About Visit Athens Guide

Why this site exists

Athens punishes a vague plan in three specific ways, and all three are matters of fact rather than taste.

The first is that the two things almost everyone comes for are sold by two different organisations. The Acropolis is the state's, at €30 through Hellenic Heritage; the Acropolis Museum is its own legal entity, at €20, with its own hours and its own free days. No ticket covers both, and the museum issues its reduced tickets at its desk only — so a family that books online pays for tickets the children were entitled to for nothing.

The second is that the seven-site combination ticket most guides still describe no longer exists. The sites it covered now cost €105 bought one by one, and the official platform lists no package at all.

The third is the timetable. Half the central archaeological sites close at 15:00 from 1 November, the National Archaeological Museum opens at 13:00 on Tuesdays all year, two museums close on Tuesdays entirely, and one central site currently prints "temporarily closed" on its own official page with no end date.

So every price, hour and closed day here is read off the official page of the building itself and stamped with the date it was read. Where the official source does not state a figure, the page says not stated instead of borrowing a plausible one — which is why two museums in this guide have no price printed against them.

Where the information comes from

Opening hours, closed days, ticket names and admission prices come from the official sites of the institutions themselves: hh.gr and tickets.hh.gr (Hellenic Heritage, the Ministry of Culture and ODAP) for the Acropolis and every state archaeological site and museum; theacropolismuseum.gr for the Acropolis Museum; panathenaicstadium.gr for the Panathenaic Stadium; cycladic.gr and byzantinemuseum.gr for the two Kolonaki museums; and presidency.gr for the Presidential Guard and the changing of the guard.

Transport fares come from oasa.gr and the airport's own pages at aia.gr; ferry and port information from olp.gr. City information is checked against thisisathens.org, run by the city's own destination agency. Strike notices are Greek-language and are not published in English by anyone — the page that deals with them says so plainly.

Each page prints the source and the check date in its freshness box. Where a figure comes from secondary reporting rather than an official page — the April 2025 abolition of the combined ticket, for instance — the page says which is which.

Tour prices, durations, ratings and review counts are the booking platform's own published numbers, read on the date shown on the card. Hotel rate bands are read from Google Hotels for one named date and presented as a band, never as a price.

What we do not claim

There is no invented author here, no character who lives in Koukaki and no claim that someone from this site stood in a particular queue on a particular morning. We do not operate or personally conduct these tours, and we do not inspect museums or audit any operator.

We also hold no bookings. Every Check Availability button hands you to the platform the tour is sold on, where the price, the terms and the cancellation window are theirs. Official ticket offices are linked plainly, without any tracking on the link, whenever buying direct is the better move — which for most of the Athens tickets covered here it is.

How the site pays for itself

Tour and activity links on this site are affiliate links: book through one and the platform pays us a commission, at the same price you would have paid going there yourself. That pays for the research and buys nothing else — not placement, not a rating and not a recommendation.

Where the official ticket is the better buy we say so and link it without tracking, which is most of this guide: the Acropolis at €30 direct is cheaper than every reseller card we found, and we print that on the ticket page rather than burying it. The affiliate disclosure sets out the arrangement in full.

Corrections

Prices change, sites close for restoration and timetables move on 1 April and 1 November. If something here is wrong, or has changed since the date printed beside it, tell us on the contact page and say which page and which figure — we will read the official source again and re-stamp the date.

The one fact on this site with the shortest shelf life is the closure at Kerameikos, which its own official page announces with no reason and no end date. If you find it open, we would like to know.