Holidays in Domina Prestige

Written: 29 june 2012
Travel time: 14 — 25 june 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
4.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 4.0
Amenities: 4.0
For the first time I decided to write my review about a vacation outside of our homeland.
Rested from June 14 to June 25.2012 with my 4-year-old son and aunt at the Domina Coral Bay Prestige hotel.
Tour operator Coral Travel - there were some complaints about the fact that accurate data (as it turned out later) about the entire infrastructure of the hotel were not provided.
The flight lasted 5 hours with the Transairo airline, I won’t write about it, everyone already knows that the food is bad, but in general everything is like everyone else. One + is that you can register online in advance and choose normal seats on the plane.
Met by representatives of the company at the airport and brought without problems. Everything is as usual.

At the hotel we were greeted with a welcome cocktail of melon juice with ice - a great drink, we had never tried it before, we liked it very much. They gave us a room exactly in the building that was reserved (with a sea view), on the first floor, and also overlooking the pool. For all 12 days no one appeared in the pool. The room is large enough, it had 2 large beds and a sofa for a child, a coffee table, 2 chairs, 2 stools, a desk and 2 bedside tables. The furniture is quite old, but not falling apart. Canopy beds (beautiful, but not comfortable, legs constantly stumbled over them, because they touched the floor about 20 cm. We did not use the jacuzzi in the bathroom, because we did not trust the washing of this unit, we used it as a shower "Toilet, bidet and sink are clean, everything functions normally. There are a lot of towels, 2 on the floor. Both towels and linen were changed every day. Bathrobes and slippers for the entire rest. As for cleanliness, I would like to say separately, the soles of slippers by the end of the rest were black, as if we were walking the streets in them. Of course, they washed the floors, but most likely only with water, the child, when he ran across it in socks, the socks were just as dirty. Oh, yes, I haven’t written yet that there is a terrace, but we only dried clothes on it, because there is no air conditioning, it is very stuffy. At the entrance to the room, a plate of fruit and a letter addressed to me with the rules and routine of the hotel were waiting for us. By the way, plates and cutlery made from fruit for all 12 days they were not taken out of the room, they stood there - dirty s. But the cups, glasses and glasses were washed daily (most likely the plates were not part of their duties))) There was also a kettle, coffee, tea and sugar in the room. There was a safe and a refrigerator with the contents of the minibar (we asked that we take everything out of it and use it at our discretion)
Our package included only breakfasts - we were very pleased with them: yogurts, cheeses, sausages, ham, vegetables and fruits, pastries, fresh melon and oranges, 4 types of nuts, and a hot menu: omelettes, scrambled eggs, pancakes....Brewed coffee.
On the day of arrival, we bought dinners in a la carte restaurants for 15 euros per person (the child is free), we were also offered to buy lunches for 5 euros, but we did not want this initially when buying a ticket with breakfast. We were in restaurants: Fish (Venice), Italian (La Pizzetta), steak house (Petra), we didn’t like it anywhere, we went to the end of the rest only in Plaisir. Great restaurant, ate the same dish several times - never got bored. Insanely delicious lamb (by the way, I don’t really like it, but this is an exception)! Pasta, veal, ravioli with king prawns - everything is incomparable! Desserts for every taste! The service is beyond praise. The administrator, Magdi, entertained his son while we ate and enjoyed the taste. All staff are courteous. Candles, snacks, music………. In general, the best impressions left from this restaurant! In other restaurants, they waited a very long time until the waiters approached us, they can’t speak Russian (I don’t know English, but I studied German, but they don’t understand anything in German either). We waited a long time for the dirty dishes to be removed, for the drinks bill to be brought. I asked for well-done veal and beef, but none of the restaurants brought me what I asked for. All the meat was with blood, but I don’t eat that! In Plezira, everything is OK!
Regarding the beach, I can say the following: small "prickly" pebbles, not a long pontoon, BUT! Near the beach of our hotel (near the Prestige it is separate from the main one) there is a diving center and, accordingly, a pier for catamarans and sailboats, on which people and diving equipment are loaded. People from other hotels are also brought to this diving center. So, in the evening, when all these ships bring people back (and, accordingly, in the morning, when they are taken away), a queue gathers for the mooring of ships, they are all with running engines, all the smoke, gasoline, stench, everything is in the place where the pontoon is located, it is not possible to swim. And during the day it is not possible to swim because of the solar heat. So we swam in the sea only twice, once in the first half of the day, the second time in the second, and when we found all these ships (5 pieces) there, we didn’t go there anymore. We swam in a salt lake, a visit to this lake is included in the package, and for those who are not in this hotel, you can buy a visit for 10 euros per day per person, but many went to it for free. We were told that the hotel was 30% full, which is why there were few people on the lake and no one paid attention to "strangers". The water in the lake is sea, but dirty, and closer to the middle of the lake there was a smell from the water (as if the water was blooming). But the child loved it! Water is like fresh milk, there is sand on the shore, everything you need for children!

Very poor landscaping. We went on an excursion, stopped by other hotels to pick up people, some had more well-groomed and green areas with an abundance of flowers and decorative pebbles.
They didn’t take the child to the children’s mini-club, they went once, there is no air conditioning and they stick out indoors, rehearsals on the street stage took place at 15 o’clock - it’s very hot, the children are poor (
The pools at the hotel are clean, but we didn’t go, we want sea water. You can swim in the pool and in the city in the fitness center!
And now about the most important thing! The ticket of our hotel included free access to the SPA area with a jacuzzi, a pool with sea water, a sauna and a bathhouse, BUT! Keep in mind that children under 14 are not allowed there. When buying a ticket, no one said this! They were very upset by this
The day before departure, a cockroach was crawling in the jacuzzi! About 4 cm in size. It was horror! I am very afraid of them. They didn’t talk about it so that they wouldn’t poison us in front of us, but they told the administrator when we left. He called us in front of us and asked us to do the processing.
Plaisir restaurant - solid 5, all others - 3. Service and cleanliness in the hotel - 4, overall rating - 4!
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