My husband and I decided to have a rest in Italy, because everyone said: "Go, you will definitely like it there! " We chose the resort on the recommendation of a travel agency employee. The hotel was chosen based on reviews and photos on the Internet. Let's go from Natalie Tours.
So, when everything was decided, paid for and the day of departure came, we arrived at the airport. The plane took off exactly on schedule. Arrived safely. On the spot, we were met at the counter by the polite staff of Natalie Tours. We quickly collected a bus and went to take us to hotels (ours, as always, turned out to be the last one). On the way, employee Natalie Tours, a polite young guy, told everyone about many useful things (which buses run where, how to find the right stop, etc. ). In addition, he said what time he would meet us in the hotel lobby tomorrow.
The hotel is located at 22 stop 11 bus.
We quickly checked into the hotel, despite the language barrier.
IMPORTANT: in Italy, the majority of the population does not speak English or speaks very poorly.
Among the administrators of Helvetia Parco there are English-speaking, the hotel has Russian-speaking cleaners.
Now about the number. We were given the last room on the 4th floor.
Imagine a tiny room with holes in all four walls:
- Entrance door,
- balcony door (large balcony with plastic table and chairs),
- a door to the bathroom/toilet,
- the locked door to the next room!!!
The audibility is amazing (!!!!! ), I didn’t think that it would annoy me, but it made me very nervous and ruined both of our holidays:
- through the front door we heard everyone who came and went,
- through the balcony, as on the first floor, they wash the dishes (after breakfast, lunch and dinner),
- and through the door to the next room, the crying of Italian children, the snoring of their dad and the constant chirping of their mother,
- sometimes the sound of the laundry was still heard (it feels like someone is drilling).
The bathroom is small but not exactly tiny. Cracked plaster walls, sink, toilet, shower and a hole in the floor to drain the water.
It was terrible. Once, after the beach, I rinsed in the shower, then my husband went, I went out to the balcony to hang things, and when I returned... there was a sea in the room. I had to urgently wipe everything so as not to flood the neighbors from below. In the future, we saved water so that the flood would not happen again.
The room was cleaned every day, but this way: either the ashtray is shaken out, or the floor is washed, or the towels are changed.
Towels are clean and bed linen too.
The room has air conditioning, a remote control at the reception for a fee, a safe, a key at the reception and a TV, it worked (Italian and German channels).
We took the tour with breakfast. This is also very inconvenient. The fact is that for those who take breakfast + dinner or "all inclusive", there are permanent tables, and we had to approach the waiters every morning and ask (in English): "Where can we sit down today? "
Breakfast is poor: cereal, cheese, sausage, milk, yogurt, puffs, sweet water (muck), coffee or tea. There is not even juice and fruit! It's in Italy in the summer!?
By the way, the keys hang at the reception in "open access", who needs it, he takes it, the administrator is often not there.
On the day of arrival, we simply reconnoitered the situation, and the next day we went on foot to Italy in Miniature. It was great, we loved it, the kids will love it even more.
In the evening we met with an employee of NataliTours. He arrived on time and answered all of our questions.
In Italy, by the way, everyone moves on mopeds or bicycles. There were several free bicycles near the hotel (we did not use them).
Now about Helvetia beach. If you don't want to spoil your mood, don't go there. In some review, they already wrote that one of the employees hit a girl who did not know that sunbeds were paid.
We did it differently. We paid a guy for sunbeds and another beach worker showed us our spot. We spread out, settled down, then this Italian runs up and starts gesturing to yell at us in Italian. I answer him in English, I don't understand you. HE MAKES ME and mumbles something in English about having to pay and invites us to go back to the reception. We tell him that we have just paid. Useless. We gathered, we follow him and say (speaking in English) that we paid, but he still yells evil like this: "You have to pay at the reception! I don't know who you paid! " The husband says: "Yes, I just paid you (there is an untranslatable play on Russian words). " Everything was cleared up at the reception (they themselves showed us the wrong sun loungers). Nobody even apologized! Caught up and forgotten. We didn’t go to this beach anymore, we went to the neighboring ones, numbers, in my opinion, 48 and 49. One of them is called Massimo, and on 49 all vacationers were treated to a watermelon. A trifle, but nice!
And after bus stop 32, bus 11, there are free beaches.
The sea in Rimini is VERY BAD: shallow, without waves, some kind of living creatures at the bottom. You have to walk 100 meters so that it is at least up to the neck. Most vacationers are pensioners, disabled people and families with children. At the bottom there are all kinds of living creatures: egg-shaped jellyfish, crabs and worms-eaters. I walked through the water very slowly and was very afraid to step on them. The sea is as greenish brown as a puddle. There are no water motorcycles at all - this upset us very much. So we spent little time at sea, mostly walking, taking pictures and "shopping".
By the way, a very good shopping center - Romagna Centro, like our Mega. Located at one of the final stops of bus 11. More precisely, find out the way on the spot.
We also went to Cattolica to the aquarium. We liked. We went by train from the station (bus 4 stop 11). The main thing after you buy a ticket, do not forget to validate it on the platform.
We also went to San Marino. It's really great there! Very nice.
