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This vacation was completely sudden, unexpected. It happens that that's all - something urgently needs to be changed, everything has become stubborn and mumbled (work, illness, spring hay fever and a whole bunch of other things). “I want to lie in the sun and not move, so that the bar is at arm’s length, and in the worst case, I could crawl to the canteen... So that it’s not expensive, of course... ” - said the husband one morning. And I’m che, but I’m not, unless you trample on your husband’s word, didn’t resist : )). By the time he got to work, his e-mail had a list of Turkish hotels that matched our Wishlist: composition 2 adults + 2 children, up to 100 thousand rubles, 9 nights, and, judging by the reviews and ratings, not quite a dump. Of course, there was an ambush with the dates, the beginning of May was in the yard, and we needed to go to the middle, the flight was not earlier than the 14th (my daughter has an important dance event), and we urgently needed to return before May 25 (my son’s graduation in kindergarten, and This is, you know, the Event). And what to do, you have to take into account the interests of all!
But something was not right... At some point, I changed “Turkey” to “Greece” on the aggregator site, and here he, handsome, drew himself - Dessole Blu Star Resort 4 * (on some sites 3 *) in Crete... Not five stars, but everything we need is available, decent reviews, it fits the description, a family room, and the cost is generally chocolate, and we have visas, oh, and the flight will arrive from Sharik, practically from home... Well, all the same to one! While the decision was being made for two or three days, the price fell further, and decently so, although later, while the vacations at work were being coordinated, it rose slightly, but it was still much cheaper than the original amount, so there was no feeling of annoyance. And for what crazy money it is offered at the height of the season - this is tryndets!
Flight "Northern Wind" without delay, on a Boeing-777. The chairs are comfortable, there is enough legroom (dad is 185 cm). No meals, only water offered. For our family, this is even good, because the children do not really eat, but only spoil everything around, you know, when, quite by accident, something falls and spills. In addition, flights are not very convenient in time, or vice versa convenient, everyone was sleeping. Luggage per person is 20 kg, but one piece of luggage is not more than 20 kg, which is quite inconvenient for a family. As a rule, the four of us are going to have a suitcase for 24-26 kg, plus hand luggage with cookies and sandwiches. I confess that due to a catastrophic lack of time, I did not study the baggage rules of this airline (I always have a spare bag with me), so I had to shift at the check-in counter in Sheremetyevo, after which I had to go through security again. But hand luggage of 6.6 kg at a rate of 5 kg was missed.
The company "Pegas Touristik" worked clearly, without a hitch. I bought the tour on the website, the documents were ready six days before departure. We met, saw off, intimidation and extortion from the guides were not noticed. All the necessary information was given, everything was clear and to the point.
Transfer to the hotel with a stop at 5 or 6 hotels (our last one) was about two hours. We were at the place by 9 o'clock in the morning, took shape, covered. Immediately paid a tourist tax of 3 euros per room (does not depend on the number of residents) per night. For those who don’t know, since this year the Greeks have introduced a tourist tax (fee), the size depends on the star rating of the hotel, check this when buying a tour. Invited for a snack by the pool, while the rooms are being prepared. It should be noted that we were the very first guests of the hotel this season. There was no breakfast, the restaurant did not work, but I think if it worked, breakfast would not be denied. We drank tea with sandwiches and muffins by the pool, took a walk, greeted the sea. We started to rest: the children were jumping along the shore, my dad didn’t know where he had gone, and I had a poke on the bed. People settled in the rooms, slowly began to move at the bar.
In general, we received the keys to the room the latest, at twelve o'clock. Everything in the room suited us. One room is walk-through, there is a balcony, which made the children terribly happy, but the balcony is their own. It overlooks the main restaurant. The second room with a door, though without a latch. There is a TV, a refrigerator and a balcony available. There is already an exit to the utility yard, but we did not experience any discomfort. Garbage removal began when we were no longer sleeping, and we didn’t hear anything more noisy, except for bird trills, such sonorous ones.
There is a bathroom in the bathroom. There is liquid soap, it smells delicious, pleasant to use. The hair dryer can be seen as new, powerful, if all sorts of lotions and nozzles for styling are not needed, then it copes well. And again, there is no latch or key in the door, although there is a hole for it. Well, this is, of course, terribly uncomfortable. As a result, they did not give us the key and said that it should be so, because. everything happens so that you don’t have to, if anything, knock out the door to the toilet. But there are many of us, and one of the family members can save another, but no, it's not allowed : )) Towels and linen are old, but clean. We didn’t experience a lack of towels, we didn’t track the change of linen.
