I liked it, but something is still wrong

Written: 11 august 2021
Travel time: 12 — 23 july 2021
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 6.0
I liked the hotel and can recommend it, albeit with reservations. Let's start with the good - we got a free upgrade to a 2-room suite, which was very convenient. The sofa was squashed in the room, but it was calmly rearranged and two folding beds were brought in. Loved the spa, included a decent sauna and sea water pool with several hydromassage units.
Food, you can always find something to your liking and stomach, every day seafood, you can ask for grilled fish, often shrimp and octopus, crabs a couple of times a week. Roasting steaks. For lunch, it's better to go to VerdePub, where fish and big shrimp are fried every day. A la carte restaurants - there are two of them, one is almost good - Basil, good meat, there is a culinary action by roasting it next to the table, but the duck is not very good. We did not like the Pan-Asian Garuda, everything is bold and very imitation. Alcohol is really imported, including Hennessy and Martel, 12-year-old whiskey. I liked the local rosé wine, mediocre white, but didn’t like the red at all.
They try to mix all cocktails with finely crushed ice (perhaps not because of economy, but they think that this is better), as a result, the taste dissolves. It is better to ask for what you can without ice or take clean drinks and mix yourself. And here is the first drawback - the staff will simply not understand the request, and when they hear the word "ice", even without fries or notes, they will still put even more than usual. Often the Turkish "buz sus" saves, they understand this. I didn’t like Frozen cocktails at all, where the concentration of ice swells, the base simply disappears. Even at the front desk there are often employees who do not understand not only Russian, but also English.

Due to covid, all dishes are superimposed and therefore the variety is clearly reduced. Note that there are no special queues.
The second drawback and it is very big is the beach. The beach is small and if there were no sunbeds on the pier, they simply would not be enough. But taking into account the places on the pier, there are always free sunbeds. The third disadvantage is also the beach. It is sandy on the shore, and you need to enter through a fairly wide strip of pebbles, hidden by the surf. Fourth - uphill to get to the beach. Not to say that it is very steep, but it is not always pleasant to climb uphill in the heat. And for older people and mothers with young children, this can be a nuisance. The fifth drawback is also the beach, the rapid lowering of the bottom encourages bathers to line up in a line through which they must enter the sea. The contingent of vacationers - mostly Russian-speaking, during our holiday mainly from Kazakhstan and Russia. The hotel is still not cheap, and therefore even the residents of Muhosransk and Engels-pod-Mukhoy generally behave decently, but there are many families with small children and multi-ton matrons, and fathers of families go to the beach only for dinner after evening discussions of the political situation. The sun loungers are close and therefore all the sighs and ahs are heard.
The territory of the hotel itself is small, but you can go to the neighboring hotel, which is part of the Gloria chain, and take a walk along the paths along the golf courses. There is also a small zoo with birds and cute puppies. It’s a pity that they don’t talk about it, the way there goes through an underground passage. There is simply nothing to do outside the territory, more than 4 km to the village. The animation is pretty decent and there are announcements of concerts that you can go to for free. In general, it’s good, and if the price is significantly less than other Glorias and roughly corresponds to simpler chain hotels, then it’s worth going. I liked the hotel, although not all. At the same time, a tip - there are no balconies in rooms with two beds, this should be taken into account when choosing a room. And on the second floor, windows can overlook the roof of the spa. In some buildings they can give a room 15-20 meters from the entrance, this is also worth considering.
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