Chic and cheerful: 15 hotels for affordable European glamour - AOL

A travel feature highlights affordable European hotel stays across several destinations, using properties such as Hotel Mediterraneo on Kastellorizo. The article describes a location roughly 2 km from Turkey’s Lycian coast, where ferries dock at Kastellorizo’s tiny harbour lined with colorful neoclassical houses. Hotel Mediterraneo is presented as being close to the water, with pricing for doubles at €170 per night for bed and breakfast, and it notes owner Marie Rivalant, a Parisian architect, who has run the waterfront pension for about 25 years. In Greece’s Dodecanese, it also profiles Symi’s The Old Markets hotel, with seven rooms and three suites and a rooftop tasting menu restaurant. The feature further discusses Spain’s state-run paradores through Parador de Lerma, a 17th-century ducal palace in Castile and León, citing historical ties including an association with Napoleon and performances by Lope de Vega in a courtyard.