Porto Palace Hotel

The hotel is within a short taxi ride of town. The reception are and restaurants are very pleasant. The major disappointment was a very very heavy smell of cigarettes in the room and via the air conditioning system in a non-smoking room, which only becomes apparent when entering the rooms.

This is a good hotel, but plonked in the middle of a disused docks area. It's surrounded by old warehouses, and 3-4 clubs; great location if you're visiting the latter, but a long way out of town if you're a regular tourist. Restaurant was good, if not outstanding; staff were friendly and helpful. It was great for us (50 yards from the Block 33 gig venue) but I wouldn't stay here ifI wanted to visit Thessaloniki ....

The first night in our three night stay, the hotel was hosting a wedding reception in their main hall. The music from the reception was so loud it reverberated clearly throughout the hotel from 9pm - 4am. When I called at 1030pm to complain that we could not sleep, the reception staff were at first surprised that we wanted to go to sleep so early. Then they offered to move us to another room, but said it would probably have the same noise. The hotel appears geared towards hosting large receptions and not to families. Also, the hotel's location is in a neighborhood that is very run-down. Many abandoned buildings adjacent to the hotel and all along the street. You need a vehicle to get to the city and parking availability in the city is non-existent or very expensive.

The hotel is nice and clean, but is situated 3km from city centre in a rather bad neighbourhood. The rooms are in good standard, except for the bed which was hard as bricks and made it feel like you were sleeping on a bad camping bed!

INSIDE THE HOTEL ,EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT, BUT THE AREA , WHERE THE HOTEL IS LOCATED IS VERY UGLY, THE BACK OF THE PORT, OPPOSITE THE HOTEL ENTRANCE IS THE BACK OF WAREHOUSES !! AND FAR FROM EVERYTHING, U CANT WALK TO NO WHERE, U NEED TRANSPORTATION..

Squeaky clean and well maintained place, exceptionally helpfully and competent staff. Overall - very pleasant experience.

First stay of 2 nights perfect for a couple - on return for New Year's Eve allocated a tiny single persons room which wasn't good for a couple but would be ok for a single person. Otherwise hotel was superb.

Great service, only thing is that its far from the city centre. Thessaloniki being pretty cheap means that it's not expensive to travel via cab (or bus which stops right outside the hotel) to go to the city, but it'd be nice to be in the city centre. Did not realize that it was out of the way until we reached here.

A bit off the beaten path from central Thessaloniki, but the Porto Palace is a great hotel. Nice rooms, big beds, and a wonderful breakfast buffet that got me up and at 'em each morning. I was in town for a music conference all the way across town, but the taxis were just 5 euros each way and I looked forward to coming back home each eve to the Palace.

This is a nice hotel, but really set up for conferences. If you are looking for a few nights on a business trip, I would suggest you look elsewhere. However, I stress that this is a nice hotel. I'm sure it does what it does very well. It just didn't do for a single traveler very well.