Questions tagged [athens]
The capital and largest city of Greece.
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Athens combined ticket and booking time slots
I want to buy a combined ticket for Athens main sightseeings. The ticket is valid for five days and includes access to 7 places including Acropolis, Roman Agora, etc. During the booking process, the ...
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Airport transit visa in Greece required? [duplicate]
Egyptian passport holder, with settled status in UK, traveling UK-Cairo, with a 2-hour layover in Athens.
Considering the flight is from a non-Schengen state to a non-Schengen state, is a transit visa ...
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Layover in Athens for 2 hours
I'm traveling to the UK from Saudi Arabia. I want to book Aegean Airlines but it has a 2:25-hoursl layover in Athens. So I’m wondering whether I require a transit visa. I’m holding a Philippines ...
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Is tap water in Athens safe to drink?
Tripadvisor says that is okay to drink.
The EU Parliament letter reported the absence of asbestos pipes in Greece.
I wonder does Athens have similar to Tallinn initiative of eco-friendly catering ...
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Is it still possible to go jogging around the Panathenaic Stadium in Athens?
The Panathenaic Stadium website suggests that it is possible to run in the stadium between 7.30 and 9 am, but the site is old (2011) and the form that must be filled in (linked to from the web page) ...
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Traveling from the US to Athens with a transit in Rome
We will be flying from JFK to Athens (ATH) with a connection in Rome (FCO). Do we go through immigration in FCO or at ATH? It is one reservation on ITA Airways (e.g. Alitalia). We will only have carry-...
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Why is this park in Athens hidden from view in Google (but not Bing)?
I noticed a purposely blurred area in Athens in Google Maps:
It seems that this is a normal botanical park, I could not find anything sensitive there (which is the typical reason for such blurring).
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What is an easy alternative to flying to Athens from London?
Will be traveling to Athens to meet a cruiseship this December so long as Covid allows, though i do not want to fly, so i looked in to alternative means of getting there and i could get a train to ...
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Where to buy Sobranie cigarettes in Athens, Greece [closed]
I tried searching for Sobranie cigarettes in Athens, I searched the whole city center but nobody even knows what it is. Also tried looking it up on googles 'near me' function, but to no avail.
Does ...
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Things to do during a five-hour layover in Athens, Greece?
I'm going to be in the Athens airport for five and a half hours. I know the city is quite a distance away. Is there anything of interest nearby that I could do to alleviate the boredom?
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Athens Museums & Monuments Combined Ticket Online Purchase
I am planning to buy the combined ticket from this official Greek website, but on the last screen I get the following text;
New: Skip the ticket office line! If you accompany free admission
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Late Landing at Athens and M3 Airport Line
I will be landing at Athens Airport on a Friday evening around 23:00, and from this page, I see that the last train from airport is from 23:30. Are there no later trains on Fridays & Saturdays ...
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Time between flights at Athens Airport
We have our flight on Emirates 210 arriving at Athens at 16:05 and then have a flight on Olympic Air (operated by Aegean Air) at 19:10. Is the time sufficient to board the Olympic Air. I have two ...
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Train from Athens to Thessaloniki: do I need an advance ticket?
I've traveled by rail in Europe before, but mostly in the Czech Republic, Germany, and Italy. Next month I'll be in Greece, and I have air tickets into Athens and out of Thessaloniki, with ...
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Arriving at Athens Airport an evening prior to our Visa start date
So we're a married Indian couple on our honeymoon trip to Greece. Our original flight from Mumbai to Athens (via Muscat) on Oman Air was scheduled for July 10, 2019 and arriving at Athens at 1950 ...
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