Breeze Boutique Athens

Where do i start...... I will start from the moment i arrived with my Partner! We knew we had been hoodwinked by our travel agent who said "its a very nice 4* hotel, in a very good part of Athens" when our Taxi Driver slowly drove past a street and said "whatever you do, do not go anywhere near this part of town!" Then drove on for another 10 Meters, then stopped to announced we had arrived at our Hotel. He then kindly got a map out of Athens and showed us where to go to get away from the area we was staying in. His exact words were "Never turn right when you leave your hotel!" Not quite the words you want to hear when you pull up outside your hotel! From here it just got worse! We checked in promptly with a very nice concierge, and made our way to out room on the 4th floor. As the door opened we was met by around (This is no joke) 60 teenage students who were having a gathering in the hotel corridor. After getting past the mass gathering we manged to get into out room. On 1st impressions, the room seemed not to bad.... (This did not last that long) The room was around 27* so we turned on the AC, which did not work. We called down to Reception to report this, only to be told that the AC is turned off during the winter months. So we can only open the window to cool the room. The issue here is that when i opened the window, the handle partially came away. 🤦‍♂️ I went into the bathroom to see what it was like, to find Mould around the Shower tray and Soap residue in the soap dish. The shower was actually quite good, when we used it. As we unpacked our clothes i found a packet of peanuts and a bottle of water, which i thought was complementary. Only to find both have been opened and had clearly not been removed by house keeping. After a while, once we had stopped laughing about what the hell we have been mislead by our travel agent. We decided to work up enough courage to venture out. We asked the gentlemen on reception about what the Bar next door the hotel was like and he gave us the impression that the Bar was bad news. So we thought we would give it a miss..... We then (Obviously) turn left immediately as we left the hotel, got as far as the Square and decided to head back to the hotel as we had forgotten the map that the amazing taxi driver has given us. I wont lie, i am from south London and i thought was accustomed to rough areas... Turns out i am not, as this area is another level and i didn't really know what Anxiety is, but i am well aware of what it is now!!! We decided to go against the hotels advice and go into the little bar next Door. This was the highlight of our stay as the bar, the staff and ambiance was spot on. once we came out of the bar and i had a few drinks, i thought i would go and see if the area we was told to stay away from was really that bad. I asked my girlfriend to stay at the doors of the hotel and walked down to the cross road. As i reached the junction, i stuck my head round the corner..... I was met with the following.... 6 Ladies of the night and a group of men who were clearly not of Greek decent. As soon as they saw me, they either thought i was some celebrity or rock star as they all started running towards me, shouting at me. I swiftly turned 180* and ran back to my girlfriend who thought that it was best to let me go down with the titanic and bolted into the safety of the crap Hotel. When i caught up with her, we burst into tears of laughter as we thought this was as bad as it would get..... How wrong was we... We got into bed to find the bed was as lumpy as the mash potato that we got served up at our primary school dinners, and the pillows were filled with some form of lumpy dried custard..... We did try to sleep but they either have a speaker outside our window that plays every sound you do not want to hear from the street outside, or we was actually hearing this for real. (I reckon it was the latter) I think the pinnacle of the audible nightmare was the bang that we clearly heard. When we heard this sound, my partner asked what that was. I just said it was a car hitting something, when i clearly knew it was the same sound you hear when you fire a AR15 Assault Rifle! (I will let you make you mind up about this) After not sleeping for most of the night, we went down for breakfast.. And this was the final straw.. I will list the issue in order with breakkie... 1: All the pastries were hot 2: The hot food was cold 3: The cold meat was basically thin slices of Spam 4: The cheese looked like it wanted to get out of the hotel as quick as we did 5: The orange juice was basically Kia-ora We went into town at 7:30 and frantically searched for another hotel which we duly found. Our new (AMAZING) hotel let us check in immediately and we ran back to "hell on earth" to pack and check out. The only issue here was when we returned to pack our clothes, House keeping had come in and not only has they made our bed.... They decided to remove my Silver Bangle from my beside......... But as far as i was concern this was a minor issue as i was happy for them to keep it, just so i could escape from this nightmare.. To top it off, when we checked out 4 day early... The guy on reception didn't even question why we was leaving so early.... Which pretty much says it all. Please see the amazing view of the outside of the hotel which I have attached.