For a sleepover

Written: 18 august 2014
Travel time: 28 july — 2 august 2014
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 6.0
I got room 301 - a standard room on the fourth floor with a view of the mountains (or the "entertainment center", as many people call it - the slot machine room across the street from the hotel). The room opens onto the elevator lobby. An ordinary wooden door sways from any draft in the corridor. The decor in the room is almost spartan, back in the 70s style - whitewashed walls, a minimum of outdated creaky furniture, a tiny refrigerator rolling on the tiled floor. There is not a single piece of paper in the room - no business card with an address, no information about the hotel and the rules of residence, no telephone directory (with internal phones). There was only one outlet for the whole room, to which, from the situation, it was necessary to connect a TV and a refrigerator. In addition, it was also necessary to recharge the phone. On the other hand, there was an incredible number of switches located in some unknown way along the walls, some of which, it is not known what was supposed to turn on (or turn off). In the bathroom there was a pallet 0.5x0.5 m. Without a curtain. Water splashed over the entire area of ​ ​ ​ ​ the bathroom and then it had to be driven to the floor ladder with improvised means, because the floor slope was made away from the ladder to the walls.
Cleaned the room daily. For three. For the five days that I was, I was allocated one bottle of shower gel and shampoo, one bar of soap.
The room was strikingly different from what was advertised in the agency and from those photos with which the hotelier lures guests.

About food. Breakfasts and dinners are average. You won't be left hungry. I was struck by the lack of fruit at the end of July. The only fruit for dinner was watermelon. Everything. Watermelon every day. The area is full of taverns and shops, and if someone is not satisfied with the food in the hotel, you can eat somewhere in the village.
And about a relaxing holiday. At the same time as I, wild Polish pioneers were resting in the hotel. Children from 8 to 15 years old from morning to evening run screaming through the corridors, stairs, ride the elevator, rush into the rooms of their friends, etc. with a roar. And their pioneer leader - a strong comrade who overate anabolics - at this time bawls songs to the guitar. Apparently there are two songs in the repertoire. The songs are some kind of endless - probably ballads. Rooms overlooking the pool should be able to hear the music played in the bar from morning to evening. In the rooms overlooking the mountains, I did not observe any too obvious noise from the "entertainment center", from the road, from the trains.
It should be noted that in general this village is a resort for local poor Greeks, because the area is full of campsites where they live in some kind of tents, tents and campers, and for residents of Eastern Europe - Russian, Polish, Serbian, Ukrainian speech is heard .
About the beach. In different reviews, there are different versions of the distance to it, I won’t say the distance in meters, but the timing of the video that I shot on the way from the hotel to the entrance to the beach is 2.5 minutes. It's not critical, really. The beach itself is not clean - a bunch of cigarette butts, pieces of paper, wrappers.
The beach is most likely bulk, of fine sand. The entrance to the water is pebbly, not always pleasant for walking. At the bottom there are quite large stones that you can stumble on.
Let's summarize all of the above. Hotel for very unpretentious tourists. If you choose suites or bungalows, then you might be lucky. Standard room, room for three or four people - for fans of extreme sports or those who want to remember the past. I do not recommend. For the money you can find much better deals.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original