We stayed at this hotel in August, in general, not bad. Everyone paints how it was good for them, but I want to honestly write what we did not like. Firstly, the food for breakfast is monotonous and all of canned food, except for some reason sweet noodles, margarine instead of butter, incomprehensible watery porridge and like a mess, and everything is absolutely tasteless.
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We stayed at this hotel in August, in general, not bad. Everyone paints how it was good for them, but I want to honestly write what we did not like. Firstly, the food for breakfast is monotonous and all of canned food, except for some reason sweet noodles, margarine instead of butter, incomprehensible watery porridge and like a mess, and everything is absolutely tasteless. I don't know if that's the way it's eaten in Europe. You can still live in the hotel during the week, but on weekends it turns into a courtyard, they let you into the territory and into the pool for everyone's money. And city people from Varna are splashing and enjoying life, there is no place for vacationers! The rooms seem to be cleaned, but you have to constantly ask for something, then soap, then shampoo. The staff smiles, but if you don’t ask for one answer, I don’t know. Well, about the good. The territory is clean, green, small. You can swim all night, not like in big hotels. At 5 pm, when the lifeguards on duty leave, the pools close the tsigel, tsigel ai lulu. Lived 20 days it was quiet, you can sleep and relax. This is a big plus. The beach is of course small and it would be nice to clean the road to the beach more often. And that's a real dump. But this is a question for the authorities. The pool at the hotel is clean, the water is warm, you can splash around all day, especially those with children. If all this did not scare you, then it is quite a decent stay for 3 stars.
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We have been going to Bulgaria with my wife for 2 years in a row. In 2009 we visited the amazing Nessebar at the Marina Palace 4 * hotel, and in 2010 we visited the quiet and green St. Constantine and Elena at the Atlant 3 * + hotel. The person who said that having visited Bulgaria, either you will love forever, or you will experience disappointment from this resort, was right.
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We have been going to Bulgaria with my wife for 2 years in a row. In 2009 we visited the amazing Nessebar at the Marina Palace 4 * hotel, and in 2010 we visited the quiet and green St. Constantine and Elena at the Atlant 3 * + hotel. The person who said that having visited Bulgaria, either you will love forever, or you will experience disappointment from this resort, was right. Therefore, until you try to go there, it is useless to read reviews like this, do not feel the spirit of this country. I was really hooked by this country, it surprisingly combines new European ways of life and simple good-natured people who are not yet devoid of Soviet culture and rich local traditions intertwined with the centuries-old history of this people. Having returned from there a few months ago, I still miss it and, in order to indulge in memories, I turn on the webcam of my favorite restaurant Zarnitsa in Nessebar, the city cameras of Varna, or just stripes of beaches.
But anyway, let's get closer to the topic.
Since I came here for the second time, when choosing a hotel and resort, I already had an idea of what I needed and what to look for. And the requirements were:
1. Not a remote village, so that there was no problem where to take a walk in the evening and there were no problems with large, inexpensive shops
2. So that with all this, at night, sleep well and in silence, and not under a disco or a highway under the windows
3. The proximity of the sea and a normal beach with a gentle approach (so as not to climb into the hotel in a twisting mountain, where while you climb up the tongue on your shoulder, at least go to swim again)
4. The quality of the hotel, category from 3 * and the possibility of choosing the BB option in it (breakfast only)
5. Not an expensive resort in general (meaning prices for food, souvenirs, etc. )
6. The most important thing is the travel budget. Under all of the above conditions, a minimum price was needed
Well, now I want to tell you in more detail what I ended up with.
1. The resort is really big and very green, in places on the outskirts even overgrown.
From end to end, about 30-40 minutes on foot, and then the hotels of another Sunny Day resort immediately begin. From the hotel to the shopping street, go for 8-10 minutes (700m on Google) by the shortest path past a fenced wasteland of 150 meters (which apparently was prepared for the construction of a new hotel), then along the parking lot of the Grand Hotel Varna, past the court, skirting the Grand Hotel from the side, and then along the path through the square towards the meadow with attractions. But this is during the day. At night, the wife refused to go through the dark wasteland, although people go there at any time (do not think, the street itself past the hotel towards the exit from the resort is very well lit and not deserted almost at any time, so this is normal). If you had to return late, then we walked past the Gloria, Rositsa and Mistral hotel (which for some reason did not work), it is always light and crowded there.
At first, such omissions in the resort are alarming, especially compared to Nessebar, which is more polished in this regard, but then you even begin to like such quiet, always shady corners, especially when the sun bakes strongly outside, and you want to go to the center. The hotel is very well located in the middle between the center and the outskirts of the resort. Although on some forums they write that this is bad, but I found only one plus:
a) Close to the bus stop "Marek" for a trip to Varna (on the highway). Literally 8-10 minutes on foot (650 m) and we are already waiting for the bus. Tourists who live in the center of the resort, of course, go much further.
Although there is a stop in the center of the resort, only a few buses run there, which, for example, do not go to Vladislav Varnenchik Boulevard, where the largest shopping centers are concentrated (Grand Mall Varna, Mall Varna, for example, Avtogar stop) and a lot of smaller shops, so that if you want to get there, then either from the center of Varna on foot (from the Morsko Oko stop, it seems, 20-25 minutes on foot), or with a transfer. The fare is not very cheap, to the Grand Mall 1.60 levs per person (they give, by the way, 2 tickets for 0.80 levs each and many foreign passengers at first do not understand why they asked for 2 tickets, and the conductor gives 4 and try to explain that they don’t need so much) . It’s bad for many conductors with Russian, to put it mildly, but they always managed to explain where to drop me off (although one conductor came across who explained to us very well in Russian where to get off and how to go further where we need to).
b) There are many small shops on the way to the bus stop, where everything is several times cheaper than in the center, so almost everyone bought goods there.
c) Close to a very good restaurant Biju. Outwardly, he looks modest, but the food is excellent and very, very not expensive.
d) Complete rest at night. An excellent sleep without music and songs under the windows is guaranteed.
