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Old Oct 25, 2021 | 7:20 am
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christianj
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Originally Posted by Monoboy
lol. leave it to a guy from Greece to get called out for sharing info...i'm in the shadow of Cherman precision, clearly.
If you are referring to my post....I wasn't trying to call you out...sorry.....just merely giving my opinion on the Academia and confirming the KG or GB would be the way to go. Didn't even realize you were "a guy from Greece" but that might explain why you got good service at the Academia. During our stay they literally waited hand and foot on any Greek staying there. It was ridiculous at breakfast as a Greek guy didn't get up from his table to get anything from the buffet himself and the head guy had two people bringing him everything. We on the other hand had to literally bend over backwards to get them to pay attention to us. As I said, this was about a month or two after they opened so hopefully the service all round has improved but I would not stay there again. The room they gave us was a shoe box and when I complained they had the nerve to tell me that they had some of the largest rooms in Athens. This might be true if you add in the space allocated to the large bathroom which was spacious but the room itself had about a foot on each of the three sides of the bed were you could move and we had a wonderful view of the fire escape.

When we go back we will again stay at the GB if we want that Grand Dame feel or back at the functional Fresh Hotel. We were going to try the New Hotel you mentioned but our last trip was cancelled in 2020 when Covid hit.
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