Cleaned daily, even very diligently. Once they threw out a couple of empty bottles from under the water left after the flight. I hid them on the refrigerator under the table on purpose, so that my eyes would not be an eyesore on the table, and so that someone would not accidentally throw them away. I didn’t save it)) But they were needed. The fact is that when you check in, you are entitled to one bottle of water per room, and then only from the bar in glasses, or buy a bottled one, pour it yourself into a bottle, for example, in a restaurant from a cooler (where juice drinks are poured during a meal and water, including) is not possible. And water is a strategic thing, there should be a reserve. Our children, for example, if they already get up for a night census, then they definitely need to make up for the lost moisture : ))
The number of sockets does not correspond to the modern number of gadgets. There were three free sockets in our room: in each room and in the passage between them. Sometimes the TV and refrigerator were turned off at night. Not only do a bunch of phones need to be charged, but fumigators also need to be turned on. Yes, there are mosquitoes, and a lot. Maybe this is a temporary thing. But I must admit, although these mosquitoes are voracious, their bites do not itch and are practically invisible. We learned about the existence of bloodsuckers when we saw them gorging themselves on the ceiling in the morning. Or rather, I knew about them from one of the reviews, well, I was convinced))
Beach towels for a deposit of 5 euros, ancient, of course, but the color is joyful - blue - which somewhat brightens up their antiquity. You can change every three days.
The territory of the hotel is compact, but for all its smallness, there is no feeling of tightness and crowding. Very well-groomed and cozy, there is even an alley with benches.
Warning for families with children: Dogs, obviously homeless, run into the territory. At the reception they said that they couldn’t do anything about it, the territory was not fenced, they recommended that they talk with their children so that they would stay away from dogs... Compassionate guests feed them, more dogs are added. I do not presume to judge whether this is good or bad, but I do not like it. What are these dogs? What kind of ailments do they have? “A dog is biting only from a dog’s life” - what kind of life do these individuals have?
There are two pools, near the main building with fresh water, and the main, tricky one with sea water. The water feels a little warmer than the sea. The beach and the pool area border. The bar is one for everything, in the evening it turns into a night bar. There is also a zone with slot machines (paid) and a stage for all sorts of events nearby.
The beach is pebbles, boulders and slabs in the water. For whom sand is important, then this, of course, is not here. This is a natural feature of the region and nothing can be done about it. Special shoes solve the problem. But, for example, I forgot to take my slippers out of my suitcase for a couple of days, I don’t belong to thin people for a long time and nothing, I went in without slippers. For the time being, children don’t care what pebbles or sand, they generally prefer a pool, they are more comfortable there, it’s not scary, there are boundaries. And the sea - it is so big, deep, and even the fish swim, and suddenly they bite. By the way, on the right in shallow water you can hunt for crabs. And release them, of course, later))
The water in the sea, in the pool, was not hot. To go in, you had to strain a little, but then it is very pleasant. And after leaving the water there was no feeling of chilliness. It seems like they said that water is +22, air is +26. Probably so. Children, of course, splashed up to blue lips, they had to be pulled out by force to warm themselves. Eh, they themselves were like that, only splashing in the dirty ponds of central Russia...
About food. There is no unimaginable variety, but what is, everything is delicious, and this is quite enough not just to eat, but to bite. The bottom line is, there are no fifteen bowls with the same vegetables, but they stand in a bowl of cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers, a bowl mixed with cucumbers and tomatoes, all this is replenished regularly. Meat dishes are in abundance, pasta with rice and french fries is always there. One fish dish is a must, not salmon, of course, but cod, for example. In general, the dishes were not always and not all signed, with cucumber-tomatoes it’s understandable, but if some kind of baked meat, but in sauce, it’s visually difficult to determine who you are going to eat, a pig or a bull. Fruits, cakes and ice cream are very decent. At lunchtime and for dinner, very decent pasta was offered. I am not a great connoisseur and gourmet, but it seemed to me tastier than in those few establishments that were visited in Italy. You can eat all day: breakfast smoothly flows into a snack by the pool (pizza, vegetables, fried meat or cutlets, fruits), then lunch, then afternoon tea with pancakes and all sorts of sweets, and now dinner : )) There is an a la carte restaurant by appointment, it is covered where the afternoon snack is by the pool. We did not notice any full house, but there is nothing special there either. You can visit for variety.
