What the travel agency won't tell you...

Written: 31 july 2011
Travel time: 20 — 29 july 2011
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 2.0
So, let's start, perhaps. In this review, I am not going to scare anyone away from this hotel, since, as they say, there is no comrade for taste and color, but I will give my point of view:
Firstly, this building is called the loud word HOTEL, although, to be honest, these are simple apartments, so it’s not worth pecking at the fact that this is a “three-star hotel” - if you are provided with food, it’s definitely not in the “building” itself ", which hardened tourists are accustomed to, and in a restaurant (which I will talk about later) across the road. Who likes to cook - please, a mini-stove, a refrigerator and a set of dishes are really at your service, but I doubt how you can cook dinner on five centimeters of a free table between the burners and a wardrobe with clothes: while you cut a cucumber, you will burn your hand on a hot stove.

I will say about the building itself: the building is new, it is quite cool in it, BUT it is located much worse than the travel agencies say!

"Building on the road" - that's the right one. The house is terribly noisy, who would be pleased to hear how the neighbors take a shower, go to the toilet, or neigh at night? Yes, yes, the walls are so thin that it all spreads, and even a room clogged with double-glazed windows will not save you from noise! The Serbs-Montenegrins themselves are very loud people, they have no rules of decency about respect for sleep and rest, so they can easily sing, yell, laugh at night! Even the owners experienced it first hand, when suddenly, in the middle of the first night after arrival, when they most of all wanted to sleep, they began to cackle loudly in the room adjacent to us, all this spread throughout the floor! And the doors slam like that - they always bounced in the middle of the night on the bed, as if an earthquake had begun! ! Due to the noise, it was not possible to get enough sleep, which everyone dreams of on vacation, alas. And it's a joy if your number is not on the road!
On the road - it's just terrible, you are provided with the "first line" in watching the crowds of people endlessly loitering back and forth, going to the beach from the very morning (because by the time you get to it, the guys from normal hotels will take everything, they are closer), and the worst - shameless cars beeping in the middle of the night and driving at a decent speed, so a sweet dream will certainly be interrupted by the noise of wheels, croaking beeps, flashing lights of a garbage truck, etc. , it is IMPOSSIBLE to go out to the balcony in such rooms. Those who have a view of the courtyard can consider themselves lucky, although there the noise of cars is compensated by hard bass from the water park. In general, the noise performance is provided in any case, the main thing is that the neighbors get quieter, otherwise it will be fun to listen to their every quarrel: the slightest increase in voice is immediately audible to everyone, not to mention the steps that are carried along the ceiling.
Now about the room itself: nice, cool even without air conditioning, the color of the bed linen is pleasant, the furniture is new - it doesn’t smell of junk, the kitchenette, as promised, TV. Maybe before there were 60 channels, this time there was only one left - the First, so every day I had to be content with heavy programs that "everything is bad" in our homeland, and our country is gangster and criminal. The bathroom is very good, BUT no one will give you any soap, shampoo and shower gel, we personally had to buy all this at a local supermarket, so if you are going, take it with you. Hot water comes from a boiler, which must not be forgotten to be turned on for heating, otherwise after coming from the sea you will not be able to take a shower - the water will be ice cold. Towels will be given, although ...sometimes they won’t, they forget, so you have to go up to the back room to get them.
I already mentioned the mini-kitchen, it will be extremely difficult to cook dishes and cook soups on it, but it will do for scrambled eggs and boiled sausages. Only question - where to eat? It is possible on the balcony, but if in the room itself, then only on the bed, sitting in the lotus position, otherwise there is nowhere - there is no hint of a bedside table.


Let's mention the service: unimportant. Every day wipe the floor - no more. Yes, towels were changed, but bed linen - never, and we were 10 days. Therefore, the whole sheet was crumpled due to the fact that at night they tossed and turned from the noise, and partly in the sand from things brought from the beach, so I had to sleep in such a wonderful linen. The hosts understand little Russian, but they understand, but when it comes to a request to change the number, the Russian is completely forgotten and it is pretended that "you don't understand mine. " One of the owner's sons speaks a little English, for the rest, English is like Old Assyrian for Russians.
The owners smoke, this is an important note for non-smokers and families with children, because the smell spreads into the rooms adjacent to the owner's room and makes it impossible to open the balcony! Of course, they don’t have enough tact, after all, people came to rest, and they scream, smoke and cackle!

