Свинарник! Никогда! Pigsty! Never!

According to fresh impressions from a trip to Greece in August this 2008. I want to tell you about the terrible hotel "Mare Nostrum" in the town of Vravrona, in order to help someone avoid a ruined vacation. I want to make a reservation right away that I have been traveling for a long time and a lot, and have been in various countries and hotels - from 3 * in Cyprus to 5 + * boutique hotel in AOE, so there is something to compare with.
Hotel "Mare Nostrum" is sold by tour operator "Mouzenidis" as 4*. But nowhere, neither on the sign, nor at the entrance, nor at the reception,... - nowhere is this designation. And the point is not that allegedly in Greece there is a different designation system, not at all. After all, there is world legislation regulating the categories (where everything is spelled out - down to the smallest detail: how many towels should be and the frequency of their replacement). Yes, and other hotels in Greece show these designations in *. The fact is that "Mare Nostrum" does not pull on either 4 or 3 stars.
Judge for yourself. . . The hotel has one small pool overgrown with some kind of fungal-algae green deposits, the pool rails are rusty, and the water is so dirty that when the lights were turned on in the evening, neither the bottom nor the lights were visible; the floor around the pool is a wooden deck with rusty protruding nails; showers in the style of the Black Sea Soviet beach - a pipe and a shower from the earth. "My own beach", which was very relevant to me - after all, I was taking a 3-year-old child to swim in the sea, in fact, it turned out to be a concrete platform with a ladder descending into the shallow sea with huge stones and a nicely descending sewer pipe. Not far away, however, was a piece by the sea, not related to the hotel, unfurnished, littered with cigarette butts and full of locals and their cars. A separate word about the restaurant. When we walked in there for the first time my 3 year old said "dirty floor" and that was putting it mildly. Then I saw how they were clearing the table and I understood everything - the waiters simply shake off the crumbs and pieces from the table to the floor with their hands, the tablecloth does not change. The dishes are also dirty - I had to look for a plate so that there were no pieces of stuck food on it from past use. Now about the room - even by European standards small. And when there in the morning I found a path of ants (and this is on the 4th floor! ) It became quite crowded there. It was not enough to bring them home in a suitcase! A bath with a rotten and black drain, reminiscent of how many people have been here. Gel and shampoo in the bathroom (you know, such small disposable ones), which had such erased letters that it became clear that they were not disposable at all. Which confirmed the explanation of the hotel employee that they "buy gel and shampoo in large containers, and then pour it... ", one can only guess where they get these small vials (I personally throw them in the trash after use! ).

The elevator was especially impressive. Usually in hotels even of a low level, the elevator, if not luxurious, is beautiful, as well as the reception. But here it is an elevator of the 50s, you know how in Stalinist houses, 1 by 1 meter in size with a door that must be closed manually and with a window to see if the elevator has arrived on the floor. The door is painted with oil paint half peeled off. The lobby, the face of the hotel, shows dirty stained carpet and greasy furniture.
The territory of the hotel is also a source of pride - bins that are not cleaned for several days; tubs with palm trees near the pool have been turned into ashtrays (and no one cleans up! ); on the territory of the original lamps on closer examination, plastic canisters buried in the ground with a light bulb inside; switchboxes with wires sticking out on the ground; stray cats and dogs doing their dirty work, and in the evening also local residents from the neighboring village of Vravrona relaxing on the sun loungers of the hotel.
And I would especially like to say about the hotel staff, who are very sensitive and attentive to their guests, only somehow on the contrary. We paid extra 300 euros for a room with a sea view, the best and quietest in our opinion, as we rested together with a 3 year old baby. So the hotel staff, seeing this surcharge, seeing in the documents for the settlement of a child born in 2005, accommodation for adults. + reb. , installing a baby cot in the room, - decided that it is best to provide a room right above an open restaurant full of people, where music played, smoked, yelled and sang until 2 am. That's the attention.
In general, we could not stay there anymore and after paying we moved to another hotel.
It is understandable why this hotel has no stars, it simply will not pass any certification.