JohnMary Studios, Agisandrou, Faliraki 85105, Dodecanese, Greece
JohnMary Studios 
Agisandrou, Faliraki 85105, Dodecanese, Greece
+30 224 1085380
http://www.johnmarystudios.com
Agisandrou, Faliraki 85105, Dodecanese, Greece
+30 224 1085380
http://www.johnmarystudios.com
General and in-room facilities and services available at JohnMary Studios
lobby bar
summer garden
fax services
rooms for non-smokers
baby cots
souvenir shop
currency exchange
phone at the reception
24-hour reception desk
quiet surroundings
credit/debit cards accepted
checks accepted
television set in room
air conditioner in room
tea and coffee making facilities
refrigerator in room
kitchenette in room
en-suite/private bathroom
hairdryer in room
Some excerpts from the website of JohnMary Studios that might be useful
Online Air Ticket Booking. View our location at Google Earth!! Know your world? Play the famous game!!! In a peaceful area of Faliraki - Rhodes, 500m from the beach and 2 minutes from the main road, you will find our. John Mary studios are located just outside Faliraki. It is a lively seaside resort on the enchanting island of. Rhodes: the largest among the Dodecanese Islands. Only 14 km away from Rhodes Old Town and its harbors, the complex is easy to reach by car or by bus. The bus services are excellent, with stops close to the studios. The complex features fully equipped, self-catering studios that provide comfortable accommodation in a pleasant atmosphere to make your stay an unforgettable experience. Minutes away from lovely beaches with a number of water sport facilities, the property offers a warm welcome. Our studios are an excellent choice for families, couples and groups of friends seeking an enjoyable holiday in the Greek sun. We have a variety of spacious and tastefully furnished studios sleeping up to 4 persons. There are 10 studios for 2 persons and 10 studios for 3 persons, each has an open space/living room with a fully equipped cooking corner and either two or three single beds. A family studio is available with an open space/living room, a fully equipped cooking corner and two single sofa beds. This studio also has a separate double bedroom. Each unit features a private bathroom with shower, individually controlled air-conditioning, hairdryer, satellite TV and a private balcony. Baby cots are available upon request free of charge. On your doorstep there is our very own JohnMary's Super-market stocking just about everything you might need during your stay. A golden sandy beach (suitable for children) is only 500 yards away. For those who prefer the water and the relaxation of a swimming pool you can find one only 10 yards away. Not to mention the newly built shopping centre. Within just a few minutes walk from the studios you will find many restaurants offering a delicious spectrum of Greek and with International cuisines. After dinner you will find cafes and bars right next to you. Why not sip something exotic in one of Faliraki's sophisticated cocktails bars? By airplane Rhodes Diagoras international airport is located about 15 km away from the property. A taxi service is available at the airport. Exiting the airport take the national road Rodos - Lindos, which connects the island's capital to the main beach resorts. Drive southwards following the indications to Faliraki and to the property. By boat There are daily ferry services connecting the Athens port of Piraeus to the Madraki harbor of Rhodes town. A bus line runs frequently from the town centre to Faliraki resort, stopping only 50 meters from. Taxis are easily found at the end of the wharf. John Mary's Studios Facilities. Bar, mini-market, Garden, Free Parking, reception, Safety Deposit Boxes, Billiards, satellite tv telephones, internet, Free wi-fi internet access, exchange currency. At our snack bar we serve English or Continental breakfasts and light meals all day long. During the night you can taste Johns special cocktails or even enjoy ouzo in a friendly atmosphere. rhodes, faliraki, aegean sea, hotel, apartments, travel to rhodes, rodos, holidays at Rhodes, rent a room, rodi, rodas, self-catering. Make your reservation online!!! johnmary@johnmarystudios.com, Aggeliniou Maria, PB 479, TK 85105, Faliraki Rhodes, Greece, tel +302241085380, winter tel +302241020935, fax +302241087114
