Guesthouse Kasaria — Hotel in Meteora Municipality

Xenonas La Kasaria in Chaliki Aspropotamos lies in the middle of the National Park of Tzoumerka, Peristeri and Arachthos (Central Greece).It's a family run guesthouse on the edge of the pittoresque village. A great starting point for mountain walks or trekkings. The place has it's own small restaurant-bar and around the village square you will find a couple of other restaurants and bars. The surroundings are the home of many wild animals including bears. In the summer the village is populated with people who escape the heat of the lowlands, in winter a few famillies hibernate under a meters high pack of snow. In the other seasons the village can be reached over small but overall well kept roads. It's an oasis of...

The couple who run this place go above and beyond to provide hospitality in the middle of a beautiful and rugged place, wild enough to potentially be inhospitable. This is what makes stumbling across the Kassaria Inn, its warm bar and bashful, modest innkeeper even more heartwarming. The only place with internet in an isolated village with none, where even most mobile phone networks do not function, it is a haven in the middle of the forbidding mountains.||The place is homely, clean, serves delicious homemade food, and is extremely good value for money. More importantly, it opens a door into one of Greece's unique Vlach minority villages. Catch it while it's still under...

Dimitris is an excellent host and a very nice person.||He drove us with his 4x4 to swimming places up the valley and to the Verliga alpine valley at 2000m altitude (for a fee - it takes over an hour).||He also willingly helped us with telephone calls and arrangements at our next hotel.||The accommodations were basic as expected, but with a great breakfast.||There were some issues with the piping in one of our rooms, so Dimitris did not charge for the night.||We will remember Chaliki and try to return in the month of May when it is cooler and the lake in...