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Best Hotels in Athens (2026)

Where you stay in Athens shapes the trip, because most sights can be reached on foot from the centre. Syntagma Square is the classic base, with the metro to the airport beneath it and the grandest hotels in the city: the Hotel Grande Bretagne, open since 1874, with its rooftop restaurant facing the Acropolis, and its smaller neighbour, the King George, home to the Michelin-starred Tudor Hall. Electra Metropolis, at the start of Mitropoleos Street, is a modern five-star alternative a few minutes away, while its sister hotel, Electra Palace in Plaka, adds indoor and outdoor pools.

For the ancient sites, Makrygianni and the pedestrian avenue of Dionysiou Areopagitou are hard to beat. AthensWas is a 21-room design hotel looking up at the Acropolis, and the family-run Herodion is a short walk from the Acropolis Museum. Budget travellers have two well-run choices: Athens Backpackers in Makrygianni, Greece's first modern hostel, with a rooftop bar facing the Acropolis, and City Circus, a design hostel in restored 19th-century buildings in lively Psirri. Book early for summer, check which rooms include an Acropolis view, and remember that the centre can be noisy at night.

8 places · Updated October 27, 2026

Our top 3 hotels in Athens

  1. Hotel Grande Bretagne Grand luxury hotel, SyntagmaThe grande dame of Athens hotels, on Syntagma Square since 1874, with 320 rooms, a celebrated roof garden facing the Acropolis and a spa.
  2. King George, a Luxury Collection Hotel Luxury hotel, SyntagmaAn elegant 115-room mansion hotel on Syntagma Square, home to the Michelin-starred Tudor Hall restaurant and a rooftop suite with its own pool.
  3. AthensWas Boutique design hotel, AcropolisA 21-room five-star design hotel on the pedestrian avenue below the Acropolis, with private verandas, mid-century interiors and the rooftop restaurant SENSE.

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3. AthensWas

Boutique design hotel$$$$Acropolis

A 21-room five-star design hotel on the pedestrian avenue below the Acropolis, with private verandas, mid-century interiors and the rooftop restaurant SENSE.

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