Pocket Athens by Rick Steves

Pocket Athens

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Pocket Athens

Pocket Athens

$14.99
  • Carry Athens in your pocket
  • Full color
  • Includes 11" x 20" foldout color map
  • Condensed and easy to use
What's Included

In Rick Steves Pocket Athens you'll find only the best of Athens — admittedly a tough call! The core of this book is five self-guided walks and tours that zero in on Athens' greatest sights and neighborhoods; the rest of the book is a traveler's tool kit:

Practicalities

  • Advice on planning your time and avoiding crowds
  • ​​Getting around Athens by metro, bus, and taxi
  • Basic tips on shopping, nightlife, managing money, communicating, reserving rooms, handling emergencies, and other helpful hints

Self-guided city walk

Self-guided tours

  • Ancient Agora
  • Acropolis
  • Acropolis Museum
  • National Archaeological Museum

More great sights: Descriptions, ratings, hours, and prices of Athens' other top attractions, from the Temple of Olympian Zeus to the Benaki Museum, and beyond

Where to stay: Condensed listings for recommended hotels in easy-to-browse tables

Where to eat: Condensed listings for recommended tavernas and restaurants in easy-to-browse tables

And more

  • Handy, full-color, 11" x 20" foldout map: Athens city center, Plaka neighborhood, and Acropolis on one side; on the other: Ancient Agora, transit lines, port of Piraeus, along with larger map of Athens' peninsula and the Peloponnese
  • More full-color maps of Athens' neighborhoods and floor plans of museums and ancient sites
  • Brief descriptions of day-trip options
  • Handy Greek survival phrases
Is this the right book for me?

Should I get this book in addition to Rick's Greece guidebook?

Nope! The Athens chapters of the full-size Greece guidebook already include all the information that's in Rick Steves Pocket Athens — and then some. If your Greek travels extend beyond Athens (to places our Greece guidebook covers), the bigger book is all you need.

Even if your Greek itinerary is limited to Athens, the full-size guidebook may still be a better option. It offers more substantial (and more frequently updated) advice on the capital: practicalities, sightseeing, hotels, restaurants, nightlife, shopping, and the city's history and culture.

Rick Steves Pocket Athens works best for people taking a short trip, or perhaps a return trip, to Athens. Like our other Pocket guides, Pocket Athens is smaller than the full-size guidebook (and in full color), but still offers our best sightseeing advice, self-guided city walks and museum tours, and a foldout map.
Updates and Feedback

Latest updates: When we learn of critical changes to the information in this guidebook, we post them. (Of course, it's still smart to reconfirm critical transportation and sightseeing details locally.) Armed with a Rick Steves guidebook and these late-breaking updates, you're set for a great trip!

Submit feedback: Once you've used this book in Europe, we'd love to hear your feedback — good or bad — about our advice on sights, hotels, restaurants, and travel tips. We're also interested in any tips or discoveries you made while in Europe. Your comments help us improve our guidebooks for future travelers.
Our Product Guarantee

Every Rick Steves travel product comes with our guarantee that it will be free from material and manufacturing defects for the life of the product. If a defect appears, we will replace the product free of charge. This guarantee does not cover damage caused by an airline or other common carrier. Nor does it cover wear and tear to components and materials which may occur over time with use of the product.
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Product Details

Dimensions
6" x 4 ½" x ½"
Weight
8 oz
Product Code
9781641716215
Author
Rick Steves & Gene Openshaw
Pages
201
Publication Date
May 2024 (4th edition)
Next Edition Arrives
June 2026
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