Athens Panoramic Tour with Acropolis Museum Visit

we booked this tour via our holiday operator Jet2. Arrangements were simple and we were due to arrive at the office in Athens by 8 am. The office was very busy at this time and a little chaotic but we managed to find the right bus for our specific tour. We had approximately a one hour bus trip around the key sites of Athens at low level and then were driven up to Park towards the Acropolis. We then spent some time going through all the key parts of the Acropolis with Dimitris, our guide. His English was excellent and his knowledge of his subject was impeccable. We had an opportunity to ask questions at each point and our group total to 13 people which made it very manageable. We then walked back down from the Acropolis to the new Acropolis museum. Dimitris then led us through key points of the museum. This was less effective with a guide because of the crowds in the museum and the jostling to get near important exhibits. We were released at exactly 1:30 pm which was the time agreed in advance. A well planned tour with an excellent guide

I was looking for a guide to visit the Acropolis of Athens and by pure chance we found you Georgios Bitsakos. Guide who speaks Italian perfectly and who studied in my city Florence for 7 years. He kept us company for a good part of the day, we visited with him both the Acropolis and the Museum, both WONDERFUL. Georgios managed, thanks to his passion for his work, to convey to us the beauty and uniqueness of Greek art and culture. With his friendliness and good humor he managed to involve two fifteen-year-olds and a twelve-year-old who were too young to be impressed by Greek art. Thank you Georgios, the visit with you was the icing on the cake, a perfect conclusion to our experience. Trip to Greece. I hope to see you one of these days around Florence. Greetings Adriana and family

Our tour with was absolutely fantastic and so well planed. Thanks to our guide, we got so much interesting and important information about the Acropolis and many other sights and attractions in Athens. The museum also was very impressive. If you have a day in Athens this is the best way to explore the city!

The transfers from hotels were included in the tour of Acropolis and The private museum. The company left us in the museum with an excuse for demonstrations blocking the town centre and advising us to find our ways to the hotel. The guide was excellent but could not ignore the instruction from the tour office. All responsibility of transfer was ignored and we were left in an unknown new city with no local currency. We travelled by subway after new card payment at the counter.

We were on a half day tour incorporating the Acropolis, city sightseeing and the Acropolis museum. Our tour guide was Irene. Our confirmation details read that pick up would be 8.25am. It also read that we had to confirm our attendance within 24 hours of the tour which we felt was a bit of a pain. When we did phone, we were told that pickup was actually at 7.40am. At the appointed time the following morning, we were escorted to a large coach which spent the next hour picking people up from various hotels and delivering them to other destinations in Athens, presumably to join them with guides speaking their respective languages. The tour finally got underway at 8.45. At the Acropolis, Irene set off at a pace with a small pink umbrella held up, and throughout the tour she had no regard for some members of the party who had mobility problems. She also seemly had no awareness that most of the group (30 plus of us) couldn't hear her commentary as she took us around a very crowded Acropolis. Other tour companies use electronic communication devices to enable everyone to hear the guide but not this company. At the end, we were left to make our own way back to the parking lot which was by now full of numerous coaches and other vehicles and looked very different. We struggled to find our coach, concerned we would be left behind, but eventually found it after weaving our way through many vehicles. There then followed a sightseeing tour and then we went to the museum. At around 12.30, after almost 5 hours involving a lot of walking with no opportunity to take a break for water and refreshments, a half a dozen of us finally gave up trying to hear and keep up with the guide and made our way to the café. The guide told us she would meet us at the museum entrance at 1.10 when we would be escorted the wherever the coach was parked and be taken back to our hotel. We had much needed refreshments and a rest and made our way to the entrance, having been slightly delayed by the café staff taking an age to bring the bill over. When we got there, she had already left and we needed to take a taxi back. Admittedly we were late but only by 3 minutes (no exaggeration). In summary, the sites we visited were amazing but I would never want to book with this company again because of all the difficulties we experienced and the lack of being able to hear any of the guide’s commentary.