Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
7.0
Service:
8.0
Cleanliness:
9.0
Food:
7.0
Amenities:
8.0
The two of them rested. We chose on the advice of a representative of the tour operator.
The flight was somewhat delayed, so we got to the hotel late at night, we didn’t have the strength to think about any sea. The guys at the reception, one of whom spoke Russian more or less decently, arranged and settled us quickly enough. Upon check-in, we were warned that there were no free standard rooms, so they would put us in a family room (two-room apartment) and, if someone suddenly arrived who paid for the family room, we would be moved to a vacant standard room. But, apparently, no one needed the family one, we lived in it until the end of the holiday. And for some reason, we don’t take offense at anyone about this.
The room is clean and comfortable, although not without minor construction flaws, but they are not striking. Well, and traces of the presence of our predecessors, vacationers: an antenna socket torn from the wall with meat behind the TV in one room and some other trifle, I don’t even remember what.
Each room has air conditioning, a large wall-mounted TV, a wardrobe and access to a balcony, one has a double bed, the other has two single beds. There is one small fridge per room and a small safe in the closet.
Air conditioners are located in such a way that they blow directly on the bed. Very uncomfortable. You come in the evening, the room warmed up like an oven during the day. During the day, we rested so much that I want to be cool and sleep, but here is such a bummer: if you turn on the air conditioner at high speeds, it will blow right on you and die in a couple of hours, but on small ones it will not cool the room until the morning. We were saved by the fact that we had a two-room suite - in the room in which we slept, they opened the door to the balcony, hanging it with curtains, and in the other they turned on the air conditioner at full power by opening the interior door. You may ask: why couldn't you leave the air conditioner on for a day to return to a cool room in the evening? But figurines - it will not work: the electrical equipment in the room is turned on only if a magnetic garbage is inserted into the connector near the front door, which hangs on the key as a key fob. And it will not work to remove it from the key without cutting a sufficiently thick welded metal ring. That is, while we are walking somewhere, the air conditioner and refrigerator in the room will not work. Such is their energy saving policy. As for me - very doubtful in terms of effectiveness.
Upon arrival, they discovered that the toilet bowl was not filled. When leaving for breakfast, they told the reception about it, when they returned, everything was already working. Prompt, well done!
There were a whole bunch of towels in the room - 3 or 4 large and the same number of small ones. They were changed regularly during cleaning, as soon as you did not hang the towel on the dryer, but put it somewhere else - on the washbasin or on the shelf in the bathroom. Cleaned every day and clean well. Even though we tried not to screw up. Some kind of mutual courtesy turned out - we do not litter - they clean us well and change towels and bed linen in a timely manner (2 times during this time, it seems, linen was changed). Well, seeing such a thing, we began to leave a few lire on the bedside table from the second or third day.
Food. She really has a lot. Delicious and quite varied. Meat, of course, is not on the menu as much as our man likes to eat, but we didn’t come for grub, but for the sun and the sea, right? There are eight (eight!!! ) eating sessions in the dining room schedule (pictured attached). I don't really know if there were people who visited all of them. After all, for this you would have to live in the dining room or next to it and not leave the hotel anywhere. For example, every day we went only for breakfast and dinner. We sometimes went to lunch, but missed a couple of times. Everything else was ignored - it's just a pity to waste precious time on food. It is better to go on an excursion, wander around the neighborhood on foot, swim longer in the sea.
Beach. Yes, the beach, indeed, for a hotel with so many vacationers is small - about 25 meters wide and 50 deep. But it is nearby - from the farthest building to go no more than 5 minutes through the hotel. There are a lot of sunbeds, the staff gives out on demand, I have never seen that all of them were used. We were lucky that we got there in the midst of near-covid restrictions, the neighboring hotels were empty right up to the Rixos Sungate, so the people did not limit themselves territorially on the beach. I sympathize with the hotel staff, who had to go in the evenings to collect sunbeds 150-200 meters from their beach, but they did not grumble, did not resent, but simply silently and almost imperceptibly did their job. It was really a shame for our vacationers - well, why, tell me, drag earthenware plates and a glass glass from the dining room to the beach with you. The beach is pebbly and careless movements of a tipsy carcass often led to the appearance of sharp fragments of dishes on the beach. Yes, and used plastic cups and bags could be torn off the back from the sunbed, brought to the trash can, and not stuffed under the sunbed. I'm not talking about cigarette butts. And then they are outraged that the beaches are not quite clean. And how, tell me, will the staff pick out cigarette butts in pebbles for you?
Hotel guides. We ran into them as soon as we left the room for the first time. A native of some Central Asian republic of the USSR, who called himself Ali Baba and Alice from Nikolaev. Somewhat intrusive, yes, but that's how people work. That's what they get paid for. If you really don’t want to go to some store for some fur coats, or go to a hammam, then no one will force you. And if you want to spend some money, but don't know how, they will tell you. But they are friendly and sociable, without any questions and enthusiastically take a picture of you on your phone or camera, tell you how to get where you need, where you can find what you are interested in on the territory of the hotel or village.
