Survival Guide..

A valid passport, or valid travelling document (such as identity card), for the citizens of the EU, are enough for tourists to enter Greece. During your arrival to a hotel or guesthouse in Greece, your passport or the approved travelling documents of EU should be presented. Citizens of Australia, Canada, all countries of the EU, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Iceland, Switzerland and the USA can remain in Greece for three months without visa. The Greek embassies have a list of other citizenships that are allowed to travel to Greece without visa.

The list changes, but it includes the nationals of Monaco and Saint Marino and most southern American countries. Those that are not included in the list, such as South Africans, need visa. For the revised list of these citizenships, please come in contact with a Greek embassy near you. Keep in mind that Greece will deny the entry in the nationals of Somalia, with passports that are published after January 1991 and the holders of Yugoslavian passports with a stamp of renewal of "Macedonia". The Greek embassies are recommended as the most informed agencies and can provide all types of information to travellers. All foreign embassies in Greece are in Athens and its suburbs. Consulates of various countries exist in Thessalonica, Patra, Corfu, Rhodes and Heraklion. Area code for a call from abroad:  0030, European Committee: Vasilissis Sofias avenue 2, Athens, tel. 210 7272100, Centre of United Nations Briefing: Amalias avenue 36, Athens, tel. 210 5230640, 210 5230462.....