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Athens Walking Tours


TripAdvisor Traveller Rating: 4.5 of 5 stars
TripAdvisor Popularity Index: #1 of 139 attractions in Athens
Traveller Description:
Me, Despina and my team of excellent highly qualified, licensed guides want to make the participants of the Athens Walking Tours have an... more » Me, Despina and my team of excellent highly qualified, licensed guides want to make the participants of the Athens Walking Tours have an unforgettable experience in our home town Athens and go back home richer in knowledge. We want to make them feel at home and part of our walking family. « less
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Attraction type: Tour
Address: Athens
Greece
Tel: 0030-210-884-7269

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5 of 5 stars
highland lakes texas
25 Jun 2009

We took two private tours with Despina of Athens Walking Tours. Everything was excellent. From the first email correspondence until the day we left Greece, she was on top of it all. Not only did Despina give us our private tours in Athens, but she facilitated all of our other tours in Epiduras, Olympia, Delphi and Meteora. Every guide that... more

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5 of 5 stars
New Jersey
19 Jun 2009

We loved the Acroplolis tour with guide Georgia. She helped to make sense of Greece's long and complicated history. This tour should not be missed! more

17 Jun 2009

The tour started out fairly well with a stop at the Square and the Parliament and then towards the Acropolis. However upon entering the Acropolis, my party was told to get rid of our Gatorade drinks. As we did that and waited in line to enter the Acropolis, our tour guide had left us and did not wait. We climbed... more

Management response from
AWT_ManagingDirector, Managing Director

Dear Athens Walking Tours participant, We were really sorry to hear of your unfortunate experience with one of our tour groups. It is absolutely disgraceful to start the tour so well, as you mention, and end up losing the guide. It is the very first time we have heard of such an event in the thousands of tours we have...

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5 of 5 stars
New York City, New York
2 Jun 2009

All the reviews are right, we met Despina in the metro station and from 9:30 until the end of our tour, we learned more then we ever imagined about Athens & Greek history. Her English was great, she was friendly and funny and the perfect tour guide. I'm sorry we didn't have time to go on their other tours. I... more

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2 of 5 stars
altshmi2323
2 Jun 2009
2/2 found this review helpful

I am on a 3 year assignment in Europe for my job, so I do a lot of traveling with my family. We have done a lot of tours, and rarely do I feel the need to write a review, but the circumstances of this tour necessitated this review (and the complete difference b/w this tour and the Berlin segway... more

24 May 2009
2/2 found this review helpful

Of course, I was suspicious at first. How can a tour guide be #1 and Acropolis be #2 on tripadvisor? Well, Despina and Georgia turned me into a belilever. Without them the city, the monuments, the buildings, the history and the culture were silent. With their excellent, impassioned and very knowledgeable commentary, they all come to life and become a... more

12 May 2009
2/2 found this review helpful

I am so glad I stumbled upon Athens Walking Tours. My mother is Greek and I grew up on holidays in Greece wishing I was at the beach while instead being shown antiquities... I took the Plaka tour last weekwith Georgia. her immense knowledge and way of blending the pieces togethr with the relevant background info made it all so... more

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5 of 5 stars
tati51
12 May 2009

I have been to Athens before - however our guide Vicky from Athens Walking Tour made Athens come alive for us like never before - we took the Acropolis tour -she gave us the incredible history of things we had walked by before and never really knew the backstory on -- from the guards at Syntagma Square to details at... more

5 May 2009
1/1 found this review helpful

The walking tour to the Acropolis was excellent. It was a pleasure to spend three hours in the company of the guide who was extremely well informed and entertaining. I thoroughly recommend the tour and would certainly book again if I go back to Athens . more

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4 of 5 stars
Singapore
28 Apr 2009
2/2 found this review helpful

My group of 5 had a very tight schedule in Athens, but Despina kindly worked around our schedule and gave us a very comprehensive private walking tour of the Acropolis and nearby sights! Not only that, she was very helpful and patient in addressing our many questions during the tour, and even before we flew to Greece. Thanks Despina, for... more

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Athens, Greece
Tel: 0030-210-884-7269