Orfeas Classic

This is simply substandard and not a great choice of hotel. The location in central Katerini is excellent and the staff are lovely and most helpful. But the hotel is long overdue a radical restructuring at every possible level. It is a very dated building, with extremely dark and poorly lit interior spaces. The breakfasts are simply awful, lacking fruit or any decent fresh food - apart from the yoghurt. The bar is dismal and depressing and serves possible the worst wine I have ever tasted - and this is in Greece! The rooms are surreal. Some do not have windows. Mine was dusty and everything malfunctioned. Electric fittings were unstable, there was no chest of drawers, the balcony was awful and decrepit, the TV came on in the middle of the night and could not be turned off and the bathroom had a dreadful and almost unusable shower. But above all was the overpowering and overwhelming smell of rancid and revolting cigarette smoke. It permeates the rooms, corridors and bedding. There is little positive to say about this hotel which is simply dated, inadequate and badly in need of a total makeover. A really demoralizing experience.