The city's exuberant student population keeps things lively, and Thessaloniki has excellent nightlife and cafes, plus an array of appealing hotels and restaurants.
It's a fast-growing city, and Bank of America has its headquarters there, but the West Elm team didn't see many appealing smaller hotels, despite the large number of business travellers.
If the Garden City Hotel is at the top of the luxury scale, the funky yet appealing Jones Beach Hotel is near the bottom.
The Harmon Tower, promoted as a luxury hotel appealing to a new generation of big-spending Las Vegas revelers, today languishes at the gateway to CityCenter, itself just three years old.
With 120 rooms, this is the city's most modern and quirky hotel appealing to design-savvy travellers, especially.
For more than 100 years, the Eden has been one of the city's grand hotels, appealing as much to business travelers as to globe-trotting celebrities, families on holiday and the occasional crowned head.
The FBI said Alexis had been staying in hotels in the Washington DC area since August 25, and checked into the Residence Inn hotel, near the facility in southwest Washington, on September 7. On Tuesday, police were searching his room at the hotel, and appealing for any information that might provide insight into why Alexis opened fire on his co-workers.
Praiano was quiet (as usual, said the receptionist at the Tramonto d'Oro hotel), but appealing, with pretty bays, colourful local characters and a great restaurant, La Strada (lastradaristorante.it), carved into the rock face with heart-stopping sea views from its terrace.
The hotel is appealing for other reasons as well.
My back aches – more from the Lodge's morning yoga class than the surf – and that walk-in shower, finished in the same treated concrete as much of the hotel, looks mighty appealing.