2. Already wrote, at night it is excellent and away from noisy establishments and in people at the same time. A train with tourists runs until late, at which a stop is right in front of the hotel and couples walk along the street. All the more violent youth live closer to the center and buzz in the same place. No noise.
3. Really about 250-300m to the sea (literally 3-5 minutes, we walked in the same swimming trunks). The approaches are excellent, from the hotel in a straight line in the shade of trees past the neighboring hotel, then a small ladder down and the showers on the beach already begin. Beach for 4. Not very huge, quite clean.
The only minus in the water there are some huge boulders, but you can see them, they almost come to the surface and they are smooth (children climbed on them and jumped into the water). There were no jellyfish at all. We went to other beaches, in the end we liked only the one near Sunny Day, but the people there are dark, they sit on each other's heads.
4. Upon arrival, we received a corner room on the ground floor overlooking the pool, and there was a garden and trees in front of the windows. At first, they were upset and decided to change it in a couple of days, but as it turned out, the location, on the contrary, was very successful, in the higher rooms at night from the street you can see everything in full view of what is happening there, if the owner forgot to curtain the windows, everything is immediately hidden from prying eyes. The hotel is new. The rooms are really large with centralized air conditioning, and as many as three large windows, not how much shabby, furniture and plumbing is also in excellent condition. Service for 3+.
Towels were changed every other day or two, and bedding once a week. Soap, toilet paper and shampoo when they were about to run out. It was embarrassing that sometimes they were cleaned, but the bed was not made very neatly, and it seems that they didn’t do wet cleaning in the room every day, but oh well, we didn’t get dirty and this is already nitpicking. In general, no frills, what you paid is what you got : ) The maids are friendly, always smiling and saying hello. Russian at the reception is not important for the girls, but you can explain yourself (3 times I tried to explain that we don’t have clothespins on the balcony, as a result I climbed onto the neighbor’s balcony and took half of it when they left, although in all stores they sold a whole bunch of rubles for 10 : ), but we are Russian people : )). There is free wi-fi throughout the hotel, for which special thanks. There was the usual continental breakfast with the usual variety, sometimes they even gave pancakes. Everything is tasty, but monotonous. In general, as in all other hotels.
You can also eat on the street territory of the restaurant, where there is also a wonderful pond with fish and waterfalls, near which we usually sat down. In general, the hotel fully justifies the modest money that they want for it and all their honest 3 * +.
5. Prices for souvenirs and food at the resort are subjectively almost the same as in Nessebar in 2009. There are a lot of restaurants, but there are no really cheap ones, as they were in Nessebar (but I wouldn’t go there, their dubious quality can be seen from a mile away). Bijou, the Monastery hut (here, in addition to good food, they also sing well in the evening), Oasis (near the bus stop) and the cafe next to it (I forgot the name) are not very bad establishments. But Kopitoto was decidedly not liked, however, many scold him.
Evening show program there (dancing on hot coals) for those who have never seen this before, since the second time will be no longer interesting, before that they first sing (not bad enough), and after a very long time they dance some national dances under wildly rattling music, very tiring. At the same time, the darkness of the people sits in the hall. The best places where you can see the stage take 2-3 hours before the show, but it turned out to be useless, because when the charcoal dance show starts, the whole crowd breaks and pushes to take a closer look and stands in front of the front tables with a dense wall. We arrived an hour before and found a table just outside the restaurant. But the worst part is the food. The restaurant is not very cheap, while they brought us completely unprepared half-baked meat and burnt black potatoes. During the holidays, we went to Golden Sands several times (to pick up tourists on excursions and once on our own) and that's where I was amazed at the prices.
In 90% of cases, the same souvenir products cost 2 times more than ours. Prices in restaurants are also noticeably higher. Only at the very edge of the resort I found a tent with more or less reasonable prices.
6. The total cost of the tour was one of the cheapest offers from the resort among 3 * hotels. I also liked the Gloria hotel (by the way, there is one of the best exchange rates in the entire resort at the reception), constant animation, closer to the center, but further from the sea. Right in the center there is Julio Curie, but inside the troughs in the hall there is still one and the restaurants with bars are too close and noisy. From the Russian side they chose Lanta-Tour, from the Bulgarian side I forgot the name of the tour operator, but there was a Bulgarian-Ukrainian guide Ivan. There are no complaints about the tour operators, everything was fine (they arrived late in the evening and the guide who took us to the hotel even changed our money from euros to levs, since nothing was working anymore).
Whoever travels to Lanta, please note that all documents (insurance, electronic tickets, etc. ) must be issued to you by a local travel agency in electronic form or printed out (Lanta-Tour sends them all immediately after payment). They only bring your passport to the airport! Our agency did not know about this and slowed down until the last day, although this nuance is clearly written on the Lanta-Tour website.
P. S. Well, I would like to say a few words about excursions. Naturally, excursions directly from the tour operator are more expensive, but they are also of better quality. New buses, more interesting and richer program and more intelligible guides.
