A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Chersonissos covers 26.7 km (16.6 mi) in about 26 minutes and costs a fixed fare from €38 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Town, or the departure run back from Chersonissos 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 | €38 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €45 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €48 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €60 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €95 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €195 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Chersonissos 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 Chersonissos: 26.7 km (16.6 mi), about 26 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 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.
Chersonissos is the largest resort on Crete's north coast, built along a seafront strip east of Heraklion in the municipality of the same name. Chersonissos grew from a fishing harbour into a full resort town, and the old harbour is still the centre of it, ringed by tavernas and the boats that run day trips along the coast.
The resort divides clearly in two. The seafront and the main road carry the bars, the shops and the nightlife; the hillside villages behind it, Koutouloufari and Piskopiano, stay quiet and stone-built. Guests often book one expecting the other, so it is worth knowing which side of that line your hotel sits on.
The beach runs east from the harbour in a series of sandy bays broken by rock. Two of Crete's largest waterparks sit within a few minutes of the strip, which is why the resort draws families as heavily as it draws younger visitors.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, on the seafront or up in the hillside villages.
The strip is one-way in places and closed to traffic at its busiest in high season. Where that applies, the driver uses the nearest hotel entrance the vehicle can reach rather than leaving you to walk the last stretch with luggage.
The drive runs east along the coast for 26.7 kilometres and takes about 26 minutes. Unusually for an eastbound route, a city pickup is marginally shorter than an airport one here: Chersonissos is 27.9 kilometres from Heraklion Airport and 26.7 from the centre, because the road the car takes out of the city rejoins the national road east of the terminal.
Your driver leaves the centre past the port and picks up the coast road above Karteros.
Kokkini Hani, Gournes and Gouves follow in quick succession, then the exits for Anissaras and for the hill villages of Piskopiano and Koutouloufari.
Chersonissos itself is the busiest resort on this coast and it has two distinct parts. The seafront strip runs along the old coast road with the bars and the beaches, and the older settlement of Ano Chersonissos sits uphill and inland with the hill villages above it. Which one you have booked changes the last turning rather than the distance.
Twenty-six minutes is the normal figure, and August afternoons on this stretch are where it stretches.
The KTEL coastal bus runs frequently between Heraklion and Chersonissos and is the cheapest way to cover the route.
It starts from Heraklion's bus station and stops on the main road above the resort. From there the walk down to the seafront or up to the hill villages is the part that tells with luggage, and the hill village leg is genuinely steep.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Chersonissos. 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 Chersonissos 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: 26.7 km (16.6 mi), about 26 min, and the same fixed fare from €38 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Chersonissos at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
Chersonissos back into Heraklion runs the same 26.7 kilometres at the same fare.
Morning is the constraint. Traffic heading west into the city thickens from mid-morning along the whole strip, so a car booked against a fixed appointment leaves earlier than the map suggests it needs to.
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.
The calculation is 26 minutes of driving, plus your airline's or operator's own requirement, plus an allowance for the resort road at whatever hour you are travelling.
Give us the details at booking. The confirmed pickup is printed on the 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 Chersonissos 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 Chersonissos costs a fixed €38 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €60.
Marginally. Chersonissos is 26.7 kilometres from Heraklion Town against 27.9 from the airport, which is unusual for an eastbound route.
They are separate parts of the same resort, one on the shore and one uphill inland. Give the accommodation name at booking so the driver takes the right turning.
Piskopiano at 23.3 kilometres from Heraklion Airport and Koutouloufari at 26.7 sit on the slope behind the resort and are booked as their own transfers.
Yes. Where the street takes no vehicle, your driver arranges the closest legal stopping point and confirms it before the day.
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 €38 for a Standard car to Chersonissos.
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 Chersonissos and Chersonissos to Heraklion Town are the same journey at the same fixed €38, 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.