Hotel Electra Palace, Athens
Expert reviews
“Nestled on an unassuming little street in the heart of Plaka, Athens’ quaintest and most historic neighborhoods, the neoclassical-style hotel building is grandiose in a charmingly old-fashioned way.”
Featured as Fodor’s Choice in Athens.
“The recently redecorated Electra Palace, on a quiet side street between Syntagma Square and Plaka, is one of the upmarket, comfortable, reliable Greek chain of Electra hotels. Unusually for a hotel in the heart of Athens, it has both an indoor and outdoor pool.”
Featured as Frommer’s Exceptional Choice in Athens.
What guests liked
- Excellent location
- Great neighborhood
- Rooftop pool
- Breakfast buffet
- Boutique style
All you need to know
The Electra Palace Hotel is located in the city of Athens where it offers tourists and travelers in the city a comfy temporary home fitted with all the needed luxury amenities. The hotel is the ideal place to stay when you are looking to get all the thrill and adventure the city has to offer.
Located on 18-20 N. Nikodimu Street, this five-star hotel is the place to stay when in Athens. The hotel offers its guests royalty-style luxury; in a bid to ensure that they have the experience of a lifetime.
Hotel rooms are spacious and well furnished with modern décor and adorned with elegant colors. The room options of the hotel include Classic Single Room, Classic Double Room, Classic Triple Room, Junior Suite, Presidential Suite, Suite, and Superior Double or Twin Room with Acropolis View.
The hotel offers proximity to several landmarks within the city such as The Jewish Museum of Greece which is just 150 m away from the hotel while the Greek Folk Art Museum Museo Ellinikis Laikis Technis which is also 150 m away from the hotel.
Rooms in the hotel are fitted with standard amenities such as free Wi-Fi for high-speed internet access, a flat-screen TV with satellite channels, air conditioning and a comfy sofa. The rooms also come with a private bathroom with thoughtful touches such as free toiletries and bathroom slippers.
The lounge/bar area is the ideal place for guests to relax and enjoy a drink after a long day.
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Location
Recent guest reviews
18 March 2025
We would highly recommend this hotel!
Great location, GREAT STAFF, wonderful daily breakfast buffet!
18 March 2025
Great location for weekend getaway
The breakfast room with view of the Acropolis was wonderful. The food quality and service was excellent. The same room in the evening was just as good, lovely dishes and friendly attentive staff.
Although pre-notified about renovations ongoing, the drilling noise level was at times really loud (we had a room in the first floor) making the stay less relaxing than expected
17 March 2025
Fabulous
Excellent location, very nice staff, wonderful breakfast on the roof restaurant with a fantastic view.
If you're sensitive to noise ask for a quit room facing the back of the hotel.
16 March 2025
Fabulous
Good location
Nothing
15 March 2025
Excellent
Everything
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13 March 2025
Wonderful hotel in the Pláka
Wonderful hotel with beautiful rooftop restaurant overlooking the acropolis. Helpful staff. Large rooms with views of the Parthenon. Very comfortable. Nice bathroom. Terrace for drinks and coffee. Would definitely return!
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12 March 2025
Very good
Location, view from restaurant, kind staff.
A bit worn out. Pools and spa closed. Breakfast packs for early departure broke in 2 minutes.
8 March 2025
Great staff, Perfect location. one of the best costumer service experience I've ever had
great staff, one of the best costumer service experience ive ever had
8 March 2025
A delightful stay in the center of Athens
It was a very enjoyable stay at the hotel with friendly, welcoming and professional staff, great breakfast selection, including Greek specialties and good quality coffee. The hotel is within walking distance to the main attractions and despite being in the center of Athens - very quiet. And the view from the 8th floor restaurant is just breathtaking!
Nothing
6 March 2025
Fabulous
Amazing view, friendly staff, great food. We had a wonderful time
3 March 2025
Perfect hotel in Athens
The reception staff was very welcoming, especially Olga, Chris, Constantinos and George. They helped us with directions and restaurant reservations. The breakfast buffet was sumptuous and had great views of the Acropolis. Location was perfect for visiting the ancient sites and shopping in Athens.
2 March 2025
Exceptional
Great location and hotel. Staff are very friendly and helpful.
1 March 2025
Exceptional
Stuff, location, Roof Top restaurant
28 February 2025
Spectacular view on the Akropolis
Beautiful hotel at a convenient location, easily accessible from Syntagma metro station as well as the main attractions in Central Athens. Lovely terrace with a spectacular view on the Akropolis, not to mention the breakfast with delicious local specialties. Rooms have private balconies. and in our case we were upgraded to room with the Akropolis view!
