travel42 Hotel Review: NEW Hotel, a Member of Design Hotels

NEW Hotel, a Member of Design Hotels travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

Located across the street from the relatively timid, traditional Electra Palace Hotel Athens, 400 meters from Syntagma Square and a little farther from the Acropolis and National Archaeological Museum, this hotel sports a new direction for hotels in Athens. This madcap modern mooring for art-hungry travelers is the boldest bit of real estate in the city.

Akin to Ian Schrager and Julian Schnabel's joint venture at Manhattan's Gramercy Park Hotel, Europe's bigge...