Отель уставший The hotel is tired

Good afternoon!
About the hotel. On the tour, the company did not warn us that the deposit for the room upon arrival was $ 100, it’s good that they took more money with them, because this amount is returned only when leaving the room. The rooms are normal, but do not be surprised by the lizards in the room, we had it on arrival, running along the walls. The locals say it's okay. Small cockroaches also run around, I didn’t see them there, but I don’t know how it happened, when unpacking things at home, I found one semi-corpse in my bag. Be careful, otherwise you will bring yourself a jumping spider or a cockroach))) Do not open the windows to the balcony. The hotel itself is for a family trip, quiet and peaceful, even very. Until 22-00 you can swim in the pool (the water seems to be heated, very warm), then everything, there is nothing to do. No discos, no animation...Only guides really speak Russian, no one at the reception understands anything on ours.
The food is terrible, delicious only buns, rice, sometimes duck, sausages, wok noodles for lunch and fruit. Everything else, to put it mildly, is extremely specific. The food is the same every day. Beer on the beach is cheaper to buy than in a hotel, for 10 yuan on the beach 0.5, in a hotel for this money 0.3. The cheapest option for a company is to take a taxi to the Pineapple shopping center (there is a cool nimiso store on the first floor, we bought all the souvenirs and gifts there, because they sell all sorts of rubbish on the streets), on the second floor there is a grocery store in the shopping center, there are cheap prices for local beer, 0.5 from 2.5 yuan, they also took local vodka for a promotion for a gift. There are also buses 25 and 15 to the Pineapple shopping center, a stop next to the hotel. A one-way taxi will cost about 50-60 yuan during the day, more expensive in the evening, about 60-80 yuan. The bus runs until 18-00 hours, it seems that the ticket price for one is about 10 yuan one way. The Cactus hotel is far from civilization, there are only mountains and the sea nearby, you have to go to everything else.

We traveled from the Anex tour, there were other tour operators with us at the hotel, like Rus Tour. The same excursions differ in price, but we did not know. Meeting with the guide is probably always right after arrival, so that people have not yet got used to it and do not know what and how. In general, buy excursions from other tours. operators can also be much cheaper. . It is better to exchange money at Nyuan at home in the bank. If you buy $, in China you change them for nuan, then you lose a lot, it’s not profitable. It is more profitable to change even rubles for nuan on the spot at the hotel than $ for local currency. There are no exchangers anywhere. The guides say that they won’t change us anywhere, because it’s very strict with currency exchanges, and we have a group visa, we don’t even have an arrival stamp, etc. maybe they specifically say, I don’t know, they didn’t check ...There is an ATM at the hotel, you can withdraw nuan from your card right at the hotel, but I don’t know the exchange rate and% of the commission. The hotel guides themselves change the money, because
there are no other options for the exchange, perhaps they themselves set a favorable exchange rate for themselves. It takes about 30-35 minutes from the airport to the hotel. When departing at the airport, there is strict control, all lighters are taken away, at the slightest suspicion they are asked to open the luggage, a man opened it before us, cut off the film with which the suitcase was already wrapped. The biggest plus not even of the hotel, but of this place is the sea, it is really cool, clean, pleasant, the water is soft, there are no crowds of people, super ...3 days the sea is white calm, 3 days the waves were blown away, 2 days were moderate waves. It rained every day early in the morning, the climate was like in Thailand, very stuffy and humid, the air was like in a hamam bath, we adapted only on the 4th day. In Tai, it is very dirty compared to this Chinese resort, it is quite clean and well-groomed here. The sun is thermonuclear, in the direct rays of the sun they burned really in 5 minutes of being there, just in case, do not forget to take something from burns with you on a trip, such as Panthenol.
There was Wi-Fi in the room, it was not bad, even better than at the reception, there is one Russian channel on TV. On the sites there are often photos of the hotel with singing colored night fantasies, there is nothing of this in sight, those who have been in Cactus for more than a year say that they previously gave chic food, red fish, baked some sweets, now there is nothing of this in sight. The hotel is really tired. There are a lot of listings about the advantages of the hotel on the site, but in fact, the sauna is for a fee, the beach bar is for a fee, there is a tennis court, but they don’t give rackets, I don’t think that someone will bring them with them, in fact, just a boarding house on the sea. Upon arrival, I realized that Russia has very tasty food. The hotel gives out 0.5 bottles of water per person per day, i. e. you also need to buy water, because this amount is not enough, they tried to get water in a bottle during lunch in the dining room, but there the water tastes like mold. I hope the review will be useful for vacationers, have a great holiday!