There are 10 ways to get from Lucca to Crete by plane, train, busferry, bus, car, car ferry, or ferry
Select an option below to see step-by-step directions and to compare ticket prices and travel times in Rome2Rio's travel planner.
Fly from Pisa International Airport
best- Fly from Pisa International Airport (PSA) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane PSA - HER
7h 47m€109–283Train, train to Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport, fly
cheapest- Take the train from Lucca to Firenze S.M.N.train
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centraletrain
- Fly from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport (BLQ) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane BLQ - HER
7h 6m€90–377Train, bus and ferry, bus
- Take the train from Lucca to Firenze S.M.N.train Re
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Brindisitrain Fr
- Take the busferry from Brindisi - Piazza Capitanerie di Porto to Vlorëbusferry
- Take the bus from Vlore , station to Ioanninabus
- Take the busferry from Ioannina to Heraklionbusferry
36h 34mDrive, car ferry
- Drive from Lucca to Port of Piraeuscar
- Take the car ferry from Port of Piraeus to Paroscarferry
- Take the car ferry from Paros to Heraklion Portcarferry
28h 54m€507–892Bus to Florence Peretola Airport, fly
- Take the bus from Stazione Fs to Firenze T2 Guidoni P2bus
- Fly from Florence Peretola Airport (FLR) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane FLR - HER
8h 3m€116–327Train, train to Fiumicino International Airport, fly
- Take the train from Lucca to Firenze S.M.N.train
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Roma Terminitrain
- Fly from Fiumicino International Airport (FCO) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane FCO - HER
8h 30m€105–339Train, bus, ferry, bus and ferry
- Take the train from Lucca to Firenze S.M.N.train Re
- Take the train from Firenze S.M.N. to Napoli Centraletrain Fr
- Take the bus from Napoli P.zza Garibaldi to Bari-Portobus
- Take the ferry from Bari M.ma to Igoumenitsaferry Asf
- Take the bus from Igoumenitsa to Ioanninabus
- Take the busferry from Ioannina to Heraklionbusferry
38h 56m€220–425Bus, bus and ferry
- Take the bus from Stazione Fs to Firenze T2 Guidoni P2bus Dd
- Take the bus from Stazione Santa Maria Novella to Skopje, Transporten Centarbus
- Take the bus from Skopje, Transporten Centar to Thessaloníkibus
- Take the busferry from Thessaloniki to Heraklionbusferry
41h 20m€226–263Train, bus and ferry, bus, car ferry
- Take the train from Lucca to Firenze S.M.N.train Re
- Take the busferry from Firenze to Vlorëbusferry
- Take the bus from Vlorë to Piraeusbus
- Take the car ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion Portcarferry
43h 42mBus and ferry
- Take the busferry from Lucca to Tiranabusferry
- Take the busferry from Tirana to Heraklion Portbusferry
2d 8h
Pisa International Airport (PSA) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Lucca to Crete is to fly which costs €100 - €290 and takes 7h 47m.
The fastest way to get from Lucca to Crete is to train and fly which takes 7h 6m and costs €90 - €380.
No, there is no direct bus from Lucca to Crete. However, there are services departing from Stazione Fs and arriving at Heraklion via T2 Guidoni, Stazione Santa Maria Novella, Skopje, Transporten Centar and Thessaloniki. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 41h 20m.
The distance between Lucca and Crete is 1595 km.
The best way to get from Lucca to Crete without a car is to train and bus and ferry and bus which takes 36h 34m and costs .
It takes approximately 7h 47m to get from Lucca to Crete, including transfers.
Lucca to Crete bus services, operated by Autolinee Toscane, depart from Stazione Fs station.
Lucca to Crete bus services, operated by Autolinee Toscane, arrive at Firenze T2 Guidoni P2 station.
Crete is 1h ahead of Lucca. It is currently 4:18 PM in Lucca and 5:18 PM in Crete.
There are 2691+ hotels available in Crete.
What companies run services between Lucca, Italy and Crete, Greece?
Aegean Airlines, Ryanair, and Sky Express fly from Pisa International Airport (PSA) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) 4 times a week. Alternatively, you can take a vehicle from Lucca to Heraklion Port via Tirana, Pallati I Sportit, Pallati I Verdhe, and Tirana in around 2d 8h.
