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

Verdict: Avoid. Cheap for a reason. Read the cons first.

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

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.

Facts: 30 min walk to Monastiraki Square; 55 min to the airport; 55 min to the beach; price €; best for budget; lines M1.

Victoria and Attiki are the apartment districts north of Omonia along Patission and Acharnon: Plateia Viktorias, Agios Panteleimon and Plateia Attikis. They are ordinary, crowded, working neighbourhoods with a large migrant population, and their hotels are among the cheapest in the city with a metro station outside.

That station is the whole argument. M1 at Victoria and Attiki is two or three stops from Omonia and Monastiraki, and the rooms cost about a fifth less than the median district. On a booking map it looks like part of the centre.

It is not. Monastiraki is thirty minutes on foot, there is not a single notable sight in the district, and hardly anyone rents to visitors here, which tells you how it compares. The route that decides it is the walk home: from Plaka or Psyri it runs straight through Omonia and past Vathis Square, the blocks locals avoid after dark. Pay the difference and sleep south of Omonia.

What works:
- Victoria and Attiki on M1, two or three stops from Monastiraki
- Rooms about a fifth below the median district
- Close to Pedion tou Areos park and the National Archaeological Museum
- Ordinary neighbourhood prices in shops and cafés

What does not:
- Thirty minutes on foot to Monastiraki
- Not a single notable sight in the district
- The walk home from Plaka runs through Omonia and past Vathis Square
- Few visitors rent here; this is residential Athens, not a base

Hotels in Victoria & Attiki: https://www.stay22.com/allez/booking?aid=stayzones&link=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.booking.com%2Fsearchresults.html%3Fss%3DVictoria%2520Square%252C%2520Athens%26latitude%3D37.99506288411764%26longitude%3D23.72547390058824%26nflt%3Ddistance%253D1000%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.
- [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.
- [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.