Interrail Greece Discounts & Benefits
If your Interrail Pass is a Greece Pass, Greece Plus Pass or Global Pass then you can make the most of the following discounts and offers during your stay in Greece!
1. Transport:
With your Interrail Greece Pass or Global Pass you can enjoy the following offers on transport:
Ferries:
Superfast ferries from Greece to Italy:
- Patras – Ancona (Italy)
- Patras - Bari (Italy)
- Patras – Venice (Italy)
- Igoumenitsa – Ancona (Italy)
- Igoumenitsa – Venice (Italy)
- Igoumenitsa - Bari (Italy)
- Corfu - Ancona/Bari (During summer only)
Free Passage:
On these routes you can reserve the following with your Global Interrail Pass:
- 1st class: Free dormitories* or airline-style seats
- 2nd class: Free deck passage
Booking information:
Reservations can be made at the port where you depart on the day of travel. You can also book online on www.superfast.com (=> partnerships => Train & Ferry).. Please note that there are special instructions for Interrail travellers' discounts.
You can also call: +30 210 89 19 700 (Greece) or + 39 041 52 86 522 (Italy)
Or e-mail helpdesk@attica-group.com
Additional Information:
Seasonal surcharges, port tax and fuel surcharges are not included and may need to be paid per journey. Except for the Interrail Greek Island Pass.
Other useful information:
- Check-in time 2 hours.
- Terminal Station PATRAS: South port, Akti Dymeon. A shuttle bus service between the New and the Old port (TRAINOSE railway station) is available(payable). Passenger‘s check-in at the New port.
- Terminal Station ANCONA: Via Luigi Einaudi, Zona Mandracchio.
- Check-in at Terminal Station and then take shuttle bus no. 20 (FREE) to the port for embarkation!
Greece to Italy with Minoan Lines:
If you have an Interrail Global Pass then you will be able an travel on the route:
- Patras/Igoumenitsa – Ancona/Ravenna/Trieste
1st Class Interrail Global Pass:
With a 1st class pass you will be entitled to a free airline-type seat between Greece and Italy.
2nd Class Interrail Global Pass:
With a 2nd class pass you will receive a free deck passage.
Additional charges/ Conditions:
Please note that passholders have to pay additional charges such as seasonal surcharge, port tax and fuel surcharge.
Booking information:
For booking information visit the Minoan Lines website or e-mail the Minoan Line port office of Italy or Greece at minoan@minoan.it (Italy) or booking@minoan.gr (Greece). You can also call the offices on +39 071 201708 (Italy) or +30 210 4145700 (Greece).
Discounted travel on Blue Star Ferries & Superfast Ferries:
Interrail passholders receive a 30% discount on the domestic routes of Blue Star Ferries & Superfast Ferries. But you must have already realised a crossing in the Adriatic Sea with Superfast Ferries.
This offer is valid on the following domestic routes:
- Piraeus – Heraklion (Crete) (Superfast Ferries)
- Piraeus – Dodecanese (Blue Star Ferries)
- Rafina – Cyclades (Blue Star Ferries)
- Piraeus – Chios – Mytilene (Lesvos) (Blue Star Ferries)
Booking information:
For reservations you can call +30 210 891 9800 or e-mail the Attica helpdesk at helpdesk@attica-group.com
Visit the Blue Star Ferries website or the Superfast Ferries website for more information.
Special fares on the domestic ferry routes of Minoan Lines:
With your Interrail Pass you can receive a 30% discount on the below routes. With the condition that you have already made or reserved an Adriatic sea crossing with Minoan Lines.
- Heraklion – Piraeus
- Igoumenitsa – Patras
Booking information:
To make use of this offer just show the ticket for your Adriatic crossing with Minoan Lines when borading.
Reservations can be made on the Minoan Lines website, by calling +30 210 4145700
Sail to Italy with Grimalde Line ferries:
With your Interrail Pass you will receive a 20% discount on full or special fares of ship passage and 10% on acommodation supplements for Pullman seats, berth or cabins, on the following routes:
- Brindisi (Italy) – Igoumenitsa & Patras
Note: Port taxes, fixed dues and special fares are excluded from this offer.
For more information, details of fares, conditions of use and timetables please visit the Grimaldi Lines website.
Booking information:
Bookings can be made via Grimaldi's Contact Center on +39 081 496 444 or by sending an e-mail to info@grimaldi.napoli.it
3. Attractions:
Athens railway museum for free!
With your Interrail Greece Pass or Global Pass you are entitled to free access to the railway museum located at Siokou Street in Athens.
General conditions:
The benefits only apply during the validity of your Pass. Free travel on trains, buses or ferries is only valid on travel days.