A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Fragkokastello covers 132.0 km (82.0 mi) in about 2 hr 23 min and costs a fixed fare from €155 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Town, or the departure run back from Fragkokastello 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 | €155 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €179 |
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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 | €185 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €384 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €795 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Fragkokastello 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 Fragkokastello: 132.0 km (82.0 mi), about 2 hr 23 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.
Fragkokastello is a settlement on the south coast of Crete, named after the Venetian castle that stands alone on the shore beside it. Fragkokastello's castle was built in the fourteenth century and survives as a near-complete rectangle of walls and corner towers directly above the sand, with nothing built against it.
The name is also written Frangokastello and Frangocastello.
The beach in front of the castle is wide, shallow and sandy, and the plain behind it is open farmland rather than resort development, which keeps the whole place quiet even in season.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, near the castle or out along the plain behind the beach.
Accommodation here is spread thinly across open country and few of the tracks are named. Give the property name and any directions the owner has sent you when you book.
The drive runs west and then south for 132.0 kilometres and takes about 2 hr 23 min, ending at the Venetian castle on the Libyan Sea.
The clock and the map disagree on this route, and one comparison shows why. Plakias is 112.0 kilometres from Heraklion and about 1 hr 55 min away. Fragkokastello is 132.0 and about 2 hr 23 min. Twenty kilometres more road, twenty-eight minutes more driving, because everything west of Plakias is south coast road rather than anything you could call a highway.
Your driver collects you at your Heraklion address and joins the national road within a few minutes. Ammoudara, Agia Pelagia and Lygaria pass early, then Fodele, Bali and Panormos take the headlands, and Rethymno arrives at 78.4 kilometres.
The turn south comes above the city. The road climbs through Armeni and over the spine of the island, reaches the sea near Plakias, and then runs west above the water through Rodakino.
Visitors arriving from Chania cross the White Mountains and come down the Imbros gorge. From this side neither is on the route, which is worth knowing if you have read a description written from the other end of the island.
The castle is unmistakable when you get there: a near-complete rectangle of fourteenth-century walls and corner towers standing alone on the shore, nothing built against it, and a wide shallow sand beach directly in front.
There is no village behind it in the usual sense. The plain is open farmland and accommodation is scattered thinly across it on tracks that mostly carry no name, so the property name and the owner's directions matter more here than an address does.
Dolphin Apartments, Monachus Monachus Apartments, Milos Apartments, Castello Apartments and Liviko Apartments are spread across that plain rather than gathered together.
No practical public route reaches Fragkokastello from Heraklion.
The coach network approaches this coast from Chania, calling at Chora Sfakion a couple of times a day, and the stretch east to Fragkokastello has almost no scheduled service outside high summer. Crossing the island by coach first makes it a two-day proposition.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Fragkokastello. 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 Fragkokastello 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: 132.0 km (82.0 mi), about 2 hr 23 min, and the same fixed fare from €155 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Fragkokastello at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
Fragkokastello back to Heraklion covers the same 132.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
The coast road east to Plakias and the climb back over to Rethymno fill the first hour and set the pace for the whole return. An early flight or sailing means driving that section in the dark.
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 23 min of driving, the check-in or boarding time you have been given, and a real margin for the south coast road and the mountain crossing.
Send the flight number or sailing at booking. On a route this slow 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 Fragkokastello 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 Fragkokastello costs a fixed €155 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €185.
The last stretch is south coast road. Plakias, 20 kilometres nearer at 112.0, is about 1 hr 55 min away, so those 20 kilometres cost 28 minutes.
No. That is the approach from Chania. From Heraklion the road crosses to the south coast near Plakias and runs west through Rodakino.
Fragkokastello, Frangokastello and Frangocastello all refer to the same place and the same castle.
The apartments and houses across the plain behind the beach, among them Dolphin Apartments, Monachus Monachus Apartments, Milos Apartements, Castello-Apartements and Liviko Apartments.
A handful of tavernas near the castle and along the plain, most of them attached to the rooms they belong to. There is no village centre to walk into.
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 €155 for a Standard car to Fragkokastello.
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 Fragkokastello and Fragkokastello to Heraklion Town are the same journey at the same fixed €155, 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.