>Like any great invention, I stumbled upon the idea of the hotel-room vacation by accident, nine years ago, after Toony and I arrived in Chania, Crete, for our honeymoon. The “magical Venetian town” I’d read of in a British travel magazine turned out to be a maze of souvenir shops, Irish pubs, and “authentic” Greek tavernas, so described on the doors and menus. Our hotel room, though, was amazing.
Souvenir shops and Irish pubs aside, Chania is indeed a "magical Venetian town", that can enchant even Greeks (who're used to all the tourist hoopla). There are also plenty of really authentic Greek tavernas if one looks beyond the tourist strip. And there's a whole island, of great beauty, and tons of places untouched by tourism all around.
The rest of the article (which has its merits) aside, that the author preferred their hotel room tells us more about them, than about the place...
Some people can find authentic places even in Las Vegas or Times square, and some people wouldn't know authentic if they were hit on the head with it...
Souvenir shops and Irish pubs aside, Chania is indeed a "magical Venetian town", that can enchant even Greeks (who're used to all the tourist hoopla). There are also plenty of really authentic Greek tavernas if one looks beyond the tourist strip. And there's a whole island, of great beauty, and tons of places untouched by tourism all around.
The rest of the article (which has its merits) aside, that the author preferred their hotel room tells us more about them, than about the place...
Some people can find authentic places even in Las Vegas or Times square, and some people wouldn't know authentic if they were hit on the head with it...