Novotel Athenes

Roof top view/bar and pool

Pool is very cold and didn’t like the area

The staff were lovely and accommodating to every need. Our first room had a smell and when we told them it was a quick “let’s get you a new room” straight away. The rooms were clean. The pool was awesome but whenever we went there wasn’t any pool beds. Probably could have the top deck filled with pool beds rather than tables that no one uses. The location wasn’t the greatest it was dirty surrounding the hotel. The streets etc. but not an issue if you don’t want to take local strolls. There was a place a 3 minute walk from the hotel where the staff told me about to eat. It was beautiful Authentic Greek full of locals and not filled with tourists. That was a lovely dinner that didn’t cost an arm and a leg and was the best food we had on the holiday. We stayed here with 4 kids and the rooms were comfortable breakfast was yummy too.

I liked how it was only a 10 minute walk to a hop on hop off bus which made it easy to navigate around the city.

I didn’t like the location it was in. It felt like a really unsafe area.

Ok, but a few issues.

Decently large rooms by European standards, nice view from the rooftop pool. Decent price, and comfortable bed.

Pool hours are very limited, I figured I could go for a swim after being out for the day only to be told the pool closes around 1830. Presumably, they don't want to sacrifice the bar ambiance around the pool by people actually using the pool. And it didn't reopen until 9am in the morning, too late to be useful before needing to run out for the day. Typical terrible Greek hours. Very disappointed that the pool, one of the main reasons I booked the hotel, was 100% useless. You should consider it for show only. The hotel isn't in a bad area (by comparison to the rest of Athens), but the walk to the metro is not the most enjoyable and I kept an eye out for unsavory people. I was surprised to find a Novotel in such a residential area - nothing close by that you'd want to walk to (except the metro to head to a more interesting area). The view from the roof could be Lebanon or the Gaza Strip if you didn't see the Acropolis way off in the distance.