A complete disappointment from the rest

Written: 10 august 2012
Travel time: 29 july — 5 august 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
2.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 2.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 3.0
Amenities: 5.0
We went with the family to Croatia full of hope and expectation of a great holiday. Last year we were in Porec in a 3+ hotel (we were very pleased with it), so we expected a lot from this four. But we were mistaken... Before that, we rested only in Greece and Croatia, that is, we were not spoiled by ALL Incl of Turkey, and we expected that the hotel was not new, but not so much.
The hotel reminds boarding house of the Crimea. The rooms are standard, the bath is normal, the air conditioner is decrepit, and I don’t know how old it is, the balconies are terrible, they were afraid to let the children out there.
The food was a complete disappointment to us. On the first day, we tried fruits and vegetables (plums, melons, tomatoes were already spoiled and rotten). Green flies flying over fresh vegetables and fruits killed all desire to try it in the future. Therefore, we took only covered hot dishes. Fruits were simply bought at the market. For dinner, salads were prepared from what was not eaten at breakfast (eggs, sausages, cucumbers, rice, vermicelli). Hot meals were of good quality. We wouldn't be so picky if we were talking about adults, but we had to feed children 3 and 6 years old.

We stayed at this hotel during high season. The beach is good and nearby. But there is such a crowd of people both in the sea and on the beach. We swam with pleasure, with a mask, snorkel, fins, but leaving the sea on the beach again felt like in the Crimea. Moreover, on the beach, a nasty and unpleasant Croat occupied from 6 in the morning with his sunbeds, mattresses, towels the whole place under the pine trees in the shade, and then rented these places. He shouted at the people (both Croats, and Germans, and Poles) who settled down next to him, was indignant, cursed. It did not concern us, but it was unpleasant to look from the outside.
The hotel does not have its own territory. In the photo it is located in the pines, but in fact it turned out that under the pines there is a parking lot for cars, under other pines there is a highway. There is simply no place to walk with children, even throw a boomerang, play badminton. There are no playgrounds at all. In the evening there was absolutely nothing to do with the children: not to walk through the incredible crowd of people back and forth along the embankment, and not to sit in a cafe where the music just yells. Therefore, they simply went to the sea in the evening, threw pebbles into the sea, looked at the passing boats - that's all.
We also decided, on our own head, to go on an excursion to Sibenik-Krka. The representative from TUI promised a tour of the waterfalls of KRK, swimming there, a tour of the village, where they will show how the Croats used to live, lunch at a fish restaurant, then a tour in Sibenik.
In fact, it turned out to be 3.5 hours of travel without a guide, a 20-minute city tour in the heat, 30 minutes. free time (for which we managed to go to a cafe for juice-ice-cream-beer, take the children to the toilet). Then they brought to the waterfalls, dropped off and said you have an hour of free time: either bypass the waterfalls themselves, which will take all this time, or go swimming. There were no excursions, there was no village, no one started a fish restaurant, the same 3.5 hours ago we went hungry. For all this we paid more than 200 euros. So, as they promised the children to swim in the waterfalls, they went for a swim. But the pleasure is doubtful - about a thousand people in and near the waterfall. The sea was clearly better.
A few more words about the hotel. When they cleaned our room on the penultimate day, they forgot to put the sheets with which we covered ourselves. When we went down to the reception - we were told that they could not help. We then covered ourselves with their dressing gowns, but the sediment remained.

On the day of departure, it turned out that in the evening they postponed the time to vacate the room an hour earlier (only for Ukrainians !!! . Of course, they didn’t tell us about it. As it turned out, they put a piece of paper with this information at the same reception. On the day of departure, we collected the bags in the morning, went to the beach, returned to take a shower. And then the most unpleasant thing began, they started ringing us on the phone, shouting that we don’t know what time it is, immediately vacate the room if we don’t leave now - we will pay for this time. Having washed the children and ourselves hastily, we We vacated the room and with great impatience finally left this ill-fated hotel.
My advice: in no case do not go to this hotel, especially with children, especially during the peak season. You will be completely disappointed and regret the money and time spent
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