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May 22, 2024
The Loom was a pleasant place to return to after a busy day in Athens. It is situated one or two metro stops from the centre of the city, the metro station being an easy ten minute walk away. For what it is I would say it is fairly priced and represented good value. Our top floor room was spacious, with a super large balcony that also afforded privacy. If I stayed here again, I would keep the same room, the Attic suite. The room design was only slightly flawed, with cupboard doors that were a little tricky to open at times, and a sofa that looked a little out of place with the room decor because of its colouring. But, this is only a minor quibble. There was, however, a rather industrial noise from time to time coming from one of the buildings across the street. Almost as though someone was running a manufacturing business, or maybe renovating their apartment. We weren't in our room much, but nevertheless it was a slightly annoying sound. The air conditioning in our room was almost impossible to control or regulate. On our first night there were intermittent cracking/banging sounds coming from the living room ceiling vent which forced me to get up and try to rectify. It was generally quite a noisy air con, anyway, and whenever we tried to turn it off... it would just continue. Similarly, going to the control to try and turn the temperature down just resulted in the temperature display reverting to what it was, after a few seconds. The light switches drove me a bit nuts, too. We were there 4 nights and even at the end of our stay it was always trial and error as to what switch turned on/off what lighting and from where. And the design of having a bank of 'switches' that either looked like switches but were not, or were, in fact switches, was also - to me - a design fault. A perfect example of over-elaboration. Better to keep thing simple. Breakfast was limited but decent, and as we stayed we gradually found out what could or could not be asked for in addition to the items on display on the counter tops. A small, cosy hotel with pleasant staff.