Even if you are lucky to do without a scandal, you are unlikely to be satisfied with your vacation. Hotel without breakfast, that is, you pay for each sneeze. Would you like to dine at an all-inclusive hotel? Not a problem! In addition to 6 thousand per day for accommodation, lay out another 2 thousand rubles (adult lunch u003.900, children u003.500 r). Don't you want to? You can have lunch in the hotel restaurant, where only a side dish (buckwheat, mashed potatoes) costs from 200 rubles!
To the beach from the rooms in the Park building, stomp on foot along a steep slope. And back - climb 10-15 minutes. There are faulty electric cars that break down all the time and mysteriously rattle.
Linen is changed every 4 days, and even then, you can be scolded for a stain on the bed, because the hotel rules say that "guests are obliged to keep the linen clean. " And a ban on the use of a multicooker.
Pay special attention to the danger of staying in a hotel with children. In the rooms everywhere in the open access sockets without curtains. If you have a small child, you will only drag him away. Tiled floor that is easy to slip on. And most importantly! No fire safety. Do you know why? The owner said that the hotel is designed as a NON-RESIDENTIAL PREMISES with the provision of resort services. So no one is responsible for you, mind you.
You need to write a separate story about the rudeness of the staff. On the day of departure, the administrator yelled at us with the children that we "littered the room. " Cool service, right? If you don't want to spoil your mood, choose another place.
It is a pity that the pool was paid, including for small children. Therefore, we went to the pool from the "Morskoy" hotel for the same money, but with sea water and a larger size.
The sea is clean, the beach is cleaned. The only drawback is the large boulders when entering the sea, which caused a lot of inconvenience, especially for those who do not swim well. An excellent sea near the hotel "Morskoy", all large stones in the coastal strip are covered with very small pebbles. If the beach of "Hellas" is also landscaped, then there will be a rating of "10" !!!!!
In general, the rest was very pleasant! Many thanks to all the staff, very polite and helpful.
A little more about everything:
Semidvore
Pros:
A very well-groomed area on the seashore, far from the highway, a large beautiful park with a variety of plants (from cypresses and firs to palm trees and cacti), clean roads, nice hotels, well-equipped beaches. There are 2 restaurants on the embankment: "Sky lounge Cafe" and "Limon", where they cook delicious food for quite reasonable money. The first one is located on the terrace of the last floor of the building at the end of the embankment, with a beautiful view of the sea, well prepared lamb, delicious coffee and desserts. The second is located in a tent right at the beginning of the embankment.
Despite the not very nice view from the outside (a tent and a counter with the inscription “set meals”), inside everything is clean and beautiful and very tasty - they took sea pike perch and beef steak with cherry sauce - amazingly tasty and large portions. Polite waiters in both restaurants - a separate respect.
There is a pharmacy. Various travel companies offer services.
There are small playgrounds, children's animation according to the schedule on the playground at the end of the embankment, a small area with the most necessary exercise equipment - all for free.
Minuses:
There is no ATM on site. There are 2 stores, which not only have a very limited assortment, but also half-empty shelves - that is, if you need to buy something, you have to go to Alushta.
Communication with Alushta
Pros:
If you don’t have your own car or you don’t want to spend money on a taxi (you can get a car from the hotel for 80 UAH), a transfer to Alushta and back costs 15 UAH.
from a person.
Minuses:
Transfer only 3 times a day (from Semidvorye at 9 am, at 14:30 and at 18:00; from Alushta at 8:30.12:30 and at 18:30). In the low season, there are not always enough seats - sometimes the bus is full and you have to ride standing up. In the high season, such a service is probably considered purely symbolic.
Hotel
Pros:
Well-groomed territory, friendly reception, clean, quiet, own beach, organized transfer in small buses from the hotel to the beach (although it takes exactly 5 minutes to go down to the beach along a good road). Almost everything is provided - even beach towels are provided to forgetful vacationers for the entire period of stay on bail. Towels are changed in the rooms every day and garbage is taken out, cleaning is done every 3 days. There is always hot water. Free WiFi in the rooms - you need to get the password at the reception.
