By plane
The island has three significant airports:
Nikos Kazantzakis at Heraklion. There are long term plans to replace Heraklion
airport, which is too close to the city, by a new inland airport at Kasteli,
southeast of Heraklion. It is a small airport located at the edge of Heraklion.
Has basic facilities and a small parking lot.
The military airport Daskalogiannis at Chania. Chania airport is much smaller
and far less busy than Heraklion airport. Located on the Northwestern part of
the island and the airport is also known as the K. Daskalogiannis Airport.
A new public airport in Sitia. Sitia airport serves currently only a small
number of domestic flights, mainly to/from Athens.
There are daily flights from Athens airport by
Olympic Air,
Aegean Airlines and
Athens Airways to Heraklion and Chania.
Sky Express operates flights from Athens
airport to Sitia. During the months of July and August
Astra Airlines flies from
Thessaloniki to Heraklion and Chania.
From April till early November charter airlines fly directly to Heraklion and
Chania from many European airports.
Flights going from Heraklion and Chania to Thessolaniki take about 90 minutes.
The airport at Heraklion also has daily flights to Rhodes which takes 1 hr.
There are daily flights between Athens and Heraklion.
By Boat
Ferry services from Piraeus to Heraklion, Rethimno and Chania and from
Thessaloniki and the Cyclades to Heraklion.
A great way of visiting
Crete is to fly to Athens to El. Venizelos and take
the ferry from Piraeus - to Crete.
The Athens airport is a little bit far from the port,
but it's worth the extra time for a fantastic way to
travel. Imagine he journey approaching the island of
your dreams, early in the morning, standing on the deck of one of those famous
ferries a superb way to arrive at a promising
destination.
Thus, some suggestions to help you get the best out of your sea voyage.
Piraeus to Heraklion takes
about 5 - 8 hours on standard ferries. These overnight ferries arrive at their
destination between 5.30 and 6.30 in the morning.
Tickets can be bought in advance from
Minoan and
ANEK Lines.
Please feel free to contact us if you need any further information either by email [email protected] either by phone +306973832141