A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Milatos covers 48.6 km (30.2 mi) in about 48 minutes and costs a fixed fare from €60 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Town, or the departure run back from Milatos 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 | €60 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €67 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €72 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €85 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €130 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €280 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Milatos 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 Milatos: 48.6 km (30.2 mi), about 48 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.
Milatos is a coastal village in the Lassithi region, east of Sissi on the stretch of north coast between Malia and Agios Nikolaos. Milatos is small and low-key, with a shingle beach, a line of tavernas along the water and an older village on the hill above it.
The cave at Milatos, a large cave in the cliffs a few kilometres from the village, is the site of a well-known episode from the 1823 rising and is reached by a track and a short walk.
Development here is thin compared with the resorts west of it, which is what people choose it for.
We drop you at the door of your rooms, apartment or house, in the coastal village or up in the old one.
Milatos has two parts a short distance apart on the hill. Say which you need at booking and give the property name.
The drive runs east for 48.6 kilometres and takes about 48 minutes, to the last village before the road turns inland towards Neapoli.
The busy half comes first: Gouves, Chersonissos, Stalida and Malia in sequence, the most heavily built coastline on the island and the stretch that decides whether this takes 48 minutes or rather more in August.
Past Malia the development stops within a kilometre. Sissi comes first at 44.7 kilometres from the city, then Milatos 4 kilometres beyond, both reached by their own turnings down from the main road.
The village is in two parts, the coastal settlement behind a shingle beach and the older village on the hill above it. The cave at Milatos, in the cliffs a few kilometres away, is reached by a track and a short walk from there. Ten euros separate Milatos from Sissi and four kilometres separate the villages. Malia is 36.2 kilometres from a city address at €45 for a Standard car, Sissi 44.7 at €50 and Milatos 48.6 at €60, so the quiet end of this coast is where the fare starts climbing rather than where it levels off.
Accommodation here is one address of any size. The Radisson Blu Luxury Resort at Milatos is the hotel in the area, and everything else is rooms and houses in the two parts of the village, which is unusual on a coast where most places have twenty properties competing.
The transition on this coast happens within a few kilometres. Malia at 36.2 kilometres from the city is the last of the large resorts, Sissi at 44.7 is markedly quieter and Milatos at 48.6 quieter again, after which the road turns inland and the coast is empty until Agios Nikolaos.
The coastal bus passes the Milatos turning on the main road.
Being set down there leaves a walk of more than a kilometre downhill to the village and the same climb back out, and the bus starts from Heraklion's bus station.
The return leg is the same journey in reverse: 48.6 km (30.2 mi), about 48 min, and the same fixed fare from €60 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Milatos at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
Milatos back into Heraklion is the same 48.6 kilometres at the same fixed fare.
Westbound traffic through Malia and Chersonissos builds from mid-morning, so departures allow for the resort strip rather than the empty road at this end.
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.
Forty-eight minutes of driving, plus any check-in or terminal time, plus a margin for the resort strip.
Give us the detail at booking and the confirmed pickup is 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 Milatos 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 Milatos costs a fixed €60 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €85.
Sissi is 44.7 kilometres from the city and Milatos 48.6, so about 4 kilometres separates them.
A large cave in the cliffs a few kilometres from the village, the site of a well-known episode from the 1823 rising.
As close as the street allows. Where the address sits behind a pedestrianised section, your driver arranges the nearest legal stopping point and confirms it in advance.
Considerably. Malia at 36.2 kilometres is the last of the large resorts; Sissi and Milatos beyond it are progressively smaller.
The Radisson Blu Luxury Resort is the one hotel of any size, and the rest is rooms and houses split between the coastal settlement and the older village on the hill above it.
It climbs as the coast empties. Malia is €45 for a Standard car from a city address, Sissi €50 and Milatos €60, over 36.2, 44.7 and 48.6 kilometres.
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 €60 for a Standard car to Milatos.
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 Milatos and Milatos to Heraklion Town are the same journey at the same fixed €60, 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.