Not for the sophisticated

Written: 19 october 2012
Travel time: 25 september — 2 october 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
4.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 3.0
Cleanliness: 3.0
Food: 3.0
Amenities: 5.0
From the pros - the sea.
Of the minuses, everything else.
Settlement - booked sea view, settled on the first floor overlooking the roof of the technical room. When required to relocate, the registrar said that this is the room with a sea view))))). Moved to the 5th floor for an additional fee.
Breakfast - more flawed breakfasts are served only in Israel! But at least there are fish! There is no meat or fish for breakfast here (one type of soy sausage and fried bacon don't count)! Two varieties of local cheese and porridge. Eggs are not fried! Only a ready-made cold omelette. From fruits - apples and grapefruits. There are no juices, it’s true that there is an automatic machine, but it gives out a very diluted parody of orange juice. No green tea. In short, sadness.

Cleaning - it makes no sense to talk about the Greek service due to the absence of such a concept. This hotel is among the champions here - room cleaning is poor, towels are changed to dirty ones, and they themselves understand the situation very well and therefore go without smiles and with sour faces. Beach with garbage, sun loungers in the sand. Faucets for washing feet did not work, had to use the shower, which is not very convenient.
Internet. Wi-fi for 10 euros per day. In the neighboring Golden Bay hotel - for free, and there are powerful routers, so I did not order this service. The speed is really useless but enough for mail. A woman from Moldova was especially amused - she works part-time here at a car rental agency, saying that there is more Internet in Moldova than in Russia. )))))
I got distracted. Let's go further.
Car rental - here you are not Greece-Spain, there are no cars on the day of the order!!!
Book 2 days in advance! And they still bring not what they ordered! True, the prospectuses honestly warn about this. They do not have their own fleet of vehicles - your order is redirected to a larger company - hence the difficulties. Important. For the first time I encountered a local trick: if gasoline is usually used in a rental car according to the formula - I took a full tank and returned it with a full tank, then here they will take money from you for gasoline - like return it with an empty tank)))) it is clear that none of the tourists are empty doesn't get the job done. They charged us 35 euros for gasoline, like for half a tank (22 liters) of MMC colt. Of course, they deceived me, but I usually answer such things - that greed is always to poverty.
The roads are good, there is nothing special to see on excursions. There are no brochures in Russian. There are no Russian guides. Ruins and ruins, like in Crete or Athens or Tunisia or Israel... Maybe there is some interesting story about King Richard, but no one will tell you... Monasteries are another matter - all inscriptions and prospectuses are in Russian, many beautiful buildings and the splendor of the interior. You can buy monastic wine (good) cognac (flavored chatter with the proud inscription XO, but it will give a ride to lovers of metaxa) and grape vodka (I haven’t tried it, and I think it’s right, because I bought it earlier in Crete, and left it at the hotel - a rare muck . . )

Emigrants and servants from the Ukrainian-Baltic-Moldovian.
Here they are Russians. We are happy to live and work here. They consider Russia the asshole of the world as a collective mind and cannot understand where there are so many Russians in Cyprus and, most importantly, where the Russians get the money to travel to Cyprus.
And there are a LOT of Russians here. With the simplification of visa formalities, our compatriots hold a firm first place in terms of the number of tourists.
Sellers and waiters try to speak Russian, which is very funny.
Souvenirs. Mug plate magnet badges are carefully and not very well made at the factories of Guangzhou and Shanghai. Local - olive oil bottles, silver crafts, Lefkara embroidery (collective farm), and of course icons (which are better to buy in monasteries - there is a chance that the salary will not darken in a month).
Conclusion - Cyprus is a place to stay for those who have not previously rested in decent hotels with normal service.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original