Athens Airport Information

Athens International Airport is easy to get to from both Athens city centre and the ports at Attica, gateway to the Greek Islands and beyond. There’s excellent public transport on tap twenty four hours a day and the airport at Athens is really well signposted from all sides. The main road to Athens Airport is called Attiki Odos, again clearly signposted. Like many major internationals, Athens airport is keen on promoting local art and crafts and they’ve got a permanent exhibition dedicated to Eleftherios Venizelos, after whom the airport is named. There’s even a Museum on site and you’ll find regular exhibitions of paintings, photographs and other cultural bits and bobs. Nice one… if you happen to get stranded at Athens airport, at least there’s more to see and do than just shopping.

 

Athens airport has loads of state of the art information screens and real time information all over the place. This is a legacy of the recent Olympics, which saw the airport and vast areas of the city regenerated. The staff at Athens airport are friendly and, like most Greeks, anglophile. If shopping is your thing, you needn’t go far before you hit some excellent international shopping at the airport’s own Retail Park, just over a mile south of the main Terminal. Get there by car via the Attiki Odos highway, taking the Airport Retail Park exit. Or hop on a smart airport bus. What’s there? You’ll love this… there’s an Ikea where you can pick up a few bits of flat pack on the way home (we’re joking!). Plus loads of factory outlets, megastores and eateries.

 

Kids will have great fun at Athens Airport while you wait for your flights. Banish their boredom and take a bit of pre-flight grown up time for yourself… leave the little ‘uns at ‘The Smile of the Child’, a safe area where children get to play with all sorts of innovative and exciting stuff, from feely soft building shapes to supervised games. They’ve employed specially trained staff so you can leave your kids there without a qualm. Keep up to date with developments: use directline-flights search facility and find airlines offering low cost flights from Athens Airport. For directions to Athens Airport and a summary of public transport to Athens Airport, explore our Athens Airport pages.