A private transfer from Souda Port to Agios Pavlos covers 114.0 km (70.8 mi) in about 2 hr 0 min and costs a fixed fare from €152 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Souda Port, or the departure run back from Agios Pavlos 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 | €152 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €178 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €274 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Agios Pavlos back to Souda Port 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 Souda Port to Agios Pavlos: 114.0 km (70.8 mi), about 2 hr 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 meets you in front of the passenger terminal at Souda Port, holding a banner with your name and the company name on it. Ferry passengers all disembark at once, so the banner is what makes your car findable in the crowd leaving the ramp.
Souda Port sits in Souda Bay, a deep natural harbour east of Chania, and is the ferry gateway for the whole of western Crete. Souda Port takes the overnight sailing from Piraeus, which docks early in the morning and empties several hundred foot passengers onto the quay at once.
That early docking is the reason pre-booking matters here more than at an airport. Taxi supply at Souda is thin at 06:00, and the queue forms before the ramp is down.
The port road joins the national road within a few minutes, so eastbound journeys to Georgioupolis, Rethymno and beyond leave directly without crossing Chania.
In front of the passenger terminal, where your driver waits with a banner showing your name and ours.
Wait at the terminal rather than walking towards the port gate. The quay is a working port with restricted vehicle access, and the car cannot meet you on it.
Give us your ferry operator and arrival time at booking. We track sailing arrivals, so a late docking moves the pickup rather than costing you the transfer.
Tell us as early as you can if your sailing is cancelled or diverted, so the driver can be reassigned.
Agios Pavlos is a bay on the south coast of the Rethymno region, at the end of a road that stops there. Agios Pavlos is a single small beach under a headland, with sand dunes over the ridge to the west that are reached on foot down a steep path.
There is no village. A few rooms and a taverna sit above the bay, and nothing else has been built on it.
The isolation is the whole character of the place, and it is a consequence of the road: the descent from the plateau is long, and nothing continues past the bay.
We drop you at the door of your rooms or house above the bay.
Agios Pavlos has no street addresses and very few buildings. Give the property name and the owner's directions when you book.
The drive runs east and then south for 114.0 kilometres and takes about 2 hr 0 min, ending at a bay on the south coast where the road stops.
Your driver meets you in front of the Souda passenger terminal with a banner, and the port road joins the national road within a few minutes, leaving Chania alone.
Aptera and Souda Bay open the run, then Kalyves, Vamos and Gavalochori on the Apokoronas slope, then Georgioupolis. Rethymno passes at 53.0 kilometres, which is where the coastal half of this journey ends.
The road turns inland after the city and climbs to the plateau, and the second half is nothing like the first: single carriageway through hill villages and olive terraces, with the Libyan Sea appearing only at the end.
The descent to the bay is long, and it is the reason Agios Pavlos looks the way it does. The road ends there. Nothing continues past the beach, so nothing has been built to pass through, and the only traffic on the last few kilometres is people going to the bay itself.
What waits at the bottom is a single small beach under a headland, a taverna, and a handful of rooms above the water. There is no village, no street plan and nothing resembling an address, so your driver works from the property name and whatever directions the owner sent.
Over the ridge to the west are the sand dunes this coast is known for, reached on foot down a steep path rather than by road. Triopetra lies along the same shore to the east.
Take the isolation seriously when planning the arrival. Agios Pavlos Hotel is effectively the accommodation here, supplies come from elsewhere, and there is no bus, no rank and no second option if the transfer is not booked.
No public transport reaches Agios Pavlos.
The KTEL network covers Rethymno and some of the plateau villages inland, and the bay is served by neither. A car is not the convenient way to arrive here; it is the way.
The return leg is the same journey in reverse: 114.0 km (70.8 mi), about 2 hr, and the same fixed fare from €152 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Agios Pavlos at the agreed time and takes you straight to Souda Port.
Agios Pavlos back to Souda Port covers the same 114.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
The climb back up to the plateau takes the first twenty minutes and sets the pace for the whole return. Souda sailings to Piraeus leave in the evening, so a departure day usually means a pickup after lunch rather than at dawn.
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 0 min of driving, the boarding time your ferry line requires at Souda, and a real margin for the climb out of the bay and the plateau road.
Give us the operator and sailing at booking. Your pickup is set against boarding rather than the printed departure, and the time goes on the 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 Souda Port to Agios Pavlos 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 Souda Port to Agios Pavlos costs a fixed €152 for an SUV carrying up to 4 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €178.
No. A taverna and a few rooms sit above the bay and nothing else has been built there, which is why the property name rather than an address goes on the booking.
Over the ridge west of the bay, reached on foot down a steep path. No road goes to them.
There is no service to the bay. The road ends at the beach, and the coaches that run inland stop well short of it.
Rethymno is 53.0 kilometres from Souda and Agios Pavlos 114.0, so a little over half the journey is still ahead at that point, and almost all of it is hill road.
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 €152 for a Standard car to Agios Pavlos.
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.
Give us your ferry operator and sailing time when you book. We track arrivals, so a late docking moves the pickup rather than costing you the transfer.
In front of the passenger terminal, where the driver waits with a banner showing your name and ours. Ferry passengers all reach the quay at once, which is what the banner is for.
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. Souda Port to Agios Pavlos and Agios Pavlos to Souda Port are the same journey at the same fixed €152, 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.