There are 11 ways to get from Maastricht to Crete by train, plane, bus, busferry, or ferry
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Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
best- Take the train from Herzogenrath to Duesseldorf Hbf
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)DUS - HER
7h 55m€114–748Train to Brussels Airport, fly to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
cheapest- Take the train from Liège-Guillemins to Brussels Airport-Zaventem
- Fly from Brussels Airport (BRU) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)BRU - HER
7h 31m€104–247Bus, bus and ferry
- Take the bus from Liege Gare des Guillemins to Tirana
- Take the busferry from Tirana to Heraklion Port
2dTrain to Brussels Airport, fly to Chania International Airport
- Take the train from Liège-Guillemins to Brussels Airport-Zaventem
- Fly from Brussels Airport (BRU) to Chania International Airport (CHQ)BRU - CHQ
8h 4m€130–336Train, train to Cologne Bonn Airport, fly to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Take the train from Maastricht to Aachen Hbf
- Take the train from Aachen Hbf to Koeln Hbf
- Fly from Cologne Bonn Airport (CGN) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)CGN - HER
7h 42m€125–331Train to Düsseldorf International Airport, fly to Chania International Airport
- Take the train from Herzogenrath to Duesseldorf Hbf
- Fly from Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Chania International Airport (CHQ)DUS - CHQ
8h 23m€140–287Train, train to Frankfurt, fly to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Take the train from Maastricht to Aachen Hbf
- Take the train from Aachen Hbf to Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)FRA - HER
8h 29m€122–316Train to Eindhoven Airport, fly to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Take the train from Maastricht to Eindhoven
- Fly from Eindhoven Airport (EIN) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)EIN - HER
7h 7m€126–250Train, train to Frankfurt, fly to Chania International Airport
- Take the train from Maastricht to Aachen Hbf
- Take the train from Aachen Hbf to Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf
- Fly from Frankfurt (FRA) to Chania International Airport (CHQ)FRA - CHQ
9h 2m€138–415Train, bus, bus and ferry
- Take the train from Maastricht to Aachen HbfS43
- Take the train from Aachen, Hbf to Wien Hauptbahnhof90N
- Take the train from Wien Hbf to FerencvarosEc
- Take the bus from Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar to Thessaloniki
- Take the busferry from Thessaloniki to Heraklion
2d 4hBus, ferry
- Take the bus from Liege to Tirana
- Take the bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Peiraias
- Take the ferry from Port of Piraeus to HeraklionAbs / ...
2d 11h
Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) flights
Questions & Answers
The cheapest way to get from Maastricht to Crete is to train and fly which costs €100 - €250 and takes 7h 31m.
The fastest way to get from Maastricht to Crete is to train and fly which takes 7h 7m and costs €120 - €250.
The distance between Maastricht and Crete is 2421 km.
The best way to get from Maastricht to Crete without a car is to bus and bus and ferry which takes 2 days 0h and costs .
It takes approximately 7h 55m to get from Maastricht to Crete, including transfers.
Crete is 1h ahead of Maastricht. It is currently 11:06 PM in Maastricht and 12:06 AM in Crete.
There are 2518+ hotels available in Crete.
What companies run services between Maastricht, Netherlands and Crete, Greece?
There is no direct connection from Maastricht to Crete. However, you can take the train to Herzogenrath, take the train to Duesseldorf Hbf, take the train to D-Flughafen Terminal S, walk to Düsseldorf International Airport (DUS) airport, fly to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER), walk to Irakleion Airport, then take the line 6 bus to Néa Alikarnassós. Alternatively, you can take a train from Maastricht to Heraklion Port via Liège-Guillemins, Liege Gare des Guillemins, Tirana, and Tirana in around 2d.
