Crete

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Cheap Flights from Berlin to Heraklion, Crete — From Around €39 I almost rebooked when I saw the September fare: €47 return. Both ways. Not each way — the whole return, taxes in. I refreshed the page three times because I was certain the site had stripped a digit. It hadn’t. That’s the thing about cheap flights from Berlin to Heraklion that most people miss: the shoulder season on this route is almost embarrassingly good value, while everyone else is fighting over July seats at twice the price. ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Crete, Without Trying to See All of It We flew into Heraklion with a two-week plan and a list long enough for a month: Knossos, every beach on the map, both ends of the island, the Samaria Gorge. By day three we were exhausted from driving and had photographed three lagoons we barely remembered. A taverna owner in a mountain village set us straight over a plate of lamb: “Crete is not a city you walk in a weekend. Pick a side. Come back for the other.” ...

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Why a car changes everything in Crete The guy at the Chania counter slid the form across and tapped a line near the bottom. Twenty-two euros a day, he said, and your excess drops to zero. My wife caught my eye. We already had that covered, bought online for a fraction of the price, but he didn’t know that yet, and the small Fiat Panda we’d reserved three weeks earlier for about thirty euros a day was sitting in the lot with a scratch on the rear bumper I was about to photograph. I’ll come back to that scratch, because it nearly cost us a deposit we never should have been on the hook for. ...