About food: the only thing you can be completely satisfied with. Although for those who have a passion for the buffet, this option will not cause particularly positive emotions, although in vain. We also always ate exclusively in the buffet system, but here we were somehow even delighted. We were assigned to a restaurant run by Russian owners. The restaurant is small and very pleasant, there are not many people there, so it’s calm - this is a plus, there are no crowds with plates milling around that push you along the way to the next pancakes for breakfast or accidentally drop a bun that does not fit on an overflowing plate in front of you!

The second plus is that you sit calmly at a nicely served table, making no effort to keep up with the food - waiters serve you, bringing and taking away everything you need. Maybe someone will not like that you do not have a choice of the dishes themselves, you are given daily what is included in the breakfast / dinner menu today (as in sanatoriums or children's camps), but for all 10 days the food was varied and very delicious! Everything is homemade: a well-prepared soup (not some ugly brew a la Galina Blanca), the second - meat, fish, side dishes, always fruits and vegetables, delicious bread, porridge in the morning, yogurt and much more. The portions are huge, so you will be full. Everything that you haven’t eaten, you can take with you - it’s customary for them. Ask - they will pack everything for you in a container, which is very convenient, in other countries you are sometimes afraid to steal half a piece of ham from the buffet - they will suddenly notice it, as if it were a crime.
Again, no extra actions - they will do everything for you, and if something does not suit you - call the hostess, our former compatriot, she will settle everything. Of course, unlike our country, Montenegrins do not deceive themselves in food - everything is fresh, tasty, natural, even in ordinary stores, they do not poison themselves. Food - you'll love it.

About the road to the beach: many people probably care how far apartments "Maria" are located from the beach. Don't be fooled, it's far away.
It’s not very convenient to walk, first along the street, along which cars are always darting, maneuvering between people - just chaos, everything is mixed up: people, cars, patches with vegetables and fruits, queues for gyros hamburgers (local shawarma), garbage dumps, taxi drivers sitting right on the pedestrian zone and blocking the passage; then you have to cross the local highway, where NO ONE will give way to you, if you yourself do not stand in the center of the road - then they will have nowhere to go, deign to skip, then past the Mediteran Hotel, and only then you will go out onto the path that leads to the beach. On the beach, of course, it is beautiful, the water is clean, the mountains are all around, the view is pleasing to the eye! The beaches are different - paid and wild. You can get into the beach of some cool hotel, such as Splendid 5 *, paying from 12 euros for two umbrellas + a sunbed, you can choose cheaper sunbeds (red Coca-Cola umbrellas + two sunbeds = 8 euros), or you can even lie in an anthill on a wild . At your choice.
Of course, on the way to the beach, the thought that “how good it is for those who are on the first line” repeatedly comes to mind, but still it’s NOT WORTH paying twice as much money for a hotel if you still find yourself on the same common beach! This is not Greece, Turkey, etc. , where many hotels have their own beach.


PS: I can say about the weather - unstable. Sometimes cloudy, sometimes even showers (they start with a little drizzle, and after 10 seconds - a wall of rain. The locals know this well, so at the first drops they rather run under the roof. We didn’t know this because of inexperience, accustomed to our rains - lazily got up and they began to slowly fold the towel - what is already there, it’s just a little drizzle! It wasn’t there - in a few seconds water fell on us like a wall, so we didn’t have to fold the towel - everything was soaked through). You should not expect stability in the weather, otherwise you will upset yourself by falling into rainy days.
The country is beautiful, the people are loud, but not annoying, like the Turks, they do not steal, and this is true. You can relax in Montenegro, but if you want a vacation with all the amenities - this villa is not for you. Montenegro is still growing and growing to good service and value for money, but nature brightens up the shortcomings - this is not a dried-up desert with one dead cactus, these are beautiful mountains covered with greenery and the sea is clean, transparent.
Each country is a new experience, especially since rest is never limited to a bed in a hotel, so enjoy your stay and make a good choice!
Translated automatically from Russian. View original