Aeginitikon Arhontikon

Really cozy room in the guesthouse with vintage furniture and old time vibe. Despite the vintage feel it still had a small refrigerator, kettle, and hairdryer in the room. Staff very helpful! There is no breakfast made there, if you tell them in advance and purchase they go get a takeaway breakfast you can eat in the courtyard. Great location, next to a beautiful church, nearby everything but it on the main streets, so a bit tucked away from the busy areas.

The official name of this place is 'Aeginitikon Arhontikon Stylish Boutique Hotel', quite overblown for what one really gets. 'Archontiko' means a mansion of a wealthy, powerful person, an 'Archon'. A touch of it can be seen on the upper floor at the 'saloni', the parlor with old furniture and a painted ceiling, depicting the sun god Helios in his chariot. This place is open to everybody, but probably hardly gets used, since the place has no café or bar. More difficult it is to find any style at this hotel. In the room? At breakfast? It shouldn't even be called a boutique hotel. I have been to accommodations, which don't fall into this category, because they don't have it mentioned in their name, but who were of a much higher standard with a similar price. We probably even had one of the better rooms, one on the upper floor with a useless, narrow balcony, facing the big Agios Nikolaos church with its bells, well heard on Sunday mornings. The room was on the small side, but not as tiny as the very uncomfortable bathroom. It was sparsely decorated, had only one chair for two, no writing desk, just a small place for dressing in front of a mirror. Storage place was a problem. The fridge was so small that it could hardly take a big bottle of water (but one had been offered on arrival). Tea and coffee making facilities were available. The bed with a lilac cover, not matching the overall colors of the hotel, was badly squeaking, when one sat on it. Luckily this was not the case, when sleeping on an otherwise good mattress. The air conditioning had a way of blowing very strongly onto the bed, so we had to switch it off in the hot night. In the wardrobe were just a few cheap cloth hangers of plastic. The big TV screen, which we didn't use, was hanging crookedly from the wall. At least in the bathroom were good free toiletries. Towels were exchanged daily, which is not very ecological. They then were hanging to dry on the upper terrace with great views, spoiling the atmosphere there. Breakfast is not included, but can be had for a cheap price as of 8.30. Sitting at one of the tables in the courtyard, in front of the rooms on the ground floor, the friendly lady, who was also the room maid, brought a cardboard box for each person with quite a big choice. To have breakfast this way was rather annoying with all the wrappers, either of paper or plastic, around most items, even for the plastic spoon or separately for the wooden knife. Definitely no style and no ecology. Since there is no real reception, we hardly ever saw anybody from the hotel, except the lady in charge of the rooms and the breakfast. At least the welcome on arrival by a young man was friendly and he came to our room to switch on the hot water.