Nice little hotel

Written: 10 september 2021
Travel time: 24 august — 3 september 2021
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 7.0
We rested in such a small hotel for the first time, at first we were skeptical, and then, on the contrary, we liked everything very much, everything is close, within reach, a restaurant, a beach, a pool. In the evenings live music, unobtrusively, not for long. The staff is all attentive, and for $ even more))))). The food is like everywhere else, there was no surplus, it was 1 day (evening) of sushi for 10 days, 1 time crabs (as for me there is nothing to eat) and shrimp. As for shrimp, you can buy (will cook for 30 minutes) in a restaurant shop near the mosque in the city (5 minutes walk from the hotel). (for 14.10, 8 dollars depending on the size). Yes, in recent days, I ate something wrong in the restaurant with my daughter, it was a little stormy (the pharmacy, which is located right there in the hotel, helped). A taxi in Soho drove for $ 20 round trip (we didn’t bargain), moreover, the taxi driver didn’t take the money when he brought it there, he waited for us to return (they took his phone number from him - we had local SIM cards, we bought them at the airport, it’s more convenient and communicate with each other and the Internet - 26 megabytes for $ 14. Orange). There is not much to walk around the hotel, but this aspect replaces the wonderful old town, where the hotel itself is located.
The entry into the sea is perfect, there are no coral fish, every hour a boat goes to the reef (5 min. ), In principle, you can see the water world there (you need special shoes). The beach is clean and cleaned. True, as for me, it's a bit late. Bar on the beach from 10.00, there is ice cream. The animation is average, 2 animators, the guy gives 200 percent, but the girl, maybe because she recently worked there (Slav) is a little off topic).
Any questions are resolved at the reception, everything that was asked was done, but everything needs to be said, sometimes reminded. Rooms are cleaned every day, too late for me, ours was on the 2nd floor, cleaned around 12.00, but the children also had a room on the 1st floor, however, at the same time, probably depending on which shift is working. The fourth building was generally closed for repairs, but this did not interfere at all.

I personally have a negative and an unpleasant aftertaste left by the work of a photographer who offers their services on the territory of the hotel. I ordered a photo session for myself (I didn’t want more of my family members). I bought into an advertisement for a girl Katya, who walks along the beach and makes an advertisement for this photo shoot. Moreover, they say the photo session is free, then you come to the photographer, choose as many photos as you want (1 photo $ 4) and they send you to your phone (flash drive) as you wish. I came across a photographer named Abdu, a young guy, they seemed to have found a common language, the photo session was at 10.00 (it’s hot, all the photos are almost in glasses, I had doubts when recording, I thought maybe at 16.00, but they assured me that the sun and better photos are obtained in 10.00). Okay, we did a photo session (1.5 hours in the heat is tiring, I'll tell you), we agreed to take a photo on the same day after dinner. I came, started to look, of course he took a lot of photos, but my goal was to choose photo 10. I started to choose, sort, he started talking to me about some kind of minimum, that they say there should be a minimum of photo 20 (there was no question of this during the recording).
As a result, I selected 15 photos, he must process them, retouch them, and the next day come after dinner and send them to me. I left a deposit of $10 at check-in. , by the way, money for 15 photos (that's $ 60) must be paid when you choose a photo. And by the way, if in this turmoil my daughter didn’t remember that I left a deposit, the photographer wouldn’t even remember me about it (a strange connection between a photographer and an advertising girl). The next day, at the agreed time, there was no one at the appointed place, neither the girl Katya, nor the photographer Abdu. I waited 1 hour at the reception, then I called Katya, since she wrote down her phone number. when I took a deposit (and the Egyptian SIM came in handy here)). She was kind of surprised, but that he was not there, they say she will contact him now, then she called back, said that he had a photo shoot in another hotel (at 20:00? ). As for the photos, he will drop them in viber, she started sending photos, they were just photos on the phone (not files), until my husband connected. He said that he would raise the question of the expediency of finding their office on the territory of the hotel if there was no photo. She started calling, the photographer got in touch with me.
He emailed me the photo files. But to make it clear, in their or his understanding, to process a photo is to put it in some kind of program, add color brightness (grass is such that it eats away the eyes), nothing was done about the agreed nuances, where it was really necessary to retouch. It seems that he did almost nothing with those photos at all, but simply passed them through some kind of program (which I can do myself) in 5 minutes and that's it. Yes, against this background, so as not to be unfounded, no one even warned about the delay or that the photographer would not be there until I myself started looking for him. And they had a connection with me, that is, they even warned that somehow something was changing, it never occurred to anyone, but why, the money had already been paid. Let my sad experience of a photo shoot with these people (I really wanted to, although in Ukraine you can do it better and much cheaper, but there is no such background) will be an example for someone. I don’t know how the rest work, but the work of these people looks like a scam!
This nuance has nothing to do with the staff and service in the hotel itself, other than that they just apparently rent a place. But let the hotel administration know what unprofessional and low-quality services are provided on their territory.

But in general, the rest is wonderful, I recommend the hotel !! !
Translated automatically from Russian. View original