Hotel Neos Olympos, Athens

2.1 / 5 Derald [Richmond, US] on 15/10/2008 (Mature couple)

It's cheap and a good value if you're young, healthy, and demand nothing from a hotel except a decent place to sleep. (90% of the guests when we were there were young--under 25--backpackers who mostly stay in youth hostals.) There is free Internet available (on the top floor) but one of the computers didn't work and the other two were slow and virus-laden (beware!).

There's no elevator and it's a five-story hotel with one very narrow and winding staircase. Rooms are EXTREMELY basic but clean and usable. TV is a joke: 3-4 Greek channels with poor reception and two soft-porn channels with excellent reception. The hotel is in a semi-run-down part of town with nothing of interest nearby except for the Metro which will take you to the "real" Athens. In the rooms, the street noise (traffic) is VERY significant at all hours (and I'm normally immune to ambient noise in hotel rooms). The communal bathrooms are marginal but have no door-closing locks on the showers, and toilets that are clean most of the day.

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2.0 / 5 Anonymous on 04/07/2008 (Group of work colleagues)

They had free internet access...that's pretty much the only good thing about the "hotel."

The bathroom was down the hall, and was in poor condition. We did not know that there were shared facilities. Also, our room was almost broken into in the middle of the night. For about one minute someone tried to jimmy the lock. The next mornning we told the front desk, and they said someone probably got lost...

Overall: This was more like a BAD hostel, probably one of the worst I've ever stayed in.  (97304399)

4.4 / 5 Martina [Revuca, SK] on 21/05/2008 (Same sex couple)

good location,cheap,cleanliness

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4.0 / 5 Anonymous on 05/05/2008 (Solo leisure traveller)

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1.0 / 5 Grant [Glasgow, GB] on 26/02/2008 (Group of adult friends)

The accommodation was of a poor standard both in cleanliness and customer service.

Overall: Having travelled to Athens with a group of friends we had booked into stay at the Neos Olympos Hotel for 3 nights. On our arrival my room was untidy, spare and clearly used shorts on top of the unit with the main electrics coming out of the wall. The so called reception manager decided to provide me with a full refund for this room but not the second room even though entry had been forced both from the balacony door and main doors. This was unacceptable however he then called the owner of the hotel who decided to pay nothing back to us at all. Further conversation took place and in the end they refunded 2 rooms for 2 nights therefore the first nights accommodation we had to pay ourselves. We subsquently moved to a far superior and cleaner hotel across from Larissa Station. I would not recommend anyone to stay in Neos Olympus hotel as its more like faulty towers!!!!  (97533580)

4.3 / 5 keith [portsmouth, United Kingdom;GB] on 28/05/2007 (Other)

clean and tidy. staff helpful. central location close to metro

the stairs were too steep. no lift

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