Uniformed services: privileges and discounts
These apply to armed forces personnel, conscripts, police officers, firefighters and coast guard officers; some also to retired personnel. You usually show your service ID or, during military service, your conscript ID card.
Tap a privilege or an offer to see its terms and source.
From the state and municipalities (7)
Across Greece
Transport
All domestic ferries must give fare discounts to specific groups: 50% for large families, students, people with a disability of 80% or more and war-disabled people/war victims, and free travel for children up to 5 and for destitute people with a certificate. You ask for the discount when the ticket is issued, with the relevant proof.
Culture
Free Entry to State Museums, Monuments and Archaeological Sites (Designated Days)
Free entry for everyone to state museums and archaeological sites on the set free-entry days
Reduced/Free Museum Entry — Social Categories
Free entry to state museums for conscripts
Other
Housing for Hellenic Air Force Career Personnel
Housing in military quarters in the area of service (in-kind benefit)
In more than one region
Municipalities that run nurseries select children by a points system and set monthly fees with exemptions or discounts (low income, large families, single parents, disability). In some municipalities the exemptions apply only to families who do not receive, or were refused, the EETAA (ESPA) childcare voucher.
Region of Attica and Region of Central Macedonia
Free and Reduced Public Transport Fares: OASA (Athens) and OSETH (Thessaloniki)
Free public transport in Athens and Thessaloniki for conscripts; uniformed police and fire staff travel free when on duty
Region of Attica and Region of Central Macedonia
Region of the South Aegean
Municipality of Kos
Free Travel Card and Social Fare Discounts on Kos Urban Buses (Municipality of Kos)
Free Kos urban buses for police and fire officers on duty (in uniform)
Offers from businesses (4)
These are not state benefits. The business that makes each offer sets its terms and may change them without notice. The businesses did not pay for these listings. The order does not depend on payment.
Blue Star Ferries: discounts for three-child families (50%), military staff (25%) and NAT pensioners
Military staff of the North Aegean, Dodecanese and Saronic 25%
Private offerLast checked: 28 October 2026
25% off for armed-forces staff and conscripts
Private offerLast checked: 18 October 2026
Uniformed staff, soldiers and retired military: €38 instead of €50 (€70 instead of €80 return), Thessaloniki – Athens
Region of Attica and Region of Central Macedonia
Private offerLast checked: 28 October 2026
KTEL in Heraklion and Lasithi: police and fire officers 50%, military staff 15%
Region of Crete
Private offerLast checked: 28 October 2026