Mycenae: Historic 'Belle Helene Hotel'
 

I see that there a couple threads up about visiting Mycenae and thought this might be of interest.

The Belle Helene is a 1* hotel in the modern town of Mycenae.
The rooms have a shared bathroom/wc/shower and no heat or AC in 2000.

If you can book room #3 it is definitely worth a stay.

Room #3 is where the famous (or infamous) archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann (discoverer of Troy) stayed for 2yrs while excavating Mycenae.

The room has an antique iron bed and furniture from that period, along with a plaque on the door saying it's the 'Heinrich Schliemann Room'.

The hotel has other history besides Schliemann;
Viginia Woolf, W. Faulkner, Agatha Christie, Claude Debussey have all stayed there.

On the downside so have Himmler, Goering and Goebbels :(.

These numbers are from a 6yr old guidebook? Tel 76 225 Fax 76 179 but check-out up to date guidebooks (I know Let's Go and possibly Lonely Planet used to have this hotel listed).

http://tinyurl.com/j3v7t This room and hotel are also shown in this documentary. Regards, Walter

"The room" also appears in the 80s classic documentary with Michael Wood, In Search of the Trojan War. If I remember correctly, our hero reclines barechested on the bed while reading his Schliemann. Classic TV cheese. (I love that documentary though!!)

I've passed by that hotel but since I wasn't staying overnight in Mykenai, I didn't stay there.

It sounds nice! Though I can't think of a reason why I would stay overnight in Mycenae - sort of an uninspiring town...

Easy. You'd stay there so you could recline barechested while you read your Schliemann.

Vera

Hahahaha!