A private transfer from Heraklion Port to Chania Town covers 139.0 km (86.4 mi) in about 2 hr 25 min and costs a fixed fare from €165 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Port, or the departure run back from Chania 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 | €165 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €175 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €185 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €200 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €340 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €840 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Chania Town back to Heraklion Port 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 Port to Chania Town: 139.0 km (86.4 mi), about 2 hr 25 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 in front of the Passenger Terminal at Heraklion Port, holding a banner with your name and the company name on it. Ferry arrivals cluster, so the terminal forecourt fills quickly; the banner is what makes your car findable in it.
Heraklion Port sits inside the city, a few minutes from the centre and about 4 kilometres from the airport. Heraklion Port is the island's main ferry gateway, taking the overnight sailings from Piraeus as well as the routes from Santorini, Mykonos, Paros and Naxos.
Overnight ferries from Piraeus dock early in the morning, which is the port's busiest window and the one where on-demand taxis are hardest to find. A pre-booked car is already waiting when the ramp goes down.
Cruise calls berth at the same port area and follow the same procedure.
In front of the Passenger Terminal, where your driver waits with a banner showing your name and ours.
Stay at the terminal rather than walking out to the road. The port approach is one-way and busy at docking time, and the vehicle cannot stop on it.
Give us your ferry or cruise line and arrival time at booking. We track sailing arrivals as well as flights, so a late docking moves the pickup rather than costing you the transfer.
Tell us as early as you can if your sailing is cancelled or diverted to another port, so the driver can be reassigned.
Chania Town is the second largest city in Crete and the capital of the Chania region, built around a Venetian harbour on the north-west coast. Chania's old town fills the ground behind that harbour as a dense quarter of Venetian and Ottoman lanes, most of them closed to traffic and several too narrow for a car to enter at all.
The city divides into parts that matter when you arrive. Topanas and Splantzia are the old quarters on either side of the harbour, Nea Chora is the seafront neighbourhood immediately west with the nearest town beach, and the modern city spreads inland around the covered market.
Chania sits 6.5 kilometres from the ferry port at Souda and forms the road junction for the whole west of the island, which is why it is used as a base for Samaria, Elafonissi and Balos rather than only as a destination in itself.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa wherever a vehicle can legally reach it.
Much of the old town is pedestrianised and some lanes take no car at all. Your driver stops at the nearest permitted point and confirms where that is before the day. Give the hotel name as well as the street, because harbour addresses are signposted by name more often than by number.
The car leaves the port gate and crosses the island west, 139.0 kilometres in about 2 hr 25 min, between Crete's two main harbours.
The first hour is the north coast to Rethymno at 77.8 kilometres from the quay, past the cliffs and the inland stretch behind Bali and Panormos.
West of Rethymno the road opens through Georgioupolis and Apokoronas, then climbs over Aptera with Souda Bay below on the right.
Chania is entered past Souda, and both ends of this journey have the same constraint: two old Venetian quarters where the car reaches the nearest legal point and no further.
There is a simpler alternative worth naming. Souda, Chania's own ferry port, takes the overnight boat from Piraeus and sits 6.5 kilometres from the city, so a traveller heading for Chania by sea generally sails there rather than to Heraklion and drives two and a half hours across the island.
The KTEL intercity coach between the cities runs through the day and costs a fraction of any car.
It takes close to three hours, runs terminal to terminal, and starts from Heraklion's bus station rather than the quay. After an overnight crossing that is a walk, a wait, three hours of coach and another walk.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Chania 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 Chania 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: 139.0 km (86.4 mi), about 2 hr 25 min, and the same fixed fare from €165 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Chania Town at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Port.
Chania back to the port is the same 139.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
Eastbound the Rethymno bypass in the late afternoon and the Heraklion approach at the end are the two slow points, and an evening sailing crosses both.
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.
Two hours twenty-five of driving, the terminal time your ferry line requires, and margins for the two city ends and the Rethymno bypass.
Send the operator and sailing with your booking and the pickup is set against boarding.
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 Port to Chania 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 Port to Chania Town costs a fixed €165 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €200.
If Chania is the destination, usually. Souda is Chania's ferry port, 6.5 kilometres from the city, against 139.0 by road from Heraklion.
About 2 hr 25 min for the 139.0 km (86.4 mi) route, with both city ends adding time rather than the road between them.
As close as the lanes permit at both ends. You are told the stopping point before the day.
It sits at 77.8 kilometres from the quay, close to the halfway mark, and is a separate transfer at €85 for a Standard car. On a two and a half hour run most passengers want a break somewhere and that is where it falls.
Places in and around the old town, among them The Chania hotel, Hilton Garden Inn Chania, M City Hotel, Belmondo and Samaria Hotel.
At the nearest legal point to your address. Most of the harbour quarter is pedestrianised, so the stopping point is agreed before the day rather than found on arrival.
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 €165 for a Standard car to Chania 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 ferry operator and sailing time when you book. We track arrivals, so a late docking moves the pickup rather than costing you the transfer.
In front of the passenger terminal, where the driver waits with a banner showing your name and ours. Ferry passengers all reach the quay at once, which is what the banner is for.
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 Port to Chania Town and Chania Town to Heraklion Port are the same journey at the same fixed €165, 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 transfers we run, from the airports and ports to the resorts and villages along both coasts.