About Sofitel Athens Airport
Sofitel Athens Airport is a 5-star airport hotel located just 51 meters from Athens International Airport making it ideal for business travelers. The hotel features 345 guest rooms, a 24-hour front desk, an indoor heated swimming pool, health club, and massage rooms.
The rooms in the hotel are tastefully furnished with large comfortable beds and marble bathrooms. Satellite TVs, a work desk, and free Wi-Fi are available.
Sofitel Athens Airport features a health spa that offers facial treatments, sauna, and massage services. The hotel offers in-room childcare services. A business center and hair salon are also available.
The hotel features two restaurants that serve delicious international and Mediterranean cuisine. Guests can relax at Artemis bar where live piano music is played or Karavi Bar and Restaurant that is located on the 9th floor.
Athens Airport is close by, the Metropolitan Expo is 2.5km away while Attica Zoological Park is situated 9.2km from the hotel.
Positive Reviews
positive:
Large, airy and quiet rooms.
The rooms at Sofitel Athens Airport are large and spacious with comfortable beds and a work desk making the hotel ideal for the business traveler. The room's soundproofing system is very efficient and filters out all noise making it possible to work with minimal distractions.
positive:
Strategic location next to the airport.
The hotel is located 51 metres from Athens International Airport which makes it easy for travelers who want to catch an early flight to sleepover at the hotel and walk to the airport the next morning. The hotel has, nevertheless, managed to maintain quite high standards for an airport hotel.
positive:
Very warm and cordial staff.
The staff here is very warm, friendly, and cordial. Some guests report that long-time staffers remember their names when they check in several months or years later.
Negative Reviews
negative:
Slow Internet and Wi-Fi
While Sofitel Athens Airport has gone to great lengths to provide free Wi-Fi in both the private rooms and public spaces, some guests have reported that the quality of Internet is not so good and can get very slow at times.
negative:
Smoking is allowed in some rooms.
The hotel allows smoking in some rooms. Guests who fail to specify they would like a non-smoking room might find themselves being booked into a room that was previously occupied by a smoker.
negative:
Some hotel facilities are rundown.
A few guests have reported that some of the hotel's facilities especially in public spaces have been run down. The general layout of the hotel is also old-fashioned and not very eye-catching.