Bus timetables
WINTER SCHEDULES

RETHIMNO-IRAKLIO
6.30 7.30(old road) 7.45 8.45 9.45 10.45 11.45 12.45 13.45 14.00(old road) 14.45 15.45 16.45 17.45 19.15 20.45

IRAKLIO-RETHIMNO
5.30 6.30(old road) 7.00 8.15 9.00 9.30 10.30 11.30 12.00(old road) 12.30 13.30 14.30 15.30 16.30 7.30 18.30 19.30

RETHIMNO-PLAKIAS
6.15-14.15, Saturday:7.00-14.15, Sunday:14.15

PLAKIAS-RETHIMNO
7.00-15.00, Saturday:8.00-15.00, Sunday:15.00

SUMMER SCHEDULES

RETHIMNO-IRAKLIO
6.30 7.15 7.30(old road) 7.45 8.15 8.45 9.00(Express) 9.45 10.00(Express) 10.45 11.00(Express) 11.45 12.00(Express) 12.45 13.15 13.45 14.00(old road) 14.45 15.15 15.45 16.00(Express) 16.45 17.45 18.15(Express) 18.45 19.45 20.45 21.45

IRAKLIO-RETHIMNO
5.30 6.00(old road) 7.00 7.30 8.15 9.00 9.30 10.00 10.30 11.10(Express) 11.30 12.00(old road) 12.10(Express) 12.30 13.10(Express) 13.30 14.10(Express) 14.30 15.00 15.30 16.30 17.00 17.30 18.00 18.30 19.30 20.30

RETHIMNO-PLAKIAS
6.15 8.00 10.30 14.15 17.30 , Saturday-Sunday:7.00 8.00 10.30 14.15 17.30

PLAKIAS-RETHIMNO
7.00 9.30 12.15 15.00 19.00 , Saturday-Sunday:8.00 12.15 15.00 19.00

PREVELI-PLAKIAS 11.45

PLAKIAS-PREVELI 11.30

The bus station managers office for the area is in Reythimno - phone: 0831-22 212

Please note - these can only be regarded as a rough guide!

Services are operated by KTEL. Much more information is available from their website, where I obtained these details. However, they don't say when summer starts! (And they don't say how you get back from Preveli - I suggest booking a taxi in advance at the rank in Plakias)

Go to website - this links to the Reythimno area - navigate around the site for more info.

I mailed KTEL to ask when summer services start - and received the following reply:

Dear John,
There is not an exact date for every Region of Greece when the Summer and Winter tables start. You may say that the Summer Schedules start by the end of May and the winter Schedules by mid September
Notis Paraskevopoulos

So I guess you should ring the station managers office if you will be travelling around in May or September.

Snipped from a mail from Chris at the Youth Hostel:
What I can tell you is that there is no sudden change from winter to summer and visa versa. Schedules regularly change on a Monday at the beginning and end of the season. Quite probably the late morning bus from Rethymno will be introduced before Easter and then others added as the season progresses. In the last week of October we still had 4 buses a day, in the first week of November just two. The 1730 bus from Rethymno goes around to Preveli on its way to Plakias, collecting people at just gone 1800.