Athens Museums / Athens City Pass
Turbopass, Flex Pass, MegaPass and Multipass, untangled. Which pass actually saves money on an Athens itinerary, and which you should skip.
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Pick two to seven attractions and use them within 30 days of first activation. The flexible one, and the only sensible choice if your days are not yet fixed or your list is short.
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Two days built around the Acropolis skip-the-line ticket plus the bus. The shortest of the bundles, and the one that fits a weekend rather than a week.
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The Turbopass card covers 12 or more attractions over one to six days, including the Acropolis, the Acropolis Museum, the War Museum, the Museum of Illusions, the Herakleidon and the Motor Museum, plus 48 hours of bus.
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The same idea from the second partner, one to five days, with public transport folded in alongside the museums and the bus. Compare the attraction lists rather than the headline price.
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Seven consecutive days with unlimited transport, from Key Tours. The longest run of days here, but the clock starts on first use and it cannot be cancelled.
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The MegaPass is valid a full year from a chosen date, which removes the pressure to cram. Essential and Explorer versions differ in how many attractions you get.
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A three-day bundle of the Acropolis plus five archaeological sites, with an audio guide. Sites only, no museums and no transport, so it competes with the passes above rather than replacing them.
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The Multipass with the National Archaeological Museum added, which is the one big gap in the sites-only bundle. Worth the step up if that museum is already on your list.
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All experiences →The Athens City Pass is not one thing, and that is the first fact to have straight before you spend €79 or more. Every Athens pass is a partner bundle rather than a state product, which is why the contents differ so much between them. The Temple of Olympian Zeus for €20 as single timed tickets and listed no combined or multi-day product when we checked on 11 September 2026. "Athens City Pass" is the product name of one reseller, Turbopass, sold on Headout from about €78.90 and on GetYourGuide from about €79, with free cancellation up to 24 hours before. Around it sit four other bundles from other suppliers: a Flex Pass from about €60, a Key Tours pass from about €69, the MegaPass from about €99 and the Multipass at €135, each with a different validity, a different list of doors and a different refund rule.
This page does the sums for you. The five tickets most visitors actually buy, the Acropolis at €30 and the Acropolis Museum, the National Archaeological Museum, the Ancient Agora and the Olympieion come to about €110 bought singly. Below you will find what each pass includes, how the validity and the Acropolis time slot work, a table of every option with its price, a straight answer on who should buy a pass and who should not, and how to book the right one in four steps.
The lead product is the Turbopass Athens City Card, the one both partners sell under the "Athens City Pass" name. On Headout it is described as access to 12 or more attractions. The GetYourGuide listing of the same pass, which is the more detailed of the two, spells out what that means:
Public transport is where the two versions part company: Headout's page says the metro, tram, suburban rail and buses are included, while GetYourGuide sells the transport ticket as an optional add-on, along with an optional one-day cruise to Hydra, Poros and Aegina. Neither version includes airport transport. Every attraction can be visited once, and the pass is an adult product: under-18s and EU citizens up to 25 do not get a cheaper pass, their free Acropolis entry is verified against ID on arrival, which is the same rule the Key Tours and Multipass pages give.
The four rivals include less, or different things. The Flex Pass, also from Turbopass and only on GetYourGuide, is a pick-your-own version: you choose 2 to 7 experiences from a list of 19 that runs from the Acropolis, the Acropolis Museum, the National Archaeological Museum and the Ancient Agora through the Museum of Modern Greek Culture and the 48-hour bus to day trips to Delphi and Corinth. The Key Tours Athens Pass has four tiers, all with Acropolis entry and an audio guide, and is the only pass on either partner that lists the Museum of Cycladic Art and the Benaki Museum of Greek Culture among its choices. The MegaPass is a convenience bundle: the Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum with audio guides, a 2-day bus, 24 hours of public transport and a 3 GB eSIM, and nothing else, not the Agora, not the Olympieion, no other museum. The Multipass is the sites-only ticket: the Acropolis, the Ancient Agora and its museum, the Roman Agora, the Olympieion, Aristotle's Lyceum and the Panathenaic Stadium with audio tours, and no museum unless you take the combo that adds the National Archaeological Museum.
And this is what no pass includes, which matters on a museum site: the Goulandris Museum, the National Gallery, the Byzantine and Christian Museum, the Numismatic Museum, the National Historical Museum and the Jewish Museum are in none of the nine products on either partner. If those are your Athens, buy single tickets and skip the pass entirely.
A pass has no meeting point. It arrives by e-mail as a digital pass and activates the first time it is scanned at an attraction, and from then the clock runs in consecutive calendar days: on Headout's own example, a 3-day Turbopass first scanned on a Monday at 10:00 is valid until the Wednesday at 23:59. The Turbopass is sold for 1 to 6 days on Headout and 1 to 5 on GetYourGuide. The Flex Pass gives you 30 days from activation to use your chosen 2 to 7 experiences, the Key Tours Athens Pass runs 7 consecutive days from first use, the Multipass 3 consecutive days from first entry, and the MegaPass on Headout can be used within 365 days of the date you choose. The GetYourGuide MegaPass is valid for 2 days.
