Magnolia is a four-story building and has no elevator. There are duplex rooms, but they are under the roof, so they are only for those who are not too lazy to walk to the fourth floor on the high steps. There is a swimming pool.
The rooms are simple design, renovation and furniture. There is a TV, refrigerator, telephone, safe at the reception. There is a shower cabin in the bathroom. There was a terrible smell in the room that they showed us, someone from the group even joked that there was a vacationer from last year.
So, choose it for relaxation, taking into account the nuances that I indicated.
The cleaning of the room is satisfactory: the garbage was removed daily, the towels were changed every day, the bed was not changed even once in 7 days.
The hotel itself is small, but cozy. The staff is Russian-speaking, friendly. The pool is clean, not small, but the water is a little cloudy, bleach is felt.
Meals: breakfasts are standard European, monotonous, typical for most 3 * hotels in Europe. But there are absolutely no vegetables, as if cucumbers and tomatoes do not grow in Montenegro. Under the guise of coffee, some kind of liquid is poured, without taste and smell. But in general, there are no special complaints about breakfast. Dinners: salads - small portions. Out of 7 dinners, 4 soups were very peppery, so it was impossible to eat, although for people with a healthy stomach this may not be a problem. The second courses (on order) were small, but you can eat. The national dinner on Friday for 8 euros is not worth the money. Reading the review of the Magnolia Hotel for 2009, Irina realized that nothing had changed much during this time.
The road to the beach takes 10-15 minutes (300-400 meters), but 100 meters you need to go along the automobile route, which is very busy, and then between the Meditan and Tara hotels. We went to the beach of the Iberostar hotel on the far right (if facing the sea) . Set (2 sunbeds and an umbrella) 6 euros. The sea is a wonderful pace of 26 degrees, refreshing and clean. The beach is sandy, wide, there were places at any time.
We went on an excursion to the Bay of Kotor - the most pleasant experience: a very beautiful bay, beautiful old towns of Kotor and Perast, a unique architecture. And swimming in the Blue Cave only improved the impression of the excursion.
We went to Budva and Rafailovichi on foot. Budva looks like Yalta only less, and Rafailovichi looks like a resort in the Crimea Santa Barbara. all day on the island of St. Nicholas, where the sea is very clean and warm.
In general, I think that the rest was a success. The Magnolia Hotel corresponds to 3 *. I do not exclude the possibility of visiting it again, but only according to the BB system.
The hotel is not suitable for gourmets and those who increase the weight category. And so - everything is edible, there is enough food even for dinner (a 3-course menu). Important disadvantages: vegetables - salad for dinner, in the morning there are several olives, or zucchini in batter. And that's it. Fruits: sometimes for dinner they give a slice of melon or watermelon. A drink that resembles coffee without milk is not edible. Nothing with milk. But there is a lot of different tea, there is some kind of citrus drink, some kind of yogurt-kefir-varenets is normal. Fruits are sold on the way to the beach in several. places. Watermelons 0.45, peaches from 1.8, the rest is more expensive.
We liked.
Recommendations:
-excursions
1. The best tour is a free walking tour of old Budva. It starts at 10-30 on Sundays at the Trinity Church. Conducted by Cyril (photo) from Prometeus, continues approx. hours. Fine.
2. I liked the trip by SEA from Budva to the Bay of Kotor. Back by bus. It is possible on the contrary, but it is better that one end is still by the sea.
3. In other cases, it is better to buy a guidebook, a map, take a car for several. days and travel all you want. Magnolii has a free garage for rented cars.
4. If you want to go to Albania, then by car, without an excursion, they may not let you in. But the tour itself is quite boring.
If you do not know anything about Albania, but you can imagine what would have happened in Russia if the Union had collapsed in 53, then you have an idea about Albania.
- Drogs.
Almost all sights have normal roads. It is better not to move out onto narrow roads, in Montenegro it is customary to drive closely with oncoming people. There are also high fines, but for several. hundreds of kilometers we did not meet the police. In Croatia there are several on each kilometer, but not in Montenegro.
-Meeting party - Prometeus.
It's fine, but you should pay attention to the following:
You can not use the information received from Daria, or count on help from her. For three questions, we received two wrong answers and one very inaccurate one. She ignored my petty request, even after a reminder. Let's not blame her for this, especially since the girls from R-Tours, who were on duty at the hotel, kindly and sensibly suggested everything, but, again, you should not count on her.