A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Fallasarna covers 187.0 km (116.2 mi) in about 2 hr 50 min and costs a fixed fare from €250 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Town, or the departure run back from Fallasarna 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 | €250 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €290 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €300 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €350 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €662 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Fallasarna 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 Fallasarna: 187.0 km (116.2 mi), about 2 hr 50 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.
Fallasarna is a wide west-facing beach on the far west coast of Crete, north of Kissamos at the base of the Gramvousa peninsula. Fallasarna is known for its scale and its aspect: several hundred metres of pale sand facing directly west, which is why it fills with people watching the sunset rather than emptying at the end of the day.
The name is also written Falassarna and Falasarna, and all three refer to the same beach.
The ruins of the ancient harbour town of Phalasarna lie at the northern end, raised well above the present sea level by the earthquake that lifted this corner of the island.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, at the beach or up among the greenhouses and olive terraces behind it.
Accommodation at Fallasarna is scattered rather than clustered and many properties have no street address. Give the property name and the owner's directions when you book.
The drive crosses the island west, 187.0 kilometres in about 2 hr 50 min, to the wide beach at the far western corner of Crete.
The last fifteen kilometres are the expensive ones. Kissamos, the town this route passes at 172.0 kilometres, costs €190 for a Standard car; Fallasarna, fifteen kilometres further, costs €250. Sixty euros for the shoulder of the Gramvousa peninsula is the steepest short step on the whole western list from the city.
Your driver collects you at your Heraklion address and joins the national road within minutes. Ammoudara, Agia Pelagia and Lygaria pass early, then Fodele, Bali and Panormos on the headlands, and Rethymno at 78.4 kilometres.
Georgioupolis and the Apokoronas slope follow, the road climbs over Aptera above Souda Bay, and Chania is skirted on the bypass at 139.0 kilometres. The beach strip runs out through Platanias and Maleme at 155.0, Kolymbari follows, and Kissamos is the last town.
The final stretch turns north and climbs over the shoulder of the peninsula before dropping to the coast on its western side.
What waits there is several hundred metres of pale sand facing directly west. Fallasarna does not empty at the end of the day the way an east-facing beach does; it fills, because the sunset is what people come for and there is nothing between the sand and the horizon.
At the northern end stand the ruins of the ancient harbour town of Phalasarna, left well above the present sea by the earthquake that lifted this corner of the island, so a Greek harbour now sits inland of the water it was built for.
Kalami Rooms and Apartments, Hotel Plakures, Falasarna Bay, Kavousi Resort and Hotel Petritos are scattered among the greenhouses and olive terraces behind the beach, and many have no street address at all.
The KTEL coach reaches Kissamos from Chania, and a local service runs out to Fallasarna a few times a day in season.
From the city that is Heraklion's bus station, close to three hours to Chania, the western coach, and then the local. Four legs, three waits, and the last service back goes early in the evening.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Fallasarna. 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 Fallasarna 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: 187.0 km (116.2 mi), about 2 hr 50 min, and the same fixed fare from €250 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Fallasarna at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
Fallasarna back to Heraklion covers the same 187.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
The climb back over to Kissamos opens the return and the national road carries everything from Chania east. An early flight or sailing from Heraklion means leaving here well before dawn.
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.
Allow about 2 hr 50 min of driving, the check-in or boarding time you have been given, and margins for the Gramvousa road and the two bypasses.
Give us the flight number or sailing at booking. On a route this long the pickup is calculated rather than estimated, and the time goes 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 Fallasarna 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 Fallasarna costs a fixed €250 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €350.
Kissamos is 172.0 kilometres from the city at €190 and Fallasarna 187.0 at €250. The fifteen kilometres between them cross the shoulder of the Gramvousa peninsula.
Fallasarna, Falassarna and Falasarna all refer to the same beach, and the ancient town at its northern end is written Phalasarna.
The scattered rooms and apartments behind the beach, among them Kalami Rooms & Apartments, Hotel Plakures, Falasarna bay, Kavousi Resort and Hotel Petritos.
It faces due west across open sea, so the sunset is the event here. Beaches on the north and east coasts empty at that hour and this one does the reverse, which is worth knowing if you were expecting the quiet end of the day.
Pale sand along its length, with low dunes behind and rock at either end. The scale is what surprises people arriving from the narrow coves on the north coast.
In rooms and apartments scattered among the greenhouses and olive terraces behind the beach. There is no village, so the property name and the owner's directions are what the driver works 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 €250 for a Standard car to Fallasarna.
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 Fallasarna and Fallasarna to Heraklion Town are the same journey at the same fixed €250, 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.