Hollyann

I just checked the link that you used to buy them against the one that I did VERY carefully and it is the exact same one. However my receipt looks a bit different from yours. I know that they just opened up May 3rd tickets on April 3 (I think because they were trying to figure out summer hours and the Easter Orthodox holiday that May 4th weekend) and then suddenly they opened it up until September. If they are not in your spam folder, then it may???? be because they are overwhelmed with ticket requests??? Is there an email that you can inquire about them? Also, did you see your Visa charge go FULLY through yet? Or is it still in pending? Sometimes your credit card may be waiting for you to okay the purchase from a foreign country - just a thought. I do not think the website is a scam. The WORST case is you could dispute it, but My receipt looked like this for the 3 of us... Acropolis & Slopes Attica & Central Greece Reservation Code: A XXXXXXX (deleted actual code) Visit: 03/05/2024 €90,00 COMBINED/ΕΝΙΑΙΟ ΚΥΡΙΟ D000000xxxxx (deleted actual ticket #) €30,00 COMBINED/ΕΝΙΑΙΟ ΚΥΡΙΟ D000000xxxxx (deleted actual ticket #) €30,00 COMBINED/ΕΝΙΑΙΟ ΚΥΡΙΟ D000000xxxxx (deleted actual ticket #) €30,00

Hello, I am wanting to book the 5 Euro tickets to the Pantheon in May. I signed up on their website here: http://www.scavi.va/content/scavi/en/prenotazione.html , but can only see tickets available through the end of April. It was my understanding that tickets should be available 30 days in advance. I was wondering if I am missing a way to get to the month of May or if perhaps they just have not released any tickets in May yet. Any advice would be appreciated. As a side note, from searching Cruise Critic, I did find this thread from September which offered some helpful links - including MamaLovesRome, but it did not say anything about tickets being released late.

If anyone is looking for Acropolis tickets for May 1 and 2, they have just gone on sale today. You can find them here: https://hhticket.gr/tap_b2c_new/english/tap.exe?PM=P1P&region=all (We bought the Acropolis & Slopes combo tickets for $30 - lets you in many of the Athens sites) They are not available for May 3 and forward yet. There still seems to be plenty tickets available for most days in April which finally opened up about a week ago.

If anyone is looking for Acropolis tickets for May 1 and 2, they have just gone on sale today. (We bought the Acropolis and Slopes combo tickets for $30). You can find them here: https://hhticket.gr/tap_b2c_new/english/tap.exe?PM=P1P&region=all They are not available for May 3 and on yet. There still seems to be plenty for most days in April which finally opened up about a week ago.

I had a nightmare because my husband has a "II" suffix on the end of his name. It is fine on Princess cruise lines website but for some reason their computer does not translate to EZ Air. Thus I was not able to book our 3 tickets together. They tried to "assure" me the II was on the end of his name, but when I insisted on talking to EZ Air, they told me it was not on the tickets. They had to manually cancel and rebook his one ticket. It only changed about $5, but there was no way to make it match our price and I did not care about $5. But then a couple of weeks later when the price went down and I wanted to rebook with flights at a better time, I did not want to go through another 90 minutes of dealing with it. So I cancelled EZ Air and booked directly through American. I also did not like the fact that they do not issue/fully assign your seats until final payment and sometimes even then. I wanted to be guaranteed that we had the seats that I chose. I know that "almost always" it works out, but do not want any surprises after waiting for 8 months!

Tickets for the month of April went on sale three days ago. Unfortunately for me, we are looking for tickets for May 2. I am still checking daily. Last I heard from my tour company - about three weeks ago, Greece was planning on shortening the hours on Friday March 3 and Saturday May 4 due to the Greek Orthodox Easter holiday. That MAY have something to do with the holdup.

Thank you VERY much for this info! I have been going to the site every 3-4 days checking because I too had heard April 1. We need tickets for May 2. Unfortunately May is not open yet, but I will keep checking. So glad you were able to get your tickets - and thanks for the info!

That link is for the Acropolis museum, the link for the Acropolis (and slopes) is here: https://hhticket.gr/tap_b2c_new/english/tap.exe?PM=P1P&region=000000007 They are not on sale yet for summer. My understanding is that they will go on sale after April 1.

You can buy Acropolis tickets ahead of time and save a long line ONCE they are on sale here: https://hhticket.gr/tap_b2c_new/english/tap.exe?PM=P1P&region=all . Apparently they will not go on sale until after April 1 for dates starting April 1 and later. Even at that, I am booked with Georges Taxi for May 2nd(now - was booked May 3). Georges Taxi told me that Greece is looking at limiting the hours on May 3 and 4 due to Greek Orthodox Easter. So it may even be mid-April when the new dates are bookable. I have been checking frequently "just in case".

Oops - so very sorry - meant to post this in my May 4th cruise thread 🙄 This one keeps to the front because I have THOROUGHLY been enjoying following it - thank you so very much for all of your posts!!!

