A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Maleme covers 155.0 km (96.3 mi) in about 2 hr 18 min and costs a fixed fare from €155 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Town, or the departure run back from Maleme 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 | €155 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €190 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €200 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €225 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €380 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €885 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Maleme 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 Maleme: 155.0 km (96.3 mi), about 2 hr 18 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.
Maleme is a village on the coast west of Chania, at the western end of the beach strip that begins at Agia Marina. Maleme is known outside Crete for the airfield beside it, which was the main objective of the German airborne landings in May 1941 and the place where the Battle of Crete was decided.
The German War Cemetery stands on Hill 107 above the village, holding the graves of more than 4,000 soldiers, and is open to visitors.
The village itself is quiet, with a long beach of sand and shingle, a scatter of hotels and apartments, and the Rodopos peninsula rising to the west.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, on the beach side of the road or in the village behind it.
The old road through Maleme carries most of the village's addresses. Give the accommodation name when you book, because the numbering along it is not continuous.
The drive runs west across the island, 155.0 kilometres in about 2 hr 18 min, to the village at the far end of the Chania beach strip.
Maleme is the value on this coast from Heraklion, and the fare table says so plainly. A Standard car costs €155 here at 155.0 kilometres, the same €155 as Agia Marina at 146.0, and €10 less than Platanias at 151.0 — which sits between the two. Chania Town, 16 kilometres nearer than Maleme, costs €165.
Your driver leaves your Heraklion address for the national road. Ammoudara, Agia Pelagia, Fodele, Bali and Panormos carry the first hour, and Rethymno arrives at 78.4 kilometres.
Georgioupolis and Apokoronas follow, the road climbs over Aptera above Souda Bay, and Chania goes by on the bypass. Stalos, Agia Marina and Platanias then run out along the sand, and Maleme is the last of them before the coast turns towards the Rodopos peninsula.
What Maleme is known for outside Crete is not the beach. The airfield beside the village was the main objective of the German airborne landings in May 1941, and the fighting for it decided the Battle of Crete.
The German War Cemetery stands on Hill 107 above the village and holds the graves of more than 4,000 soldiers. It is open to visitors, and a good share of the arrivals here have come for it rather than for the sand.
The village itself is quiet, with a long sand and shingle beach and the old road carrying most of its addresses. Creta Princess by Atlantica, Asterion, Bella Pais and Mike's Hotel stand along it, and since the numbering is not continuous the accommodation name is what identifies the stop.
The KTEL coach from Heraklion to Chania takes close to three hours, and the western service continues past Maleme on the old road.
Two coaches and a change, plus reaching Heraklion's bus station first, come to most of a day against 2 hr 18 min in one car. The western service also thins outside the summer months.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Maleme. 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 Maleme 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: 155.0 km (96.3 mi), about 2 hr 18 min, and the same fixed fare from €155 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Maleme at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
Maleme back to Heraklion covers the same 155.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
Eastbound the old road through the strip is the slow section, then the Chania bypass, and the Rethymno bypass and Heraklion approach come at the end of the run. Early departures leave before the strip fills.
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 18 min of driving, the check-in or boarding time your airline or ferry line asks for, and margins for the strip and the three city approaches.
Give us the flight number or sailing at booking. On a cross-island route the pickup is calculated 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 Maleme 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 Maleme costs a fixed €155 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €225.
Both carry a €155 Standard fare from Heraklion, although Maleme is 155.0 kilometres out and Agia Marina 146.0. Platanias between them is €165, so the fares on this strip do not rise with the distance.
The German War Cemetery, holding the graves of more than 4,000 soldiers from the 1941 airborne landings. It stands above the village and is open to visitors.
Both, along a long stretch at the western end of the Chania strip. Maleme is quieter than Platanias and Agia Marina on the same coast.
The properties on and behind the old road, among them Creta Princess by Atlantica, Asterion, Bella Pais, Mike's Hotel & Restaurant and Solon Appartments.
Long sand and shingle, wider and emptier than the strip nearer Chania, with the Rodopos peninsula closing the view west.
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 €155 for a Standard car to Maleme.
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 Maleme and Maleme to Heraklion Town are the same journey at the same fixed €155, 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.