Hotel Olympia Palace — Hotel in Municipality of Ancient Olympia

Ugh. Don’t even! Rude staff. Stained, worn towels. Slippery and dangerous getting in and out of the bathtub/shower with a little tiled step. The refrigerator was locked and couldn’t be used. The safe didn’t work. (And they knew this, by the way. When other people questioned it, they were told nobody’s worked.) The ac barely worked, and we were hot, sweaty, and miserable. The food was not good. Went to breakfast a half hour before it was to end, and it looked as if vultures had cleaned the place out. They didn’t refresh anything. The waiter said we should have gotten there sooner. We went to the lobby reception desk and asked where we could get ice. They sent us to the bar. We went to the bar and asked for ice. She rolled her eyes—I kid you not—and told us to go the lobby. We told her the lobby sent us there. Then she said, “Well, do you have a bag?” Like, who carries a bag with them to put ice in at a hotel? There were no bags or ice buckets in the rooms. We locked our key in the room and asked for another one at the desk. She gave us a key to someone else’s room! If I could give this place less than one star, I sure would. The ONLY thing good about it was the proximity...

Yes, this hotel is very central and with enormous potential to be the best, however its shortfalls probably outweigh the positives.|Firstly, it's cold in the rooms, which would work well in summer but not in the cooler months.|The carpet is badly stained and the bathroom was (a) not very clean, and (b) in need of maintenance.|Breakfast was ok, but not wonderful, but the redeeming feature was essentially the three staff members who all spoke good English, were very cheerful and positive and who did their best to ensure we had everything we needed for our one night.|If this hotel had money thrown at it, its location and everything good about it would see rewards coming its way by way of guest numbers and glowing reviews.|Worthy of a repeat visit ? Unlikely, but...

I understand that the hotel’s qualities in Europe have much lower quality than in Spain, and that a 4* in Europe is like a 3 in Spain. I understand as well that a hotel that WAS a 4* 40 years ago if it’s not renovated from time to time it becomes old, but the there should be a government control to downgrade it. We’ve been to a 4* hotel in Athen and compared to this one is like 1 or even to starts less. Come on!!! There should’n Be allowed to keep the 4* when the standards are so low, so old, the breakfast so limited. I wonder what is a 3 or 2* or 1 hotel. unbelievable. ||Poor breakfast and the floor of the room hadn’t been...