There are 10 ways to get from Crete to Genoa by plane, car ferry, bus, busferry, or train
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly Chania International Airport to Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport
best- Fly from Chania International Airport (CHQ) to Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA)plane CHQ - GOA
15h 27m€104–411Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Milano Malpensa Airport, train
cheapest- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Milano Malpensa Airport (MXP)plane HER - MXP
- Take the train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Milano Centraletrain
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Genova Brignoletrain
8h 20m€60–262Car ferry, bus, bus and ferry
- Take the carferry from Heraklion Port to Port of Piraeuscarferry
- Take the bus from Piraeus to Durrësbus
- Take the busferry from Durrës to Genova Piazza della Vittoriabusferry
35h 37mFly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Milan Linate Airport, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Milan Linate Airport (LIN)plane HER - LIN
- Take the train from Milano Forlanini to Genova P.Za Principetrain
9h 33m€158–295Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Il Caravaggio International Airport, bus, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Il Caravaggio International Airport (BGY)plane HER - BGY
- Take the bus from Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport to Piazza Luigi di Savoiabus
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Genova Brignoletrain
7h 58m€91–349Fly Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, train
- Fly from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ)plane HER - BLQ
- Take the train from Bologna centrale to Milano Centraletrain
- Take the train from Milano Centrale to Genova Brignoletrain
8h 23m€101–331Bus and ferry, train
- Take the busferry from Heraklion Port to Tiranabusferry
- Take the busferry from Durrës to Roma, Autostazione Tiburtinabusferry
- Take the train from Roma Tiburtina to Genova Brignoletrain Fa
41h 13mBus and ferry, bus
- Take the busferry from Heraklion Port to Tiranabusferry
- Take the bus from Tirana to Kavajëbus
- Take the busferry from Kavajë to Genova Piazza della Vittoriabusferry
42h 25mBus and ferry, bus via Ioánnina
- Take the busferry from Heraklion to Ioanninabusferry
- Take the bus from Ioannina to Vlorëbus
- Take the busferry from Vlorë to Genoabusferry
44h 45mBus and ferry
- Take the busferry from Heraklion Port to Tiranabusferry
- Take the busferry from Tirana to Genoabusferry
2d 12h
Chania International Airport (CHQ) to Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Crete to Genoa is to fly and train which costs €60 - €270 and takes 8h 20m.
The fastest way to get from Crete to Genoa is to fly and bus and train which takes 7h 58m and costs €90 - €350.
No, there is no direct bus from Crete to Genoa. However, there are services departing from Heraklion Port and arriving at Genova Piazza della Vittoria via Tirana and Kavajë. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 42h 25m.
The distance between Crete and Genoa is 1665 km.
The best way to get from Crete to Genoa without a car is to car ferry and bus and bus and ferry which takes 35h 37m and costs .
It takes approximately 15h 27m to get from Crete to Genoa, including transfers.
Crete to Genoa bus services, operated by Alb Trans, depart from Heraklion Port station.
Crete to Genoa bus services, operated by Alb Trans, arrive at Tirana station.
Genoa is 1h behind Crete. It is currently 6:21 AM in Crete and 5:21 AM in Genoa.
There are 4502+ hotels available in Genoa.
What companies run services between Crete, Greece and Genoa, Italy?
Airbus France, Lufthansa, and five other airlines fly from Chania International Airport (CHQ) to Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport (GOA) twice daily. Alternatively, you can take a vehicle from Heraklion Port to Genoa via Tirana, Terminal C, Asllan Rusi, and Tirana in around 2d 12h.
