A private transfer from Rethymno Town to Almyrida covers 47.0 km (29.2 mi) in about 56 minutes and costs a fixed fare from €80 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Rethymno Town, or the departure run back from Almyrida 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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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €80 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €100 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €215 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Almyrida back to Rethymno 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 Rethymno Town to Almyrida: 47.0 km (29.2 mi), about 56 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 Rethymno at the time on your voucher. City pickups are door-to-door, so there is no meeting point to find.
Rethymno sits midway along the north coast, roughly an hour from each of Crete's two airports, and that position is why it is a pickup point at all. Rethymno gives guests staying in the middle of the island a start point that does not require driving to Heraklion or Chania first.
The old town, between the Fortezza and the harbour, is largely pedestrianised. Where a hotel sits inside it the driver arranges the nearest legal stopping point and confirms it before the day, so nobody is left waiting on a street a car cannot enter.
Journeys in both directions use the national road along the coast, which keeps timings predictable even in August.
At your accommodation's entrance, or the closest legal stopping point when the address sits inside the old town.
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 reachable.
Tell us as early as you can if your plans change, so the driver can be rescheduled.
Almyrida is a small resort on the Apokoronas coast east of Chania, set on a shallow sandy bay at the foot of the Drapanos peninsula. Almyrida sits 2.4 kilometres from its larger neighbour Kalyves and shares the same stretch of protected water, which stays calm and shallow a long way out.
The resort is compact. Tavernas and shops line the seafront, the beach runs directly in front of them, and the accommodation is mostly apartments and villas rather than large hotels.
The shallow bay and the afternoon breeze make Almyrida one of the places on this coast used for windsurfing, and the hill villages of Plaka, Kokkino Chorio and Gavalochori sit immediately above it.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, on the seafront or up in the lanes behind it.
Many Almyrida addresses are villas on the hillside rather than numbered streets. Give the property name and the owner's directions when you book, so the driver has more than a street to work from.
Your driver comes to the door of your Rethymno address at the time on the voucher. The old town is a grid of narrow one-way lanes and parts of it take no vehicle at all, so where that applies the car waits at the nearest legal point and you are told which one in advance.
The drive runs west along the coast and then turns down onto the Apokoronas shore, 47.0 kilometres in about 56 minutes. Almyrida sits below the national road on the Drapanos peninsula, and the descent to it is what makes this take the best part of an hour.
The car leaves Rethymno westward past Atsipopoulo and Gerani, then drops to Georgioupolis and Kavros at the mouth of the Almyros.
Vamos and Gavalochori are signposted inland after that, and the coastal turning comes shortly beyond them.
Kalyves is reached first, 2.4 kilometres short of Almyrida on the same shallow bay, and the last stretch runs along the water between the two. Almyrida's seafront is the road, and the villas above it are reached by lanes that climb sharply, which is the slowest part of the whole journey.
The Apokoronas bus network works from Chania rather than Rethymno.
Getting here by public transport means the intercity coach west to Vrisses or Chania, then a local service back down to the coast, then a walk. Three legs and two waits against under an hour by car, and the last connection of the day goes early in the evening.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Almyrida. 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 Almyrida 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: 47.0 km (29.2 mi), about 56 min, and the same fixed fare from €80 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Almyrida at the agreed time and takes you straight to Rethymno Town.
Almyrida back into Rethymno covers the same 47.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
The climb out of the village comes first and takes several minutes on its own. A pickup from a hillside villa is set a few minutes earlier again than one on the seafront.
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.
Fifty-six minutes of driving is the base, and whatever you are trying to reach sits on top of it, with an allowance for getting the car up out of the village.
Send the flight, sailing or appointment with the booking and the pickup time is calculated 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 Rethymno Town to Almyrida 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 Rethymno Town to Almyrida costs a fixed €80 for an SUV carrying up to 4 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €100.
The last section is village and coast road below the national road, and the descent onto the Drapanos peninsula accounts for most of the difference.
No. Kalyves sits 2.4 kilometres along the same bay and is booked separately.
Yes, with the property name and the owner's directions given at booking. Many Almyrida villas sit on unnamed hillside lanes.
It is shallow and protected, and the afternoon breeze is reliable. The same shelter keeps the water calm for swimmers earlier in the day, which is an unusual pair of conditions in one bay.
Almyrida Resort, Almyrida Beach, Aloe Boutique and Suites and Nirides are among the seafront properties, with villas on the hillside above them.
Much. Almyrida is 16.5 kilometres from the Souda quay at EUR 32 for an SUV against 47.0 kilometres and EUR 80 from a Rethymno address, so anyone arriving by sea should book from the port instead.
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 €80 for a Standard car to Almyrida.
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. Rethymno Town to Almyrida and Almyrida to Rethymno Town are the same journey at the same fixed €80, 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.