The Acropolis slot is the timing detail that catches people. With the Turbopass, the Acropolis visit is fixed for the first day of validity with an entry time between 16:00 and 19:00, subject to availability. That is a fine slot in October and a hot one in July, and it means your first day starts in the afternoon on the rock rather than at opening time, when the site is emptiest. With the MegaPass, the Multipass and the Key Tours passes the Acropolis time is reserved after you book, in the Smartvisit app for Key Tours and the Multipass, and the pages warn that slots can sell out. The time slot applies only to the Acropolis. The other sites are booked afterwards in the same app, for the Key Tours heritage-sites ticket up to 5 hours before each visit. All of these are timed entries that let you walk past the ticket desk, not a separate fast lane: the Acropolis has no such lane, and the Ministry has said as much about "skip the line" advertising.
One practical note from the Multipass page: the Ancient Agora's main entrance is temporarily closed, and pass holders use the entrance on Apostolou Pavlou near Akamantos Street. Our Ancient Agora page has the current details, and the site is about 8 minutes on foot from the Acropolis Museum.
All prices are a snapshot from 11 September 2026, per adult, and can move. The partner shows the live figure. Two warnings before the table. First, the GetYourGuide prices for anything beyond the cheapest option are "from" prices, because the per-tier figures could not be verified. Second, Headout's Turbopass ladder is odd: on the day we checked, 1 day cost €78.90, 2 days €92.10, 3 days €88.90, 4 days €103.10, 5 days €109.10 and 6 days €105.90, so the 3-day option was cheaper than the 2-day one. Treat that as a quirk of the day, not a rule, and read "about €89 for three days" as the useful number.
| Pass | Price per adult | Validity | Acropolis | Acropolis Museum | Bus or transport | Cancellation | |
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| Turbopass Athens City Pass (Headout) | from about €78.90 (1 day), about €89 (3 days) | 1-6 consecutive days | Yes, day 1, 16:00-19:00 | Yes, with audio | 48 h bus. Public transport per Headout's wording | Free up to 24 h | Book |
| Turbopass Athens City Pass (GetYourGuide) | from about €79 | 1-5 days | Yes, day 1, 4-7 pm | Yes, with audio | 48 h bus. Transport optional | Free up to 24 h | Book |
| Flex Pass, choose 2-7 of 19 (GetYourGuide) | from about €60 | 30 days after activation | As a choice | As a choice | 48 h bus or 5-day transport as choices | Free up to 24 h | Book |
| Key Tours Athens Pass, 4 tiers (GetYourGuide) | from about €69 | 7 consecutive days | Yes, all tiers, with audio | As a choice | Metro tickets or bus by tier | Non-refundable | Book |
| MegaPass Essential / Explorer (Headout) | €99 / €122 | 365 days from chosen date | Yes, with audio | Yes, with audio | 2-day bus, 24 h transport, 3 GB eSIM | Non-refundable | Book |
| MegaPass (GetYourGuide) | from about €66 | 2 days | Yes, with audio | Not listed | 2-day bus, 3 GB eSIM | Free up to 24 h | Book |
| Multipass, Acropolis + 5 sites (Headout) | €135 | 3 consecutive days | Yes | No | None | Non-refundable | Book |
| Multipass + National Archaeological Museum (Headout) | €152.95 (list €161) | 3 days + museum entry | Yes | No | None | Non-refundable | Book |
Now the decision, which comes down to four questions. How many of the big five will you actually enter? How many consecutive days do you have? Do you want the bus? And can you live without the right to cancel?
Three or more big tickets in two to three days: the Turbopass. Against the €110 single-ticket basket, the Headout 3-day option at about €89 comes out ahead once you enter the Acropolis, the Acropolis Museum and two of the National Archaeological Museum, the Agora and the Olympieion, and everything after that, the 48-hour bus, the War Museum, the Museum of Illusions, is on top. The 1-day pass at about €79 is a different calculation: in one day you can realistically do the Acropolis in its late slot, the Acropolis Museum and one more site, which is €70 of tickets plus a bus you will barely use, so it rarely pays.
Two big tickets and a bus: compare, do not assume. The MegaPass Essential at €99 wraps €50 of verified tickets, the Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum, with a 2-day bus that retails for €12 to €25 on its own, 24 hours of transport and an eSIM. It is a convenience bundle, not a saving, and it cannot be cancelled, whereas the Turbopass 1-day at about €79 includes both tickets, the same length of bus and a refund right. The GetYourGuide MegaPass from about €66 is cheaper again but does not list the museum.
