Inconvenience for a couple from Thessaloniki: No hotel would accept them because they had a dog, they spent the night in the port of Piraeus
A couple from Thessaloniki who wanted to travel to Crete with their dog had to spend the night in the port of Piraeus.
The couple unfortunately had an adventure, as no hotel accepted to host them because they had their pet with them.
Specifically, as they told OPEN, they arrived yesterday at 2:00 in the afternoon in Athens by train with their dog, For, in order to take the boat to Crete this evening. They started looking for a hotel but when they informed them that they had their dog with them, they were told that they don’t accept pets.
“They didn’t accept us in any hotel because of the dog”
“We entered a hotel and they said that the dog is not allowed because the manager forbids it. Others told us that the law forbids it. I went to a total of five or six hotels. I couldn’t even enter the subway as some people told me that it is not allowed or only allowed if it is in the box. So we were forced to stay at the port all night to travel tonight to Crete,” said the owner of the dog speaking to OPEN.
“There’s nothing we can do… We’ll wait here for the rest of the hours until the ship leaves. Because we no longer have the courage to look for a room even somewhere near here. And the dog is suffering and so are we. We’ve been looking for a hotel all day on foot,” his wife said with the exposure evident on her face.
It should be noted that the law does not state that animals are prohibited in hotels, but this is subject to the policies of each hotel.
Photos: Eurokinissi/Yiannis Panagopoulos