Acropolis Walking Tour, Including Syntagma Square & City Center

Fantastic tour guide!!!

I really enjoyed the myths that Athena told and how well she could describe the significance of the monuments. She was a fantastic tour guide, very knowledgeable, and a great person overall. Highly recommend taking a tour from her.

Excellent Tour

Dimetrie, is excellent tour guide and historian, we enjoyed our tour of Athens and the Acropolis very much. This is a very well organized group and I highly recommend them.

History!!

Being here has really brought me the history that I have read about, taught, and watched documentaries. There was so much and was so wonderful. The tour is not for the faint hearted.

Great Sightseeing Tour

Georgia our guide was great, friendly, a lot of knowledge and the tour was well organized. We had great weather so it was more enjoyable to walk around Athens sights.

Educational and fun walking tour

We really enjoyed our walking tour! Lots of great information at a pace that was relaxed but allowed us to see all of the sites. While the acropolis was amazing, we also enjoyed the changing of the guards at the parliament buildings, and the walk through the National Gardens. Our guide Apollon did a great job, and we were fortunate to meet two additional guides (Eva and Maria) who will be doing tours in the summer. They were all lovely and we would be happy to do another tour with them in the future.

Awesome tour..

Great tour.. We got a bit late as I had an injured leg.. Our archeologist guide Yanis (hope I spelled that right) was more than wonderful & accommodating.. He altered his pace to match mine, took the right number of breaks to help me & presented history in a great way.. The Acropolis tour could've been longer, but it was incredibly cold & windy up there.. He answered all our questions & delivered the tour right how it was described.. Thank you !!

Totally enjoyable day.

Can’t say enough about Olesya’s Athens walking and Acropolis tours. Highlights of the walking tour included the changing of the guards at the Parliament building. I’ve watched my videos repeatedly with awe and respect for the guards. Strolling the National Garden brought a sense of quiet and calmness to the bustling city. Acropolis tour was teeming with information from mythology to architectural facts. Her details aided in imagining the lives of the people who walked the paths before present time. Highly recommend her.

Acropolis Walking Tour

Arranged this tour last minute as we wanted a little more than just wandering around the summit on our own. Meeting place near the south entry was easy to find and check in completed quickly. Price included entry to the archaeological area and a front of line pass. Our guide, Antonis was incredibly knowledgeable and imparted information we would not have been able to get otherwise. Although the climb to the summit is high it was managed in easy stages. Bring water as it is hot even in cooler months. It can be refilled at the summit. Highly recommend.

Apollon the Great!

Great walking tour with our guide Apollon on this 3.5 hour walk around Athens ending with a tour of the Acropolis and Parthenon. Apollon was very informative and delivered in a great style which made the whole experience thoroughly worthwhile.

Great way to see athens

A great way to see and learn about Athens. The tour started and ended on time. Our tour guide was also super great! Made the whole experience worth it

Fair

Very good skip the line Acropolis tour, however this tour group DOES NOT make the meeting place clear. We walked around Syntagma square looking for our guide whom never called my phone for an hour. We finally got in touch with them and we were able to meet for the Acropolis. They refused to refund half our money.

Great city intro

Great intro to the city, the acropolis and historical Athens. Our guide was very knowledgeable making the tour an interesting introduction to Greek history.

Magnificent Athens, we love you

Our first ever visit to Athens and this tour was quite magnificent, from starting off at Syntagma Metro museum to finishing on top of Acropolis. Memories of this beautiful ancient city will live with us always ❤ Our tour guide Margarita was incredible, her knowledge and ability to pick out the best vantage positions, we can't thank you enough 😊 Thank you 😊

The Tour you don’t want to miss!

Amazing tour, which gave us a real sense of the Athens. Our tour guide was delightful. She was able to really give us a condensed history lesson while we walked from location to location. So glad we joined a tour. Overall fantastic!

Amazing Tour With Knowledgable Guides

Really enjoyed this walking tour from start to finish. The itinerary packs a lot in without being too much, and being able to walk around Zapion, Hadrian's Arch and the Gardens in Syntagma set the tour off really well. I really enjoyed how knowledgeable to tour guide was about the tomb of the unknown soldier and seeing the changing of the guard was fun too. The tour is almost worth it for the Acropolis alone however as our guide was full of amazing information on the whole site from the Temple of Dionysus right up to the Parthenon. She managed us as a group really well, allowing us to ask questions and even when there were huge crowds made it easy to keep track of them. Would highly recommend this tour to anyone interested.

