A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Sissi covers 44.7 km (27.8 mi) in about 41 minutes and costs a fixed fare from €50 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Town, or the departure run back from Sissi 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 | €50 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €58 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €63 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €75 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €120 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €265 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Sissi 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 Sissi: 44.7 km (27.8 mi), about 41 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.
Sissi is a small fishing village on the north coast of Lassithi, set around a narrow natural inlet between Malia and Milatos. Sissi kept its harbour rather than replacing it, so the centre is still a line of tavernas along the water with the boats tied up below the tables.
The village is deliberately quieter than the resorts west of it. Development here is low-rise and spread along the shore, the beaches are small coves rather than one long strip, and there is no nightlife district of the kind Malia is known for.
Sissi works for people who want the north coast without the crowds, and it stays within easy reach of them: the Lassithi plateau climbs inland from here, and Agios Nikolaos lies further east along the same road.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, in the village or in the small developments spread along the coast either side of it.
The lanes down to the harbour are narrow and some end at the water. Your driver uses the nearest point a car can turn and confirms it with you before the day.
The drive runs east for 44.7 kilometres and takes about 41 minutes, ending at the first quiet village past the resort coast. Sissi is where the development stops, which is the reason most people choose it over anything closer to the city.
Your driver leaves your Heraklion address and joins the national road above the port.
The busy half comes first. Gouves, Chersonissos, Stalida and Malia pass in sequence, the most heavily built coastline on the island, and this is the stretch that decides whether the drive takes 41 minutes or rather more in August.
Past Malia the character changes within a kilometre. The resorts stop, the road pulls slightly inland, and the last section runs through farmland.
The Sissi turning drops from the main road to a narrow natural inlet. The village is built around it, with tavernas along the water and the boats tied up below them, and the lanes near the harbour are tight enough that the final approach is slow by design rather than by traffic.
The KTEL coach between Heraklion and Agios Nikolaos passes the Sissi turning on the main road.
Being set down there leaves a walk of roughly a kilometre downhill into the village and the same climb back out. The coach also leaves from Heraklion's bus station rather than your accommodation.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Sissi. 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 Sissi 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: 44.7 km (27.8 mi), about 41 min, and the same fixed fare from €50 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Sissi at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
The reverse journey covers the same 44.7 kilometres at the same fare.
Sissi's own road is empty at any hour. It is the resort coast further west, from Malia onwards, that dictates when the car has to leave, and departures are set against that rather than against the quiet 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.
Budget 41 minutes on the road, plus the check-in or boarding time you have been given, plus a margin for Malia and Chersonissos.
The exact departure time is worked out once you give us the flight or sailing, and it goes 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 Sissi 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 Sissi costs a fixed €50 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €75.
Considerably. Malia is 36.2 kilometres from Heraklion Town and is the last of the large resorts; Sissi at 44.7 sits past the point where the development stops.
Milatos is the next village east, at 44.6 kilometres from Heraklion Airport. It is quieter again and is booked as its own transfer.
Yes. Sissi is 40.6 kilometres from Heraklion Airport against 44.7 from the city, since the airport sits east of the centre.
As far as the lanes allow. The streets down to the inlet are narrow and some end at the water, so the driver uses the nearest point a car can turn.
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 €50 for a Standard car to Sissi.
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 Sissi and Sissi to Heraklion Town are the same journey at the same fixed €50, 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.