A private transfer from Heraklion Airport to Rethymno Town covers 80.5 km (50.0 mi) in about 1 hr 8 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 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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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 | €110 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €130 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €195 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €430 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Rethymno Town back to Heraklion Airport costs the same as the arrival leg. Child and booster seats are added at booking, at no extra charge.
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.
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.
The drive runs west for 80.5 kilometres and reaches Rethymno in about 1 hr 8 min. Leaving from the airport is 2 kilometres longer than leaving from the city centre and about 7 minutes quicker, because the car joins the national road at the edge of Heraklion instead of working its way out through it.
The road passes the city on its seaward side, above the port, and holds that line until the built-up area ends at Ammoudara. Heraklion is visible from the car for a few minutes and never entered.
From there the run is the north coast: the cliffs above Agia Pelagia, the valley at Fodele, then the long inland section behind the headlands where Bali and Panormos sit out of sight below their own turnings. The sea comes back at Skaleta and stays alongside the road into Rethymno.
Arrival is from the east, so the beach hotels between Adelianos Kampos and Platanias come before the city itself. Ask for the hotel by name when you book, because that eastern strip is several kilometres long and the addresses on it repeat. About 1 hr 8 min is the normal door-to-door figure, and a late landing clears the route faster.
The gap between the two ends of Rethymno matters more here than on most routes. Adelianos Kampos is 75.0 kilometres from this airport and Platanias sits at 76.9, both of them east of the city, while an old town address is the full 80.5 kilometres because the car carries on past the beach strip to reach it.
Bali and Panormos are the two places along the way that people most often mistake for roadside villages. Bali is 52.8 kilometres out and Panormos 60.7, and each drops several hundred metres from the national road down to its own harbour, which is why neither appears from the car.
There is no bus from Heraklion Airport to Rethymno.
The public route means reaching Heraklion's bus station from the airport first, then taking the intercity coach west for around 90 minutes, then covering the last stretch from Rethymno's bus station by taxi or on foot. Three legs, two waits, and a timetable that does not know your flight is late.
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: 80.5 km (50.0 mi), about 1 hr 8 min, and the same fixed fare from €85 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Rethymno Town at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Airport.
Rethymno back to Heraklion Airport is the same 80.5 kilometres in reverse, at the same fixed fare.
Eastbound traffic builds on the approach to Heraklion through the morning, so pickups for early flights are set with that in mind rather than on the driving time alone.
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 Rethymno we work back from your flight: about 1 hr 8 min of driving, plus the check-in and security time your airline asks for, plus a buffer for the Heraklion approach and for reaching the car if your hotel sits in the old town.
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 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 Heraklion Airport to Rethymno Town costs a fixed €85 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €130, and the fare covers the vehicle rather than each seat in it.
About 1 hr 8 min for the 80.5 km (50.0 mi) route. The national road runs at a steady speed the whole way, so the arrival hour changes the drive very little.
No direct one. You would travel into Heraklion, take the intercity coach west for about 90 minutes, then cover the last stretch from Rethymno's bus station separately.
Both work. Rethymno sits 80.5 kilometres from Heraklion Airport and 70.3 kilometres from Chania Airport, and each transfer runs close to 1 hr 10 min, so pick the airport that suits your flight rather than the distance.
Yes, by a few kilometres. Adelianos Kampos is 75.0 kilometres from Heraklion Airport and Platanias is 76.9, against 80.5 to the old town, so an eastern beach address is reached first and the fare for it is quoted separately.
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 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.
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 Rethymno Town and Rethymno Town 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 Crete taxi we run, from the airports and ports to the resorts and villages along both coasts.