A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Sitia covers 130.0 km (80.8 mi) in about 2 hr 11 min and costs a fixed fare from €150 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Town, or the departure run back from Sitia Town 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 | €150 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €170 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €185 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €200 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €350 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €590 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Sitia Town 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 Sitia Town: 130.0 km (80.8 mi), about 2 hr 11 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.
Sitia is the main town of eastern Crete, built up a hillside above a bay at the far end of the north coast. Sitia is far enough from the airports that it stays outside the main tourist circuit, and it functions as a working port and market town with a long palm-lined seafront rather than as a resort.
The Venetian fortress known as the Kazarma stands above the town, and the streets below it climb in terraces from the harbour.
Sitia is the base for the far east: the palm forest at Vai, the Minoan site at Palekastro and the Toplou monastery all lie beyond it, and the ferry to Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes sails from its port.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, on the seafront or up in the streets behind it.
Sitia is built on a slope and the lanes above the harbour are steep and narrow. Where an address sits on one, your driver stops at the nearest point a car can wait and confirms it before the day.
The drive runs east for 130.0 kilometres and takes about 2 hr 11 min, ending at the main town of the far east of Crete.
Your driver collects you at your Heraklion address and joins the national road within a few minutes. The resort coast carries the first half hour to Malia at 36.2 kilometres, then Sissi and Milatos, then the empty stretch before Mirabello Bay.
Agios Nikolaos arrives at 64.3 kilometres, halfway almost exactly, and Istron at 74.7. The road then climbs away from the bay into the eastern hills, past the Mochlos turning at 98.9 kilometres, and the last section descends towards the sea again.
The second half of this drive takes longer than the first, and the road explains it. Agios Nikolaos is reached in about 57 minutes and Sitia in about 2 hr 11 min, so the 65.7 kilometres beyond the bay take some 74 minutes against 57 for the 64.3 before it. Everything east of Mirabello is hill road.
Sitia is built up a slope above its bay, and it is a working port and market town rather than a resort. The palm-lined seafront runs along the water with the streets rising behind it in terraces.
What most guests use it for is the country past it. Vai and its palm forest, the Toplou monastery and the Minoan site at Palekastro all lie further east, and the ferry to Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes sails from the town's quay.
El Greco, Sitia Bay, Sitia Beach, Itanos Hotel and Petras Beach stand on or just above the front. The lanes above the harbour are steep and narrow, so where an address sits on one your driver stops at the nearest point a car can wait and says so before the day.
The KTEL coach from Heraklion to Sitia runs a few times a day and takes around three and a half hours with its stops.
It leaves from the city bus station rather than your address and sets down at Sitia's station rather than your door. Over 130 kilometres the fare difference is substantial; the two walks and the extra hour and a half are what people weigh against it.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Sitia Town. 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 Sitia Town 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: 130.0 km (80.8 mi), about 2 hr 11 min, and the same fixed fare from €150 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Sitia Town at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
Sitia back to Heraklion covers the same 130.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
The eastern hill road comes first and is slower in the dark, which matters for a dawn departure more than the distance does. The national road from Agios Nikolaos onward is quick 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 11 min of driving, the check-in or boarding time your airline or ferry line requires, and a real margin for the eastern hills and the city approach.
Send the flight number or sailing at booking. On a route of this length the pickup is calculated rather than estimated, and the time 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 Sitia Town 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 Sitia costs a fixed €150 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €200.
Agios Nikolaos is 64.3 kilometres out and reached in about 57 minutes; Sitia is 130.0 and takes about 2 hr 11 min. Everything east of Mirabello Bay is hill road rather than national road.
They are three separate points a few kilometres apart, each with its own fare. This page prices the town; say at booking if you need the quay or the terminal instead.
Vai and its palm forest, the Toplou monastery and the Minoan site at Palekastro, all further east. Sitia is the base people use for them.
The seafront and town properties, among them El Greco, Sitia Bay, Sitia Beach, Itanos Hotel and Petras Beach.
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 €150 for a Standard car to Sitia Town.
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 Sitia Town and Sitia Town to Heraklion Town are the same journey at the same fixed €150, 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.