First and fast: New trains for the Athens>Thessaloniki route (Inter City 50 and 51) now take a smaller bite out of the day – just 4 hours 15 minutes. This will improve to 4 hours flat in 2006 and 3 hours in 2010. Running now – ready for use and your convenience…
Romantic rail: The Filia / Tostluk train now runs between Thessaloniki and Istanbul and the rail voyage lasts eleven and a half hours. A first class — why not!? — sleeper berth for one is 84 Euros – a bargain for these times methinks.
Make it even better – a couple of tips:
Of course perhaps you will stay the night in Thessaloniki?
Then you will enjoy and benefit from the advice at http://www.superbgreece.com/Makedonia/Thessaloniki/index.htm and be able to choose (with personal help to decide what’s best for you) on which hotel to stay in http://www.superbgreece.com/Makedonia/Thessaloniki/hotels.htm .
Or adventurer and exotic admirer that you are, you may want to stay at the fabulous one-of-a-kind-in-Greece monument hotel in Kavala en route
http://www.superbgreece.com/Imaret.htm
