Deceived expectations

Written: 30 august 2019
Travel time: 8 — 15 august 2019
Your rating of this hotel:
4.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 1.0
Amenities: 5.0
Long thought to write or not to write a review about the hotel. But I decided to write anyway. In August we rested in "Locanda beach 4*". To be honest, we did not understand why he was awarded 4 *. If we hadn’t been taxed at check-in as for 4 *, then I would have thought that we were brought to the wrong hotel. For the first time in my life, I flew home with pleasure and there was not the slightest regret and desire to extend my vacation. All the same, when choosing a hotel, everyone always focuses on its star rating, understanding what the conditions, service, and maintenance will be. So here is "Locanda beach". It would seem that everything that should be in a 4 * hotel is there, but ...

And now specifically.


1) The room is cozy. The rooms are cleaned every day, but not very zealously. The sinks are not washed, the faucets are dripping (I had to rub it myself with toilet paper so that the dirt does not rush into my eyes. The curtain in the shower cabin is old and dirty, when taking a shower, you try not to touch it (.
The water from the shower tray did not go well, I had to pick out a lump of hair from the previous tenants myself from the drain. Linen and towels were changed frequently. The bed is large, but terribly uncomfortable, the mattress is so hard that it is impossible to sleep (but this is individual, I understand). The promised wi-fi is not in the room, or the signal is so weak that it is impossible to use, but we expected to work.

2) Beach. The sunbeds are on the grass of the hotel grounds, but it's right on the beach, so it's very convenient. The beds are new and clean. There are no complaints about the beds. Two pools. In one pool, the water is filled to the brim and everything is fine. And in the second pool, which is by the sea, the water level is fifteen centimeters below the edge of the pool. And along the entire perimeter of the pool, the wall of these 25 cm pools is constantly dirty. Dirt ingrained, despite the fact that the pool is cleaned every morning.
There is no shower on the beach or some kind of tap with running water to wash your feet when leaving the sea, so that you don’t drag sand into the restaurant or rooms. But ...some two baths were built (I just don’t know what to call it), in which people wash their feet from sand. During the day, ALL campers wash their feet in the same stagnant water bath. Horror.


3) The song itself is food. The first thing that surprised me was that in a 4 * hotel you have to clean up the dishes yourself. I'm not a snob, I can clean it, but I didn't come to McDonald's. So it was possible to put a mop in the room. The choice of dishes is small. But that's ok, the hotel is small. But the quality of the food. If it's spaghetti or lasagna, it's just a piece of overcooked dough. If this is rice with seafood, then it is clearly from frozen bags and the rice is necessarily undercooked. If it is chicken or meat, then it is sure to swim in tomato sauce or ketchup, so you don’t feel any taste (except for tomato paste) or the quality of the product.
As a result, everyone is sitting in a hotel on the beach on deck chairs overlooking the sea and with phones. By the way, the Wi-Fi is excellent. No animation, of course, too. That's all and take air sea baths. Which is not bad; ). No, there's a Greek dinner on Mondays. Right during dinner, a Greek and a Greek woman dance and sing while everyone is eating. Which is also terribly annoying. You are eating your terrible dinner, and two people are jumping around you with dances and loud songs.

Usually in hotels, such events do not take place at seven o'clock in the evening during dinner, but after dinner, when people are already relaxed and resting, looking at this local color and admiring. Nice calm atmosphere, a glass of wine or coffee. So, whoever took suitcases of clothes, she is not needed there at all. There is no place to wear it. All you need is a swimsuit and a bathrobe for the beach and to eat at the canteen (although this place is called a restaurant).
Usually in hotels of this category, dinners are held solemnly, with waiters, everything is beautiful, tablecloths, napkins, glasses, elegant vacationers. In any case, we fell into just such four.

Well, in conclusion, I want to emphasize once again that we are very picky tourists. We are easy to please, we always like everything. But in this case, there are no claims only to the sun, the sea, watermelons and ice cream. If the hotel was 3 * and each ticket was ten thousand cheaper, then we would probably also have no complaints. Well, so ...our expectations were not justified. Here is my review of this hotel. I do not recommend. Sorry.
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