Athineon Hotel

The downstairs public space is modern and bright, the pool is large, the staff are helpful. Suites useful if you have small children or a group of students as they consist of a double bedroom, kitchen area (no kettle), and a sitting roon with 2 sofas that convert into beds (a bit like caravan beds).

We were expecting a 5* hotel, this is not. I would say it was a 3* in the public spaces and a 2* in the rooms. We thought we were getting a Deluxe 2 bed apartment, it was not Deluxe. The beds are hard, the cheap metal furniture is uncomfortable and the repainted baths look grubby. They had turned off the aircon so we found it hot at night and were unable to sleep with the windows open as the traffic noise from the street was really loud. Had we not been expecting 5* we would not have been so disappointed with the hotel. The paper notices and menus stuck on the walls of the lift should have given us a clue as we went up to our room and the grubby hall carpet should have been another give away that we were not ascending into the lap of luxury