27 February 2025
Amazing views
Very nice hotel with an amazing terrace overlooking the Acropolis! The breakfast was algo delicious with plenty of options. The staff was very nice and warming.
26 February 2025
Stunning panoramic restaurant terrace!
The strongest point of this hotel is definitely its panoramic restaurant terrace with a view on Acropolis and the whole of Athens. Each morning at the breakfast you can enjoy this wonderful view from both inside and outside tables. The location of the hotel is also great in proximity to most of the tourist spots. The staff is polite and professional, room service is very reactive. The hotel is up to it’s 5 stars standard and I definitely recommend it!
First negative point: we were informed about the renovation works in the spa area only 3 days before arrival and we definitely wanted to use the inner swimming pool, as it is cold outside. However, they offered us to use the spa area in their sister hotel Electra Metropolis and it was very nice. The only problem was walking for the two minutes in 3 degrees Celsius (temperature in February when we were there) back to our hotel after the spa visit. Another small negative point (independent from the hotel) is the absence of any grocery shops next to the hotel. It is a 6 or 7 mins walking distance to the nearest shop
25 February 2025
Wonderful time in the center of Athens
Great location. Perfectly suited. Staff at reception was great. Breakfast perfect. The hotel restaurant is top level too.
SPA under renovation - too noisy at 9 AM. Food at lobby bar not at the level of the rest.
25 February 2025
10/10 on level levels 😉
Excellent and a true pleasure to be there as a guest. The reception and front of house were exceptionally helpful as was the room staff. The staff on level 8 dining room were also very obliging and helpful 10/10 to all👏👏👏
Everything was great.
25 February 2025
It was OK
The hotel staff, they’re so friendly and they have a lovely restaurant on the roof
Room small to old need to be upgrade
24 February 2025
Perfect
Great views at breakfast
Nothing
23 February 2025
We highly recommend this facility.
We were very pleased. They welcome us very nicely. I alerted them about my daughter’s birthday and they had a small mousse cake ready for her. We really appreciated that.
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23 February 2025
Fabulous
Breakfast was great with a variety of food choices. And you can see the Acropolis from the hotel restaurant.
I didn't like the bathroom. I didn't have an active air extractor
23 February 2025
We really enjoy our stay. If we ever come back to Athens, we will stay at the Electra.
Everything. Clean. Great location. Great views.
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23 February 2025
Fabulous
Overall all was great, the cleanliness, the location, the facilities and the friendliness of staff. Highly recommended for an efficient and comfortable stay
only take the room was a bit smaller than your average same-rate-hotel.
19 February 2025
Great place to stay in central Athens!
Fantastic views and comfortable room. The staff was very friendly too!
18 February 2025
Wonderful
I need a firm bed for my back and as for most hotels, the bed was too soft for my back, I slept several nights on the couch that was perfectly firm. 😀 The staff was wonderful everywhere save for one lady at breakfast… good service but with attitude which I wasn’t expecting given the exceptional staff we had encountered there. A must when in Athens.
16 February 2025
Exceptional
Location, size of room, breakfast
15 February 2025
Exceptional
The view from the roof top breakfast room was just amazing.
14 February 2025
Feeling at home
Breakfast the comfort of the bed
None
13 February 2025
A well presented hotel with very well trained staff.
The location is very central and the staff are all very attentive. We had a room with a view of the Acropolis which always looked wonderful.
The roof top restaurant was overpriced, but that said, the view is amazing.
12 February 2025
Exceptional
Beautiful clean hotel very tastefully decorated. Really friendly helpful staff
12 February 2025
This was the perfect property for our short stay in Athens. It was close to the Acropolis as well as the shops and cafe
The property was in a great location. Our accommodation was extremely comfortable. The property was central and in close proximity to all of the sites. The staff were friendly and breakfast was terrific!
I liked everything about the property.
10 February 2025
Fantastic Hotel and Location
Loved everything about the hotel especially the wonderful staff . Location was fantastic and can walk to many attractions, shops and restaurants. The view of the Acropolis from the rooftop restaurant was added bonus.
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9 February 2025
Amazing hotel in the heart of Athens
Breakfast with an incredible view, very helpful staff, rooms were pristine and very spacious, location is awesome
Nothing specific
8 February 2025
Great hotel
Excellent location! Amazing staff especially check in and bell captains! Good size room and nice breakfast
It is old and needs to be renovated! Especially in case of electronics! Housekeeping can improve
6 February 2025
Lovely
The breakfast is very good,and I love the view there!
The room is a little small and narrow.
5 February 2025
Perfect
Breakfast buffet was amazing as were the staff
Nothing
4 February 2025
Fabulous
Great location and fantastic views. Very helpful staff.
Nothing.
3 February 2025
This hotel is most highly recommended.
