Tolerable, but there are nuances

Written: 9 september 2014
Travel time: 11 — 25 august 2014
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 3.0
Amenities: 1.0
Despite the efforts to be as objective as possible, the review will be a little subjective and will not concern the entire hotel, since I have not seen other rooms in this hotel other than my room.
We had apartments. The room is located on the first floor of the neighboring (with the main) building. Number ? spacious (50 sq. m. ), has a bedroom, a bathroom, a kitchen and a living room, from which there is access to a small fenced area with a plastic table, 4 plastic chairs and a "dryer" for towels.
The room is decorated with taste, furniture, stove, dishes, knives (in the kitchen), TV, DVD player (in the living room), etc. ? everything is ok! Tolerant wi-fi. Too bad there's only one air conditioner? in the living room, and in the bedroom there is an old and very dirty floor fan (they didn’t dare to use it), so I had to, excuse me, sweat or run to cool in the living room to the air conditioner.

I was somewhat discouraged by the layout and arrangement of the bathroom: a small room with an “original” solution? shower without a cabin or even a tray. It’s just that a “drain” is organized in the tiled floor, and when taking a shower, a puddle forms on the floor, in which you have to stomp (“drain” does not cope). Taking a step to the side doesn't always work, as you bump into the toilet, which is just as "irrigated" during the shower as the wastebasket. In addition, if the toilet paper roll is fixed in place, it will also spray from the shower. The puddle in the "bathroom" is kept from flooding the room only by the threshold.
Four windows of the room are located in two adjacent walls.
Two windows from the living room overlook... the sidewalk (about half a meter wide), behind which is the carriageway. There are cars under the windows and a garbage container is installed. In the mornings, you have to startle from the roar of the powerful engine of the "garbage truck" and the rumble of the container during the unloading of garbage.
I had to keep these windows tightly closed all the time, as well as with the roller cassettes lowered from the outside and tightly closed curtains from the inside (protects from indiscreet views, unsightly landscape, bright sun and partly from external noise).
From the other two windows (one from the living room and the other from the bedroom) “views” of the already mentioned road and the path between the hotel buildings (which vacationers regularly walk along), behind which there is a children's mini-playground, behind it? the first floor of the main building with wide windows-showcases.
We also had to cover these windows of our room tightly with curtains-blinds (although we are not hypocrites, we are not inclined to exhibitionism either). So, unfortunately, there is no need to talk about the “view from the window” and about acceptable natural light.
As for the noise penetrating through the half-open window sashes: in the morning and in the afternoon? from the road (transport), day and evening ? from the playground, in the evening and at night ? from the "disco" located at the bottom of the slope on which the hotel is located.
When it rains in one place on the ceiling of the living room... it rains. I had to substitute a plastic basin (the number is also provided to them).
From time to time I had to ask at the reception to organize the cleaning of our room or at least take out the garbage. The maids are apparently shy about offering cleaning services, especially if you are in the room. . .

During our stay (14 night tour) bed linen was changed only twice and towels (quite worn out) three times, which does not correspond to the frequency stated by the hotel rules. Although one rule is clearly observed? check-out time for vacationers (according to the rules, you should “leave” the room before 12.00). Already at 11.59 on the last day of rest, the hostess personally came to find out why we had not “left” yet, although we had already chosen. Moreover, there were no new applicants for “our” apartments, no cleaners, burning with labor enthusiasm, nearby. True, as the owners explained to us the day before, we could ask not to be evicted for a few more hours (our flight was only in the evening) for only 20 euros... The farewell was not touching... There was an unpleasant aftertaste.
In the hotel you can hear conversations in Bulgarian, Ukrainian, German, English, Russian and other languages. Maybe other hotel rooms are more successful and perhaps the attitude towards other vacationers was better than in our case. Maybe. . .
Since the hotel is located on a rather steep slope, the restaurant is located on the "zero" level. The terrace of the restaurant offers a delightful view of the sea port and the old town. Did we rarely use the services of the restaurant? expensive, given the small portions, sometimes tasteless (maybe this is subjective), although breaded cheese is pretty good.
The way from the hotel to the sea is not close and requires "sweat", given the location of the hotel on a hill, many steps and a road that needs to be overcome. But sea ? beyond praise: clean, warm, friendly. . . On the beaches? and on the central (closest to the hotel), and on "Harmanite", there is enough space for everyone. It offers guests a traditional set of attractions, many restaurants.
But there is no polyclinic in the city, only an ambulance station, there is also no public transport. However, the town is small and if "legs walk", then there are no problems.
Based on the conditions of our stay, and also taking into account the experience of rest in other three-star hotels in Bulgaria, I can rate the Kaliteya Hotel with ? maximum "three with a minus".
Translated automatically from Russian. View original