Private sightseeing tour of Athens.
Half Day incredible Athens
Athens Parliament building
A private tour is one where you have the chauffeured vehicle and the guide all to yourself. This allows for an incredible experience to be enjoyed. It is affordable, luxurious and fun.
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Luxury of having a private chauffeur driven vehicle for your party only. |
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Enjoy the professional guides and their unique knowledge of the areas. |
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Avoid the crowds and long waits. |
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Enjoy the unique itineraries, off the beaten track hidden experiences. |
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Get unique insights and local experience from your guide. |
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Set your own pace and time of departure. |
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Visit the Acropolis and the Parthenon |
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Visit the New Acropolis museum |
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Panathenaic Stadium (photo stop) |
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Athens parliament (photo stop) |
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Private Chauffered Vehicle |
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Private guide throughout the tour |
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Included all entrance fees to Acropolis and the new Museum |
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Hotel or cruise ship pick-up and drop-off service |
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| Half day Athens Sight seeing |
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| The best selling private tour of Athens. |
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| Half day in Athens (Guided) |
Your private guide and personal driver will pick you up from the arranged point and we will start this half day sightseeing tour of Athens. Having a private guide will allow you to fully experience the sights of Athens; the naration is tailored to your interests and the pace of the tour to your needs.
As we enter the city center and our tour begins, we will make our first stop at the exquisite Panathenian stadium. Built on the site of the ancient Athenian stadium, entirely from marble, for the first modern Olympic Games of 1896. It is very impressive and well worth a stop.
Near the stadium lies the Roman Temple of Olympian Zeus — or more simply, the Temple of Zeus. Pose for photos in front of the colossal ruins that honor the king of the Olympian gods, and listen to stories about the mystery-shrouded Greek gods from your guide. Continue onward to Athens National Gardens and stop outside the Greek Parliament to see the traditionally dressed guards watching the buildings. Have your camera ready to capture snapshots of the Changing of the Guard ceremony and get a sense of Greek modern history.
We will continue onwards via the national gardens for a brief stop outside the Greek parliament. The traditionally dressed Evzones stand guard outside the building; the changing of the guards is fun to see and get a feeling for Greek modern history. Our driver will be waiting for us to take us to the Acropolis.
Next is the sight that’s sure to be a highlight on any visitor’s list: the Acropolis of Athens. Leave your vehicle and head out on foot for a stroll up the slopes of the city’s famous ancient citadel.
Listed as a UNESCO World Heritage site, the acropolis is home to several incredible buildings that date back to the days of Ancient Greece. See the Parthenon, Propylaea gateway, Erechtheion and Temple of Athena Nike, a monument built to represent Athens’ ambition as the most powerful Greek city.
Our visit to the Acropolis will end and the tour will continue with a short walk down the pedestrian way to the new museum.
The Acropolis museum opened in 2004 is one of the newest and one of the most impressive in Europe.
Architecturally it is exquisite and the exhibits are laid out in such a way that allow the visitor to understand and appreciate the true beauty of the ancient Greek sculptures.
Our tour will end here and our driver will be waiting for us to drive us to the ending point of the tour.
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Your driver will take you back your hotel. Get some last information from your tour guide on the way to the drop off point.
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- The visit to the Acropolis includes walking up steps and on uneven ground.
- Comfy shoes (non slip) and a hat should be worn.
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Excellent tour!! Daphne was an absolute wealth of information and made the tour such a pleasant experience. We gained great knowledge about both ancient and modern Athens.
Highly recommend this tour!
Wonderful morning exploring ancient Athens with our most delightful host Daphne and driver, Dimitri. Thank you.
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Our lovely guide Sandra and driver Dimitri, made our 1/2 day tour of the Acropolis and Museum as enjoyable as possible in the August heat. From having bottled water for us, finding shade to chat in and to handling all the tickets so we could skip the lines--made this tour worth every penny. My husband and I returned to Greece with our teenaged children and this tour was a perfect overview of the top sites. The air conditioned van was comfortable as we drove by the Olympic stadium, temple of Zeus, syntagma square as well as lesser known sites. Clear and concise descriptions were provided and photo ops were available as per our request.
We highly recommend Siva for a more personal tour, booking online was a breeze, Sandra met us in our Hotel lobby--it was as if we were meeting an old friend to take us around the city.
Don't hesitate booking them you won't be disappointed!!
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This was our first day in Athens so we wanted to get an idea of where everything is.
Our group of three varied between very interested to not really interested so booking a tour was bit of a gamble. But Effie (I do hope the spelling is correct) was super and by the end we were all buzzing with the knowledge and very keen to explore more of Athens. Effie had a great deal of information to hand but kept it to a level that made us all happy, a very clever lady!
Pick up was very punctual and being driven in air conditioned luxury was a bonus as the day was very hot.
This is not a cheap trip but worth every euro.
I would most certainly recommend Effie and Siva Travel.
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eugenia led my wife and me on a great half-day tour. mostly acropolis and new museum.
Felt less like a paid tour and more like meeting up with an old friend from college who had gone off and gotten a phd in archeology without telling us. she's not just a guide, she's a storyteller.
So while the out-of-pocket was substantial, the experience was well worth it.
Heartily recommend.
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We booked the Siva Private Tour of Athens with Maria as our tour guide for July 2016.
We have probably taken 100 or more tours over the years of travel and Maria was THE BEST! Very extensive history knowledge, well organized and efficient to see many places in short time, and extremely pleasant and enjoyable personality. Although not a native English speaker, she speaks perfect English and we never missed a word!
At the end of a fantastic half day tour, she agreed to take us to her favorite Greek restaurant which topped off a perfect trip.
Could not have been better!
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Eftychia is perhaps the very best private tour guide we have ever had.
From the very start...prompt, punctual and impeccably dressed.
I had requested a tour guide that would be mindful to detail (information) as well as the heat and the walking involved. Eftychia always found a shady spot to share information and most of the time a place to sit. She was genuinely concerned about our comfort.
We look forward to working with her in the future and know that she will give us what the tour describes and so much more.
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