Not worth it!

Written: 9 july 2007
Travel time: 9 — 16 june 2007
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 9.0
I read a lot of good reviews about the Sandy beach hotel, but it turns out that mine is rather negative. This is not to say that the hotel is bad, but not worth the wrong money, nor 4 stars. Since this is not the first trip to Cyprus, they are familiar with the country and hotels, service and cuisine. After the Sandy beach hotel, there was a feeling of poor service, unqualified staff and a "greedy hotel".

The rooms are standard (old TVs, air conditioners are also old, a table, 2 chairs, a bedside table, a mirror, a wardrobe, all the furniture is old, a hair dryer, large light-fluorescent lamps). I didn't like that there was no full length mirror. There is only one socket in the room, adapters (necessary in Cyprus) cannot be taken at the hotel (although usually you can for an additional fee) you had to buy. The hotel lobby is large, but not very cozy. They save on air conditioners in the hotel in the same way as on everything else. It is stuffy on the floors, in the hotel restaurant, where breakfast and lunch are served, windows are opened for ventilation, a terrible feeling.

(there are two restaurants in total). In the second, dinners are held (minus low tables, uncomfortable to sit), if a wedding (which is celebrated at the hotel every weekend and crowds tourists a lot) wants to rent it, then dinner will be in a stuffy breakfast-lunch restaurant.

This hotel fully corresponds to 3 stars. The staff is terrible, unfriendly (a few are fine), indifferent, unloving all inclusive, they look askance, the feeling that you eat at their expense. Taking juice during the day at the all-inclusive bar is a problem, the bartenders are supposedly all busy. Terrible! The food is monotonous, by the end of the holidays everyone complains that they don’t know what to eat, the same thing every day. One kind of fish, meat, chicken, rice, pasta, potatoes. There are no salads. Fruits: watermelons, melons, kiwi, apples. Desserts are tasty enough, but the same for lunch and dinner every day, mostly oily, heavy for the heat.
The beach is nearby, free (for hotel residents), locals come on weekends (which usually do not interfere), but in this hotel the locals pay money, so while you are at dinner, they will throw off the towels and put the locals for money.

The pool is one. Beautiful, but during the day in the sun. From the schedule: breakfast 7-10 am lunch 13-14:30 dinner 19-21:30 snacks from 11-12 and 16-17, but they are usually not available. What is missing: -Animation in the hotel is not at all, only the singer sings songs (sings not bad, but the same songs from day to day). - No jacuzzi - No aqua aerobics. More cons: the hotel is sandwiched between Lordos and Goldan bay, the view through the windows is either one or the other, at night the noise of the working parts of neighboring hotels.

The beaches of these hotels are paid, so from all 3 hotels tourists go to Sandy Beach. More: The first time we were met by Atica Holidays, not organized. Especially the girl Anna, who meets tourists there, if you don’t call her in time and remind yourself of yourself, you might not catch the plane. p. s. Cyprus is heaven! But hotels should be chosen carefully.
sandy beach is not bad, it looks beautiful, but do you want to go back there? .
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