Useful advice for travellers

• Avoid taking with you valuables and important documents such as passports, tickets, identities and driving licences. It is a good idea to make photocopies of your tickets and passports.
• Avoid especially having with you a lot of money when you plan to use means of  mass transport or intend to go to busy areas such as beaches, the central market etc. Pay extra attention when you are on the underground (metro)!
• During summer plan your visit to the Acropolis prior to 10:30 A.M.. Buses full of tourists arrive then and the sun is intense. Take with you water and you do not forget to wear a hat!
• Do not forget to visit the new Acropolis Museumand the National Archaeological Museum. Our proposal is to hire a guide in the National Archaeological Museum.
• When you go to eat in a tavern, remember that the food is in a display inside the kitchen to see. It is Greek “custom”. Always prefer a tavern with a lot of customers and you ask the locals where they eat.
• In the summertime avoid wearing dark clothes and keep a hat and water with you as long as there is daylight.
• Be wary of hustlers that lure you into shops and promote their own enterprises.
• Before you do anything, check the product, whether you are renting a car or purchasing a ticket or buying a drink.
• One day before you leave the hotel, in the evening, organise your wake-up call, your breakfast, request a taxi if you are going to need one and pay your bill. If you have a resevation for an upcoming date, do not forget to confirm it.
• If you leave by boat or airplane confirm the itinerary is according to schedule.
• Do not buy from wandering tradesmen colognes, valuables, eyewear or jewels. Products sold this way are imitations or stolen goods.
• If you are vegetarian you need to find a vegetarian restaurant. Greek cuisine provides a number of vegetarian dishes such as: boiled greens, stuffed tomatoes, various beans, “ladera” (oily), okra, aubergines “imam”.
• If you reside on the ground floor of the hotel, do not you leave your windows wide open but close them the shutters or the glass-panes.