Bus tickets are sold in Tabakeriya, then they need to be stamped on the bus itself. They are valid for 1.5 hours.
Stores in Italy operate on an incomprehensible schedule. We went three times at different times on different days to the center and each time 80% of them were closed.
Food in Italy is quite expensive, but wine is cheap. The restaurants do not speak Russian and very little English (we speak it normally), so we went hungry almost all the time. They ate what they bought in the supermarket, which is located at bus stop 18, bus stop 11, on the square. By the way, we ate a lot of pizza there in restaurants and realized that pizza in one well-known chain of Moscow restaurants is much tastier! Pasta is different, some are delicious, but some are not so good. They also do not have soups in restaurants (at all). That's what tastes good in Italy, so it's ice cream. We met one Ukrainian woman, as she put it very precisely: "They eat only dough. At one time I was also starving, then I got used to it. "
When we were already driving back, my husband grumbled: “Go, you will like it! Whoever likes it, let him go! I won’t come here again in my life! ”
The plane flight back is also a song.
The plane was quite small (three seats on each side, about 25 rows). There were even empty seats. We sat down, so. I, just in case, took a pill for motion sickness. Successfully took off and I fell asleep from the pill. Fly approximately 3.5 hours. My husband woke me up for lunch. We ate, I went towards the toilet, where several people were already standing. Suddenly an announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen, we are entering the turbulence zone, fasten your seat belts. " Before I had time to take a few steps to my seat, the plane began to shake in a childish way. I somehow got to the chair and buckled up. The shaking went on for quite some time. Then, finally, everything calmed down and we were allowed to walk down the aisle. I fell asleep again, woke up from the fact that my husband fastened my belt. The pilot announced that we were going to land in Moscow. The next forty minutes were a nightmare. The plane began to shake terribly! Children and many women squealed in fear, Stuart handed out bags for those who were ill. One woman began to loudly ask for a sedative. Outside the window was a continuous fog, it was not visible land. I already mentally said goodbye to my family and sat silently praying. In front of us sat a girl of about ten with her mother. The girl asked: "How can we land if we can't see the ground? ", to which her mother replied: "It all depends on the skill of the pilot. " After that, I completely panicked, but I panic silently (to myself, so to speak), while most panicked quite loudly. The plane was shaking all this time with short breaks. I mentally remembered where the emergency exits were and how to group, but I knew perfectly well that this was unlikely to help. Then we finally landed on the ground! I already had tears in my eyes. Everyone applauded the pilot twice and very sincerely. The husband then smoked in a taxi for a long time and vzatyag.
This is such a vacation! They seemed to be resting, but they weren't. To Italy, if we go, then only for a tour and not for long, the sea is terrible.
So, when everything was decided, paid for and the day of departure came, we arrived at the airport. The plane took off exactly on schedule. Arrived safely. On the spot, we were met at the counter by the polite staff of Natalie Tours. We quickly collected a bus and went to take us to hotels (ours, as always, turned out to be the last one). On the way, employee Natalie Tours, a polite young guy, told everyone about many useful things (which buses run where, how to find the right stop, etc. ). In addition, he said what time he would meet us in the hotel lobby tomorrow.
The hotel is located at 22 stop 11 bus.
We quickly checked into the hotel, despite the language barrier.
IMPORTANT: in Italy, the majority of the population does not speak English or speaks very poorly.
Among the administrators of Helvetia Parco there are English-speaking, the hotel has Russian-speaking cleaners.
Now about the number. We were given the last room on the 4th floor.
Imagine a tiny room with holes in all four walls:
- Entrance door,
- balcony door (large balcony with plastic table and chairs),
- a door to the bathroom/toilet,
- the locked door to the next room!!!
The audibility is amazing (!!!!! ), I didn’t think that it would annoy me, but it made me very nervous and ruined both of our holidays:
- through the front door we heard everyone who came and went,
- through the balcony, as on the first floor, they wash the dishes (after breakfast, lunch and dinner),
- and through the door to the next room, the crying of Italian children, the snoring of their dad and the constant chirping of their mother,
- sometimes the sound of the laundry was still heard (it feels like someone is drilling).
The bathroom is small but not exactly tiny. Cracked plaster walls, sink, toilet, shower and a hole in the floor to drain the water.
It was terrible. Once, after the beach, I rinsed in the shower, then my husband went, I went out to the balcony to hang things, and when I returned... there was a sea in the room. I had to urgently wipe everything so as not to flood the neighbors from below. In the future, we saved water so that the flood would not happen again.
The room was cleaned every day, but this way: either the ashtray is shaken out, or the floor is washed, or the towels are changed.
Towels are clean and bed linen too.
The room has air conditioning, a remote control at the reception for a fee, a safe, a key at the reception and a TV, it worked (Italian and German channels).
We took the tour with breakfast. This is also very inconvenient. The fact is that for those who take breakfast + dinner or "all inclusive", there are permanent tables, and we had to approach the waiters every morning and ask (in English): "Where can we sit down today? "
Breakfast is poor: cereal, cheese, sausage, milk, yogurt, puffs, sweet water (muck), coffee or tea. There is not even juice and fruit! It's in Italy in the summer!?
