Albergo Athenaeum

3.0 star property
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Lobby
Lounge
Lobby sitting area
Reception
View from property

Reviews

7.8 out of 10

Good

Popular amenities

  • Bar
  • Breakfast included
  • Parking included
  • 24/7 front desk
  • Laundry
  • Room service

Explore the area

Map
Via Giannettino Luigi 4, Palermo, PA, 90128
  • Palace of the Normans
    10 min walk
  • Bar Accardi
    3 min walk
  • Palermo Palazzo Reale-Orleans Station
    9 min walk
  • Palermo (PMO-Punta Raisi)
    26 min drive

Room options

Triple Room

  • 23 sq m
  • Sleeps 4
  • 1 Double Bed and 1 Twin Bed

Single Room

  • 16 sq m
  • Sleeps 1
  • 1 Double Bed

Double Room

  • 20 sq m
  • Sleeps 3
  • 1 Double Bed OR 2 Twin Beds

Family Room

  • 23 sq m
  • Sleeps 4
  • 1 Double Bed and 2 Twin Beds

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About the area

Palermo

With a stay at Albergo Athenaeum in Palermo (Montegrappa-Santa Rosalia), you'll be a 4-minute drive from Teatro Massimo and 9 minutes from Palermo Harbour. .This hotel is 12.4 mi (20 km) from Mondello Beach and 0.8 mi (1.2 km) from Cappella Palatina.

What's nearby

  • Ballaro Market - 16 min walk
  • Palermo Cathedral - 18 min walk
  • Quattro Canti - 3 min drive
  • Teatro Massimo - 4 min drive
  • Palermo Harbour - 9 min drive

Getting around

  • Imperatore Federico Station - 7 min drive
  • Palermo Palazzo Reale-Orleans Station - 9 min walk
  • Punta Raisi Airport (PMO) - 26 min drive

Restaurants

  • ‪Massaro - ‬5 min walk
  • ‪Bar Accardi - ‬3 min walk
  • ‪Mensa Santi Romano Unipa - ‬4 min walk
  • ‪Tab & Food - ‬12 min walk
  • ‪Bar di Architettura - ‬9 min walk

About this property

Albergo Athenaeum

Palermo hotel in Montegrappa-Santa Rosalia with free breakfast and a 24-hour business center
Albergo Athenaeum offers 80 accommodations with minibars and safes. Rooms open to balconies. 32-inch plasma televisions come with digital channels.

Bathrooms include showers, bidets, and hair dryers. This Palermo hotel provides complimentary wireless Internet access. Housekeeping is provided daily.

Make yourself at home in one of the 80 guestrooms featuring refrigerators and minibars. Rooms have private balconies. 32-inch plasma televisions with digital programming provide entertainment, while complimentary wireless internet access keeps you connected. Private bathrooms with showers feature bidets and hair dryers.
Take in the views from a terrace and make use of amenities such as complimentary wireless internet access and concierge services. Additional features at this hotel include a banquet hall and a vending machine.
Enjoy a meal at the restaurant, or stay in and take advantage of the hotel's room service (during limited hours). Quench your thirst with your favorite drink at the bar/lounge. A complimentary buffet breakfast is included.
Featured amenities include a 24-hour business center, dry cleaning/laundry services, and a 24-hour front desk. Planning an event in Palermo? This hotel has 646 square feet (60 square meters) of space consisting of conference space and a meeting room. A roundtrip airport shuttle is provided for a surcharge (available 24 hours), and free self parking is available onsite.
Guests are offered a complimentary buffet breakfast.
Albergo Athenaeum has a restaurant serving breakfast and dinner.
Room service (during limited hours) is available.

Languages

English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

Property amenities

Internet

  • Available in all rooms: Free WiFi
  • Available in some public areas: Free WiFi

Parking and public transport

  • Free self-parking on site
  • On-site parking options include a garage
  • 24-hour return airport shuttle (surcharge)

Food and drink

  • Free buffet breakfast
  • 1 restaurant
  • 1 bar
  • Room service available

Family friendly

  • Free cots/infant beds
  • Laundry facilities
  • Fridge
  • Snack bar/deli

Conveniences

  • Banquet hall
  • Lift
  • Front-desk safe
  • Vending machine

Guest services

  • 24-hour front desk
  • Concierge services
  • Daily housekeeping
  • Dry-cleaning service
  • Laundry facilities
  • Luggage storage

Business services

  • 24-hour business centre
  • Conference space (646 square feet)
  • Coworking spaces
  • A meeting room

Outdoors

  • Terrace

Accessibility

  • If you have any requests for specific accessibility needs, please contact the property using the information on the reservation confirmation received after booking.
  • Lift
  • Lift door width (centimetres): 80
  • Grab bar near toilet
  • Toilet grab bar height (centimetres): 89
  • In-room accessibility
  • Low-height worktop and sink
  • Lowered worktop and sink height (centimetres): 80
  • Raised toilet seat
  • Raised toilet seat height (centimetres): 89
  • Wheelchair-accessible path to lift
  • Wheelchair-accessible (may have limits)