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Chania International Airport to Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 12m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €80–320
Flights from Chania International Airport to Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–380
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Milan Linate Airport via Naples
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €65–290
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Milan Linate Airport via Bari
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €70–290
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Milan Linate Airport via Catania
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 15m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €100–320
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Milan Linate Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–270
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Chania International Airport to Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 55m
- When
- Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €110–380
Flights from Chania International Airport to Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 15m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €80–320
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Milan Linate Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 50m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–410
- Website
- austrian.com
Flights from Chania International Airport to Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 15m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €80–320
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Milan Linate Airport via Vienna
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 1m
- When
- Saturday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–450
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 55m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €90–250
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Il Caravaggio International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- When
- Tuesday and Thursday
- Estimated price
- €65–290
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Il Caravaggio International Airport via Catania
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 40m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €65–290
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 35m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €50–220
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Milano Malpensa Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–270
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–290
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Milano Malpensa Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 50m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €45–140
Flights from Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” to Milano Malpensa Airport via Naples
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €45–140
- Website
- aeroitalia.com
Flights from Chania International Airport to Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport via Rome
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 20m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €80–320
- Website
- airdolomiti.it
Flights from Chania International Airport to Genoa Cristoforo Colombo Airport via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–380
- Phone
- +39 02 7249 4494
- my-link@trenord.it
- Website
- Trenord
Train from Malpensa Aeroporto T1 to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €4–6
- Website
- Trenord
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Milano Centrale to Genova Brignole
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 43m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €15–28
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Milano Centrale to Genova Brignole
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 43m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €15–28
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Milano Centrale to Genova Brignole
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 43m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €15–28
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Milano Centrale to Genova Brignole
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €17–23
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Milano Forlanini to Genova P.Za Principe
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €16–22
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Milano Centrale to Genova Brignole
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €17–23
- Website
- Trenitalia
Train from Milano Centrale to Genova Brignole
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 5m
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €17–23
- Website
- Trenitalia
- Phone
- +39 06 5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Milano Centrale to Genova Brignole
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 43m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €19–35
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Milano Centrale to Genova Brignole
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 43m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €19–35
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Milano Centrale to Genova Brignole
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 43m
- Frequency
- 3 times a day
- Estimated price
- €19–35
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Roma Tiburtina to Genova Brignole
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 28m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €65–120
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Bologna centrale to Milano Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €25–45
- Website
- Italo Treno
- Phone
- +2105203350
- Website
- top-lines.gr
Bus from Piraeus to Durrës
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45
- Schedules at
- top-lines.gr
- Phone
- +393293958604
- info@pistoiaviaggi.com
- Website
- pistoia-viaggi.it
Busferry from Durrës to Genova Piazza della Vittoria
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 44m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- pistoia-viaggi.it
Busferry from Durrës to Roma, Autostazione Tiburtina
- Ave. Duration
- 8h 48m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- pistoia-viaggi.it
Busferry from Kavajë to Genova Piazza della Vittoria
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- pistoia-viaggi.it
- customerservices@terravision.eu
- Website
- TERRAVISION
Bus from Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport to Piazza Luigi di Savoia
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €5–23
- Website
- TERRAVISION
- Phone
- 035.319366
- ticket@orioshuttle.com
- Website
- orioshuttle.com
Bus from Milan Bergamo Orio al Serio Airport to Piazza Luigi di Savoia
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €11–14
- Schedules at
- orioshuttle.com
- Phone
- +355 42 239 203 / +355 69 400 4075
- albtrans06@yahoo.com
- Website
- Alb Trans
Busferry from Heraklion Port to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- Alb Trans
Busferry from Heraklion Port to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- Alb Trans
Busferry from Heraklion Port to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- Alb Trans
- Phone
- +383 38 616 161
- travel@gjirafa.com
- Website
- gjirafa.com
Bus from Tirana to Kavajë
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €5–8
- Schedules at
- Linja të autobusëve Gjirafa
- Phone
- +383 38 616 161
- Website
- travel.gjirafa.com
Bus from Tirana to Kavajë
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 15m
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €3–5
- Schedules at
- travel.gjirafa.com
- Phone
- +355 68 402 3400
- info@shpresa.al
- Website
- group.shpresa.al
Bus from Tirana to Kavajë
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- 5 times a day
- Estimated price
- €4–6
- Schedules at
- group.shpresa.al
- Phone
- +355 69 930 4724
- basharodolf@gmail.com
- Website
- visit-gjirokastra.com
Bus from Tirana to Kavajë
- Ave. Duration
- 1h
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Schedules at
- travel.gjirafa.com
- Phone
- +355 69 671 6168
- Website
- travel.gjirafa.com
Bus from Tirana to Kavajë
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Schedules at
- travel.gjirafa.com
- Phone
- +30 2810 246530
- info@ktelherlas.gr
- Website
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Heraklion to Ioannina
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €75–110
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
- Phone
- +355 68 407 6607
- komatastours.al@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Ioannina to Vlorë
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +30 210 8215414
- info@rucitours.com
- Website
- rucitours.com
Busferry from Vlorë to Genoa
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- rucitours.com
- Phone
- +355696383030
- Website
- firenzelines.com
Busferry from Tirana to Genoa
- Ave. Duration
- 34h 45m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €100
- Schedules at
- firenzelines.com
- Phone
- +30 210 710 7 710
- info@seajets.gr
- Website
- Seajets
Car ferry from Heraklion Port to Port of Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €120–280
- Website
- Seajets
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