Greece Hotel Guide :: Order Out of Chaos at the Ochre & Brown Hotel
Our far-flung correspondent Monica Guy has once again slapped together a guide to city we have only dreamed about visiting. This time, she's summing up various hotels in Greece. Got a tip, question or suggestion about where to stay? Send it our way.
Chaos. It's a Greek word originally, and it's exactly what you'll find in Greece's capital of Athens.
Chaotic driving, chaotic shopping, chaotic, hot, throbbing nightlife. It's good chaos - especially if you need a break from the boring predictability of an office - and one of the most fun and alive places to visit in southern Europe.
The hotel scene is as chaotic as the rest of the city. We've had the quintessential English hotel, we've had the typical Spanish hotel and a few classic Spanish New Year's Eve hotels and now we were hoping to bring you the classic Greek hotel.
But we can't - a typical Greek hotel doesn't exist. They're not all as bad as this guest's experience and they're not all as weird as this one. easyCruise have just set up a kind of floating hotel but let's face it, that's not so typical either.
Our Greek spies are out looking for a way to make sense of the chaos - or at least to make sure you end up under a clean pair of sheets every night. Today, Athens - the rest of the week, we'll take a tour of some of the best Greek islands.
O & B
In Athens itself, all fingers point to the boutique hotel Ochre & Brown, known to its friends as O&B.
It's in the edgy up-and-coming Psiri district, until recently a scruffy working-class area and now the meeting point of 20- and 30-something Greeks of the night. Nightlife all around you and only a short stroll to the Acropolis (you can see it from some of the rooms) and Plaka, the main tourist district.
Best feature of the O&B, according to all our sources, is its cosiness. Only 11 rooms (book early), and although they have all the modern techno knobs and whistles the décor still remains earthy, bright and homely. The staff all go down in hotel history for being consistently friendly and helpful. Which makes a change, as service in Greece can be as chaotic - good or bad - as everything else.
Second best feature is the quality - Molton Brown toiletries, Egyptian cotton sheets, flash sound systems and the like. And, apparently, excellent cocktails and quality-looking bar staff. That's what we like to hear.
Third best is the price - a Junior Suite with a large terrace, a view of the Acropolis and a bed for the littl'un is €250 ($367) a night all inclusive, but you can get a standard room for €145 ($210).
If you don't catch one of the 11 rooms at O&B, call up the nearby Fresh hotel instead. Thumbs up from all our Athens spies and guests' reviews alike.
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