Noho Boutique Koukaki , Premium Living

I confess that as our taxi weaved it's way into smaller and smaller streets and the amount of graffiti increased I began to wonder what I had done in terms of making this booking. The building itself bears no advertising of it's nature and we did wonder whether we had been dropped at the right location - not aided by our initial attempts at gaining access. However, as soon as we were inside we knew that we had made a good choice - the doorway was like an entrance to a different world and instantly felt safe and comfortable and that was before we even got to our room. If not already apparent to you then please note that the property is a simple self-catering, self-check in one comprising in our case of a bedroom, shower room (bath would have been better) and a small storage space, fridge and tea/coffee making facilities. It always surprises and disappoints me that such venues don't provide just a small amount of coffee / milk / bottled water to ease visitors arrival but there is a very comprehensive convenience shop just around the corner. Not having visited Greece before, let alone Athens we had no idea what to expect but dropped our cases and headed out into the evening. We had been given rough directions by our excellent taxi driver but had not quite anticipated the fact of just how short a stroll we would have for our first sighting of the Acropolis and Panthenon. We had walked for just 5 minutes before being blown away by the spectacle viewed from an adjoining street although it would be fair to say that it is probably more difficult to find areas of Athens that don't have a view of the Acropolis than it is to find those that do. If we ever revisit Athens then we would definitely look at coming back here rather than the location of our second part of our stay which was a disaster given expectations attaching to certain high end brands (separate review).