Find cheap flights to Crete

Flights to Crete vary based on month, airline, when you book, where you are departing from and many more variables, but on average momondo users can expect to spend about £269/pp. The absolute cheapest flight to Crete is £13/pp

The majority of momondo users who fly to Crete tend to spend time in Chania, which is visited 50% more often than other cities. When flying to Chania, the most popular airport to fly into is Heraklion Airport.

In the summer months, the island of Crete comes alive with good music and good food. Billed as the "biggest rock event in Crete history", the Chania Rock Festival is held in July in the old port city of Chania. It's in an old Venetian bastion on the beachfront. There's more music and dancing (of the cultural Cretan kind) to enjoy at the Chania Summer Festival from July to September. Celebrating the wonderful food and wine of Crete, the Cretan Diet Festival held in July in the Municipal Garden in Rethymno attracts gastronomes from far and wide with its locally made cheeses, oils, honey, wines and other delights. Rethymno is also the location of the annual Renaissance Festival in July. And in the village of Elos, surrounded by old chestnut trees, the Chestnut Festival in October has music and dancing to add to the fun. There are plenty of cheap Crete flight deals from airports all over London (including Heathrow, Manchester, Luton, Stansted, Gatwick) to Heraklion International Airport, so you can also be a part of these Crete festivities. Flights are direct and take just a few hours.

Because Crete is a Greek island in the Mediterranean, Cretan food takes its cues from these areas. It's no surprise that olive oil is used in most dishes and is known locally as "liquid gold". Fresh vegetables, meat and fish, are also important parts of the diet. Try dakos, a bruschetta-like dish with fresh tomatoes, herbs and the best Cretan cheese on top of a paximadi (type of barley rusk). The Five in Nea Chora serves delicious dakos. Talking about cheese, in Crete, you'll be spoilt for choice with various sheep's and goat's milk cheeses. It also gets baked into pies, such as sarikopitakia drizzled in honey and kalitsounia, that's commonly eaten over Easter. They're available at bakeries, cafés and tavernas all over Crete. Another delicacy in Crete is fried snails cooked in olive oil and wine. Try the rosemary version at To Dichalo on the outskirts of Chania. Goat and lamb meat are popular in Crete, and much of it is grilled over an open fire, called antikristo. Sample this at the restaurant, To Antikristo. Another favourite is gamopilafo ("wedding rice"), with meat stewed for hours and served with buttery lemon rice. Grab a glass of raki, Crete's own brandy, and enjoy it with some apaki (smoked, salted pork) mezze at Secret Tastes in the centre of Chania.

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