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 ...

Gosh 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 ...

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.  ...

... than I could have ever imagined. After starting early this morning and getting all organized I paid the 18 Euro charges we had at the Marriott, Not bad for two night at a place that normally goes for 169 Euro a night, and we met our taxi driver. The ...

... 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! ...

... 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 ...

... apart. The Beehive Tombs and the lion gate were my favorites. We were getting hungry so we decided to go back to the Athens Ladra Marriott hotel for lunch. It was now 1:00 where we all just had a sandwich. My family and I decided that we would travel to ...

... the world on the seas. As with all journeys, ours began with a flight to the start of our cruise which will start in Athens, Greece. We will fly out of San Francisco at 4:15PM PST on Saturday to London. We will arrive in London at 2:25AM PST and then ...

... Schönwetterfotograf (alles andere ist mir zu grau), und zum dritten kann ich den mit der Badehose (vgl. Eintrag Savannah ) hier im Mariott nicht bringen. Aber den ganzen Tag nur im Zimmer rumlungern geht ja auch nicht. Also packe ich mürrisch meine ...

... different airline companies, is how much better the service is on international airlines. We literally had a 1.5 hour flight to Cairo from Athens but still were served a full meal on Egypt Air. Nice to fly on airlines that are focusing on customer ...

... to start with the stay in Cairo.  Nothing could have prepared me for the poverty, filth and crazy traffic (Cairo puts Athens to shame).  President Obama arrived as Jonathan and I were leaving and I can only hope that he saw a fraction of ...

... is an eccentric blend of artists, vendors, street performers, tourists, young and old alike.  As the Ancient Aghora of Athens served as the center of city life for meeting, talking, buying and eating, Las Ramblas centralizes those to an area that is ...