A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Kolymbari covers 159.0 km (98.8 mi) in about 2 hr 15 min and costs a fixed fare from €185 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Town, or the departure run back from Kolymbari 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 | €185 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €202 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €215 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €260 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €444 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €955 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Kolymbari 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 Kolymbari: 159.0 km (98.8 mi), about 2 hr 15 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.
Kolymbari is a village at the base of the Rodopos peninsula, on the coast west of Chania where the beach strip ends and the headland begins. Kolymbari is built around a working harbour and a long pebble beach, and it keeps the feel of a village rather than a resort.
Gonia Monastery stands at the northern edge of the village, above the sea, and the Orthodox Academy of Crete sits beside it.
The road north from here runs out along the Rodopos peninsula, an empty limestone headland with no settlements on it, which is why Kolymbari is the last village on this stretch of coast.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, in the village or along the coast road either side of it.
Kolymbari's lanes towards the harbour are narrow. Where an address sits on one, your driver stops at the nearest point a car can wait and confirms it before the day.
The drive runs west across the island, 159.0 kilometres in about 2 hr 15 min, to the village at the foot of the Rodopos peninsula.
Kolymbari is further from Heraklion than Maleme and quicker to reach: 159.0 kilometres against 155.0, at about 2 hr 15 min against 2 hr 18 min. The road across the island is the same for both, so the difference sits in the last few kilometres at the western end.
Your driver picks you up at your Heraklion address and joins the national road within minutes. Ammoudara, Agia Pelagia and Fodele pass early, Bali and Panormos take the headlands, and Rethymno comes at 78.4 kilometres.
The road runs on through Georgioupolis and Apokoronas, climbs over Aptera with Souda Bay below, and skirts Chania on the bypass. The western strip follows, and Kolymbari sits where the sand ends and the headland begins.
This is the last village on the stretch. North of it the road runs out onto the Rodopos peninsula, an empty limestone headland carrying no settlements at all, so nothing further along that shore is a place you could be dropped.
The village is built around a working harbour with fishing boats using it through the year, and the beach is long pebble rather than the sand of the strip east of it. Gonia Monastery stands above the sea at the northern edge, with the Orthodox Academy of Crete beside it.
Avra Imperial Hotel, Euphoria Resort, Selini Suites, Aphea Village and Chryssana Beach Hotel are spread along the coast road either side of the village. The lanes down towards the harbour are narrow, so where an address sits on one your driver stops at the nearest point a car can wait and confirms it before the day.
The KTEL service between Chania and Kissamos stops at Kolymbari on the main road above the village.
Reaching it from Heraklion means the city bus station, close to three hours to Chania, a change, and then the walk down from the stop. The car covers the whole of it in 2 hr 15 min and finishes at the door.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Kolymbari. 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 Kolymbari 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: 159.0 km (98.8 mi), about 2 hr 15 min, and the same fixed fare from €185 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Kolymbari at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
Kolymbari back to Heraklion covers the same 159.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
The climb up from the village to the main road opens the return, then the Chania bypass, the Apokoronas stretch and the Rethymno bypass. The Heraklion approach at the end is the part that thickens through 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.
Allow about 2 hr 15 min of driving, the check-in or boarding time you have been given, and margins for the harbour lanes and the three city approaches.
Send the flight number or sailing with the booking, and the pickup time appears on your 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 Kolymbari 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 Kolymbari costs a fixed €185 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €260.
By 4.0 kilometres, and it is about 3 minutes quicker. Kolymbari is 159.0 kilometres from Heraklion and Maleme 155.0, and the fares are €185 and €155.
An Orthodox monastery standing above the sea at the northern edge of the village, with the Orthodox Academy of Crete beside it. Both are within walking distance of the harbour.
Pebble, and long. The sand strip ends before Kolymbari, which is part of why the village stays quieter than Platanias and Agia Marina.
Nothing built. Rodopos is bare limestone with no settlements and no coast road, so the tarmac simply stops. That emptiness is a large part of what people book Kolymbari for, and it is why the village has stayed a village.
Comfortably. The city is a short drive back east along the coast, which makes this one of the few far-western bases you can leave for dinner and return to the same night.
Guests who want a working village rather than a strip, and walkers using the peninsula. The hotels here are spread along the coast road either side of the harbour rather than gathered in a centre.
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 €185 for a Standard car to Kolymbari.
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 Kolymbari and Kolymbari to Heraklion Town are the same journey at the same fixed €185, 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.