A private transfer from Rethymno Town to Gouves covers 97.0 km (60.3 mi) in about 1 hr 37 min and costs a fixed fare from €120 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Rethymno Town, or the departure run back from Gouves 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 | €120 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €130 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €180 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €190 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €345 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Gouves 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 Gouves: 97.0 km (60.3 mi), about 1 hr 37 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.
Gouves is a coastal resort area east of Heraklion, made up of two parts: the seafront strip at Kato Gouves, and the older village of Pano Gouves inland and uphill. Gouves is quieter than the resorts further east and is largely given over to hotel complexes rather than a nightlife strip.
The beaches are a mix of sand and shingle, with the larger hotels holding their own stretches. The coast here is straighter than at Hersonissos or Agia Pelagia, so the sea is more open.
The CretAquarium at Gournes is the nearest major attraction, built on the site of a former United States air base a couple of minutes along the coast. It is the largest aquarium in Greece.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, on the seafront or up in the old village.
Several of the larger complexes sit behind long private approaches. The driver takes the vehicle to the reception entrance rather than leaving you at the gate.
The drive covers 97.0 kilometres in about 1 hr 37 min and ends on the resort coast east of Heraklion, at either the seafront or the hill village depending on your accommodation.
Your driver leaves your Rethymno address for the national road and takes the coast east: Platanias, Adelianos Kampos, Sfakaki, Skaleta, then Panormos and Bali set in their bays.
Fodele, Agia Pelagia and Lygaria follow, Ammoudara opens the built-up coast, and Heraklion passes on the bypass with the port and the airport in turn on the seaward side.
Karteros, Amnissos and Kokkini Hani come after the runway, then Gournes, where the CretAquarium stands on the shore of a former air base. Gouves begins directly after Gournes.
The fare from Rethymno is the same €120 as the fare to Kokkini Hani, 7.0 kilometres back down the road, because the engine prices these two neighbouring stops in a single band. The driving time is what separates them: 1 hr 37 min here against 1 hr 20 min there.
Those seventeen extra minutes are not corridor minutes. They are spent at the end of the journey, on the Gournes junction, the resort turnings and the long private approaches that several of the Gouves complexes are set behind.
Gouves splits in two, and the split matters for the drop-off. Kato Gouves is the seafront with the hotels and the beaches; Pano Gouves is uphill and inland, a working village on a different road, and reaching the wrong one costs a good ten minutes of climbing back down.
The KTEL intercity coach from Rethymno terminates at Heraklion's central bus station, where the eastern coastal service to Gouves starts.
The coastal bus stops on the main road above the resort rather than at a hotel entrance, so the journey ends with a walk downhill carrying luggage. Two coaches, one change and that walk stand against 1 hr 37 min door to door.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Gouves. 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 Gouves 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: 97.0 km (60.3 mi), about 1 hr 37 min, and the same fixed fare from €120 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Gouves at the agreed time and takes you straight to Rethymno Town.
Gouves back to Rethymno covers the same 97.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
Getting out to the national road is the first task and it is slower from the seafront than from the village. Once the car is on the bypass the run west is steady, and Heraklion is behind you inside the first twenty minutes.
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 37 min of driving, whatever check-in or boarding time applies at the other end, and extra minutes for the hotel approach and the Gournes junction.
Send the flight number or sailing at booking. Your pickup time then appears on the voucher, calculated from your departure rather than estimated on the day.
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 Gouves 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 Gouves costs a fixed €120 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €190.
They are two separate places, one on the shore and one uphill inland. Give the accommodation name at booking so your driver takes the correct turning off the national road.
The engine puts both stops in one fare band, although Gouves is 7.0 kilometres further from Rethymno. The distance shows up in the driving time rather than in the price.
CretAquarium, the largest aquarium in Greece, built on the site of a former United States air base. The route passes its entrance about two minutes before the Gouves turning.
Yes. Several of the larger complexes here sit behind long private drives, and your driver takes the vehicle to the reception entrance rather than stopping at the gate.
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 €120 for a Standard car to Gouves.
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 Gouves and Gouves to Rethymno Town are the same journey at the same fixed €120, 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.