In the know
- Our favourite rooms
- The views get better and the street noise gets quieter the higher up the hotel you go, so ask for a room on the eighth or ninth floor. Nab a Junior Suite if you can, especially if you’re here for a few nights – there’s space to sprawl in and separate sitting rooms. Fresh Hotel’s rooms put the ‘funk’ into ‘functional’, with a white-on-white colour scheme flashed with neon, and stylish Perspex bucket seats and low-slung modernist sofas.
- Packing tips
- Glitzy sunnies for poolside posing; dark shades for the morning after.
- Also
- The rooftop bar and pool area is the father in Fresh’s crisp white cap. From here you can practically tour the monuments of ancient Greece without leaving your lounger, admiring fabulous view of the Acropolis, the Parthenon and the city itself.
Current offers
- Smith card offer
- A choice of a bottle of champagne or welcome cocktails in either of the hotel’s bars
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Fresh Hotel
Athens, Greece[view map]
- Style
- Breath of fresh flair
- Setting
- Downtown Athens
From the neon pink Perspex front desk to the bright white balconied bedrooms, this boutique hotel in the hectic heart of downtown Athens encapsulates modern minimalism, but it’s the sweeping cityscape views from the Fresh Hotel rooftop bar that truly set it apart.
Need to know
- Rooms
- 133, including three suites.
- Rates
- Low season, €140–€390; high season, €160–€390, including breakfast and taxes.
- Check-out
- Midday. Later check-out may be available on request.
- Facilities
- Sauna, steam room, gym, in-house travel agency, WiFi throughout (€10 a day), valet parking, underground car park. In rooms: flatscreen TV, CD player, minibar, Korres toiletries. The suites have DVD players.
- Poolside
- Fresh Hotel’s oversized plunge pool sits invitingly open to the elements on the ninth floor rooftop.
- Also
- Small pets are allowed, but do check with the hotel in advance.
Food & drink
- Hotel restaurant
- Named after the huge Corian bar counter at its centre, the Orange Bar serves a mixed Mediterranean menu (largely sourced from Athens’ central market) in an informal walnut-walled environment.
- Dress code
- Hip, youthful and carefree.
- Top table
- Go for a table by the full-length plate-glass windows onto the street for maximum people-watching potential, both inside and out.
- Last orders
- Orange satisfies midnight-feasters, doling out dishes until 1am. The Air Lounge provides drinks until 2am, but will often keep serving for as long as you’re still standing.
- Room service
- Food and drink can be brought to your room until 2am.
- Hotel bar
- Up on the ninth floor and open to the sky, Air Lounge spreads over several levels and is dotted with uplit olive trees. It’s the hotel’s bargroovy social centrepiece, and is as popular with locals as guests ¬– largely for the incredible skyline views
Also worth knowing
- Children
- Cots can be provided free and the hotel can arrange a babysitter if necessary. The pool is permanently manned by a lifeguard, and the restaurant can provide high chairs, packed lunches, heated milk and a children’s menu.
Smith Members offer
A choice of a bottle of champagne or welcome cocktails in either of the hotel’s bars
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Fresh Hotel
26 Sophokleous & Kleisthenous Street
10552
