I found getting the actual pass expensive. I had to have it sent by post to Australia: an expensive operation. I found getting the free public transport was useful for 72 hours. However, I didn't have time to see all the things I wanted to, so I felt overall the pass was expensive. Perhaps if more museums and events could be free with the pass, it would be worth it. For example, if there were an ancient Greek play showing, I would have gone to see it, but only if it were covered (even discounted) by the pass.
The pass itself is a great thing. But the city tour was the worst I've ever done. Little information and long periods of silence, where it would have been time to tell a little more. The two city tours should actually work with Google electronic translations, which is really bad. The guide thought it was so bad that it made it an individual guide. This in turn was absolutely awesome (the more so, since he was not a "trained" guide), so we made both tours in a row (thanks at this point to this great guide whose name I unfortunately do not know). But it was a good thing to come to him ... Everything else worked very well and is highly recommended.
The good experiences of the years before could not be fulfilled this time. Why? Because the passport was not complete, because I could not "explain" it to anyone in advance, because a solution was secured for me, but I have not been in contact for two weeks. The truth is: All the staff were very polite and willing. Whether my problem (I had to buy tickets in Athens for!) Was solved, my credit card statement will tell me.
Unfortunately, the passport for athens does not hold what I thought. I had only good experiences with the passports in Rome and London. In Athens, I was disappointed. Unfortunately, only the local traffic and the acropolis was there. I had to pay all the temple facilities on site even though it was in the description. At least I read it that way. That was very annoying. And so I could have saved myself the pass also.
The instructions for what was included in the packet and what to use where was not clear! In hind sight, I now know what I needed to do with everything in the packet that was sent to me. But not having traveled abroad before, when I got the packet, it just wasn't clear what I needed to take with me to each historical site to get in. So I ended up having to pay for several sites at the gate, even though I'd purchased the Athens City Pass. It's a good value, if you use it. But to avoid any issues, just take everything in the packet along with you to each of the sites and museums.
We thought that also the entrance to the Acropolis would be there and have bought the pass. The only advantage we had was that we did not have to queue in the Acropolis Museum. The city tours were ok, but could also be booked locally.
Good connectivity and frequency of the buses, helpful staff at the stops to guide the tourists. The audio guide on board was not much informative, we missed the historical information.
I actually expected more. Since I'm not a big museum goer, the pass had brought me almost nothing. A city tour with the tourist bus, that's it. I could have had cheaper. For the attractions such as Acropolis you could not use the pass. Was disappointed.
We realised at the bus stop that we could buy our tickets from the driver for 16 EUR each, but instead we had to walk under the sun to the first stop of the route in order to redeem our vouchers for 29.90 EUR each. Our Mini Turbo Pass supposed to include admission to the New Acropolis Museum, but they made us to pay 3 EUR for our 10 years old son at the sight, because his free admission bar code was not provided by turbo pass on the printed voucher.
Ordering on the internet very easy and fast.Use of the hop-on-hop-off bus possible without problems (although the staff was a bit surprised at how the tickets were printed to us - that was necessary, the pass alone was not enough) At the Akropolismuseum ( contrary to the announcement on the homepage of Turbopass) once more to make a ticket (at the group entrance, which went a bit faster than for single tickets) - therefore only 3 stars
The prices in the months of February are very low and this ticket is very expensive.
Ex. Philopappos Hill & Mount Lycabettus –Viewpoint - private area all for a fee this ticket is not accepted
We got the Athens mini pass via web and please be advised there is no office where you can exchange it to a card or get information from anyone.
We started getting trouble as soon as we got there and tried to use the Airport Metro. In the city pass advatages overview you can read \"Free use of the public transport in Athens\" but when we asked the guy from the Metro he stated he didn't know what this was and we would get a fine if we didn't purchase the metro ticket for 8€.
Everything we found an information office we would enquire but noon really knew about this or where to get infromation and evetually a lady in Syntagma Square told us there used to be an office in the airport but it is now closed.
We were able to used it in the Hop on hop off bus and the New Acropolis Museum but still felt like we were scammed for this.
The pass unfortunately does not include many museums / attractions (eg Benaki Museum, Panathinaiko Stadium, Byzantine Museum, just to name a few). The money saving was zero with us. Worse, the Athens Pass is completely unknown in Athens, which means one is not told that the particular museum does not participate, one simply does not know the passport. Also, the exchange for a ticket to the Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum is awkward. For other passes (London, Florence, Copenhagen, just to name a few), there are dozens of participating attractions, you go with a plastic card directly to each entrance (with signs for the local passport), shows it there (it is scanned) and everything is beautiful. Not so in Athens. At the Acropolis Museum, the passport was unknown to either the security man or the lady in the dressing room. Only thanks to our persistence and inquiries at the box office, we were exchanged a ticket for the museum at the group cash desk.
We bought the pass for 2 adults and 1 child to avoid the queues at the ticket office to the Acropolis. For the adults, the ticket was there, the passport was just a note with the note that children under 18 years must pay no entrance fee. The children also need a ticket to get through the turnstile. So we had to hire anyway to get a free ticket. Other visitors, who also bought a ticket in advance, had always received one for the children. The whole thing was very annoying.