Port of Piraeus (Athens)

By Senior Travel Planner Meghan Umlauf

My family and I took a Royal Caribbean cruise of the Greek Isles that left from Civitavecchia, Italy. Athens was our third stop, after Mykonos and Santorini!  I have shared more about our pre-stay in Rome in my post “Rome in a Day and a Half”,our day in Santorini in my post “Santorini Port of Call” and our stop in Mykonos in "Mykonos Port of Call"

With so much to see in Athens, we decided to sign up for a Royal Caribbean Excursion to make sure we saw it all!

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We had from 6:30a-6:30p in this port and out excursion began bright and early with our meeting time of 7:30a in the theatre on the ship… once were given our group numbers to break us into smaller group for our guides - we disembarked the ship to the busses to take us into Athens.  We had met another family from MA, and the kids had hit it off - and we were happy to discover they too were booked on this excursion and in our group!
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We had a comfortable air conditioned coach bus to take us on our fairly long journey into Athens.  Due to standard Athen traffic - this ride was about an hour, during which time our guide gave us an overview of our day - and what to expect and what we could and couldn’t bring to certain stops… our first stop was the Acropolis - to see the Parthenon!

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