Holidays in Halkidiki

Written: 30 july 2013
Travel time: 17 — 27 july 2013
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
It looks like a very beautiful hotel of non-standard shape, located in a pine forest. There is a swimming pool with a depth of 2.80, there are sunbeds with umbrellas and 2 rocking chairs-hammocks. Buffet breakfast (1 slice of cold cuts and cheese, boiled eggs, bun and bread, biscuits and pastries, jams, margarine, yupi-based drinks, tea, coffee, cereal, yogurt, milk, canned pear and peach dessert ). Dinner is very tasty, every time during the week there are different dishes that are not repeated (for the second they let you choose the dish yourself). The waiter himself delivers the first, second and dessert, drinks for a fee. You can also have lunch for 8 euros. All staff are very polite and friendly. The room was cleaned every day, cleaning 1 time in 3 days would be enough for me. It is about 600 meters to the sea, you have to go down the mountain, uphill. Once an hour, a train goes to the sea for 1 euro, but we preferred to walk to the beach on foot. Our departure was in the evening, in the morning after check-out we were allowed to leave our things at the reception. Conclusion - a great hotel for a reasonable price.
In the village of Kriopigi there are many cafes and restaurants, 4 supermarkets. Water can be collected free of charge from the spring at the top of the village. The water in the sea is clean, the beach is sandy with small pebbles.
Excursions can be booked at the hotel. For example, in Meteora it cost 70 euros. In the village itself, at the Vilar tourist office, it is also 70 euros with a Russian-speaking guide, but we booked a tour to Meteora for 45 euros at the nearby Kassandra Holidays bureau with a Romanian-speaking guide Anka, who spoke with us in English (almost all Romanians were on the bus, except for 4 Ukrainians). The tour was at the highest level, and the guide gave us materials in English.

We went to Thessaloniki on our own. Travel time is 1 hour and 20 minutes. There is a bus schedule at every stop, the price is 10.60 one way. The bus goes to the KTEL Halkidiki bus station, from there you can get to the center of Thessaloniki 45 by bus. The fare is 90 cents, the machine on the bus does not give change, stock up on change. At the ticket office of the bus station, a ticket for a city bus is rumored to cost 80 cents. You need to get off at the Kamara stop, and then walk along the old part of the city. I found a map of the city on the Internet, printed it out, put sights on it.
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