# Is Makrygianni a Good Area to Stay in Athens? Map & Verdict

Verdict: Recommended. Book here without thinking about it.

Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens/makrygianni
Every Athens district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens.md

The few streets behind the Acropolis Museum, on the south slope. Akropoli station is at one corner and the pedestrian promenade to the Acropolis entrance starts at the other.

Facts: 15 min walk to Monastiraki Square; 50 min to the airport; 40 min to the beach; price €€€; best for first-timers, sights, couples, families; lines M2.

Makrygianni is small - a handful of streets between the Acropolis Museum and Syngrou - and almost all of it is hotels. That is the reason to book it. The museum is on the corner, the Acropolis south entrance is five minutes up Dionysiou Areopagitou, the west entrance about eight, and Akropoli station on M2 is two stops from Syntagma.

Dionysiou Areopagitou is pedestrianised the whole way round the rock, so the side you look at is car-free. It is also the reason the rooftop terraces here are worth the premium: they face the Parthenon with nothing in between.

What you give up is a neighbourhood. The restaurants on Makrygianni street are priced for the museum queue, the coaches start unloading on the promenade at 09:00, and nothing here is open late - for a drink you walk into Koukaki or over to Plaka.

What works:
- Acropolis Museum on the corner, Acropolis south entrance five minutes up
- Akropoli station on M2, two stops from Syntagma
- Dionysiou Areopagitou is pedestrianised the whole way round the rock
- Rooftop terraces here look straight at the Parthenon

What does not:
- A few streets, and most of the addresses on them are hotels
- Restaurants price for the museum queue rather than for anyone local
- Coach parties unload on the promenade from 09:00
- Nothing open late; a drink means walking to Koukaki or Plaka

Hotels in Makrygianni: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D17565%26dest_type%3Ddistrict%26group_adults%3D2%26no_rooms%3D1

## Other districts in Athens

- [Plaka & Monastiraki](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens/plaka-monastiraki): Recommended. The lanes under the north face of the Acropolis, and the flea-market square below them. Every ancient site in Athens is a walk from here, and the rates say so.
- [Psyri](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens/psyri): Mixed. Old workshop streets turned bar district, five minutes north of Monastiraki. The liveliest nights in the centre, and the noise that comes with them.
- [Omonia & Vathis Square](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens/omonia): Mixed. The hotel blocks north-west of Omonia Square: the cheapest central beds in Athens, both main metro lines, and the streets Athenians tell you to stay out of after dark.
- [Syntagma & the Commercial Triangle](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens/syntagma): Recommended. The old commercial centre between Syntagma, Monastiraki and Omonia: Parliament, Ermou and the grand hotels. Everything is walkable and three metro lines meet here, at a price.
- [Victoria & Attiki](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens/victoria): Avoid. The dense residential blocks around Victoria and Attiki squares, north of Omonia. Cheap hotels two metro stops from the centre, and every evening walk home runs through Omonia.
- [Kypseli](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens/kypseli): Mixed. 1930s apartment blocks around Fokionos Negri, above Pedion tou Areos. The neighbourhood Athenians moved back to, and the cheapest flats in this guide, with no metro yet.
- [Koukaki](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens/koukaki): Recommended. A residential grid ten minutes below the Acropolis Museum. The cheapest rooms that are still inside walking distance, plus Syngrou-Fix on M2 and the tram to the coast.
- [Kolonaki](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens/kolonaki): Recommended. The expensive quarter on the slope of Lycabettus, above Syntagma. Embassies, boutiques and the cafes Athenians go to be seen in. Nothing ancient is within ten minutes.
- [Pagkrati](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens/pagkrati): Recommended. The residential district behind the Panathenaic Stadium that Athenians moved to and visitors are still catching up with. Half an hour's walk from the Acropolis.
- [Mets](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens/mets): Recommended. A few quiet streets on the hill between the Panathenaic Stadium and the First Cemetery. The calmest place you can sleep this close to the Acropolis.
- [Exarcheia](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens/exarcheia): Mixed. The polytechnic district: rock bars, second-hand bookshops, political graffiti and no metro station. Cheap, twenty minutes from the Acropolis, and not a soft landing.
- [Thiseio & Ano Petralona](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens/thiseio-ano-petralona): Recommended. West of the Acropolis, along the pedestrian street with the best view of it. Thiseio for the cafes and the sites, Ano Petralona above it for rooms at half the price.
- [Gazi & Rouf](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens/gazi-rouf): Mixed. The old gasworks turned club district, and the industrial blocks behind it. Loud on Friday, dead on Tuesday, and half of it closes when the nightlife moves to the coast in summer.
- [Neos Kosmos & Syngrou](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens/neos-kosmos): Avoid. The chain hotels on the road to the coast. Modern rooms, a pool, an M2 station and a tram - and a thirty-minute commute to everything you came to Athens for.