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Athens guide » Athens Accommodation |
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Athens has a wide variety of hotels to meet all tastes and budgets,
from the expensive, renowned Grande Bretagne to cheap youth hostels.
All hotels are classified by the National Tourist Organization and
must have rates posted inside the rooms.
The organization has classified hotels as such:
Luxury class:
All the amenities you would expect in a first rate hotel anywhere
in the world.
Deluxe, A & B first class:
Every room has a private bath, hot and cold running water, a telephone
and central heating. Restaurant and bar are available. The location
must be central either in town or near a beach, and the staff must
speak several languages.
C
Second Class:
Every room has
a private bath, hot and cold running water, a telephone and
central heating. The decor is simplier than A or B and the staff
is required 10 speak only two foreign languages.
Third Class:
Here private baths are not compulsory, although a great many of them do have them. A must is hot and cold running water, a telephone and heal in the winter. At least one staff member should speak English. |
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D Fourth Class & F Fifth Class:
Hot running water not compulsory and one shower and toilet to every
eight rooms. Running cold water, however in every room.
Although most hotels include it in the rate, breakfast does not
by law have to be included in the quoted rate. This breakfast, is
of course, continental with coffee or tea, biscuits or bread and
jam. A complete list of hotels in Athens and all of Greece is available
from the Chamber of Hotels of Greece, 24 Stadiou 81., 331-0022 10
6. Although scarce, youth hostels are an excellent and very cheap
alternative to hotels.
For more information contact the Greek Association of Youth Hostels,
4 Dragatsaniou 81., 210-3234107.
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to view our hotel catalogue
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