With a stay at Albergo Athenaeum in Palermo (Montegrappa-Santa Rosalia), you'll be within a 10-minute drive of Palermo Harbour and Cappella Palatina. .This hotel is 12.4 mi (20 km) from Mondello Beach and 0.8 mi (1.2 km) from San Giovanni degli Eremiti.
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 at the property
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
Albergo Athenaeum
Albergo Athenaeum Hotel
Albergo Athenaeum Hotel Palermo
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Athenaeum Palermo Hotel Palermo
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Palermo Athenaeum Hotel
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Albergo Athenaeum Reviews
Reviews
7.8
Good
All reviews shown are from real guest experiences. Only travellers who have booked a stay with us can submit a review. We verify reviews according to our guidelines and publish all reviews, positive or negative.
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.
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.
I didn’t like paying a tax when I left the hotel because no one told me for that.
Verified traveller
Stayed 4 nights in Sep 2019
6/10 Okay
henry
14 Sept 2019
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
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.
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
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.
Matthew
8/10 Good
Philip, London
18 May 2015
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.
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.
nihal
8/10 Good
NikoVee
1 Dec 2014
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.