For those arriving early in Athens you may wish to read… FYI - we arrive in Athens on May 1 - which was scheduled to be their "Labor day" and we were aware that some sites may be closed for their holiday. (We were fine with it as we figured we would be exhausted from travel.) We had a tour booked with Georges Taxi on Friday, May 3 and were planning on buying tickets to the Acropolis on April 1 for the tour when the tickets were supposed to go on sale. We received the following email from George's Taxi yesterday and thought I'd share for those that are arriving early: "We hope all is well. We got informed that the government made and might make some changes at the days and times the sites will be open during the days of Greek orthodox Easter. It has moved the Labor day (1 May 2024) to be holiday on 7 May 2024. Also the Great Friday and Great Saturday (3 May and 4 May 2024) the sites may not be open at their full schedule (might open a little later and close a little earlier). That is something that is not yet confirmed and we will know around mid April. Until then do not buy in advance tickets as we might need to change pick up time and we will communicate again at mid April that we will know better. ( Last year they did not change the schedules of the sites, we hope they will not change it this year but as you understand that is something out of our control). I thought that may affect some plans so I would pass it along. All I know is what you see above. **NOTE: If you google when Labor Day in Athens Greece is, it DOES still show it as May 1. However, since George’s Taxi is in Greece, I think they would have more up-to-date info. They are very highly rated on Cruise Critic and TripAdvisor which is why we booked with them. I posted this on a May 4th Facebook group that I belong to yesterday and one person said that her Friday tour was already changed from a 9:00 am to a 12:00 start. A couple of people who have Viator tickets said that they had not heard anything about their tours being changed yet. We were fortunate that I could move our tour with Georges Taxi to Thursday so that we can still have a full day tour. (We had already booked tickets for Thursday afternoon to the Acropolis Museum a few weeks ago that fit nicely in with George's Best of Athens tour) Just thought everyone may want to have a heads up. On the bright side, assuming the email is correct, it looks like everything should now be open on May 1 – the original Labor Day date and now we may be able to join in the celebration for Greek orthodox Easter. I have fond memories of going to the festival with my grandmother when I lived in Florida.

This may be a silly question, but do you need to do anything special to use Uber in Athens or Rome vs the United States? Or is it all the same app? Thanks!

That does make me feel a lot better that you received confirmation on that. George's taxi mentioned that briefly in my confirmation email from way back, but I find it extremely odd that people going in April cannot book until April. I am glad that I do not have an early April cruise. We leave on May 4. I am sure there website will be hopping on April 1! Thanks again 😃

Gee, I wonder why I ever had problems understanding this 🫠. Odd thing is that I did go into my AT&T store- twice in fact. The first time t that it would be $50 per phone for a month of international calls. And the second time they told me $10 per day up to $100 max per month per phone per month for international calls (once I added that feature on for free). So they could not even get that part straight. They would not commit to what happens on the ship. This thread has been much more informative. In the past on my one week cruises, it has been a non-issue, as I enjoyed the break from electronics. But since we will be gone 21 days this time, I do feel the need to be connected at times. All the advice has been so very valuable. Thank you.

This makes perfect sense. Thanks so much for being so clear and thanks to @VMax1700 too for laying out the step by step instructions. I am finally feeling confident in this!

Thank you - another important piece of information. I will get this down yet!

Thank you so much. That was easy enough to do!

Thanks everyone for your input. I have been going off the fact that when I use Airplane mode on an airplane I cannot get to the Wi-Fi on a plane. Talking to the internet center should help. We are downloading offline maps because we are pinning some places we want to go ahead of time for our treks in the country.

I have now been on nine cruises, but still do not seem to comprehend this answer. Plus this is the first time we have free wifi included with our package and will be on a 2 week cruise so we will want to use it so I figured it is time to actually figure it out.😊 We are sailing on the Sun Princess soon, have the Wi-Fi package. If we take our phone off of airplane mode to use the Wi-Fi, will AT&T charge us exorbitant rates? It seems that I keep reading that they will, but if that is so, then why have Wi-Fi at all? We plan to pay the $10 a day when on the Mediterranean islands (up to $100 max so they tell us) as we will have offline maps and be doing a bit of geocaching. But we would like to use the Wi-Fi on our phones on the ship as well. Thank you, Holly

I do not see it. Is this the website that you used: https://hhticket.gr/tap_b2c_new/english/tap.exe?PM=P1P&region=all ? As far as I know, this is the only official website.

Be sure and look carefully. As you will read, some are saying that that have been told that their travel insurance doesn't consider a cancellation by the carrier to be a covered loss. I have to remind myself that I bought it for HEALTH reasons, but still, this is something beyond our control. Feels like people are getting it from both ends 🪛

I have Allianz insurance, but have been hearing rumblings that if the cruise line has not gone out of business that it is up to the cruise line to make things right. I was just curious from those who did have travel insurance as to how much of their nonrefundable expenses they are covering.

So is your travel insurance not reimbursing you at all? We are not booked for a few more weeks, but after reading about the two cancellations (with horror) I was at least somewhat comforted by the fact that the yearly travel insurance would cover the $1000 plus incidents such as the tickets I bought to the Acropolis Museum, Acropolis, Vatican, etc. and some non-refundable transports to the hotel, and tours. I did not think about them denying the claim... .

Thank you for clarifying that. I did not catch that on the "first cancellation" go around. I am starting to realize that I should start paying close attention to these details even though my cruise is still a few weeks away😱. We would have literally been on a plane over the ocean when we received that email yesterday. So heartbroken for the passengers.

That makes sense. Thanks.