Athens Lights Hotel in Athens

Noisy and dirty. Never saw anyone at the reception desk in the entrance, but could call the number on the handwritten note on the front door to get in instructions for the room key.
Couldn’t find a do not disturbe sign -that didn’t matter though, as there was no cleaning of the room for the eight nights I stayed. Room was not clean on arrival and bathroom smelled of sewer. After the first couple of days I was curious to see how long it would take before room would be cleaned. It never happened and I bought toilet paper myself when the provided roll ran out.
No information of any kind in the room except from WiFi password.
The bed was good and aircon worked well. Many mosquitoes during night even with windows closed and plenty of small ants. Very noisy from the outside area and from neighbours and other floor guests.
Calling it a hotel is an exaggeration, no services of any kind or shared lobby area or anything. Just rooms.

You get what you paid for….. I’m a backpacker from southern Europe who has never written a review before, but I felt compelled to here. When I needed assistance most (having problems with the key to access the room) the two “emergency” phone numbers for the hotel were left unanswered several times for hours, making it impossible to get ahold of any hotel staff. Aside from this minor inconvenience, the room was minuscule and the bathroom would be flooded after a quick shower, which to me isn’t a big deal since I’m used to it. I gave this a 2 star review because it’s in an okay location and it provides average bare minimum essentials. The price is very low and it shows, but it’s honestly fine for a low maintenance traveler! Just lower quality but at a good and competitive price. Safe travels!

I booked this hotel through capital one. No instructions for check in were ever sent except for check in starts at 2pm. When I arrived at 330 pm no one was at the hotel working. It took me almost an 30 minutes to reach the owner on the number listed on front door. My cab driver was finally able to contact them and staff walked me through lockboxes to get to my room (remote) Huge inconvenience locating hotel and checking in. Once I got to my room I was very sweaty due to the length of time it took me to get into the building. I went to take a shower, and it was broken. The faucet was the only part that worked, not the shower heads. Since no one was working in the building I was not able to get this corrected.

Location:

Hard to find, lots of open drug use all around location. Not appropriate for families. Felt unsafe. Close to acropolis is about the only pro of the location.

Rooms were nice, and would have received higher score if the shower worked. Service was horrible. Would strongly recommend going somewhere else.