An information packed tour with a very knowledgeable guide

Our guide was extremely knowledgeable and went to a lot of trouble to explain the things we visited,

Guide very knowledgeable

The guide was very knowledgeable and we enjoyed the tour. We got to hear historical facts about the City and the Acropolis.

Great experience!

Our tour guide was amazing. Her knowledge and presentation of the Acropolis, Syntagma Square and city center were great! The climb to the top of the Acropolis was awesome!

Walking tour of Athens

We enjoyed our tour! Our tour guide was an archeologist and very knowledgeable. We appreciate him finding shady as often as possible. He also made several stops as we climbed the Acropolis which resulted in us getting to the top before we knew it. Great tour and would definitely recommend.

Informative

Very nice tour, we had plenty of rest breaks, Dimitri was a great guide and filled us with great information. Highly recommend

Must do tour of ancient Athens

Beautiful sites to be seen. Vicky our guide was fantastic, super dynamic, very friendly and full of knowledge. Great tour!

Modified tour because of the heat

We did a tour as a part of our stay in Athens. It was during a heatwave, so we they modified our tour slightly to keep us safe, so we did the Acropolis and Museum tour instead. Alexandra was an excellent tour guide - very engaging and knowledgable (she is even an archeologist!). The Acropolis is incredibly facinating - be pprepared to wait in 1hr+ lines to get to the top during peak season. It is worth it though, especially was such a knowledgeable guide helping us understand the significance. The museum is also amazing. All in all, both destinations are incredibly enhanced with the Athens Walking Tours staff.

Perfect Athens Tour!

Wow! I never imagined a nearly 6.5 hour walking tour could be so enjoyable. The tour flew by with our amazing guide, Fotini. She gave plenty of breaks on our walk up to the Acropolis and was extremely knowledgeable about all things Greek history. Her passion for Greek culture seeped into all parts of our tour. Although spanning the entire day, we felt like we saw all the major sights in Athens. I can’t recommend this tour enough!

Highly recommend your!!

Fantastic tour, highly recommend. Good information as you see the ruins!! Nice walk through the park and marathon area.

A must do in Athens

We loved the stories associated with each of the structures, the guide was amazing and so knowledgeable

Thanks for the great tour, Charoula!

This was one of our favourite experiences in Athens. We loved exploring the city, seeing Changing the Guard, walking through the park and seeing the turtles. The second half of this tour is climbing the Acropolis, which isn’t as exhausting as it looks! Loads of things to see including the remains of the Theatre of Dionysius: the birthplace of western theatre! Our guide Charoula was fantastic. I’m a licensed tour guide in London, so I can be tough to impress. She was informative and funny and happy to answer questions. Her pacing was gentle, but her timing was impeccable. She made this tour special!

A great introduction to the ancient city of Athens

A very informative tour led by the very knowledgeable and engaging Rina. Starting on the second level of the impressive Syntagma Square metro station, Rina showed us the changing of the guard, before walking through the National Gardens and past the Temple of Zeus. We stopped for a welcome coffee before heading up the hill to the Acropolis. The tour was well-paced and not overly strenuous, although the route up to the Acropolis is uneven and slippery in places. Would definitely recommend!

Would definitely recommend!

The excursion was overall amazing. Sissy was so knowledgeable and thoroughly explained the history. From the Syntagma archeological discoveries to the changing of the guards to the Acropolis tour, it’s an experience that we will never forget.

Our guide Helena was...

Our guide Helena was informative and a wealth of information. A great intro to the city and some of the major sites, of course including the Acropolis. We liked that it ended on top of the Acropolis allowing us to explore more as needed. We also really appreciated the headphone sets as it allowed us to hear all the information from our guide.

Great tour, I recommend

A good paced walk past a few significant sites to the acropolis. Great knowledge and delivery. Well organised.

Would not use southern entrance

Southern approach to Acropolis was dusty and extremely rocky, almost dangerous at times. Much better to use western gate which is paved and smooth. Visitors from both entrances converged at major bottleneck at noon, which barely moved for a long time, but was not a problem at 2 pm.

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Appolon was wonderful! His experience and knowledge made for a delightful day. Over and above! Kindness and hospitality!

