Affiliate Disclosure

Plainly, and before anything else: Acropolis Athens Tours may earn a commission when you book through a link on this site, at no extra cost to you.

What that means in practice

The tours listed here are sold by Viator and GetYourGuide. When you follow a link from one of these pages and go on to book, the platform pays us a share of its own commission. You pay the same fare either way; the price on the booking page is the operator's price, not a marked-up one.

What we are not

We are not a tour operator or a ticket office. We do not run any of these tours, employ any of these guides or hold your booking. Your contract is with the operator, through the platform.

We have no connection with the Hellenic Ministry of Culture, the Ephorate of Antiquities of the City of Athens, the Acropolis Museum or any of the businesses these tours stop at. We do not sell the official Acropolis ticket; the Ministry does.

How tours get listed

Operators cannot pay for placement, position or a badge. The badges are arithmetic: the best seller is the one with the most reviews, and a top-rated tour carries a 4.9 or higher across a large number of reviews. Where one operator sells a similar tour on more than one platform or as more than one listing, both can appear, because both are separately bookable.

The featured tours at the top of the homepage are three different ways of seeing the rock — a shared walk with a licensed guide, a private archaeologist, and a whole day in Athens by private car — and each starts somewhere different.

Prices, ratings and how current they are

Prices, star ratings and review counts belong to the operators and were read from their own listings on 16 September 2026. They move, and the figure at checkout is the one that counts. Everything is quoted in US dollars because that is the currency the listings were captured in; nothing is converted at an exchange rate. Every fare is per person except the private family tour, which is sold per group of up to ten.

Where we state a fact about the Acropolis, it comes from the body that sets it: the Hellenic Ministry of Culture's official odysseus pages for the Acropolis, its slopes and the Ancient Agora (tickets, hours, closures, free days, operating rules, the lift and the entrances), the Acropolis Museum's own pages for the museum, its galleries and the Parthenon's dates and architects, and the Hellenic National Meteorological Service's 1991–2020 averages for temperatures. Where a figure comes from an operator, such as a travel time from Piraeus or a security wait, the page says so.

What we deliberately do not publish

• Free admission on the first and third Sundays from November to March. It appears in a general Ministry summary but not on the Acropolis's own page, which lists five free days. This site prints those five.
• A winter ticket price. One tour listing still gives a lower winter figure; the Ministry's page shows €30 all year.
• A UNESCO inscription year and the museum's exhibit counts. Neither was read on the body's own page.
• Metro line colors, monthly rainfall and sunset times. None is printed until read from the operator or the national weather service.