A large sightseeing tour of Varna with a visit to churches, a historical museum and other interesting places, as well as wine tasting. Quite interesting in general (although we went on excursions around Varna for the second time), but the museum is boring for me, and the prices for wine (compared to the palace in Balchik are higher). But it's definitely worth going.
We traveled with our guide.
Aladzha Monastery. Also with your guide. A very interesting excursion. I advise.
Cape Kaliakra + Balchik. For some reason, this tour did not get enough people from our guide and it was canceled. I had to buy on the shopping street. We paid 2 times cheaper, but got a rather muddy quiet-voiced guide, a rather old bus and a slightly reduced program. We bought in the same tent where they offer cars for rent, perhaps others would have been better. The tour itself is generally super, one of the best! I don't understand why there were no applicants.
Also, our guide offered an interesting excursion for 2 days through the whole of Bulgaria, but expensive. The toad was not strangled : )
But anyway, let's get closer to the topic.
Since I came here for the second time, when choosing a hotel and resort, I already had an idea of what I needed and what to look for. And the requirements were:
1. Not a remote village, so that there was no problem where to take a walk in the evening and there were no problems with large, inexpensive shops
2. So that with all this, at night, sleep well and in silence, and not under a disco or a highway under the windows
3. The proximity of the sea and a normal beach with a gentle approach (so as not to climb into the hotel in a twisting mountain, where while you climb up the tongue on your shoulder, at least go to swim again)
4. The quality of the hotel, category from 3 * and the possibility of choosing the BB option in it (breakfast only)
5. Not an expensive resort in general (meaning prices for food, souvenirs, etc. )
6. The most important thing is the travel budget. Under all of the above conditions, a minimum price was needed
Well, now I want to tell you in more detail what I ended up with.
1. The resort is really big and very green, in places on the outskirts even overgrown.
From end to end, about 30-40 minutes on foot, and then the hotels of another Sunny Day resort immediately begin. From the hotel to the shopping street, go for 8-10 minutes (700m on Google) by the shortest path past a fenced wasteland of 150 meters (which apparently was prepared for the construction of a new hotel), then along the parking lot of the Grand Hotel Varna, past the court, skirting the Grand Hotel from the side, and then along the path through the square towards the meadow with attractions. But this is during the day. At night, the wife refused to go through the dark wasteland, although people go there at any time (do not think, the street itself past the hotel towards the exit from the resort is very well lit and not deserted almost at any time, so this is normal). If you had to return late, then we walked past the Gloria, Rositsa and Mistral hotel (which for some reason did not work), it is always light and crowded there.
At first, such omissions in the resort are alarming, especially compared to Nessebar, which is more polished in this regard, but then you even begin to like such quiet, always shady corners, especially when the sun bakes strongly outside, and you want to go to the center. The hotel is very well located in the middle between the center and the outskirts of the resort. Although on some forums they write that this is bad, but I found only one plus:
a) Close to the bus stop "Marek" for a trip to Varna (on the highway). Literally 8-10 minutes on foot (650 m) and we are already waiting for the bus. Tourists who live in the center of the resort, of course, go much further.
Although there is a stop in the center of the resort, only a few buses run there, which, for example, do not go to Vladislav Varnenchik Boulevard, where the largest shopping centers are concentrated (Grand Mall Varna, Mall Varna, for example, Avtogar stop) and a lot of smaller shops, so that if you want to get there, then either from the center of Varna on foot (from the Morsko Oko stop, it seems, 20-25 minutes on foot), or with a transfer. The fare is not very cheap, to the Grand Mall 1.60 levs per person (they give, by the way, 2 tickets for 0.80 levs each and many foreign passengers at first do not understand why they asked for 2 tickets, and the conductor gives 4 and try to explain that they don’t need so much) . It’s bad for many conductors with Russian, to put it mildly, but they always managed to explain where to drop me off (although one conductor came across who explained to us very well in Russian where to get off and how to go further where we need to).
b) There are many small shops on the way to the bus stop, where everything is several times cheaper than in the center, so almost everyone bought goods there.
c) Close to a very good restaurant Biju. Outwardly, he looks modest, but the food is excellent and very, very not expensive.
d) Complete rest at night. An excellent sleep without music and songs under the windows is guaranteed.
2. Already wrote, at night it is excellent and away from noisy establishments and in people at the same time. A train with tourists runs until late, at which a stop is right in front of the hotel and couples walk along the street. All the more violent youth live closer to the center and buzz in the same place. No noise.
3. Really about 250-300m to the sea (literally 3-5 minutes, we walked in the same swimming trunks). The approaches are excellent, from the hotel in a straight line in the shade of trees past the neighboring hotel, then a small ladder down and the showers on the beach already begin. Beach for 4. Not very huge, quite clean.
The only minus in the water there are some huge boulders, but you can see them, they almost come to the surface and they are smooth (children climbed on them and jumped into the water). There were no jellyfish at all. We went to other beaches, in the end we liked only the one near Sunny Day, but the people there are dark, they sit on each other's heads.
4. Upon arrival, we received a corner room on the ground floor overlooking the pool, and there was a garden and trees in front of the windows. At first, they were upset and decided to change it in a couple of days, but as it turned out, the location, on the contrary, was very successful, in the higher rooms at night from the street you can see everything in full view of what is happening there, if the owner forgot to curtain the windows, everything is immediately hidden from prying eyes. The hotel is new. The rooms are really large with centralized air conditioning, and as many as three large windows, not how much shabby, furniture and plumbing is also in excellent condition. Service for 3+.
