Economy hotel

Written: 25 july 2012
Travel time: 9 — 20 july 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 5.0
Amenities: 5.0
In general the hotel is clean and tidy. But it's too economical. On the day of arrival, we were given a nice room. Overlooking the sea, close to friends. Rooms 325 and 326. Air conditioning turned off when opening the door to the balcony. Turned on when closed but didn't work. On the day of arrival (or rather evening) I did not want to deal with this. The next day it turned out that the control panels were not given to anyone who arrived !!! ! The description of the hotel indicates free sunbeds by the pool, but nowhere is it indicated that there are more than 620 rooms in the hotel !!! , even if there are 2 people in a room, this is 1240 people. And sunbeds no more than 80 !!!!!!!!!! . Feel the trick. At 6 am, finding a free sunbed is almost impossible, since 75% of the guests are Russian-speaking. That is, ingenuity works. A sunbed by the sea costs 3 €. And from the pool to the sea 20 meters. With these parameters, the hotel was chosen.
The food is nutritious, the truth is monotonous. There is practically no fish on the menu (it's on the sea), even though there is a small port nearby. The wine is powdery and gives off very phosphates (nearby in a cafe, for 4 €, 0.5l-wonderful homemade), a glass of beer (Chernihiv light quality) = 2.5-2.7 €. In the hotel, ALSO, beer is really free. Ice cream at the hotel from 14 to 18, I don’t know what caused it, watery, but quite tasty. One ball in a cafe 1.5-2.5 € well, very tasty, not powdered from sheep's milk. I advise you to try. Often there was honey. Delicious. And there are many for sale. True, I don’t know where there are so many of them in Crete, since in 12 days I saw only one apiary out of 7 beehives. Weird! I also liked figs in syrup.
The staff is pleasant and sociable. Tries to help in any way. But proud. This is not Egypt. Here, if you go with a full plate, you will not be missed by a cleaning lady, as in Egypt, with the words: Come in, please, you are resting, I am working. They are proud and a little greedy. Check-in at the hotel from 14 o'clock, check-out at 12. And now, if you arrived at 11, and that day you had lunch, then on the day of departure, you will never see dinner. Every day at the entrance to the canteen, there is a watchman with a list of rooms that left today, and if these people come in to dine they are not allowed. They say you have already dined on the day of arrival. Maybe a trifle, but to be in such a situation is VERY unpleasant. Although people went on excursions, and once or twice they were not at dinner. And this is noted by them, since people handed over the keys to the reception. But they were never allowed to. Unpleasant. Our man can simply call any other number, but it's a pity for the unfortunate Europeans. ; )

The hotel has three swimming pools with sea water, which is drained and filled with fresh water every morning. They are small, from 60 to 120 cm. And one with fresh water, 280 cm. There are a handful of young people and sunbeds have been busy since 4 in the morning. Every evening there is a cultural program, free of charge. There were also musicians and magicians, etc. The program starts at 21:30, and at 22:00 drinks in the bar become paid!! ! Sometimes it is very problematic to take beer and water in the evening. There are a lot of people, but they don’t give more than 3 glasses to one hand. They say everyone should take it himself. But for the money, the same beer will be brought to you right at the table.
There are only two glasses in the room, in the toilet, for teeth. Not a single plate. There is no water in the refrigerator. The refrigerator in the room is not on freon, but on Petite elements. That is, the refrigerator is 16 degrees less than the environment. Well, for an example. Room 26 means 10 in the fridge! And then in a couple of hours. And when you go out, you take out a card with a key, and there is NO light in the room. And the fridge doesn't work. And air conditioning. Slash! But here there is a way out. Remove the card from the key and leave it in the receiver. But the water will still not be the same as in the refrigerator. There's nothing to be done here.
More about WiFi - it's paid. 1 hour=3€. It costs the same to take a computer in the lobby. But here, too, there is a way out. Sitting down at the computer in the lobby, you drop the money into the coin acceptor and the time available to you appears on the computer screen. I'll tell you how to make this time infinite.
If you look at the computers from left to right, you can do this with computers number 2.3, 5.6.
-Lower the smallest coin, 10 cents, this is 1 minute of game time, open two Internet browsers in a row (Mozilla is there), then press and hold the power button on the system unit until a sign in Greek appears on the screen, then release the button and close window. That's all, you have an open computer. Use your health.
For the most part, it's all the little things. It's worth the ride. You are going on vacation. The place is standing, the sea is clean, there are no jellyfish at all, there is a sandy entrance and there are no hedgehogs. Even the locals come here.
Leaving the hotel and going a little to the left, you find yourself on wild beaches. Just worth a look. Lots of cactus and aloe. Many sheets are covered with inscriptions "Vasya was here" and not a single inscription "Her was John". It's a shame for this bullshit.

Well, I think that's enough. I will not draw any special conclusions. Let everyone decide for himself what he needs on vacation.
Good luck.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original