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1. Hotel Grande Bretagne
The grande dame of Athens hotels, on Syntagma Square since 1874, with 320 rooms, a celebrated roof garden facing the Acropolis and a spa.
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8 places · Updated October 27, 2026
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The grande dame of Athens hotels, on Syntagma Square since 1874, with 320 rooms, a celebrated roof garden facing the Acropolis and a spa.
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An elegant 115-room mansion hotel on Syntagma Square, home to the Michelin-starred Tudor Hall restaurant and a rooftop suite with its own pool.
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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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A five-star hotel with 216 rooms at the start of Mitropoleos Street near Syntagma, with a roof garden looking across to the Acropolis.
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A neoclassical five-star hotel in Plaka with an eighth-floor roof garden restaurant and a seasonal outdoor pool facing the Acropolis.
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A family-run hotel of 90 rooms a few steps from the Acropolis Museum, run by the same family for more than four decades.
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A design hostel in two restored 19th-century buildings in Psirri, with dorms, vintage-furnished private rooms, a rooftop terrace and its own Greek restaurant.
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Greece's first modern hostel, opened in 2003 near the Acropolis Museum, with capsule beds, studios and a rooftop bar facing the Acropolis.
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