Breakfast at the hotel.
Optional Tour ‘Athens H/D City Tour with New Acropolis Museum’ :
Dep. 08.45 - Ret. 13.30 – Daily service
This tour allows you to observe the striking contrasts that make Athens such a fascinating city. Our expert guides take you to see the center of the city, Constitution Square (Syntagma), the House of Parliament, the Memorial to the Unknown Soldier, and the National Library. Driving down Herod Atticus Street, you will see the Evzones in their authentic uniform and the Presidential Palace. On your way to the Acropolis, you will see the Hadrian’s Arch, visit the Temple of Olympian Zeus and you will make a short stop at the Panathenaic Stadium where the first Olympic Games of the modern era were held in 1896. On the Acropolis visit the architectural masterpieces of the Golden Age of Athens: the Propylaea, the Temple of Athena Nike, the Erechtheion, and finally “the harmony between material and spirit”, the monument that “puts the order in the mind”, the Parthenon.
You complete the visit with the Acropolis Museum.
We will pick you up from your hotel early in the morning to take you by coach to the port for embarkation on the cruise ship. At 08:15 the cruise ship departs and sails for the first stopover on the island of Hydra.
You will spend approximately one hour; thus, you have free time to explore the unique island. Embarkation and sail to the island of Poros, separated from Peloponnese by a narrow strait and offering a most enchanting view of Poros town. Leisure time in Poros will be approximately 60 minutes.
After a 2-hour trip, we shall arrive at the last port, the island of Aegina, where you have time either to make an optional tour visiting Athens Afea Temple or to swim to the nearest beaches of the island. Total time to be spent one hour and a half. Lunch is served on board during the voyage—re-embarkation and sailing back to the port. Arrive late in the afternoon and transfer by coach back to your hotel.
