A private transfer from Heraklion Town to Stalida covers 34.0 km (21.1 mi) in about 32 minutes and costs a fixed fare from €42 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Heraklion Town, or the departure run back from Stalida 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 | €42 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €50 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €55 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €65 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €105 |
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Bus | Coach Bus | up to 52 | 30 | €210 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Stalida 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 Stalida: 34.0 km (21.1 mi), about 32 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.
Stalida, often written Stalis, is a beach resort sitting in the gap between Chersonissos and Malia on the north coast. Stalida is quieter than either neighbour, which is largely why people choose it: the same long sandy beach, without the strip.
The resort is essentially one road running parallel to the sea, with hotels and apartments on both sides and the beach along its whole length. Nothing is far from anything else, and most guests walk everywhere once they arrive.
Because it sits between the two larger resorts, Stalida works as a base for people who want the nightlife within reach but not underneath their balcony. Chersonissos is a few minutes west, Malia a few minutes east.
We drop you at the door of your hotel or apartment along the beach road.
Stalida's main road is narrow and slows considerably in high season. The driver allows for that rather than dropping you short of the entrance.
The drive runs east for 34.0 kilometres and takes about 32 minutes. Stalida sits between Chersonissos and Malia on a shore where the three run into one another, so the useful thing to know about this route is which of them you actually want.
Your driver leaves your Heraklion address and joins the national road above the port, past the city beaches at Karteros and Amnissos.
The developed coast follows: Kokkini Hani, Gournes, Gouves, then the exits for Anissaras and Chersonissos at 26.7 kilometres from the city.
Stalida comes 7 kilometres further on. It is the quieter middle of the three, a long beach with hotels and apartments along the road behind it and none of the nightlife concentration that Malia carries at one end or Chersonissos at the other.
Malia is 36.2 kilometres from the city, barely 2 kilometres beyond, which is close enough that people booking Stalida for its calm sometimes find themselves within walking distance of the strip they were avoiding.
The KTEL coastal bus runs frequently and stops along this stretch.
It leaves from Heraklion's bus station rather than your address, and it sets down on the main road above the beach rather than at a hotel entrance. On this coast the walk from the road down to the sand is short but exposed, which matters more in August than the fare does.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Stalida. 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 Stalida 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: 34.0 km (21.1 mi), about 32 min, and the same fixed fare from €42 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Stalida at the agreed time and takes you straight to Heraklion Town.
Stalida to Heraklion is the same 34.0 kilometres and the same fixed price.
Westbound mornings are the problem on this coast rather than evenings. From roughly seven o'clock the Chersonissos section slows, and a departure crossing it is timed accordingly.
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 32 minutes of driving and add whatever your airline or ferry operator requires, then a margin for the strip.
Booking with the flight or sailing attached means the pickup is calculated for you and printed 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 Stalida 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 Stalida costs a fixed €42 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €65.
Stalida is 34.0 kilometres from Heraklion Town and Malia 36.2, so about 2 kilometres of continuous shore separates them.
It is the middle of the three and carries less of the nightlife than either Chersonissos or Malia, though the distances between them are short enough to walk.
Yes. Stalida is 29.9 kilometres from Heraklion Airport against 34.0 from the city centre, because the airport already sits on the eastern side.
Yes, at the same fare. Give the hotel name at booking, since the road is long and the numbering along it is not continuous.
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 €42 for a Standard car to Stalida.
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 Stalida and Stalida to Heraklion Town are the same journey at the same fixed €42, 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.