Желания сбываются Wishes come true

Going to Greece, my friend and I were looking for a small family hotel located on the first line, preferably with its own beach. I wanted to relax, swim and, of course, treat myself to Greek cuisine, the memories of which I have preserved since 1985, when I happened to taste them for the first time.
And now we are already in Thessaloniki, and after 2 hours we get off the bus at the door of the Ocean Hotel.
A small hall, a counter, on it a bunch of keys to the rooms, lucky people in bathing suits pass by. We are humbly waiting, because it’s only 10 am, and the settlement is after 2 pm. It doesn’t even take 10 minutes, when a young man with a beard appears, as it turned out, one of the owners of the hotel, Dimitros, takes our voucher, compares it with something, chooses the key from the room, picks up our suitcases and, cheerfully slapping the stairs with bare feet, invites us to follow him. To the second floor, where we are settled, a white marble staircase leads, absolutely clean at any time of the day.

We get a good room with standard furniture, bright, spacious, with a large bathroom with radiant clean sanitary ware, a refrigerator mounted almost under the ceiling, a TV. The beds turned out to be very comfortable, our spines felt great on them. Regularly changed bed linen and towels were always snow-white. A cozy balcony overlooking the hotel's beach, and of course the sea. There is a round table and 2 chairs on the balcony. Everywhere is very clean.
The hotel area is quite small, but very cozy, arranged so that everyone is comfortable. The green lawn is protected from the sun by a decorative crown of trees, with which the thatched roof of the bar goes well.
A small beach with umbrellas full of sunbeds, and everything is free. The beach is sand and small pebbles, a soft descent into the sea, clear water. You can order drinks at the bar that you can bring directly to the beach, but this is already for the money. Between the sun beds there are small "bedside tables" with recesses for bottles, glasses and urns, filled in the evening, already empty in the morning. Music plays in the background on the beach all day. There is a ping-pong table, a volleyball court, including
WiFi. Now in one corner, then in another corner, someone is sitting with a laptop.
Our room was located above the restaurant, and every morning we were awakened by the smell of freshly brewed coffee. Barely waiting for breakfast time, we hurried down. The breakfast is European, plentiful, with indispensable olives, each the size of a good plum, freshly baked croissants, Greek yogurt. Hearty, delicious .
Dinner began with soup, which was poured by the chef himself. We did not try everything, but there were no tasteless ones. Then the torment began, since this cook cooked very tasty, I wanted to try, if not all, then we aspired to this, but we couldn’t. For 10 days, there was no repetition in the set of dishes. Traditional were only a village salad, the one that we call Greek, and olives.
By the way, in this salad, the Greeks do not cut the feta into small pieces, but put it on top of the vegetables in one large piece. Seafood, fish, meat of all kinds and in different ways, potatoes in completely unusual versions, vegetables, often grilled.
The dinner was completed with the indispensable watermelon and melon, and then a walk through, as we called it, our village.
When we dined at the hotel restaurant, the dessert was a bonus.

Any of our requests met with full understanding, in which we were actively helped by the hotel guide Mouzenidis - Nina, a sweet, very friendly young woman.
With her help, we not only enjoyed the sea and Greek cuisine, but also climbed Mount Olympus, wandered around the ancient Dias, saw the armor of Philip II in Vergen, swam in the rain in the pool with thermal water. But, most importantly, we were in the monasteries on Meteora, the impression of visiting which cannot be compared with anything else. And we were also lucky that Maryana was the guide on this trip.
Both me and my companion liked the hotel. We are glad that "Oceana" lived up to our expectations. Clean, cozy, comfortable, tasty, the owners, maids, waiters simply radiate goodwill and are already beginning to understand Russian. Greeks are resting, many Kievans , married couples, often with children, even up to a year. In a small parking lot of the hotel cars with numbers of different countries.
We advised our friends and acquaintances to choose Oceana Hotel, located in Neos Panteleimonas, for a holiday in Greece.