# Staying in Neos Kosmos & Syngrou, Athens: Map & Verdict Verdict: Avoid. Cheap for a reason. Read the cons first. Interactive map: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens/neos-kosmos Every Athens district: https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens.md 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. Facts: 30 min walk to Monastiraki Square; 55 min to the airport; 30 min to the beach; price €€; best for business trips, budget, beach; lines M2, T6. 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 Hotels in Neos Kosmos & Syngrou: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fdest_id%3D1967%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. - [Makrygianni](https://stayzones.com/where-to-stay-in-athens/makrygianni): Recommended. 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. - [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.