Shocking Africa

Written: 7 october 2010
Travel time: 25 september — 2 october 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 6.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 6.0
Hello everybody. So I decided to pour my heart out while the memories are fresh. Rested us 5 girls. What would you like to get from your vacation? we wanted not expensive, we wanted to change the situation, the sea and the sun - and we kind of got it.
I want to start my review with + right away, since, unfortunately, there were fewer of them: an interesting country with many attractions, a good climate, a gorgeous coastline, white sand and gentle sun. A good excursion program: go Tunis-Carthage-sit bou said, but the brightest is, of course, sugar, we regret that we didn’t go, now we’ll bite our elbows for a long time. That’s probably all.
Now I want to dwell on those moments in detail, from which the hair stood on end.

I’ll start gradually from arrival: immediately upon arrival, we were shocked that some kind of bobik was sent for us and we had to load our bags into it ourselves, and even through the WINDOW. It is good that our countryman was with us at the right time, who loaded our and his bags. Sanka, thank you for what we would do without you. In this so-called bus, I was sitting in the aisle on some bench, and a mountain of bags hung over our heads, which could easily fall on one of our heads. Back it was even more fun, our bags already had to be thrown onto the roof of the bus, and upon arrival at the airport they were simply dropped from above, who managed to catch well, and who didn’t - his problems. Again, Sasha came to the rescue, whom he could-helped. Sasha from Mariupol, if you are reading this review, then hello to you and your wife.
Further on the way to the hotel, everything became even sadder: ruins, mountains of garbage (yes, Ukraine is just a standard of cleanliness), something incomprehensible was happening with the weather: gloomy, wind, clouds. You won’t understand where you are, it’s not like at home, and it doesn’t look like Africa either.
After 30 minutes we were already at the hotel. The hotel is small, clean, decent, though there is not enough greenery in the middle and some kind of decor. The hotel was greeted with a smile, settled immediately, gave a room with a beautiful view of the sea, and for free. The room is quite normal, but gray bed linen and towels would not hurt to replace already. The room was cleaned every day, although the difference was not felt regardless of whether something was left or not.
As far as nutrition is concerned, 3 is solid, neither good nor bad. The choice is small, monotonous, but they always found something to chew on. We really fell in love with their pastries, especially buns with chocolate and croissants. Good wine and beer. Of fruits, only melons, pears and plums, there was meat once, everything else was chicken, but there was fish every day.
Few people know about Ukraine in this country and it is not surprising, because. mostly Italians and Germans leave their money there. At the time of our stay, the contingent at the hotel was made up of disabled people and pensioners, from the youth of 20 people, including us.
The staff seems to be friendly, but it seems that all this is not very sincere and simulated. As for the bar in the hotel, it left much to be desired, or rather the bartender himself... He constantly ignored us, forgot, gave us not everything and what we asked for, and even when we paid him for drinks, the attitude did not change, as if we were drinking for him money. Creepy, gloomy type.

At the reception and the meeting party is also scumbags. There was a problem with electricity in our room, somehow everything was done in Moldovan style, if the light was on, it was on everywhere, and if it was turned off, it was turned off everywhere and the electricity went out with it, so we had to sleep with the light on to charge our phones and fotiki. More than once they asked for help at the reception and even to the host, it is USELESS, and then they scored.
As for the animation, there was none at all, there was some unfortunate animator who went around and constantly pestered everyone.
All merchants are not allowed into the territory and the beach, but the fishermen start fishing in the morning, cast their fishing rods and tourists are caught - nonsense. Scooters, bananas - do not swim as expected behind the buoys, but next to you.
The beach is closed at 17-00, pulling out a sunbed right from under you, sandepovskie sunbeds, wooden. Well, comrades, we live in the 21st century, at least they replaced them with plastic ones.
Well, we put up with these little things, but what finally finished us off was independent walks in the city. At first we thought that it was about open clothes and bad evening time for walking, but it wasn’t there: no matter what time of day they walked, the same thing was constantly repeated: shouting after Natasha, how much a freebie, everyone is trying to grab you for something, if they looked at something, but did not buy, they listened to a long monologue of not very pleasant words. Comrades, sorry, but why such an attitude, we bring money to you from the country, we don’t touch anyone, we respect you and your traditions and want the same attitude towards ourselves.
I will finish, because if I don’t stop, someone will get tired of reading and, God forbid, fall asleep on page 5. Of course, any country has its own + and -, somewhere something is compensated for by something, but not in Africa. Africa, it is Africa, a wild, inadequate country, and they are still far, far away from Europe.
Definitely will not go there again, even for free. Thank you all, I've spoken out, it's easier.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original