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The Athens Combined Ticket: What Happened to It
The Athens combined ticket was a €30 package, valid five days, that covered the Acropolis and six other archaeological sites in the centre. It is not on sale. This page shows what the official platform lists today as checked in Q3 2026, what the same seven sites now cost bought one by one, and which of the reseller bundles that replaced it is worth the money. The individual sites are on the ancient sites hub, and everything the city sells is compared on the Athens city guide homepage.
Quick answer Whether it still exists, and what to buy instead
The official Athens combined ticket is not on sale. On the state platform the Acropolis venue page lists exactly one product — a €30 single entry — and no multi-site package. The seven sites the old €30 package covered now cost €105 bought separately.
Key takeaways
- The arithmetic is the whole story: the seven sites, priced today come to €105, against €30 for the package that used to cover them.
- Every "Athens combo pass" you can buy is a reseller bundle. The heritage-sites pass is the one with the volume behind it.
- A bundle only pays if you would genuinely enter the sites in it — how to check a bundle works through the two questions that decide it.
- The rock and its museum have never shared a ticket: Acropolis tickets and Acropolis Museum tickets are different shops.
- If your dates fall on a free Sunday between November and March, the cheapest bundle is no bundle — the free-entry days has the list.
Key facts
Opening hours
| Most central sites, 1 Apr – 31 Aug | 08:00–20:00 |
|---|---|
| Most central sites, 1 Nov – 31 Mar | 08:00–15:00 |
| The Acropolis, 1 Nov – 31 Mar | 08:00–17:00 |
Closed 1 January, 25 March, 1 May, Orthodox Easter Sunday, 25 and 26 December
Admission
- Adult
- €105 for the seven former package sites bought separately
- Reduced
- €53 at the half rates
- Free
- 6 March, 18 April, 18 May, the last weekend of September, 28 October, and the first and third Sunday from 1 November to 31 March
Planning it
- Time needed
- Not stated; our routing: two days to use all seven properly
- Book ahead
- Essential — weeks ahead
- Address
- Central Athens archaeological sites
What happened to the package
Two changes landed together, and most guides have caught up with neither.
What we can verify ourselves
On 1 September 2026 the Acropolis venue page on the official platform, tickets.hh.gr, offered one product: "Visit the Acropolis of Athens, €30.00". No package, no multi-site pass, no five-day validity. That is a primary observation and it is the fact this page rests on.
Hellenic Heritage sells every other central site the same way, one venue at a time.
What is reported about why
Secondary sources covering the ministry's revised ticketing policy date the change to April 2025: the €30 five-day combination ticket covering the Acropolis, Hadrian's Library, the Ancient Agora, the Roman Agora, Aristotle's Lyceum, Kerameikos and the Olympieion was discontinued, and at the same time the long-standing 50% winter discount between 1 November and 31 March was abolished, so every site now charges one price all year. We have not found that decision on a ministry page in English; treat the date as reported rather than read off an official source.
Why the confusion persists
Because the package existed for years and the internet has a long memory. Search results still carry "Athens combined ticket price" pages, forum threads arguing about validity, and blog posts that were written before the change and edited after it in the wrong places. The single reliable test is the one anyone can run: open tickets.hh.gr and look at what is in the basket.
The seven sites, at today's official prices
Every site the old package covered, with the full and reduced price read on its own Hellenic Heritage page on 1 September 2026. Winter hours are the closing time from 1 November to 31 March.
| Site | Full | Reduced | Winter closing | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acropolis | €30 | €15 | 17:00 | Official site |
| Ancient Agora | €20 | €10 | 17:00 | Official site |
| Temple of Olympian Zeus | €20 | €10 | 15:00 | Official site |
| Roman Agora | €10 | €5 | 15:00 | Official site |
| Hadrian's Library | €10 | €5 | 15:00 | Official site |
| Kerameikos | €10 | €5 | 15:00 — the site is listed as temporarily closed in summer | Official site |
| Aristotle's Lyceum | €5 | €3 | 15:00 | Official site |
| Total | €105 | €53 | — | Official site |
€105 against the €30 the package cost: three and a half times the price for the same seven gates. That is the number that made the reseller bundles a business. Note also that Kerameikos currently prints "temporarily closed" under its summer hours, so a bundle that counts it as one of its sites may be selling you a locked gate — check the official page for the day you go.
