Roomore Apartments

This is a well-furnished set of apartments (individual rooms crafted from a former large apartment) in the top location in Thessaloniki, and I went here because at the Elektra Palace Hotel, where I stayed last time, the same price gets you a much, much smaller room without balcony in essentially the same location. With no staff in place, it is somewhere between an upscale Airbnb and a hotel. Altogether, my stay was pleasant, and this is a nice space all around - I had R6. The entry with code worked really well. However, also looking at the other reviews, all five-star, I would mention three drawbacks that I really found significant: 1. As a self-service apartment of the Airbnb type, one expects some autonomy, and one big advantage for me of this accommodation style is generally that one can do one's own laundry quickly at home. However, the Roomore places have no laundry machine, no common laundry facility in the building, and even no convenient way to wash clothes in the sink or hang them up (no line in the big shower or similar). What with everyone traveling just with carryon in the summer of 22, that was a pity. 2. I had some real hygiene issues - the apartment was clearly occupied just before me and quickly, but too quickly, cleaned before I moved in. The place has a kitchen with tools etc., but when I took out the drinking glasses from the cupboard, not only were they still wet, they also had lots of makeup and lipstik on them. In the end, I wound up using my own mug and bowl, purchased in a nearby convenience store. This also clouds one's feeling of cleanliness all around. 3. Since this is an old bigger apartment, the new sub-apartments, i.e. rooms, have their entrance doors from a common hallway; one needs the keycard twice. The problem here was that families or groups book more than one such room and then speak loudly, if not yell, in the hallway. Worse, they visit each other, often maybe a bit tipsy late at night or hurried in the morning, and in spite of the keycard system, when you are in your own room, your apartment door is not automatically locked from the outside! This is completely counter-intuitive and not safe, inasmuch as anyone can come in once one sleeps. There is a mechanical locking mechanism, but a) nobody uses those for electronic apartment doors and b) one cannot check oneself from the outside whether they really work. THREE TIMES someone barged into my room, twice when I was in bed! Not nice.

Beautiful apartment, excellent location! Lots of great restaurants, farmer market with fresh products. Christina, the host, was amazing. So responsive, so helpful and resourceful. Highly recommended and will definitely stay here if we ever come back to the city.