Around Rhodes: A One-Day Journey. The New Town is not all that new. When the Greeks who did not leave Rhodes with the Knights in 1522 were kicked out of the old city and its protective walls they created new neighborhoods in the south called Marasia. They were joined by people who came from other islands and countries who settled in the northern coast of the island. This was called Neohori, or New Town. In the New Town you will feel like you are in a real modern city instead of a walled medieval fortress. Much of it was built by the Italians when they took it from the disintigrating Ottoman empire, there are stores, traffic lights,mansions, hotels that look like apartment buildings and plenty of cars and motorbikes. It is also remarkably clean and well-cared for, much more so than other Greek cities. The New Market near the harbor is a large 7-sided building with an outdoor central courtyard where the old fish market was located in the giant gazebo with the fish decorations. The front of the market has the fancy cafes which all seem to have the same indentical strawberry sweets and pastries and waitors smile at you and try to herd you into the comfortable chairs. There are a variety of shops on the inside and the outside of the building including an excellent gourmet deli next to the fine traditional ouzerie Indigo (see. ) along with a dozen or so grill restaurants, all with whole chickens and cuts of lamb and pork turning on rotisseries day and night. Between the New Market and the entrance of the Old City is a shaded park area where street venders sell sponges, shells, beads and jewelry and a line of painters wait to offer their services doing caricatures of the tourists who pass between the two towns. Across the street from the New Market is the harbor called Mandraki distinguished from the outer harbor by the 3 windmills and the fortifications at the end of the dock. The 15th century Tower of Saint Nicholas at the end of the pier in the Mandraki harbor was the key to the defense of the city and in both the first unsuccessful seige of 1480 and the second and final seige of 1522-23 was pounded into rubble in some of the most ferocious battles in the defense of the city. The harbor of Mandraki was actually the ancient harbor. The three windmills that still stand on the breakwater that leads to the tower are actually all that remain of a line of 14 medieval windmills which were used to ground wheat. The two deer, one male and the other female which stand on pillars at the entrance of the harbor were built by the Italians and symbolize the actual deer they brought to Rhodes to rid the island of snakes. You can see the decendents of these deer in Rodini Park, in the southern part of the city, a ravine with running water, peacocks, trails, and fauna. Much of the new city was built by Mussolini and there are a large number of Art Decco buildings mixed in with modern apartment buildings and neo-classic architecture. Some of the most impressive buildings are the National Theater, the Courts, the City Hall and the Governers Palace all located in the same area beyond Elefterias Square, on the western side of the Mandraki harbor. Some of the buildings the Italians left are also in the old city as well and it is said that Mussolini laid the foundation for tourism in Rhodes. The Church of the Annunciation was originally a Catholic Cathedral, built in the same style as the church of the Knights of St John, opposite the Grand Master's Palace in the old city. Across the broad avenue is the Mourad Reis Mosque and in a small Turkish Cemetery which surrounds it is the house where Laurence Durrell lived and wrote from 1945 to 1947. If you are wondering if this was the house where he wrote the Alexandria Quartet while Melissa's child played happily in the sea, I would have to say, probably not, though it was tempting to believe it since I was in fact reading Justine at the time of my visit and until I saw the plaque (pointed out to me by Michalis Axarlis) I did not know that Durrell had ever lived in Rhodes. If you continue along the coast you come to the popular town beach and the Aquarium where the Aegean meets the Mediterranean that is the only one of its kind in Greece and worth a visit to see the sea turtles, moray eels and many of the fish they serve ion the restaurants, alive and happily swimming. If you go behind the Aquarium and swim at the point you will be swimming in two seas. The Aegean is usually windy and has waves and in fact that area and up the coastal road the air can be several degrees cooler than the air to the east. I did not swim here because I was afraid of being swept by the Aegean into the Mediterannean and all the way to Turkey. Many of the most popular hotels are here on the med side including the Hotel Mediterannean where we stayed. This photo was taken from our balcony. Let me mention that this must be the cleanest town beach and one of the most enjoyable places to swim (and people-watch) anywhere in Greece. Overlooking the city of Rhodes is the ancient Acropolis, a restored stadium from the second century, a small restored ampitheatre and a temple to Apollo on a mountain named Monte Smith. It's actually the ancient Hellenistic city of Rhodes but the mountain was named for Sir Sydney Smith whose job was to sit on the mountain watching for Napoleon's fleet in 1802. (Just sit here for a year and we'll name this mountain after you. they told him) You can take the number 5 bus or walk here though we came up with Nick as part of our city tour. The view of the new city and the Aegean coast is spectacular and the line of small houses along the coast were actually built for Turkish (or Muslim Greek) refugees from Crete and is called Kritika. Staying in the new town is really the most convenient. The old town is a twenty minute