Towels were changed every other day or two, and bedding once a week. Soap, toilet paper and shampoo when they were about to run out. It was embarrassing that sometimes they were cleaned, but the bed was not made very neatly, and it seems that they didn’t do wet cleaning in the room every day, but oh well, we didn’t get dirty and this is already nitpicking. In general, no frills, what you paid is what you got : ) The maids are friendly, always smiling and saying hello. Russian at the reception is not important for the girls, but you can explain yourself (3 times I tried to explain that we don’t have clothespins on the balcony, as a result I climbed onto the neighbor’s balcony and took half of it when they left, although in all stores they sold a whole bunch of rubles for 10 : ), but we are Russian people : )). There is free wi-fi throughout the hotel, for which special thanks. There was the usual continental breakfast with the usual variety, sometimes they even gave pancakes. Everything is tasty, but monotonous. In general, as in all other hotels.
You can also eat on the street territory of the restaurant, where there is also a wonderful pond with fish and waterfalls, near which we usually sat down. In general, the hotel fully justifies the modest money that they want for it and all their honest 3 * +.
5. Prices for souvenirs and food at the resort are subjectively almost the same as in Nessebar in 2009. There are a lot of restaurants, but there are no really cheap ones, as they were in Nessebar (but I wouldn’t go there, their dubious quality can be seen from a mile away). Bijou, the Monastery hut (here, in addition to good food, they also sing well in the evening), Oasis (near the bus stop) and the cafe next to it (I forgot the name) are not very bad establishments. But Kopitoto was decidedly not liked, however, many scold him.
Evening show program there (dancing on hot coals) for those who have never seen this before, since the second time will be no longer interesting, before that they first sing (not bad enough), and after a very long time they dance some national dances under wildly rattling music, very tiring. At the same time, the darkness of the people sits in the hall. The best places where you can see the stage take 2-3 hours before the show, but it turned out to be useless, because when the charcoal dance show starts, the whole crowd breaks and pushes to take a closer look and stands in front of the front tables with a dense wall. We arrived an hour before and found a table just outside the restaurant. But the worst part is the food. The restaurant is not very cheap, while they brought us completely unprepared half-baked meat and burnt black potatoes. During the holidays, we went to Golden Sands several times (to pick up tourists on excursions and once on our own) and that's where I was amazed at the prices.
In 90% of cases, the same souvenir products cost 2 times more than ours. Prices in restaurants are also noticeably higher. Only at the very edge of the resort I found a tent with more or less reasonable prices.
6. The total cost of the tour was one of the cheapest offers from the resort among 3 * hotels. I also liked the Gloria hotel (by the way, there is one of the best exchange rates in the entire resort at the reception), constant animation, closer to the center, but further from the sea. Right in the center there is Julio Curie, but inside the troughs in the hall there is still one and the restaurants with bars are too close and noisy. From the Russian side they chose Lanta-Tour, from the Bulgarian side I forgot the name of the tour operator, but there was a Bulgarian-Ukrainian guide Ivan. There are no complaints about the tour operators, everything was fine (they arrived late in the evening and the guide who took us to the hotel even changed our money from euros to levs, since nothing was working anymore).
Whoever travels to Lanta, please note that all documents (insurance, electronic tickets, etc. ) must be issued to you by a local travel agency in electronic form or printed out (Lanta-Tour sends them all immediately after payment). They only bring your passport to the airport! Our agency did not know about this and slowed down until the last day, although this nuance is clearly written on the Lanta-Tour website.
P. S. Well, I would like to say a few words about excursions. Naturally, excursions directly from the tour operator are more expensive, but they are also of better quality. New buses, more interesting and richer program and more intelligible guides.
A large sightseeing tour of Varna with a visit to churches, a historical museum and other interesting places, as well as wine tasting. Quite interesting in general (although we went on excursions around Varna for the second time), but the museum is boring for me, and the prices for wine (compared to the palace in Balchik are higher). But it's definitely worth going.
We traveled with our guide.
Aladzha Monastery. Also with your guide. A very interesting excursion. I advise.
Cape Kaliakra + Balchik. For some reason, this tour did not get enough people from our guide and it was canceled. I had to buy on the shopping street. We paid 2 times cheaper, but got a rather muddy quiet-voiced guide, a rather old bus and a slightly reduced program. We bought in the same tent where they offer cars for rent, perhaps others would have been better. The tour itself is generally super, one of the best! I don't understand why there were no applicants.
Also, our guide offered an interesting excursion for 2 days through the whole of Bulgaria, but expensive. The toad was not strangled : )
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We have been going to Bulgaria with my wife for 2 years in a row. In 2009 we visited the amazing Nessebar at the Marina Palace 4 * hotel, and in 2010 we visited the quiet and green St. Constantine and Elena at the Atlant 3 * + hotel. The person who said that having visited Bulgaria, either you will love forever, or you will experience disappointment from this resort, was right.
