Where to actually take her in Greece

Athens is a late city: dinner at ten and bars filling after midnight is ordinary, not indulgent. The centre around Syntagma and Kolonaki has the hotels and the rooftops, Psyri has the bars that stay open, and everything is fifteen minutes apart by taxi. The rooftop with a view of the Acropolis is a cliché that happens to be a genuinely good first hour.

Hotels that do not make it awkward

The single most common way an evening goes wrong in Greece is the front desk. Some houses charge a visitor fee, some ask for her passport, some simply do not allow a second person in the room after midnight. The houses below are the ones worth booking in this city - and because policies change with the season and the manager, the one question worth asking at reservation is whether a registered guest may come up to the room.

• Electra Metropolis Syntagmaa view worth the first ten minutes · walkable to everything · hotel bar - she can arrive without crossing a lobby
• Grand Hyatt Athens Koukakiproper suites, not a box with a bed · a view worth the first ten minutes · quiet enough to talk
• NEW Hotel Syntagmawalkable to everything · no dress code drama · discreet entrance, front desk asks nothing
• Athens Was Acropolisquiet enough to talk · a view worth the first ten minutes · discreet entrance, front desk asks nothing

Bars for the first drink

Forty minutes in a bar before anything else is not a formality - it is how two adults find out whether the evening is worth having. Pick somewhere you can hear each other.

• The Clumsies Central Athensserious cocktails, no queue at the bar · busy and loud after midnight · open late
• Baba Au Rum Central Athensserious cocktails, no queue at the bar · quiet enough to talk · no dress code drama
• A for Athens Monastirakia view worth the first ten minutes · busy and loud after midnight · tourist-priced, watch the bill
• Line Athens Central Athensquiet enough to talk · serious cocktails, no queue at the bar · discreet entrance, front desk asks nothing

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The areas, honestly

Every city has a district everyone names and a district where things actually happen. In Greece they are not always the same place.

• Kolonaki Athensresidential, private, nobody looks twice · quiet enough to talk · dress properly or you will feel it
• Psyri Athensthe nightlife spine of the city · busy and loud after midnight · open late
• Metaxourgeio Athensstreet scene, not a venue · busy and loud after midnight
• Glyfada coastresidential, private, nobody looks twice · quiet enough to talk · the nightlife spine of the city

Three things that cost nothing

• Be where you said you would be, at the time you said it. Punctuality reads as respect, and it is the cheapest respect there is.
• Settle the practical part at the start, once, and never bring it up again.
• Book the room in your own name and go up first. Never ask her to check in for you.

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