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| Bruno Tredicine |
 Posted: Sun Aug 08, 2004 11:13 am |
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According to the Athens airport website, the new Metro Line 3 running
directly from Airport to Monastiraki should be working, and it takes
just 27 minutes!
On Syntagma stations there is the transfer to Piraeus.
Anyone will be experiencing it in the next days?
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| Marianne Kristiansen |
| Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 3:48 pm |
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On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 20:56:52 +0100, Roger Matthews wrote:
[somewhere to keep luggage at new airport]
Quote: There was at the old airport but last time I went (September 2003) there
wasn't at the new airport.
it must have been, because it was there in 2002. I don't remember the exact
location, but it is there.
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Marianne Kristiansen
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| Marianne Kristiansen |
| Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 3:51 pm |
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| Bruno Tredicine |
| Posted: Mon Aug 09, 2004 4:35 pm |
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Thank you, Marianne (and Greecemad too)!
This is very useful, I didn't remember to have seen a left luggage
space so I feared that it wasn't any in the new airport.
Bruno
On Mon, 9 Aug 2004 23:51:54 +0200, Marianne Kristiansen
<mixelite@hotmail.com> wrote:
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| Roger |
| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 4:25 am |
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"Marianne Kristiansen" <mixelite@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1edyiy99zh3ca.1csx10o62g1dd.dlg@40tude.net...
I will save the URL for the next time I go in September!
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| Greecemad |
| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 2:18 pm |
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"Marianne Kristiansen" <mixelite@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Marianne,
Thanks for showing us the way to the airport map. I've departed from the
airport twice now and I have just realised there are parts of it I have
never found!! I always thought the signage was poor - it is aimed at getting
you to the gate as fast as possible. In particular I have never found the
Food Village, McDonalds etc. - the only places I have found to buy anything
to eat have been small snack bars.
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| Marianne Kristiansen |
| Posted: Tue Aug 10, 2004 3:08 pm |
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On Tue, 10 Aug 2004 21:18:32 +0100, Greecemad wrote:
Quote: Thanks for showing us the way to the airport map.
you're welcome :-)
Quote: I've departed from the
airport twice now and I have just realised there are parts of it I have
never found!!
Maybe you didn't spend as much time as we did? We have walked all over the
place again and again waiting for departures.
Quote: I always thought the signage was poor - it is aimed at getting
you to the gate as fast as possible.
Which is a good thing, when you are in a hurry  I find Athens airport
very easy to navigate.
Quote: In particular I have never found the
Food Village, McDonalds etc. -
Well, I must admit we struggeled a bit to find McDonalds! That is, we
easily found the escalator that leads directly to it, but we didn't find an
elevator that could take us, luggage and pram up! The escalator runs from
outside the big restaurant/bar in the hall behind the check in area, but
the elevators are accessed from the check in hall. It is easy to find,
really, when you look for an elevator sign instead of flickering about
looking for an elevator door(which we did, until we decded to ask
directions)*grin* You find the sign, walk through the doors which the sign
is pointing you to and voila; elevators.
For those of you spending a night at the airport this area, and the floor
above the check in hall is probably a very quit place to spend it :-)
And If McDonalds isn't enough to satisfy the children, maybe the view from
the window seats are. You can sit there, munching away, watching the planes
take off and land.
Quote: the only places I have found to buy anything
to eat have been small snack bars.
Did you try the one that is sort of in front of you when you go through
from the check in?(You might have to go right or left, but it is on the
side of the hall where your face is poiting when you come from check in. It
looks like a small snack bar, but if you go inside, you will find
cafeteria-like counters with alot to choose from.
What _I_ would really have liked on the airport, is a taverna-like thing.
But I guess eating at an airport is to hasty to enjoy a taverna anyway. It
would just have been great when you arrive and have to spend a few hours
before your next flight. Likewise when you are returning home and it is
ages until next taverna visit. McDonalds have a few Greek touches to the
menue, but it isn't my favorite meal to begin or end a vacation with.
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| Greecemad |
| Posted: Wed Aug 11, 2004 12:41 pm |
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Quote: Did you try the one that is sort of in front of you when you go through
from the check in?(You might have to go right or left, but it is on the
side of the hall where your face is poiting when you come from check in.
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looks like a small snack bar, but if you go inside, you will find
cafeteria-like counters with alot to choose from.
When I have checked-in I think I have gone through past nos 18 and 19 on the
map, then turned to the right (where I was directed) into the Extra-Schengen
area (I don't think the signs say that, just Gates XX toYY). The small cafes
I found were in there. I have just looked up Schengen on the web and found
that we aren't in it, although I thought all the EU was in it. The only
place I have come across the word Schengen is at Greek airports and often
thought we were being directed through the wrong arrivals point, but put
that down to being in Greece. Since you are in the Schengen area you will
presumably have to turn to the left into the Inter-Schengen area.
I won't be looking for McDonald's but the Food Village sounds worth
visiting. The only time I've been in (or outside) a McDonald's in Greece was
sat outside the one in Syntagma Square having a drink at about 5 o'clock in
the morning (because it was the only place open) waiting until it was time
to get the Metro to Piraeus. The flight must have been earlier than the ones
I get nowadays as going via the centre of Athens was a way of killing some
time.
Quote: What _I_ would really have liked on the airport, is a taverna-like thing.
Hear, hear! I remember the aiport on Lesbos (I think). There are virtually
no facilities at all in the airport so once you have checked in you go
across the road to the beach or 200 metres down the road to a taverna! We
only went through passport control when it was time to board the plane.
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