Athens Museums / Acropolis / Acropolis combo tickets
The three combos that replaced the old state bundle, what each one covers and which is worth the extra over a single ticket.
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One pass, six sites. The Acropolis plus the Ancient Agora, the Roman Agora, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Aristotle's Lyceum and the Panathenaic Stadium, at your own pace over three consecutive days with an audio guide.
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The rock and the museum on one ticket. Two timed entries, same day or on separate days, each with a multilingual audio guide, which is the pairing almost every first visit ends up making anyway.
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The rock plus two days of open-top bus across four routes and 35 stops, from Plaka out to Piraeus and the coast. The cheapest of the three, and the one that solves getting around as well as getting in.
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All experiences →Acropolis combo tickets get confused with plain tickets more often than the name suggests, so here are the three bundles side by side, with what each one adds over a single ticket. A plain Acropolis ticket and a guided tour are single-site products: they get you onto the rock and nothing else. The Museum combo and the Athens Multipass are the ones that bundle the Acropolis with one or more further sites.
What used to complicate this further was the Ministry's own combined ticket, which is no longer sold. This page lays out what replaced it, what each current combo includes, and which one is worth the extra euros over a plain ticket.
| Ticket | Price | Bundles | |
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| Athens Multipass | from €135 | Acropolis plus 5 further archaeological sites, 3 days | Book |
| Acropolis and Acropolis Museum combo | from €75 | Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum, audio guides at both | Book |
| Acropolis and the 2-day bus | from €51 | Acropolis plus two days of open-top bus, four routes | Book |
Each of the three answers a different question. The Multipass answers "am I spending three days seeing several archaeological sites", the Museum combo answers "am I doing both the hill and the museum", and the bus combo answers "how am I getting around while I do it". A plain ticket with an audio guide is none of those: the guide is an add-on to one site, not a second place to go.
They also differ in how far they reach. The Museum combo stays within a five-minute walk of the rock: the Acropolis itself and the Acropolis Museum near the Akropoli metro stop, nothing further. The Multipass spreads across the whole ancient city centre, from the Ancient Agora and Roman Agora near Monastiraki to the Temple of Olympian Zeus and Kerameikos on opposite sides of town, which is why it runs over three days. The bus combo reaches furthest of all without asking you to walk it, out to Piraeus and the coast, but it adds only one entrance to your trip.
Whichever combo you end up choosing, you still have to make this decision, which our main Acropolis tickets page compares in full. The Museum combo comes in a guided version too, from €95 for a 3.5 to 4 hour guided walk of both sites, and it is the only product on this page with free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start. The plain, audio-guide version of the same combo at €75 is cheaper but cannot be cancelled or rescheduled once booked. Guided, for most first-time visitors: the Acropolis carries very little on-site signage, so a live guide fills in far more than a museum with wall text would. The plain ticket is the better buy if you already know the history, are travelling with children who will not follow two hours of narration, or want to walk it at your own pace at the first slot of the morning.
Until spring 2025, the Ministry sold its own combined ticket, valid five days, covering the Acropolis and six further sites: the Ancient Agora, the Roman Agora, Kerameikos, the Temple of Olympian Zeus, Hadrian's Library and Aristotle's Lyceum. That ticket was discontinued around 1 April 2025 and is no longer sold on the official platform. Older advice online that still describes it as current is the single most common source of confusion in Acropolis combo ticket searches today.
With that ticket gone, the Museum combo and the Multipass above are the only bundled options left. Buying each site separately is still possible, it just means several bookings instead of one.
Only if you are visiting both anyway, and mainly for the convenience. The combo from €75 covers two timed entries, on the same day or split across two, with an audio guide included for both sites in one booking. It is not automatically cheaper than buying the two plain tickets separately once you account for each site's own optional audio add-on, so the case for it is one purchase and one confirmed audio guide for both stops. It is not worth buying at all if you plan to see only one of the two.
from €135, the Multipass bundles the Acropolis with five further archaeological sites over three consecutive days, with an audio guide included and no re-purchasing at each gate. It pays off for a traveller who intends to visit most of those sites within the three days. If your itinerary only has the Acropolis and one other stop, the Museum combo or separate tickets will usually cost less.
Do the arithmetic before you commit. Buying the Acropolis, the Ancient Agora, the Temple of Olympian Zeus and two further sites as single tickets can land close to the Multipass price once you add three or four stops: on Headout the Acropolis alone starts at €39 and the Agora and the Olympieion from €26 each. The Multipass wins on convenience, on the single audio guide across every site, and on not having to queue at a ticket desk more than once. It loses if you only end up visiting two of the six sites, because the per-site price then works out higher than buying those two alone. If a museum such as the Cycladic or the Benaki is part of your plan alongside a hop-on hop-off bus, our Athens City Pass page compares the private city passes separately from the Multipass above.
The Ministry has also announced its own Digital Tour Guide app for the Acropolis, free of charge, as a lighter alternative to a paid audio guide. It works alongside any ticket at no extra cost and suits a visitor happy reading rather than listening to a live person. If you want someone to answer questions on the spot, that takes the paid guided tour; the combo products above offer a recorded track at most.
A 50 percent reduced rate applies to EU citizens over 65 with ID or a passport, but only from 1 October to 31 May; there is no winter discount on the standard adult price otherwise. Entry is free for EU citizens up to 25, non-EU children up to 18, visitors with a 67 percent disability plus one escort, and EU/EEA school groups, checked against ID or a passport on arrival. The site is also free to everyone on 6 March, 18 April, 18 May, the last weekend of September, 28 October, and every first and third Sunday from 1 November to 31 March; these are also the busiest days to visit, so arrive early if you are going on one of them. Our Acropolis opening hours page has the full seasonal calendar these dates sit inside.
To recap the Acropolis combo tickets: the plain ticket and the guided tour cover one site, the Museum combo and the Multipass bundle more, and the old Ministry ticket is gone even where older advice still lists it.
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What people ask before they book.
Not from the Ministry. The official combined ticket, which used to bundle the Acropolis with six further sites for five days, was discontinued around 1 April 2025. Headout's own Museum combo and Athens Multipass are the bundled options left.
Only if you are visiting both sites anyway, and more for convenience than a lower price. The combo, from about EUR 75, is not automatically cheaper than booking both plain tickets separately, but it is one purchase with an audio guide confirmed for both stops.
From about EUR 135, it bundles the Acropolis with five further sites, typically the Ancient Agora, Roman Agora, Kerameikos, Temple of Olympian Zeus and Hadrian's Library area, valid three consecutive days with an audio guide. It pays off for a traveller visiting most of those sites.
No. Both are single-site products for the Acropolis only; the audio guide or live guide is an add-on, not a second site. Only the Museum combo and the Athens Multipass bundle more than one place.
Yes, along with non-EU children up to 18, visitors with a disability of 67 percent or more plus one escort, and EU and EEA school groups. These categories are verified with ID at the on-site desk, not booked through a partner product.
No. City passes and MegaPasses are bundles combining the Acropolis with museums or the hop-on hop-off bus, from €79 to €99 on Headout depending on the version; the Athens Multipass covers only archaeological sites, not museums or transport.
Only two of these four bundle a second site. Pick the one that matches the places on your list.