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We have been going to Bulgaria with my wife for 2 years in a row. In 2009 we visited the amazing Nessebar at the Marina Palace 4 * hotel, and in 2010 we visited the quiet and green St. Constantine and Elena at the Atlant 3 * + hotel. The person who said that having visited Bulgaria, either you will love forever, or you will experience disappointment from this resort, was right. Therefore, until you try to go there, it is useless to read reviews like this, do not feel the spirit of this country. I was really hooked by this country, it surprisingly combines new European ways of life and simple good-natured people who are not yet devoid of Soviet culture and rich local traditions intertwined with the centuries-old history of this people. Having returned from there a few months ago, I still miss it and, in order to indulge in memories, I turn on the webcam of my favorite restaurant Zarnitsa in Nessebar, the city cameras of Varna, or just stripes of beaches. But anyway, let's get closer to the topic. Since I came here for the second time, when choosing a hotel and resort, I already had an idea of what I needed and what to look for. And the requirements were: . Not a remote village, so that there were no problems where to take a walk in the evening and there were no problems with large inexpensive shops2. So that with all this, at night he slept well and in silence, and not under a disco or a highway under the windows3. The proximity of the sea and a normal beach with a gentle approach (so as not to climb into the hotel in a twisting mountain, where while you climb up the tongue on your shoulder, at least go to swim again) 4. The quality of the hotel, category from 3 * and the possibility of choosing the BB option in it (breakfast only)5. Not an expensive resort in general (meaning prices for food, souvenirs, etc. )6. The most important thing is the travel budget. Under all of the above conditions, a minimum price was needed. Well, now I want to tell you in more detail what I ended up getting. 1. The resort is really big and very green, in places on the outskirts even overgrown. From end to end, about 30-40 minutes on foot, and then hotels of another Sunny Day resort immediately begin. From the hotel to the shopping street, go for 8-10 minutes (700m on Google) by the shortest path past a fenced wasteland of 150 meters (which apparently was prepared for the construction of a new hotel), then along the parking lot of the Grand Hotel Varna, past the court, skirting the Grand Hotel from the side, and then along the path through the square towards the meadow with attractions. But this is during the day. At night, the wife refused to go through the dark wasteland, although people go there at any time (do not think, the street itself past the hotel towards the exit from the resort is very well lit and not deserted almost at any time, so this is normal). If you had to return late, then we walked past the Gloria, Rositsa and Mistral hotel (which for some reason did not work), it is always light and crowded there. At first, such omissions in the resort are alarming, especially compared to Nessebar, which is more polished in this regard, but then you even begin to like such quiet, always shady corners, especially when the sun bakes strongly outside, and you want to go to the center. The hotel is very well located in the middle between the center and the outskirts of the resort. Although on some forums they write that this is bad, but I found only one plus: a) Close to the Marek bus stop for a trip to Varna (on the highway). Literally 8-10 minutes on foot (650 m) and we are already waiting for the bus. Tourists who live in the center of the resort, of course, go much further. Although the center of the resort has its own stop, but there are only a few buses that, for example, do not go to Vladislav Varnenchik Boulevard, where the largest shopping centers are concentrated (Grand Mall Varna, Mall Varna, for example, Avtogar stop) and a lot of smaller shops, so that if you want to get there, then either from the center of Varna on foot (from the Morsko Oko stop, it seems, 20-25 minutes on foot), or with a transfer. The fare is not very cheap, to Grand Mall 1.60 levs per person (they give, by the way, 2 tickets for 0.80 levs each and many foreign passengers at first do not understand why they asked for 2 tickets, and the conductor gives 4 and try to explain that they don't need that much). It’s bad for many conductors with Russian, to put it mildly, but they always managed to explain where to drop me off (although one conductor came across who explained to us very well in Russian where to get off and how to go further where we need to). b) There are many small shops on the way to the bus stop, where everything is several times cheaper than in the center, so almost everyone bought goods there. c) Close to a very good restaurant Biju. Outwardly, he looks modest, but the food is excellent and very, very not expensive. d) Complete rest at night. An excellent sleep without music and songs under the windows is guaranteed. 2. Already wrote, at night it is excellent and away from noisy establishments and in people at the same time. A train with tourists runs until late, at which a stop is right in front of the hotel and couples walk along the street. All the more violent youth live closer to the center and buzz in the same place. No noise. 3. It is really about 250-300m to the sea (literally 3-5 minutes, we walked in the same swimming trunks). The approaches are excellent, from the hotel in a straight line in the shade of trees past the neighboring hotel, then a small ladder down and the showers on the beach already begin. Beach for 4. Not very huge, quite clean. The only minus in the water there are some huge boulders, but you can see them, they almost come to the surface and they are smooth (children climbed on them and jumped into the water). There were no jellyfish. We went to other beaches, in the end we liked only the one near Sunny Day, but the people there are dark, they sit on each other's heads. 