A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Chania Airport covers 144.0 km (89.5 mi) in about 2 hr 12 min and costs a fixed fare from €170 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Town, 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 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Chania Airport back to Heraklion Town 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 Town to Chania Airport (CHQ): 144.0 km (89.5 mi), about 2 hr 12 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 longest route on the site to carry a video: 144.0 km west across the island from a Heraklion address to Chania Airport, about 2 hr 12 min. Rethymno passes at the 78 kilometre mark and the last stretch climbs onto the Akrotiri peninsula, where the airport sits above the city. Filmed along the route a private transfer follows.
Your driver comes to the door of your hotel, apartment or address in Heraklion at the time on your voucher. City pickups are door-to-door, so there is no meeting point to find and no walk with luggage.
Heraklion is Crete's capital and largest city, and its centre is a dense grid of one-way and pedestrianised streets inside the Venetian walls. Heraklion's older streets will not take a vehicle at all, so where an address sits behind a pedestrian zone the driver arranges the nearest point a car can legally stop and tells you where that is before the day.
Give the exact address and the hotel name when you book. A street name alone is not always enough in the centre, where numbering restarts across districts.
Journeys east towards Hersonissos, Malia and Agios Nikolaos leave on the national road without crossing the centre. Journeys south to Matala and the Messara plain climb out through the Venetian gate and over the hills.
At your accommodation's entrance, or the closest legal stopping point when the address sits inside a pedestrian zone.
Your driver calls ahead if there is any doubt about where the vehicle can wait.
Give us the pickup address and a contact number at booking. Your driver waits at the agreed time and calls if the entrance is not accessible.
Tell us as early as you can if your plans change, so the driver can be rescheduled.
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 to the western airport, 144.0 kilometres in about 2 hr 12 min. Chania Airport sits out on the Akrotiri peninsula, so this route runs the whole north coast and then climbs across the headland at the end.
Your driver collects you at your Heraklion address and joins the national road past the port.
The coast west is the long half: Agia Pelagia, the inland stretch behind Bali and Panormos, Rethymno at the 78 kilometre mark, then Georgioupolis and Apokoronas.
Chania is skirted on the bypass and the road turns up onto Akrotiri for the last stretch. The peninsula section is quick, which means the timing on this route is decided almost entirely by the two hundred minutes of coast road before it and by getting out of Heraklion at the start. Both directions of this route are sold, and the reverse is the more common booking: a cheaper flight into Chania followed by a drive east to a Heraklion base. Chania Airport to Heraklion Town is the same 144.0 kilometres, and the same two hours, at the same fixed fare.
The KTEL coach from Heraklion to Chania takes close to three hours, and the airport is a further bus or taxi beyond the city.
Against a flight departure that is a lot of exposure: a coach that does not know your check-in time, a change in Chania, and a final leg out to Akrotiri. The saving is real and so is the risk.
The return leg is the same journey in reverse: 144.0 km (89.5 mi), about 2 hr 12 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 Town.
Chania Airport back to Heraklion is the same 144.0 kilometres in reverse, at the same fixed fare.
Arriving at Chania and driving east to Heraklion is a common pattern when flights are cheaper into the west, and the run is the same two hours in that direction.
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 Heraklion we work back from your flight: about 2 hr 12 min of driving, plus the check-in and security time your airline asks for, plus a buffer for leaving the city and for the Chania bypass.
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 Town 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 Town 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.
About 2 hr 12 min of driving plus your airline's check-in time. For an early flight that usually means leaving Heraklion before dawn, and the pickup on your voucher reflects it.
That depends on the fare rather than the transfer. Heraklion Airport is 4.3 kilometres from the city centre against 144.0 to Chania, so the ground cost difference is substantial.
At the departures entrance. Give the flight number at booking so the pickup is timed against your check-in.
Yes, at the same 144.0 kilometres and the same fixed fare. Both directions are booked from this page.
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.
The driver arranges the nearest legal stopping point and confirms it before the day, so nobody is left waiting on a pedestrianised lane. Give the accommodation name as well as the street when you book.
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 Town to Chania Airport and Chania Airport to Heraklion Town 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 private transfers in Crete we run, from the airports and ports to the resorts and villages along both coasts.