Corresponds to its category 3 stars.

Written: 24 may 2006
Travel time: 24 — 31 july 2005
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The hotel is located 50 meters from the sea, line 1, in the room there is a refrigerator, telephone, TV, radio, hairdryer, air conditioning, a balcony and all amenities. There is no pool. The hotel has a disco bar.
We were well placed in the hotel, on the 2nd floor (actually it is the 3rd floor, like everywhere else in Europe), overlooking the sea. We were lucky, because the people in front of us, from our bus, were settled on the 8th and 10th floors. Although later, having met some of the comrades from our race, we found out that they had a view of the sea. So in this case, it cannot be said that Russians are settled here like hell, which, judging by the reviews we read before the trip, happens not infrequently in other hotels. Maybe we were just lucky, it's hard to say. But I would not like to get to the 1st floor. The balcony is directly at the roof level of the disco bar belonging to the hotel. Bread is often thrown at her from the upper floors to seagulls, citizens who find it difficult to put out in an ashtray, gobies (there are few of them, but there are), and cleaners sometimes go to her when cleaning their rooms directly from the balcony and collect towels that have flown from above. On the 2nd floor, this roof did not bother us at all. About cleaning: cleaned every day. Basically, cleaning consisted of taking out the garbage from the room, the bathroom, vacuuming the floor and folding the blanket into a pattern. They didn’t clean the balcony, but after they asked to take the ashtray out of the balcony, they cleaned the balcony a couple more or three times. In the shower, too, they did not wash off if the sand was on the floor. Just leave toilet paper and take out the trash. Once we did not need cleaning, but we were asked to take the trash can out of the shower. The maid did not understand Russian well and apparently decided that we were asking for a complete cleaning of the bathroom. For about 5 minutes she fiddled there with water and a rag, washed everything clean. We had a clean room, so it’s hard to say how conscientiously they clean rooms with a mess. In short, if you ask, everything will be removed. Bed linen was changed once a week, although according to the stories of our people, someone was told at the reception that they should be changed every three days. But in the maid's notebook, we saw a graph that indicated that in 5 days. We carried hotel towels with us to the beach (there were no comments on this matter), when we asked, we changed them. The rest of the towels that hung in the room in our absence were not changed. Perhaps they should have been thrown on the floor. But we didn’t bother about this, because we didn’t use them almost. As already mentioned above, the room has a conder, radio, telephone, TV, hair dryer. The radio speaker is built into the wall at the top, and a round-shaped switch is built into the wall below. In general, this is not a Soviet box, as some might think. There were 2 Bulgarian radio stations. The music is cool, you won't die of boredom. Fan in the shower. The shower was ok, there was no bathtub. The only flaw is that the shower is in the corner and the drain is almost under the sink. Those. water spills all over the tub. Of course, we didn’t have ankles, but it still took time until the water went down the drain after washing. As we understood from conversations with the people, such a system is in almost all hotels of the 2-3 star level. In short, we liked the room: spacious, renovated, new furniture, clean, large balcony. Corresponds to the three.
The breakfasts in the hotels were absolutely normal. Omelet, boiled and fried sausages, casserole, toast, cucumbers, tomatoes, cheese of course, olives, ham, sausage, fruits (peaches, apricots, watermelon, apples), two types of jam, cakes, rolls, croissants, tea, coffee, syrup , compote. In general, a standard buffet.

The appearance of the hotel is quite ordinary. A 10-story white building, and an attached oblong 2-story building, on the 1st floor of which there is a restaurant, and on the 2nd floor there is an Astoria disco bar, which could be accessed directly from the hotel lobby. The hotel has a cafe-bar, billiards. The hotel is located on the 1st line, about 50 meters from the sea. It is placed a little deeper, about 30 meters from the main street, while other hotels of the 1st line stand directly on it, and all the balconies are on display. But this is a matter of taste, of course.
Disco-bar "Astoria" worked from about 21 to 5 in the morning. The windows in the bar were open, so the music blared loudly, you could hear it even when you close the balcony. People living on 10th said they could hear it too. The music did not bother us, since we went to bed in the morning, but with children, it’s probably better not to. Although, maybe on the upper floors there is no such audibility. To whom, in general. For example, earlier, while looking for hotels, we considered more options "Tintyava" and "Kamchia". In general, they turned out to be located on the street, where there are a bunch of discos, young people hang out until the morning, the music yells to the fullest. This is the 2nd line. It is noisier there than near our hotel. To discos (Roxy, Boonker, Malibu, Papaya) from our hotel on foot about 15 minutes. To the bus stop to Varna about 10 minutes.
Our disco bar "Astoria" was considered a Russian disco. When we first came there, there were no people. We sat, maybe four more people. The repertoire is Russian pop music in processing. Sometimes they turn on foreign music, R&B less often. But there is no dullness. Behind the console DJ Boris, winds up all sorts of mixes. The waitress (when we were there, a girl named Gergana worked) rushes about like crazy. You don't have to wait 10 minutes for an order. A maximum of 3-5 minutes until the bartender mixes the cocktails and everything is already on the table. She changes two cigarettes in an ashtray, and is always somewhere nearby, she has everything under control, so you don’t have to wait three hours for the next order either. In short, the waitress is top notch. In the first week of our stay, there were few people in our disco, we sometimes went there for a cocktail if we didn’t want to go far. Or vice versa, after a night of partying, they went for an hour before closing. In the second week, apparently, people came in large numbers, and the bar, one might say, was bursting at the seams. Mostly Russian companies went there, young people aged 20-23. Although, from conversations with the people from our race (people are older : )), they also hung out in Astoria more than once, but until 12 o'clock. We were there not earlier than 1-2 nights. Music for an amateur, of course, but the DJ works perfectly. The design of the bar is cool (photos can be found on the Internet). Comfortable soft sofas opposite each other. The people from our check-in liked our bar most of all in terms of design and atmosphere. There is no crush, as in the Bunker, for example. Everything will be brought and served. And again, even with a full bar, the waitress worked fantastically fast. Even if she was a little late at the table, she apologized. Always smiling and friendly, charming, always in a good mood. In Moscow, there are few places where you can find such work. So who will be there, hello Gergana from Moscow. They did not leave a tip only the first time, on our subsequent visits there they constantly left a tip.
On the 1st floor there is a restaurant, as already mentioned above. The owner is friendly and attentive. The only thing is that its prices are higher than in other nearby restaurants. It has both Bulgarian and German cuisine. He speaks Russian well, so if you have any questions when choosing a dish, he will tell you everything.

Near the hotel there is a park where you can play mini golf.
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