"Не гонялся бы ты поп за дешевизной!" "Don't you chase the pop for cheapness!"

Let's just say that I'm a tourist with experience, in good times I flew on vacation 2-3 times a year, I've seen a lot, and I think that I can give an objective assessment, because there is something to compare with. In advance, I want to give advice to everyone who wants to have a good rest for little money - there are no miracles! What is the cost - such and service, respectively, and rest. I stepped on a rake. . .
I planned to go by car to Croatia, in a familiar travel agency I asked to find a hotel option with a good beach, because. I was traveling with my daughter for 5 years, and in principle the rest was aimed at her. Literally a day later they called and recommended a great option - Crete, Mitsis Serita Beach resort 5 *, all inclusive, miniclub for a child, swimming pools, slides, food... and very inexpensive, you can’t rest in Croatia for that kind of money, and I was seduced !
Departure from Kyiv at 19.55, I'm in Uzhgorod, 850 km to get there. They call from the agency - the flight was postponed to 11.55! Legs in hands, into the car and run to Kyiv. We arrived at the airport at 09.15 - no one was there! I call the tour operator MIBS travel, where is the issuance of documents? An unflappable voice replies: "What do you want at such an early hour, the issue will be at the airport from 16.00, and the departure will be at 19.55 !!! " Indifference is the rarest, but warn in advance ? ! The mood is spoiled, 9 hours before registration, what to do with the child ?!

We arrived at the hotel at 00.15, the room was given immediately in the main building (lucky, because there are the best rooms), and lo and behold - a balcony overlooking the sea! The room itself is nice, cozy, everything is new, clean. . . and the air conditioner is old! It buzzes like a steam locomotive, barely blows, the effect, like from a fan, turned off in the middle of the night, because head was pounding from the noise!
1. Hotel territory: small, at least greenery, two large pools, two small ones for children. The tiles around the pools are not intended for such, and very slippery, in order to protect themselves from problems, they put a sign on it in a timely manner "carefully, slippery", and if anything "we warned you! ". In the pools there is only sea water with a huge concentration of salt - eye contact causes a strong burning sensation, the child swam all the time in a mask! Two tiny and one medium water slides, a miniclub - a wooden booth and a pair of wooden swings.
2. The beach is a complete pipets, it simply does not exist! A piece of the coastal strip across the road with sand and pebbles, a couple of sun loungers and a wooden pier! It is impossible to enter the water either from the shore or from the pier - huge stones!! ! I remembered that the guide on the way to the hotel spoke about the sandy beach at 500m. from the hotel, and that you can swim freely there. Let's go - and lo and behold! Beautiful white sandy beach, excellent entrance to the sea! We spent all our beach time there. The only negative is the way back and forth in the heat.
3. Food - nothing for children: french fries, spaghetti, pancakes, gofre, sweets... well, muesli. Juices - sweet chemical ink, freely available from the machine only at breakfast, at other times - you have to ask the waiter to bring it. For adults - more or less, but the monotony just got it! Between the main meals - only a tiny bar between the pools for four tables with sandwiches and ice cream.
4. Entertainment - amateur animators, due to the lack of an amphitheater in the hotel, held their evening programs in the conference hall, where the 5th part of those wishing was placed. The stuffiness in the hall is unbearable, the stage is not intended for concert programs, horror! There is nowhere to go, the nearest settlement of Khersones is 3 km away, melancholy!

5. Contingent - Russian-speaking 5%, the bulk - Germans, French, British and... Arabs! The last - just no words! Women in a veil, herds of their screaming and running reckless children, who, on top of everything else, are aggressive - offended other children!
6. On the fifth day, I already wanted to pack my bags home! Lasted until the end of the "rest". We were brought to the airport, checked in at 17.00, departure at 19.55... and then a new surprise - the Greeks are on strike, the departure is postponed to 01.50 at night! The waiting room is packed with people, the children are crying, there is nowhere to put the child to sleep. . . At 05.00 in the morning, exhausted and sleepy, they flew to Kyiv, and there is still a long road home by car. . .
It was the second time in Greece, before that we had a rest on the island of Rhodes, in the Aldemare 5 * hotel (real), then the rest was real. I won’t go to the Greeks anymore - let them go on strike.
And for a good rest, you still need to pay, you can’t save on vacation!