4. Upon arrival, we received a corner room on the ground floor overlooking the pool, and there was a garden and trees in front of the windows. At first, they were upset and decided to change it in a couple of days, but as it turned out, the location, on the contrary, was very successful, in the higher rooms at night from the street you can see everything in full view of what is happening there, if the owner forgot to curtain the windows, everything is immediately hidden from prying eyes. The hotel is new. The rooms are really large with centralized air conditioning, and as many as three large windows, not how much they are not shabby, the furniture and plumbing are also in excellent condition. Service for 3+. Towels were changed every other day or two, and bedding once a week. Soap, toilet paper and shampoo when they were about to run out. It was embarrassing that sometimes they were cleaned, but the bed was not made very neatly, and it seems that they didn’t do wet cleaning in the room every day, but oh well, we didn’t get dirty and this is already nitpicking. In general, no frills, what you paid is what you got : ) The maids are friendly, always smiling and saying hello. Russian at the reception is not important for the girls, but you can explain (3 times I tried to explain that we don’t have clothespins on the balcony, as a result I climbed onto the neighbor’s balcony and took half of it when they left, though in all stores a whole bunch of rubles was sold for 10 : ), but we are Russian people : )). There is free wi-fi throughout the hotel, for which special thanks. There was a regular continental breakfast with the usual variety, sometimes they even gave pancakes. Everything is tasty, but monotonous. In general, as in all other hotels. You can also eat on the street territory of the restaurant, where there is also a wonderful pond with fish and waterfalls, near which we usually sat down. In general, the hotel fully justifies the modest money that they want for it and all their honest 3 * +. 5. Prices for souvenirs and food at the resort are subjectively almost the same as in Nessebar in 2009. There are a lot of restaurants, but there are no really cheap ones, as they were in Nessebar (but I wouldn’t go there, their dubious quality can be seen from a mile away). Bijou, the Monastery hut (here, in addition to good food, they also sing well in the evening), Oasis (near the bus stop) and the cafe next to it (I forgot the name) are not very bad establishments. But Kopitoto was decidedly not liked, however, many scold him. Evening show program there (dancing on hot coals) for those who have never seen this before, since the second time will be no longer interesting, before that they first sing (not bad enough), and after a very long time they dance some national dances under wildly rattling music, very tiring. At the same time, the darkness of the people sits in the hall. The best places where you can see the stage take 2-3 hours before the show, but it turned out to be useless, because when the charcoal dance show starts, the whole crowd breaks and pushes to take a closer look and stands in front of the front tables with a dense wall. We arrived an hour before and found a table just outside the restaurant. But the worst part is the food. The restaurant is not very cheap, while they brought us completely unprepared half-baked meat and burnt black potatoes. During the vacation, we went to Golden Sands several times (to take tourists on excursions and once on our own) and that's where I was amazed at the prices. In 90% of cases, the same souvenir products cost 2 times more than ours. Prices in restaurants are also noticeably higher. Only at the very edge of the resort I found a tent with more or less reasonable prices. 6. The total cost of the tour was one of the cheapest offers from the resort among 3 * hotels. I also liked the Gloria hotel (by the way, there is one of the best exchange rates in the entire resort at the reception), constant animation, closer to the center, but further from the sea. Right in the center there is Julio Curie, but inside the troughs in the hall there is still one and the restaurants with bars are too close and noisy. From the Russian side they chose Lanta-Tour, from the Bulgarian side I forgot the name of the tour operator, but there was a Bulgarian-Ukrainian guide Ivan. There are no complaints about the tour operators, everything was fine (they arrived late in the evening and the guide who took us to the hotel even changed the money for us from euros to levs, since nothing worked anymore). Whoever travels to Lanta, please note that all documents (insurance, electronic tickets, etc. ) must be issued to you by a local travel agency in electronic form or printed out (Lanta-Tour sends them all immediately after payment). They only bring passports to the airport! Our agency did not know about this and slowed down until the last day, although this nuance is clearly written on the Lanta-Tour website. P. S. Well, I would like to say a few words about excursions. Naturally, excursions directly from the tour operator are more expensive, but they are also of better quality. New buses, more interesting and richer program and more intelligible guides. A large sightseeing tour of Varna with a visit to churches, a historical museum and other interesting places, as well as wine tasting. Quite interesting in general (although we went on excursions around Varna for the second time), but the museum is boring for me, and the prices for wine (compared to the palace in Balchik are higher). But it's definitely worth going. We traveled with our guide. Aladzha Monastery. Also with your guide. A very interesting excursion. I advise. Cape Kaliakra+Balchik. For some reason, this tour did not get enough people from our guide and it was canceled. I had to buy on the shopping street. We paid 2 times cheaper, but got a rather muddy quiet-voiced guide, a rather old bus and a slightly reduced program. We bought in the same tent where they offer cars for rent, perhaps others would have been better. The tour itself is generally super, one of the best! I don't understand why there were no applicants. Also, our guide offered an interesting tour for 2 days through the whole of Bulgaria, but expensive. The toad was not strangled : )
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I rested with my daughter 4 years old. The hotel itself is cozy, the pool is warm, with a section for children, we tried for a very long time to understand what kind of water is in this pool... It smelled of chlorine for 10 meters, during the first 5 days. And then one morning the smell was sharp changed, it smelled of some burning, and the water became warmer, up to 30 degrees.
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I rested with my daughter 4 years old. The hotel itself is cozy, the pool is warm, with a section for children, we tried for a very long time to understand what kind of water is in this pool... It smelled of chlorine for 10 meters, during the first 5 days. And then one morning the smell was sharp changed, it smelled of some burning, and the water became warmer, up to 30 degrees. The child did not even want to go to the sea... On the day of our arrival, a new playground was installed.
At sea, umbrellas and sun loungers are paid, 5 lev each, so we bought an umbrella for 10 lev and carried it with us, it turned out that this hotel has a tradition - Russians who leave give the beach umbrella to new arrivals!
Regarding breakfast... 7 days the same thing: cucumbers, tomatoes, cheese, boiled sausage, fried eggs, sausages, cakes, fruits are the cheapest (small peaches or unripe grapes), the child had nothing to offer, she ate only dry breakfasts. We also came across moldy bread . .
In general, Bulgarians grill everything, meat dishes were often brought raw inside. I had to ask them to overcook.
The hotel is located away from the center, so it's quiet and calm, with children - that's what you need, it takes 10-15 minutes to go to the center. Or you can take a train that runs every half hour.
