Proto Thema’s sources point to the historic La Mirage Hotel at Omonoia Square at the center of Athens being reopened for use as a refuge to house the hundreds of migrants sleeping in the great outdoors of the city center. The hotel overlooks the square where the city’s homeless have camped out or are “sunning themselves” as Alt. Immigration Policy Minister Tasia Christodoulopoulou chooses to say.

The government has already stated that it was considering using abandoned buildings for use as shelters for these homeless people that have flooded into the country.

The moderate hotel with its 2-star rating on Tripadvisor is ideal. The hotel is billed as having spacious rooms, three restaurants, bars, coffee shop, convention room, parking and TV room. Just a short walk to the Acropolis and next to Omonia underground station, the hotel that most Tripadvisor users warn is cheap but unclean and “horrible” can be a temporary solution to the problems facing migrants.