Decent hotel with a good manager

Written: 20 october 2018
Travel time: 7 — 19 october 2018
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:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 9.0
Upon arrival at the hotel settled almost without delay - the room is quite shabby. For a couple of dollars of data on the paw at the reception (from 5 to 15 from one) to move at least by the sea near the Germans. The hotel is quite poyuzany, but maintained in a clean condition, it is clear that it is constantly undergoing restoration work. The reception is friendly. All staff without exception as well. No hint of obsession.
The hotel has many foreigners - Austrians, Germans, Slovaks, a few Romanians and Poles. They can be distinguished by the blue color of the bracelets. Ukrainians are given greens. For breakfast, lunch and especially dinner it is better to come at the opening of the restaurant - you can take the best tables on the terrace in the open air, and most importantly not to stand in line in front of the restaurant, waiting for at least one table to vacate and ask you in the room.
For breakfast from 07:00 to 10:00 hit - fried eggs and omelet for you, which is constantly lined up.

In addition, oatmeal, cereals, pancakes, boiled eggs, 3-4 types of mortadella, 3-4 types of feta cheese - with and without spices, hard cheeses, tomatoes (not always), yogurt, croissants, jams, sausages. There is something to have for breakfast, but the dishes for breakfast are the same - day after day the same menu.
Lunch from 12:30 to 15:00 (although in front of the restaurant is an inscription until 14:30). You can dine in the main restaurant, where the widest selection of dishes, and in two bars by the sea - Beach Club on the beach and Cliff on a cliff above the sea (beautiful landscape). In both bars by the sea, the menu is limited and somewhat reminiscent of fast food - salads, soups, pizza, shawarma, dessert. The lunch menu at the main restaurant is much more complex and extensive than the breakfast menu. It's nice that they don't make salads from leftovers from breakfast. Several types of soups, pasta, a wide range of vegetables, beef, chicken, etc.
- the taste of more delicious Turkish cuisine is guessed at everything - the chef and a few Turkish chefs here are a plus.
There is a lot of meat here both for lunch and dinner - and there was a catastrophic shortage of fish and fruit - at least for me. The fish was daily, but only Pangasius fillets or something similar were greasy and tasteless. Twice in 12 days there was Mackerel - a delicious white fish, but small and not fillet - so I had to play with bones. The fruit is also tense: grapes, melons (green, unsweet and hard, sometimes with a specific smell), apples, oranges - almost all this, no hint of mango, which is the season and which is sold there for $ 1.5-2 per 1 kg. The puncture of the hotel is that from 10:00 (when breakfast ends) and until 12:30 (when lunch begins) - there is no place to eat. What we proved to the hotel management through an independent hotel supervisor (there were 4 or 5 of them per hotel, assigned to different nations - the Russians assigned a Russian: -))).

You can enjoy fast food at the Poole Island Grill from 12:30 to 17:00, pancakes and ice cream - at Creep and Sweets from 15:00 to 17:00 - poolside bars. Dinner from 18:00 to 21:00 - it is better to come to the opening, because such delicacies as shrimp, grilled lamb, baked tuna and the most delicious sweets tend to end quickly. The evening here is really chic. The largest range of dishes every week - like a banquet! Unsure most vacationers settle - they want to impress, they succeed - a very thoughtful reception. It is interesting that for lunch and dinner drinks are delivered by friendly waiters assigned to certain tables - you just have to order. Tipping is not insisted on, but if you give a "van dollar" - will be extremely kind even the next day. The staff here is very good. The only downside - they interfere with their conversations with each other - loud and expressive. You can also have breakfast and dinner at a restaurant by the sea called Reef.
The animation team was very weak - people complained - and in two days others were working, much more energetic.
The hotel area is large, beautiful and well-groomed, located in separate areas by the sea. There are many pools.
The sea here really deserves attention: who is going to rest here, be sure to take masks - in addition to the fact that from a short pontoon immediately get into the beautiful sea depth of 30m, here on the reef along the coast there are many beautiful fish, the sea is full of them!
Sunbeds on the beach are best taken in the morning, although for those who get up late, the place also stays, but not a trump card. The beach bar starts pouring drinks from 10:00. Arabs run along the beach, who can bring drinks to the lounger for a small fee - in fact, it is the beach workers who earn extra money. The most communicative of them is Abdullah.
There are also Arab women on the beach who offer to paint with henna tattoos, massages, souvenirs, spas, even a hotel photographer Abdul (calls himself Abdushka) - it is better not to contact his services - he is even more rotten. None of them is particularly imposed. We can say that they are not interested, and they will not be disturbed until the end of the holiday.
You can often see the head of the hotel with your own eyes - a tall bald semi-Arab half-European for sure. Controls everyone in the area, makes quick and correct decisions - all for the comfort of vacationers. You can even talk to him directly and point out the shortcomings - he reacts immediately.
In the evenings on the Terrace Bar often sings live European hits Arab singer, and in the evenings spend a variety of animated entertainment.
Translated automatically from Ukrainian. View original