The Phidias Hotel is nicely located right near the Acropolis and the Ancient Agora. It is very close to Thission subway station, which is a nice bonus (despite the fact that they are doing construction on the subway system). The area around Thission Station is home to quite a number of outdoor cafes, which are extremely busy midday, but the crowd tapers off at night.
The hotel itself is nothing too amazing. It is a budget hotel in every sense of the word. The rooms are clean, but you can tell they are very old. They don't hold heat well, and the walls could use some new paint to liven them up a bit. The bathroom is pretty small, but we're used to that by now. They do offer breakfast, but the highlight for me was the elevator. The elevator was absolutely ancient. It was about one step away from the lever operated ones from the 30s. You press the up button hard in the lobby, then you wait to see the small window in the door light up, you get in, close the door (there is no safety gate), and it goes up.
Other than that, there is nothing spectacular or horrible about the Phidias Hotel. It was one of the easiest for us to find this trip (bonus!). We want to stay in the Plaka (the old part of Athens) when we go back, but there was nothing wrong with the Phidias. I would stay there again.
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