Athens Private Tour — Acropolis, Plaka & Cape Sounion, Half or Full Day

Athens private tour in a private Mercedes with an English speaking chauffeur, five hours or ten. Half day: hotel pickup, the Acropolis, the Acropolis Museum, a walk through Plaka, the Panathenaic Stadium, the Changing of the Guard, the Athenian Trilogy and Lycabettus Hill, from €300 for the whole vehicle (Mercedes Vito €300, Mercedes V-Class €330, up to 7 guests). Full day: everything above plus the coast road to the Temple of Poseidon at Cape Sounion and a lunch stop by the sea, from €600 (Mercedes Vito €600, Mercedes V-Class €630). Fuel, tolls and parking, bottled water and Wi-Fi included. Entrance tickets, licensed guide and meals not included. Book online, instant confirmation. Athens is not a museum. It is a city that has been continuously inhabited for over 3,400 years, and it shows in everything from the smell of orange blossom on the wind in April to the glow of the Acropolis at dusk. Most tours treat Athens as a checklist. This one treats it as a story, and lets you choose how long the story runs. Your day begins with a Mercedes waiting outside your hotel. Cool leather, chilled water, climate controlled calm. Your chauffeur greets you by name. He is not a hired driver reading a script: he is an Athenian who has spent his life learning these streets, and he will guide you through the city the way he would guide a close friend. The half day, five hours. You arrive at the Acropolis early, before the crowds, when the Parthenon still has long shadows and the marble feels cool. The Acropolis Museum is next, a few minutes on foot, with the original sculptures and the glass floor over the excavations. Then down into Plaka and Anafiotika, the tiny Cycladic village hidden under the rock. Back in the car for the Panathenaic Stadium, where the modern Games were reborn in 1896, the Changing of the Guard in front of Parliament at Syntagma, and the Athenian Trilogy on Panepistimiou: the Academy, the University and the National Library. You finish on Lycabettus Hill with the whole city at your feet, and you are back at your hotel by early afternoon. The full day, ten hours. Everything above, and then the car turns south. The coast road runs along the Athens Riviera, past Vouliagmeni and Varkiza, with the Saronic Gulf on your right the whole way. Lunch is by the sea, at a place your chauffeur knows and trusts, at your own pace. The road ends at Cape Sounion, where the Temple of Poseidon stands on the cliff above the water. In the cooler months the timing puts you there in the last light of the day. You are back in Athens in the evening. Tickets are not included and are paid on site: the Acropolis, the Acropolis Museum, the Temple of Poseidon and the Lycabettus funicular if you prefer it to the walk. Tell us at booking if you would like us to pre purchase timed Acropolis tickets for you. A licensed archaeologist guide can join you for either version on request, at an extra cost we quote in advance. This is Athens as the people who live here see it. Private. Unhurried. Discreet. Memorable.