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The following text was written as a a review for http://booking.com .

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First, Makrigyalos is a small village about 45 km south from Thessaloniki. "Dias Apartments" is really close to the beach, just as advertised. The beach in the village itself is verry narrow and a high wall separates it from the road. There is a good beach about 2-3 km south of the village, just under Bora-Bora bar. Several other nice beaches are available within 15 km south of the village. The water in the area is not very clear though. We have visited east cost of Kassandra (Halkidiki) and it was much better. The village is also not far from Litohorou, which is an entry point to Olympus mountain.

The building is separated in two parts. One part is for "Dias Apartments", the other is for "Dias hotel". There is an isolated parking space next to the building but it is available for the hotel guests only, not the apartments. You don't need to pay for the parking as there is plenty of FREE parking space nearby. E.g. I parked on the street just infront of the room window. The breakfast was good and plenty for me. The host was kind to offer private parking space with it (as advertised) which I did not use.

I can confirm the problem with the TV's remote control. Looks like the owners don't pay for the cable/sat TV. My mosquito net also got big holes. The shower in the bathroom was very old and dirty. The water which fall out of the cabin's curtain was flowing in the corridor due to bad inclination. The WiFi was unusable most of the time. The bar was too expensive.

After the first 4 nights the owner politely asked us to move to a nearby hotel because he "has messed with the reservations and was expecting a large group for 10 nights". He explained that we will stay under the same contract. After viewing the conditions we have moved to the nearby "Electra" family hotel which had the sign of the same "Andromeda" travel agency. The conditions there were analogous and we have agreed to move. I just can't understand how can these greeks take 40-70 eur per night for such rooms and can't change a shower handle which can be bought for less than 5 eur. The owners, a very old couple, did not provide the remote for the air conditioner. They required 6€ per night for it. No towels were available. When I asked for some they only gave us one set. The room conditions which were printed on the door said that the room must be abandoned before 12:00. The old lady came at about 10:30, entered the room and start moving our luggage which we were just preparing. She nearly threw us out of the room and was complaining that we had little children(which should have stayed for free when using existing bedding as per dias apartments conditions).

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Hopefully we'll have a better experience during our next stay in Greece. This was a last minute booking and this hotel was among the few ones offering a good **user rating/price** ratio according to booking.com