A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Koutsouras covers 119.0 km (73.9 mi) in about 1 hr 52 min and costs a fixed fare from €125 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Town, or the departure run back from Koutsouras 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 | €125 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €145 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €150 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €160 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €300 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €590 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Koutsouras 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 Koutsouras: 119.0 km (73.9 mi), about 1 hr 52 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.
Koutsouras is a village on the south-east coast of Crete, between Agia Fotia and Makrigialos. Koutsouras runs along the coast road with a shingle beach in front of it and greenhouses spreading inland behind, which is the pattern along this whole shore.
The village has shops and tavernas used by residents as much as by visitors, and a small park behind the beach.
Makrigialos and its long sand beach begin a short distance east, and Ierapetra is the nearest town of any size to the west.
We drop you at the door of your apartment, rooms or house along the coast road or behind it.
Koutsouras runs together with its neighbours along one road. Give the property name at booking so the driver stops in the right village.
The drive crosses the island south-east for 119.0 kilometres and takes about 1 hr 52 min, ending at the village on the south-east coast.
Your driver collects you at your Heraklion address and joins the national road within a few minutes. The eastern resort coast fills the first half hour to Malia, then Sissi and Milatos, and Agios Nikolaos comes at 64.3 kilometres.
Istron follows at 74.7 kilometres, the road turns south at Pachia Ammos, and Ierapetra arrives at 97.3. Koutsouras is about 22 kilometres further east along the coast road, past Ferma, Koutsounari and Agia Fotia.
One line of the fare table is worth reading before you book, since the two villages are ten minutes apart. A Standard car costs €125 to Koutsouras and €120 to Makrigialos, although Makrigialos is 122.0 kilometres from Heraklion against 119.0 here. Every other vehicle is priced identically on the two routes, at €145 for an SUV, €150 for a Premium and €160 for a Minivan. Only the small car differs, and it differs the wrong way round.
Koutsouras is a village rather than a resort, and the difference holds through the year. The shops and tavernas along the front serve the people who live here as much as the people staying, greenhouses run inland behind the houses, and the beach is shingle rather than a resort strip.
South Coast, Palm Beach Hotel and Ionostar Hotel stand along the front within a kilometre of the centre. The villages on this shore run into one another along a single road, so your driver works from the property name rather than the village sign.
The KTEL coach from Heraklion reaches Ierapetra with a change at Agios Nikolaos, and the eastern service continues along the coast to Koutsouras.
That means the city bus station, two coaches and a change, then a set-down on the road through the village. Outside the summer months the eastern service runs rarely enough to plan a day around.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Koutsouras. 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 Koutsouras 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: 119.0 km (73.9 mi), about 1 hr 52 min, and the same fixed fare from €125 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Koutsouras at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
Koutsouras back to Heraklion covers the same 119.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
The coast road west to Ierapetra opens the return, then the isthmus, then the national road north from Pachia Ammos. The city approach at the end 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 52 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 Koutsouras 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 Koutsouras costs a fixed €125 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €160.
The Standard fare is €120 there against €125 here, although Makrigialos is 122.0 kilometres from Heraklion and Koutsouras 119.0. The SUV, Premium and Minivan fares are the same on both routes.
A shingle beach runs along the front of the village, with a small park behind it. The sand at Makrigialos begins a short distance east.
The apartments and hotels along the coast road and behind it, among them South Coast, Palm Beach Hotel and Ionostar Hotel.
Makrigialos is the resort and Koutsouras is the village. The sand starts at Makrigialos, the shops and tavernas that stay open all year are here, and the two run together along one road with no gap you would notice from the car.
Shingle, running the length of the front, with a small park behind it. It is a swimming beach for the village rather than a sunbed strip, which is the character of this whole stretch of the south-east.
Ierapetra is the nearest town of any size, west along the coast, and that is where the market and the harbour are. Everything east of here thins out towards the corner of the island.
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 €125 for a Standard car to Koutsouras.
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 Koutsouras and Koutsouras to Heraklion Town are the same journey at the same fixed €125, 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.