I don't recommend it

Written: 7 october 2024
Travel time: 6 — 8 september 2024
Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 3.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Amenities: 9.0
Siesta (I'll try to write an honest review) I don't recommend it! In order not to exaggerate, I’ll write right away that this year I decided to celebrate my birthday on the sea coast. Since I was traveling abroad for the first time, this trip was planned in advance, and I asked several tour operators where it would be better to relax, and in the end we chose the core, a beautiful city in Montenegro - Budva! And overall the trip was great; and here is a special thank you to the travel agency “Ves Svit”: the departure date, arrival and departure were so well coordinated; the location is perfectly chosen (it’s a leisurely 5-7 minute walk to the sea) with maximum visibility of where everything is and how to get there; where to go for a walk and what excursions to plan and approximately how much to spend financially (a mini map for a tourist, so to speak). But now let's return to the Siesta apartments, where, unfortunately, we were not comfortable.
And although, when I was looking at the villa, I tried to choose a room with the most comfortable living conditions, including a kitchen, and of course a balcony overlooking the mountains), but alas, in the chosen villa, not everything was as expected). And so, when we arrived in Budva, we were met by an escort who, as we were told, would help us check into our room; but the only thing she told us was a landmark: the Millennium and Imperial Hotels, next to them there is a villa and named our number, and then she hurried to take other people to their rooms by car. It would seem that everything is nearby, but we still got confused and asked the locals how to get there) and even when we arrived, I wasn’t sure that this was the same Siesta, fortunately I had a picture on my phone, looking at which I could tell a similar building) only after going up to the second floor There was a sign on the window “Siesta Apartments”; being on the street it was simply not visible.
But that’s not all that confused me. As it turned out, except for possibly vacationers, there was no one on site; I don’t remember someone looked at our voucher; and said yes, this is a siesta, the room is located all the way on the 4th floor, I was shocked, to put it mildly) An administrator or a watchman, or someone else from the working staff should be in the apartment and keep order in the building? No one really checked us, simply didn’t take our passports or other data; it looked as if anyone could enter the building; to the room and stay there. A little later, we were finally approached by a woman who seemed to be keeping the rooms clean, but even then she calmly (as if she knew that we wouldn’t stay long) said “you can check in for now, and when you decide to leave, just leave the key in doors. "

The room itself was more or less clean, probably, and while the girl was talking with her mother and showing her the delights of the stove, I was already looking at the slightly emergency balcony, which does not close tightly, and was mentally thinking where I could hide the laptop, who knows what).
And then everything went downhill: the stove was not working properly, we waited almost an hour for the kettle to boil for coffee; at that time I was trying to set up the Internet, but it was practically non-existent) But these were little flowers in comparison with what happened almost at night) already when we skimped, made friends almost with the stove and prepared dinner, having decided to have dinner on the balcony, we awkwardly became spectators of the dramatic a movie where one vacationing, drunken, rowdy group sorted things out until they fought and threatened to kill each other); so we did not go out onto the balcony and sat quietly in the room) The next day, unfortunately, the same actions were repeated again with a rowdy group, and we understood that we would no longer be able to rest peacefully in the room, it was only the second day and there were still 6 days ahead ).
And at first I tried to contact the escort, so that if possible she would move us to another villa, but as it turned out she was in a completely different city and could not help us, then I tried to contact the owner of the villa, but he didn’t really try to help, saying “they say all the rooms are now booked, I myself rent an apartment for 800 euros per month and I can offer you a room for 80 euros per day”) I think, well, damn it, we’ve already paid and we can’t get the money back and another 480 euros on top. At night we hardly slept, and in the morning, instead of going to the sea, we decided to go to the neighboring hotels and villas, in case there were free rooms; as luck would have it, everything was packed everywhere. And yet we found a woman who gives rooms.
We met the hostess, her name was Milka, very pleasant and cultured; she showed her house with CCTV cameras, and she also said that she is almost always in her room and monitors everything) and yes, that was really true. We said that we needed the simplest room and she showed me a cozy room where everything was perfect and there was nothing to complain about, and when asked how much to pay for 6 days of stay, she said 30 euros per day and then 180 euros). And here we realized that we were very lucky, first we paid for two days, and then for all the other days. That day we finally got some sleep, and in the following days we relaxed calmly, swam on the sea waves, visited the depths of the canyons of Montenegro and the Bay of Kotor, wandered along Mogren beach several times, filmed videos and took many photos.

And now, being already at home, reviewing the photo and video report, we think how well we had a good rest at Milka’s and are mentally planning to try to come to Montenegro again next year.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original