A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Mochlos covers 98.9 km (61.5 mi) in about 1 hr 34 min and costs a fixed fare from €105 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Town, or the departure run back from Mochlos 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 | €105 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €121 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €125 |
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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 | €500 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Mochlos 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 Mochlos: 98.9 km (61.5 mi), about 1 hr 34 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.
Mochlos is a fishing village on the north coast of eastern Crete, between Agios Nikolaos and Sitia. Mochlos faces a small island of the same name a few hundred metres offshore, which holds a Minoan settlement and can be reached by a short boat crossing from the harbour.
The village is a single line of tavernas along the water with rooms and apartments behind, and the beach beside it is shingle.
The setting is what people come for. The coast here is steep and largely empty, and Mochlos sits on one of the few flat pieces of ground on it.
We drop you at the door of your rooms, apartment or house in the village.
Mochlos is reached by a descent from the main road and its lanes end at the water. Your driver uses the nearest point a car can turn and confirms it before the day.
The drive runs east for 98.9 kilometres and takes about 1 hr 34 min, ending at the fishing village on the empty coast between Agios Nikolaos and Sitia.
Your driver leaves your Heraklion address for the national road. Gouves, Chersonissos and Stalida pass on the resort coast, Malia comes at 36.2 kilometres, and after Sissi and Milatos the built-up shore gives out.
Agios Nikolaos arrives at 64.3 kilometres and Istron at 74.7, and beyond them the road climbs away from Mirabello Bay into the eastern hills.
Mochlos is reached by turning off and dropping back down to the water. The coast here is steep and largely empty, and the village occupies one of the few flat pieces of ground on it, which is the whole reason it looks the way it does.
It is a single line of tavernas along the waterfront with rooms and apartments behind them, a harbour in front and a shingle beach beside. The lanes end at the water, so your driver uses the nearest point a car can turn and confirms it before the day.
The island a few hundred metres offshore is also called Mochlos and carries a Minoan settlement, reached by a short boat crossing from the harbour. It is close enough to see the excavation from the front.
The village sits roughly midway between Agios Nikolaos and Sitia, and the fares show the position: 98.9 kilometres and €105 here, against 64.3 kilometres and €70 for Agios Nikolaos and 130.0 kilometres and €150 for Sitia.
Hotel Mochlos, Blue Sea, Aldiana Kreta and Sun and Sea Apartments are among the properties in and above the village.
The KTEL service between Agios Nikolaos and Sitia passes the Mochlos turning on the main road above the village.
That leaves a descent of several kilometres to the water on foot, after the coach from Heraklion's bus station and a change. In practice almost nobody arrives that way, which is why the village is pre-booked more often than not.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Mochlos. 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 Mochlos 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: 98.9 km (61.5 mi), about 1 hr 34 min, and the same fixed fare from €105 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Mochlos at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
Mochlos back to Heraklion covers the same 98.9 kilometres at the same fixed price.
The climb from the village up to the main road opens the return and takes several minutes on its own. The run west is quick from Agios Nikolaos onward, and the Heraklion approach at the end is the part that needs the margin.
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 34 min of driving, the check-in or boarding time your airline or ferry line asks for, and extra minutes for the climb out of the village.
Give us the flight number or sailing at booking, and the pickup is worked back from it rather than estimated on the morning.
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 Mochlos 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 Mochlos costs a fixed €105 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €145.
A Minoan settlement, on the islet of the same name a few hundred metres out. Boats cross from the harbour in the village.
No. It is a fishing village of one waterfront line, with a shingle beach beside it and steep empty coast either side.
Mochlos sits between them. Agios Nikolaos is 64.3 kilometres from Heraklion and Sitia 130.0, against 98.9 here, so the village is close to the midpoint of that road.
To the nearest point it can turn. The lanes in the village end at the water, and your driver confirms the stopping point before the day rather than on arrival.
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 €105 for a Standard car to Mochlos.
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 Mochlos and Mochlos to Heraklion Town are the same journey at the same fixed €105, 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.