Athens / Piraeus Cruise Port TRANSPORTATION Guide – How To Get To and From Your Cruise
Cruising to or from Athens, Greece? This is how you can take public transportation to, or from, the ship!
We arrived in Piraeus on the NCL Viva after cruising from Istanbul over the Greek Islands and Egypt. Since the port was swamped with 5 cruise ships, including ships from Royal Caribbean, MSC, TUI, and the NCL EPIC.
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LOL about the trains being blue or green. We were in Calgary and taking the Red Line CTrain. My family actually thought the train was red because it was the red line. It would be smart. With LED tech they could do it.
I like that you go into the small details.
Watching this, once again I'm reminded how pathetic public transit is here. The train ride to downtown Toronto is an hour, all urban, it's around $9Cdn, and in Europe it would be a subway or LRT for $3
I love their Metro! After our cruise we stayed a few extra days and never needed a cab!
Thank you! Very useful for our upcoming stay in Athens.
Meze not tapas in Greece lol
Thanks for sharing ๐
Morgan, Our trip to Athens in a short 35 days. We very much like to self explore wherever we port. We had this all written out and thought we had it figured out. But this video makes it all look less complicated. TY. Wondering if you have made one in Naples to get to the metro? Thanks again
Thank you for being so informative!!! It is so helpful. I am one of those old people, lol.๐๐.
Itโs crazy how much explanation americans need for getting a damn train ๐คฃ
Just a quick comment. Iโm not sure if I misunderstood you but you said you docked in C and were bussed to A but your arrow on the map indicates you were bussed to B?
This was excellent. Thank you ๐
I just was in Athens and I would have loved this because when I looked at the map I was like "Oh that is far to walk to Metro from port". Oh well maybe a next time – appreciate all you insights!!
Fantastic video as always!!
I just checked cruisemapper and there are 5 ships including ourselves docking in Piraeus. We are the largest ship Viva, then there is a slightly smaller ship and the other 3 are much smaller/luxury lines. There are 7 in our group. Iโm thinking either do as suggested in the video or get a limo.
I have a question about the Norwegian Viva as in October, we are taking the same cruise you took recently. How was the quality of the drinking water on the Viva?
Thanks for the great tips for getting into town!
My flight from Athens wasn't until late afternoon so I took advantage of an excursion to the Acropolis and around the city that dropped us off at the airport. Highly recommend that instead of carrying round luggage all day. The metro from the airport was straightforward too… would recommend that as a budget friendly way to travel.
Wish I had some thin like this when we were in Italy was charged over $100 for a simple โฌ1.5 trip due to not having a ticket
Some of these comments are intense. I'm scared to comment. Lol. Thanks for the video. You could make reading a grocery list entertaining.
Great job!! Thanks
ENTER THE TRAIN AND KEEP WALKING!!!
Athens is cheaper compared to the "popular" islands but not to "the islands"
Etiquette rule #2 on escalators in metrostations: "Right is standing, left is walking".
Enjoyed the Vlog and the Athens GA shout-out! Go Dawgs!!
Tip: the metro from the airport to the port is busy, you can also take the suburban train with the same ticket. However, sometimes it gets delayed when the route joins the mainline from Thessaloniki
The suburban/regional train is just as affordable as the metro, it uses the same ticket inside the city centre and inner suburbs. It just runs infrequently.
3:01 That's why they didn't let anyone deport from the ship. Thousands of passangers at the same time,for your knowledge, at the same days almost every Greek took vacations so dozens of dozens other small cruise ships left Peireaus port for hundreds of islands. Imagine what will happen ๐ if you let thousands of thousands use the same time the busses, the metro and the Tram.
9:13 also not Tapas ๐ Tirokroketes. We are not cooking Spanish.
We stupidly decided to walk to the train station. It is a long way! We docked at A
The in-port bus shuttles can take you to the metro station for free, but if 5 cruise ships come at the same time (and although port authorities who manage them will arrange many of them to come at your ship) it is still first come, first served.
As a local i must point out not to be scammed. The cost for a taxi from the cruise terminals to the city station is fixed and is 4 euros. ฮf you got a large suitcase it might cost an additional euro. The problem is that there aren't many taxis to serve.
There is also the X80 bus specifically for cruise ship passengers and tourists, it starts near the cruise terminal and takes you directly to the city center, it also stops at main locations like near the Acropolis. In order to get on that bus you either need the 24hour ticket or the 3-day tourist ticket.
Piraeus is a nice place to stay and we usually stay there a few nights on our Athens trips. The train station is in a great location as it's primarily for the ferry system as the cruise ship passengers usually take their own busses to a spot up at the far west south side of the Acropolis near the restaurant you always see with the view of the acropolis at night. The cruise ports were kind of a later add on and since it's for tourists there isn't a desire to extend down there.
We go every year but we never do cruises. You miss out on so much by taking a cruise but I understand why many like taking cruises as it's structured and you are taken care of and you are the more for the cruise part. Everyone is looking for a different experience. The reason you saw high prices on food on the islands was because you were on the cruise islands. The islands we go to are generally the same or sometimes cheaper than in Athens and much of the food served on some islands is raised and grown on the island as well (depending on the island)
We have never done a cruise and have no desire to. Athens is really nice in the morning before the busses show up then the middle of the day it's full and by the afternoon the busses take everyone back to the port and it's nice again. Talking to cruisers they are in such a rush because they have so little time. They are even surprised when I till them that we don't do a tour and I make all our reservations.
We just got our second leg of flights to Athens yesterday and I bought our ferry tickets. We used to fly with our airlines flight benefits but we don't fly there when we want to go and the flights are always full so not worth chancing it and having to buy an expensive ticket to get home. We are skipping our favorite island and going to Ios and then will decide what island to go to from there.
I am not good at making videos so… I did take my simple drive vids around a few islands and dump them onto a channel. No one will watch but it's good reference material for anyone wanting to see what it's like from a to b if they are worried about how the roads are etc.
As for to and from the airport. Our time coming and going are often strange so we have never taken the train. We almost did last year but it would have been the last train of the night and I wasn't in the mood for that. I have a guy that I can text and email and he has a nice car is 100% reliable and a really nice guy. No it's not cheap like the train but it's worth it and we enjoy catching up when we meet.
The video is great except I think you mixed up what upstairs and downstairs in the metro are switched
Funny as hell, but very detailed! Cheers.๐
The green number 1 metro turned into the blue number 1 train when heading to the stairs, check with Oboma near 07:10 mark.
Thank you SO much for making this video! I was going nuts trying to figure this out on my own with Google maps. You are a godsend!
Nice tutorial. Question(s) – what time was your flight? And what is earliest you consider safe? Debarkation delayed and that looks like it was a cluster for you to navigate. On our dates, I'm not seeing many flights back to US after 12noon… There's one at 13:10, or would you recommend staying over and getting an early morning flight next day?
Great Video!!! We are getting off a cruise in Athens in a couple of weeks and your video is great for info for our day in Athens, then head to the airport. Thank you!
Muito obrigado. รtimo vรญdeo.
Very informative , and entertaining video .
Thank you! Great information and thanks for making laugh. : )
Great video, thank you so much
Green is above ground, blue is downstairs