A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Ierapetra covers 97.3 km (60.5 mi) in about 1 hr 29 min and costs a fixed fare from €100 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Town, or the departure run back from Ierapetra 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 | €100 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €115 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €120 |
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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 | €210 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €500 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Ierapetra 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 Ierapetra: 97.3 km (60.5 mi), about 1 hr 29 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.
Ierapetra is the southernmost town in Greece and the main settlement on Crete's south-east coast, facing the Libyan Sea across a long seafront. Ierapetra is a working town before it is a resort, with a market, a fishing harbour and an agricultural belt of greenhouses spreading along the coast either side of it.
The Venetian fortress known as the Kales stands at the harbour entrance, and the old quarter of narrow streets sits behind it.
Boats to Chrissi, the uninhabited sand island about 15 kilometres offshore, leave from the harbour through the summer.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, on the seafront or in the streets behind it.
The old quarter near the fortress has narrow one-way lanes. Where your address sits inside it, the driver stops at the nearest legal point and tells you which before the day.
The drive crosses from the north coast to the south at the island's narrowest point, 97.3 kilometres in about 1 hr 29 min. Crete is only about 12 kilometres wide at the isthmus above Ierapetra, which is why the southernmost town in Greece is barely further from Heraklion than Agios Nikolaos.
Your driver leaves your address and joins the national road above the port.
The eastern coast follows: the resort strip to Malia, then the inland climb where the development stops, then Agios Nikolaos at 64.3 kilometres from the city and the shore of Mirabello Bay through Istron.
The turn south comes at Pachia Ammos, and the crossing takes only a few minutes. The Libyan Sea appears ahead almost as soon as the Cretan Sea has gone.
Ierapetra is entered along its seafront, with the greenhouse belt that supplies much of Greece with winter vegetables spreading either side of the approach. The Venetian fortress at the harbour entrance is the landmark at the end of the drive. Ierapetra is the practical base for the whole south-east. Koutsounari lies 102.0 kilometres from Heraklion Airport, Ferma 104.0, Agia Fotia 106.0 and Makrigialos 118.0, and every one of them is reached through the town.
The KTEL coach reaches Ierapetra from Heraklion in about two and a half hours, usually with a change at Agios Nikolaos.
It leaves from Heraklion's bus station rather than your accommodation, and the change is the part that costs time. The service also thins considerably outside the summer months.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Ierapetra. 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 Ierapetra 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: 97.3 km (60.5 mi), about 1 hr 29 min, and the same fixed fare from €100 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Ierapetra at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
Ierapetra to Heraklion is the same 97.3 kilometres at the same fare.
The isthmus itself never causes trouble in either direction. It is the resort coast beyond Agios Nikolaos, at its slowest westbound in the middle of the morning, that sets the departure time.
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.
Start from 89 minutes of driving, add the check-in or boarding time you have been given, and add a margin for the Malia to Gouves section.
The pickup is calculated from those and printed on your voucher once you send us the details.
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 Ierapetra 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 Ierapetra costs a fixed €100 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €145.
Crete narrows to about 12 kilometres at the isthmus above Ierapetra, so the crossing between the two seas takes only a few minutes.
Yes, by about 4 kilometres. Ierapetra is 93.3 kilometres from Heraklion Airport and 97.3 from the city centre.
Koutsounari, Ferma, Agia Fotia, Koutsouras and Makrigialos all lie east of Ierapetra and each is booked as its own transfer.
The Kales, a Venetian fort standing at the harbour entrance, with the old quarter of narrow streets behind it.
It has the shops, the market and the harbour that the settlements east of it do not. Those run from Koutsounari to Makrigialos and each is booked as its own transfer.
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 €100 for a Standard car to Ierapetra.
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 Ierapetra and Ierapetra to Heraklion Town are the same journey at the same fixed €100, 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 taxi we run, from the airports and ports to the resorts and villages along both coasts.