Compare trains, buses, flights and ferries from Ostend to Chania. From €188.44, fastest 6h 43m, with the total price and every fee shown up front.
Traveling from Ostend to Chania costs €188.44 at the cheapest and takes 6h 43m door to door at the fastest, across 1 mode and 1 operator. The route covers 2,497 km. Cheapest is by Flight, fastest is by Flight.
Journey times below are door to door, so they include getting to the terminal and away from it at the other end. Fares are the cheapest we currently sell on September 28, 2026.
| Mode | Door to door | Moving | At the ends | From | CO2 | Per day |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Flight | 6h 49m | 3h 39m | 3h 10m | €273.90 | 614.3 kg | 5 |
Two journeys we can sell today, with the service number each operator files them under.
Changes at Brussels, with 56 minutes between services and a walk of about 14 minutes.
Door to door 7h 33mCO2 592.2 kgChanges 1Fixed, no changes
Door to door 6h 49mCO2 614.3 kgChanges 0Fixed, no changes
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from the operators' own published timetables, through the open transit feeds they publish. Times and services are real. Fares are modeled until our booking connectors are live.
Live from our own engine, refreshed on every request. The cheapest days for each way of traveling are marked.
| Cheapest fare by mode and day for Ostend to Chania | FriSep 11 | SatSep 12 | SunSep 13 | MonSep 14 | TueSep 15 | WedSep 16 | ThuSep 17 | FriSep 18 | SatSep 19 | SunSep 20 | MonSep 21 | TueSep 22 | WedSep 23 | ThuSep 24 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Train | €591.04 | €603.69 | €372.69 | €405.69 | €291.84 | €350.69 | €337.49 | €334.19 | €411.74 | €344.09 | €240.14 | €235.74 | €311.64 | €345.19 |
| Flight | €458.57 | €463.88 | €359.45 | €323.46 | €355.32 | €346.47 | €358.86 | €292.78 | €361.22 | €322.87 | €273.90 | €319.92 | €338.80 | €278.03 |
Cheapest day: 2026-09-28 · €188.44
That is the traveling done. What happens after you walk out into Chania is not something we sell.
Hotels and apartments near downtown, most of them with free cancellation, on a map that shows what is walkable.
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The same search run across the whole booking window, so the shape of the curve is visible rather than described.
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Median cheapest fare for each weekday, taken across the next three weeks of real prices.
The same journey priced on the fifteenth of each of the next six months.
Direct or connecting, how far the route really runs, and what happens when a connection is missed.
The stations, airports and ports each mode on this corridor actually uses.
Landing at CHQ after the trains have stopped is the case this solves. We do not run cars.
A price agreed before you fly, a driver at arrivals, and a car big enough for the bags.
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Speed, flexibility and what is on board. Nothing here is a rating, because we have not earned one.
| Operator | From | Fastest | Typical speed | Flexibility | On board |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 TUI fly Belgium | €239.68 | 6h 43m | 740 km/h | Fixed fare | Not published |
Every part of the total, so the number at checkout is the number here.
| Part | Amount | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Operator fare | €169.50 | 90% |
| Taxes | €16.95 | 9% |
| Our service fee | €1.99 | 1% |
| Total you pay | €188.44 | 100% |
A day in Chania hauling a suitcase is a shorter day than it needs to be. We do not store bags.
Most of the points near KTEL - Bus Station Terminal of Chania open before the first train and close after the last one.
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The questions people actually ask about this trip, answered from the same prices and times the page above is built on rather than written once and left to go stale.
The fastest journey from Ostend to Chania takes 6h 43m door to door, of which 3h 39m is spent moving, on the Flight. Most services take around 6h 59m, because that average includes slower stopping services and journeys with a connection. Times include reaching the terminal and leaving it at the far end.
The cheapest fare from Ostend to Chania is €188.44, checked on September 28, 2026. A typical fare across the next three weeks is €343.23. Both figures are the total for one passenger, including taxes, supplier fees and our service fee, so nothing is added at checkout.
The cheapest way from Ostend to Chania is by Flight, at €273.90 for one passenger on September 28, 2026. That journey takes 6h 49m door to door. Cheaper is rarely faster on this corridor, and the comparison table on this page shows what each mode costs against what it saves.
Fares from Ostend to Chania bottom out around 60 days before departure, at €154.89. Across the whole booking window the gap between the cheapest and the most expensive lead time is 196 percent, measured on September 28, 2026. Booking inside the last week has consistently cost more on this corridor.
Tuesday is the cheapest day to depart from Ostend to Chania, at €235.74. That is the median of 21 priced departure days across the next three weeks, checked on September 28, 2026. Shifting a departure by one day is usually worth more than shifting the booking by one week.
February is the cheapest of the next 6 months to travel from Ostend to Chania, at €182.45 for one passenger. Each month is priced on its fifteenth, so the comparison is like for like rather than a mix of weekends and midweek departures.
1 operators sell services from Ostend to Chania across 1 modes: TUI fly Belgium. Journey times, fares and fare conditions differ between them, and the operator table on this page compares all of them on speed, flexibility and what is provided on board.
33 percent of the services we sell from Ostend to Chania are direct. The rest connect at Brussels, Rome, Kos, Nice, with about 56 minutes between the two services. Both legs are sold on one booking, so a missed connection is rebooked at no charge.
Services from Ostend to Chania by Flight leave from Ostend OST and arrive at Chaniá CHQ. Allow about 3h 10m in total for reaching the departure terminal and leaving the arrival one, which is already included in every door to door time on this page.
0 of the 1 operators we sell from Ostend to Chania allow a change or a refund. A change on a changeable fare costs €5.00. The operator table on this page names which is which, and the condition is shown again before you pay.
Observed service A carrier record shows this named operator serving this named pair, and we carry that through unchanged.
Schedules, seat counts and fares are generated by our own model until the supplier contracts are signed. Places, coordinates, operators, which operator serves which pair, and every distance are real. We would rather say that on every page than let a modeled number pass for a filed one.
Defined in full at Door to door, Fares, The booking window, Carbon, Distances
Being on the water gives Chania a set of days out that do not start at a station. We do not sell those either.
The tickets worth having in advance, because the line at the door is usually the whole morning.
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