Athens (Piraeus) Cruise Reviews

If you want to see Acropolis get a shore excursion, it is possible to do on your own, but then you need to stand in line to buy tickets, while the tours are given priority. Piraeus is not a bad alternative a pleasant city as well. ...

We packed in a lot on this very hot day! We visited the Herakleidon Museum (small, but good exhibits), had an excellent lunch and the best Greek salad of my life, and then headed over to the Acropolis Museum (which has air conditioning! and ice cream!). We next visited the Temple of Zeus and the National Garden, went back to shop for souvenirs at the Acropolis Museum (and enjoy the air ...

We got a taxi to the Plaka, 25 euro. Walked to the Temple of Zeus, walked and visited The Acropolis and Parthenon, has lunch intake Plaka and shopped ...

Just went to Acropolis Museum and a quick taxi ride to the high point ENE of the Acropolis. Too hot for anything else ...

This was a replacement stop for Mykonos due to the weather, so I hadn't done any research prior for this stop but still enjoyed it. We weren't able to go up to the Parthenon because the line for tickets was so long, but got some pictures from below. A sign said that "e-tickets are coming" which will be great when it happens. ...

Athens is very easy to navigate on your own. I wish I had spent a few more days exploring the city! We took a taxi to the port, booked by our hotel. ...

Depending on what you wish to do (we opted for the hop on hop off bus the blue one) these are located to the left once you exit the main terminal building about a 5 minute walk. There are 3 different companies Greyline (yellow bus the one MSC uses)(red hop on hop off)we opted for the blue one as we had picked up a leaflet in a previous port of call. There was a 40 minute trip around Piraeus ...

Ignore taxis and tours and take x80 bus from pier. 45 mins to Acropolis. €2.50 return. Quite a climb up to Acropolis so start early and wear hat and sunblock, take water. ...

Embarkation port. Visited Athens on own for 2 days. ...

Athens is depressing--only our hotel wasn't. We went to the Acropolis but the crowd/heat was oppressive! ...