About drinks. Standard set: soda, cola, sprite, fanta. From alcoholic beer, wine of medium scall. We didn’t try strong ones, according to other guests, it seems like tequila is not bad. I don’t like cocktails, but sometimes I drank Spritzer, wine with sprite, almost champagne))
about other benefits. Guests of the hotel are offered 15 minutes of free massage. Once you give, you must take. The girl did well, she didn’t fumble, she wasn’t tired yet. Of course, a 50% discount was offered for subsequent sessions, of course, we promised to think about it ))
Wi-Fi works throughout the territory, somewhere better, somewhere flies. It was enough to read nonsense in parental chats on WhatsApp and Viber, it was possible to post pictures on social networks, the children even watched cartoons on YouTube, but their room went out to the center of the universe, and there the signal is always excellent. It's hard to say what will happen when the hotel is fully loaded.
When choosing a Dessole Blu Star Resort 4 * hotel, you need to understand that it is located in the pope of Crete. It is far from the main sights, to the nearest civilization - Ierapetra - 5 km. And if you get completely bored at the hotel, then either take the bus to the city for a walk, or excursions from Pegasus, but the price tag shocked me personally, or rent a car. Again, there were no rental offices nearby, the nearest one is 4 km on the outskirts of Ierapetra. The price tag at the hotel from Pegasus, in our beggarly opinion, is horsey, there is no competition. If you go out once or twice, you can probably go broke, but not us, we are miser : ))) Somewhere in the reviews it flashed that the price starts from 60 euros (which is the true truth), and this prompted us to order a car through Internet on the site-aggregator. Everything arranged, without complaints and claims, 115 euros for five days with full insurance Volkswagen Golf automatic, in the season, I think, the prices are higher, but in any way cheaper than hotel prices. We were not going to engage in tight rides, not only are we miserly, we are also lazy, but let it be for that kind of money, even if we leave the hotel a couple of times... Well, just for info: no one asked for international rights.
Results. Very, well, just very, very satisfied with their pastime in this hotel. The hotel is old, but well-maintained, you can feel the care of the contents, there is no sloppiness and abandonment. What I always pay attention to (everyone has their own cockroaches in their heads), there is no mold and blackness. The rooms (maybe not all) had cosmetics a year or two ago, the furniture is not old. Nice staff, quiet atmosphere, cleanliness. Perhaps our mood, our desire for warmth and sun played a role, which was somehow not irritated by the sometimes occurring chips on the dishes, scuffs on linen. Or maybe this is the very beginning of the season and there are no annoying crowds in wet shorts, raging drinkers, or rather, get drunk and forget, there are no queues for food, no neighbors slamming the door loudly (we lived alone in a bungalow with 10 rooms). Or does price matter? Yes, and it is also. If I paid as much as a tour to this hotel for June, then, perhaps, I would remember every hole : ))
But something was not right... At some point, I changed “Turkey” to “Greece” on the aggregator site, and here he, handsome, drew himself - Dessole Blu Star Resort 4 * (on some sites 3 *) in Crete... Not five stars, but everything we need is available, decent reviews, it fits the description, a family room, and the cost is generally chocolate, and we have visas, oh, and the flight will arrive from Sharik, practically from home... Well, all the same to one! While the decision was being made for two or three days, the price fell further, and decently so, although later, while the vacations at work were being coordinated, it rose slightly, but it was still much cheaper than the original amount, so there was no feeling of annoyance. And for what crazy money it is offered at the height of the season - this is tryndets!
Flight "Northern Wind" without delay, on a Boeing-777. The chairs are comfortable, there is enough legroom (dad is 185 cm). No meals, only water offered. For our family, this is even good, because the children do not really eat, but only spoil everything around, you know, when, quite by accident, something falls and spills. In addition, flights are not very convenient in time, or vice versa convenient, everyone was sleeping. Luggage per person is 20 kg, but one piece of luggage is not more than 20 kg, which is quite inconvenient for a family. As a rule, the four of us are going to have a suitcase for 24-26 kg, plus hand luggage with cookies and sandwiches. I confess that due to a catastrophic lack of time, I did not study the baggage rules of this airline (I always have a spare bag with me), so I had to shift at the check-in counter in Sheremetyevo, after which I had to go through security again. But hand luggage of 6.6 kg at a rate of 5 kg was missed.
The company "Pegas Touristik" worked clearly, without a hitch. I bought the tour on the website, the documents were ready six days before departure. We met, saw off, intimidation and extortion from the guides were not noticed. All the necessary information was given, everything was clear and to the point.
