There are 11 ways to get from Crete to Dortmund by plane, train, car ferry, bus, or busferry
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Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport, train
best- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)plane HER - DUS
- Take the train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Dortmund Hbftrain
6h 34m€126–389Fly Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport, train
cheapest- Fly from Chania International Airport (CHQ) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS)plane CHQ - DUS
- Take the train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Dortmund Hbftrain
6h 57m€123–407Car ferry, bus, train
- Take the car ferry from Heraklion Port to Port of Piraeuscarferry
- Take the bus from Piraeus to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusavebus
- Take the bus from Tirana to Stuttgart Hbfbus
- Take the train from Hauptbahnhof to Dortmund Hbftrain 47 / ...
39h 59mFly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Münster Osnabrück International Airport, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Münster Osnabrück International Airport (FMO)plane HER - FMO
- Take the train from Münster Hauptbahnhof to Dortmund Hbftrain
2h 14m€202–488Fly 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 Dortmund Hbftrain
7h 20m€154–398Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Frankfurt (FRA)plane HER - FRA
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Dortmund Hbftrain
8h 9m€146–227Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Hannover Airport, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Hannover Airport (HAJ)plane HER - HAJ
- Take the train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Dortmund Hbftrain
8h 20m€194–359Bus and ferry, bus
- Take the busferry from Heraklion Port to Tiranabusferry
- Take the bus from Tirana to Dortmund ZOBbus
47h 57mBus and ferry, bus, train
- Take the busferry from Heraklion to Thessalonikibusferry
- Take the bus from Thessaloniki to Budapest Hotel Platanusbus
- Take the train from Budapest-Nyugati to Berlin-Spandautrain Rj
- Take the train from S Spandau Bhf to Dortmund Hbftrain 10 / ...
2d€332–468Bus and ferry, bus via Dortmund
- Take the busferry from Heraklion Port to Tiranabusferry
- Take the bus from Tirana to Dortmundbus
2d 6hBus, bus and ferry, train
- Take the bus from Heraklion to Chaniabus
- Take the busferry from Chania to Ioanninabusferry
- Take the bus from Ioannina to Frankfurt am Mainbus
- Take the train from Frankfurt to Dortmund Hbftrain 34 / ...
2d 18h€311–455
Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Crete to Dortmund is to fly and train which costs €140 - €230 and takes 8h 9m.
The fastest way to get from Crete to Dortmund is to fly and train which takes 2h 14m and costs €200 - €490.
No, there is no direct bus from Crete to Dortmund. However, there are services departing from Heraklion Port and arriving at Dortmund ZOB via Mbikalimi Kamez, Kulla E Sahatit, Tiranë and Tirana. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 47h 57m.
The distance between Crete and Dortmund is 2374 km.
The best way to get from Crete to Dortmund without a car is to car ferry and bus and train which takes 39h 59m and costs .
It takes approximately 6h 34m to get from Crete to Dortmund, including transfers.
Crete to Dortmund bus services, operated by Alb Trans, depart from Heraklion Port station.
Crete to Dortmund bus services, operated by Alb Trans, arrive at Tirana station.
Dortmund is 1h behind Crete. It is currently 7:40 AM in Crete and 6:40 AM in Dortmund.
There are 1267+ hotels available in Dortmund.
What companies run services between Crete, Greece and Dortmund, Germany?
There is no direct connection from Crete to Dortmund. However, you can take the line 6 bus to Irakleion Airport, walk to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) airport, fly to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS), walk to D-Flughafen Terminal A/B, take the vehicle to D-Flughafen Bf, walk to Duesseldorf Flughafen, then take the train to Dortmund Hbf. Alternatively, you can take a car ferry from Heraklion Port to Dortmund Hbf via Port of Piraeus, Piraeus, Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave, Tirana, Stuttgart Hbf, and Hauptbahnhof in around 39h 59m.