More

  • Smoke-free property

Room amenities

Bedroom

  • Air conditioning (climate-controlled)
  • Bed sheets
  • Free cots/infant beds

Bathroom

  • Bidet
  • Hairdryer
  • Private bathroom
  • Shower
  • Towels

Entertainment

  • 32-inch plasma TV
  • Digital channels

Food and drink

  • Minibar
  • Fridge

More

  • Desk
  • Safe

Policies

Check-in

Check-in start time: 2:00 PM; Check-in end time: midnight
Minimum check-in age: 18

Check-out

Check-out before 11:00 AM

Special check-in instructions

Front desk staff will greet guests on arrival

Access methods

Staffed front desk

Pets

Pets not allowed

Children and extra beds

Children are welcome
3 children, up to the age of 6 years, can stay for free if using existing beds when occupying the parent or guardian's room
Rollaway/extra beds are not available
Free cribs are available on request at the property

Payment types

Important information

Fees

You'll be asked to pay the following charges at the property. Fees may include applicable taxes:

  • A tax is imposed by the city: EUR 3.00 per person, per night, up to 4 nights. This tax does not apply to children under 12 years of age.

We have included all charges provided to us by the property.

Optional extras

  • Airport shuttle fee: EUR 11.80 per person (roundtrip)

The above list may not be comprehensive. Fees and deposits may not include tax and are subject to change.

You need to know

Extra-person charges may apply and vary depending on property policy
Government-issued photo identification and a credit card, debit card, or cash deposit may be required at check-in for incidental charges
Special requests are subject to availability upon check-in and may incur additional charges; special requests cannot be guaranteed
This property accepts credit cards, debit cards, and cash
Property Registration Number IT082053A1BP48246W

We should mention

All guests, including children, must be present at check-in and show their government-issued photo ID card or passport
Cash transactions at this property cannot exceed EUR 5000, due to national regulations; for further details, please contact the property using information in the booking confirmation

National rating

This property has received its official star rating from the local rating authority.

Property is also known as

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Albergo Athenaeum Reviews

Reviews

7.8

Good

Rating 10 - Excellent. 56 out of 228 reviews" "
Rating 8 - Good. 105 out of 228 reviews" "
Rating 6 - Okay. 47 out of 228 reviews" "
Rating 4 - Poor. 10 out of 228 reviews" "
Rating 2 - Terrible. 10 out of 228 reviews" "

8.0/10

Cleanliness

8.2/10

Staff & service

7.4/10

Amenities

7.4/10

Property conditions & facilities

7.2/10

Eco-friendliness

Reviews

6/10 Okay

Olivier

Liked: Staff & service
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2024

8/10 Good

Rosa

Business traveller, Travelled with group
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service
Disliked: Amenities
Nice property but in a very poor area, far away from everything. Great breakfast!
Stayed 2 nights in Jul 2024

8/10 Good

Richard

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, amenities
Staff were very helpful especially at breakfast
Stayed 7 nights in Oct 2023

10/10 Excellent

Jose

Travelled with family
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
This is a great hotel, with good and nice staff, great breakfast, the room was unbeatable, it is very close to the royal palace and the main attractions of Palermo. Nonetheless, the area (2 blocks around the hotel), is dirty and not too nice. Other than that, it is a great hotel.
Stayed 2 nights in Oct 2023

6/10 Okay

Laura

Travelled with family
Liked: Amenities
Liked that they have parking garage.
Stayed 1 night in Sep 2023

10/10 Excellent

ROBERTO

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Jun 2023

4/10 Poor

Sioux

Disliked: Staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Hotel is located in a run down area outside the centre of Palermo and is unappealing inside and out. The “restaurant” I only used for breakfast but the tables are left dirty, the chinaware has chips and stains and the food is not presented in a hygienic manner. I had to move rooms during my stay as the TV was not working and in the second room the signal was still poor and also no Wi-Fi which the receptionist argued was the fault of my (new perfectly working) iPhone not the hotel. Overall the staff are quite unfriendly and rude and one receptionist in particular who made me feel extremely unwelcome. I would not recommend this hotel mainly for its location and feeling of unsafety when walking in the surrounding area.
Stayed 4 nights in Jun 2022

10/10 Excellent

Artur, wembley

Travelled with partner
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, amenities, property conditions & facilities
Very clean and modern hotel. 5 min from airport. Own, on site locked parking. Very spaciois room and bathroom.
Stayed 3 nights in Apr 2022

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Business traveller
Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Recommend
Amazing stay, perfect staff
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2020

