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Great Location Great Staff Great Price What a bargain. Staff will help you with any needs you might have. Bunks may have heavy traffic, but what do you expect. Bathrooms are clean. Private rooms for those who want less traffic. — Allan Morgan , USA (2011-07-06) Does very well what a hostel has to do George is a star, he knows Athens from the inside and is a 'mean' host at the top floor bar; he leads a very helpful team. 'Marina the Cleana' must get special mention, she keeps the place savoury, treat her right and you will get a lovely smile (but sorry for walking on the wet floor Marina!). Zeus was a great help to me during the Iceland 'black cloud' incident when they were under a lot of pressure themselves, big respect. FOUR STARS for service, value, great company, location (the market district is great), and access to city. I would happily stay here all summer. This is backpacking as it used to be in the 70s, with a bit of attitude and a lot of character. I will be back! — John S, Backpacker, 60 , UK (2010-04-24) It was a nice place to stay. The staff was very helpful with directions and very nice. They were helpful about what to watch out for in the city. I am very happy with my stay in the Hostel and in Athens. — Jimmy , USA (2010-01-19) Nice on the surface, but bedbugs at night! The hostel is close to everything we loved in Athens and we were used to staying in areas frequented by prostitutes and such. Across the street appears to be a small dingy hotel for prostitutes, but also across the street is a posh upper end hotel as well! This hostel looked fine, clean rooms, clean basic bathrooms. The downsides are that they have you share keys. We found ourselves locked out one night because our roommates went upstairs to the rooftop bar and took the key with them. So we climbed the four flights of stairs a couple times to finally get a spare key. Another downside, they ran out of top sheets! What kind of hostel runs out of sheets? Although we saw the cleaners cleaning out the rooms and the bathrooms. The absolutely worse part was that I was eaten alive by bedbugs. The first night I had over a hundred bites and the next night invited even more. I wouldn't stay here again. — Jessica , American (2009-09-14) Stuck here when another hostel lost our booking Made a reservation two months in advance at another hostel, received a confirmation email, showed up with all our luggage on our day of arrival and they didn't have us listed and had no room for us. Their solution to this problem was to find us a room at Hotel Zeus and paid for our cab to get there. However, Hotel Zeus was absolutely awful. We reserved our original hostel because of all the recommendations in various guidebooks. We made this reservation for the main purpose of not ending up in a place like Hotel Zeus. To explain just how bad it was, Zeus, while closer to the city center, is in a very sketchy neighborhood and in a much louder area than we wanted to stay in. As a result, we did not explore the neighborhood beyond the main street, and were woken repeatedly by noise outside when we had our window open the first night. our first night we were put in a room on the 4th floor (no elevator by the way) directly across from the bar, which kept us awake until well after 1am (we were terribly jet lagged and really wanted an early night). we had to wake up early, as Hotel Zeus wasn't sure whether they would have a room for us the second night. We wanted to return to our first hostel, but there were still no rooms available. We managed to move to the third floor in Zeus to avoid the bar noise, but were basically chased out of our original room by the very rude housekeeping woman 30 minutes before the checkout time. Our room on the third floor had the window painted shut, which made for a very hot, miserable, stuffy room in late July, but when we complained to reception they still insisted on charging us 4 euro to use the air conditioner. The showers on the 3rd and 4th floor did not work because the water pressure was not strong enough to reach the upper floors if anyone on the lower floor was using a shower (this was true of the sink in our room as well). We managed to get the 2nd floor showers to work (the first floor appeared to have mold growing near the ceiling of their showers, gross). Once again, on our day of departure the housekeeping woman knocked on our door well before the required checkout time to ask us for a second time that day if we were checking out. We received no paid fare back to our first hostel to catch the Pink Bus, and had to haul our luggage on the metro once again. When we complained to the reception at the first place about the very poor experience we had at Zeus, we were told simply that they would "take care of it." No offer for a refund on a hotel we were basically forced to pay for (where else do we go at the height of tourist season?) that we very clearly did not want. — C.Rice , USA (2009-08-01) Good for the money! this is a true hostel, with bunk beds and one sink in the room! it is not a five star hotel. there are no double beds (that i've seen) and the bathrooms are simply functional, not luxurious. but in my six times staying at this hostel, i've never had a dirty room, bugs, or rude service. the only problems i've encountered have been a few bathrooms under construction (in which case you just go to another floor) and maybe some noise at night if you sleep with the door to the balcony open (the street is not the cleanest or most tame at night). other than that it is a steal for the money! internet, a/c, clean beds and storage. unless you are a spoiled brat used to staying at the holiday inn, (in which case you shouldn't be staying at a hostel) you will enjoy your stay. there is no "sexual