President Hotel Athens

... but had to wait around about 50 minutes (trips were only every hour due to it being easter sunday). The biggest impression I had of athens from the bus was that it was quite a dirty, sad city - it literally seemed to be withering away with many buildings ...

... at all good (IVF, chest drains, LOTS of antibiotics, very anaemic (Hb only 8!). From his account, getting seriously ill in Athens is not a good thing ... he said the hospital was disgustingly dirty (and this was the one the australian embassy said was the ...

... a desk, small table, two chairs, TUB and big bathroom with a special cosmetics mirror mounted into the wall.) also had amazing views of Athens, so it was sweet .... but I did have my first minor panic attack when I arrived....you know, "why the hell am I ...

... and saw The Acropolis, Temple of Zeus, Olympic Stadium, Parliament Buildings with changing of the guards (nice shoes Graham and Jona!!!), President's House which used to be King's Residence.  This is a must tour for visitors to Athens who have only ...

... were told that this was a one hour ride, through Plaka and Syntagma, past the National Garden, the parliament and the President's house, Hadrian's Arch and finally back to Monastiraki. Some of the buildings were amazingly beautiful and we got to see ...

... sadness since all 8 of the other girls will be leaving in Rhodes next week.  Sunday we had to be checked out of the President Hotel by 11 a.m. but weren’t leaving for the port until 4 p.m.  We used the afternoon to go see Hadrian’s ...

... that resembed the paper boats that everyone used to make. He met up with Gianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki, the president of Athens 2004 Organizing Committee, the president of the International Olympic Committee, and the president of the Hellenic Republic. ...

... Ok, where was I?  We landed in Athens in the early afternoon and drove for about an hour from the airport to downtown Athens.  Our hotel was in the middle of a dingier part of the city, but it was within walking distance of different city center ...

... humour. So we finally arrived at about 9am and once we got our bearings we discovered we were only 100m from our hotel (Classical Athens Imperial). Not a bad cuff considering the size of Athens. We were spoiling ourselves with a 5 star hotel (Koshy a 5 ...

... . The ferry was interesting and I was glad to make it off alive. Yesterday we headed throiugh Greece into the Mythical city of Athens. We arrived and had a couple hours of free time that everyone else wanted to relax and rest so I ran up to the temple of ...

... at the parking lot below the historic site.  Some of the group arrived before me, and said that a limousine carrying the President of Greece had gone up the hill a few minutes earlier with a Police escort.  That wasn’t surprising as the ...

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... with his people set to the music of the Thai national anthem. Just think if we did that for George Bush or any other president. Hmmm. We made it back to the airport, like the good travelers we are, around 10pm. We collected our luggage and sat waiting ...

... ; It is either the outdoor swimming pool or the indoor pool. The outdoor swimming pool of the Hilton is the largest hotel pool of Athens and it is popular with business executives, fashion models, journalists and famous artists who find here moments of ...

... like a lot of fun.  She took us to the market in Monastiraki, then we walked through the Queen's gardens to the President of Greece's house.  There were these really cool guards outside that do this funny dance looking think.  Dano said she gets to ...

... AWESOME!) so unless we wanted to pay 2.50 euro for 15 minutes, we weren't getting on here! So last night in Athens we stayed at The President Hotel with our Contiki group. Some of us went to a get to know you dinner at a traditional Greek restaurant. It ...

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... the bus that took us out to the runway we circled AirForce One which was crazy and I hoped that all the craziness of the president’s arrival wouldn’t delay us on our way to Paris via London.  Till then, safe travels to all! Shukran (thank ...

... around the park, went to India Gate-- something of a tomb for the unknown soldier-- and then to see parliament and the president's house and the central government executive buildings.  All very pretty in the dark!  Day 2 in India Dana stayed ...