Athens Combined Ticket: Discontinued, What to Buy Instead

What happened to the combined ticket

The old combined ticket cost €30 and covered the Acropolis and six other sites in central Athens for five days. The ministry's pricing decision, approved on 19 December 2023, listed the "abolition of combined entry tickets" for more than one archaeological site or museum in its first phase, from 1 April 2024. Its second phase, from 1 April 2025, also ended joint tickets, with exceptions only outside Athens (Ancient Olympia, Delphi, Mycenae and Aigai) and where a site and its museum must share one ticket.

The Hellenic Heritage pages for each Athens site, read on 8 October 2026, list single-site prices only and mention no combined ticket. Offers of a "5-day combined ticket" that still turn up online come from older pages or from resellers.

What each site costs now

These are the full and reduced prices on each site's Hellenic Heritage page (checked 8 October 2026), with a running total if you add them in this order.

The Acropolis alone takes 29% of the €105. For two adults, the "big three" of Acropolis, Ancient Agora and Olympieion cost €140; adding the four smaller sites brings the pair to €210.

Which tickets are worth buying

With single tickets, the question is no longer whether a pass pays off but which sites earn their price for your trip.

Hellenic Heritage's terms say entry takes place only within the time slot selected at booking and that tickets cannot be refunded once bought unless a site is closed by force majeure. Book the Acropolis first, because its slot fixes the rest of your day; Acropolis tickets and time slots covers that booking step by step.

How to pay less without a pass

Some travellers pay nothing at all. The ministry's free admission list gives free entry to children and young people up to 25 from EU member states and to non-EU children under 18 with a passport. A non-EU couple with two teenagers seeing all seven sites pays €210, not €420.

Seniors over 65 from Greece or another EU country get the reduced rate, but the ministry's decision limits that to 1 October to 31 May. The reduced column then applies: €53 for all seven sites.

Free days apply to everyone at every state site in this list: 6 March, 18 April, 18 May, the last weekend of September, 28 October, and the first and third Sunday of each month from 1 November to 31 March. On those days the €105 drops to zero, but Hellenic Heritage's terms (clause 3.3) say free-day tickets are issued only at the ticket offices, so collect one at each site rather than booking online.

Fitting several sites into one winter day

Winter hours shrink the day. From 1 November to 31 March, Hellenic Heritage lists the Acropolis at 08:00–17:00, and the Olympieion, Roman Agora, Hadrian's Library, Kerameikos and Aristotle's Lyceum at 08:00–15:00, each with last admission 20 minutes before closing.

So on a free winter Sunday, do the smaller sites in the morning and keep the Acropolis for after lunch. The Ancient Agora's hours are in flux: its page gives a standard seasonal timetable, but a Hellenic Heritage announcement of 2 April 2026 set 08:00–19:30 from 1 April 2026 until further notice. Check the Agora's page for the date you go.

Getting between the sites is easiest by metro or on foot; Athens transport tickets explains tap-to-pay and the ATH.ENA card.