Athens, Greece

Emerald Hotel Athens

Price per night from$210.03

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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 (EUR180.92), via openexchangerates.org, using today’s exchange rate.

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Style

Boutique gem

Setting

Syntagma central

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An eyecatching jewel recently unearthed in Greece’s ancient capital is no archeological piece but a well-cut boutique escape, Emerald Hotel Athens. Its clutch of airy suites in a storied townhouse at the heart of downtown is a discovery to treasure. And its glittering setting — secured with a locally loved Med restaurant and courtyard bar — makes it crystal clear why this is a standout stay. 

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Facilities

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Need to know

Rooms

Five, including one suite.

Check–Out

11am, and check-in is at 3pm. Both are flexible, on request and subject to availability.

More details

Rates include an à la carte breakfast, served at Yphès.

Also

Unfortunately, none of the rooms at Emerald Hotel Athens are accessible if you use a wheelchair; even the stairs up to the rooms are fairly steep, so this is not the hotel for you if you have mobility issues.

At the hotel

Concierge, 24-hour reception and free WiFi throughout. In rooms: satellite TV, climate control, minibar, Nespresso coffee machine, free bottled water, bathrobes, slippers and Frédéric Malle bath products.

Our favourite rooms

All five rooms flaunt curvaceous mid-century-style furnishings that bring glamour to their light-filled, lofty settings. As you’d expect from the neoclassical façade of this elegant townhouse, arched doorways, original plasterwork and wrought-iron details add to its graceful romance. There’s not much to separate any of these rooms, but the duplex Emerald Suite has a terrace that sports an alfresco bath, as well as a skyline-spying day-bed.

Packing tips

A thirst for history, an appetite for city wanders and a curiosity for cocktail bars.

Children

Little Smiths need to be at least 12 years old to stay at Emerald Hotel Athens, but with no connecting rooms or options for an additional bed in yours, this feels like more of a grown-ups-only address.

Food and Drink

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Top Table

Let your mood dictate whether you opt for a people-watching spot overlooking Perikleous or a quieter table in the courtyard.

Dress Code

No need for smart threads by day, but colour-block linens and statement accessories will suit Yphès’s artful interiors for evening.

Hotel restaurant

Although your approach to Yphès will come from sleeping right by it, this accomplished restaurant is foremost a locally loved dining spot. Modern Mediterranean cuisine is spun with seasonal produce, spotlighting classic Greek flavours, and formality around starters and mains is eschewed in favour of any-order plates you’ll want to share. Its contemporary dining space is kitted out with pale wood, patterned furnishings and chunky stoneware crockery. Breakfast shines, too, as much for its devotion to freshly brewed coffee as its panache with pastries.

Hotel bar

The all-day set-up of Yphès caters to your thirst, too, morphing from morning coffee spot to lively drinking hole come apéro hour: we’re opting for a fig-soda-and-gin Fizzy & Mediterranean to wet the way to dinner, but we’ll be back for dessert in liquid form with Caramel Old Fashioneds. 

Last orders

Yphès serves breakfast from 8am until 11am, then opens from noon until last orders at 11pm.

Room service

A selection of dishes can be ordered to your room between 11am and 10pm.

Location

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Address
Emerald Hotel Athens
Perikleous 35 Street
Athens
10563
Greece

The capital’s historic greats play out all around you at Emerald Hotel Athens, set in a prime downtown spot on Perikleous between Syntagma and Monastiraki.

Planes

Athens International Airport is 40 to 60 minutes from Emerald Hotel Athens by car, and private transfers can be arranged at additional cost. The 50-minute metro ride from the airport on Line 3 to Monastiraki is a more predictable option.

Trains

Athens’ main railway hub, Stathmos Larisis, is a 15-minute drive from the hotel, served by express Intercity trains, domestic sleeper options and suburban services; there’s a taxi stand at the station. For navigating around Athens, Monastiraki (Lines 1 and 3) and Syntagma (Lines 2 and 3) are your closest metro stations.

Automobiles

There’s no overlap in the holiday Venn diagram between ‘driving in Athens’ and ‘having a good time’; follow the locals’ lead and stick to the metro or taxis and chauffeured transfers.

Other

For ferry comings and goings, Piraeus port is a 35-minute drive from the hotel, depending on traffic, and staff can arrange private transfers for an extra charge.

Worth getting out of bed for

Emerald Hotel Athens is your springboard to exploring the capital’s rich history: dip into its 20th-century culture browsing the collections of the National Historical Museum, or exploring the life and legacy of La Divina at the Maria Callas Museum. Artefacts are coming up Roman at the colonnaded Agora, also a walk away. On Perikleous, you’re within strolling distance of the Athens National Garden (home to a zoo, botanical gardens and yet more Roman ruins). And it’s just as accessible for paying homage to the Acropolis and Temple of Zeus, too.

Local restaurants

Behind Emerald Hotel Athens, Feedel Urban Gastronomy is a delectable double-hitter with a cocktail menu that’s as polished as its tweezer-arranged Greek small plates. For Asian bites, try Sososo Ramen or Japanese eatery, Tanpopo. Warm lighting and bistro furniture transport you to Italy for casual dishes of freshly cooked pasta at convivial Brigante. 

Local cafés

Smith-approved Ergon Bakehouse is a city legend among loafmakers with three sourdough-revering outposts in Athens including your local on Mitropoleos & Patroou, where you can pick up artful pastries and filling-laden ciabatta sandwiches. For confections of coffee and chocolate, sticky-sweet cakes and cookies, head to prettily painted Kimolia Art Café.

Local bars

Aperitif hour is a lively affair at Ipitou The Café, a corner spot where tables spill onto the pavement and Negronis and margaritas star on a cocktail list of classics. Head to the plant-fringed rooftop at The Dolli at Acropolis for alfresco glasses of crisp sparkling wine with a side of Parthenon views.

Reviews

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By Mr & Mrs Smith

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 petite retreat in the Greek capital and unpacked their jars of antipasti and bottles of mastiha, a full account of their basking-in-history break will be with you. In the meantime, to whet your wanderlust, here's a quick peek inside Emerald Hotel Athens…

A central locale is the obvious trump card of Emerald Hotel Athens — set in the heart of the capital’s downtown, where everything from the Acropolis to the Roman Forum is walkable. And what a prime pied-à-terre this boutique bolthole makes, sporting just five rooms in a storied townhouse, where original features such as plasterwork, wrought-iron flourishes and period archways marry with honey-hued parquet, jewel-toned accents and a raft of mod-cons to rival any contemporary stay. 

Yet to call this a mere basecamp is too reductive. Emerald is rooted in what (despite its centrality) feels like an authentic neighbourhood in Syntagma, dotted with cafés, bars and restaurants. And the hotel, too, has its own locally loved haunt to contribute in the form of Yphès — Emerald’s Mediterranean dining spot, where casual sharing plates and classic cocktails are as popular with Athenians as they are with those lucky enough to be sleeping upstairs. 

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