
To visit this beautiful greek island a car is definitely suggested.
Fortunately, there are many local and cheap can rental companies that don’t require a credit card.
This means there are many options to rent a vehicle with a full insurance, a cheap price and the possibility to pay in cash or debit card.
I personally booked a Volkswagen T-Cross in September 2023 for 5 days from Heraklion City Center to Heraklion Airport.
To do that, I opened Google Maps on Heraklion, search “car rental”, read the reviews of the most popular ones and picked the cheapest one I’ve found.
In my case, it was Niki Cars (not an advertisement, just my personal experience) and didn’t have any problems for the whole trip.
TL;DR: Look for “car rental” in Google Maps for the city you’re interested in in Crete.