8/10 Good

Elizabeth

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Lovely staff, good value. Would stay again
Stayed 4 nights in Aug 2020

10/10 Excellent

Salma

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Visit and enjoy
Friendly, quite, relaxing and best personal
Stayed 3 nights in Oct 2019

2/10 Terrible

Evanthia

Travelled with group
Disliked: Staff & service, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2019

8/10 Good

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
I didn’t like paying a tax when I left the hotel because no one told me for that.
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2019

6/10 Okay

henry

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Disliked: Property conditions & facilities
Open charm hotel in a neighbourhood
20 mins walk to old city of Palermo Has it’s own secured basement parking They put us in room 107. The bath room has a sewerage smell .. apparently they know about it So they changed our room and it was better The service staff where very kind and apologetic Breakfast basic . If u like a hotel with old charm in a not so quiet neighbourhood and walking distance to town .. this is good place to stay to explore old Palermo Just make sure they don’t put you in room 107
Stayed 2 nights in Sep 2019

2/10 Terrible

Verified traveller

Disliked: Amenities, property conditions & facilities
Stayed 3 nights in Jul 2019

8/10 Good

CIUCCIARELLO, OVERSEAS

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
GREAT BREAKFAST. GREAT INEXPENSIVE RESTAURANT. NICE COARDIAL GUYS.
Stayed 1 night in Oct 2018

10/10 Excellent

Verified traveller

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Stayed 1 night in Aug 2018

8/10 Good

Jack, Canada

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Pleasant hotel
This is a 1960's style hotel. It is not fancy and pretentious. My room was spacious and comfortable. It was very clean with everything I needed. It is located close to the university which is exactly what I wanted. There school kids visiting who were noisy one night but that quietened down after 1130PM. Otherwise very quiet.One I figured out the downtown location the walk was noy all that far and the excercise was good. I would definitely stay here again.

2/10 Terrible

Paulo Jorge, Newcastle

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
Hotel base in a very bad area of Palermo
The hotel was 30m walk from Palermo central station but the main problem is the area where the hotel is base, looks like we arrived in a zone war all very dirty and very low class area with rubish every where I will never return was my worst experience in my life

2/10 Terrible

Matthew, New Jersey

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
No three star hotel!!!!
I needed a hotel close to the University Hospital and this one was one of the closest. The hotel is in a run down area of Palermo and I didn't feel save walking outside after dark. The hallway outside my room had a motion light with one bulb that did little to illuminate the hallway. Everything in the room was old and needs updating. The water temperature of the shower was cold and the shower head sprayed water out of the side. The mattress was very hard and it felt like I was sleeping on a piece of plywood. The small refrigerator made noise all night but it helped drown out the noises outside the hotel. I had booked three nights but ended up staying only one as I checked out first thing in the morning and found a nicer hotel. No where near a three star hotel. Rating was very misleading.

8/10 Good

Philip, London

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Good choice
Well located if you are driving in and want a place to park your car. We then walked into Palermo - the Palatine Chapel is about 10mins walk away, and the other attractions are within at most 25 mins walk. We had a room on the 6th floor with a balcony view onto the Norman Palace and down to the sea. We didn't walk around at night as the hotel is located in smallish residential streets, but could easily have taken taxis if we'd wanted to.

4/10 Poor

nihal, London

Disliked: Staff & service, property conditions & facilities, room comfort
An enriching experience
This is the poorest 3star hotel we have stayed in many visits to Italy. The staff were largely indifferent in their service. The internet had very poor connectivity, and had to be renewed with new and different log in details every day. WE booked a double bed and the best the hotel was able to offer were twin beds. Their was no ceiling light making it very difficult to read despite their being four shaded table lamps. The neighbourhood, of the hotel was appalling with streets full of rubbish with litter, dust, building works dilapidated housing stock around etc. and finally the breakfast by my previous experience was at best just satisfactory. I will not recommend this as a 3 star hotel.

8/10 Good

NikoVee

Liked: Cleanliness, staff & service, room comfort
Good location, Friendly staff
I had two nights in Palermo recently for some work at the university. I chose this hotel for it's close proximity to the university, which is in walking distance. Staff was friendly, rooms were clean.

4/10 Poor

Goran

Disliked: Cleanliness, staff & service, property conditions & facilities
Avoid if possible
Hotel was modest and that would be fine if it was clean. Bathroom was disgusting. Staff looks like they just woke up, they don't care about anything.

6/10 Okay

MAD, Pesaro, Italy

Liked: Staff & service, room comfort
Disliked: Cleanliness
Affordable hotel for university visitors
This is a well-located hotel for those visiting the Universita` di Palermo or its students who live in the surrounding neighborhood. It is billed as a "business hotel," but it is very sparse, and does not have the amenities that a "business hotel" should have. Nevertheless, the staff is quite helpful.