Welcome to Crete Car Hire

Rethymnon prides itself on being Crete's intellectual capital,still possesses an intact old town with a small picturesque Venetian harbour.Rethymnon city is located west of Crete.Rethymno city is 65km far from Heraklion city and 65km far from Chania city.Car rental in Rethimno is necessary in order to explore the beauties of island Crete.Rethymno area has some of the most beautiful and attractive places of Crete to visit like Fortetsa castle,west of the venetian harbour,from where excellent views may be enjoyed .

Car rental in Rethymnon gives you the chance to visit Agia Galini,one of the most quiet places on Crete,surrounded with a wonderful beach,apts,hotels and friendly local people,fresh fish.Rent a car in Plakias,a small village south of Rethymnon,with one of the most famous beaches on Crete .Moni Preveli is a fntastic place, a beach,a river going in the sea,a monastery and a relaxing atmosphere opposite the Libyan African sea.Athenscars-Crete is recommending you to drive on the mountain of Psiloritis,through small villages and visit the Monastery of Arcadi ,which is open all year .

Car rental in Crete,car rental in Rethimno is cheap and easy.Athenscars-crete if offering special dicounted rates all year round.For request or car hire reservation confirm with an e-mail please.

Car Rental In Chania-Crete: Chania , is Crete's second city and it's capital until 1971.Chania city is located at the west north part of Crete island. Chania is claims to be one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world.It's jewel is the boat-free outer venetian harbour.Mosque of Hassan Pasha,Firkas sea Fortress are still-standing .The Archaeological museum occupies the church of the Franciscan Friaryone of the best preserved and largest Venetian churches,The church of Aghios Nikolaos,after various architectural and religious conversions,displays both a minaret and a campanile.

Car rental in Chania and visit Akrotiri ,a limestone peninsula stretching northeastwards from Chania,is full of interest.
Hire a car in Chania and visit the Commonwealth Cemetery,where British and Commonwealth troops killed during the 1941 Battle of Crete are buried.Equal honour is given to three times that number of Germans who are buried in the well-tended cemetery at Maleme.

Further out of the Akrotiri is the Monastery of Aghia Triadha,5minutes far the Gouverneto monastery and half an hour downhill driving till Katholiko monastery.
Rent a car in Chania and drive West from Chania,where the road hugs the coast,passing through busy small resorts, before arriving at the Kolymbari village.

Around the corner to the southwest Chania,lies Paleohora,a self contained resort that has a ruined castle and sand beaches.Occasional boats leave forGavdhos island,Europe’s southernmost point.
Keep on driving the Car hire in Chania and you will meet Hora Sfakion(sfakia)or  the home of Sfakians,who epitomize the idependent Cretans.
Samaria Gorge is the most exciting and spectacular adventure which Crete offers the average visitor is a walk through the Gorge of Samaria,at 18km or 11ml,one of the longest in Europe.Inside the Gorge exist Xyloskalo area,where the walk starts,Afendis Christos,Portes,and ends down to Aghia Roumeli and the church of Panaghia.
Athenscars-crete is operating 24hours everyday at all airports of Crete , Chania airport car hire
The Origin of the City's Name
Scholars have been trying for years to analyse the etymology of the name "Hania," and to decide on the time when the name was changed from "Kythonia" to "Hania". The new name is first met as "Cania" in the document "Sexteriorum Cretensiu in Militias divisio" in 1211. Then the name "Canea" is mentioned in the document which relinquishes the Chania area to the Venicians in 1252. As for the change of the name from "Kythonia" to "Hania", the most convincing point of view is that of Prof. N. Platonas, who associates it with the existence of a big village "Alhania", named after the God "Valhanos" (Vulcan). The Sarasin Arabs found this name easier to use but confused it with their own word "Al Hanim" (the Inn). After the departure of the Arabs, the syllable "Al", probably taken to be the Arab article "Al" (the), was dropped when the name was translated into the Greek "Hania" and the Latin "Canea".