The bundles that replaced it
What is actually on sale, as listed on 1 September 2026, against the official prices above. Inclusions come from each listing.
| Bundle | Price | Covers | Worth it if | Book |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Acropolis plus up to five heritage sites | Listed at €36 | A timed Acropolis slot and entry to as many as five more central sites, with audio | You will genuinely enter three or more of them | Check Availability |
| Acropolis and Acropolis Museum | Listed at €63 | The rock's timed slot plus museum entry on any day | You want one order rather than two shops | Check Availability |
| Roman Agora and Ancient Agora | Listed at €46 | Time-slotted entry to both, two audio tours | You are doing the two Agoras and want the commentary | Check Availability |
| Athens City Pass | Listed at €82 | Acropolis, museum, hop-on hop-off bus, transport and cruise options | You will use the bus — see the city pass page | Check Availability |
| Buying each site yourself | €105 for all seven | Exactly what you choose, no audio | You want three sites or fewer | Official site |
Two questions decide every one of these. First: how many of the bundled sites will you actually walk into? Most visitors do the Acropolis, the museum and one Agora, and stop — for that itinerary a five-site pass is paying for two gates you will never see. Second: does the bundle include the entrance, or only the guide? Cards that list below €30 cannot include the Acropolis entry at €30, and are selling the commentary.
The bundles on sale now
The cards behind the table, with the operator's own rating and review count.
from €36
Athens: Acropolis Ticket & Heritage Sites + Acropolis Audio
The bundle the official shop does not sell: the Acropolis slot plus entry to up to five more archaeological sites, including both Agoras and the Temple of Olympian Zeus.
Check Availability
from €63
Combo: Acropolis & Acropolis Museum with Optional Tours
Both tickets in one purchase — a timed slot for the rock and an any-day ticket for the museum. No official pass covers both, so this is the reseller's convenience.
Check Availability
from €44
Athens: Roman Agora & Ancient Agora E-ticket & 2 Audio Tours
Time-slotted e-tickets for both Agoras with two smartphone audio tours, which is the only bundle of the two sold as one product.
Check Availability
from €78.90
Athens: City Pass with Acropolis, Museums, HoHo & Transport
The Acropolis, the Acropolis Museum and a 48-hour hop-on hop-off bus in one pass, with public transport and an island cruise as options.
Check AvailabilityPrices, ratings and details are the platform's own, checked in Q3 2026; euro figures are the listed prices — the platform bills in your account's currency.
What to buy instead, by itinerary
Three common Athens trips, and the cheapest honest answer for each.
One or two days: buy two tickets
The Acropolis at €30 and the Acropolis Museum at €20. That is €50, it covers what almost everyone came for, and no bundle beats it unless you add a third site. The one-day plan routes those two around the heat.
Three days with the ancient centre: count the gates
Add the Ancient Agora at €20 and you are at €70; add the Olympieion at €20 and you are at €90, within €15 of the whole seven-site total. At that point a multi-site reseller pass starts to make sense, because the marginal sites — the Roman Agora, Hadrian's Library, the Lyceum — are €5 to €10 each and take twenty minutes apiece. The three-day plan has the walking order.
Winter, on the right Sunday: pay nothing
Every state site in the table above is free on the first and third Sunday of each month from 1 November to 31 March, and on five fixed dates through the year. If your trip contains one of those days, plan the ancient sites onto it and buy nothing at all — the museum, which keeps its own calendar, is the only ticket you will need. The free-entry page weighs each date against the queue.
Combined ticket questions
Does the Athens combined ticket still exist?
Not on the official platform. On 1 September 2026 the Acropolis venue page at tickets.hh.gr listed a single €30 entry product and no package. Every multi-site pass on the market is sold by a reseller, not by the ministry — what happened sets out what is verified and what is reported.
How much would the old combined ticket sites cost now?
€105 at full price, or €53 at the reduced rates: Acropolis €30, Ancient Agora €20, Temple of Olympian Zeus €20, Roman Agora €10, Hadrian's Library €10, Kerameikos €10, Aristotle's Lyceum €5. The table has each source.
Is a combo ticket worth it?
Only if you will enter three or more of the sites in it. Most visitors do the Acropolis, the museum and one Agora — for that, two official tickets at €50 beat any bundle. What to buy instead works through three itineraries.
Does entry to the rock cover the other central sites?
No. Each state site sells its own ticket now. The Acropolis ticket covers the rock and its slopes — the Parthenon, the Erechtheion, both theatres — and nothing beyond the fence. The Acropolis page has what is inside it.
Is there still a winter discount?
No. Reporting on the April 2025 policy change says the 50% low-season reduction between 1 November and 31 March was abolished at the same time as the package, and the prices now published on each site's official page are the same all year. What winter does still give you is two free Sundays a month.
Is the commercial sightseeing pass the same thing?
No — that is a commercial pass built around a hop-on hop-off bus, sold by a reseller and priced accordingly. Whether it pays depends almost entirely on whether you use the bus; the city pass page does that arithmetic.
Reviewed Q3 2026 (July–September 2026); next review Q4 2026. Prices, hours and terms are set by the venue or operator and confirmed at checkout.
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