it' s a very good hotel , next to the city center . It's a quite and comfortable hotel and it provides many facilities to their customers such as free parking , there's also a swimming pool and a very beautiful view at Meteora . The stuff is also very friendly

Dreadfully hard hard beds, pillows like bricks. Great view of Meteora rocks from balcony but would be hard to avoid in this town! Paid 50 euros for double incl breakfast which was fine.

We stayed here for three nights in July - we had two rooms on the top floor with the biggest terraces, I mean really HUGE, from which we could see almost 360 degrees. All the rooms have nice balconies, but guess we were just lucky to have these two rooms - it was not quite high season.

The rooms had good sized fridges, and we bought stuff at the local supermarket so we could have picnic lunches and evening drinks, watching the fabulous rocks of Meteora changing colour thought the day as the light changed.

The staff were absolutely charming, nothing was too much trouble for them (even providing a wine bucket and some ice for the wine I had bought from the supermarket, for instance).

Breakfast was excellent, a good selection of foods and prompt arrival of coffee and tea.

The pool was big, clean and we had it to ourselves mostly (!) - you need to take your own towels but there is a laundry just around the corner if you want them washed before you move on.

The bathrooms were very dated and tired, but very, very clean, so no complaints there!

My husband and I went off on a long hike one day and left our 17 and 14 year olds in the hotel, sleeping in and then playing in the pool, and we felt completely safe in the knowledge that the staff would just keep a gentle eye out for them.

Restaurant not operating at the time we stayed there - but a good taverna next door - so good we ate there twice. Another one up the road also very good. Kalambaka is a nice town.

Really,I cannot recommend this one enough - a very marvellous place, and excellent value (unlike the 5 star hotel Electra Palace in Thessaloniki !).

We went to Meteora on October 2008 which is becoming a major travel destination. Foreign travelers usually visit it on prearranged tours while nationals go on their own mainly as a pilgrimage trip. No doubt that this is a unique and wonderful place. Unfortunately, there are only two towns really close to the monasteries and the significant part of the trip: the small Kalambaka and the smaller Kastraki. Higher standard accommodations are tour groups hotels located outside of Kalambaka but these are more expensive and far from the opportunity of experiencing the town.
Taking that into account, the Edelweiss is a simple not pretending hotel. You will find from nice to very helpful staff depending on the shift. Breakfast is fair at most and there are good restaurant alternatives just next door or not more than two blocks from the hotel. Be sure that the rate that you are paying matches this service plus small and simple motel-type rooms.