A private transfer from Souda Port to Sitia covers 257.0 km (159.7 mi) in about 3 hr 50 min and costs a fixed fare from €340 per vehicle, not per person.
One booking covers the journey in either direction: arrival from Souda Port, or the departure run back from Sitia Town 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 | €340 |
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SUV | Skoda Karoq | up to 4 | 4 | €378 |
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Premium | Mercedes E Class, Skoda Kodiaq, Jeep Compass | up to 4 | 4 | €420 |
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Minivan | Peugeot Traveller, Mercedes Vito | up to 8 | 8 | €435 |
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Minibus | Mercedes Sprinter | up to 18 | 18 | €800 |
The same fare applies in both directions: Sitia Town 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 Sitia Town: 257.0 km (159.7 mi), about 3 hr 50 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 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.
Sitia is the main town of eastern Crete, built up a hillside above a bay at the far end of the north coast. Sitia is far enough from the airports that it stays outside the main tourist circuit, and it functions as a working port and market town with a long palm-lined seafront rather than as a resort.
The Venetian fortress known as the Kazarma stands above the town, and the streets below it climb in terraces from the harbour.
Sitia is the base for the far east: the palm forest at Vai, the Minoan site at Palekastro and the Toplou monastery all lie beyond it, and the ferry to Kasos, Karpathos and Rhodes sails from its port.
We drop you at the door of your hotel, apartment or villa, on the seafront or up in the streets behind it.
Sitia is built on a slope and the lanes above the harbour are steep and narrow. Where an address sits on one, your driver stops at the nearest point a car can wait and confirms it before the day.
The drive covers 257.0 kilometres in about 3 hr 50 min and runs from the ferry quay serving Chania to the main town of eastern Crete.
The arithmetic is what makes this booking work. The overnight boat from Piraeus docks at Souda early in the morning, and 3 hr 50 min of road puts you in Sitia in the middle of the same morning rather than at the end of the day.
Your driver meets you in front of the passenger terminal with a banner, and the port road reaches the national road within a few minutes, so Chania itself is never entered.
Aptera comes first with Souda Bay below, then Kalyves, Vamos and Gavalochori on the Apokoronas slope, then Georgioupolis and Kavros. Rethymno arrives at roughly a quarter of the distance.
Panormos, Bali and Fodele take the headlands, Agia Pelagia and Lygaria bring the road down to Ammoudara, and Heraklion passes on the bypass close to halfway. Kokkini Hani, Gouves, Chersonissos, Stalida and Malia follow.
Agios Nikolaos, 210.0 kilometres from Souda by the same road, is the last town of any size before the east empties out. Istron, the Mochlos turning and the eastern hills take the final hour.
Sitia is built up a slope above its bay, with the Kazarma above and the palm-lined seafront below, and the lanes climbing between the two are narrow. Where your address sits on one of them, the car stops at the nearest point it can wait, and the arrangement is made before the day rather than discovered at the end of a four-hour drive.
Sitia by public transport from Souda takes a full day and starts with a bus into Chania.
From the Chania station the coach to Heraklion runs close to three hours, and the eastern service to Sitia several more with stops. Three legs and two changes, none of which connect to a docking ferry by design.
Your driver takes you to the door of your accommodation in Sitia Town. 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 Sitia Town 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: 257.0 km (159.7 mi), about 3 hr 50 min, and the same fixed fare from €340 per vehicle. Your driver collects you from your accommodation in Sitia Town at the agreed time and takes you straight to Souda Port.
Sitia back to Souda Port covers the same 257.0 kilometres at the same fixed price.
Sailings from Souda to Piraeus leave in the evening, so a departure day usually means an afternoon pickup rather than a dawn one. The eastern hill road is the slow part in both directions, and it is worth an extra margin when the light goes.
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 3 hr 50 min of driving, the boarding time your ferry line requires at Souda, and a real margin for the eastern hills and the Heraklion and Rethymno approaches.
Give us the operator and sailing at booking. Your pickup is set against boarding rather than the printed departure, and the time is printed 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 Sitia Town 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 Sitia costs a fixed €340 for a Standard car carrying up to 3 passengers. A Minivan for up to 8 people is €435.
Roughly four hours after the ramp goes down. The Piraeus overnight docks early, and 3 hr 50 min of driving puts most passengers in Sitia during the morning.
Yes. Sitia town at 257.0 kilometres, the port at 259.0 and the airport at 256.0 all carry the same fixed €340 from Souda, so book the point you actually need.
The seafront and town properties, among them El Greco, Sitia Bay, Sitia Beach, Itanos Hotel and Petras Beach.
No. It is a working port and market town with a long seafront, and it serves as the base for Vai, Palekastro and the Toplou monastery further east.
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 €340 for a Standard car to Sitia Town.
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 Sitia Town and Sitia Town to Souda Port are the same journey at the same fixed €340, 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.