P2 Long Term

Three-minute walk from T1, P2 Long Term suits multi-day trips

P2 Long Term sits on-airport at Chania International (CHQ), about a 3‑minute walk from T1’s main departures doors. It functions as the airport’s official long-stay car park, the spot people use when they leave a car for several days or a full holiday week on Akrotiri.

This is not a remote shuttle lot: you park, lock, and walk straight toward T1 in roughly the same time it takes to cross a large city street. The airport itself is small enough that multiple independent reviewers mention being able to walk “everywhere in a few minutes,” and P2 Long Term fits that pattern.

P2 Long Term is set up for longer trips rather than quick pickups, in contrast to the short-stay areas closer to the terminal doors. Because it is an official airport option inside the CHQ grounds, you avoid third‑party transfer times and extra handovers of your keys. Expect basic outdoor parking rather than structured or underground spaces.

The lot primarily attracts package tourists and budget travelers who leave a car while flying out on holiday charters from T1. That crowd tends to park once, disappear for 3–10 days, and then walk back with luggage straight from arrivals. Reviews and forum posts focus on the airport’s size, not on this lot specifically, which usually means no major drama.

No regular complaints or horror stories surface in independent forums, and there is no strong pattern of “locals do X” for P2 Long Term. Pricing details aren’t consistently published, but multiple trip reports around CHQ mention on-airport parking as competitively priced compared with off-site operators for week-long stays.

Practical tip: take a photo of your row and the nearest T1-facing landmark when you park in P2 Long Term, so that after a late-night arrival you can find the car in under 3 minutes and get off Akrotiri quickly.