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Greece Hotel Guide: A Family-Friendly 'Medieval' Stay in Chios
January 11, 2008 at 9:05 AM | 1 Comment
Our far-flung correspondent Monica Guy has once again slapped together a guide to a place 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.
Hotels generally assume you'll be travelling in a couple. But what if you're in a huge family or a big group? Who sleeps with who and who gets the fold-down cot? Can you find a hotel that offers everything everyone wants to do within a short distance? Nightmare.
Save yourself the stress and irritating compromise on Chios, the fifth largest island in Greece and just five miles off the coast of Turkey in the Northeast Aegean sea.
The port of Chios is big and boisterous and full of commercial ships and traders selling the island's speciality sticky resin mastiha. Avoid it.
Instead, pick up a car and drive down south over to a tiny little medieval village called Mesta.
There you'll find the 14 family-owned "Medieval Castle" suites, newly restored 14th-century buildings scattered throughout the village. Ignore the cheese factor--these suites are great.