walk from just about anywhere and the broad avenues and tree lined streets combined with the breeze from the Aegean keep the area cooler in the summer. In fact some nights the coastal road can be like walking in a wind tunnel which is why many of the restaurants there are enclosed by walls or glass. If you are renting a car to see the island it is easier to get in and out of town and to find a place to park than in the old town. If you are taking a taxi to the port or the airport they are much happier picking you up in the new town too. The Old City of Rhodes with a population of 6,000 inhabitants is surrounded by medieval walls with seven gates: Gate of the Naval Station, Gate of Agios Ioannis, Gate of Agia Ekaterini, Gate of the Apostle Paul, Gate of Amboise, Gate of. Agios Athanassios and the Gate of the port. To enter any of these gates is to enter another world. Now it happens to be a world of tourist shops, restaurants, cafes and museums, more like a Turkish bazaar than any Greek city, but anyone with imagination can't help but be touched by the history of the place where a handful of Knights were the last Christian holdouts in a part of the world that had become completely dominated by Muslims, in particular the Ottoman Turks. When the city finally did fall after a seige that exhausted both defenders and beseigers the remaining Knights were offered safe passage and on January 1st of 1523 left Rhodes along with 5000 of the Christian inhabitants of the island who chose to leave rather than live under the Sultan. In the defense of the city 2000 Christians had died. The Turks had lost 50,000 trying to take it. This is not, however just an old town filled with ghosts of the past. The old city of Rhodes is a living, vibrant community with many homes and business, not all of them connected to tourism. The Medieval City was divided into three parts: the northern part included the Acropolis of the Knights and the Palace of the Grand Master while the southern part include Hora, were the commoners lived. The Jewish Quarter is the third section and the least developed commercially in terms of tourism and is mostly residentia...
Around Rhodes: A One-Day Journey. The New Town is not all that new. When the Greeks who did not leave Rhodes with the Knights in 1522 were kicked out of the old city and its protective walls they created new neighborhoods in the south called Marasia. They were joined by people who came from other islands and countries who settled in the northern coast of the island. This was called Neohori, or New Town. In the New Town you will feel like you are in a real modern city instead of a walled medieval fortress. Much of it was built by the Italians when they took it from the disintigrating Ottoman empire, there are stores, traffic lights,mansions, hotels that look like apartment buildings and plenty of cars and motorbikes. It is also remarkably clean and well-cared for, much more so than other Greek cities. The New Market near the harbor is a large 7-sided building with an outdoor central courtyard where the old fish market was located in the giant gazebo with the fish decorations. The front of the market has the fancy cafes which all seem to have the same indentical strawberry sweets and pastries and waitors smile at you and try to herd you into the comfortable chairs. There are a variety of shops on the inside and the outside of the building including an excellent gourmet deli next to the fine traditional ouzerie Indigo (see. ) along with a dozen or so grill restaurants, all with whole chickens and cuts of lamb and pork turning on rotisseries day and night. Between the New Market and the entrance of the Old City is a shaded park area where street venders sell sponges, shells, beads and jewelry and a line of painters wait to offer their services doing caricatures of the tourists who pass between the two towns. Across the street from the New Market is the harbor called Mandraki distinguished from the outer harbor by the 3 windmills and the fortifications at the end of the dock. The 15th century Tower of Saint Nicholas at the end of the pier in the Mandraki harbor was the key to the defense of the city and in both the first unsuccessful seige of 1480 and the second and final seige of 1522-23 was pounded into rubble in some of the most ferocious battles in the defense of the city. The harbor of Mandraki was actually the ancient harbor. The three windmills that still stand on the breakwater that leads to the tower are actually all that remain of a line of 14 medieval windmills which were used to ground wheat. The two deer, one male and the other female which stand on pillars at the entrance of the harbor were built by the Italians and symbolize the actual deer they brought to Rhodes to rid the island of snakes. You can see the decendents of these deer in Rodini Park, in the southern part of the city, a ravine with running water, peacocks, trails, and fauna. Much of the new city was built by Mussolini and there are a large number of Art Decco buildings mixed in with modern apartment