Only if it's really cheap

Written: 15 september 2019
Travel time: 23 august — 2 september 2019
Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Impressions are very ambiguous, but rather with a minus sign.
Just want to say thank you to everyone who wrote negative reviews. It was thanks to you that there were no vain hopes and disappointments, thanks for the full and detailed feedback.
We arrived after 6 am, filled out the cards, paid the tax and we were sent to breakfast. Checked in after 12 noon. Building A-B, near the small pool, room 2024.

I got a triple room for two (with a door to the next room)) The furniture is old, the refrigerator is leaking, the TV is old (there is a Russian channel), a large closet with a safe (they didn’t take a safe, a suitcase with a combination lock)) In principle, everything worked, the room was cleaned . The bathroom had a hair dryer, a couple of bars of soap and 4 bottles of shower gel (there was no shampoo), which were not replenished for 12 days, but they brought toilet paper)) Windows and a balcony overlooked a neighboring hotel and I'll be with greenery. After dinner, we had a shadow in our room and did not hear any disco or animation - silence, so nothing was changed. Cleaning is conditional. The garbage was taken out, but the ashtray on the balcony was not touched) Towels were partially changed (picked up at 10, returned at 16), then they gave too much, then they didn’t give it, but in the middle we had 2 bath towels and two small ones (if you want - for the face, if you want - for legs)). Bedding for 11 nights was not changed NEVER, only the top sheet was straightened.
Nutrition. Tablecloths - not heard. Napkins - 1 per hand.
Breakfast: monotonous - eggs, scrambled eggs (for some reason, semi-liquid), a couple of types of breakfast cereals, pieces of sausages stewed with yesterday's vegetables (a couple of times they were sour), croissants, several types of something like yogurt, honey, halva, tea, coffee.
Lunch and dinner - the pain of my entire holiday! Everyone has already written, but the administration stubbornly does not respond. Lunch and dinner: the queue was already 15 minutes before opening! To get inside you need to stand outside for 15-20 minutes (if you're lucky - under an umbrella, if you're not lucky - under the scorching sun). We enter - the line for the plates (plates with chips, but they still need to be received), waited for the plates - stop and wait for the forks-knives (while the waiter was carrying the forks, one fell, he picked it up from the floor and threw it into the general pile). And then either look for a free table, take it and go in line for food, or pick up food and then look for a free table. Then the queue for a side dish, meat, salad...

The choice of food is not bad: there was always potatoes, rice, spaghetti, a couple of times there was couscous. From meat: chicken, fish and either beef, or tuna steaks, or liver (chicken). They always grilled something, but I no longer had the desire to stand in line there. Assorted stewed vegetables can be spicy, especially when in gravy. A couple of times there were shrimps (5 pieces per plate - portioned), a couple of times there were crabs (2 large ones - portioned), but the shell is hard, and there is little meat in them. Not food, but rather as a supplement. There are few vegetables: tomatoes, cucumbers (or zucchini), cabbage, spicy pickled platter and a couple of times there were beets. Two types of fruit: watermelon and either melon, or plum, or peaches, or grapes. There is a bar counter in the dining room (wine, fanta, cola, sprite), but there is also a queue there. There is ice cream on the open terrace in the evenings, but again there is a queue!
There are 2 food lines, one in the closed hall, the second on the open terrace (pancakes are fried there in the morning, and pizza is served there for dinner), but the entrance to the dining room is common. Distribution on the terrace closes at about 2 pm, even if there is a queue outside even after 8 pm.
We came at different times, but there was always a line! Even at 13.45 (and lunch until 14.00), there will be a queue! The hotel is NOT designed for such a number of guests! The waiters honestly try: they empty the tables, clean the dishes, but they physically cannot cope!
Swimming pool: we didn't swim, because it's impossible to swim there (too many people), but the children liked it. Sun loungers are old (wooden), there are not enough mattresses for everyone.
Beach: 5 minutes walk along a dirty street (there is a shop with souvenirs, bags, flip flops and other things on the turn). If you arrive at 7 - 7.30 in the morning, you can take a seat under an umbrella, bring yourself a sunbed, you can get yourself a mattress. Somewhere around 9 o'clock, umbrellas and mattresses run out, and after 10 there are no free sun loungers. The sun loungers are plastic, the mattresses are wet after the rain (they are piled one on top of the other in the evening, so they have no chance of drying out). On the beach there is a counter with chemical drinks, coffee, tea, water, fanta, cola, sprite. There are no snacks on the beach (for those with children this may be important). There is a cafe, but it worked only in the evenings and it is paid. They pretended to clean the seaweed on the beach, but not for long.
Animation: children are delighted with the mini-disco (although hits from the 80s and 90s sometimes sounded there)). For adults - standard: Mr. Hotel, Mrs. Hotel, Pair competitions, dancing animators. But again, there are not enough places for everyone, tables and chairs are dragged from the reception hall, but this is not enough.

SPA-salon: to the left of the elevator (if facing), descent to the basement. There is a hammam, sauna, massage. The prices are moderate (hammam - 10 dinars, hammam + peeling + wrapping - 45 dinars, massage course 5 x 30 minutes - 200 dinars). Did a massage, loved it.
Bars: there are 2 of them - near the reception and near the pool. Wine (white, rosé , red). Cocktails - for an amateur (I liked the gin and tonic and mojito)), beer (mostly they take it), vodka, gin, rum, whiskey (did not try it), fanta, cola, sprite (from bottles)
There is a snack near the pool: pizza and hot dogs, but there will also be a queue. According to tourists, the quality is so-so . .
Wi-Fi only at the reception or in the immediate vicinity. Enough to send photos and messages. happens intermittently.
The territory is well-groomed, green, large. Behind the building with a small pool there is a French-style restaurant (beautiful)), but it looks like it belongs to a neighboring hotel.
To the right of the hotel is a pharmacy, 5 minutes walk (they don't speak Russian). To the left of the hotel is an Ali Baba supermarket with a good selection of goods (to the right and left it has slopes to the lower halls, we didn’t find it right away)), the Hawaii supermarket, also 5-7 minutes on foot. Port - 40 minutes on foot or by taxi 5 dinars one way. There is an amusement park and shopping malls (dishes, bags, souvenirs, cafes . . )
In general, the hotel has potential, you can make a good four, but the owners do not want to invest, squeezing out what is left. They don’t even want to spend money on new plates and cutlery. The bulk of vacationers are Russians and Arabs, a few Belarusians and Ukrainians, quite a bit of Poles, Germans, French.
In general, the stay was good, but the merit of the hotel is not in this. Will I return here? Definitely - no. I won’t advise my acquaintances, well, if it’s a very, very cheap tour, but I recommend that you definitely inform tourists about the “features” of the hotel so that you don’t have dissatisfied ones later.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original