Transfer to the hotel with a stop at 5 or 6 hotels (our last one) was about two hours. We were at the place by 9 o'clock in the morning, took shape, covered. Immediately paid a tourist tax of 3 euros per room (does not depend on the number of residents) per night. For those who don’t know, since this year the Greeks have introduced a tourist tax (fee), the size depends on the star rating of the hotel, check this when buying a tour. Invited for a snack by the pool, while the rooms are being prepared. It should be noted that we were the very first guests of the hotel this season. There was no breakfast, the restaurant did not work, but I think if it worked, breakfast would not be denied. We drank tea with sandwiches and muffins by the pool, took a walk, greeted the sea. We started to rest: the children were jumping along the shore, my dad didn’t know where he had gone, and I had a poke on the bed. People settled in the rooms, slowly began to move at the bar.
In general, we received the keys to the room the latest, at twelve o'clock. Everything in the room suited us. One room is walk-through, there is a balcony, which made the children terribly happy, but the balcony is their own. It overlooks the main restaurant. The second room with a door, though without a latch. There is a TV, a refrigerator and a balcony available. There is already an exit to the utility yard, but we did not experience any discomfort. Garbage removal began when we were no longer sleeping, and we didn’t hear anything more noisy, except for bird trills, such sonorous ones.
There is a bathroom in the bathroom. There is liquid soap, it smells delicious, pleasant to use. The hair dryer can be seen as new, powerful, if all sorts of lotions and nozzles for styling are not needed, then it copes well. And again, there is no latch or key in the door, although there is a hole for it. Well, this is, of course, terribly uncomfortable. As a result, they did not give us the key and said that it should be so, because. everything happens so that you don’t have to, if anything, knock out the door to the toilet. But there are many of us, and one of the family members can save another, but no, it's not allowed : )) Towels and linen are old, but clean. We didn’t experience a lack of towels, we didn’t track the change of linen.
Cleaned daily, even very diligently. Once they threw out a couple of empty bottles from under the water left after the flight. I hid them on the refrigerator under the table on purpose, so that my eyes would not be an eyesore on the table, and so that someone would not accidentally throw them away. I didn’t save it)) But they were needed. The fact is that when you check in, you are entitled to one bottle of water per room, and then only from the bar in glasses, or buy a bottled one, pour it yourself into a bottle, for example, in a restaurant from a cooler (where juice drinks are poured during a meal and water, including) is not possible. And water is a strategic thing, there should be a reserve. Our children, for example, if they already get up for a night census, then they definitely need to make up for the lost moisture : ))
The number of sockets does not correspond to the modern number of gadgets. There were three free sockets in our room: in each room and in the passage between them. Sometimes the TV and refrigerator were turned off at night. Not only do a bunch of phones need to be charged, but fumigators also need to be turned on. Yes, there are mosquitoes, and a lot. Maybe this is a temporary thing. But I must admit, although these mosquitoes are voracious, their bites do not itch and are practically invisible. We learned about the existence of bloodsuckers when we saw them gorging themselves on the ceiling in the morning. Or rather, I knew about them from one of the reviews, well, I was convinced))
Beach towels for a deposit of 5 euros, ancient, of course, but the color is joyful - blue - which somewhat brightens up their antiquity. You can change every three days.
The territory of the hotel is compact, but for all its smallness, there is no feeling of tightness and crowding. Very well-groomed and cozy, there is even an alley with benches.
Warning for families with children: Dogs, obviously homeless, run into the territory. At the reception they said that they couldn’t do anything about it, the territory was not fenced, they recommended that they talk with their children so that they would stay away from dogs... Compassionate guests feed them, more dogs are added. I do not presume to judge whether this is good or bad, but I do not like it. What are these dogs? What kind of ailments do they have? “A dog is biting only from a dog’s life” - what kind of life do these individuals have?
There are two pools, near the main building with fresh water, and the main, tricky one with sea water. The water feels a little warmer than the sea. The beach and the pool area border. The bar is one for everything, in the evening it turns into a night bar. There is also a zone with slot machines (paid) and a stage for all sorts of events nearby.
