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M2 · T6
9.9 / km²
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Staying in Neos Kosmos & Syngrou
Syngrou Avenue is the six-lane road from the Temple of Olympian Zeus to the sea, and the big international hotels are strung along it. Behind them Neos Kosmos is an ordinary residential district with a station on M2 two stops from Syntagma and the T6 tram running down to the water.
On paper it is a good deal: the brand names at well under central rates, a pool in August, and the Onassis Stegi concert hall on the avenue. That is why it gets booked. On a booking map it also looks close, because the distance to the Acropolis is only about two kilometres.
What that two kilometres is made of is the problem. It is a motorway-scale avenue with no reason to walk any of it, so in practice every trip in and out is the metro, thirty minutes on foot or a taxi. There is nothing here to do in the evening once you come back, and the buildings that face Syngrou take its traffic noise from 06:00. Book it if you want a pool and a business rate. Do not book it expecting to be in Athens.
What works
- Big-brand hotels with pools, at well under central Athens rates
- Neos Kosmos on M2 is two stops from Syntagma
- The T6 tram reaches the coast in about twenty minutes
- The Onassis Stegi concert and theatre programme is on Syngrou
What does not
- Thirty minutes on foot to Monastiraki, along a six-lane avenue
- Nothing to walk to in the evening once you are back
- Syngrou carries traffic noise from 06:00 and the rooms face it
- It looks central on a booking map and it does not work like it
the next question is whether to stay just outside of Plaka, or along one of the main routes going to the coast (e.g., Leoforos Andrea Siggrou is home to the Grand Hyatt, Marriott, and InterContinental hotels) [...] These latter options may allow for staying in more modern hotels or with a scenic coastal view, but then one has to travel to Plaka and back for sightseeing.