Сказочный отпуск fairy vacation

This summer we decided to go to Greece. We turned to the tour operator "Tez Tour", there we were advised several hotels, after reading the reviews with my husband, we chose a hotel on about. Rhodes, which is called Rodos Princess Beach Hotel 4 *. We flew there on a Boeing from Rossiya, the flight went well, at the airport of Rhodes we were met by the guides of Tez Tour, and we loaded onto the bus and went to our hotel. The hotel is located almost on the other side of the island, so we were the last to drop off at 23.20. We could not admire the beauty of the island on the way, because we arrived late and it was dark. At the hotel, we were met by a smiling Greek at the reception, who very quickly told us something in English (I know the language at the level of the school curriculum), gave us a plastic key and, together with the porter, sent us to the room. We rushed to the room on a run to catch a snack bar later for a late dinner, which ends there at 24.00.
We were very lucky with our fellow travelers, in addition to us, two more people came to this hotel (mother and daughter). My daughter (19 years old) knows English perfectly, so she translated everything for us. Even on the way to our room, we began to get very upset, we ran along the corridor, where the wind was howling, there were no tiles under our feet in some places, it was twilight and there were no windows around - it felt like we were in the basement. The room was standard, ten steps across the grass in front of our veranda were the windows of another building. This room was sold to us as a garden view room! Leaving things, we, with the same porter and our neighbors in misfortune, rushed to dinner, we were the only one there, we were offered cooled fatty pasta with the same cutlets, and slices of dried pizza, the waiter who was there gave us from a plate For some reason, there were 3 plums for four, after which he took this plate out of the hall.
Having had a bite of pizza, the four of us with our fellow travelers went to the reception with a request to change our rooms, but the smiling uncle sent us to bed and advised us to come up with this issue in the morning. The next day, having previously agreed with our neighbors, we were already at the reception at 9.30, where smiling pleasant women came to replace the uncle, we asked through our “translator” to change our rooms, having learned the reason for our dissatisfaction (basement, windows to windows) , she told us that our Russian tour operators booked exactly these rooms, although others were offered. We came to the conclusion that for us (Russians) the cheapest rooms are booked by our tour operators, and they are sold to us, no longer as cheap. By the way, the entire wing was indeed inhabited only by Russians. After that, we were given two keys to other rooms, in an additional building across the road.

We really liked the rooms, with balconies on the second floor, with a private pool, overlooking the sea, the neighbors are Germans, Italians and French. We then thanked the aunt from the reception with our Russian chocolate, which she opened in front of us and began to eat and smile. On this, all the bad things on our vacation ended, and a fairy tale began. After unpacking, we went to get acquainted with the hotel and its territory. All life there is concentrated in the center, on the 3rd floor the reception and the main hall, on the 2nd floor the main restaurant and bar, which continues to the 1st floor on the street, on the 0th floor there are swimming pools, a snack bar, ice cream, swimming pools (outdoor and indoor), a bar by the pool, a stage for evening performances and a road to the sea. Go to the sea for about 5 minutes, then go down the steps to the sea. Beach own, small pebbles, sunbeds, umbrellas and beach towels - free of charge. There is also a bar on the beach. Everything everywhere is free (ALL) and in unlimited quantity and good quality.
For breakfast, lunch and dinner (dress code) we went to the main restaurant, how everything was beautiful and tasty there (special thanks to the chefs) - can not be described in words. I was pleased with the choice of dishes: meat, chicken, fish, salads, seafood, vegetables, fruits, sweets, wines to choose from for lunch and dinner, friendly waiters. We went to the snack bar only once. We decided to go to an A la carte restaurant, made an appointment with our neighbors for the day, dressed up and ended up ...in this unloved snack bar.
The table in this eatery was covered with a white tablecloth (everyone else without them), and there were cutlery for 4 people. When we learned that the restaurant would be in a snack bar, we were very upset, but decided to go through with it.
The absurdity was that one table was set for us, we were sitting there in front of everyone, dressed like in a restaurant, and everyone walked past us in swimsuits and swimming trunks for a snack, we were offered to go to the same food ourselves as for everyone to the buffet (salads, pizzas), after which they brought everyone a fish baked on the grill, poured wine ...and, as a matter of fact, A la carte (fish, there is no other) ended on this. We were finished off by the fact that we were finishing the fish, looking at the cleaners who were waving rags around us. We have a good sense of humor, as well as appetite. Of course, we laughed a lot about this situation, but we left there hungry, so we decided to go to the main restaurant and eat normally. What does the choice of fish and seafood (there were very tasty mussels that day) was more than in the A la carte fish restaurant! We noted this in the wishes of the hotel. Also, we were pleased with the animators, entertained everywhere, everyone and always.

