A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Koutsounari covers 106.0 km (65.9 mi) in about 1 hr 38 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 Koutsounari 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 | €260 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €560 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Koutsounari 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 Koutsounari: 106.0 km (65.9 mi), about 1 hr 38 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.
Koutsounari is a settlement on the south-east coast of Crete, a few kilometres east of Ierapetra. Koutsounari has a hill village inland and a run of beaches below it, and most of the accommodation on this stretch is in low-rise complexes and apartments along the coast road rather than in the village itself.
The beaches are long and mostly shingle, with the Libyan Sea open in front and the mountains rising behind.
Ierapetra provides the shops, the market and the harbour, and Makrigialos continues the same coast further east.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, on the coast road or up in the village.
Koutsounari spreads over several kilometres and its two parts are distinct. Say whether you need the village or the coast when you book, and give the property name.
The drive crosses the island south-east for 106.0 kilometres and takes about 1 hr 38 min, ending on the beaches east of Ierapetra.
Your driver collects you at your Heraklion address and joins the national road within a few minutes. The eastern resort coast carries the first half hour to Malia, then Sissi and Milatos, and Agios Nikolaos comes at 64.3 kilometres.
Istron follows at 74.7 kilometres along Mirabello Bay, the road turns south at Pachia Ammos, and Ierapetra is reached at 97.3. Koutsounari is the coast road east of the town, a few kilometres on.
Koutsounari is two places under one name, and which one you have booked decides where the car stops. The hill village sits inland on its own road; the accommodation most guests take is the run of low-rise complexes and apartments strung along the coast road below it, above long shingle beaches with the Libyan Sea open in front.
Tell us which of the two you need as well as the property name. The settlement spreads over several kilometres and the difference between the village and the shore is a drive rather than a walk.
Koutsounari and Ferma share the same fixed €115 from the city although they are different kinds of shore: long shingle here, small rocky coves two kilometres further east. The fare band does not distinguish between them and the beaches very much do.
Coriva Beach Hotel, Almyra Hotel and Village, Mare Village, Kakkos Bay and Mare Blue Crete stand within about a kilometre of the centre.
Ierapetra to the west is where the shops, the market and the harbour are, and at 97.3 kilometres from Heraklion it is the last town of any size before this coast.
The KTEL coach reaches Ierapetra from Heraklion in about two and a half hours with a change at Agios Nikolaos, and the local service east covers the coast road from there.
That is the city bus station first, then two coaches, then a third, then a set-down on the main road above the complexes. The service thins considerably outside the summer months.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Koutsounari. 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 Koutsounari 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: 106.0 km (65.9 mi), about 1 hr 38 min, and the same fixed fare from €115 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Koutsounari at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
Koutsounari back to Heraklion covers the same 106.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
The coast road west to Ierapetra and the climb to the isthmus fill the first half hour, and the national road carries the rest. 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 1 hr 38 min of driving, the check-in or boarding time you have been given, and a margin for the coast road and the isthmus crossing.
Give us the flight number or sailing at booking. The pickup is worked back from it and printed 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 Koutsounari 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 Koutsounari costs a fixed €115 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €145.
They are separate parts of Koutsounari, the village inland and the complexes along the shore. Say which you need at booking, since the two are several minutes apart by road.
Yes, €115 for a Standard car from Heraklion, at 108.0 kilometres against 106.0 here. The beaches differ more than the fares do.
Shingle, and long, with the Libyan Sea open in front and the mountains behind.
The complexes along the coast road, among them Coriva Beach Hotel, Almyra Hotel & Village, Mare Village Crete, Kakkos Bay and Mare blue Crete.
The market, the harbour and the shops for this whole stretch of coast, a few kilometres west. It is also where the boats to Chrissi island leave from in summer.
Greenhouses, running inland for kilometres. Early vegetables are the local economy along the south-east coast, and they are the reason these villages have a population in February.
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 Koutsounari.
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 Koutsounari and Koutsounari 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 private transfers in Crete we run, from the airports and ports to the resorts and villages along both coasts.