The Alassia Hotel is an excitingly designed minimalist affair, with discrete luxury oozing from the lobby the moment you arrive. The owners have pulled out the stops in furnishing... more
This review already contains more than 120 words. As a Ciao member you could earn up to £5 with this review.
Alassia Hotel Athens
The Alassia Hotel is an excitingly designed minimalist affair, with discrete luxury oozing
... more
from the lobby the moment you arrive. The owners have pulled out the stops in furnishing a chic environment with marble, dark brown carpeting and various statuet...
The Alassia Hotel is an excitingly designed minimalist affair, with discrete luxury oozing from the lobby the moment you arrive. The owners have pulled out the stops in furnishing a chic environment with marble, dark brown carpeting and various statuettes dotted around the building. The Alassia is a modern, ten-storey hotel located in a busy historical and commercial area of the city, 200 metres from the National Theatre and seven kilometres from the nearest beach. The 82 guestrooms have light beige and chocolate-brown modern decor with silver details and contemporary furnishings. All the rooms have been designed with great care to transmit a pleasant feeling of relaxation. The materials used are mainly wood and a very rare type of marble from the town of Ammochostos (Famagusta). The contemporary lobby bar serves a selection of coffees, juices and cocktails in a relaxed and informal setting, and snacks can be ordered via room service. Guests can stay connected via a high-speed Internet terminal, and meetings and seminars can be held in the hotel\\\'s conference room. Multilingual staff on the 24-hour front desk can offer advice on the hotel and the surrounding area, and arrange secretarial and babysitting services. Those wishing to explore the area will find the National Theatre 200 metres away, while Athens\\\' Old City, the restaurants and nightlife of the lively Psiri district, the Greek Parliament and the Kolonaki shopping district are all within one kilometre of the hotel. Athens International Airport is 35 kilometres away, approximately 35 minutes by car.
Advantages: good for history Disadvantages: no beach
...The trip to Greece, home of Homer, the Gods, Democracy, modern thought and a cast of characters too numerous to list and many with names too difficult to pronounce. The long awaited moment you have been saving for. But as you make your way through the Athens airport and then to your hotel downtown there is an uneasy feeling brewing inside.
The traffic, the endless concrete of apartment buildings is not what they
showed you on the tourist brochures. No men in skirts and pom-pommed shoes walking the streets of Athens. No sign of Anthony Quinn. Just a big sprawling, congested, noisy, chaotic, polluted city. You know that your Greek island paradise vacation awaits you but first you must survive this final
test...Athens....
Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful
Advantages: other like minded lost souls go there too Disadvantages: It aint like it is in the brochure
...When you go to Athens in Greece, the one place you will go to before any other is the Acropolis. This is some ancient building that was built back in the days before mobiles and laptops were invented. But i stress this with all my typing might dont go and see the ruins. You'll get a far better view if you buy one of the digitally remastered on sale in the shops by your hotel. The acropolis was a very beautiful building but what spoils it now is the fact that it is held up by scaffolding and there are cranes trying (unsucessfully) to rebuild it....
Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful
Advantages: History second to (almost) none Disadvantages: The traffic and fumes, and the awful airport
...Arrive in Athens as I did, to the worst airport in the world, dumped from the airport bus in the centre of the city on a hot night, unaware of where I was even though I had a map, unable to read the street signs or get a taxi, and you’ll probably want to turn right round and go back home. However, the city grows on one, albeit rather slowly. I saw two completely separate road accidents while crossing the road to my hotel one day, and you need to take care on the pavements when approaching a corner because vehicles tend to use the pavements in preference to the road, and you may well meet one head on. Of course it is difficult to use the pavements anyway, because their main reason for existence is apparently to provide parking space for cars. However, on a brighter note, the history which meets you at every turn is incredible, and Athens...
Read review
Ciao members have rated this review on average somewhat helpful
Last year, I found out that my boyfriend would be going to a conference in Athens in June '08. I immediately decided that whether he wanted me to or not, I was going to be coming along. Well, not to the conference or anything but to Athens. I'd never... more
I've owned this game for little over 24hours, I'd say I know pretty much everything there is to know about the game, now that's not cos it's simple, or that it's an easy game, it's most likely cos I've played it for around 12 of the 24 hours I've owned... more
My impressions of this game when I saw it advertised on the internet was that it looked like a completely different type of game that I'm used to seeing for the DS.
Overview:
To best describe Hotel Dusk you could say it is an interactive novel in... more
Featured merchant
This product has not yet been reviewed. 
02.05.2001
14.12.2000