Every aspect of our stay - hotel location, ambiance, the rooftop restaurant with a beautiful view of the Acropolis, helpful - knowledgeable and friendly staff, value - - - all were superior.
3 February 2025
Exceptional
Evrthing was wanderful
3 February 2025
Perfect Stay
Amazing location, very good breakfast with perfect view, very kind and helpful staff. İt was a very good experience
3 February 2025
Very good
The view is amazing and the stuff is very friendly and the hotel is very clean
The sofa bed was not comfortable
2 February 2025
Best ☺️
Every thing was perfect : The room The breakfast restaurant The food The friendly staff
31 January 2025
It was great
The room was very nice, clean, comfortable. Great location and breakfast, very nice staff!
The rooms aren’t sound isolated so you hear all the voices from the corridor. The renovation work you hear pretty loud during the day (not at the early morning or at the evening)
29 January 2025
Superb location, sensational rooftop restaurant, great staff
Splendid view of Athens (incl. Acropolis) when having the breakfast at the rooftop restaurant. Underground parking available - a big issue when you stay in Athens and have a car. Excellent staff - special thanks to Olga, who saved our New Year's Eve by booking a table at a very nice restaurant in the area.
Rooms are rather small for a 5-stars hotel - but this is quite typical for capital cities.
29 January 2025
Very good
Convenient location with good value.
28 January 2025
Exceptional
Everything
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15 January 2025
Real Athen spirit
Location,staff,breakfast were perfect.Sophia who was in charge of concierge service was very kind and attentive to our requests.We cannot thank her enough for her kindness and professionalism.
The only criticism about the hotel was that the housekeeper was knocking at the doors at 5 p.m -6 p.m You hear all the knocking when you try to take some rest after all day walking.One day İ left a note about this the housekeeper took this note but nobody contacted me.
11 January 2025
Fabulous
İ liked everything about the hotel, improvement point is only pool and spa area, no space to rest .
Hotel facilities
Food & Drink
- - Restaurant
- - Bar
- - Breakfast in the room
- - Snack bar
- - Special diet menus (on request)
- - Wine/champagne (additional charge)
- - Fruits (additional charge)
- - Coffee house on site
General
- - Room service
- - Non-smoking rooms
- - Family rooms
- - Lift
- - Safety deposit box
- - Soundproof rooms
- - Car hire
- - Heating
- - Non-smoking throughout
- - Air conditioning
- - Shuttle service (additional charge)
- - Airport shuttle (additional charge)
- - Shared lounge/TV area
Business facilities
- - Meeting/banquet facilities (additional charge)
- - Business centre
- - Fax/photocopying (additional charge)
Reception services
- - 24-hour front desk
- - Luggage storage
- - Concierge service
- - Invoice provided
Activities
- - Sauna
- - Fitness centre
- - Spa and wellness centre (additional charge)
- - Massage (additional charge)
- - Hot tub/Jacuzzi
- - Indoor pool
- - Indoor pool (all year)
- - Beauty Services
- - Facial treatments
- - Manicure
- - Body treatments
- - Body scrub
- - Body wrap
- - Light therapy
- - Spa facilities
- - Steam room
- - Spa lounge/relaxation area
- - Spa/wellness packages
- - Back massage
- - Neck massage
- - Foot massage
- - Couples massage
- - Head massage
- - Hand massage
- - Full body massage
- - Fitness
- - Fitness/spa locker rooms
- - Walking tours (additional charge)
- - Bike tours (additional charge)
Outdoors
- - Garden
- - Terrace
- - BBQ facilities (additional charge)
- - Outdoor pool
- - Sun terrace
- - Outdoor pool (seasonal)
Entertainment and family services
- - Babysitting/child services (additional charge)
Cleaning services
- - Laundry (additional charge)
- - Dry cleaning (additional charge)
- - Ironing service (additional charge)
- - Trouser press (additional charge)
- - Daily housekeeping
Parking
- - Parking garage
- - Electric vehicle charging station
Pool and wellness
- - Rooftop pool
- - Pool with view
- - Heated pool
- - Salt-water pool
- - Pool bar
- - Sun loungers or beach chairs
- - Sun umbrellas
- - Swimming pool
- - Swimming Pool
Transport
- - Airport pick up (additional charge)
- - Airport drop off (additional charge)
Miscellaneous
- - 24-hour security
- - Key card access
- - Security alarm
- - Smoke alarms
- - CCTV in common areas
- - CCTV outside property
- - Fire extinguishers
- - Breakfast takeaway containers
- - Delivered food is securely covered
- - Access to health care professionals
- - Thermometers for guests provided by property
- - Face masks for guests available
20 March 2025
Very good