Galaxy Art Hotel

The Galaxy is a pleasant enough place with a very economical price/value ratio. It is clean, modern, quiet and efficient with a good, basic breakfast offering. The rooms lacked full amenities: good power outlets but no safe, coffee service or shelf space in the bathroom. Its best feature is that it faces a daytime playground with a view to the distant sea and backs up to a very pleasant commercial street with a great choice of restaurants and bars. We slept well. That said, I’m hoping Google took my review as a suggestion for improvement, as they did not publish my complaint about disastrous directions to find the Galaxy. No matter how we entered it, the usually reliable Google maps kept directing us to a seedy downtown Thessaloniki location with the same address as the actual location in Oreokastro. The hotel doesn’t help by using both “Art Hotel” and “Design Hotel” as their name. Moreover, reception seemed confused when we called for help, and the three locals we stopped were no better. Needless to say, by the time we got there, we were unhappy campers. Once you know, it’s actually pretty straightforward: drive on Thessaloniki Street two blocks past Roma Pizza and turn left. At the end of the day, trying to be more objective, this is a good choice for through travelers looking for a comfortable overnight.