Athens Riviera, Greece

Ace Hotel & Swim Club Athens

Price per night from$188.16

Price information

If you haven’t entered any dates, the rate shown is provided directly by the hotel and represents the cheapest double room (inclusive of taxes and fees) available in the next 60 days.

Prices have been converted from the hotel’s local currency (EUR179.35), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

Style

Dive and jive

Setting

South-of-Athens seaside

Halcyon Ace Hotel & Swim Club Athens is making a splash on the capital’s coastline. This retro-chic retreat nods to the riviera’s golden age with its plant-adorned Brutalist balconies, reclaimed vintage furnishings and pastel-hued pool. Dip into your room’s vinyl selection, lap up Hockney-inspired murals and contemporary artwork, or float to a host of bars for cocktail hour. Freestyling comes easy at this riviera des-res. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

120, including five suites.

Check–Out

Noon, but flexible, subject to availability and an extra charge. Earliest check-in, 3pm.

More details

Rates at Ace Hotel & Swim Club Athens don’t include breakfast.

Also

The Accessible Queen room is adapted for wheelchair users and has a roll-in shower. The lift reaches every floor, and there is free accessible parking outside of the hotel.

Please note

Finishing touches are being put on some upper-level rooms and the rooftop pool (which is due to open in April 2025); any disruption will be kept to a minimum.

At the hotel

Gym, charged laundry service and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: TV, air-conditioning, mini fridge, bathrobes, slippers and organic bath products; some rooms also have a turntable with records or D'Angelico acoustic guitar.

Our favourite rooms

Setting the mood comes easy in the Seventies-inspired rooms at Ace Hotel & Swim Club Athens: a turntable with a stack of vinyls is on hand in some bedrooms for amping up the romance; a selection of rooms also has a D’Angelico acoustic guitar if you’d rather do the serenading yourself. You can sing from the rooftops — or rather, the balcony — in the Deluxe rooms, which have soul-stirring views over the sea, pool or city. Up the hotel’s sleeve is the Ace Suite, a mid-century-nodding crashpad that’s kitted out with its own bar and kitchen.

Poolside

Expectations for the pool are set high with ‘swim club’ in the hotel’s name, but Ace Hotel dutifully delivers, and then some. The retro-chic main pool will soothe your sweet tooth with its lemon-meringue-pie-shaded parasols and pistachio-green sunloungers; spells in the Jacuzzi by the bar are just as palatable. It’s open for leisurely dips or athletic lengths from 10am to 8pm. A rooftop pool is set to open in spring 2025.

Packing tips

A capo and pick to fine-tune your riffing; lean into the vintage vibe by the pool with a floral swim cap and outré Sixties-style swimwear.

Also

This riviera retreat has some serious design credentials: architects Ciguë helmed the hotel’s overhaul; Salma Barakat created custom bedspreads and Athenian brand Back to the Future supplied vintage furnishings.

Pet‐friendly

Pooches are welcome in all rooms for €25 each a night. See more pet-friendly hotels in Athens Riviera.

Children

Welcome. Baby cots can be provided on request; the Double Double rooms sleep four, and babysitting can be arranged with an external company.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

In one of the sun-dappled crescent banquettes at Sebastian, or on its terrace by the olive tree.

Dress Code

Coastal casual for Sebastian — you can leave that top button (or two) undone; fresh out the water at Poolside, and in your fitness gear to Good Chemistry.

Hotel restaurant

Sebastian is a cultural melting pot: French flavours are married with American classics, and all ingredients are sourced locally. For your most important meal of the day, opt for Greek salad-topped avocado toast or ricotta hotcakes with lemon curd. Lunch’s offerings centre around salads, fresh bites and burgers to make way for indulgent dinners of Ionian lobster frites or steak au poivre. There’s a sense of old-world elegance to the open-air space, and the pool-like sapphire tiles and shadow-casting shutters create a whimsical effect that nods to the hotel’s swim club. Good Chemistry is the hotel’s café that serves on-the-go pastries and parfaits, plus day-starting smoothies and caffeinated brews.

