Good hotel

Written: 17 august 2012
Travel time: 8 — 15 june 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
I chose the hotel by chance, booked it, trusting the description, and then decided to look for reviews. Reviews were found only on booking, but they were the most truthful. I had to go with my mother and two daughters - 4 years and 10 months. So first things first.
The hotel room is good, not hot, spacious, everything worked. The exception is the refrigerator, which was originally a mini-bar with paid drinks. If you find yourself out of drinks - you can just use it as a refrigerator, but you have to pay at the reception 10 leva for 1 week. Despite the fact that we paid, it did not immediately work for us for some reason, the water that stood in it for 1 day was at room temperature. I also attribute this to the fact that when you leave the room, you take the key card and stop all the electrics in the room. But by the end of the trip, this little fredge still began to freeze.
Another thing that upset - when the light in the bathroom is on - the fan is working, i. e. sneaking into the bathroom quietly at night will not succeed. And with this you can live, in principle.

Our room was on the floor where the reception and the restaurant are, we have a baby and it was very convenient to go to the restaurant and the room. The balcony "looked" into the courtyard, a little to the left one could see the pool, the restaurant and the playground and the descent down to the road. It was quiet, in the evening there was live music in the restaurant, but it was not for long, until 10 pm, and did not bother. 1 time in all the time there was some kind of party for the Germans, it was before our departure, but the children were sleeping, and nothing interfered with them.
Cleaned the room well, towels changed every day! either because there were small children, or because there were few tourists so far, but in general, there was no need for towels.
Swimming pool: I don’t like this miracle of nature, once my mother went there with the eldest, to sit and swim, everything was occupied by the Germans, and there were no places in the shade, although later I asked the guy that he worked by the pool, he said that he would put umbrellas and sun loungers next to the children's section, and did so. As a result, the German priests immediately sat down there. The Germans did not go to the sea at all. Here somehow it was not possible to relax near the pool.
Food. Breakfast and dinner buffet. There was a lot of everything, satisfying, varied. I liked the dinners more, as there were a lot of hot dishes, and the sweet table was not bad - cakes, pastries, ice cream, compote, pudding, fruit salad, yogurt, etc.
For lunch, you can eat at the hotel restaurant - there were happy hours when you take something on the grill (meat-sausages) and a drink as a gift (beer, wine). But we didn’t want this, we had to feed the children with soup, it cost 5 leva at the hotel - 2.5 euros, which is a lot, then we found a fish restaurant nearby and went there for lunch. Soup there for 3.50 leva, a portion of fish is quite large - approx. 7-9 leva, we also took a tortilla instead of bread - pyrlenka is called - approx. Portions of soup are huge, you can safely take 2 soups for three, not like in a hotel. There is a supermarket next to the fish market, the prices are lower than at Zolotye and there is everything - from cosmetics to pates, etc. So we stocked up there 1 time and didn’t go there anymore - we bought bread, pate, sour mash, lutenichka, waffle cookies, beer, juice, water.

Beach. You go down to the beach from the hotel through the park, along a comfortable staircase - steps, then a flight, again steps, there are benches. The park is very nice, lots of greenery, oak forest. The hotel itself is surrounded by flowers, roses, there is a small playground. After this descent - the road, you need to go to the other side and go either to the left - to the paid beach on the Riviera, or to the free one - there you still need to stomp down the stairs. At first we went to the free one in the morning, then after 17-00 to the Riviera, but everyone was already allowed in there, for free. And then - they started going to the Riviera for a fee - pay at the entrance for an umbrella (10 lev, 7 days cheaper, about 55 lev in my opinion), or for a deck chair (7 lev, there is also a discount when buying several days), they give you a check , and you go to the beach with this check, there is a manager there, he will open an umbrella for you or bring a sunbed. You can put your umbrella if you have paid for a sunbed, it's cheaper. We swam on the beach near the Lotus Hotel (yellow umbrellas) it is comfortable there, there are children's swings nearby, and there are no stones in the sea. In the evening, after the sea became shady and cool, we went to the children's pool nearby a couple of times, there was just the sun, there is a small slide for children 3-7 years old. But our youngest didn’t like the beach, the sea, or the pool... I don’t know, maybe if we had been longer, maybe she would have gotten used to it - otherwise, she didn’t even want to crawl on the sand....
It was possible to walk to Zolotye in the evenings, we walked 1 time, and 1 more time along the territory of the Riviera - the baby did not sit in a stroller at all and rode only on her hands, and it was not easy). It was possible to go to Varna - to Piccadilly Park (shopping center, supermarket, next to the Dolphinarium, there is a Chaika market on the other side) 30 minutes by bus, near the hotel there is a bus final stop, for 3 leva you will reach the very center of Varna. You can take a taxi - taxi drivers are waiting right at the bus stop, and they are ready to "put you on" for 5 leva / person to other tourists. Taxi from Varna is about 25 leva to the hotel (according to the meter).
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