There are 10 ways to get from Rome to Crete by plane, train, busferry, bus, car ferry, or ferry
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Fly Fiumicino International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
best- Fly from Fiumicino International Airport (FCO) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane FCO - HER
6h 33m€70–207Train, bus and ferry, bus, car ferry
- Take the train from Roma Termini to Bari Centraletrain Fr / ...
- Take the busferry from Bari Porto to Durrësbusferry
- Take the bus from Durrës to Piraeusbus
- Take the carferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion Portcarferry
30h 45mFly Fiumicino International Airport to Chania International Airport
- Fly from Fiumicino International Airport (FCO) to Chania International Airport (CHQ)plane FCO - CHQ
5h 27m€76–305Fly Fiumicino International Airport to Sitia Airport
- Fly from Fiumicino International Airport (FCO) to Sitia Airport (JSH)plane FCO - JSH
13h 57m€174–255Fly Roma Ciampino Airport to Chania International Airport
- Fly from Roma Ciampino Airport (CIA) to Chania International Airport (CHQ)plane CIA - CHQ
14h 30m€100–374Train to Naples Airport, fly to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Take the train from Roma Termini to Napoli Afragolatrain
- Fly from Naples Airport (NAP) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER)plane NAP - HER
6h 24m€75–273Train, bus and ferry, bus
- Take the train from Roma Termini 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
32h 23mBus and ferry, bus
- Take the busferry from Roma, Autostazione Tiburtina to Vlorëbusferry
- Take the bus from Vlorë to Ioanninabus
- Take the busferry from Ioannina to Heraklionbusferry
34h 51mBus and ferry, bus, ferry
- Take the busferry from Roma, Autostazione Tiburtina to Durrësbusferry
- Take the bus from Durrës to Piraeusbus
- Take the ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklionferry Hsw
41h 32mBus and ferry
- Take the busferry from Anagnina to Tiranabusferry
- Take the busferry from Tirana to Heraklion Portbusferry
46h 32m
Fiumicino International Airport (FCO) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) flights
Comparing Your Travel Options
The cheapest way to get from Rome to Crete is to fly which costs €70 - €210 and takes 6h 33m.
The fastest way to get from Rome to Crete is to fly which takes 5h 27m and costs €75 - €310.
No, there is no direct bus from Rome to Crete. However, there are services departing from Roma, Autostazione Tiburtina and arriving at Heraklion via Vlorë and Ioannina. The journey, including transfers, takes approximately 34h 51m.
The distance between Rome and Crete is 1365 km.
The best way to get from Rome to Crete without a car is to train and bus and ferry and bus and car ferry which takes 30h 45m and costs .
It takes approximately 6h 33m to get from Rome to Crete, including transfers.
Rome to Crete bus services, operated by Ruci Tours, depart from Roma, Autostazione Tiburtina station.
Rome to Crete bus services, operated by Ruci Tours, arrive at Vlorë station.
Crete is 1h ahead of Rome. It is currently 3:28 AM in Rome and 4:28 AM in Crete.
There are 2731+ hotels available in Crete.
What companies run services between Rome, Italy and Crete, Greece?
Aegean Airlines, Sky Express, and three other airlines fly from Fiumicino International Airport (FCO) to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” (HER) 5 times a day. Alternatively, you can take a subway from Termini to Heraklion Port via Anagnina, Anagnina, Tirana, Asllan Rusi, Terminal D, and Tirana in around 46h 32m.