Sites, not museums: the Multipass at €135 covers the Acropolis, the Ancient Agora, the Roman Agora, the Olympieion, the Lyceum and the Panathenaic Stadium across three consecutive days, and five-language audio tours. You are paying for the audio and the single checkout. It has the highest rating on this page, 4.7 from more than 8,000 reviews, and no refund. The Key Tours heritage-sites ticket from about €36 is the same idea from the other end: the Acropolis alone, or plus one site, or plus all five, valid 3 days, also non-refundable.
Only one or two things, spread across a week: the Flex Pass from about €60 for 2 to 7 choices with 30 days to use them, or the Key Tours Athens Pass from about €69 over 7 days if the Benaki or the Museum of Cycladic Art is on your list, because nothing else carries them. With both, check the tier price against the single tickets before you pay: the Flex Pass's own buyers give it 2.5 out of 5 for value.
For the visitor with three consecutive days, a list that starts with the Acropolis and the Acropolis Museum and continues to the National Archaeological Museum and the Agora, and no objection to a late-afternoon Acropolis, yes: the Athens City Pass at about €89 for three days beats €110 of single tickets, throws in a bus and a handful of small museums, and can be cancelled up to 24 hours before if the plan changes. GetYourGuide's buyers rate it 4.0 from more than 900 reviews. Headout's own rating of 2.8 comes from only 13 reviews, which is too few to mean much either way, but read the recent ones before you book there.
For a good share of the readers of this site, honestly, no. If your Athens is the Goulandris, the National Gallery, the Byzantine and Christian Museum or the Numismatic Museum, no pass helps. Those need single tickets, and our best museums in Athens guide sorts them by how much time they deserve. If you are here for one day, the €79 pass covers about €70 of tickets you can actually use and pushes the Acropolis into the afternoon. If you want the Acropolis at opening time, when it is coolest and emptiest, a single timed ticket for €30 does that and no Turbopass does. If you are travelling with under-18s, they already enter the Acropolis free with ID, so a child's pass is buying less than an adult's. And if the pass you are eyeing is non-refundable, the MegaPass on Headout, the Multipass or either Key Tours product, weigh that against a city where a strike, a heatwave closure or a delayed flight can move your day: a €30 single ticket that you lose hurts less than a €135 one.
The middle case is the hop-on hop-off question. If you were going to buy the bus anyway, the 48-hour ticket inside the Turbopass is worth €12 to €25 and tips the sum in the pass's favour. If you were going to walk, which in central Athens most people can, it is worth nothing to you and the pass has to earn its keep on tickets alone.
Every pass on this page starts with the rock, so read our Acropolis tickets guide first for the €30 single ticket, the timed-entry rules and the queue reality by season. If the pass's afternoon slot does not suit you, that page is where the alternative lives. The museum that every serious pass adds next is the Acropolis Museum, a short walk from the Acropolis. A pass that includes it with an audio guide is covering the two tickets almost everybody buys, and the Athens City Pass sum only gets interesting from the third door onwards.
For the museums no pass covers, the Numismatic Museum is the nearest example: a single ticket, a quiet hour, and not a pass in sight. Our best museums in Athens guide lists the rest of that group, the Goulandris, the National Gallery, the Byzantine and Christian and the National Historical, alongside the ones a pass does include, so you can build a day that mixes both without paying for a door twice.
Before you book
What people ask before they book.
Only above a certain number of sites. Buying the five big ones singly comes to about €110: the Acropolis, the Acropolis Museum, the Ancient Agora, the Temple of Olympian Zeus and the National Archaeological Museum. A pass from about €60 to €99 pays off from roughly four sites in two or three days, and loses if you plan on one or two.
Not in the sense of one state-issued card. Every product called an Athens City Pass, Attractions Pass or MegaPass is a bundle put together by a tour operator, which is why the contents, the validity and the cancellation terms differ so much between them. Compare the attraction lists rather than the headline price.
The Ministry's Athens Multipass, about €135, bundles the Acropolis with five further archaeological sites over three consecutive days and nothing else. A city pass bundles the Acropolis with museums, the hop-on hop-off bus and sometimes transport. Sites versus museums and transport is the whole distinction, so pick by what is actually on your list.
It depends entirely on the product, from one day to a full year. The City Pass versions run one to six days from first use, the Key Tours Athens Pass runs seven consecutive days, the Flex Pass gives you 30 days to use two to seven chosen attractions, and the MegaPass is valid 365 days from a chosen date. Consecutive-day passes start counting on first use, so do not activate one on a travel day.
Usually not for the state sites. EU citizens up to 25 and non-EU children up to 18 enter the Acropolis free, verified against ID or a passport on arrival, and the same applies at most state sites. The passes are sold as adult products, so check what a child would actually pay for the private museums and the bus before buying one.
Some of them. The Turbopass card, the City Pass and the Flex Pass carry free cancellation up to 24 hours before, while the Key Tours Athens Pass and the MegaPass do not. Cancellation terms are the one thing that varies most between otherwise similar bundles, so read that line on the partner page before you pay.
Acropolis, Acropolis Museum, Ancient Agora, Olympieion and the National Archaeological Museum. A pass pays from about four sites in two or three days.