Selina Athens Theatrou

We stayed here for 2 nights in a private room. When we left we spotted at least three bedbugs in the room... We told to the person at the reception, who didn't show much interest (and no commercial gesture).
Except this major issue, the hostel is well situated, rather clean, the rooftop and the rooftop staff are nice and friendly.
Also to note : the rooms are rather poorly soundproofed and you can hear conversations in the corridor.

I stayed here for a weekend in a private room with a shared bathroom. It's on a rougher-looking street, but only a block or two away from a nicer tourist area where I felt safe walking alone. The bedroom was nice, but the bathroom didn't seem to be well-kept. I don't have a ton of experience with hostels, so I wasn't sure what to expect as far as cleanliness. It wasn't terrible, though. The big fault is that the rooftop restaurant is really more of a club. The music is BLARINGLY loud. Without earplugs, I had to stuff tampons in my ears to get any sleep. 😅 When I went to the restaurant to have dinner on my last night around 7pm, I was told there was a cover (even for guests!) and they weren't serving food. So it's not much of a hotel restaurant at all, but just a loud nuisance if you want to rest during your stay. Also on the last night the fire alarm went off twice, and no one told us what was going on. There were five police officers hanging out outside the lobby, but no one seemed bothered to investigate, and no hotel staff were around to let us know if it was safe to go back to bed. Eventually I went back to bed, too tired to wait around, hoping I could safely jump from my 2nd story window if needed.

This is one of the worst hostel experiences I’ve ever had. We checked into a 8-bed dorm at 4pm and proceeded to have a nap as were jet lagged. An hour later I am woken up by THUMPING music from the rooftop bar. Our room was on level 1 and the bar is level 9, that’s how loud it was. Even with earplugs I could feel the bass vibrating in my chest. I was told the music ends at 11pm. It was a Sunday. The receptionist was very kind and agreed to let us checkout and get a refund, but the manager refused to give us a cash refund and instead we have to wait “3 business days” for the money to get back in our account. That was money needed to book somewhere else. The only good thing I can say is that the receptionist Nina was so kind and sympathetic and really tried to help us. We found another hostel in a much nicer area that was actually cheaper. But when we got there I found a bug bite on my stomach … I slept in the Selina dorm bed for 2 hours and then ended up with this bite … you can draw your own conclusions. Overall would absolutely not recommend this hostel if you actually want to sleep. Scroll down and you will see lots of reviews saying a similar thing.

Stayed one night and cancelled the following ones. Nice look & feel in the rooms but that’s about it. The rooftop parties are extremely loud (rooftop is floor 9, we were on floor 4 and still felt every beat through the mattress), go on way too long (6am in our case) and the hostel doesn’t do anything about it.