A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Gouves covers 19.5 km (12.1 mi) in about 21 minutes and costs a fixed fare from €36 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Town, or the departure run back from Gouves 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 | €36 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €40 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €45 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €55 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €80 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €165 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Gouves 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 Gouves: 19.5 km (12.1 mi), about 21 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.
Gouves is a coastal resort area east of Heraklion, made up of two parts: the seafront strip at Kato Gouves, and the older village of Pano Gouves inland and uphill. Gouves is quieter than the resorts further east and is largely given over to hotel complexes rather than a nightlife strip.
The beaches are a mix of sand and shingle, with the larger hotels holding their own stretches. The coast here is straighter than at Hersonissos or Agia Pelagia, so the sea is more open.
The CretAquarium at Gournes is the nearest major attraction, built on the site of a former United States air base a couple of minutes along the coast. It is the largest aquarium in Greece.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, on the seafront or up in the old village.
Several of the larger complexes sit behind long private approaches. The driver takes the vehicle to the reception entrance rather than leaving you at the gate.
The drive runs east from your Heraklion address for 19.5 kilometres and takes about 21 minutes. Starting in the city rather than at the airport adds about 4 kilometres here, because the airport sits east of Heraklion and this journey has to reach that side first.
Your driver leaves the centre past the port and picks up the national road above Karteros. Those first minutes are the variable ones: the road out of the city is the only part of the run that traffic touches.
Amnissos and Kokkini Hani follow, then Gournes with the aquarium on the shore. Gouves comes immediately after it, which means the last third of this drive passes three separate places each sold as its own transfer.
Gouves itself splits into two. The coastal resort sits below the national road with its beaches and hotels, and the old village of Ano Gouves is uphill and inland, a working village with a different character entirely. The turning you need depends on which one your accommodation is in.
Twenty-one minutes is the normal figure. A mid-afternoon run in August adds a few, and the addition comes at the Heraklion end rather than on the coast.
The KTEL coastal bus runs frequently between Heraklion and the eastern resorts and stops at Gouves.
It leaves from Heraklion's bus station rather than your accommodation, and it sets you down on the main road above the resort rather than at a hotel entrance. Over 19.5 kilometres the fare difference is real; the two walks at either end are what people weigh against it.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Gouves. 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 Gouves 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: 19.5 km (12.1 mi), about 21 min, and the same fixed fare from €36 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Gouves at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
Coming back into the city is the same 19.5 kilometres, at the same fixed fare in that direction.
Gouves feeds onto the national road at a single junction, so the return is quick to start. What decides it is Heraklion itself, where the seaward approach thickens from about seven in the morning.
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.
Work back from your own deadline: roughly 21 minutes of driving, whatever check-in or boarding your airline or ferry line requires, and ten minutes of margin for the city approach.
Send the flight number, sailing or appointment with the booking. The pickup time then appears on the voucher rather than being agreed 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 Gouves 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 Gouves costs a fixed €36 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €55.
Yes, by about 4 kilometres. Gouves is 15.4 kilometres from Heraklion Airport and 19.5 from the city centre, because the airport already sits on the eastern side.
They are separate places, one on the shore and one uphill inland. Give the accommodation name at booking so the driver takes the right turning.
CretAquarium, the largest aquarium in Greece, on the shore at the former air base site. Gournes is 12.0 kilometres from Heraklion Airport and is booked separately.
Yes. Where the street takes no vehicle, your driver arranges the nearest 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 €36 for a Standard car to Gouves.
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 Gouves and Gouves to Heraklion Town are the same journey at the same fixed €36, 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 taxi in Crete we run, from the airports and ports to the resorts and villages along both coasts.