Hotel Rex
Garden hotel with cycling and shuttle service
About this hotel
This hotel in Kalabaka centres its common areas around a garden and terrace, with a bar for evenings and cycling activities arranged for guests wanting to explore beyond the monastery circuit. Family rooms include private bathrooms, air conditioning and free Wi-Fi, each with a tea and coffee maker, refrigerator and TV. A concierge and tour desk help plan the day, and a paid shuttle service covers trips further afield, alongside a lift for guests who prefer not to use the stairs. Breakfast is a continental buffet with local specialities, warm dishes, fresh pastries and fruit, with an on-site coffee shop for additional options through the day. Meteora itself sits six kilometres away, with Agios Nikolaos Anapafsas at two point eight kilometres and Roussanou Monastery at four point four.
- Family rooms
- Paid shuttle service
- Lift access
- On-site coffee shop
Our take
This suits families wanting straightforward, well-equipped rooms and a garden to unwind in, with the tour desk and paid shuttle taking some of the planning out of the monastery circuit. The distances here, several kilometres to each monastery, mean a car or the shuttle is genuinely useful rather than optional. Anyone wanting to walk directly to a monastery gate should look to Kastraki's closer properties instead.
- ✓Use the tour desk to plan your monastery order, distances here range from under three to over six kilometres.
- ✓Book the paid shuttle if you don't have a car, it covers the gap to the farther monasteries.
- ✓Try the continental buffet's local specialities at breakfast, reviews consistently mention the variety.
Why we love it
- Garden and terrace for evenings
- Cycling activities arranged
- Concierge and tour desk
- Continental buffet with local dishes
Why guests love itThe tour desk here genuinely helped plan our two monastery days, since the distances range widely and we hadn't realised Roussanou was further than Agios Nikolaos Anapafsas until they laid it out. The garden in the afternoon became our regular stop after the shuttle brought us back, and the breakfast buffet's local specialities were good enough to slow down for.