Ledra Marriott Athens

The marathon begins..... We arrived in Athens via a short plane ride and taxied to our hotel, Ledra Marriott. Quickly dumping our luggage, we started sightseeing immediately because of our short stay here. Since it was late in the day we chose to visit ...

... /river and took shelter under the awning.  It is a bit embarrassing to say, but one of the highlights of our visit to Athens was watching everyone (both the locals and the tourists) deal with the rain.  Some ran like there was no tomorrow to try ...

... ) . The next day we were pretty exhausted after the night of trying not to touch anything in the hotel, the flight to Athens, navigating the public transit (the subway line to the airport was closed), and connecting in the main square to a shuttle bus to ...

Hello from warm Athens! We finally arrived in Athens after our 8 hour long drive from Siatista. We did do a couple of stops on the way. Our hotel has views of the Acropolis which looks spectacular. Tomorrow morning we're of exploring early as we need to ...

We had some trouble getting into Athens.  Our flight out of Paris had a layover in Frankfurt.  We were delayed for 8 hours because the ILS was not working.  Finally we made our way to Athens but when we arrived at the airport we found ...

... darn, an American size (King) bed and it is even a thick mattress. A very comfortable arrangement here at the Marriott Athens Ledra. Located in the area of Athens called Koukaki the challenge is the Metro station is about a kilometer north of the Hotel, ...

I really enjoyed the relaxed and welcoming attitudes of the people we met in Greece. Besides the traffic patterns, Athens was a very manageable city and when we pulled out our map people would stop to help us figure out where we should be heading.  ...

... was a horrendous price, plus hard to get a computer, hence no Blog Today is our last official day of our trip,  we leave Athens this afternoon for Doha,  Julian is meeting us and we will be with him until Thursday. We will post from Doha, and ...

20th April Left Dubai today for a 4&half hour flight to Athens arrived late which put us in quite heavy traffic coming in. Very excited when I spotted the Acropolis from the bus. Later in the afternoon went for a walk to Plaka and stumbled across some ...

... is built om ruins so there are glass panels you walk over and see theruins underneath. I'm kind of upset I didn't have more time in Athens. We rushed but saw manythings. I have 3 mins left so I'm going to sab\ve and sign out before i lose all this! ...

... day sooner than planned.  We headed back to the hotel and got on the internet and learned that our hotel in Athens, the Marriott Ledra, had discounted rooms available for tonight.  We booked the hotel and then walked to the train station to buy ...