"rest" in Fort Knox

Written: 14 september 2009
Travel time: 5 — 12 september 2009
Your rating of this hotel:
2.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 4.0
Amenities: 3.0
I really wanted to share our unsuccessful vacations in Crimea with my husband (for the first time in seven years of annual trips there). Or rather, not the whole vacation was bad, the first week we had was excellent in Sevastopol (I don’t write the hotel so that the post is not considered advertising). We were so relaxed there from the sincerity of everything that was happening that we went to the second week of vacation in Feodosia in the finest mood. But apparently happiness does not happen much. At the reception, a surprise awaited us in the form of the fact that the room we had chosen a month earlier (with a paid reservation) was occupied. Like they have a wedding here and in general they booked our room earlier than we did (charmingly true? We were assured by phone that the room was free for the dates we needed), so we will have to change for a day in a room overlooking the garbage. In response to my words that this is not how things are done, I was told that I should not spoil my entire vacation because of one day, and if something does not suit me, then the hotel staff cannot help me. I asked why they couldn’t call us and warn us, because they had our phone, the administrator simply looked away. As a result, he broke down a little more for decency and said that they have another free room with a sea view, but we have to wait for the cleaning to be done there. I did not want to continue to swear further, although all these movements from room to room absolutely did not please me. I just can’t understand why it was impossible to accommodate the newlyweds in this free room for one day, and not us?
Then we went to a cafe at this hotel. The food there is disgusting, for my not the most demanding taste. Borscht even looked like slop, and the tequila sunrise cocktail turned out to be vodka with orange juice. They left it all on the table, paid and left, they didn’t eat there anymore.
A little about the rooms. The air conditioners seem to be old, but the smell comes from them so that we preferred to sleep with an open balcony. Another fun feature is the lighting. There are no ceiling lights. There are fluorescent lamps attached to the walls under the ceiling, which, if turned off with a conventional switch, blink all night. It turns out that there is also a button on the lamp itself, and if you also press it, then only then the lamp turns off completely, so our nightly acrobatic etudes have returned to normal (given that for some reason the table and chairs stated in the description were removed from our room ).

Mosquitoes were also very annoying. And they flew not from the street, but from the ventilation hole in the bathroom.
It seems like all the little things, but to be honest, it all strained quite a lot.
A day before departure, in their closed paid parking lot, our car was blocked by some kind of seven, about which no one knew how it got there and where to look for its owner. We have a departure on Saturday at six in the morning, and at eight in the evening the day before the problem was not resolved. In the end, of course, everything was resolved, but I had to be nervous.
The last straw was the Friday banquet of some auditors in a cafe on the first floor. It was tin! With the windows closed and the TV turned off at almost full volume, we still heard them. They dispersed at two in the morning, and at five we get up and drive 1.500 km.
I admit that perhaps the hotel is not so bad, but everything turned out so unsuccessfully for us. But it's still sad when the owners are focused only on making a profit and sneeze at everything else (and this feeling did not leave during the whole week spent there). In general, I won’t come to Fort Knox again and I won’t advise my friends, there are many decent boarding houses in Feodosia and even though they don’t have their own beach, this is not the most important thing.
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