The Parthenon on its rock, islands reachable by ferry, and water parks on Crete — the country where a child can stand in the places the myths came from.
Pick one, or pick two and split the days between them. Each card says roughly how long it is worth and how many things there are to do.
Ages 7-12 · 4D3N · 11 things to do
The Parthenon on its rock above a modern city, a museum built to hold what came off it, and Delphi and the Temple of Poseidon within a day.
Athens now closes the Acropolis in the afternoon on extreme-heat days, which happens most summers. Go at opening. The site is marble, polished by millions of feet, and genuinely slippery.
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Santorini's caldera, Mykonos's windmills, and Crete — which is large enough to have water parks, a Minoan palace and beaches all at once.
Santorini and Mykonos are steep, crowded and expensive, and the cliff paths are not pushchair country. Crete is the one of the three that is genuinely built for a family week.
Add The Greek IslandsWhen to go. April to June and September to October. July and August are 38°C in Athens with almost no shade at the ruins, and the islands are full. Winter closes most island services.
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13.5 hrs · flight with one stop · Ages 7-12 · 4D3N · 11 things to do. The Parthenon on its rock above a modern city, a museum built to hold what came off it, and Delphi and the Temple of Poseidon within a day.
Ages 7-12
The Parthenon, the Erechtheion and the caryatids, with an audio guide. Fifty-six dollars, and go at opening before the heat and the crowds.
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Built to hold what came off the hill, with a glass floor over an excavated street. Thirty dollars and air-conditioned, which matters here.
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Four-thousand-year-old marble figures that look startlingly modern. Fourteen dollars and small enough to finish.
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Sixteen dollars and an hour. Exists here for the afternoon the Acropolis has closed for heat.
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The hill and the Plaka streets below it with a guide. Fifty dollars, and the guide is what makes the rubble into a story.
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Twenty dollars, and Athens is hotter and hillier on foot than it looks.
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The Acropolis, the museum and more on one ticket. Ninety-two dollars — do the arithmetic before buying.
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A cliff temple over the Aegean an hour down the coast, best at sunset. Forty-one dollars.
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Where the oracle sat, on a mountainside above olive groves. Fifty-two dollars with the site, museum and temple guided.
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Three islands in a day by boat with lunch on board. A hundred and forty-two dollars, and a lot of time on the water.
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Monasteries on top of rock pillars, reached by train, over two days with a night there. The most extraordinary landscape in Greece.
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Book on Klook45 min · flight from Athens · Ages 5-12 · 6D5N · 5 things to do. Santorini's caldera, Mykonos's windmills, and Crete — which is large enough to have water parks, a Minoan palace and beaches all at once.
Ages 6-12
The Minotaur and the labyrinth told in 3D and a motion cinema. Twenty-one dollars, and a gentler way in than the ruins.
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A large water park in the hills above Hersonissos, thirty-one dollars with transfer. A full day and shaded in places.
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The other big Cretan water park, twenty-six dollars, built into a hillside so the slides use the slope.
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The windmills, Little Venice and the monastery, guided. Sixty-six dollars, and half a day is the right dose of Mykonos with children.
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A Minoan town buried by the eruption that may have started the Atlantis story, plus the sunset at Oia. Sixty-nine dollars.
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| Entry | No visa for Singapore passport holders for short stays. ETIAS is coming. |
| Time | Five or six hours behind Singapore depending on the season. |
| Money | Euro. Cards are widely taken in Athens and less so on small islands — carry cash for the islands. |
| Heat | The Acropolis closes in the afternoon on extreme-heat days, which now happens most summers. Go at opening, take water, and treat the afternoon as indoor time. |
| Getting around | Domestic flights between Athens and the islands are cheap and quick; ferries are slower, cheaper and weather-dependent. Book ferries ahead in August. |
| Ruins with children | Delphi, Sounion and the Acropolis are hot, unshaded and mostly rubble without a guide. A guide or a good audio guide is what turns them into a story. |
| Mythology | Read the myths before you go. A child who knows who Athena and Poseidon are will look at the Parthenon completely differently. |
| Water | Tap water is safe in Athens. On many islands it is not — buy bottled there. |