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Pisa International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 55m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €90–320
Flights from Florence Peretola Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 45m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €120–320
Flights from Florence Peretola Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Fiumicino International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 20m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €120–320
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 20m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–290
Flights from Fiumicino International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Tuesday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €80–240
Flights from Fiumicino International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 5m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €80–240
Flights from Fiumicino International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 35m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–240
- Website
- ita-airways.com
Flights from Florence Peretola Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Fiumicino International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 57m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €130–320
Flights from Fiumicino International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 15m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–240
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Pisa International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Catania
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €120–270
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 30m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €65–240
- Website
- swiss.com
Flights from Florence Peretola Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Zurich
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 10m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €110–550
- Website
- neosair.it
Flights from Bologna Guglielmo Marconi Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 25m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €180–600
Flights from Fiumicino International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €160–550
- Website
- skyexpress.gr
Flights from Pisa International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Tuesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–310
- Website
- flyulendo.com
Flights from Fiumicino International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 20m
- When
- Monday and Friday
- Estimated price
- €40–170
- Phone
- +39.06.5210550
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Lucca to Firenze S.M.N.
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 21m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €9–16
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 28m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €11–19
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 51m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €30–55
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Brindisi
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 14m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €120–240
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 37 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €13–25
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 42m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €35–75
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Napoli Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €65–130
- Schedules at
- trenitalia.com
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- ufficiogruppi@trenitalia.it
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 12m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €27–70
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- 1st Class
- €45–70
- 2nd Class
- €27–40
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- trenitalia.com
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Bologna Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 17m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €9–21
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Roma Termini
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 40m
- Frequency
- 6 times a week
- Estimated price
- €25–60
- Website
- https://www.trenitalia.com/en.html
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- italotreno.it
Train from Firenze S.M.N. to Napoli Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €60–120
- Website
- https://www.italotreno.it/en
- Phone
- +393293958604
- info@pistoiaviaggi.com
- Website
- pistoia-viaggi.it
Busferry from Brindisi - Piazza Capitanerie di Porto to Vlorë
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 28m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- pistoia-viaggi.it
- Phone
- +355 69 661 4303
- likospartak@gmail.com
- Website
- likokostatours.weebly.com
Bus from Vlore , station to Ioannina
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 7m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +30 2810 24 50 20
- info@ktelherlas.gr
- Website
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Ioannina to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €70–100
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Thessaloniki to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €75–110
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
- Phone
- +39 800 142 424
- numeroverdetpl@regione.toscana.it
- Website
- at-bus.it
Bus from Stazione Fs to Firenze T2 Guidoni P2
- Ave. Duration
- 56 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €4–6
- Website
- https://www.at-bus.it/en
- Schedules at
- https://www.at-bus.it/en/lines-and-timetables
- Phone
- +39 080 579 0211
- info@sitasudtrasporti.it
- Website
- sitasudtrasporti.it
Bus from Napoli P.zza Garibaldi to Bari-Porto
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €13–24
- Schedules at
- sitasudtrasporti.it
- Phone
- +30 2665 0 22309
- info@ktel-thesprotias.gr
- Website
- ktel-thesprotias.gr
Bus from Igoumenitsa to Ioannina
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 30m
- Frequency
- 4 times a day
- Estimated price
- €10–15
- Schedules at
- ktel-thesprotias.gr
- Book at
- ktelbus.gr
- Phone
- +389 75 209 209
- hakkomerc@gmail.com
- Website
- hakbus.org
Bus from Stazione Santa Maria Novella to Skopje, Transporten Centar
- Ave. Duration
- 17h 16m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €110
- Website
- https://www.hakbus.org/
- Phone
- +389 2 240 2528
- ruleturs@sas.com.mk
- Website
- ruleturs.mk
Bus from Skopje, Transporten Centar to Thessaloníki
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 35m
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €35
- Schedules at
- ruleturs.mk
- Phone
- +30 210 8215414
- info@rucitours.com
- Website
- rucitours.com
Busferry from Firenze to Vlorë
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 33m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- rucitours.com
- Phone
- +355 68 407 6607
- komatastours.al@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Vlorë to Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 10h 19m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355696383030
- Website
- firenzelines.com
Busferry from Lucca to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 30h 23m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- firenzelines.com
- Phone
- +355 42 239 203 / +355 69 400 4075
- albtrans06@yahoo.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Busferry from Tirana to Heraklion Port
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063548259783
- Phone
- +30 210 710 7 710
- reservations.dpt@seajets.gr
- Website
- seajets.com
Car ferry from Port of Piraeus to Paros
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €55–150
- Website
- https://www.seajets.com/
Car ferry from Paros to Heraklion Port
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €70–190
- Website
- https://www.seajets.com/
Ferry from Bari M.ma to Igoumenitsa
- Ave. Duration
- 9h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €55–140
- Website
- https://www.bluestarferries.com/en-gb/
- Phone
- +30 21 0419 7400
- info@anek.gr
- Website
- anek.gr
Car ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion Port
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €35–150
- Website
- ANEK Lines
- Economy
- €35–60
- Airplane-type seats
- €40–60
- 2 beds - outside cabin
- €100–150
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