Periscope is in a great area: cafes, museums, shopping galore! Breakfast every morning is tasty! Most attractions are a good walk; for me, that's what I like. Take sidestreets and explore Athens on your way to wherever you're going!! Downside is the shower floods the bathroom (we found that at the Santorini hotel as well), it seems overpriced, especially with the dollar so weak.

let me start with the good points... clean rooms, lovely Korres toiletries, minimalistic, free dvd rental, UNBEATABLE location.

bad points... tiny room considering we had been upgraded to a superior room (dont even want to think what the size of a standard room is like), very basic common areas.

ask for a room facing Haritos str, the rooms that overlook the back are very dark, and also ask for a room on a high floor as it can get quite noisy on the street below...

breakfast was included in the price and can be enjoyed in your room which was a very nice touch!

would i stay here again? probably but only because of its top location and reasonable prices! this is a basic modern hotel, if you are looking for luxury, stay at the Grande Bretagne.

This is a contemporary, minimalist boutique hotel. The decor is elegant but rather monochromatic, nice use of black and white photographs on ceiling of rooms and elsewhere. The front desk staff are excellent, and the hotel is well located in a upmarket part of Athens. Rooms are well designed with one significant exception: the slope of the shower floor is inadequate for drainage and the bathrooms tend to flood (we tried 3 rooms and they all had various degrees of this problem). Other reviewers have commented on this issue, which is an annoying defect in such a sophisticated and expensive hotel. Recommended.

My husband and I stayed in the Penthouse Suite of Periscope Hotel for the first two nights of our honeymoon. We really enjoyed our stay there. I can't speak for the rest of the rooms/suites because I didn't see them, but the Penthouse Suite is pretty amazing. The interior of the suite is spacious, modern, and comfortable - you can get a good feel for what the room is like in the pictures I've posted here, or in the pictures on Periscope Hotel's website. There is one thing though that you might not be able to see in the pictures: the room has a couple of unusual technological aspects that my husband and I got a kick out of . There is an LCD TV on a motorized track, so with the push of a button it can be moved up or down, left or right. This is useful if you want to watch TV from different parts of the (long) room, like from the bed at one end of the room or from the wraparound couch at the other. There are also motorized wooden shutters on the outside of the three balcony doors, and the motorized shades on the inside - the shutters/shades combo did a good job at keeping light out in the early morning, plus it was nice to be able to control them from bed.

The balcony is also pretty cool - it runs the length of the suite and has a lot of seating (two tables, four chairs, four stools). The view from the balcony isn't anything to write home about (just neighboring buildings) but the balcony itself is still very nice. The best part of the suite is probably the rooftop hot tub - it is accessed by a flight of stairs at one end of the balcony, and up on the roof is a private hot tub with two chaise lounges. The view from up there is better than the view from the balcony - you can see all the way to the Acropolis. This was especially cool at night due to the lights at the Acropolis.

I'm not sure if this is because we were on our honeymoon or if it's standard procedure, but when we first arrived in our room, there was a bottle of wine, platter of fruit, and two packages of chocolate-covered sunflower seeds. There is also a mini bar in the room which has a varied selecion of drinks/snacks but is just as expensive as you'd expect from a mini bar. We splurged on mini-bar items on the first day... until my husband found a small market right by the hotel where we could get the exact same items for a fraction of the price. :)

We didn't spend much time in the public areas of the hotel, other than when we checked in/out and when we waited for a taxi. The lobby/bar area seemed nice, although a little smoky. The hotel staff that we interacted with were great - we received excellent service and the front desk staff was good about giving restaurant recommendations, etc. Something I thought was noteable: on our first day we arrived from the airport about an hour prior to the offical check-in time, and when we walked into the hotel we were welcomed and told to have a seat while our room was prepared for us. We sat for a few minutes before I realized that we hadn't given them our name, so how could they know which room we were staying in? My husband got up to clarify the situation, and the man at the front desk addressed him by name before my husband even got a word out! When I booked the room I had provided the hotel with the time our flight was to arrive - we assume that's how they figured out who we were without us having to say a word. Just some of the charms of staying in a small hotel. :)

The hotel is also in a great area. It's a short, safe walk to the restaurants and shops of Kolonaki Square. Both nights that we were there we walked to Kolonaki Square and ate dinner in outdoor cafes. They were simple but had really good food (with a side of people-watching). The hotel is also a short cab ride to the Acropolis and La Plaka, which were the highlights of our two days in Athens.

All in all, our two days spent at Periscope Hotel were a nearly perfect kick-off to our nearly perfect honeymoon! The penthouse suite was a splurge for us, but we felt it was worth it... on our honeymoon. When we go back in a few years we may check out one of the less expensive rooms. :)