Car Hire Crete

Crete is the biggest of the Greek islands and already that tells you a hire car will be a great help for seeing the sights. Car hire needn’t be an expensive extra on your holiday; in fact we look at it as more of a very affordable essential.

We search hard to make sure the prices we offer you are the lowest for the standard of Crete car hire we offer. You won’t find such a large range of cars to choose from at such low prices yet be guaranteed your car is the latest model and is regularly serviced.

Availability of car hire at Chania Airport or car hire at Heraklion Airport as well as your resort means that whenever you want it, great car hire is always conveniently close.

Driving Guide & Places To Go in Crete

Crete was the centre for the highly successful Minoan civilisation and many travellers come in search of the history, architecture and legacy of the people who were believed to have been wiped out by the eruption of Thira on Santorini.

The ancient city of Knossos still stands, testament to the might and wealth of the Minoans and it makes a great day out, especially finding the images and statues of the bull that represents the city.

If you are fit and want to see the biggest and most spectacular gorge in Europe, walk the Samaria Gorge which will take you a whole day to do. In early summer watch out for the thousands of butterflies.

A complete contrast is the glitzy town of Elounda, the St Tropez of Crete where you can celebrity spot amongst the million pound yachts in the harbour.

For more traditional Crete, Rethymno has an atmospheric old town packed with narrow lanes and passages bordered by honey coloured buildings that glow in the sunset.

And the best way to see all these? A Crete hire car of course, collected from any one of the island wide locations including Chania Airport car hire and Heraklion Airport car hire.

Closest Airports for Crete 

Crete has two main airports; one at each end of the island. In the west you’ll find Chania Airport and in the northeast Heraklion Airport. Both have a large number of flights from across Europe and cheap flights are available from many budget carriers. Between them the two airports handle over six million passengers annually. Both have good facilities for passengers.

Code – Chania – CHQ
              Heraklion - HER

Other names

Chania - Ioannis  Daskalogiannis International Airport
Heraklion – Nikos Kazantzakis International Airport