Custom Search
|
|
Search the Web, or Our Site :
|
Crete has two international airports, in Heraklion (HER) and Chania (CHQ). Public bus, Olympic Airways bus and taxi services into the cities are available. Airport facilities include a cafeteria and a duty-free shop. The airport of Sitia (JSH), which is located to the eastern end of Crete, serves mainly domestic flights during the summer season. It is now further developed in order to serve international charters flights in the area of eastern Crete. If you like to visit the region of Sfakia, we can recommend the airport of Chania (tel. 28210-63219). It is new and small and much more close to Sfakia than Heraklion. Checking out and checking in is very quickly, since there are not too many planes arriving and going. |
 |
 |
|
Chania
Airport
more pictures |
Heraklion
Airport
|
Heraklion airport 'Nikos Kazantzakis'
 |
|
|--------------------to the left: white area: INTERNATIONAL
ARRIVALS
 |
Click for more details
|
Airport Name |
IATA |
Distance |
Travel
Time |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chania National Airport | CHQ | 14 km | 0:35 |
| Heraklion International Airport , N.Kazantzakis | HER | 5 km | 0:15 |
| Sitia Public Airport | JSH | 1,5 km | 0:10 |
|
From the airport you can take a bus or taxi to the town of Chania. At the bus station just near to the harbour you can take the bus to Chora Sfakion. It's a 2,5 hours drive. You can also take a taxi directly to Chora Sfakion, less than one-and-a-half hours. Price is about Drs. 14.000 one way for up to 4 people if you order a taxi from Sfakia, taxis at the airport are more expensive. You can make a reservation for a Sfakian taxi here. |
The timetables for direct domestic flights: click here
|
More details about flights to and from Greece and Crete: Telephone numbers: domestic airlines Athens - Crete both ways:
Charter and Scheduled international flights to and from Crete:
By ship/ ferryChania has also daily ferry boat connections to Piraeus from the harbour at Souda. The departure from Piraeus is late in the afternoon, arriving at Souda in the morning where local buses take the travellers to the centre of the town in front of the Public Market. Or take a taxi from Chora Sfakion.
Click
HERE to find the timetable for |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Top 100 Cretan Travel Sites
| CHANIA | RETHIMNON | HERAKLION | AG. NIKOLAOS | |
Area
Code |
28210 | 28310 | 2810 | 28410 |
Hospital |
27231 | 27491 | 231931 | 22369 |
National
Tourist Organization |
26426 | 27491 | 228203 | 22357 |
Port |
89240 (Souda) | 22276 | 226073 | 22312 |
Olympic
Airlines |
27701-3 | 22257 | 229191 | 22034 |
KTEL
(city busses) |
93024 | 22212 | 283925 | 22234 |
KTEL
(regional busses) |
93052 | 22212 | 288544 | 22234 |
POLICE |
24477 | 28156 | 283190 | 22251 |
Local bus transport on Crete:
On Crete you can fairly comfortably travel by public bus. There are no trains in Crete, nor is there a railway system. Crete offers an extended grid of public bus routes. They are mainly operating to enable villagers to go to the cities in Crete. But they offer a cheap option to tourists as well, although the timetable is not designed to be of special service to tourists. Nevertheless you will often see tourists in the local buses on Crete, sometimes even mainly tourists. You need to study the grid, the connections, and the timetable to find your way with the bus in Crete. You can buy tickets at major bus stations, at kiosks, or otherwise in the bus itself. The Greek public bus company is called KTEL, the "Intercity Road Transport Companies in Greece". It is a cooperative company of local bus companies, established in 1952. Each individual bus is owned by one or more private persons, who themselves are responsible for maintaining and operatining the bus. After taxes its revenues are split amongst the shareholders. The planning of the timetable is done by the cooperation KTEL. KTEL has many offices all over Greece, and is not a smooth and united organisation. Its official website is currently off-line. On Crete public transport by bus is organised by KTEL West-Crete and KTEL East-Crete. They unfortunately have often a dispute. This may result in poor service to its customers, specially in areas where lines of the one connect to the lines of the other, e.g. in Vrisses. You may have to walk from one area to the other, because one company cannot go into a interchange station's village.
Below you find diagrams of all the bus connections in Crete:
• Regional bus services in West-Crete: regions Chania and Rethymnon:
• Regional bus services in East-Crete: regions Heraklion and Lassithi:
 Two different bus stations in Heraklion
You prefer not to go by bus? We can arrange a safe and cheap hire car for you:
Information on taxi transfers, only from and to the rgion of Sfakia, southwest Crete: here. |
Click here for different and larger maps
Roadmap
Crete: How to reach Chora Sfakion and Frangokastello Here is a downloadable
file that shows you the exact route |
|
Coming either from
the direction of Chania (airport) or Rethymnon and Heraklion, If you are heading for Frangokastello, after you have descended the mountains, take a sharp left turn backwards near the village of Komitades, marked by a huge Tavern on the corner left, and just follow the main road towards Frangokastello. When you come at a T-crossing, go right and follow the turn in the road to the left. The first main building on the right in Frangokastello is Studios Stavris.
Below is the roadmap
towards Frangokastello. |
| Distances by Road | Km | Km | |||
| From Chania to | Rethymnon | 72 | From Heraklion to | Rethymnon | 78 |
| Heraklion | 150 | Souda | 144 | ||
| Souda | 6 | Chania | 150 | ||
| Airport CHQ | 14 | Airport HER | 5 | ||
| Vrisses | 33 | Vrisses | 117 | ||
| Chora Sfakion | 73 | Chora Sfakion | 157 | ||
| Frangokastello | 82 | Frangokastello | 166 |
Disclaimer: we try to inform
you to the best of our knowledge.
However, we can not take any responsibility for this service or its content.
The above information is 'as is' and the use of the given information is at
your own risk.
Last update: 9 September, 2009 .
Copyright © World2C ™ Multimedia 1999 - 2010. All rights reserved.
Click 
