There are various ways you can get to Athens and we’ll try to cover all of them here.

1. How To Get To Athens By Air

How? With a plane! Dry jokes aside, you can get to Athens’ Eleftherios Venizelos airport from all the major airports in the world using the classic and expensive carriers or you could try a low-cost solution and cut on passenger and luggage space in order to get to Athens much cheaper. Of course, such a solution would only be possible on shorter routes such as flights connecting other parts of Europe with Athens. It would be useful if you could know when you’d like to get to Athens a couple of months in advance because that’s when flight tickets to Athens can be booked cheaply. Generally, a carrier has a limited number of very cheap tickets and once those are sold up the price bracket raises and so on and so forth until you pay way too much on a plane fare.

It can also be useful to search for cheap flights to Athens through travel agents.

2. How To Get To Athens By Ferry

If you use a ferry to get the Athens you will reach Piraeus, which is Athens’ main port and is a short 15 metro ride from central places such as Monastiraki, Syntagma or Omonia square. Another option to reach Athens from Piraeus would be to take bus 040 but since the metro is fast, clean and cheap I don’t see why you may want to do that.

There are also ferryboats that stop at the port of Rafina, which is slightly farther than Piraeus. There’s a bus station there with frequent rides to Athens. You’ll drop off in Athens at the Areos Park Terminal which is fairly close to Victoria Square.

There are ferries reaching Greece from other countries regularly. Most of them run from Brindisi, Bari and Ancona to Athens. The best of them is the ferry from Brindisi which is also the shortest of the bunch in distance traveled and at times it even runs for up to 6 times a day. However, these don’t always reach Athens so check their route in advance.

If you’d like to book a ferry to Athens from another destination you can do that online using a site such as aferry.co.uk.

3. How To Get To Athens By Train

Trains in Athens arrive either at the Larissa station or the Peloponnese station depending on the region they come from. For example, trains coming from northern regions of the country arrive at Larissa station while trains coming from southern and western regions as well as European trains arrive at Peloponnese station. Luggage storage and money exchange are both available at Larissa station.

Once at the Larissa station, you can get bus 1 to get to Syntagma or Omonia square. As for the other way around, you can get train tickets from ticket offices in Omonia square, Syntagma square or through any of the many travel agencies spread through the city.

If you’re planning on using the train to visit more than one European country or if you’re coming to Athens and Greece by train from another European country, it’s best to get an European rail pass on the Internet for more convenience and maybe even for saving some money.

4. How To Get To Athens By Car

There are two main entrances into Athens if you travel by car. One of them is from the north from Thessaloniki. This one is quite poorly marked with orientation signs and might prove confusing for the visitor to reach exactly the place that they want in Athens. It’s best to slowly follow along until one finds the best way to reach one’s precise destination. And there’s also an entrance from the southwest that is fairly well marked and if you follow the signs you’ll eventually reach Omonia square in central Athens.

5. How To Get To Athens By Bus

The national bus company of Greece is called KTEL and there are two main bus terminals for it inside Athens, terminals you may end up at once you get to Athens by bus. One of the terminals is located on Liossion Street 260 and links Athens with central, eastern and northern areas of Greece. You can use bus 24 to get from there to a central location such as Syntagma Square or the other way around, from Syntagma Square to reach the bus terminal. And there’s also another bus terminal that connects Athens with the Peloponnese and some parts of northern Greece. This one is located on Kifissou Avenue 100 and you can get there or out of there using bus 51 that gets quite close to Omonia Square.

This concludes our article on how to get to Athens. If you have anything useful to add on top of our effort related to getting to Athens, don’t hesitate to post it below as a comment.

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