A clean, spacious, well-designed, and well-equipped apartment on a quiet, residential, pedestrian-only street only one block long, like a mews. A verdant balcony provides a pleasant place for morning coffee. Neighbors strictly enforce "quiet hours" 10 pm - 10 am and 2:30 pm - 5 pm. Don't let the building front door slam!
Alexander is an accommodating host. He let us check in an hour early because we had been assaulted and robbed on the metro from the airport, and needed a safe place from which to cancel our credit/debit cards and arrange for an emergency wire of cash from American Express Global Protection.
Koukakis is a good, not overly touristic neighborhood with excellent cafes and bistros including Cantina Bella, Dio Dekaris i Oka, Neratzia, Fabrica tou Efrosinou, and Bite Box. And a remarkable little bakery just a block away. After our Day 1 robbery we were necessarily on a tight budget and so we doubly appreciated the good values!