Dear all,
even if our meeting in Athens is still two month ahead I recommend to make your flight bookings and hotel reservations as early as possible - since flights are beginning to get full already (at least for the cheaper tariffs) - and hotels are also quite well booked even today.
Thank you very very much, Ioannis, for providing details about hotels and room rates.
For those of you who participate in the Networking2004 conference (I hope that this holds for many delegates!) a suitable option could be:
Best Western Museum Hotel Bouboylinas Street 16 Athens Tel: +30 210523 8038 (ask for Mrs. Palmou). Fax: +30 210523 1458.
You will have to book the hotel by fax (using the registration form for the Networking conference, see the conference web pages) and you will have to provide full credit card information. This is not liked by everybody but I did it once more for my own reservation (and probably I will continue to do it until a disastrous financial event will appear).
The hotel is not directly in the center of Athens but near to it. One can go by metro or by taxi to the meeting and/or to the town centre. A taxi should cost at most 5 EURO per trip.
[1 EURO = approx. 1,25 USD].
The hotel is very conveniently located regarding the conference Networking2004. 5 Minutes walking distance. Please check http://www.ece.ntua.gr/networking2004 and there "HotelInformation". The hotel is the second out of three which has special rates - these rates are valid also for the days of the meeting.
The conference Networking2004 is held in Park Hotel, 10 Alexandras Avenue, Athens but this hotel asks for 150 EURO per night instead as of 60 EURO which is the room rate in th museum hotel.
Apart from the museum hotel or from the park hotel Ioannis recommends the following four hotels which are nearer to the meeting location (see below).
Best wishes and have a nice weekend Otto
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Divani Palace Acropolis and Electra Hotel Athens have more than 5 or 10 rooms available over 130 Euros:
Divani Palace Acropolis Hotel Athens 19-25 Parthenonos P.C 117-42 Athens Greece tel:210-9280100 Rate:150€ (
http://www.hotelclub.net/directhotel.asp?id=6321&akid=5549435 Rooms only on 14-15 May ( 150€ )
Electra Hotel Athens 5 Ermou Street Athens 10563 Greece tel:210-3378000 rate:145€ http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g189400-d228883-Reviews-Electra_Hote l-Athens_Attica.cink_html
Best Western Athens Gate and Cyprian Hotels have rooms below 100 Euros
Cypria Hotel Athens 5 Diomias Street Syntagma Square Athens 105 57 Greece Tel:210-3238034 Rate:90€ http://www.athens.the-hotels.com/athens-cypria-hotel.htm
Best Western Athens Gate Hotel 10 Syngrou Avenue, Athens 117 43 Greece tel:210-9238781 rate: 70€ http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g189400-d227384-Reviews-Best_Western _Athens_Gate_Hotel-Athens_Attica.html