The best hotels and restaurants in Athens for children

In Athens there are many hotels and apartments with good value for money, so finding an accommodation to spend holidays with children will be very simple. Check our tips on the best areas of Athens for families with children and enjoy your trip. Greek food, based on the Mediterranean diet, is anothe

Greek food, based on the Mediterranean diet, is another of the great attractions of Athens. Your salads, your oil, your vegetables, your yougurt and typical dishes - mousaka or tzatziki - will delight you. Among the fast food options highlights the gyro or typical kebab.

Hotels for children in Athens

Finding accommodation in Athens will be easy because the hotel offer is very large. Luckily, Greece is a very economical country and you will notice it especially when it comes to booking accommodation. You already look for hostels, apartments or hotels, you can find what you want at reasonable prices and in good areas.

Athens is a very large city so the main point to consider is the location. The most recommended areas for families with children are the districts of Plaka and Monastiraki, as well as the surroundings of Syntagma Square. In these areas the tourist bustle of the city is concentrated and from here, you can comfortably go to the main points of interest of Athens.

If you travel in summer, it is very likely that high temperatures will make you spend more than one hot flash in a metropolis as chaotic as Athens. Finding a hotel with a pool is a good idea so that children - and us - can freshen up after returning from a day in the Hellenic capital.

Restaurants for children in Athens

Greek cuisine, based on the Mediterranean diet, is ideal for children to try out new flavors and dishes. Vegetables, cheeses and the omnipresent olive oil predominate in Greek cuisine.

There are many typical Greek specialties but one of the most famous is the musaca or moussaka, a lasagna with thin slices of aubergines instead of pasta and, generally, stuffed with meat and tomato. Salads, soups and fresh fish also abound in the menus of Greek restaurants or 'tavernas'.

Any place is good to sit and enjoy Greek delicacies but doing it on a nice terrace overlooking the Acropolis is undoubtedly an experience you will remember. Good places to eat are the surroundings of Plaka and Monastiraki, full of charming restaurants and taverns.

As a curiosity, in Greek restaurants it is customary to offer free glasses of water to customers as soon as they sit down at the table. This water is of excellent quality and allows to save another drink consumption.

If instead of sitting down for lunch you prefer to eat something fast and cheap, you are in luck, because in Athens, in addition to the international fast food of hamburgers or pizzas, you can find numerous places known as 'psitopolios' of gyro: a kind of typical gyro Greek made with pita bread, carme de lamb or cooked pork turning on itself and tzatziki, the famous yougurt sauce.