There are many pluses, there are also minuses

Written: 26 april 2006
Travel time: 26 may — 2 june 2005
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The hotel grounds are beautiful and the location is great. The zoo is really good for private, swans-waterfalls and so on - the children are VERY interesting and useful. Ostriches, ponies, goats, kangaroos, monkeys, geese, ducks, parrots and more. There is a cactus garden. Everything is washed and cleaned, beautiful flowers, you can roll on the grass everywhere. The church was really closed, although we arrived at Easter.
I never swim in pools (I can do this in Moscow), but the sea is gorgeous in this place. And there are rocks, and pebbles, and sand - for every taste. Tour operators do not always know that on the beach of Agia Pelagia ALL sun loungers and umbrellas are FOR MONEY. Free only on one beach - on the private beach of the CLASSIDOS BEACH hotel. It's just a small pebble. You can go there for a long time and live without leaving the territory if you come with children.
Now for the cons. You have to understand that BEACH HOTEL itself is not 5 stars at all, and even more so not deluxe. They have a central building, which is actually Sofitel. There are 10-15 luxury suites with access to a private pool and BVLGARI cosmetics in the bathroom. Mostly British and exclusive Russians live there : ). We don't talk about him.

Most likely you will be settled not there (unless, of course, you specifically pay for them), but in a democratic Beach Hotel, where thrifty red-faced Germans hang out with OLINCLUSIVE bracelets on their hands. More French. There are many French, more than Germans, and they are much nicer. But they also freak out at the end.
In the building of the Beach Hotel, the rooms are damaged, peeling, the faucets do not work well, and so on. There is no bidet (for 5 stars this is definitely a necessary condition! ). We did not even have a mini-bar in the room and at first there was a TV WITHOUT a remote control. Then they brought it with a remote control, the remote control had a battery out : )).
ZATO number was TWO-ROOM, which in the presence of a child is again important! So the pros and cons are about the same. The service is typically Balkan. All shit and lazy. Porters (especially there is one shaved such dog there) stand and brazenly wait for a tip for bringing a SHATTERED broken and dirty crib. ZATO from the 4th time they gave me a new bed and a new mattress, normal, hard and not prescribed. True, after the child fell 2 times at night (I had to put a suitcase under the crib, then clothe it - at 3 o’clock in the morning I couldn’t change it to run).
In the building of the BEACH HOTEL we were settled exactly above the animation. From 9 to 11 pm, the animators yelled in terrible voices, and then the drunk Russians and French dispersed to their rooms until 3 am. The walls are cardboard, you can hear everything, it's impossible to sleep. Then, at my request, we were moved to a family bungalow, where it was already quiet, good and calm (well, not counting the adventures with a crib). Again, when they brought a new bed (from the 4th time), they simply put it next to the door to the bungalow, because they realized that they definitely would not receive a tip for this. However, at the reception everyone is kind and try to help solve problems. It just surprised me that they have SUCH children's beds, as they brought us at the beginning. Even here in the Crimea, they would probably be ashamed to give such a thing.

The food is good, but for some reason they don’t sell Fullboard to Russians in Moscow, we paid extra for it on the spot - 35 euros per person per day, the child is naturally free. In 2001, I was at the Grecotel in Rethymnon (specifically, in El Greco), and so, the food there was simply luxurious. It's not bad here either, but you can't compare it with Grecotel. Although El Greco was 4 stars. Well, in Rethymno, on the other hand, the sea is worse, so it makes sense for them to attract at the expense of the level of hotels. Here, as I said, the sea is LUXURIOUS.
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