Be My Guest Athens

The apartment was clean, airy and comfortable although a bit dated. The street location at first seemed distant from main city attractions and tired / run-down, but turned out to be better than first impression, as it was just a very short walk to the main pathway around the acropolis and a nice square with many cafes overlooking the acropolis.

The apartment was in a building across the road from the main hotel, and is more dated than the promotional pictures, although had nice spacious living room and bedrooms. The bathroom however, was very small with a very low ceiling - not well designed for the comfort of tall Aussies!

Note that this review is for the side hotel apartment suite and not the main hotel. The apartment was clean and nicely decorated. You can access the balcony. Beds were comfortable. Daily cleaning. They provide a free drink that you can redeem at their very nice roof top balcony if its not raining, Staff are very friendly. Supermarket a few minutes away.

Apartment was old and facilities are dated. Lift only fits 2 persons. You have to carry your luggage over yourself from the reception to the other building, and figure out the lift. Worst thing is the lack of instruction on how to open the door (I kid you not - you need to learn after almost half an hour of frustrating trial and error, to figure out to turn counter-clockwise, and need to pull the door towards yourself at the final turn before it can be unlocked - since it's a residential building, you keep wondering if you got the correct door, and you don't want to walk over to the reception building with your luggage in tow). To use the shower, you need to turn on the boiler 30 minutes before use and turn off after use. TV in the main living room and bedroom had different non-overlapping channels available (???). Blackout occurred once during our stay, even though we were not using many appliances. The switch for the refrigerator (which looks like a light switch) was not labelled, so if you turn it off, the refrigerator turns off too and you won't know. Apparently, there are only 2 sets of keys for the apartment (and you have to ask for it, taking away the reception's set - i.e. no backup if you forgot and left it inside the house - you would have to call the cleaning lady to get her set). They could do with more labels and instructions in general. e.g. for the stove, WC etc.