At sea, umbrellas and sun loungers are paid, 5 lev each, so we bought an umbrella for 10 lev and carried it with us, it turned out that this hotel has a tradition - Russians who leave give the beach umbrella to new arrivals!
Regarding breakfast... 7 days the same thing: cucumbers, tomatoes, cheese, boiled sausage, fried eggs, sausages, cakes, fruits are the cheapest (small peaches or unripe grapes), the child had nothing to offer, she ate only dry breakfasts. We also came across moldy bread . .
In general, Bulgarians grill everything, meat dishes were often brought raw inside. I had to ask them to overcook.
The hotel is located away from the center, so it's quiet and calm, with children - that's what you need, it takes 10-15 minutes to go to the center. Or you can take a train that runs every half hour.
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Customers give this hotel 4 stars. Small quiet hotel, where it is very comfortable to relax with children. Everything is very neat and nice. For a month, we went around all the nearest restaurants and noted for ourselves that the cuisine in the hotel is at its best. Pool with mineral water, always warm. No problem with sunbeds and umbrellas.
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Customers give this hotel 4 stars. Small quiet hotel, where it is very comfortable to relax with children. Everything is very neat and nice. For a month, we went around all the nearest restaurants and noted for ourselves that the cuisine in the hotel is at its best. Pool with mineral water, always warm. No problem with sunbeds and umbrellas. Everywhere is very clean. The staff is friendly and welcoming. The whole atmosphere is conducive to relaxation. The only thing missing was a chest of drawers or shelves for clothes in the room.
Of the restaurants, I would like to note: Megdana, Chevermeto, Dolche Vita, Monastery hut, .
Everywhere very large portions and problems with the grill. But the kitchen is close to ours. I do not recommend visiting the Russian restaurant.
Of the restaurants, I would like to note: Megdana, Chevermeto, Dolche Vita, Monastery hut, .
Everywhere very large portions and problems with the grill. But the kitchen is close to ours. I do not recommend visiting the Russian restaurant.
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The hotel still has not deteriorated. Small, cozy, is under the master's supervision. Breakfast did not bother me for 2 weeks. and my daughter - for 4. Although there seems to be no special wealth. Everything is cut into tiny pieces, so you don’t overeat - a little of this, a little of that. Americano coffee, but you can ask the waitress and espresso, there is a car in the restaurant.
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The hotel still has not deteriorated. Small, cozy, is under the master's supervision. Breakfast did not bother me for 2 weeks. and my daughter - for 4. Although there seems to be no special wealth. Everything is cut into tiny pieces, so you don’t overeat - a little of this, a little of that. Americano coffee, but you can ask the waitress and espresso, there is a car in the restaurant. Several cakes, two kinds of fruit. Despite the cakes, I lost a couple of pounds.
We had a triple corner room on the 4th floor, unfortunately with windows to the southwest, we had to dine in the sun, but otherwise it’s impossible in a carpeted room with a one-year-old girl - everything crumbles and scatters, and then walk on these crumbs all day. But with windows on the pool, and the shady rooms had windows on a dead end dead end road.
We sometimes had dinner at the hotel restaurant - inexpensive, although not cheap - grilled fish from 8 to 23 lv, chicken sach (I recommend) - 12, soup-peleshka - 3.5, a glass of wine - 3. In the afternoon, many took croutons to the pool, or kebab (2.5) or scrambled eggs (4.5).
The pool is the highlight of the hotel. I have never swum in hotel pools, but this one, with mineral water, almost chlorine-free, was simply intoxicating. Children could not be pulled out of it either, by the evening the water heated up to 32C, and in the sea - 22C.
The main advantage for which we chose the hotel is unlimited wired internet in the room (5? per day). The wire is long, you can reach the balcony, the speed is not very, but tolerable. We chatted on Skype and played online games.
In general, staying at the Atlant hotel is the bright part of this holiday of ours with girls 8 and 1.5 years old. If you forget the fumigator - ask at the reception.
The only negative is that there is not enough furniture with drawers, there is nowhere to hide things. Maybe they'll still buy it.
We had a triple corner room on the 4th floor, unfortunately with windows to the southwest, we had to dine in the sun, but otherwise it’s impossible in a carpeted room with a one-year-old girl - everything crumbles and scatters, and then walk on these crumbs all day. But with windows on the pool, and the shady rooms had windows on a dead end dead end road.
We sometimes had dinner at the hotel restaurant - inexpensive, although not cheap - grilled fish from 8 to 23 lv, chicken sach (I recommend) - 12, soup-peleshka - 3.5, a glass of wine - 3. In the afternoon, many took croutons to the pool, or kebab (2.5) or scrambled eggs (4.5).
The pool is the highlight of the hotel. I have never swum in hotel pools, but this one, with mineral water, almost chlorine-free, was simply intoxicating. Children could not be pulled out of it either, by the evening the water heated up to 32C, and in the sea - 22C.
The main advantage for which we chose the hotel is unlimited wired internet in the room (5? per day). The wire is long, you can reach the balcony, the speed is not very, but tolerable. We chatted on Skype and played online games.
In general, staying at the Atlant hotel is the bright part of this holiday of ours with girls 8 and 1.5 years old. If you forget the fumigator - ask at the reception.
The only negative is that there is not enough furniture with drawers, there is nowhere to hide things. Maybe they'll still buy it.
