The Airotel Parthenon is a great little hotel in a fantastic location. It is right next to the new Acropolis museum and 10 mins walk from the acropolis, and Plaka district and no more than 20 mins from other major sights such as Philipappos Hill, the temple of olympian zeus, national gardens, Syntagma square and the Agora

It is also only 5 mins from a tram station which will whisk you off to the coast for great seafood and makes a fab evening out.

The hotel itself is fairly basic, rooms are clean and comfortable, not huge but a decent enough size. Breakfast is a buffet and a good spread of items and decent quality. The desk staff are really friendly and very helpful and knowledgeable as well.

The area it is in is very nice, loads of restaurants and a few bars and it is open well into late evening. Its also very safe, we were out late evenings every night we were there and never felt threatened at any time walking round the area (Avoid Ommonia though, this was rotten in the daytime !)

In essence it is a decent hotel, clean and comfortable with an excellent location (which is really what you are paying for). Ideal fo a city break.

My wife and I stayed in the Airotel Parthenon after having spent a week in Santorini. We booked the hotel last minute after realizing that there wasn't 10 days worth of stuff to do in Santorini so we took 3 days and went to Athens. We chose Airotel basically because of its availability and the price.

Here's the breakdown of our experience:
- VERY easy to get to, there is a metro (subway) station that goes about 300 feet from the hotel entrance right from the airport. The metro is clean, and feels very safe. A day pass was quite cheap too and gets you all over the city in no time at all.
We arrived on a flight in at 01:23 so the metro was closed and we were forced to take a taxi.
- Make sure you ask 2-3 cabbies about the fare price, they will try to charge you up to 50 euro, when the ride should only cost 30. People behind us in line for cabs got a bit upset at us asking around, but for 20 euro it's worth it! It's also a good idea to know the general direction that the cabbie should be headed to get to the Acropolis area, ours took a 'wrong turn' getting there.... c'mon!

- The front desk staff at the Airotel were very helpful. They found us menus for delivery restaurants, and patiently mapped out where we wanted to go in great detail.

- The rooms are as basic as you can get. The 'king' bed is literally 2 singles pushed together, complete with separate bedding and everything... there is about 2 feet of space all around the bed and that's it, no room for walking around or a sitting area. The rooms kind of smelled like cat pee and every morning we awoke to doors slamming at like 6am. This is because of how the doors close here, not because of rude people. Bathrooms were fine, nothing to complain about, and everything felt pretty clean. A/C worked really well, this was really helpful since the pollution and people smoking in Athens really irritated our allergies.

- There is no pool, no hot tub, but there is an american buffet included for breakfast which we really enjoyed.

- Location is key... you're close (like under 5 minutes) to everything that is worth seeing in Athens (Acropolis, Plaka, Temple of Zeus and of course the metro)

We would recommend this place, but if you want to be entertained at the hotel itself. (Although we spent almost a whole day in the room watching movies on our laptop)

Just for context:
- My wife and I are 28 years old, pretty adventurous, not used to luxury hotels by any means, but are decently well off that we expect a certain level of quality wherever we go. We research everything we do and are diligent about how we spend our money.

We chose the hotel for our 3-night stay at Athens after reading reviews. Although the hotel room was smaller than we expected - actually the hotel is not so big either - we thought that the service and the staff made up for any disappointment we may have had for the size of the room.. Anyway - the room was comfortable enough - and clean. Our stay was very plesant and we found the staff extremely friendly and helpful. The location was an added bonus.
I have already recommended this hotel to three of my friends who are planning to visit Athens.

Have just come back from a 4 night stay at this hotel and both my husband and I found it pleasant and comfortable. It was close to the metro and very near the Acropolis. Also, lots of restaurants nearby for eating out in the evening. The room was comfortable and clean, not large but certainly larger than some other rooms I have stayed in in other cities in Europe. The bathroom was small but very nicely appointed and very clean. We were delighted with it. Only problem we had was that a party of Greek school children arrived - fortunately only for a 1 night stay - and were extremely noisy for most of the night. Nothing seemed to stop them shouting and running in and out of each others rooms. The teacher's obviously gave up trying and went to bed. As a teacher myself ,and having taken children away on school trips, I was horrified by the standard of supervision. We got virtually no sleep that night.
Sadly, probably as a result of being very tired and thus less vigilant, my husband had his wallet stolen on the Metro the next day. The hotel were very sympathetic and helpful. They phoned the police station to make sure there was an english speaker there and told us of the procedure to follow. We cancelled his cards immediately and so only really lost the cash he was carrying which is covered by our insurance.
Despite those two negative occurences we had a lovely stay in Athens, found hotel staff friendly and helpful and the location of the hotel was ideal for us. Would reccomend it to others.