Minuses:
Payment only in cash - there is no terminal. So if you don’t think about withdrawing money, you will have to go to Alushta.
Wi-Fi in the rooms is purely for the sake of formality - the connection is very weak and even a news page or a weather website page will take several minutes to load. And in the last 2 days, the Internet disappeared altogether, so I had to go to the reception with my laptop to top up my phone account - it seems that this is the only place in the hotel where the Internet works smoothly and at a good speed.
Rooms
Pros:
All rooms have large balconies (a table with 2 chairs and a clothes dryer are comfortably placed on the balcony, and at the same time there is still a lot of free space between them). Almost all with sea views (trees cover the sea on the first and second floors). The rooms are really big, clean and comfortable.
New renovation, new furniture (and there is more than enough of it: a wardrobe, a dressing table, a chest of drawers with many compartments and bedside tables; in the hallway there are hangers for outerwear, a shoe cabinet), large mirrors everywhere (both in the room, and in the bathroom, and in hallway), comfortable mattresses and pillows, clean linen. The room has a small fridge, safe, TV, electric kettle and air conditioning.
The maid does her job, in general, well and discreetly.
Minuses:
The shower is stocked with shampoo and soap. There is no shower gel.
A glass for toothbrushes and other accessories is not provided or they forgot to put it in - I had to take one of those that are on the tray in the room (tray, 2 saucers, 2 mugs, 2 spoons, 2 glasses). By the way, there are no tea and/or coffee bags.
The water pressure is very weak. You can rinse, but wash long hair with great difficulty.
The bed is supposed to have a mattress topper, 2 sheets and pillowcases for 2 pillows.
Blankets come without a duvet cover, for some reason. I don't think it's very hygienic. There are no pillowcases for a comfortable third pillow either.
On the last day, the maid forgot (or decided not to) put toilet paper in. The question is whether this is a private case or is it the policy of the hotel - open.
Nutrition
Pros:
Meals are organized in a nice cafe on the 6th floor. There is also a terrace with beautiful sea views. You can order meals either for the entire stay at once, or order it every evening for the next day as it suits you - either one breakfast, or HB, or FB.
As for Ukraine, the buffet is organized with dignity - at least there will be 4 meat dishes, various side dishes, salads.
All food is cooked properly - there are no greasy, overcooked, over-peppered or the like unhealthy dishes.
Minuses:
Sweets and fruits/vegetables are presented very poorly (from vegetables there were tomatoes, cucumbers and cabbage; from fruits - grapes, Crimean melons, sometimes small cuts of pineapples/oranges, etc. as an additive to pancakes, apparently).
The dishes are not warmed up enough - most of them are put on a plate barely warm.
The cafe has very strange and loud music - either mournful songs of unknown Russian or Ukrainian rappers, or cheerful disco music. It would be nice to put some kind of background lounge, or quiet modern European music.
Coffee is only instant and it does not rely on cream or milk. So I advise coffee lovers the aforementioned restaurants.
Hotel administration
Pros:
There is an administration So, if necessary, there is where to turn.
Minuses:
The administration is somewhat careless, so you can’t rely on vacationers on them. Examples.
1) When booking a hotel, we chose a departure date for a long time. And in the end, they still confused when to leave. And they were so sure of this that they did not check the tickets. As a result, we “decided” to leave a day earlier. We came to the reception to order a taxi and arrange a later check-out at 14:00 (there were few people in the hotel anyway). So the administrator carefully checked our room to see if anyone would enter it and recommended to double-check in the morning whether anything would change overnight - and this despite the fact that he had to see that the room was paid for by us for another day, and about this warn us. Still, this is their job, which must be done with high quality.