By the way, the keys hang at the reception in "open access", who needs it, he takes it, the administrator is often not there.
On the day of arrival, we simply reconnoitered the situation, and the next day we went on foot to Italy in Miniature. It was great, we loved it, the kids will love it even more.
In the evening we met with an employee of NataliTours. He arrived on time and answered all of our questions.
In Italy, by the way, everyone moves on mopeds or bicycles. There were several free bicycles near the hotel (we did not use them).
Now about Helvetia beach. If you don't want to spoil your mood, don't go there. In some review, they already wrote that one of the employees hit a girl who did not know that sunbeds were paid.
We did it differently. We paid a guy for sunbeds and another beach worker showed us our spot. We spread out, settled down, then this Italian runs up and starts gesturing to yell at us in Italian. I answer him in English, I don't understand you. HE MAKES ME and mumbles something in English about having to pay and invites us to go back to the reception. We tell him that we have just paid. Useless. We gathered, we follow him and say (speaking in English) that we paid, but he still yells evil like this: "You have to pay at the reception! I don't know who you paid! " The husband says: "Yes, I just paid you (there is an untranslatable play on Russian words). " Everything was cleared up at the reception (they themselves showed us the wrong sun loungers). Nobody even apologized! Caught up and forgotten. We didn’t go to this beach anymore, we went to the neighboring ones, numbers, in my opinion, 48 and 49. One of them is called Massimo, and on 49 all vacationers were treated to a watermelon. A trifle, but nice!
And after bus stop 32, bus 11, there are free beaches.
The sea in Rimini is VERY BAD: shallow, without waves, some kind of living creatures at the bottom. You have to walk 100 meters so that it is at least up to the neck. Most vacationers are pensioners, disabled people and families with children. At the bottom there are all kinds of living creatures: egg-shaped jellyfish, crabs and worms-eaters. I walked through the water very slowly and was very afraid to step on them. The sea is as greenish brown as a puddle. There are no water motorcycles at all - this upset us very much. So we spent little time at sea, mostly walking, taking pictures and "shopping".
By the way, a very good shopping center - Romagna Centro, like our Mega. Located at one of the final stops of bus 11. More precisely, find out the way on the spot.
We also went to Cattolica to the aquarium. We liked. We went by train from the station (bus 4 stop 11). The main thing after you buy a ticket, do not forget to validate it on the platform.
We also went to San Marino. It's really great there! Very nice.
Bus tickets are sold in Tabakeriya, then they need to be stamped on the bus itself. They are valid for 1.5 hours.
Stores in Italy operate on an incomprehensible schedule. We went three times at different times on different days to the center and each time 80% of them were closed.
Food in Italy is quite expensive, but wine is cheap. The restaurants do not speak Russian and very little English (we speak it normally), so we went hungry almost all the time. They ate what they bought in the supermarket, which is located at bus stop 18, bus stop 11, on the square. By the way, we ate a lot of pizza there in restaurants and realized that pizza in one well-known chain of Moscow restaurants is much tastier! Pasta is different, some are delicious, but some are not so good. They also do not have soups in restaurants (at all). That's what tastes good in Italy, so it's ice cream. We met one Ukrainian woman, as she put it very precisely: "They eat only dough. At one time I was also starving, then I got used to it. "
When we were already driving back, my husband grumbled: “Go, you will like it! Whoever likes it, let him go! I won’t come here again in my life! ”
The plane flight back is also a song.
The plane was quite small (three seats on each side, about 25 rows). There were even empty seats. We sat down, so. I, just in case, took a pill for motion sickness. Successfully took off and I fell asleep from the pill. Fly approximately 3.5 hours. My husband woke me up for lunch. We ate, I went towards the toilet, where several people were already standing. Suddenly an announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen, we are entering the turbulence zone, fasten your seat belts. " Before I had time to take a few steps to my seat, the plane began to shake in a childish way. I somehow got to the chair and buckled up. The shaking went on for quite some time. Then, finally, everything calmed down and we were allowed to walk down the aisle. I fell asleep again, woke up from the fact that my husband fastened my belt. The pilot announced that we were going to land in Moscow. The next forty minutes were a nightmare. The plane began to shake terribly! Children and many women squealed in fear, Stuart handed out bags for those who were ill. One woman began to loudly ask for a sedative. Outside the window was a continuous fog, it was not visible land. I already mentally said goodbye to my family and sat silently praying. In front of us sat a girl of about ten with her mother. The girl asked: "How can we land if we can't see the ground? ", to which her mother replied: "It all depends on the skill of the pilot. " After that, I completely panicked, but I panic silently (to myself, so to speak), while most panicked quite loudly. The plane was shaking all this time with short breaks. I mentally remembered where the emergency exits were and how to group, but I knew perfectly well that this was unlikely to help. Then we finally landed on the ground! I already had tears in my eyes. Everyone applauded the pilot twice and very sincerely. The husband then smoked in a taxi for a long time and vzatyag.
This is such a vacation! They seemed to be resting, but they weren't. To Italy, if we go, then only for a tour and not for long, the sea is terrible.
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