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Chania bus station

Chania bus station is just a few minutes’ walk from all other places useful to visitors. Refurbished in 2012, it has bus departure monitors, a modern cafeteria to suit the lunch-hour trade, a snack bar, a souvenir shop/newsagent, toilets and an Internet corner. Bus departures are also announced in Greek and English. Buy tickets not on the bus but at the ticket windows outside the hall, where there is also an Information kiosk. (The only return ticket issued is the KTEL special for the ‘Samaria Gorge’ round excursion.) The Left Luggage store is at the rear of the site. Due to shortage of space, pedestrian access to the bus station forecourt remains haphazard.

Vrisses

Secondary roads branch south over the mountains from the main north coast road that links Heraklion, Rethymnon, Chania and Kastelli. In western Crete there is an important road junction at Vrisses (‘Vree-siss’), since this is the road to Hora Sfakion and the Sfakiot south coast. The Vrisses bus stop is at a kafeneon in the main street west of the bridge, opposite a small petrol station. Vrisses supermarkets are open all week. Expect buses departing from Chania to arrive in Vrisses 40mins later, and from Rethymnon 25mins later.