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 8m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–410
Flights from Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–390
Flights from Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 12m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €110–390
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 46m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–430
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €90–230
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 8m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–230
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Hannover Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–440
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Hannover Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €140–350
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–320
Flights from Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–360
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–330
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport via Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–350
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €90–230
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Hannover Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €140–350
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Hannover Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €140–350
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Hannover Airport via Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Monday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €140–350
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Hannover Airport via Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 45m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €140–350
- Website
- corendonairlines.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Wednesday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–280
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Münster Osnabrück International Airport
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €180–450
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–300
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Hannover Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Monday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €150–360
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €80–320
Flights from Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 30m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €90–360
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–150
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–320
Flights from Chania International Airport to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–360
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Cologne Bonn Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–330
- Website
- tui.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Düsseldorf International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €130–460
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–130
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Hannover Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €170–600
- Website
- austrian.com
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
- airbus.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Frankfurt
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €90–150
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €13–19
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 46 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €26–29
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hauptbahnhof to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €70–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Münster Hauptbahnhof to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 30 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €24–28
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Köln Hbf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 10m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €29–33
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Frankfurt to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €50–56
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Hannover Hauptbahnhof to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 52m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €43–48
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from S Spandau Bhf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 11m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €70–85
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- 0180 6 9 27 37 27
- info@eurobahn.de
- Website
- eurobahn.de
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €14–20
- Website
- https://www.eurobahn.de/en/
Train from Münster Hauptbahnhof to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 52 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €12–18
- Website
- https://www.eurobahn.de/en/
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 19m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €13–19
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +31 85 004 3110
- Website
- traincharter.eu
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Website
- https://traincharter.eu/
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Duesseldorf Flughafen to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 37 min
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €29–65
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Standard
- €29–45
- Comfort
- €30–45
- Premium
- €45–65
Train from Köln Hbf to Dortmund Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 23m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €30–75
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Standard
- €30–50
- Comfort
- €35–55
- Premium
- €55–75
Train from Budapest-Nyugati to Berlin-Spandau
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 12m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €130–200
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/railjet
- *
- €130–200
- Phone
- +2105203350
- Website
- top-lines.gr
Bus from Piraeus to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 25m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €40
- Schedules at
- top-lines.gr
- Phone
- +355 68 407 6607
- komatastours.al@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Piraeus to Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 25m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 68 204 4475
- amr_travel@hotmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 34m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana to Dortmund ZOB
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 12m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 69 232 8000
- anumitravel@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana to Stuttgart Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 20h 41m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana to Dortmund ZOB
- Ave. Duration
- 28h 55m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- 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
- +383 44 102 280
- armendi_tours@hotmail.com
- Website
- armenditours.com
Bus from Tirana to Dortmund ZOB
- Ave. Duration
- 27h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- armenditours.com
- 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
- 0030 2108219900
- vsiamos@otenet.gr
- Website
- siamostours.com
Bus from Thessaloniki to Budapest Hotel Platanus
- Ave. Duration
- 15h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €50–75
- Schedules at
- siamostours.com
- Phone
- +355 673 835 770
- Website
- devatours.eu
Bus from Tirana to Dortmund
- Ave. Duration
- 27h 44m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Schedules at
- devatours.eu
- Phone
- +355 68 20 63 724
- info@arjanitravel.com
- Website
- arjanitravel.com
Bus from Tirana to Dortmund
- Ave. Duration
- 36h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €110
- Schedules at
- arjanitravel.com
- Phone
- +302821093306
- info@e-ktel.gr
- Website
- e-ktel.com
Bus from Heraklion to Chania
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €10–15
- Website
- https://www.e-ktel.com/en/
Busferry from Chania to Ioannina
- Ave. Duration
- 19h
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €40–75
- Website
- https://www.e-ktel.com/en/
- Website
- portokalidistours.gr
Bus from Ioannina to Frankfurt am Main
- Ave. Duration
- 38h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €210–310
- Schedules at
- portokalidistours.gr
- Phone
- +30 210 710 7 710
- reservations.dpt@seajets.gr
- Website
- seajets.com
Car ferry from Heraklion Port to Port of Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 30m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €100–230
- Website
- https://www.seajets.com/
- Deck Fare Economy
- €100–140
- Deck Fare Economy & Car less than 4.25m
- €160–230
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