hawgcruiser Posted October 25, 2023 #1 Share Posted October 25, 2023 Hello Looking for advice on booking round trip flights from Athens, Greece. The ship is scheduled to be back into Athens on Sunday, 8/17 at 7:00 am. The best return flight is at 12:50 pm. Is this doable in Athens, or is it recommended to wait until Monday to fly out? We are using points to pay for a portion of the tickets so our options for flights are a bit limited. Thanks, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CruiserBruce Posted October 25, 2023 #2 Share Posted October 25, 2023 I would ask this on the Greece board, here: https://boards.cruisecritic.com/forum/463-greece-ports/ Yes, you can make that flight. Fairly easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torquer Posted October 25, 2023 #3 Share Posted October 25, 2023 1 hour ago, hawgcruiser said: The best return flight is at 12:50 pm. We are on a similar cruise that disembarks in Athens on August 18. HAL's Flight Ease allows booking flights as early as 11:30AM that day and we are actually considering a flight at 12:50PM, which may be the same as you are looking at. So yes, there should be no problem with that flight. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rodndonna Posted October 25, 2023 #4 Share Posted October 25, 2023 1 hour ago, hawgcruiser said: Hello Looking for advice on booking round trip flights from Athens, Greece. The ship is scheduled to be back into Athens on Sunday, 8/17 at 7:00 am. The best return flight is at 12:50 pm. Is this doable in Athens, or is it recommended to wait until Monday to fly out? We are using points to pay for a portion of the tickets so our options for flights are a bit limited. Thanks, We finished a cruise in Athen's a couple of weeks ago and our flight was 12:10. We booked HAL transfers on board (using some OBC) and all they had was the 8:30 transfer (7:30 was full). Knowing it was an hour trip... I figured no-go. They told me - no problem ... so living on the edge ....we agreed. The bus was a little late leaving (just to make me more nervous), we arrived around 9:45 and then, like gomers who had never flown before??, we stood in the wrong check-in line (it was an Alliance partner so had our Air Canada on the sign) for 45 minutes ..and even after all that, we still had plenty of time for our flight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir PMP Posted October 25, 2023 #5 Share Posted October 25, 2023 It's a half an hour drive from Piraeus to the airport by taxi, so plenty of time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SVBing Posted October 27, 2023 #6 Share Posted October 27, 2023 Schedule your ride….for 30 min after Walk off….. plan for 1 hour drive….. 2 hours plus at airport… 12:50pm should work…. We just did such Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronswife Posted October 30, 2023 #7 Share Posted October 30, 2023 The ship docks at 5 am (Sun Princess). Do you think if we walk off at 7 am we can make an inter-island flight at 10:30 am? We won't walk off with our luggage in tow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rare marazul Posted October 30, 2023 #8 Share Posted October 30, 2023 You should be able to make it, but you don't have a lot of extra time. Consider booking a private transfer so you don't waste time looking for a taxi or waiting for a shuttle bus to fill up. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hawgcruiser Posted October 31, 2023 Author #9 Share Posted October 31, 2023 Thanks for all of the advice. Flights have been booked. Can't wait for August to arrive. By the way, Delta seems to have some very good prices to Athens at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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