Hotel bar

Sebastian’s bar mixes up tipples that nod to the Athens Riviera: we’re eyeing an Aesthesi — a refreshing blend of gin, pine liqueur and pink grapefruit soda. The dark-wood Lobby is a sultry contrast to the sunshine hues of the rest of the resort; settle in for late-night bites, a local beer or classic cocktail. At Poolside, post-swim refuelling is delivered in rum-laced milkshakes, glasses of Greek wine, and chips ’n’ dips.

Last orders

At Sebastian, breakfast is from 7am to 2pm; lunch is between 11am and 5pm, and for dinner, it’s 6pm to 11pm. Good Chemistry serves from 7am to 5pm; the Lobby pours from 4pm to 1am, and Poolside is open from 11am to 8pm.

Room service

You can order dishes from a dedicated menu around the clock.

Location

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Address
Ace Hotel & Swim Club Athens
Artemisiou 1
Glyfada
166 75
Greece

Ace Hotel & Swim Club Athens sits in glam Glyfada, on the Greek capital’s riviera.

Planes

Athens International Airport is a 45-minute drive from the hotel, and staff can arrange one-way transfers from €45.

Automobiles

There’s no need to drive as taxis and transfers are easily booked. If you choose to hire a set of wheels, there’s free public parking with electric-vehicle charging stations in front of the hotel.

Worth getting out of bed for

Ace Hotel & Swim Club Athens’ coastal setting places you within easy reach of the Athenian outpost of Glyfada. You’ll easily top up your tan strolling its sun-kissed streets, in between popping into well-heeled boutiques, or focus fully on your bronzing and spend a day on Glyfada Beach or at natural beauty Lake Vouliagmeni. Further down the coastline, the Temple of Poseidon is a mighty spot for sunset, and the Greek capital’s’ historical heart is a short drive away, where you’ll find big-hitter sites such as the scenery-surveying Parthenon and the Acropolis-gazing Philopappos Hill. The bohemian isle of Hydra is within day-tripping distance; as is picturesque Aegina

Local restaurants

Sleek, open-plan Pharaoh is quickly becoming a cornerstone of Athens’ culinary scene, with its wood-fired cooking, Greek dishes with a twist and top selection of local wines. In Smith-approved One&Only Aesthesis, you’ll find Manko, a picture-perfect Peruvian restaurant with a beach-club vibe, where lingering lunches roll into poolside parties.

Local cafés

Tuck into loaded pide, syrupy baklava and spiced cold-brew coffee at laidback Lebanese café, Feyrouz. It might be a case of your eyes being bigger than your belly at Oven Manufactory: organic brunch plates are hearty to say the least, plus you’ll want to save room for a homemade sweet treat.

Local bars

If days spent admiring ancient ruins have stirred something spiritual in you, head to Holy Spirit where bartenders can shake up signature cocktails that might prompt a state of bliss. It’s actually more than that, but Wine is Fine is an in-the-know spot for natural wines, small plates and alfresco night caps (they’re also the savvy sommeliers behind this Ace Hotel’s wine list).

Reviews

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Anonymous review

Every hotel featured is visited personally by members of our team, given the Smith seal of approval, and then anonymously reviewed. As soon as our reviewers have returned from this design-first hotel on the Athens Riviera and unpacked their jewellery finds and bottles of natural wine, a full account of their cool, coastal break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Ace Hotel & Swim Club Athens in Greece…

Worlds collide — or rather eras — at Ace Hotel & Swim Club Athens, a carefully curated homage to its locale on the Athens Riviera. The chronology starts in ancient Greece: the front desk is crafted out of Dionysos marble; artist Panos Profitis’ harpies-shaped lamps adorn each bedroom, and traditional ceramic urns are dotted along terraces.

Time-travel forward to the Fifties when admiring the seashell-hued brutalist façade and pool-blue mural that adds to the hotel’s David Hockney fever-dream feel (referenced in restaurant Sebastian’s navy-tiled bar and poolside tables). 

Mid-century furnishings and vibrant colours imbue bedrooms with a Seventies’ spirit, enriched by the turntables and hand-picked selection of vinyl.

Nostalgia may be threaded through this Ace Hotel, but it celebrates the contemporary too: Good Chemistry café caters to modern-day coffee aficionados, DJ sets mark the weekends, and Athenian wine bar, Wine is Fine, has selected local natural bottles for you to sip — very 21st century.

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Price per night from $172.43