A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Palekastro covers 147.0 km (91.3 mi) in about 2 hr 28 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 Palekastro 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 | €184 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €190 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €220 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €350 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €575 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Palekastro 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 Palekastro: 147.0 km (91.3 mi), about 2 hr 28 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.
Palekastro is a village in the far east of Crete, inland of the coast between Sitia and the Vai palm forest. Palekastro is a working agricultural village with a square and tavernas, and it serves as the base for the beaches and the Minoan site nearby rather than being a resort itself.
Kouremenos beach, a few kilometres away, is the main windsurfing beach on this side of the island because of the wind that funnels down this coast in summer.
The Minoan town at Roussolakkos lies between the village and the sea, and Vai and Itanos are a short drive north.
We drop you at the door of your house, rooms or apartment in the village or out towards the beaches.
Palekastro's accommodation is split between the village and the coast a few kilometres away. Say which you need at booking and give the property name.
The drive runs east for 147.0 kilometres and takes about 2 hr 28 min, ending in the far east of the island beyond Sitia.
Seventeen kilometres past Sitia costs five euros. Sitia is 130.0 kilometres from Heraklion at €150 for a Standard car and Palekastro 147.0 at €155, which is worth knowing if you were thinking of booking Sitia and covering the rest yourself.
Your driver joins the national road a few minutes from your Heraklion address. The resort coast carries the first half hour to Malia at 36.2 kilometres, then Sissi and Milatos, then the empty run to Mirabello Bay.
Agios Nikolaos passes at 64.3 kilometres and Istron at 74.7, and the road climbs into the eastern hills past the Mochlos turning. Sitia comes at 130.0 kilometres, and the last stretch crosses the neck of the island to the eastern shore.
Palekastro is a working agricultural village with a square and tavernas, not a resort, and the accommodation splits between the village itself and the coast a few kilometres away. Say which you need at booking, because the two are a real drive apart rather than a walk.
Kouremenos, one of those beaches, is the main windsurfing spot in eastern Crete, and the reason is the wind that funnels down this coast through the summer. Chiona is the other, on the same short stretch.
Between the village and the sea lies Roussolakkos, the Minoan town excavated here, and Vai with its palm forest and the site at Itanos are a short drive north.
Marina Village, Hotel Hellas, Hiona Holiday Hotel, Kouremenos Beach Apartments and Thalia are among the properties across the village and the coast.
The KTEL coach reaches Sitia from Heraklion in around three and a half hours, and a local service continues east to Palekastro a few times a day.
That is the city bus station, the long coach, a change at Sitia, and a set-down in the village square with the beaches still a few kilometres off. The local service thins outside the summer to the point where a same-day connection cannot be relied on.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Palekastro. 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 Palekastro 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: 147.0 km (91.3 mi), about 2 hr 28 min, and the same fixed fare from €155 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Palekastro at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
Palekastro back to Heraklion covers the same 147.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
The crossing to Sitia and the eastern hill road fill the first hour and are slower before dawn. Everything west of Agios Nikolaos runs at national-road speed until the Heraklion approach.
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 28 min of driving, the check-in or boarding time your airline or ferry line requires, and a real margin for the eastern hills.
Give us the flight number or sailing at booking. On a route this long the pickup is calculated rather than estimated, and the time 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 Palekastro 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 Palekastro costs a fixed €155 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €220.
Five euros for a Standard car, over 17 kilometres more road. Sitia is 130.0 kilometres from Heraklion at €150 and Palekastro 147.0 at €155.
Accommodation here is split between the two, a few kilometres apart. Say which you need at booking and give the property name.
A short drive north, along with the site at Itanos. Palekastro is the usual base for both, and the Minoan town at Roussolakkos lies between the village and the sea.
The wind funnels down this stretch of coast through the summer with a consistency the north coast does not have, and the bay faces into it. Boards and lessons work from the beach itself between May and September.
Chiona, on the same short stretch, is the sheltered one, with the Minoan town at Roussolakkos on the ground between it and the village.
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 Palekastro.
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 Palekastro and Palekastro 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 private transfers in Crete we run, from the airports and ports to the resorts and villages along both coasts.