Marianna Hotel

My wife and I spent a week in the Marianna hotel. In terms of facilities, this is a very basic B&B, but sometimes that can be enough. The room was large and clean; we had two single beds but I did see one room with a double bed. The room also came with a small balcony which we used only for drying clothes.
Breakfast is simple: tea/coffee/chocolate, along with bread, butter and jam. Each day there is also a treat - most days, half a tinned peach, but on two days we had hard boiled eggs and one day a slice of cake. For tea drinkers, there is a small selection of teas available. I supplemented my breakfast with special tea (rose and hibiscus), sweetener and peanut butter. Otherwise you might be a little hungry.
The hotel is about 400 metres from the sea front, shops, buses, etc, and is placed on a slight hill. Whilst this makes walking to the sea easy, it also makes walking from the sea harder. We hired a motorcycle for most of our stay so this wasn't a problem. One advantage of the location is that one is always guaranteed a seat on the bus - these fill up fairly quickly.
Despite the information on the hotel's basic web page, there is no Internet access.
The hotel boasts an interesting feature regarding electricity which I have never seen before: the electricity in the room only works when the room key is placed in a special holder. Thus one cannot use the time when the room is vacant to charge video camera or mobile phones. We had the air conditioning on all the time that we were in the room; it did not heat up during the day.
Summing up, this is a basic B&B, but is perfectly satisfactory for the type of holiday one has in Santorini. I would definitely recommend it to my friends.

We stayed at the Hotel Marianna for our anniversary and were sadly disappointed. The hotel is cosy and traditional but we stayed in the basement.
When we first checked in, the man behind the counter walked us down a rather large staircase without even asking if I needed help with my luggage (I'm 4 foot 11 and 115 pounds), and when he saw I was having trouble he stated "this is a problem". Once my husband brought all of the luggage downstairs- it had to stay in the hallway, because there was no room in the room.
We slept in separate beds on our second anniversary. However the hotel was clean and the bathroom was bigger than the actual room.
It is a hike up the hill from the bus stop and the water (wear comfortable shoes). I am Greek and have been to hotels all over Greece, this is one that I will never go to again. They were not very nice and not at all accommodating.

Absolutely brilliant place to stay! Very friendly, very welcoming, clean, hot, gorgeous, quiet, everything you can ask for. Not fighting for sun beds all the time, the pool was always quiet!
Beach is close (along with tavernas etc) the food / drink is gorgeous and cheap.
What else can you ask for!
Very good apartments, only one small complaint, the sun beds were a bit hard on the bum, buy a lilo to lay on top of the sun bed!