Sofia's place is a charming and fun (in a funky/retro-60s way) first floor apartment, part of a small house, in Patissia, a neighborhood in uptown Athens. Staying here is a fabulous way to experience the real modern Athens, in its diversity and mixture of old and new. The house, easy to find with it's cool shocking pink exterior, is on a block of mostly '60s and '70s -era 5 or 6-story apartment buildings, and very conveniently located about 4 or 5 blocks from the Kato Patissia Metro stop (that stop being 10 or 15 minutes usually from crucial downtown Athens locations like Omonia, Syntagma and Monastiraki Square). The Metro stop is at Aharnon street, a busy and lively thoroughfare with many shops, restaurants cafe's etc. Walk from Sofia's place in the opposite direction and in a few blocks you hit Patission Street, whose busses and trams also link to many downtown locations. (and at every stop there are surprisingly accurate electronic clocks listing all the streetcar arrival times!). Taxi fares in Athens are also quite reasonable and passing cabs are easy to hail even without resorting to smartphone app services, so no reason to feel that you are far from the sights you may want to see. There is a great little living room that looks out on a charming little front deck/balcony, a little kitchen with an assortment of coffee makers, a washing machine (though I did not use this while I was there), great reliable WiFi, etc. Sofia is very responsive and helpful. The neighborhood is fascinating in its own right as it has become home to many new immigrants
from Asia and Africa, with their own restaurants and shops, but is at the same time still primarily a Greek family neighborhood, with folks out walking their dogs, shopping, bringing their kids back and forth from school, older folks whiling away time at cafes adjacent to little parks, etc. I recommend this as a great reasonably priced way to experience Athens as an Athenian, while still having easy access to the popular tourist destinations.