- Website
- en.aegeanair.com
Flights from Fiumicino International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €65–210
Flights from Fiumicino International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Thessaloniki
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 10m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Friday
- Estimated price
- €100–200
Flights from Fiumicino International Airport to Chania International Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 25m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €100–200
Flights from Fiumicino International Airport to Sitia Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 2m
- When
- Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €65–330
Flights from Fiumicino International Airport to Sitia Airport via Thessaloniki, Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 18h 50m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–340
Flights from Naples Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 40m
- When
- Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Sunday
- Estimated price
- €100–240
- Website
- ryanair.com
Flights from Fiumicino International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Catania
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 25m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €65–240
Flights from Fiumicino International Airport to Chania International Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 10m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €45–210
Flights from Roma Ciampino Airport to Chania International Airport via Poznan
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 5m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €95–310
Flights from Roma Ciampino Airport to Chania International Airport via Budapest
- Ave. Duration
- 11h 30m
- When
- Wednesday
- Estimated price
- €75–280
Flights from Roma Ciampino Airport to Chania International Airport via Krakow
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 30m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €85–290
Flights from Roma Ciampino Airport to Chania International Airport via Bucharest Otopeni
- Ave. Duration
- 14h 20m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €75–280
Flights from Roma Ciampino Airport to Chania International Airport via Warsaw Modlin
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 10m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €95–310
- Website
- volotea.com
Flights from Fiumicino International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Palermo
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 50m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €95–240
Flights from Fiumicino International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Naples Airport
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 35m
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €95–240
Flights from Naples Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 2h
- When
- Friday
- Estimated price
- €45–170
- Website
- skyexpress.gr
Flights from Fiumicino International Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis” via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 15m
- When
- Every day
- Estimated price
- €80–140
- Website
- olympicair.com
Flights from Fiumicino International Airport to Sitia Airport via Athens
- Ave. Duration
- 12h 40m
- When
- Saturday
- Estimated price
- €65–280
- Website
- easyjet.com
Flights from Naples Airport to Heraklion International Airport, “Nikos Kazantzakis”
- Ave. Duration
- 1h 55m
- When
- Tuesday
- Estimated price
- €45–160
- Phone
- +39 06 5210550
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Roma Termini to Bari Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 22m
- Frequency
- Hourly
- Estimated price
- €65–120
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Roma Termini to Napoli Afragola
- Ave. Duration
- 53 min
- Frequency
- Every 30 minutes
- Estimated price
- €29–50
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
Train from Roma Termini to Brindisi
- Ave. Duration
- 5h 25m
- Frequency
- Every 2 hours
- Estimated price
- €80–140
- Website
- Trenitalia Frecce
- Phone
- +39 06 68475475
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Roma Termini to Bari Centrale
- Ave. Duration
- 6h 34m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €50–95
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
Train from Roma Termini to Napoli Afragola
- Ave. Duration
- 2h 53m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Estimated price
- €22–45
- Website
- Trenitalia Intercity
- Phone
- +39 06 8937 1892
- Website
- Italo Treno
Train from Roma Termini to Napoli Afragola
- Ave. Duration
- 59 min
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €25–40
- Website
- Italo Treno
- Phone
- +355697278670
- mb.travel@hotmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Busferry from Bari Porto to Durrës
- Ave. Duration
- 4h 56m
- Frequency
- Twice a week
- Schedules at
- autobus.al
- Phone
- +393293958604
- info@pistoiaviaggi.com
- Website
- pistoia-viaggi.it
Busferry from Bari Porto to Durrës
- Ave. Duration
- 6h
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- 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
Busferry from Roma, Autostazione Tiburtina to Durrës
- Ave. Duration
- 16h 15m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- pistoia-viaggi.it
- Phone
- +2105203350
- Website
- top-lines.gr
Bus from Durrës to Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 51m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €45
- Schedules at
- top-lines.gr
- Phone
- +355 69 661 4303
- likospartak@gmail.com
- Website
- likokostatours.yolasite.com
Bus from Vlore , station to Ioannina
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 6m
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +30 2810 246530
- info@ktelherlas.gr
- Website
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Ioannina to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €75–110
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
Busferry from Ioannina to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 16h
- Frequency
- 3 times a week
- Estimated price
- €75–110
- Schedules at
- ktelherlas.gr
- Phone
- +30 210 8215414
- info@rucitours.com
- Website
- rucitours.com
Busferry from Roma, Autostazione Tiburtina to Vlorë
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 50m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Schedules at
- rucitours.com
- Phone
- +355 68 407 6607
- komatastours.al@gmail.com
- Website
- facebook.com
Bus from Vlorë to Ioannina
- Ave. Duration
- 3h 1m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
Bus from Durrës to Piraeus
- Ave. Duration
- 13h 13m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €50
- Schedules at
- facebook.com
- Phone
- +355696383030
- Website
- firenzelines.com
Busferry from Anagnina to Tirana
- Ave. Duration
- 19h 56m
- Frequency
- Once a week
- Estimated price
- €100
- Schedules at
- firenzelines.com
- Phone
- +355 42 239 203 / +355 69 400 4075
- albtrans06@yahoo.com
- Website
- Alb Trans
Busferry from Tirana to Heraklion Port
- Ave. Duration
- 24h
- Frequency
- Once daily
- Website
- Alb Trans
- Phone
- +30 210 710 7 710
- info@seajets.gr
- Website
- Seajets
Car ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion Port
- Ave. Duration
- 7h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €120–280
- Website
- Seajets
- Phone
- +30 210 89 19 800
- hellenicseaways@hellenicseaways.gr
- Website
- Hellenic Seaways
Ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 50m
- Frequency
- Twice daily
- Estimated price
- €50–75
- Website
- Hellenic Seaways
- Airplane Type Seats
- €50–75
- Phone
- +30 21 0891 9800
- bluestarferries@bluestarferries.com
- Website
- Blue Star Ferries
Ferry from Port of Piraeus to Heraklion
- Ave. Duration
- 9h 15m
- Frequency
- 5 times a week
- Estimated price
- €75–180
- Website
- Blue Star Ferries
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