Athens Imperial  

The hotel was wonderful and the stafff could not be more attentive and gracious. Our room looked out onto the Acropolis and Parthenon, and the room was quite spacious, especially by Greek standards. The room was also very nicely furnished. The staff left a bottle of wine for us, while we were out. I really could not fault anything about the hotel itself and the location was great if your purpose is to visit the Parthenon.

It is quite a distance from the airport to the city center, but most of the travel time is taken up, getting through the city center esp. as strikes were going on during our time there. It is situated in the center of downtown, which is a bit of a nuicance to get to, but if your purpose is to visit tourist sites, then you have no choice but to stay in the center of it all. This is not against the Athen's Imperial, but a warning for folks taking a taxi. When taking it from the hotel, you can ask the staff how much it costs to get wherever, and the cab drivers stick to that price. Beware on the way home though because the cab drivers will rip you off. We paid 7 Euros to go to the Parthenon, and the taxi driver on the way home told us that rates went up after 12pm and charged us $30 Euros! We mentioned it to the hotel staff later, and they said, we should have just said that we needed to go inside to get more money, then one of the staff members would have went out and spoken to the driver. We shouldn't have paid it, but when you are in a different country and you don't know where you are going, or don't speak the language, sometimes you just have to go with the flow.

Cuisine served during breakfast rather limited in choices compared with those served in most hotels in Asia, in particular hotels in Malaysia (4 star and above), the country where I come from.

The pictures on line..which were so not reflecting the true reality at all. Breakfast was ok but not so great. Close to metro station and gyros stand.

Old building. Poor neighbourhood. Not close to attractions or shopping/dining places. Pictures and description online are so untrue. Absolutely not 5 star. The breakfast is not of best quality.

Only the best thing was breakfast. The rest is not worth mentioning about.

Except breakfast, there is nothing that we liked!!

everything.. sounds like they are waiting to close down in hotel.. breakfast maximum 3 stars, terrible and dirty service and waiters..

Its located in the middle of a really bad and dangerous spot of the city.

The services, the good brekfast, beatiful and clean room, staff very efficient, the bar and restaurant.

The hotel generally represented what l had in mind - purposeful & ideal location.

Bedding in particular pillows ought to be improved.

Nice hotel but it must be some speical rates for the regular visitors..

In general a clean hotel

The hotel offers a good breakfast in the morning, people are friendly and the absolute plus of the hotel is the rooftop terrace with nice views over the city. Its a perfect place to releax. My stay was for business purposes and therefor expected 2 cartons to be delivered by dhl at the hotel. Although I was not there at the moment of delivery, acceptance of the good was arragend perfectly by the people behing de front desk. Perfect!

Althoug the hotel is not very old, the rooms really need to be refurbished. This really was disapointing. Specialy the bathroom. The bathroom smells and due to the the fact that water is leaking when teaking a shower, the wooden bathroom door is havely damaged. Also towel rack was broken. The carpet in the room need to be changed. I took a milkshake at the roof terrace and had to pay Euro 8,95 what really is expensive. The area around the hotel is not very atractive and seems to be unsafe. Personly the area was not a problem for me. In front of the hotel is a nicce restaurant with tipacle Greek platters.

Friendly staff and very good breakfast, it is located a bit far from the center but is right next to the sightseeing stop.

This is not a five star hotel, needs urgent remodeling and the corredor carpets have a smell that is very unpleasant. We had a quiet room (facing the interior) but it had a huge crack on the bathroom ceiling and it was dripping right next to a lamp, so we asked to be moved and to lower the rate, they moved us to a suite which was nice but it was facing the street, very noisy and we couldn't sleep.

Free Wifi and smily Greek staffs..