For example, Ali Baba convinced us to visit the hammam, for which we are very grateful to him. And one of our most successful joint photos on this trip was made by his hand.
Animation. I don’t know… We didn’t see her during the day, because during the day we almost didn’t visit the hotel, except maybe on the beach. But, as I already wrote, the beach is small and if you add animators there, it will be very crowded. And in the evening the activities were boring. The guys are local and with the mentality of a Russian-speaking tourist, apparently not very familiar, so they managed to get the audience so-so.
SPA. Were only in the hammam and massage. We got great pleasure. Many thanks to the administrator of the spa area of the hotel, unfortunately, I did not remember her name - either Olga or Svetlana. I was massaged by a girl from Kyrgyzstan, my wife was a local guy. Again, the names are not remembered. Impressions are the most pleasant both from massage and from communication. I like to swim long and far in fins. But, even at home, before the trip, I overdid it, apparently with swimming - the calf muscles began to cramp literally after 10-15 minutes of a not too intense load. During the massage, I complained about this to the Kyrgyz masseuse. She crushed my joints and tendons on my feet - and I still don’t remember cramps, although I swim a lot.
I definitely recommend the hotel to those who want a relaxing holiday away from noisy parties. The most comfortable, in my opinion, rooms are in the U-shaped building farthest from the beach and, accordingly, closest to the road.
We would like to go to the same hotel this year, but for a longer period, but, unfortunately, the prices in it have seriously increased compared to 2020. Partly because of this, partly because we want to see other beautiful places, this year we will go to Camyuva.
Travel Tips:
Remember that how you treat people is how people treat you. Politeness and a smile can achieve more than scandals and "swinging rights. "
- take into account the local mentality, but remember that a fairly large part of the staff has nothing to do with the locals - many of them are our compatriots, well, or neighbors in the CIS.
- during some excursions, you may be taken to an "unplanned" point, for example, an enterprise for the production and sale of olive oil, sweets, local wine. The tour is informative, interesting, the products are tasty and healthy. But buying it in these places is only worth it if you are determined to bring something like this home from your vacation, but you don’t have time to visit markets or bazaars. Prices will be quoted to you a little more expensive than in stores - after all, this price will include a percentage of the organizers of the tour.
The flight was somewhat delayed, so we got to the hotel late at night, we didn’t have the strength to think about any sea. The guys at the reception, one of whom spoke Russian more or less decently, arranged and settled us quickly enough. Upon check-in, we were warned that there were no free standard rooms, so they would put us in a family room (two-room apartment) and, if someone suddenly arrived who paid for the family room, we would be moved to a vacant standard room. But, apparently, no one needed the family one, we lived in it until the end of the holiday. And for some reason, we don’t take offense at anyone about this.
The room is clean and comfortable, although not without minor construction flaws, but they are not striking. Well, and traces of the presence of our predecessors, vacationers: an antenna socket torn from the wall with meat behind the TV in one room and some other trifle, I don’t even remember what.
Each room has air conditioning, a large wall-mounted TV, a wardrobe and access to a balcony, one has a double bed, the other has two single beds. There is one small fridge per room and a small safe in the closet.
Air conditioners are located in such a way that they blow directly on the bed. Very uncomfortable. You come in the evening, the room warmed up like an oven during the day. During the day, we rested so much that I want to be cool and sleep, but here is such a bummer: if you turn on the air conditioner at high speeds, it will blow right on you and die in a couple of hours, but on small ones it will not cool the room until the morning. We were saved by the fact that we had a two-room suite - in the room in which we slept, they opened the door to the balcony, hanging it with curtains, and in the other they turned on the air conditioner at full power by opening the interior door. You may ask: why couldn't you leave the air conditioner on for a day to return to a cool room in the evening? But figurines - it will not work: the electrical equipment in the room is turned on only if a magnetic garbage is inserted into the connector near the front door, which hangs on the key as a key fob. And it will not work to remove it from the key without cutting a sufficiently thick welded metal ring. That is, while we are walking somewhere, the air conditioner and refrigerator in the room will not work. Such is their energy saving policy. As for me - very doubtful in terms of effectiveness.
Upon arrival, they discovered that the toilet bowl was not filled. When leaving for breakfast, they told the reception about it, when they returned, everything was already working. Prompt, well done!
