Amalias apartments are great and you can expect them to be exactly like on the pictures. It’s a very cozy, and bright apartment with very modern technology. The best thing about it is definitely it’s location! Everything is just around the corner; the water, white tower multiple restaurants and cafés. It’s also very secure and you feel safe (though beware of your valuables in the city!! My phone almost got stolen). The apartments are on the 6th floor and we had a beautiful view. You could even see bits of the sea! There were just a few things that I’m sure will be improved in the future: my partner and I were a little confused about the heating and water boiler. Amalia took the time for the check in to show us around, but somehow the heating always stayed between 19 and 20.5 degrees even if we put it on 22/23 degrees. In her defense, we only had 3 days in Thessaloniki which is why we didn’t bother contacting her about it, thus not really giving a chance to improve. The boiler had the options to put it between 40 and 80 degrees and we were told that 50 is perfect. However you can only use so much water and then it has to be boiled again which we didn’t think of. I had to shower cold once because my boyfriend took a shower before me and apparently had used all of the hot water but then we put it on 80 to simply have hot water for a longer time and that worked perfectly. It was a small rain shower with a lot of functions which we enjoyed a lot. The balcony was pretty big and since it was winter we mainly used it to put our smoke-smelling clothes outside (everybody there smokes inside the restaurants/cafes), luckily it was a nonsmoking apartment! Another thing that could have been done in advance was that the “smart” TV was set in Greek. We were able to switch the language after some time with a translating app but unfortunately you can only watch Netflix on it and no other smart tv apps like amazon prime.. we also didn’t find a safety box, there was no oil/salt or pepper. For people who want to cook there and stay for a longer time this might be interesting to know. We didn’t need any of it. Like mentioned before we felt very safe, and we never cooked we just made some cookies once for which we might have needed a pinch of salt but it didn’t matter at all! The apartment was super clean, just a little dust and dirt on the floor which might be because Greek people do not take off their shoes inside. So bring some flip flops/ comfortable house shoes if you’re like us and prefer not to walk the apartment with shoes from outside! These mentioned things were very minor and if we had talked to Amalia about them after day 1 I’m sure we could’ve found a solution. But since we didn’t stay long, we didn’t really have time to invest in that. The apartment also came with 2 plans including what to do in Thessaloniki with lots of tips for restaurants and cafés! Amalia also told us were we can get great coffee and told us about the closest sights. Generally Thessaloniki is very small and you can reach everything (worth seeing) by foot. The fact that we were right at the water was great for some sunset walks and morning breakfasts. We also went up to the castle which is such a great view! My tip: walk there an hour prior to the sunset and sit in one of the rooftop cafés overlooking the entire city with some coffee and an incredible sunset!
We had a great time and we would definitely come back for this beautiful apartment and great historic city!