2) Leaving the next day, we ordered a taxi so that we would arrive at the bus station in Alushta in advance (it takes about 25 minutes to drive to Alushta, we ordered 50 minutes before the departure time of the Alushta-Simferopol bus).
Either the administrators forgot to call a taxi on time, or it was a stupid strategy to come back to back to take it to the train to Simferopol at a higher price, but the fact remains: 20 minutes of delay, and there was no taxi. The administrator promised to find out where the car was and call back - he never called back. We were miraculously lucky that at that time another car arrived - brought tourists to the hotel. So we were able to go to the city and catch the bus back to back. And 30 UAH cheaper.
If these are issues of incompetence of administrators, the hotel clearly needs to reconsider the quality of the staff. If this attitude is due to the fact that we have already left, then the approach is also strange - after all, these last hours or days of staying in a hotel can cancel out the desire to come there again.
P. S. By the way, I concluded that bad reviews are deleted on their website !! !
We rested in the beach building. Excellent room, beautiful view from the balcony. Very tasty, varied food. Good service. Nice park at the end of the promenade.
the only minus of the "grill cafe" is the waiter (bald skinny) a drug addict, constantly dumped, shish kebab from frozen meat, not tasty salads. Administration pay attention, so it is almost always empty.
Thanks for a great stay, we'll be back!
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ROOM. Filmed a triple standard +. Everything is clean, Helladian neat and sound. No mold in the shower, burned out light bulbs and weak air conditioning (I've read about other hotels in Alushta). Gentlemen, this does not happen here a priori!
I asked for cleaning on the third day, while I was having breakfast - everything was cleaned, the freshest bed was made and snow-white towels were handed over. By the way, once I went to my sister-hostess to change towels (as needed), they changed them without question.
The only negative that I would like to draw attention to is the Internet in the rooms. Either he is not, or he is very weak. This is what was missing. And do not throw slippers at me, what do you need, girl, the Internet on vacation. There is such a job - to defend the Motherland (joke). In general, it is sometimes desperately needed.
NUTRITION. We ate not only in the Beach restaurant, but throughout the complex, so I will describe the places where I have been.
• Beach Restaurant. Tasty, satisfying, fast. And - as always, my compliments to the one who came up with the idea of serving ice cold aligote!
• Hold or Cheburechnaya. Well, the girls who work there are very nice. Thank you for your promptness and kindness. And there are really tasty chebureks. On the second day, we tried mini-kebabs of mussels and rapans. Recommend. And yes (this applies not only to the Hold), there is good quality beer EVERYWHERE on the territory of the complex.
• Sky lounge. As always - excellent service! Special greetings to Yura the bartender for the right campari! Sorry for drinking all of it. I recommend trying pork kebab, chicken steak, Greek salad and Duchess salad. And what kind of dessert is “Brownie !!!!!
I'm not sure if this is an influence of my last year's post, regarding the music during the siesta, but the music during the day was really what we needed! ! Thank you! It really was a relaxation, yes under an excellent hookah, but under irrigation from the ceiling))))
• Lemon. That's where you need to go for the right first courses, so it's here! And chicken broth with quail eggs, and rustic soup with huge meatballs, and noodle soup - it's just a song!!!
• And one more thing - a special thank you for your pastries. Napoleonchiki and poppy seed buns - mmmm!!!
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SEA. As I wrote last year, you either have it or you don't. The sea was. Warm, gentle, transparent! There were no problems with sunbeds. Basically, there is nothing to add.
STAFF. Of course, these are all people. People who tried to make our stay as comfortable as possible. And for this, we bow to them and thank you very much!
Separately, I want to thank Alexander, who patiently answered all my questions by e-mail. Thanks to Tatyana at the reception for her smile and kindness. Thanks to Andrey, the foreman of taxi drivers, for always helping us with transfers, and we used it twice a day, and for taking care at the Simferopol railway station.
Thank you, Hellas, that you are on the South Coast. Look forward to visiting in 2014.