There were a whole bunch of towels in the room - 3 or 4 large and the same number of small ones. They were changed regularly during cleaning, as soon as you did not hang the towel on the dryer, but put it somewhere else - on the washbasin or on the shelf in the bathroom. Cleaned every day and clean well. Even though we tried not to screw up. Some kind of mutual courtesy turned out - we do not litter - they clean us well and change towels and bed linen in a timely manner (2 times during this time, it seems, linen was changed). Well, seeing such a thing, we began to leave a few lire on the bedside table from the second or third day.
Food. She really has a lot. Delicious and quite varied. Meat, of course, is not on the menu as much as our man likes to eat, but we didn’t come for grub, but for the sun and the sea, right? There are eight (eight!!! ) eating sessions in the dining room schedule (pictured attached). I don't really know if there were people who visited all of them. After all, for this you would have to live in the dining room or next to it and not leave the hotel anywhere. For example, every day we went only for breakfast and dinner. We sometimes went to lunch, but missed a couple of times. Everything else was ignored - it's just a pity to waste precious time on food. It is better to go on an excursion, wander around the neighborhood on foot, swim longer in the sea.
Beach. Yes, the beach, indeed, for a hotel with so many vacationers is small - about 25 meters wide and 50 deep. But it is nearby - from the farthest building to go no more than 5 minutes through the hotel. There are a lot of sunbeds, the staff gives out on demand, I have never seen that all of them were used. We were lucky that we got there in the midst of near-covid restrictions, the neighboring hotels were empty right up to the Rixos Sungate, so the people did not limit themselves territorially on the beach. I sympathize with the hotel staff, who had to go in the evenings to collect sunbeds 150-200 meters from their beach, but they did not grumble, did not resent, but simply silently and almost imperceptibly did their job. It was really a shame for our vacationers - well, why, tell me, drag earthenware plates and a glass glass from the dining room to the beach with you. The beach is pebbly and careless movements of a tipsy carcass often led to the appearance of sharp fragments of dishes on the beach. Yes, and used plastic cups and bags could be torn off the back from the sunbed, brought to the trash can, and not stuffed under the sunbed. I'm not talking about cigarette butts. And then they are outraged that the beaches are not quite clean. And how, tell me, will the staff pick out cigarette butts in pebbles for you?
Hotel guides. We ran into them as soon as we left the room for the first time. A native of some Central Asian republic of the USSR, who called himself Ali Baba and Alice from Nikolaev. Somewhat intrusive, yes, but that's how people work. That's what they get paid for. If you really don’t want to go to some store for some fur coats, or go to a hammam, then no one will force you. And if you want to spend some money, but don't know how, they will tell you. But they are friendly and sociable, without any questions and enthusiastically take a picture of you on your phone or camera, tell you how to get where you need, where you can find what you are interested in on the territory of the hotel or village.
For example, Ali Baba convinced us to visit the hammam, for which we are very grateful to him. And one of our most successful joint photos on this trip was made by his hand.
Animation. I don’t know… We didn’t see her during the day, because during the day we almost didn’t visit the hotel, except maybe on the beach. But, as I already wrote, the beach is small and if you add animators there, it will be very crowded. And in the evening the activities were boring. The guys are local and with the mentality of a Russian-speaking tourist, apparently not very familiar, so they managed to get the audience so-so.
SPA. Were only in the hammam and massage. We got great pleasure. Many thanks to the administrator of the spa area of the hotel, unfortunately, I did not remember her name - either Olga or Svetlana. I was massaged by a girl from Kyrgyzstan, my wife was a local guy. Again, the names are not remembered. Impressions are the most pleasant both from massage and from communication. I like to swim long and far in fins. But, even at home, before the trip, I overdid it, apparently with swimming - the calf muscles began to cramp literally after 10-15 minutes of a not too intense load. During the massage, I complained about this to the Kyrgyz masseuse. She crushed my joints and tendons on my feet - and I still don’t remember cramps, although I swim a lot.
I definitely recommend the hotel to those who want a relaxing holiday away from noisy parties. The most comfortable, in my opinion, rooms are in the U-shaped building farthest from the beach and, accordingly, closest to the road.
We would like to go to the same hotel this year, but for a longer period, but, unfortunately, the prices in it have seriously increased compared to 2020. Partly because of this, partly because we want to see other beautiful places, this year we will go to Camyuva.
Travel Tips:
Remember that how you treat people is how people treat you. Politeness and a smile can achieve more than scandals and "swinging rights. "
- take into account the local mentality, but remember that a fairly large part of the staff has nothing to do with the locals - many of them are our compatriots, well, or neighbors in the CIS.
- during some excursions, you may be taken to an "unplanned" point, for example, an enterprise for the production and sale of olive oil, sweets, local wine. The tour is informative, interesting, the products are tasty and healthy. But buying it in these places is only worth it if you are determined to bring something like this home from your vacation, but you don’t have time to visit markets or bazaars. Prices will be quoted to you a little more expensive than in stores - after all, this price will include a percentage of the organizers of the tour.
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