The Adams hotel has a marble stairway that takes you to your room. Most importantly, it is clean and smells fresh. Our door did not lock well, but we felt safe enough. The washroom was dated and the showers did not work so well, but we only spent the nights in the hotel. The beds are flat and uncomfortable, but we could get past it. The owners will serve you a carbo-loading breakfast, so be ready to walk around the corner to the fruit and veg vendor for top ups to get your day to a good start. Their coffee is dark, rich, and delicious. Their juice is fresh and tasty. The proprietors will give you good suggestions for buses, food, and shops.
Location is everything in this case, as the hotel is situated at the foot of the Akropolis, near good shops, excellent restaurants, and near a major bus line that will take you to the sea side in about 45 minutes.
Print a map and the address to show to your taxi driver. The hotel is tucked away in rambly streets.

I stayed there for 6 nights and was very dissatisfied with the hotel & the owner. The room is dirty and the bathroom is too small. A USED, DIRTY teaspoon was put on my saucer in breakfast. On the last day of my stay there, someone entered my room and loosened one of the batteries in the remote control so that I couldn't watch TV. At one night, it was very noisy upstairs with the sounds of a couple of kids screaming & a woman shouting at them for hours. Nothing was done by the owner to shut them up. I strongly recommend anyone NOT to stay there!

I payed for 6 nights in advance and had to leave after 3 days (the hotel uses cheap chemical cleansers and what's most ugly: air odorizers - in the first day, an awfull cigarette smell came all the way from all over window and bathroom). And guess what, the owner started a drama over the money, he would refund me only half - I have to pay for the current day due to the fact I haven't announced him (I checked out before 11 in the morning), that I had a discount for the fact I took 6 days in a raw and if I not agree with him, eventually he will give me no money back. And suddenly, guess what, he shows me a 'real' price on the walls of 70$ per room, not with 'discount'! For _that basic location, to speak indulgently! So, I lost 70$ and payed each day of staying in that 'cantina' with 70$, without my will, due to my imbecile way, never give money in advance for a place that hardly resists to the limit of obscurity.

We stayed at this hotel for 5 nights and we were very happy with everything. I had read so many negative reviews that if we had not already prepaid with Expedia I would have cancelled. Let's face it, this is a budget hotel but we found the hotel clean, the people very friendly and helpful, the rooms very simple and basic but clean (it was cleaned every day with clean towels) and very quiet. All the rooms have a balcony and I could actually see the Acropolis if I looked to the right side of the balcony. The breakfast was a simple continental breakfast - the quality of the coffee varied according to who made it and went from very good to a bit watery but it was fine for us. There was air conditioning in the room and you could turn it on or off according to your likings. You could not find a better location for the price than this hotel - almost at the base of the Acropolis in the heart of Plaka and super safe. I would not hesitate to stay here again.