There are 9 ways to get from Crete to Amsterdam by plane, busferry, bus, train, or ferry
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Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
best- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)plane HER - AMS
6h 15m€186–371Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Eindhoven Airport, train
cheapest- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Eindhoven Airport (EIN)plane HER - EIN
- Take the train from Eindhoven to Amsterdam Centraaltrain
7h 49m€118–310Bus and ferry, bus, train via Nuremberg
- Take the busferry from Heraklion to Thessalonikibusferry
- Take the bus from Thessaloníki to Pristinabus
- Take the bus from Pristina to Nurembergbus
- Take the train from Nürnberg Hbf to Siegburg Bftrain 41 / ...
- Take the train from Siegburg/Bonn to Amsterdam Centraaltrain Ice
44h 2mFly Chania International Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Fly from Chania International Airport (CHQ) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS)plane CHQ - AMS
6h 38m€198–479Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Brussels Airport, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Brussels Airport (BRU)plane HER - BRU
- Take the train from Brussels Airport-Zaventem to Anvers-Centraltrain
- Take the train from Anvers-Central to Amsterdam Centraaltrain
8h 42m€139–436Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)plane HER - DUS
- Take the train from Düsseldorf Hbf to Amsterdam Centraaltrain
9h 13m€137–450Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN)plane HER - CGN
- Take the train from Köln Hbf to Amsterdam Centraaltrain
9h 36m€145–463Bus and ferry, bus, train
- Take the busferry from Heraklion Port to Tiranabusferry
- Take the bus from Tirana to Antwerpen-Centraalbus
- Take the train from Anvers-Central to Amsterdam Centraaltrain
2d 3hFerry, bus
- Take the ferry from Heraklion to Port of Piraeusferry Abs / ...
- Take the bus from Athens to Beograd, Autobuska stanicabus
- Take the bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Amsterdambus
2d 11h€199–382
Crete to Amsterdam by ferry, foot, subway, and bus
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Crete to Amsterdam is to fly and train which costs €110 - €310 and takes 7h 49m.
The fastest way to get from Crete to Amsterdam is to fly which takes 6h 15m and costs €180 - €380.
The distance between Crete and Amsterdam is 2499 km.
The best way to get from Crete to Amsterdam without a car is to bus and ferry and bus and train via Nuremberg which takes 44h 2m and costs .
It takes approximately 6h 15m to get from Crete to Amsterdam, including transfers.
Amsterdam is 1h behind Crete. It is currently 2:37 AM in Crete and 1:37 AM in Amsterdam.
There are 2736+ hotels available in Amsterdam.
What companies run services between Crete, Greece and Amsterdam, Netherlands?
Transavia Holland, TUI Airlines Netherlands, and Austrian Airlines fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol (AMS) 5 times a week.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Chania International Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 20m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €110–390
Flights from Chania International Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 40m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–390
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Brussels Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–340
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 30m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–340
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 36m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–430
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 55m
- When
- Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €110–430
Flights from Chania International Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 10m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €120–480
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Brussels Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- When
- Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–410
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–410
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €110–430
- Website
- transavia.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €95–460
Flights from Chania International Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–500
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Eindhoven Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €110–550
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–310
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–330
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport via Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–350
- Website
- tui.nl
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 10m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €150–430
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Eindhoven Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €180–500
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Eindhoven Airport via Bologna
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €95–240
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Eindhoven Airport via Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 35m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–240
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–310
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–330
- Website
- corendonairlines.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–300
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–310
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Chania International Airport to Amsterdam Airport Schiphol
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €90–320
- Website
- skyexpress.gr
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Brussels Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €100–310
- Website
- tuifly.be
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Brussels Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 4h
- When
- Thursday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €85–310
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Brussels Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–360
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Brussels Airport via Milan Linate
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €90–300
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €80–310
- Website
- tui.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €140–440
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Nürnberg Hbf to Siegburg Bf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €60–75
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Siegburg/Bonn to Amsterdam Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €40–150
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- €40–65
- 1st Class
- €90–150
Train from Eindhoven to Amsterdam Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €19–65
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- €19–29
- 1st Class
- €35–65
Train from Brussels Airport-Zaventem to Anvers-Central
- Ave. Duration
- 31 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–40
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- €13–19
- 1st Class
- €23–40
Train from Anvers-Central to Amsterdam Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €25–85
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- €25–40
- 1st Class
- €50–85
Train from Düsseldorf Hbf to Amsterdam Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 16m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €30–120
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- €30–50
- 1st Class
- €70–120
Train from Köln Hbf to Amsterdam Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €40–140
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- €40–60
- 1st Class
- €80–140
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- belgiantrain.be
Train from Brussels Airport-Zaventem to Anvers-Central
- Ave. Duration
- 51 min
- Frequency
- Every 20 minutes
- Estimated price
- €16–18
- Website
- https://www.belgiantrain.be/en
- 2nd Class
- €16–18
- 1st Class
- €21–24
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Anvers-Central to Amsterdam Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 20m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €45–95
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Standard
- €45–65
- Comfort
- €50–70
- Premium
- €70–95
- Phone
- +30 2810 24 50 20
- info@ktelherlas.gr
- Website
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Heraklion to Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €80–110
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
- Phone
- +383 44 162 498
- info@barilevaturist.com
- Website
- web.facebook.com
Bus from Thessaloníki to Pristina
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 58m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €18–23
- Website
- https://web.facebook.com/BarilevaTuristKosova
- Phone
- + 383 (0) 44 542 029
- info@sharrtravel.com
- Website
- sharrtravel.com
Bus from Thessaloníki to Pristina
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €20
- Website
- https://www.sharrtravel.com
- Phone
- +38349112555
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Thessaloníki to Pristina
- Ave. Duration
- 7h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €20
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- fertours3@gmail.com
Bus from Pristina to Nuremberg
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 1m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- https://www.facebook.com/fertourstravelagency
- Phone
- +355 42 239 203 / +355 69 400 4075
- albtrans06@yahoo.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Busferry from Heraklion Port to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063548259783
- Phone
- +355 69 232 8000
- anumitravel@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana to Antwerpen-Centraal
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €130
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +302105233969
- fptravel@otenet.gr
- Website
- fptravel.gr
Bus from Athens to Beograd, Autobuska stanica
- Ave. Duration
- 15h
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €60–90
- Schedules at
- fptravel.gr
- Phone
- +381 800 334 334
- iuc@lasta.rs
- Website
- lasta.rs
Bus from Beograd, Autobuska stanica to Amsterdam
Ferry from Heraklion to Port of Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €35–100
- Website
- https://www.bluestarferries.com/en-gb/
- Economy
- €35–55
- 2 Bed Inside Cabin
- €65–85
- 4 Bed Outside Cabin
- €60–75
- 2 Bed Lux Cabin
- €80–100
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