance for the mountain road and the Messara crossing.
Give us the flight number at booking. The pickup is worked back from it and 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 Lentas 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 Lentas costs a fixed €85 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €170.
The descent through the Asterousia foothills is long and slow. Matala at 66.0 kilometres from this airport is quoted at about 1 hr 2 min; the extra five kilometres to Lentas add fifteen.
Not always. Kalamaki is 65.0 kilometres from the terminal at €88 for a Standard car and Lentas 70.8 at €85, so the further village is the cheaper fare.
The remains of an ancient healing sanctuary, on the slope behind the village. Lentas stands on the site of ancient Lebena.
Nearly all of them: Oasis Apartments, Levinthos, Villa Tsapakis, Anatoli Appartments and Casa Doria Appartments. Give the name at booking, since the village has no street plan to work from.
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 €85 for a Standard car to Lentas.
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 Lentas and Lentas to Heraklion Airport are the same journey at the same fixed €85, 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.