Apostolos Greek Tours takes care of all transportation arrangements for tour participants. This includes transportation to and from the airport, comfortable chartered buses to and from the Marathon, and transportation for all scheduled events and sight-seeing expeditions. Your host Paul Samaras and his skilled assistants will be on hand to help you arrange any other transportation needed.
There are taxi stands scattered throughout Athens, but more often you will end up hailing one. This can be an adventure-and not always a pleasant one. Taxis are required to pick up as many additional passengers as possible going the same direction, so the taxi driver is unlikely to pick you up unless you are going that way too. Don’t give up if the rooftop light is turned off. Keep waving—one may pick you up!
Exercise caution in the matter of fares. Some taxi drivers are unscrupulous. If you are over charged—it probably won’t be more than $5-10 US but the frustration is best avoided—flag down any tourist police officer and report the incident. Check the meter to see that it is registering properly. Except for out-of-town trips and the period between midnight and 5 AM, it should display a number ì1î indicating that you are not being charged double fare. If the taxi picks up other passengers, everyone will end up paying the fare on the meter up the point where he gets off. If you are last in and first out, you may try to negotiate your part of the fare. We recommend “telephone taxis,î which are dispatched like those in the United States. The rate may be slightly higher, but it is worth it.