Zenith Hotel – What goes on behind its closed doors

We booked our hotel for Athens through STA Travel and let me tell you that this is the most ghetto hotel I have ever stayed in. We arrived in Athens at 12:00 midnight, so we had to cab it to the hotel. When the cab dropped us off in front of this small alleyway, we were shocked. I was actually more scared as our hotel was located in this small and dingy alleyway with very limited lights. So we checked into the hotel and got our room. We opened the door to our room and the bathroom was just plain nasty. There were rust stains on the shower curtains, the toilet had stains and the floor of where the shower was felt slimy. Our room had two single beds. One of the bed had springs coming out of it. So Kenny and I had to share one single bed together the four nights we were there. Trust me, it wasn’t comfortable at all.
But the weird thing about this hotel was that it seemed to be more than just a hotel. Every night we returned back to the hotel to pick up our room key (we had to drop off our room key before we left the hotel), we would always see these couples throw down a couple of dollars to the reception desk, and the reception would give them a room key and the couple would scatter off looking for their room. This has happened quite a few times each night. What is also weird about this was that, these couples had no luggage, purse or a fanny pack with them. For the four nights we were there, we did not see one other tourist. It seemed like all the guests there were locals. Every night, there would be some sort of noise going on, either people running up and down the stairs, or men yelling and laughing loudly. We also saw lots of other rooms on our floor with double sized beds, that were never occupied. Every morning as we pass these rooms, they would always be ready made and the doors were always wide opened. Hmmmmm
Is Zenith hotel a hotel or does it function more than a hotel? In our opinion, we definitely think that it was more than a hotel. You put it together, each night, different couples coming in and out of the hotel for only a few Euro dollars along with lots of suspicious noises coming from the rooms. I need to tell STA that this is not a suitable hotel for any kind of tourist.
Here are some pics of the hotel: