Alexander the great apartment hotel

walking distance from the railway station but a good long walk one flight up in an office building good location near to everything - west of downtown and south of the corniche area. a cheap taxi ride to anywhere, or you can also walk to pretty much any tourist site or restaurant. get a card from the reception as the taxi drivers need it to find this place which they don't seem to know... i had a huge room but some are small, so ask for a big room. very friendly and english speaking staff is helpful on all matters. the rooms were pretty and cheerful and clean and the bath was just perfect, so that was nice. the breakfast was just fine. the only thing i ran into was that the prices of the tours they arranged for me seemed to go up while i was on them, and therefore were not clearly set out at the beginning, so be careful with this. the tours were very good though, but the pricing was suspicious, and, i thought, way too high. all in all it was a very friendly safe feeling hotel, like being at home with a nice family kind of thing. very cheerful and in a good, convenient safe neighborhood. i would certainly return here, and was glad i had chosen it. there were, in other site's reviews, complaints that it is noisy, being across from a school. well, it is charming being across from the school, seeing the parents bringing the kids to school in the morning and coming to pick them up in the afternoon, and, being a school, it is just the noise of the kids during the school day, so it is dead quiet at night when it matters !!