Great Start to Athens

Really good way to get started in Athens. We were given good meeting instructions and found the team (lower level of the station). Tour ran to time and Apollon was really helpful and clearly enthusiastic about his city. The city part of the tour was maybe a little brief, but we saw all the items on the itinerary. Acropolis Hill was hard work and we seemed to hit a busy time. Also tour kept stopping in awkward places, but the stories were timed well and relevant to the stop. Tour lasted about 3.5h with a 20m break. Glad we didn't choose the museum visit - that would be a lot for 1 day.

Great way to get a feel for the city & Acropolis

Really enjoyed this tour - the guide was friendly and full of interesting insights that added to the experience. It was my first time in the city so the first part of the tour was useful to get a feel for some different parts of the city - but the Acropolis was obviously the highlight. It's a long walk up, but broken up with stops to explain some of the different ruins on the south slope (which was quieter than the main entrance)

Tour guide no show

Walked around the Syntagma metro station for 15 minutes looking for the tour guide, no one to be found. 2 days in Athens now 1 wasted… not happy

Wonderful experience with experienced guide!

Despina our guide was excellent! It was clear that she knew the city and the stories behind it - and the Acropolis of Athens - very well. Interesting background stories throughout the tour. Wonderful experience!

Best walking tour!

Love the way Elias handled the group…he was good. The ruins are amazing but was able to be covered by short and sweet walking tour! Good coverage of all we want to know!

Wonderful Day of Learning and Seeing

I convinced my husband that a long tour would be better than days of wandering on our own, and I was right :) Apollon was a perfect guide, offering just the right amount of guidance and free time to explore and stare in amazement. The explanation in Syntagma Square really set the stage for the day’s explorations. Watching the changing of the guard was a definite highlight, and having Apollon explain some of the details made it even more interesting. The walk through the Acropolis wasn’t too fast, and gave some of the slower folks in our group time to take pictures. Finally, his storytelling at the Acropolis Museum made the entire day worthwhile, as it really wrapped up all we’d seen and learned.

A very enjoyable walking tour!

We had a very short visit in Athens this time before embarking on our cruise. This walking tour led by Helena was just what we wanted for an overview of the old city’s history below the Acropolis, including the changing of the guards at Parliament, the imperial gardens, etc. We really enjoyed hearing her wealth of knowledge about the 3,000 year history of the Parthenon and Temple of Athena. Helena was very charming, her love and pride of country was very evident. She was also very helpful at the end of the tour when we realized we were short on time getting back to our hotel to catch our transfer to our ship. She was able to make the the needed phone calls for us enabling us to get back in time. Epharisto, Helena!

Amazing guide with lots...

Amazing guide with lots of information. Highly recommend. Great trip. Lots of information for history.

Back in time tour- through history

It was marvelous. I was lucky to get this tour. Anny is an excellent guide. You go back in time with her. I recommend this tour to everyone, especially for parents with teenagers because it's more than educative.

Great company to go with!

My GF and I had a walking tour with these guys, and I can say only good stuff about them. It is worth the money and time. We had a 5-hour walking tour. We saw everything and the highlight was the Acropolis ofc.

Great Day

The whole tour was full of information. We really enjoyed it. Getting to the Acropolis was strenuous, but satisfying.

Amazing tour

The tour was good. The guide explain well. Good guided walking tour. Without tired the guide taje us Acropois. He has good experience about the tourist.

Highly recommend

Our guide Hermes was fantastic. The tour was interesting and engaging and exactly what we were looking for.

Great Experience - worth the money.

Great tour leader who was knowledgeable and clear. We were provided with headsets to hear her which was invaluable once we got into the crowded areas on the Acropolis Hill.

Amazing Athens

This was an exceptional tour with an exceptional guide (Charoula). I would definitely recommend it to anyone who wants walk and understand the history of Athens.

Magical tour!

What an amazing tour! Sissy, our guide, is clearly an expert on Greek history and mythology. She was so engaging and we loved every part of the tour. We left with a much better understanding of Greek history and mythology and so many beautiful pictures of all the sites we saw. 5 stars!

Outstanding Tour with Wonderful Guide!

We loved this tour! We did it our 1st full morning in Athens, and it was a great way to get oriented to both ancient and modern Athens. It was informative and interesting and overall fun. The entire 3.5 hours was jam packed with history and details and stories. I would highly recommend this tour.

Awesome guided tour!

This was a wonderful tour of the Acropolis, mainly due to our excellent guide, Angela! She was passionate about teaching us the history of the Acropolis and the various statues and temples. She was very kind and friendly and happily answered all of our questions. She wasA