A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Ferma covers 108.0 km (67.1 mi) in about 1 hr 40 min and costs a fixed fare from €115 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Town, or the departure run back from Ferma 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 | €115 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €138 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €140 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €145 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €230 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €570 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Ferma 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 Ferma: 108.0 km (67.1 mi), about 1 hr 40 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.
Ferma is a coastal settlement on the south-east of Crete, between Ierapetra and Koutsounari. Ferma is built along a series of small rocky coves rather than one beach, which is the main difference between it and the long shingle shores either side.
Accommodation is mostly hotels and apartment complexes set above the coves, with steps or short paths down to the water.
The coast road runs behind, and Ierapetra, the nearest town of any size, is a few kilometres west.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa above the coves.
Ferma's properties sit on short access roads off the coast road, several of them unnamed. Give the property name at booking so the driver takes the right turning.
The drive crosses the island south-east for 108.0 kilometres and takes about 1 hr 40 min, ending at the coves on the south-east coast.
Your driver picks you up at your Heraklion address and is on the national road within minutes. Gouves, Chersonissos and Stalida pass on the resort coast, Malia and then Sissi and Milatos follow, and Agios Nikolaos comes at 64.3 kilometres.
Istron arrives at 74.7 kilometres along Mirabello Bay, the road turns south at Pachia Ammos and crosses the narrow waist of the island, and Ierapetra is reached at 97.3. Ferma is the coast road east of the town.
Ferma has no beach in the way its neighbours do, and booking it by accident is the mistake worth avoiding. The shore here breaks into a series of small rocky coves, each below the property that faces it, reached by steps or a short path rather than along a promenade.
Two kilometres west, Koutsounari has long shingle beaches; a little further east, Makrigialos has sand. Ferma has neither, and it carries the same fixed €115 from Heraklion as Koutsounari does, so the fare will not tell you which kind of shore you are booking.
Hotel Porto Belissario, Oleander Garden and Aaron Apartments sit above those coves within a kilometre of the centre, on short access roads off the coast road that mostly carry no name.
That is why the property name matters more than the address here. Your driver takes the correct turning on the strength of the name, and a wrong one on this shore means reversing back up a narrow lane.
Ierapetra, at 97.3 kilometres from Heraklion, is the nearest town of any size and the place to go for shops and a harbour.
The KTEL coach from Heraklion reaches Ierapetra with a change at Agios Nikolaos, and the eastern coast service passes Ferma on the main road.
Getting to the city bus station comes first, then two coaches, then the walk down from the road to whichever cove your hotel stands above. That last part is the one people underestimate.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Ferma. 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 Ferma 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: 108.0 km (67.1 mi), about 1 hr 40 min, and the same fixed fare from €115 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Ferma at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
Ferma back to Heraklion covers the same 108.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
The climb up from the coves and the run west to Ierapetra open the return, then the isthmus and the national road north. Everything after Agios Nikolaos moves quickly until the city approach.
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 1 hr 40 min of driving, the check-in or boarding time your airline or ferry line asks for, and a margin for the access road and the isthmus.
Send the flight number or sailing when you book, and the pickup is calculated rather than estimated on the day.
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 Ferma 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 Ferma costs a fixed €115 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €145.
Not a continuous one. The shore is a series of small rocky coves with hotels set above them and steps or short paths down to the water.
Koutsounari two kilometres west has long shingle beaches, and Makrigialos further east has sand. Both are separate transfers.
The access roads off the coast road are short and largely unnamed. The name identifies the turning where an address on this stretch often does not.
The properties above the coves, among them Hotel Porto Belissario, Oleander Garden and Aaron Apartments.
A series of small rocky coves, each below the property that faces it, with steps or a short path down to the water. There is no promenade and no continuous beach to walk along.
Ierapetra, a few kilometres west, which has the market, the harbour and everything else this coast uses. Ferma itself is hotels and rooms above the water.
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 €115 for a Standard car to Ferma.
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 Ferma and Ferma to Heraklion Town are the same journey at the same fixed €115, 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.