A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Paleochora covers 207.0 km (128.6 mi) in about 3 hr 13 min and costs a fixed fare from €215 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Town, or the departure run back from Paleochora 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 | €215 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €230 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €240 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €280 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €504 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €1,100 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Paleochora 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 Paleochora: 207.0 km (128.6 mi), about 3 hr 13 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.
Paleochora is a town on the south-west coast of Crete, built across a short peninsula with a beach on each side: sand to the west, shingle to the east. Paleochora is the largest settlement on this coast and the one with a full range of shops, banks and tavernas, which is why it is used as a base rather than only as a stop.
The ruins of the Venetian castle of Selino stand on the point at the end of the peninsula, above both beaches.
Paleochora is also a ferry town. The coastal boat that links the villages of the south west, Sougia, Agia Roumeli, Loutro and Chora Sfakion, runs from here, and several of those places have no road access at all.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, on either beach or in the streets between them.
The centre of Paleochora is closed to vehicles in the evenings through the summer. Where that applies your driver stops at the nearest permitted point and confirms it in advance.
The drive crosses the island west and then turns south over the hills, 207.0 kilometres in about 3 hr 13 min, to the town on the south-west coast.
Paleochora is the cheapest of the three far-western destinations the city sells and very nearly the furthest, which is worth seeing laid out before you book. Fallasarna is 187.0 kilometres away at €250 for a Standard car, Elafonissi 209.0 at €240, and Paleochora 207.0 at €215. Twenty kilometres beyond Fallasarna and thirty-five euros below it.
Your driver joins the national road a few minutes from your Heraklion address. Ammoudara and the cliffs above Agia Pelagia come first, then Fodele, Bali and Panormos, and Rethymno at 78.4 kilometres.
Georgioupolis, Apokoronas and the climb over Aptera follow, Chania is skirted at 139.0 kilometres, and the western strip runs out to Maleme at 155.0.
At Tavronitis the road leaves the sea. It climbs into Selino, the hill district behind the south-west corner, through olive terraces and small villages on single carriageway with a long succession of bends, and the Libyan Sea appears only on the descent at the end.
Those last fifty kilometres are where the time goes. The car reaches Maleme in about 2 hr 18 min and Paleochora in about 3 hr 13 min, so 52 kilometres of hill road take almost an hour.
Paleochora is built across a short peninsula with a beach on each side, sand to the west and shingle to the east, and the ruined Venetian castle of Selino stands on the point above both. It is a ferry town as well: the coastal boat to Sougia, Agia Roumeli, Loutro and Chora Sfakion leaves from here, and several of those villages have no road at all.
The centre closes to vehicles in the evenings through the summer, so where that applies your driver stops at the nearest permitted point and confirms it in advance.
The public route is two coaches and most of a day.
Heraklion to Chania takes close to three hours, the Paleochora bus leaves Chania's station a few times a day and takes around two more over the hill road, and reaching the first coach comes before either. A missed second connection can mean the following morning.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Paleochora. 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 Paleochora 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: 207.0 km (128.6 mi), about 3 hr 13 min, and the same fixed fare from €215 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Paleochora at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
Paleochora back to Heraklion covers the same 207.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
The Selino hills fill the first hour and are slower northbound than south, and the whole north coast follows. An early flight from Heraklion means leaving at an hour worth checking before the flight is booked rather than after.
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 3 hr 13 min of driving, the check-in or boarding time you have been given, and a real margin for the hill road out of Selino.
Send the flight number or sailing at booking. On a run of this length the pickup is calculated from the departure rather than estimated.
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 Paleochora 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 Paleochora costs a fixed €215 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €280.
Fallasarna is 187.0 kilometres from the city at €250 and Paleochora 207.0 at €215. The western bands do not follow the distance.
It is hill road through Selino. Maleme, at 155.0 kilometres, is reached in about 2 hr 18 min, and the remaining 52 kilometres take almost an hour.
The coastal boat along the south-west shore, calling at Sougia, Agia Roumeli, Loutro and Chora Sfakion. Several of those villages have no road access.
Paleochora has two, sand on the west side of the peninsula and shingle on the east, with the ruined castle on the point between them. Give the property name at booking.
Selino, a ruined Venetian fort standing on the neck of the peninsula between the two beaches, reached on foot from either side.
Not in summer. The middle of the town closes to vehicles after dark, so an evening arrival is dropped at the nearest permitted point and told where that is in advance.
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 €215 for a Standard car to Paleochora.
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 Paleochora and Paleochora to Heraklion Town are the same journey at the same fixed €215, 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.