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- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €140–700
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–210
Flights from Brussels Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–270
Flights from Brussels Airport to Chania International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–290
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–260
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–290
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Chania International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €75–290
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 2m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–200
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 30m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–200
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 5m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €75–200
Flights from Frankfurt to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Monday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–300
Flights from Frankfurt to Chania International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 48m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €95–360
- Website
- skyexpress.gr
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €130–850
Flights from Brussels Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €90–260
Flights from Brussels Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €90–260
Flights from Brussels Airport to Chania International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 5m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €85–290
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Chania International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 20m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €110–130
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 40m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–160
Flights from Frankfurt to Chania International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 45m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €120–180
- Website
- lufthansa.com
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Munich
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 50m
- When
- Thursday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €80–260
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 2m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–200
Flights from Frankfurt to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Monday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–300
- Website
- eurowings.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €140–700
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Graz
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 30m
- When
- Monday
- Estimated price
- €140–700
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–260
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €75–290
- Website
- condor.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €50–200
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–170
Flights from Frankfurt to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Friday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €60–130
- Website
- corendonairlines.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–270
Flights from Cologne Bonn Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 15m
- When
- Monday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–250
- Website
- tui.com
Flights from Düsseldorf International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 20m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €110–320
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 10m
- When
- Thursday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–200
- Website
- tuifly.be
Flights from Brussels Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €60–170
Flights from Brussels Airport to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 45m
- When
- Thursday
- Estimated price
- €100–320
- Website
- brusselsairlines.com
Flights from Brussels Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €75–270
Flights from Brussels Airport to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–290
- Website
- airbus.com
Flights from Frankfurt to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 5m
- When
- Wednesday and Saturday
- Estimated price
- €80–140
Flights from Frankfurt to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 3h
- When
- Monday and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €95–300
- Website
- transavia.com
Flights from Eindhoven Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 25m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €95–430
- Website
- tui.nl
Flights from Eindhoven Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 50m
- When
- Sunday
- Estimated price
- €150–400
- Phone
- 0221 13 999 444
- Website
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Herzogenrath to Duesseldorf Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 3m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €14–21
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
Train from Aachen Hbf to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €13–20
- Schedules at
- nationalexpress.de
- Phone
- +49 9126 301 90 70
- fahrgaeste@train-rental.com
- Website
- train-rental.com
Train from Herzogenrath to Duesseldorf Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 11m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Schedules at
- train-rental.com
- Phone
- +32 70 79 79 79
- Website
- belgiantrain.be
Train from Liège-Guillemins to Brussels Airport-Zaventem
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €18–20
- Website
- https://www.belgiantrain.be/en
- 2nd Class
- €18–20
- 1st Class
- €24–28
Train from Maastricht to Aachen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €6–10
- Website
- https://www.belgiantrain.be/en
- 2nd Class
- €6–10
- 1st Class
- €9–14
- Phone
- 0800-0232 545
- Website
- arriva.nl
Train from Maastricht to Aachen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €11–12
- Website
- https://www.arriva.nl/en/
- 2nd Class
- €11–12
Train from Maastricht to Eindhoven
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 1m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €21–24
- Website
- https://www.arriva.nl/en/
- 2nd Class
- €21–24
- Phone
- +49 30 2970
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Maastricht to Aachen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 50 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €11–16
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +31 30 751 5155
- Website
- ns.nl
Train from Maastricht to Aachen Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 49 min
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €9–25
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- 2nd Class
- €9–14
- 1st Class
- €15–25
Train from Maastricht to Eindhoven
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 4m
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €21
- Website
- https://www.ns.nl/en
- Phone
- +49 30 311 682904
- Website
- bahn.de
Train from Aachen Hbf to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 37 min
- Frequency
- Every 3 hours
- Estimated price
- €18–35
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
Train from Aachen Hbf to Frankfurt(M) Flughafen Fernbf
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 35m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €35–110
- Website
- https://int.bahn.de/en
- Phone
- +44 343 218 6186
- Website
- eurostar.com
Train from Aachen Hbf to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 40 min
- Frequency
- Every 4 hours
- Estimated price
- €29–65
- Website
- https://www.eurostar.com/rw-en
- Standard
- €29–45
- Comfort
- €30–45
- Premium
- €45–65
- Phone
- +49 30 300 137 300
- info@flixbus.de
- Website
- flixtrain.de
Train from Aachen Hbf to Koeln Hbf
- Ave. Duration
- 44 min
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €4–9
- Website
- https://www.flixtrain.com/
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- konzern.oebb.at
Train from Aachen, Hbf to Wien Hauptbahnhof
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 3m
- Frequency
- 4 times a week
- Estimated price
- €210–320
- Website
- https://konzern.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +43 5 1717
- Website
- oebb.at
Train from Wien Hbf to Ferencvaros
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 29m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €24–55
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/reiseplanung-services/im-zug/unsere-zuege/eurocity-intercity
- Website
- https://shop.oebbtickets.at/en/ticket
Train from Wien Hbf to Ferencvaros
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 29m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €24–55
- Website
- https://www.oebb.at/en/
- Phone
- +355 69 232 8000
- info@anumitravel.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Liege Gare des Guillemins to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 21h 51m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €130
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355 42 239 203 / +355 69 400 4075
- albtrans06@yahoo.com
- Website
- albtrans.net
Busferry from Tirana to Heraklion Port
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063548259783
- Phone
- +30 210 92 33 33
- info@koronatravel.gr
- Website
- koronatravel.gr
Bus from Budapest, Népliget Autóbusz-Pályaudvar to Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 15h 50m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- koronatravel.gr
- Phone
- +30 2810 24 50 20
- info@ktelherlas.gr
- Website
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Thessaloniki to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €60–85
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
- Phone
- +355 68 20 63 724
- info@arjanitravel.com
- Website
- arjanitravel.com
Bus from Liege to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 36h 51m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- arjanitravel.com
- Phone
- +355 69 617 8170
- diamanttravel88@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Tirana, Terminali Lindor I Autobusave to Peiraias
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 45m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €40
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
Ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 15m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Estimated price
- €30–60
- Website
- https://www.bluestarferries.com/en-gb/
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