Unfortunately, they did not speak Russian, but still we understood each other perfectly. Evening performances were always interesting, after which they still had enough energy for a disco in a bar. Awesome guys! The only Russian speaker in this hotel (except for guides) was the Kamelia bar (woo) men, in the pool bar. A very friendly woman, made amazing cocktails based on my favorite Baileys. )))) They cleaned and changed the bed linen in the room every day, the maid, a friendly Albanian, every day built from my nightgown either a flower or a butterfly.
We left tips every other day, but this did not affect the quality. This is about the hotel. Now I will tell you about our excursions around the island. We bought 2 excursions at the hotel: to the Butterfly Valley (50 euros) and Rhodes (50 euros). Independently went to Lindos and Prasonisi.
We went to the Butterfly Valley by a minibus from Tez Tour, this is a very beautiful place with a large accumulation of butterflies of the same species, they fly here from June to September to breed. Then we visited an ostrich farm, something like a mini-zoo with different animals, bought an ostrich egg and ate an ostrich meat chop (we liked it - delicious). The third place of this excursion was a visit to 7 sources, walking along the stream from these seven sources, and it is very cold and underground, you are cleansed of everything bad (the guide told us so). A day later, we decided to go on our own to Lindos, to the Acropolis. We went there by regular bus for 2.5 euros. We walked around Lindos itself, there is a very beautiful floor lined with beautiful stones, the stones are smooth, as if they were being polished, wandered around the souvenir shops, and then climbed the mountain to the Acropolis (116 meters above sea level).
It’s hard to climb, especially when it’s +40 degrees outside, but it’s worth it, the view from there opens up fantastically beautiful! It was possible to get there on a donkey (5 euros), but we felt sorry for these little pretty animals, and it was somehow scary! )))) We returned back by taxi (20 euros). Our next trip was to Prasonisi (the confluence of two seas: the Mediterranean and the Aegean), the view is amazing - the Aegean is always with waves, and the Mediterranean is a calm surface! We swam in two seas, admired the surfers and went to the hotel. By the way, there in a cafe, the Greeks, having learned that we were from St. Petersburg, began to chant “Zenith”! )))) We went by taxi, it was expensive (50 euros one way), but the impressions were worth it. Well, our last trip around the island was to the city of Rhodes.

We visited the Acropolis (three and a half columns)))), as the guide said), the embankment, and the old city with the castle of the knights, the guide was a Greek, perfectly speaking Russian, he told everything so exciting and interesting that everyone listened to him, even children! We took a ticket to the city of Rhodes from Belion Tour (the representative's name is Igor - a very intelligent and friendly young man), and were very pleased. Our representative from Tez Tour was always kind of tired and lethargic.
Also, on the beach, we bought tickets for a ride on a speedboat with a transparent bottom (25 euros). The tour was towards Lindos and in foreign languages ​ ​ ​ ​ (German / English) the captain led, but the views are amazing and without words. Dashed with the breeze, nakupalis, and gained a bunch of positive emotions! In general, we are delighted with the trip! My husband now tells everyone that he has been to heaven! )))))) We flew back on an airbus from Ural Airlines, with a delay of 1 hour.
I was surprised by the presence of wine in the assortment of water and juices on board the aircraft.
Vacation was fabulous!