Average hotel in an abandoned, uninteresting place

Written: 9 september 2013
Travel time: 3 — 17 august 2013
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 3.0
Amenities: 1.0
Hello! Before you choose this hotel for your holiday - think! Below I will explain.
The hotel itself is normal, although very modest. The rooms are large, everything works, clean and sooooo modest. The air conditioner worked well for us, for the neighbors it was bad and very loud (they couldn’t sleep the whole vacation, because the air conditioner hummed as if the plane was taking off, but they couldn’t do anything with it).
There were 2 accommodation options: with a sea view and with a view of the stadium. If you have a sea view, then everything is fine, if you have a view of the stadium - music until 12 at night (either from a Ukrainian children's camp or from a boarding house for Russians). The repertoire in the first case is Russian pop. music, in the second - the 70s, 80s for vacationing grandparents and chanson performed by drunken presenters.

The hotel is located in Chaika area (Journalist hotel). It can be said on the outskirts of Golden Sands, surrounded by construction sites (abandoned and not), garbage, broken roads, stray dogs, old hotels, campsites, a large apartment complex and Christmas trees.
To the beach go down about 5-7 min, up (to the mountain) -10 min. The beach "meets" with a sewer, a garbage dump and the inscription "no swimming". After 50 meters, a paid area with sun loungers and umbrellas already begins - decently, cleanly. Rescuers, medical center and several small cafes. Paid zones alternate with fairly large free zones. There is another sewer in the middle of the beach.
Now about the kitchen.
Breakfast. (Semi)buffet. They always gave us unchanged: sausages, ham, hard cheese, white cheese - of very dubious quality, hot eggs, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, honey, jam, corn flakes, spread, bread, tea and something similar to a coffee drink (but definitely not coffee), bread - take it yourself. Croissants were served at the end of breakfast. And it was something. Croissants were given 2 per hand (Russians and Ukrainians, and Bulgarians 3 each). Moreover, everyone had to come and get their croissants, even the children did not give otherwise. Every day, someone cursed with the kitchen workers, threw croissants in hysterics, tried to get changes in the menu....the situation is somewhat tense...
Dinner. Not a buffet, but portions. Soup, side dish, meat, bread, 2 peaches.
Dinner. Buffet. Always grilled sausages, meat (or chicken or pork), garnish (or potatoes, or rice, or cauliflower, or carrots, or peas), tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, bread, one kind of fruit, cakes (always the same), tap water, yupi, bread, soup (the one left over from dinner). There is no choice, but you can take as much as you want. Always under the close supervision of kitchen workers.
Russians, Ukrainians and Bulgarians rest in the hotel. Bulgarians come for treatment (mud, massage, etc. ).
The hotel staff is quite friendly.
Cleaning. Every day they swept and washed the floors with one rag in all rooms. We were lucky - they started cleaning with us.....

Diseases and poisonings. All the children in the hotel when we arrived (about 10 people) and another 15 adults got sick (vomiting, fever). I don't know if it was a virus or an infection....
The pool in the hotel is for adults only, there is no children, with thermal water - no. Only very, very chlorinated. The pool was cleaned once a week (on Mondays).
Where to go and what to see. Here you need to think very, very much! There is definitely no place to go nearby. You can walk to Golden Sands along the road (without a sidewalk) along construction sites, garbage for 20-30 minutes or take a bus. Everything. There are several small cafes nearby, but very modest and for the completely unassuming.
In principle, the hotel was comfortable, the food was tolerable, no one was personally rude or rude to us. On the contrary, Bulgarians are quite friendly and polite. If not for the constant scandals in the dining room, from which there was nowhere to hide - everything is fine. The sea is clean, the beach is big.
Disliked: very, very dirty. Lots of rubbish everywhere on the roads and near the hotel.
In the photo - the hotel, the road from the hotel to the sea, pipes on the beach, garbage...
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