Are you traveling with your family and children? Are you concerned whether your kids will be happy and whether you will be able to keep them creatively busy and interested, while you are visiting the historic city of Athens? Will you be able to offer them the memorable vacation they deserve?

You may be thinking, oh, well Athens is a city with so much history that our kids will get bored and tired visiting all those ancient ruins. You may be thinking: "We will probably have to drag them into boring museums full of statues or Archaeological sites with tons of scattered stones and ruins. It will be no fun for them". We, at the Athens Walking Tours, guarantee the best tours,  itineraries, and experiences for kids and teens in Athens.

Why us, the Athens Walking Tours?

Because we can offer a complete experience and an unforgettable customized tour for the whole family. We can meet the needs of a family with children or teenagers by offering unique tours such as a Mythology tour that will spark their imagination and will make them comprehend better the history or Mythology lessons they studied at school. The movies they watched with gods and heroes from Greek Mythology & History, such as Hercules or Alexander the Great, will come to life again. A museum tour focused on very interesting artifacts is also a good idea, or a visit to an archaeological site by narrating myths and facts that are funny and at the same time important.

Because our guides are young, eager for work, passionate, knowledgeable, close to the psychology of children and teens, many of them are young parents themselves.

Contact us to design together, the best private tour of Ancient Greece for your family or book one of our public tours or private tours offered for you online. 

City tour, Acropolis and Mythology tour

This tour is ideal for kids as it takes place outdoors and includes the top "must-see" sights and attractions in Athens. Kids love this tour because they get to watch the impressive changing of the guards. They love looking at the soldiers with the military march and the beautiful uniform. They can be photographed with them and have the best memory ever from Athens It is so much fun for them. They do not stay long at one place, they keep moving and walking and this is something they like. The places they are visiting are spacious so they can even run or walk around independently in total safety as there is no traffic at all.

The tour includes a refreshment stop where the big kids can have some coffee or snack and the small ones a smoothie or an ice cream. After the break, they go inside the Acropolis, the talented and experienced guide will make it nice for them by telling them funny myths. Who doesn't know or who doesn't love the Greek mythology inspiration of so many artworks and films and fascinating books?. Most of the kids and families have seen films such as Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief, Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters, The Legend of Hercules, Immortals, Clash of the Titans, and many more.  On top of the Acropolis, the view is so nice that all forget the climb or the heat. and love to look down to the huge city and to the shimmering waters of the Saronic gulf and take pictures. It is a tour by which a family sees the most important historical European monument and hears basic historical facts in an entertaining way.

You can join the small group tour or the semi-private tour. Of course, we can also schedule it for you as a totally private tour. 

Mythology & Museum tour

Visit with us the Acropolis Museum and in over just one hour, our experienced guides will guide you to the most exciting exhibits of this unique Museum. You will learn what colors the Ancient Greeks used to paint their statues, you will learn why they made theιr statues and what meaning they attributed to them, you will learn about the Gods and heroes and their achievements, you will learn what causes earthquakes according to Mythology. You will see the brushes for the make-up of the women, the needles they used to sew their clothes, and household items such as plates, glasses, braziers on which they cooked.

To fully enjoy your visit to the Acropolis Museum, it would be better to do this tour privately. 

Athens Food Tour: The Yummy tour

I could give this tour another name; I would call it the exclusive tour for big and small kids. The family tour, the yummy, juicy tour. It seems that this tour has been created just for families and kids.

It is a tour that satisfies all senses. You taste Greek traditional foods chosen by food experts, while you hear the voices of the merchants touting their products, inviting you to buy their goods.

The Athenian Central Market with its oriental character captures all of your senses and reminds you that Greece is closer to the East than  Central or Northern Europe. Hanging meat - poultry, lamb, beef, fresh fish in coffins or boxes, juicy fruit, such as strawberries, grapes, oranges, vegetables, nuts, herbs. A colorful world; a world of smells, colors, sounds, impressions.

You go into different stores and taste all the greek delicacies such as pies, feta cheese, yogurt, Greek honey, olives, souvlaki, and many more. Your food specialist and guide will make you understand everything. You never get bored or tired you are so excited, you become one with the locals.

By Despina Savvidou, Licensed Guide & Co-Founder of Athens Walking Tours