ToStay Athens

Located at the back of the main street of Athens, just a few mins walk to monastiraki station. The unit is spacious and nicely decorated.

This property was amazing. The host was very respectful and helpful. The property felt like home and had everything I needed. It was clean and welcoming. The neighborhood was cool and had so many restaurants and places to shop. It was also within walking distance of every place I wanted to visit. This is a property that I would definitely book again.

I’ll start off with the good. It is in an amazing location! It is within walking distance of the main attractions and the main train station (Monastiraki). It is relatively easy to find. Now the bad. To begin with, they left the window to the bathroom wide open for the mosquitos to get in, we were trying to kill every one of them throughout the night. The shower head pressure was okay, but half of the water was coming out of the other end towards the handle. Now, these things are minor. The issues that really broke the camels back was the fact that this is more of a hostel than a ‘loft’ or an air B&B, there is no one to contact when there are questions, and there was no one that made us aware of the fact that there was no one to contact if there were questions so we were just left to our own demises, especially in cases of emergencies. The A/C remote didn’t work (or we didn’t know how to use, which we messaged about but no one got back to us to help us use it). We’re from Canada, we don’t use A/Cs. So we were sitting in a room that is over 25 degrees. Now, you can argue that ‘we could have opened the window to let the breeze in’. That isn’t the end of it. This ‘loft’ sits on top of a karaoke bar or a club. Do with that information as you will. Loud. Really loud. Shaking loud. No one slept. No one got rest. I understand this is business, and they don’t care because they’ll never have to deal with us again. But in Canada, kindness costs nothing.

The room is spacious with The water heater turn off by itself after power on, end up not enough hot water for a shower. Over 12 mosquitos were found on the first night, spent a long time eliminating most of them.

There were many great restaurants to walk to within a couple minutes of the apartment. Lots of Live Music at night. A grocery store was only a 6 minute walk and a convenient store was only a 2 minute walk. Only 20 minutes to walk to the Acropolis or the Syntagma square. We used the toaster oven to reheat our leftovers and loved making toasted sandwiches with the panini press! Efcharisto, Thank you!

Pass on this place! Black mark on an otherwise great visut to Grece