Chania International Airport

Review for summer 2025: Good parking area and drop-off area outside, plenty of car rentals nearby, world known as well as local car rental companies. There are free trolleys for your luggage, you do require a 1 Euro coin to use it, afterwards you'll get back the coin. Small in size as a whole airport, limited options after security control however you could find duty free shops (with inflated prices) and some coffee shops and get something to eat. As with most airports you better eat BEFORE arriving at the airport. A SIGNIFICANT PLUS: immediately after the security check, there is a water disposable point (fountain) FREE OF CHARGE. Either keep your empty containers after you are forced to empty or bring a dedicated empty water bottle. At the moment I've passed, more than 90 thousand plastics bottles were avoided to be purchased by using this water dispenser. We need more similar approaches in all European airports. Rest assured, bottled water, both sparkling and flat were still available to be purchased at around 2-3 € per 500ml in the shops. Bathrooms are a bit hidden, only 1 location after security check, somehow place right in the middle of the duty-free shop. They were all spotlessly clean in an early morning. Transfer to airplane, to a Ryanair was allowed on foot, there was only a 50m distance. Transfer from the airplane to arrivals terminal was carried out with a bus. If you found this information useful, please react to this review!

Quite a small airport for amount of people not loads of seats but should be able to find one! Few restaurants. All pretty similar. There is a burger and pizza place towards gates 15 which are easily missed if you fancy something that isn't a sandwich. Big duty free with lots of products both local and the usual culprits. There is only one water fountain that we saw just after security. You can go back once in the gate area, back through duty free. UK flights go from 13-16 id suggest getting watter bottles filled and food purchased before going through the passport booths. As no fountains and only 1 food option. There is a small duty free. On a positive note we left our suitcase on the plane and was in left luggage before we got through passport control so can't fault the lost property operation!

Chania Airport is clean, efficient, and easy to get through. Staff is friendly, and services like car rentals and cafés are conveniently located. However, I’m giving 4 stars instead of 5 because there are no jet bridges to the airplanes—you have to walk across the tarmac and use stairs, which isn’t ideal in bad weather or for those with limited mobility. Still, a good regional airport overall.

Remarkably busy for a regional airport, like completely full. Seems a bit undersized for the number of flights and passengers it's serving. Reminds me of packed airports in the Caribbean, or if you took the crowd level of CLT and shrunk it down in size. No jet bridges. Highly recommend checking in online if you can avoid checking bags; you can breeze through security while a big crowd is waiting for the check-in desks to open.

Typical airport, need better signage and support on access. Was quite unclear of direction, where to go, how to access the city, after exiting the airport. It was even unclear how to get to baggage claim after getting off the plane as the arrow on the floor is so small and narrow while the hanging signs aren't clear and frequently appear. Could hardly tell the difference between charter bus and public bus, and they are located at the area with minimal directions and guidance. That would create congestion to clear people flow during high season.