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Which cities can be visited independently by public transport from Rethymno?
I am going to Crete together with my mother in the summer, the hotel is not far from Rethymnon, the budget is limited, so I would not want to book excursions from the host. Please tell me the options for traveling by public transport from Rethymnon around the island. I am very interested in where you can buy a ferry ticket to Santorini and the approximate price, as well as how you can get to Heraklion, Chania and the south coast. I also heard that ferry tickets to Athens are sold somewhere.
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Ferry tickets are sold at the port in Heraklion (for more details, see ferries.gr), from Rethymnon to Heraklion and Chania you can get by bus. The distance from Rethymno to Heraklion is 80 km, to Chania - 60 km.
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answered 12 years ago
Hello! I am flying in early May with a friend, we will rest in Malia. She made herself a guidebook and routes for 9 days.
http://www.bus-service-crete-ktel.com/timetabledet.php?line=13&lg=2 - bus schedule.
Booking catamaran tickets - santorinicruise.com.
I have a driver's license, but I'm afraid to take a car there, so I thought over the routes by bus. In Heraklion, there are a lot of travel agencies in the port, through them you can buy flights to about. Santorini. I wanted to book through the site, it gives me that I can only do this from March. I decided to buy bylets on metsa when we arrive, I hope there won’t be too many people in May. If anything, please share the routes.
http://www.bus-service-crete-ktel.com/timetabledet.php?line=13&lg=2 - bus schedule.
Booking catamaran tickets - santorinicruise.com.
I have a driver's license, but I'm afraid to take a car there, so I thought over the routes by bus. In Heraklion, there are a lot of travel agencies in the port, through them you can buy flights to about. Santorini. I wanted to book through the site, it gives me that I can only do this from March. I decided to buy bylets on metsa when we arrive, I hope there won’t be too many people in May. If anything, please share the routes.
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answered 12 years ago
Precisely because on the island almost all buses leave from Heraklion, and we wanted to travel by public transport, I bought a hotel in the suburbs of Heraklion. That is, we got from the suburbs to the bus station by city bus, and then by intercity bus. In 2011, it was unrealistic to get to some destinations even from our center. It is unlikely that since then the buses began to work longer and there were more of them. Therefore, I doubt very much that you will be able to travel to the south and even more so to the west of the island by bus. From Rethymno, you can only get to the Samaria Gorge (provided that you like long hikes in the mountains). So from your wishes, only something in the area of Chania, Heraklion is real
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answered 12 years ago
And further. Try to realize that Crete is a very large island with a mountainous terrain and therefore - with low speeds of public transport and limited opening hours (public transport does not work in the dark). It's about a thousand kilometers on the roads. Therefore, look for something close to your vacation spot. You won't see everything. What about "budget constraints"? If you buy excursions in travel agencies in Crete (and not from the host) - it will be cheaper. I bought excursions for every day. At a travel agency near our hotel. There were never any problems. And I bought only one excursion from the host - and there were problems ...
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answered 12 years ago
One more moment. There are several bus stations in Heraklion. I did not find this information on the website of the bus stations (but the schedule was accurate there). Only on the ground it was determined that DIFFERENT directions are served from DIFFERENT bus stations. One (south, west) is at the gates of Chania, the other (east) is near the port and the Archaeological Museum (the other end of Heraklion). And if the time between buses of different directions is limited, you simply will not have time to move from one station to another
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