Athens Tour: Ancient City Bus Adventure

Experience the best of Athens, Piraeus, and Glyfada with Athens Open Tour. Hop on and off at your own pace and explore the city’s rich history, architecture, and culture with commentary in 12 languages.

Duration: 5 hours, 10 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights

Athens Line - Red Route (Route)

Operating Schedule: Buses run every 20 minutes. The first bus leaves from Stop 1: Syntagma Square - 1 Ermou St. (in front of the Nike Store) at 8:30 AM, and the last bus departs at 6:00 PM. The complete tour takes approximately 1 hour and 50 minutes.
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What's Included
  • Explore 3 Incredible Routes: Athens, Piraeus, and the Riviera
  • 48 or 72-Hour Hop-On, Hop-Off Bus Ticket
  • Audio commentary in a choice of 14 languages
  • Free Wi-Fi on board
  • Headphones
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
Additional Information

Explore the ancient city of Athens, the cradle of Western civilization and birthplace of democracy, on a hop-on, hop-off, open-top sightseeing tour. Discover the city’s 3,000-year history from the vantage point of the top deck of a double-decker bus. Marvel at Athens’ ancient ruins, including iconic landmarks like the Acropolis, the Parthenon, the…

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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622ankitb
Jan 25, 2026
A must experience for first timers in Athens - Took a 2 day pass. Did Athens and Piraeus routes. Bus is great condition, routes nice, 20 min frequency Great. Associate Irene at Syntenga square was very helpful and assisted with timings etc. Great interacting with her.
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Ann_w
Jan 21, 2026
Very well organised and... - Very well organised and plenty of staff around at main stops to help when required. Good value as our ticket allowed us two days of unlimited travel on all three lines.
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Zhannap893
Dec 21, 2025
Amazing - The tour was fantastic, as well as the audioguide in Russian!!! I recomend it!!!! Irene was very helpful. She explained everything very well!!!
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Chayanika_d
Dec 15, 2025
Great way to see the... - Great way to see the city, audio was very informative and we got to explore areas that we didn’t know before.
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Jet29775082630
Dec 6, 2025
Sight seeing - Excellent service the drivers are friendly and its good value you get to see athens and they run every 20 mins the are 3 routes so you get to see athens and other areas
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Resort51194146585
Dec 2, 2025
Best Tour - Our bus trip with BigBus was a great experience! The bus was punctual, clean and very comfortable so we could really enjoy the ride. However, we would particularly like to highlight the warm and helpful employee Irene, who sold us the tickets. With her friendly nature, smile and patience she immediately made us feel good and answered all our questions competently. Thanks to her, our journey has already started positively when buying tickets. We can only recommend BigBus - and especially Irene! Thank you for the great service
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Philip_s
Feb 8, 2026
Greek Oddysey - Three routes to the port (4 per day every 80 mins), down the coast (3 per day every 2 hours) and around the city. The city route is frequent (every 20 mins) and gets you to the sites. The other two less frequent but worth a journey to have a look if you have a 2 day+ ticket but maybe worth getting off at Piraeous and Lake Vouligameni (you have to pay). These buses are always helpful to get you around a new city. Athens centre is very walkable.
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Freedom06890475515
Dec 11, 2025
Helpful good people, especially Bill - Bill helped me sort my bus route with Big Bus. I used the service day before and day of getting a cruise from the port used that line. Bill helped me sort this out and he had great customer service. One of the bus drivers I had was aldo really helpful and awesome. It helped they had a good grasp of English too.
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Annamariapm7623pj
Jan 31, 2026
The worst of the worst - The trip is ok..but when the guides at Akropolis choose to spend their time entertaining some American tourists and ignore my poorly walking mother and you, who are waiting for the last bus for 45 minutes, to finally ask us if it is the ones we are waiting for, because then the last bus is gone. Maybe we read wrong on the sign, but that doesn't excuse the two young men were more busy smoking cigarettes and chatting with the other bus guides and tourists..never more and do not recommend..there are other companies here in town
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Expedition159230
Dec 29, 2025
Terrible experience, Big manipulation - Waste of money, do not trust what they advertise, I had to order bolt, because their frequency is not like they advertise
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Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).