Private Tour
Best of Athens Full Day Private Tour
Overview
Available languages
Mobile ticket
Get around Athens’ most-cherished attractions and enjoy the city in comfort. Visit Acropolis, where you can stroll through the Parthenon, the Odeon of Herodes Atticus, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Propylaea, and the Erechtheum. Take views of the city from Lycabettus Hill and explore the neighborhoods of Plaka and Monastiraki.
- Take the hassle out of seeing Athens with the freedom of a private tour
- Hassle-free pickup and drop-off from your Athens hotel, airport, or Piraeus port
- Drive to the Parthenon where you have free time to visit the Acropolis Museum
- See the Hellenic Parliament guards; pass-by Panathenaic and Kalimarmaro stadiums
- Enjoy the comfort of a luxury air-conditioned private car with WiFi available onboard
Additional Info
Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
Specialized infant seats are available
Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Our drivers are not official tour guides, but they are knowledgeable and can provide fascinating commentary in fluent English. Although they will not enter the archaeological sites with you, they can answer all of your questions about the places you visit with this tour.
Third party activities and especially extreme sports are not allowed during the tour. This can be a cause for immediate cancellation of the tour.
Airport pick-up and drop-off upon request (Additional cost)
We can provide you with the skip-the-line tickets upon request or you can pre-purchase them by following the links on your ticket/ voucher. The availability is limited and the tickets must be pre-purchased timely.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What‘s Included
Private transportation
Bottled water
WiFi on board
Professional drivers with deep knowledge of history (Not licensed to accompany you in any site)
Lunch (With Greek Traditional Food option)
Air-conditioned vehicle
Hotel/ port pickup and drop-off
Licensed tour guide - upon request and depending on availability
Entrance tickets (available upon request or book on your own - links on the ticket/ voucher)
Acropolis (must be purchased in advance - limited availability)
Acropolis Museum (must be purchased in advance - limited availability)
Ancient Agora (can be purchased on-site)
Roman Agora (can be purchased on-site)
Olympieion (Temple of Zeus) (can be purchased on-site)
Archaeological Museum (can be purchased on-site)
Meeting and Pickup
Pickup points
Select a pickup point
What To Expect
Athens
Pick up from your hotel, apartment, Airbnb, Athens airport, or Piraeus port.
Acropolis
Walk on the land in which thousands of years ago some of the largest and most important parts of the global philosophy, politics, and science were born and flourished. Navigate ancient monuments of priceless cultural and historical value and experience in person the greatness and glamour of Greek ancient times. Starting off with the Acropolis, which in Greek translates to the edge of the city, the geographically and spiritually highest point according to ancient Greeks.
Options
Without food
Pickup included
With Greek Traditional Food
Lunch: Enjoy authentic Greek cuisine and traditional foods.
Pickup included
Reviews
77 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
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MariaPaz J,
Nov 1, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Excellent full day tour. It was as expected. Spiro, our driver and guide was awesome. The food for our lunch was delicious😋
Nikos was great tour guide!!
saraaO8854EO,
Oct 12, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Nikos picked us up straight from the port our cruise docked, and did an amazing job showing us around Athens. He also explained the history of the different sites we saw! Nikos was very accommodating and overall a great tour guide!! We really enjoyed our day in Athens and could not have asked for a better tour guide!!
Our guide was very...
Darryl M,
Oct 11, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Our guide was very knowledgeable. He made every attempt to assure our trip met all of our expectations.
Wonderful private tour of Athens
junjib2024,
Sep 23, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Our driver, Bill was excellent. He was very polite and friendly. He had a good sense of humor and he gave us insights of the area that we wont have known otherwise. Thank you for the safe and wonderful tour of your region. Memorable trip.
Wonderful Tour of Athens Highlights
darbyg551,
Sep 12, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Alex was great! He picked us up from the cruise terminal and that was easy and seamless. He was so knowledgeable and did such a great job of using our time efficiently so that we got to see so many things in 5 hours. I would highly recommend this tour and Alex especially!
Excellent tour
Roving04360727164,
Sep 10, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00My co travelers and I chose this tour one day before we embark in our Greek Isles cruise. This tour was amazing! Thanks to our incredible guide, Spiros. We felt his warm welcome right away. He was knowledgeable, professional and engaging. He treated us like royals including the sumptuous and delicious Greek lunch that was served to us from the best Greek restaurant. He made sure we’re on time and maximized the time we spent in every place and landmark that we went. He’s also an excellent driver. Overall, this was a fantastic experience, and I would highly recommend this tour. Thank you, Spiros and Mr. A. Biliktsis
Great Day in Athens
Hawkiz,
Jul 31, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Our three couples had a cruise stop in Athens and wanted to take in as much of the city as possible, so decided to go with the full-day private tour with My Athens Transfers. We certainly made the right decision. Going into the tour, Greg was amazing with his e-mail assistance, helping us secure tickets needed, timing, and adding another couple who decided to join our group last-minute. Thanks again, Greg!! Our driver, Spiros, was at the port and waiting for us with his comfortable black van, and proceeded to begin our trek with a stop at the Acropolis. Got there early enough to avoid the heat and larger crowds. There are multiple other sites and a couple museums we hit over the course of the day (as outlined in the tour description), and we discovered Spiros wasn't just a driver, he's a Greek history genius as well. Filled us in with TONS of information between stops. Friendly and funny. Finished the day with some shopping, drinks and a tasty gyro meal at a restaurant overlooking the Parthenon, recommended by Spiros. Dropped back at port, where we began, with full bellies and plenty of pictures and memories. Thanks, Spiros!! Definitely recommend!
Personable and consummate professional.
247alikin,
Jun 10, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Thoughtful, generous, attentive and knowledgeable. A lovely human to spend the day with. Engaging and easy to talk to. A real gem of a person.
Private tour was great,...
Patrick G,
Jun 8, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Private tour was great, our guide new where to go and when, informative of all sites visited in addition to culture of the city
Comprehensive tour of Athens
LCRAIG B,
May 25, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Our final tour during our Athens visit was titled “ Best of Athens, (full day private tour) operated by My Athens Transfer and manned by the incomparable driver-guide, Costas. Our trend of drawing outstanding drivers-guides continued. Costas was very knowledgeable, fluent English, and very engaging -offering constant facts and information relative to the site visited at that point. In doing so, Costas demonstrated many characteristics of a school teacher offering comments ( particularly relating to origins of Greek culture and history) and then soliciting our responses. His commentary was so frequent and thorough i was afraid we could not absorb and retain it for the test we expected at tour-end. We apparently passed. Just a suggestion, Costas would make an excellent teacher and/ior super guide. The tour itself was well organized with comfortable transport beginning with a visit to the magnificent Acropolis and its antiquities which, of course was very crowded. Movement and taking unimpeded photos was a challenge but very much worth the hassle. Much like the Smithsonian, one could spend a couple days in the Acropolis Museum. The tour is comprehensive visiting over twenty sites so it would be difficult to pick a highlights; but two sites we enjoyed was the panoramic view from Mount Lycabettus and the opportunity to visit the site of the first modern Olympics - Panathenaic Stadium. Our tour concluded with an early delicious dinner prepared by a hospitalable staff at a traditional Greek Tavern/cafe. If you have limited time, want some privacy, move at your pace, then we recommend this tour with the Greek goggle-king -Costas-at the helm.
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