Hotel Galaxidi

The hotel

Hotel Galaxidi is a small hotel on Andrea Syngrou Street, a quiet street about 70 metres from the big harbour. It is what you want if you arrive by car: it has free parking in front of the door, something you appreciate in the narrow streets of central Galaxidi. On foot, in a couple of minutes you are at the quayside terraces, and in ten at the Nautical Museum or climbing up to Agios Nikolaos. The house does not publish an official star rating on its website.

The rooms

They are doubles and triples, renovated, spread over the first and second floors. The website photos show simple, clean rooms, with beds with wooden headboards, a desk, long curtains and paintings of ships, and new bathrooms with a walk-in shower. All have their own balcony, air conditioning and free wifi, and are cleaned every day. Reception is open from 8:00 to 24:00, and the hotel provides a baby cot if you ask, stores luggage and offers laundry and ironing.

With children the triples work well. If there are four of you, ask first: the website only mentions doubles and triples.

Breakfast

It is what the house boasts about most, and it has the Greek Breakfast seal of the Hellenic Chamber of Hotels. Bread of the day from the village bakery, white and dark, home-made jams, eggs from their own hens, juices from the vegetable garden according to season or local fruit, and pies. You have it in the garden or on your balcony, as you prefer. If you leave early for Delphi or the pine forest, they can serve breakfast ahead of time or prepare it to take away.

Booking and getting there

The website asks you to book by phone for a better price, on +30 22650 41850, or by email. By car, Galaxidi is about two and a half hours from Athens via Livadia, Arachova and Delphi; you park at the door. By KTEL bus, the stop is a few minutes' walk away.