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Liked the hotel. Close to the sea, quiet place. Inside is clean, nice and cozy. The girls at the reception were smiling and helped more than once as they could. It’s hard to say about cleaning the room, because I don’t pay attention to these little things. I didn't litter, so it was always clean. Although, for a complete assessment, I can note that I didn’t make the bed particularly well and after cleaning it remained the same.
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Liked the hotel. Close to the sea, quiet place. Inside is clean, nice and cozy. The girls at the reception were smiling and helped more than once as they could. It’s hard to say about cleaning the room, because I don’t pay attention to these little things. I didn't litter, so it was always clean. Although, for a complete assessment, I can note that I didn’t make the bed particularly well and after cleaning it remained the same. Others were cleaned better, maybe they expressed this at the reception. And I even liked it. Breakfast - buffet, quite varied. The only side dish "beans in tomato" is in abundance, and buckwheat is extremely small. Dinner - offered two options from 5 courses to choose from. Every time different. They hit me a couple of times. For example, "cucumber salad" is a cucumber sliced u200bu200bin rings in one layer laid out on a plate. : ) But because There were 5 dishes, I was not hungry. No drinks were served for dinner. The hotel has a swimming pool. The water is said to come from an underground source. Didn't check. : ) There is no gym even though the ad says otherwise.
The resort itself is small, constantly being built on the periphery. In the center, the nightlife is quite active, so the Atlant hotel is in a very advantageous position - away from the noise.
The sea at that time was clean, warm and no jellyfish. There was a period of increased excitement at sea. They hung out a red flag - at first they were not allowed to swim at all, then it became possible to swim 2-3 meters from the shore. : ) The hurricane passed quickly, but it was possible to enjoy the raging elements, especially in the evening.
A trip to Varna costs 1lev. There are 3 stops on the territory of the resort, but it is better to go from the final one. Because on weekends, the bus runs less often (after 40-60 minutes) and there may simply not be enough space. The schedule hangs at the second stop from the final one. In Varna, food is a bit cheaper, the exchange rate is better and there is something to see. I strongly recommend exchanging money at an exchange office. Even the resort (near the post office) had a very good exchange rate. And in Varna, money changers can slip banknotes that are out of circulation or simply fake.
In Varna, you can stroll through the Seaside Park. True, recently in Bulgaria there has been a dry summer and some kind of withered vegetation in September, but it’s still beautiful. You can visit the Dolphinarium, Roman Baths, etc.
I by myself (with a map) took a ride to Cape Galata. On 2 buses. Through the Asparuhovo district. It's interesting to see the local life there and that's where you can find really good prices for wine and food! The cape itself offers a pretty nice view of Varna. And it would be sad to go back to see only this. However, there you can go down to the sea and walk along the wild rocky shore, collecting beautiful shells, which are practically absent in the resort.
Excursions can be bought on the spot and are 2 times cheaper than tour companies offer. But we went "for the price" : ) We were very pleased with the work of the guide from the tour company Estour Elena. Lots of information, positive energy. Even when we were alone, returning to the hotel, she continued the story about the places we passed by.
The general impression of Bulgaria is not unambiguous. I didn't have any problems and I had a good rest. But it was somehow simple, faded or something. There is no special cheapness there. I did not find any colorful local souvenir gifts either. The beer there is good, the wine can be found quite good, the cheese is varied and tasty, milk and a lot of everything related to roses. In general, I do not regret the trip there, but I'm not going to the second time yet.
The resort itself is small, constantly being built on the periphery. In the center, the nightlife is quite active, so the Atlant hotel is in a very advantageous position - away from the noise.
The sea at that time was clean, warm and no jellyfish. There was a period of increased excitement at sea. They hung out a red flag - at first they were not allowed to swim at all, then it became possible to swim 2-3 meters from the shore. : ) The hurricane passed quickly, but it was possible to enjoy the raging elements, especially in the evening.
A trip to Varna costs 1lev. There are 3 stops on the territory of the resort, but it is better to go from the final one. Because on weekends, the bus runs less often (after 40-60 minutes) and there may simply not be enough space. The schedule hangs at the second stop from the final one. In Varna, food is a bit cheaper, the exchange rate is better and there is something to see. I strongly recommend exchanging money at an exchange office. Even the resort (near the post office) had a very good exchange rate. And in Varna, money changers can slip banknotes that are out of circulation or simply fake.
In Varna, you can stroll through the Seaside Park. True, recently in Bulgaria there has been a dry summer and some kind of withered vegetation in September, but it’s still beautiful. You can visit the Dolphinarium, Roman Baths, etc.
I by myself (with a map) took a ride to Cape Galata. On 2 buses. Through the Asparuhovo district. It's interesting to see the local life there and that's where you can find really good prices for wine and food! The cape itself offers a pretty nice view of Varna. And it would be sad to go back to see only this. However, there you can go down to the sea and walk along the wild rocky shore, collecting beautiful shells, which are practically absent in the resort.
Excursions can be bought on the spot and are 2 times cheaper than tour companies offer. But we went "for the price" : ) We were very pleased with the work of the guide from the tour company Estour Elena. Lots of information, positive energy. Even when we were alone, returning to the hotel, she continued the story about the places we passed by.
The general impression of Bulgaria is not unambiguous. I didn't have any problems and I had a good rest. But it was somehow simple, faded or something. There is no special cheapness there. I did not find any colorful local souvenir gifts either. The beer there is good, the wine can be found quite good, the cheese is varied and tasty, milk and a lot of everything related to roses. In general, I do not regret the trip there, but I'm not going to the second time yet.
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