The beach is pebbles, boulders and slabs in the water. For whom sand is important, then this, of course, is not here. This is a natural feature of the region and nothing can be done about it. Special shoes solve the problem. But, for example, I forgot to take my slippers out of my suitcase for a couple of days, I don’t belong to thin people for a long time and nothing, I went in without slippers. For the time being, children don’t care what pebbles or sand, they generally prefer a pool, they are more comfortable there, it’s not scary, there are boundaries. And the sea - it is so big, deep, and even the fish swim, and suddenly they bite. By the way, on the right in shallow water you can hunt for crabs. And release them, of course, later))
The water in the sea, in the pool, was not hot. To go in, you had to strain a little, but then it is very pleasant. And after leaving the water there was no feeling of chilliness. It seems like they said that water is +22, air is +26. Probably so. Children, of course, splashed up to blue lips, they had to be pulled out by force to warm themselves. Eh, they themselves were like that, only splashing in the dirty ponds of central Russia...
About food. There is no unimaginable variety, but what is, everything is delicious, and this is quite enough not just to eat, but to bite. The bottom line is, there are no fifteen bowls with the same vegetables, but they stand in a bowl of cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers, a bowl mixed with cucumbers and tomatoes, all this is replenished regularly. Meat dishes are in abundance, pasta with rice and french fries is always there. One fish dish is a must, not salmon, of course, but cod, for example. In general, the dishes were not always and not all signed, with cucumber-tomatoes it’s understandable, but if some kind of baked meat, but in sauce, it’s visually difficult to determine who you are going to eat, a pig or a bull. Fruits, cakes and ice cream are very decent. At lunchtime and for dinner, very decent pasta was offered. I am not a great connoisseur and gourmet, but it seemed to me tastier than in those few establishments that were visited in Italy. You can eat all day: breakfast smoothly flows into a snack by the pool (pizza, vegetables, fried meat or cutlets, fruits), then lunch, then afternoon tea with pancakes and all sorts of sweets, and now dinner : )) There is an a la carte restaurant by appointment, it is covered where the afternoon snack is by the pool. We did not notice any full house, but there is nothing special there either. You can visit for variety.
About drinks. Standard set: soda, cola, sprite, fanta. From alcoholic beer, wine of medium scall. We didn’t try strong ones, according to other guests, it seems like tequila is not bad. I don’t like cocktails, but sometimes I drank Spritzer, wine with sprite, almost champagne))
about other benefits. Guests of the hotel are offered 15 minutes of free massage. Once you give, you must take. The girl did well, she didn’t fumble, she wasn’t tired yet. Of course, a 50% discount was offered for subsequent sessions, of course, we promised to think about it ))
Wi-Fi works throughout the territory, somewhere better, somewhere flies. It was enough to read nonsense in parental chats on WhatsApp and Viber, it was possible to post pictures on social networks, the children even watched cartoons on YouTube, but their room went out to the center of the universe, and there the signal is always excellent. It's hard to say what will happen when the hotel is fully loaded.
When choosing a Dessole Blu Star Resort 4 * hotel, you need to understand that it is located in the pope of Crete. It is far from the main sights, to the nearest civilization - Ierapetra - 5 km. And if you get completely bored at the hotel, then either take the bus to the city for a walk, or excursions from Pegasus, but the price tag shocked me personally, or rent a car. Again, there were no rental offices nearby, the nearest one is 4 km on the outskirts of Ierapetra. The price tag at the hotel from Pegasus, in our beggarly opinion, is horsey, there is no competition. If you go out once or twice, you can probably go broke, but not us, we are miser : ))) Somewhere in the reviews it flashed that the price starts from 60 euros (which is the true truth), and this prompted us to order a car through Internet on the site-aggregator. Everything arranged, without complaints and claims, 115 euros for five days with full insurance Volkswagen Golf automatic, in the season, I think, the prices are higher, but in any way cheaper than hotel prices. We were not going to engage in tight rides, not only are we miserly, we are also lazy, but let it be for that kind of money, even if we leave the hotel a couple of times... Well, just for info: no one asked for international rights.
Results. Very, well, just very, very satisfied with their pastime in this hotel. The hotel is old, but well-maintained, you can feel the care of the contents, there is no sloppiness and abandonment. What I always pay attention to (everyone has their own cockroaches in their heads), there is no mold and blackness. The rooms (maybe not all) had cosmetics a year or two ago, the furniture is not old. Nice staff, quiet atmosphere, cleanliness. Perhaps our mood, our desire for warmth and sun played a role, which was somehow not irritated by the sometimes occurring chips on the dishes, scuffs on linen. Or maybe this is the very beginning of the season and there are no annoying crowds in wet shorts, raging drinkers, or rather, get drunk and forget, there are no queues for food, no neighbors slamming the door loudly (we lived alone in a bungalow with 10 rooms). Or does price matter? Yes, and it is also. If I paid as much as a tour to this hotel for June, then, perhaps, I would remember every hole : ))
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