moaning" at night! — Audria , Knoxville, TN U.S.A. (2008-05-01) Good, clean, convenient and cheap place to stay I stayed here a second time, in March of 2008, and while Dean is gone from behind the front desk, Robert's still there and he's helpful and friendly. My comments remain pretty much the same, though this time the prostitutes had moved over a few blocks from deeper in the Arab district to the street the hostel is on. They still stayed a couple blocks away from the hostel, and they aren't close enough to hassle you as you come and go from the hostel, but I will admit there was one night when they got into some kind of tizzy and woke me at 3 in the morning. Still they don't hassle you directly if you walk by them and if you tell them you're not interested(no grabbing your arm or hanging their arms around your shoulder type of thing and insisting that you spend some time with them) and other than that one night they didn't cause any trouble. They don't even really hit the streets till late so if you go to bed early you won't even know they're out there. The hostel is clean, warm, convenient, free internet and the Central Market is right around the corner along with a decent cafe. A good price and quite convenient to just about most things you'll want to see in Athens. The metro and Monistiraki flea-market is a ten-minute walk or less. Syntagma Square maybe 20 minutes and the Acropolis probably less than a half-hour walk. The neighborhood's a good place to hang out and people watch or shop, including a Marks & Spencers less than 5 minutes away if you came to Athens to shop at Marks & Spencers. I felt completely safe there and its clean and comfortable; I'd take a small child to stay there with me and not be worried any more than staying at a 5-star hotel. Oh, and both times I stayed there, there was hot water 24-7, blankets, a storage room for luggage, clean bathrooms and a clean room and one could shut and lock the bathroom doors. — John Christopher Hall , USA (2008-03-16) We stayed at Zeus in November 2006. Quite an experience. Day and night you can hear the sexual moaning of prostitutes. The doors don't lock properly. The showers and toilets are interesting to say the least. But the neighbourhood is terrific, close to everything. Don't book your mother in at the Zeus! — John (2007-02-27) Dear mother of god. Last time I was in Europe, I stayed in Hostels exclusively. I never had any problems with them before, no matter how cheap they were. This by far is the worst hostel/establishment that I've ever stayed in. The hookers that filled the street when we arrived (came in from the islands, the ferry got in at 1:30 a.m.) were amusing, but overall the neighborhood is very bad (even confirmed by the doorman). The hostel itself looks like it was a brothel turned hostel. The door to our room had been kicked in more than once previously, the lock on the door was mostly just to make you feel better, as it really didn't lock - and the bed had some form of bed bugs. There are bars on the windows three stories up, which is also amusing, but it also makes you wonder. Frankly, its location is nice, though the neighborhood and hostel are not. — Nadia (2007-01-01) It's ok -- clean and not extra hot, but it's just to go for a sleep. Lacking entertaining facilities I think. — monica BCN (2006-09-06) The location of this hostel is great, you can easily gain access to the places of interest like the Acropolis, the Parthenon, and the Ancient Agora. Other places within walking distance are the Academy, National Park, as well as the National Library. Besides, if you feel like going somewhere besides these, the metro station is just nearby. Moreover, restaurants and cafe nearby is opened till as late as one or two a.m., so if you are hungry, that shouldnt be a problem. No curfew in this hostel!
Last but not least, the staffs there are helpful as well -- willing to tell more about the place of interest. So, I would like to recommend fellow backpackers who are looking for budget hotel, Hostel Zeus is what you want!! — Anonymous (2006-06-08) This is possibly, no not possibly, the worst hotel/hostel that God has ever put on the face of the planet. It was not newly renovated. It's in the middle of renovations, the bar is closed, there is dust everywhere, the showers have no hot water, and there is an abundance of water damage that they must use as their homespun decor. It is in a bad neighborhood and a very dirty street. I give it the fact that it is close to the sights, but that is it. It is the lowest of the low, of the low, of the lowest possible low of the low. That makes no sense but I want to get my point across. Never stay there if you can help it, it is not worth the trash on the outside on the street. — Annoyed (2006-04-19) Hostel Zeus is kind of what you expect from a cheap European hostel. It wasn't pretty but it had (what seemed like) clean sheets, hot water, and a pretty helpful staff that worked at the desk. Don't stay there if you are looking for something atmospheric! Good location though--quick walk to the main attractions. — Becca (2006-01-22) This hostel has obviously improved greatly over time. It's got good clean rooms, modern bathrooms, etc. Great location in Monastiraki near to all the main attractions that Athens has to offer. Friendly staff, but be warned....it's a long way to the top floor with a heavy rucksack!! — Mike, UK (2005-08-28) Hotel Zeus was great. I stayed for almost a week and it was an adventure. The reception guy took us out to hang with the locals. He was always hilarious, and made sure we were always having a good time. This is not a nice pretty frou-frou, la-di-da place. It's a place to stay for the night, and if you want a good time I'd definitely recommend it. I'd stay again in a heartbeat! — Rob (2005-04-04)