buildings and neo-classic architecture. Some of the most impressive buildings are the National Theater, the Courts, the City Hall and the Governers Palace all located in the same area beyond Elefterias Square, on the western side of the Mandraki harbor. Some of the buildings the Italians left are also in the old city as well and it is said that Mussolini laid the foundation for tourism in Rhodes. The Church of the Annunciation was originally a Catholic Cathedral, built in the same style as the church of the Knights of St John, opposite the Grand Master's Palace in the old city. Across the broad avenue is the Mourad Reis Mosque and in a small Turkish Cemetery which surrounds it is the house where Laurence Durrell lived and wrote from 1945 to 1947. If you are wondering if this was the house where he wrote the Alexandria Quartet while Melissa's child played happily in the sea, I would have to say, probably not, though it was tempting to believe it since I was in fact reading Justine at the time of my visit and until I saw the plaque (pointed out to me by Michalis Axarlis) I did not know that Durrell had ever lived in Rhodes. If you continue along the coast you come to the popular town beach and the Aquarium where the Aegean meets the Mediterranean that is the only one of its kind in Greece and worth a visit to see the sea turtles, moray eels and many of the fish they serve ion the restaurants, alive and happily swimming. If you go behind the Aquarium and swim at the point you will be swimming in two seas. The Aegean is usually windy and has waves and in fact that area and up the coastal road the air can be several degrees cooler than the air to the east. I did not swim here because I was afraid of being swept by the Aegean into the Mediterannean and all the way to Turkey. Many of the most popular hotels are here on the med side including the Hotel Mediterannean where we stayed. This photo was taken from our balcony. Let me mention that this must be the cleanest town beach and one of the most enjoyable places to swim (and people-watch) anywhere in Greece. Overlooking the city of Rhodes is the ancient Acropolis, a restored stadium from the second century, a small restored ampitheatre and a temple to Apollo on a mountain named Monte Smith. It's actually the ancient Hellenistic city of Rhodes but the mountain was named for Sir Sydney Smith whose job was to sit on the mountain watching for Napoleon's fleet in 1802. (Just sit here for a year and we'll name this mountain after you. they told him) You can take the number 5 bus or walk here though we came up with Nick as part of our city tour. The view of the new city and the Aegean coast is spectacular and the line of small houses along the coast were actually built for Turkish (or Muslim Greek) refugees from Crete and is called Kritika. Staying in the new town is really the most convenient. The old town is a twenty minute walk from just about anywhere and the broad avenues and tree lined streets combined with the breeze from the Aegean keep the area cooler in the summer. In fact some nights the coastal road can be like walking in a wind tunnel which is why many of the restaurants there are enclosed by walls or glass. If you are renting a car to see the island it is easier to get in and out of town and to find a place to park than in the old town. If you are taking a taxi to the port or the airport they are much happier picking you up in the new town too. The Old City of Rhodes with a population of 6,000 inhabitants is surrounded by medieval walls with seven gates: Gate of the Naval Station, Gate of Agios Ioannis, Gate of Agia Ekaterini, Gate of the Apostle Paul, Gate of Amboise, Gate of. Agios Athanassios and the Gate of the port. To enter any of these gates is to enter another world. Now it happens to be a world of tourist shops, restaurants, cafes and museums, more like a Turkish bazaar than any Greek city, but anyone with imagination can't help but be touched by the history of the place where a handful of Knights were the last Christian holdouts in a part of the world that had become completely dominated by Muslims, in particular the Ottoman Turks. When the city finally did fall after a seige that exhausted both defenders and beseigers the remaining Knights were offered safe passage and on January 1st of 1523 left Rhodes along with 5000 of the Christian inhabitants of the island who chose to leave rather than live under the Sultan. In the defense of the city 2000 Christians had died. The Turks had lost 50,000 trying to take it. This is not, however just an old town filled with ghosts of the past. The old city of Rhodes is a living, vibrant community with many homes and business, not all of them connected to tourism. The Medieval City was divided into three parts: the northern part included the Acropolis of the Knights and the Palace of the Grand Master while the southern part include Hora, were the commoners lived. The Jewish Quarter is the third section and the least developed commercially in terms of tourism and is mostly residentia...
