Летний отдых в Поморье Summer holidays in Pomorie

We planned a quiet family vacation (2 adults 1 child 11 years old) in Nessebar or Sozopol, but the circumstances so happened - we flew to Pomorie. There are no comments at all on the work of the tour operator in Kyiv (Divari) and the meeting party (Teddy Cam) - everything is fine. Hotel Relax 4 * is located on the edge of the city on a spit separating the sea and the lake, surrounded by recreation centers, built probably during the Soviet Union. The hotel is new, opened in June this year, 20 meters from the sea, umbrellas and sun loungers are free, but there is practically no beach, because. there are only a few steps from the concrete parapet to the water, so vacationers sunbathed either on deck chairs on concrete, or dispersed along the beaches of recreation centers. The sand on the beaches there is black due to the high iron content. The sea for bathing children is ideal - 20-30 meters from the shore, the depth is about 1.2 meters, the bottom is sandy without stones, the water and air temperatures are very comfortable even early in the morning. For food: the hotel has about 200 - 250 rooms for 3-4 people, and the restaurant can seat 100-110 people at the same time and it is not entirely clear how to avoid the flea market when the hotel is full, because not all of our tourists are mentally prepared for All and most want to be the first to get food. Therefore, we tried to eat as if in the "second wave". The food was very tasty, everything was fresh, but a little monotonous. The staff is very polite, friendly. The room is spacious, air conditioning, TV, comfortable beds with orthopedic mattresses. On the territory of the hotel there is a small pool with FRESH water (and not sea water as indicated in the description) and EVERYTHING!! ! The biggest drawback of this hotel is the complete lack of entertainment for both adults and children. In the evenings, leisure went like this: dads and moms drink in a restaurant, and children tear off the roof anywhere - in the hall, near the pool, on the road... You don’t have billiards, ping-pong, but at least they hung a big TV in the lobby and played cartoons for kids. Also to the disadvantages can be added the lack of a safe both in the room and at the reception. It is a bit far to walk to the city (30-40 minutes one way), there are no buses or minibuses to the hotel, only a taxi. We went to the water park in Nessebar, we liked it very much, but there were a lot of people and we queued for 15-20 minutes for each slide.
I can’t say much about prices, because. almost no money was spent on food, several times they were in restaurants on the embankment (dinner for three with a drink about 40-50 leva); a piece of pizza - 2 leva; amusement park - 5 leva one attraction; aqua park - 24 leva per adult and 12 liters. from a child for half a day; things and shoes in stores by Kiev standards are not expensive, but the quality is terrible (IMHO). Exchange rate: 1 euro = 1.93 leva, at the airport the exchange rate is undervalued - 1.6, banks work on weekends during the season.
For those who want to go to Pomorie, I will name the hotels that we liked in terms of location and appearance (of those that I saw):

1. Grand Hotel Pomorie 5*.
2. St. Peter and Paul 3*.
3. Sunset Resort 5*.
4. Marina 5*.
I didn’t like the location of hotels in the city center (for example, St. George 4 *), they seem to be near the sea, but the embankment is concrete and you need to swim - you need to stomp about a kilometer to the side to sunbathe. Of the markets, the largest is MEGA, next to it there is a small market. Of the national drinks, I recommend rakia "Burgas 63" - about 13 leva a bottle; everyone liked the wines; drink "mastic" I did not understand.
In general, we are satisfied with the rest, the emotions are positive, we arrived tanned, not sick, without food poisoning. If you have any questions, I'll be happy to answer