I've been reading through all sorts of forum posts, and then looking up hotels and apartments. So many have a lot of stairs to get to the actual building, to say nothing of interior stairs.
Any recommendations for lodging without? Some stairs are ok, but not so many!
Maybe the whole town is not a good idea because of that? I hope not!
Look at hotels near the port. It's pretty flat for the first few blocks until you get further away from the water and the terrain starts to climb. I've only been to Nafplio once and stayed up on the hill but there were lots of options by the harbor that were more accessible with few stairs
Our friends stayed here when we traveled to Nafplio two years ago. They loved it! There's an elevator.
You should go to Booking dot com https://www.booking.com/district/gr/nafplion/nafpliooldtown.html --put in dates & a list appears. Do NOT start scrolling down the list -- instead, click icon "Show on Map" and you then see all available places as blue balloons, with the price beside each. There is a purple Legend "Archeologiical Musem" -- that is the Main Town Square. ALL the places on the Seaward Side of this are on flat streets ... and also on the street just inland from this, Called Staikopolou. From there inland, stairs go up.
I have some suggestions, but don't know what your chances are. (Nancy, for future reference, if you can give dates, you'll get much b better help-- without them, it's guesswork, and we may supply unhelpful options). Have you checked THE best guide to all aspects of Nafplio?? Where to stay - eat - walk - sightsee - shop -- http://www.visitnafplio.com/ ? Noncommercial; superb -- click Every link! Its creator says, & I agree, that HOTEL AGAMEMNON has Best location in all Old Town... riight on seafront... balconies, 3 floors (w elevator), buffet breakfast in lobby....and moderate prices .. but getting hard to book. Just a block off the atractive marble-paved squar is always reliable Hotel Victoria, balconies, views of the high fortress, elevator. Another attractive choice, a family-owned Omorfo Poli ("Beautiful City") is on quiet lane, next to a museum. Good lulck on all these!
I have stayed at the Hotel Agamemnon in Nafplio. Never again.
The have some decent rooms and some very bad rooms. I was first given a bad room where many things didn't work. I asked for a new room but was told they were sold out that day and could possibly move me the next day.
The next day they acted as if they didn't know what I talking about, said they'd see what they could do. Five minutes before I was supposed to leave on a sightseeing tour, they said they could move me but I'd have to be packed up and leave my luggage at the front desk so they could prepare my current room for someone else. The room I was in was so bad, I missed the sightseeing. They get a lot of groups and don't really care if you're not happy.
My second room was okay.
When I told a couple of friends of mine who lived in the area which hotel I was in, they both said "Why would you stay there?"
