A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Piskopiano covers 27.3 km (17.0 mi) in about 27 minutes and costs a fixed fare from €38 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Town, or the departure run back from Piskopiano 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 | €38 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €45 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €48 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €60 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €95 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €200 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Piskopiano 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 Piskopiano: 27.3 km (17.0 mi), about 27 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.
Piskopiano is a hill village above Chersonissos, on the slope behind the coast rather than on it. Piskopiano sits alongside Koutouloufari at the same height, and the two share a character the resort below does not: old stone houses, narrow lanes and tavernas built into the hillside.
The village looks down over the whole coastal strip, and the sea is a few minutes away by road rather than at the door.
Its appeal is the combination: the quiet of a village at night, with Chersonissos and its beaches close enough to reach in minutes.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa in the village.
Piskopiano's lanes are narrow, steep and partly one-way, and some take no car at all. Your driver arranges the nearest legal stopping point and confirms it before the day.
The drive runs east for 27.3 kilometres and takes about 27 minutes, then climbs away from the coast at the end.
Three destinations sit within four kilometres of each other here and all three cost the same. Chersonissos on the shore is 26.7 kilometres from the city, Piskopiano on the slope above it 27.3, and Koutouloufari alongside 30.8, and every one of them is €38 for a Standard car. Choosing the hill over the seafront costs nothing, and the quoted times barely separate them either: 26 minutes, 27 and 31.
The coast road covers the first 20 kilometres past the city beaches and the resorts as far as Analipsis.
The turning comes before Chersonissos. The road leaves the shore and climbs the slope behind it, and the change is immediate: olive terraces instead of hotels, and the strip laid out below as height is gained.
Piskopiano is the smaller of the two hill villages in what it can put you in. Amazones Village Suites, Kalimera Village, Asterias Village Resort, Driades Piskopiano, Korifi Suites Collection and Villaggio Hotel, which takes adults only, are close to the whole of it, and most of them stand within a few hundred metres of the centre.
That scale is why the lanes matter. They are narrow, steep and partly one-way, and some addresses take no car at all, so your driver confirms the stopping point before the day rather than discovering it at the door.
No bus climbs to the hill villages.
The coastal service reaches Chersonissos on the main road below, and the last part is a steep walk or a local taxi, after the leg from your address to Heraklion's bus station.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Piskopiano. 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 Piskopiano 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: 27.3 km (17.0 mi), about 27 min, and the same fixed fare from €38 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Piskopiano at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
Piskopiano back into Heraklion is the same 27.3 kilometres at the same fixed price.
The descent to the coast road takes a few minutes on its own, so departures from the hill villages are set earlier than from Chersonissos below them.
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.
Twenty-seven minutes of driving, plus your deadline, plus the descent and an allowance for the coast road.
Give us the detail at booking and the pickup appears 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 Piskopiano 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 Piskopiano costs a fixed €38 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €60.
No. Chersonissos at 26.7 kilometres, Piskopiano at 27.3 and Koutouloufari at 30.8 are all €38 for a Standard car from the city.
They are neighbours on the same slope at the same height, booked separately. Koutouloufari is 30.8 kilometres from the city and Piskopiano 27.3.
Most of the village: Amazones Village Suites, Kalimera Village, Asterias Village Resort, Driades Piskopiano, Korifi Suites Collection and Villaggio Hotel.
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.
Down over the whole coastal plain and out to sea. Height is what people book here for, along with the quiet: the strip is a few minutes below and out of earshot.
Downhill yes, uphill less so. Most guests take a car or a local taxi back up, which is worth allowing for when planning evenings on the seafront.
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 €38 for a Standard car to Piskopiano.
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 Piskopiano and Piskopiano to Heraklion Town are the same journey at the same fixed €38, 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.