What a great place this is to base your Athens adventure!
Starting with the location, since that is one of the things that is so hard to research when you don't know the city you are visiting, the location is superb. There are frequent busses just a 5 minute walk from the apartment. Syntagma Square and The Syntagma metro station are about a 15 minute walk. The walk is pleasant and passes Zaggion or through the National Park. The closer metro station is Acropolis, about a 12 minute walk. As the name implies, Acropoli metro station is right beside the museum and the entrance to the Acropolis. Fantastic restaurants, real local tavernas, bakeries, and small groceries are very close. It takes less than a minute to get to the nearest bakery for fresh bread or pastries. The Half Note jazz club is less than 5 minutes leisurely walk. All this, and the neighborhood is still quiet, safe, and secluded.
Our hosts were amazing. We spent a month with them, and they went out of their way time and again to make us feel at home. They shared their Christmas dinner with us and even had decorations for Christmas for us so we could decorate the apartment like home. Fresh mandarins and mandarin marmalade were only a few of the nice things they gave us.
The apartment is cozy and comfortable, with a small kitchen with an electric hob and toaster oven, coffee and tea pots, and panini press. There is a large dorm refrigerator with freezer. The bed was very comfortable, and the entire place was very clean. Since it is winter, we didn't spend much time in the courtyard under the mandarin and lemon trees, but the courtyard is very pretty.
The washing machine worked well, and the on-demand hot water heater kept us in hot water without any problems.
Back to location. It is a short and comfortable walk to the Benaki Museum, the Lyceum, the War Museum, Syntagma, the Acropolis, and the National Park. All are within 15 minutes. Or, you can make it a shorter trip by catching one of the busses, but we found ourselves just enjoying the walks very often. Lycovitus Hill is only slightly further, and still an easy walk. The metros will take you anywhere, and they are convenient as well. Gazi for nightclubs and Thissio for the Agora are about. 25 minute walk or 20 minute walk/bus/metro trip. Again, we often just walked as you spent the entire trip in the shadow of the Acropolis, which is hard to get enough of.
And the wifi is very fast. We were able to Skype/FaceTime etc to our families at home and had good connections.
Highly recommended and we are very glad we chose to spend our time in Athens with George and Anastasia.