Double impression...

Written: 17 june 2010
Travel time: 22 — 30 may 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 10.0
The hotel is ambiguous, but, IMHO, for the money - quite good.
Location is so-so. The noise from the road is constantly heard, at night you need to close the balcony. And if you watch TV - too.
The territory is practically absent, everything is built up, there is nowhere to walk. But there are 2 pools + 2 paddling pools, a good playground (not only for the little ones, my 9-year-old also had fun there), a football field, fitness equipment. Shop with souvenirs and every little thing such as creams and toothpaste. Shops with bags, jeans (by Moscow standards - inexpensive) and textiles.
The sea is practically absent, the bottom is a bumpy stone slab, even in calm to enter the sea is a problem, with small waves it is simply dangerous. The sandy entrance is only 50 m wide and to a waist deep, then you can only swim.

Food - excellent, always several types of meat / poultry, always grilled for dinner (meat, poultry or fish). Lots of vegetables, fruits, salads. Sweets, of course. After dinner - ice cream. Non-alcoholic bottled wine (word, took a bottle of 0.7 once in the room, drank it all in the evening - no effect, except for heartburn : ), although it says 11%).
A big plus is a cafe on the beach, one might say, a mini-restaurant, you can have a full lunch: 2 soups, a second, several side dishes, salads, sweets, fruits, pizza, tortillas with filling (not gozleme, but thick ones, like Ossetian pies) and " Turkish kebab" (chicken shawarma, only in a hot dog bun). Gozleme is also available (and 2 types, with meat and only with herbs), but only at the pool bar.
The animation is excellent, the team is large and active, they won't let you get bored (if you don't want to). As elsewhere, volleyball, darts, water polo, football, + competitions in and around the pool, + evening shows. Children's animation is more for the little ones (mine went once, she said it was boring). Animators speak Russian well.
Service - very mediocre, especially housekeeping. Not once the room was cleaned before dinner, the maid broke (that's right! ) into the room at 2 o'clock in the afternoon, even despite the "do not disturb" sign. Once the trash was not taken out of the basket. There were no swans-hearts from towels either (although at first they left a tip).
In the restaurant, the service is also lame: they do not immediately clear the tables, do not report knives and forks. If you are a little late, you will be looking for a clean table for a long time. The waiters themselves come up to the Germans, ask what to pour, the Russians are ignored. Berries (there were strawberries and cherries) are either piled into a bowl, take as much as you want, then they give out strictly a handful in one hand...
The contingent was diverse, there were Russians, Germans, British, some Slavs (not Poles), someone else, it seems Scandinavians, all about equally.
The hotel is not youth, after 11 pm silence, nothing to do. And with children - that's it. In general, if you are going to look for flaws, you will find, and a lot, and if you relax, the rest will be quite good (considering the low cost).
Translated automatically from Russian. View original