Art Hotel Athens - Athens, Greece     

We were quite disappointed with this hotel. Granted, we arrived after a week’s stay in a five star hotel in Mykonos making the comparison all the more startling. We stayed just one night. First, we had two single beds. I suppose the arrangement is acceptable for sleeping. Second, the bathroom was not particularly clean. Third, the spacious balcony provided two plastic chairs and a plastic table, but the furniture was unusable as it appeared to not have been cleaned in eons. The neighborhood is not one most guests would care to inhabit, consisting of dingy block apartments. Its nocturnal inhabitants include numerous prostitutes and seedy characters. Now, for the worst part; my companion and I visited Sardeles for in the Gazi area for dinner, returning to the hotel at around 2:30 AM. We found the hotel door to be barred and locked, which, considering the neighborhood is understandable. There is no way to enter the hotel other than to granted admittance by whoever is responsible to watch the door after hours. Should that individual choose to sleep instead of attending duty, the unfortunate guest is shuttered out on the street with seamier denizens of the Athens night. We pounded on the door for about a half hour before the dormant doorman could be roused. As no taxis passed, we couldn’t leave to find alternate accommodation. Certainly our situation did not go unnoticed by the locals and the longer our predicament persisted, the more exposed we became in terms of personal security. Luckily, we were not accosted. In the morning, we checked out. The hotel manager was most apologetic and comped the room.

first time in Athens we took a taxi from the airport and the driver brought us to another art hotel called Delphi. I thought this is not what I saw on the website realizing few minutes later that this was not the hotel we booked! We take a second taxi and finally are infront of this amazing neoclassical building I guess one of the most beautifull buildings we saw in the center of Athens. Our room was spacious even better than i expected from the pictures i saw when i booked, big queen size bed and very clean for European standards.The very fast free Internet access an amazing bonus. I couldn't thank more the staff for beeing so helpfull and easy feeling you can ask them anything . Definitely I will go back to Art hotel .