Athens Survival Guide
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If you have questions about Athens or Greece or are looking for something and you can't find it you can Contact Matt and I will reply pretty quickly since I pretty much live on my computer. If you like this site please share it with your friends on social media. There are Facebook share buttons on this and other pages. If you need assistance with putting together an itinerary try using my Create-an-itinerary Work Page where you can put together a plan for your Greece trip with the assistance of a Greek travel agent, with no obligation to buy. If you are just here to find hotels see my Athens Hotel Suggestions and remember that booking through my website helps support my work. Please Help Support this Guide: You can send a donation through Paypal or you can use Venmo at venmo.com/Matt-Barrett-Greece. Any amount is helpful. Guide to Athens, Greece |
This is the index page for my Athens Survival Guide. It will
give you the tools to survive and
thrive in Athens, Greece and enable you to have as much fun as I do and feel as comfortable as if you have been here before. You can read about hotels, restaurants, archaeological sites, nightlife, beaches and day-trips to nearby islands and beaches and towns on the mainland. My Athens Guide may not be as high tech as some of the other travel sites but I think you will find it to be the most fun to use and probably find it to be at least as helpful as the popular guide books, except
this is
free. I began this website in 1995 and I update it continuously. Use the menu below that will lead you to the various sub-menus on this page. This site is entirely hand-made and contains no cookies, no spyware or sneaky pop-ups or tricks that make you click on something you don't
want. I have put ads at the bottom of the pages to not be
a distraction and only ads for my own pages or businesses I know and trust. By supporting them you not only support me, but you will probably have a safer and happier trip to Greece. 
Where to Play and Stay in Athens |
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This section will tell you where to stay, where not to stay and why, and how to make your way through the various neighborhoods and districts of downtown Athens. It also includes important archaeological sites and parks, shopping areas and more. The bottom of each page has recommended hotels and booking information. Booking through my site helps support my work. |
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| I have several pages for researching and booking hotels in Athens and all over Greece. First read my Athens Hotels Page which is a part of my Athens Guide. Also see my Best Hotels in Central Athens page. If you want to stay outside of the center of Athens, like on the beach, then see my Best Hotels in the Athens Suburbs and Coast. If you are looking for a house, villa or Air BnB style accommodations then see my Central Athens Apartments Page and my Athens Coast Villas Page. If you have particular needs you can use the Athens Hotel Search which is done through my cooperation with Booking.com. You can also book directly with the hotels using my Book Athens Hotels Directly Page. Of course if you are planning to visit Athens, the islands and do some mainland tours and will need tickets, transfers and other assistance you will be better off working with a reliable Greek Travel Agency who will put everything together and make sure it all runs smoothly. | ||
Services in Athens |
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| This section includes recommended hotels and travel agents, taxi drivers and other businesses in Athens. The hotel section tells which areas to stay at and which to avoid. I included a few interesting tours as well. These are the people who have supported my work for the last 20 years so please consider booking with them. You won't find better. | ||
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Bringing A Group? Helpful work-page for Churches, schools, cultural organizations coming to Greece |
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Getting Out of Athens |
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| Most people come to Athens because they are going to the Greek Islands and this section will tell you about the islands near Athens and how to get to them and those further away. It also has sections on mainland day-trips and overnight trips, and various services who can get you out of Athens and hotels all over Greece. For those of you who are going to the Greek Islands I suggest you visit my Greek Island Guide too. | ||
Other Helpful Athens Info
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| This section has a lot of important stuff, some articles written in a fun and whimsical fashion and other articles quite dry and boring but nonetheless useful. I have also included some of the articles that are featured in the sections above but are just as suited to this section. In fact the stuff I want you to read because I think it is important to you (or to me) I may have listed two or three times in this index. | ||
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If you have an idea of what you want to do in Greece use my Create-an-itinerary Form It's fun. You fill out the form and choose the islands and how many days you want to stay, any tours, and what your budget is and click send and in a few hours a travel agency replies with a plan for you. |
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Questions? e-mail me |
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Photo Tours of Athens and Other Stuff |
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| These are photos I have taken over the years and several articles that I could not decide where else to put them. Many of these pages are linked to from other pages above but some are not. There are also links to photo albums on some of my other websites. In fact you can see most of my best photos by going to www.greecetravel.com/photos | ||
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If you find my Athens Survival Guide useful and you would like to show your appreciation why not let people know about the site on the numerous travel boards on the internet or linking to it from your blog or website. Because I don't have the big advertising budgets of the major travel sites many people don't find me until after they have made all their plans and wish they had found my information sooner. Help spread the word about Matt Barrett's Greece Travel Guides. If you found my guides helpful and want to help me continue my work, please support the services I recommend. Without their help these pages and this website would not exist. You can also help by liking me on Facebook and sharing. If you wish there was some simple way you could donate to helping the needy in Greece see www.greecetravel.com/donations Join Matt Barrett's Greece Travel Guides Group on Facebook for comments, photos and other fun stuff. You can keep up with my day to day activities and thoughts in and out of Greece as well as current events and updates at www.greecetravel.com/matt-blog Links Exchange Page |
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The Athens Survival
Guide is Copyright 1995-2017 and updated continuously by Matt
Barrett, most recently probably today!
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Do you enjoy using my site? Have you found it entertaining as well as useful? If so please show your appreciation by booking hotels through the travel agencies and the links found on my Hotels of Greece site. The small commission I make on the bookings enable me to keep working and in most cases you won't find them any cheaper by searching elsewhere. You can find
hotels in Greece by location, price, whether or not it has a swimming pool, and see photos and reviews by using this link to booking.com which also contributes to my website when you book.
Join Matt Barrett's Greece Travel Guides Group on Facebook for comments, photos and other fun stuff. If you enjoy this website please share it with your friends on Facebook. If you are appreciative of all the free information you get on my websites you can send a donation through Paypal or Venmo
