We arrived in Athens two days before embarkation. We used Michael's Amazing Tours to have a private tour of Athens and also booked our airport to hotel transfer & our hotel to Piraeus transfer. Best decision ever, covered a lot of ground in an all day tour of Athens & to the Temple of Poseidon in Cape Sounion. Really glad that we had a driver meet us at the Athens airport and also to take us to ...
Stayed three day before cruise. Used taxi when we had luggage otherwise walked or used Metro. Bought Unified Ticket to see Acropolis and other ancient sites. The Acropolis requires lots of walking, there is an elevator for the handicapped. ...
A wonderful city, very busy, with good local buses. Piraeus is a long bus ride from the port. A better option is to use the train, taking the train from Piraeus centre into Athens centre ...
This day was amazing, and all the more so because it was rather unplanned. We got off the ship at 6:30am (an hour before dawn--ugh!). We shared a cab with a couple we had met on the ship, and ended up hiring him to drive us around for a couple of hours. (We had this idea that we were going to walk everywhere, but it's a lot bigger than we thought!). We first went to Lycabettus hill, and stayed ...
It's easy to grab a taxi via Uber and get to the center of the city. From there, you can walk or take the metro to anything you might want to see in the few hours you have. The Acropolis Museum is worth seeing. ...
