Agios Nikolaos Transportation

Agios Nikolaos is a stop on the route of several major ferry companies. The Lane Line ferry called in every day on its way to wherever it was going. I don't know its exact route, but what I do know is that the morning one goes on to Sitea, another port in Eastern Crete. We went to Sitea by bus one day, which takes a coastal road, and the ferry shadowed us the whole way. I think the journey time was nigh on identical between bus & boat. Wife would have preferred to have come back by ferry, as the coastal road is very spectacular and not for those who are afraid of heights. Or dying bus crashes.

Agios Nikolaos is not short of taxis, as you can see here, nor are those taxis battered old wrecks!
Like all other parts of Greece that we have been to, taxi fares are pretty reasonable and the fares to stated destinations are fixed rather than metered. Signs by the taxi ranks show these fares. We only used the taxi once, from the bus station to our hotel. It turned out to be a walkable distance, but at the time we had no idea where the hotel was. This is the exact situation where you expect to find you paid through the teeth, but we didn't. It was a paltry 2 euro for the fare, most of which was accounted for by the luggage charge. Very fair indeed,