For unpretentious vacationers

Written: 16 september 2013
Travel time: 3 — 13 september 2013
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 5.0
Lived at the hotel in September 2013. The hotel is very small, only 18 rooms. I describe only what I saw with my own eyes in one particular room, mine (maybe everything is different in other rooms). So, the room has: a small TV (all channels are in Greek), air conditioning, a small refrigerator (I turned it off so as not to interfere with sleep, I didn’t need it), a balcony (if you keep it open, mosquitoes can fly in), normal furniture, "combined" bathroom (toilet and shower nearby, not separated from each other, water from the shower spills all over the floor of the bathroom), cold and hot water, plumbing in a usable condition. The bathroom is what I didn't like the most. Its condition can be seen in the photo.
There was no safe, hair dryer, telephone, kettle in the room, no soap and shampoo in the bathroom. Linen is changed about once every 3 days. Once I came across a towel with a hole through which several fingers could fit. There is free Wi-Fi.
Nutrition. I paid for breakfast and dinner. Breakfasts are ordinary, every day the same thing (eggs, sliced ​ ​ cheese and sausages, butter, marmalade, yogurt, canned peaches, tea, coffee). But at dinner you can only order a salad and some one second course or soup). And that's it. Moreover, you can order not any main dishes included in the menu, there are exceptions. In fairness, I’ll say that the quality of food at dinners is good, the portions are rather big, and for 10 days the second courses have never been repeated. But the Greek salad, no matter how good it was, managed to get fed up during the rest. There were no fresh fruits. No animation, no pool at the hotel. They probably do not happen in hotels of this category.

The owner of the hotel is a pleasant person (sometimes he treats guests with moonshine), and I can’t say anything bad about the staff.
In my opinion, except for citizens of the republics of the CIS, no one else lives in the hotel. But foreigners also go to the tavern at the hotel.
There are mini-markets near the hotel, it is not forbidden to bring food from them to the room. There are also plenty of other taverns and souvenir shops nearby.
From the hotel to the beach, walk at a normal pace for 20 minutes along the hillside, in some places this slope is quite steep. Such a walk can be tiring for the elderly or people with health problems. The beach is sandy, I liked it. The water is transparent. In some places at the entrance to the sea there are stones, if you go to the left, there are fewer stones. The depth increases quite quickly, but there is also an opportunity for children to swim normally. If you swim with a mask, sometimes schools of fish are visible, a couple of times I saw sea urchins. Cigarette butts and other rubbish are scattered on the beach, tourists bring it.
In general, Kriopigi is a small village suitable only for a beach holiday, the place is absolutely not a party place.
300 meters from the hotel (next to Kriopigi Beach) there is a bus stop to Thessaloniki, where you can get for 10.6 euros (ticket from the conductor) to the final bus station called KTEL (look out, do not get off earlier), then transfer to the city bus number 45 and get to the Kamara stop for 1 euro (tickets are bought in the bus from the machine, see the names of the nearest stop on the board closer to the head end of the bus). Getting off at this stop, you will find yourself close to the White Tower (if you go to the sea) and other attractions. If you go back in the same way, find out in advance the bus schedule to Kriopigi. Moreover, the bus on which I was traveling left KTEL 5 minutes earlier than the schedule, so come to the bus station in advance.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original

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