🇬🇷 Open Top Bus Tour in Athens, A Travel Guide. Is it worth it?

20 Euros for a ticket! Is it worth it?

This is our Athens Guide from the open top bus tour in Athens, Greece. Two companies offer the bus tour and is best booked directly with them online.

The price is 20 euros for adults and 8 euros for children, which is high, but worth it if you plan and use it correctly. It is cheap compared to a taxi.

There are 15 stops at key sites around the city, but we started at Syntagma Square, and the the Central Athens route.

My advice it to use it as a taxi around Athens, there are 15 stops at all the major sites, and it is easy to hop on or off, but it is busy so be warned that in August it may be difficult to get back on at the major stops.

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0:00 Syntagma Square
1:23 Emperor Hadrians Gate
1:38 Ancient Athens City Wall
1:42 Temple of Zeus
2:08 The Acropolis Museum
2:50 The Sacred Olive Trees
3:10 The Acropolis (Part 1)
3:40 5 top tips for visiting the Acropolis
5:01 The Acropolis (Part 2)
6:00 How to get the most from this bus tour
7:15 The Hellenic Parliament
7:48 The Embassies
8:06 The War Museum
8:24 The Athens Hilton Hotel
8:45 The National Gallery of Greece
9:48 The Panathenaic Stadium
10:50 The Athens Tennis Club & Statue of Alexander the Great
11:30 Lycabettus Hill, Athens
11:36 Roman Baths
11:42 Pedestrianised Athens
12:08 Athens Academy of Sciences and Humanities
12:40 National Library of Greece
13:00 The Neoclassical Archeological Museum
13:16 Omonia Square
14:41 Monastiraki and Plaka
15:59 Athens Market
16:24 Back to Syntagma Square

[VickyStefanidou]

This baby blue sky gives me energy and motivation to create !

[patshozo]

We have used this same bus tour company in all the European countries we visited. Very good value and hop off features to see sights and then pick back up to continue is an all day event.

[geof]

Brilliant video, thank you. Please do one of the touristy, but well worth it train that goes through the tiny streets.❤

[francoisbouchard]

This was very, very good. A bit late to discover this, but nonetheless thought to leave a comment. Having seen some of the seedier sides of San Francisco, not too far from my home, have to say that the homeless and/or drug abuse situation near Omonia square isn't comparable. A lot is said about the pickpockets but really haven't encountered it much. The most obvious scam I encountered was the bracelet pushers in Monastiraki, but they're a cheerful bunch of rascals in any case. Overall found Greeks to be very honest, even their taxi drivers. My Greek friends are often surprised to hear this, but I believe Greece is an unusually honest and friendly place. Have visited many other countries around the world; not gonna name any places, but this is often not the case.

[kal.Ko]

Πόσο όμορφη είναι η πόλη μου !!! ευχαριστώ πού την αναδειξατε τόσο ωραία !!!

[naumanejazcheema]

Literally, you explored well. I would like to see your more videos in different cities/countries.

[begsboro]

Nice tour, but i agree walking is better. Bringing an 82 year old in September so bus it might be. Athens is beautiful when you know where to go.
Good work.

[TheJimNorth]

Couple of things I would say… about the water. You can buy bottled water from the little kiosks dotted around. Indeed there is one pretty much directly opposite the theatre of the Acropolis. And you do sometimes have random people selling it from a cool box too. I don’t think it’s a difficult finding it as perhaps made out to be. Also the pick pockets, no worse than any other major tourist destination… especially with the chaps giving ‘free’ not so free bracelets and inviting you to music festivals. Just use your sense. I’ve felt relatively safe with all told.

[nelsonperez]

My family and I We took the buss from the Acropolis
We sit on top where it's open and we had a lot of Good time. took us all over town.

[leelawson]

We used the 48hour version of this with two lines, we walked all over but used this to look at Piraeus, but more than anything the buses were a good jump on jump off taxi service after we had done a lot of walking on days.

[HartsGap]

Would the subway or trolley buses be an effective alternative to the hop on hop off buses? It seems like the HOHO buses are always ''stopped'' by the traffic. We will be there in October and staying in the cruise port area.

[markharris]

Just booked a trip to Athens for May 24, and this was the first video I've looked at. That was a great introduction to the city.

I'm actually staying in Plaka so to realise it's just a short walk down from the Parthenon is good knowledge to have. It's not always clear from Google Maps.

I'm hoping to book a day trip out from Athens on one day, so will be looking through your catalogue with interest.

[ttai]

Hey great vid! We are thinking of booking the open bus tour when we visit in Oct. I wanted to ask is the Acropolis ‘stroller friendly’ in your opinion? Debating whether to take stroller baby carrier

[oslomuni]

Hello Andrew, i enjoyed your video very much very well made and detailed. Is there a website you recommend where we can buy the tickets for the hop on bus?

[Scraghunter]

How are the crowds in Feb-March? Expecting to be in Athens about those time in a year or so. Excellent video!

[GordonBay]

Did this one time in my live in London, never again. So stupid way of visiting a city, bus passes so quickly in interesting area and then endless stops in boring streets because of the traffic jam.