A private transfer from Rethymno Town to Chersonissos covers 104.0 km (64.6 mi) in about 1 hr 34 min and costs a fixed fare from €130 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Rethymno Town, or the departure run back from Chersonissos 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 | €130 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €140 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €190 |
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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 | €360 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Chersonissos 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 Chersonissos: 104.0 km (64.6 mi), about 1 hr 34 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.
Chersonissos is the largest resort on Crete's north coast, built along a seafront strip east of Heraklion in the municipality of the same name. Chersonissos grew from a fishing harbour into a full resort town, and the old harbour is still the centre of it, ringed by tavernas and the boats that run day trips along the coast.
The resort divides clearly in two. The seafront and the main road carry the bars, the shops and the nightlife; the hillside villages behind it, Koutouloufari and Piskopiano, stay quiet and stone-built. Guests often book one expecting the other, so it is worth knowing which side of that line your hotel sits on.
The beach runs east from the harbour in a series of sandy bays broken by rock. Two of Crete's largest waterparks sit within a few minutes of the strip, which is why the resort draws families as heavily as it draws younger visitors.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, on the seafront or up in the hillside villages.
The strip is one-way in places and closed to traffic at its busiest in high season. Where that applies, the driver uses the nearest hotel entrance the vehicle can reach rather than leaving you to walk the last stretch with luggage.
The drive covers 104.0 kilometres in about 1 hr 34 min and ends on the seafront of the largest resort on the north coast.
Your driver joins the national road above Rethymno and keeps to it for the next eighty kilometres. Platanias, Adelianos Kampos, Sfakaki and Skaleta pass early, then Panormos and Bali sit in their bays below the carriageway, and the road runs inland behind the headlands before dropping to Fodele.
Agia Pelagia and Lygaria come next, Ammoudara begins the built-up coast, and Heraklion goes by on the bypass with the port below and the airport a few hundred metres off the road.
Kokkini Hani, Gournes, Gouves, Analipsis and Anissaras follow in order, each of them a separate transfer with its own fare, and Chersonissos is the exit after the last of them.
Chersonissos is the far end of one fare band from Rethymno. Anissaras at 102.0 kilometres, Koutouloufari and Piskopiano at 103.0 and Chersonissos at 104.0 all cost the same fixed €130, which means the hillside villages and the seafront are priced identically and the choice between them is about the holiday rather than the invoice.
Arrival is the part worth planning here, since the strip is one-way along much of its length and closes to traffic at its busiest in high season. Your driver works to the hotel entrance the vehicle can actually reach, rather than stopping at the top of a pedestrianised street and leaving you to walk it with cases.
The old harbour is the reference point for most addresses. Petra Beach, Arlen Beach, Glaros Beach, Albatros Spa and Resort and Creta Maris Beach Resort all stand within about a kilometre of it.
The KTEL intercity coach from Rethymno terminates at Heraklion's central bus station, where the eastern coastal service to Chersonissos begins.
That service is frequent and it stops on the main road above the resort, not at hotel doors. Two coaches, a change and a walk down into the strip is the trade against 1 hr 34 min in one vehicle.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Chersonissos. 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 Chersonissos 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: 104.0 km (64.6 mi), about 1 hr 34 min, and the same fixed fare from €130 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Chersonissos at the agreed time and takes you straight to Rethymno Town.
Chersonissos back to Rethymno covers the same 104.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
Getting out of the strip is the slow part westbound, particularly in the middle of the day. Once the car is past Gouves the coast runs freely, and Heraklion is behind you within twenty minutes of the bypass.
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 1 hr 34 min of driving, the check-in or boarding time your airline or ferry line requires, and additional minutes for the strip itself.
Send the flight number or sailing at booking. Your pickup is then set against boarding rather than against the printed departure time.
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 Chersonissos 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 Chersonissos costs a fixed €130 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €200.
No. Koutouloufari and Piskopiano are 103.0 kilometres from Rethymno and Chersonissos is 104.0, and all three carry the same fixed €130.
In most cases yes, and where a section is one-way or closed to traffic your driver uses the nearest reachable entrance. The arrangement is confirmed before the day rather than worked out on arrival.
The seafront and harbour properties, among them Petra Beach Hotel, Arlen Beach Hotel, Glaros Beach Hotel, Albatros Spa & Resort Hotel and Creta Maris Beach Resort.
Panormos, Bali, Fodele, Agia Pelagia and Ammoudara west of Heraklion, then Kokkini Hani, Gouves, Analipsis and Anissaras east of it. Each is sold as its own transfer from Rethymno.
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 €130 for a Standard car to Chersonissos.
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 Chersonissos and Chersonissos to Rethymno Town are the same journey at the same fixed €130, 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 taxi we run, from the airports and ports to the resorts and villages along both coasts.