Our subjective view of Mar Le Mar

Written: 30 august 2011
Travel time: 17 — 27 august 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
Rest in the club Mar Le Mar was chosen on the Internet. Looking for a quiet relaxing holiday. The main selection criteria were: decent rooms, private beach, swimming pool, car parking. We looked at many options, even booked a few. After reading a lot of all kinds of reviews, I outweighed Mar Le Mar: there were practically no bad reviews, I liked the site, I was also bribed by the fact that the hotel is completely new, the club staff communicate "live" (! ): monitor and respond to all reviews on the Internet and on the site
Now to the point. We lived in the first cottage in a comfort room. Spacious room, very spacious bathroom and very spacious balcony with a table and chairs. The room is clean and, in my opinion, has everything you need. Change of towels every day. Change of bed linen every three days. Cleaning every day. When we checked in, we were asked when it would be convenient for us to have the room cleaned. We indicated the time, and always at this time the maids came to clean the room.
The maids changed (we understood that they work in shifts). The quality of cleaning remained at a good level. I didn't have to ask to remove or change the linen.

Of course, if you are sitting in the room, then they will not come into the room and clean it up. They will be somewhere nearby to wash something (corridor, terrace, tiles around the cottage, etc. ). Leave and start cleaning up. The water is hot and cold all the time (which is a definite plus for the Crimea! ). The electric clothes dryer in the bathroom worked, it really helped out, because at night the laundry on the balcony could not dry.
The territory of the hotel, as already mentioned, is very clean and tidy, the hotel employees are constantly sweeping and even washing the tile paths. The pine forest saves a lot from the heat. You go to the beach - it's hot. Returning to the territory - coolness! We have already written about protein. Very funny.
Really very friendly staff (with whom I had a chance to communicate). We did not observe the gloomy faces of the staff.
Passing by, be sure to greet vacationers. Unrealistically attentive, but not intrusive and efficient waitress girls. On the last or penultimate day of rest, it so happened that for five minutes none of the waiters paid attention to us, so we were even "offended", that's how we were "spoiled" with attention.
On the beach, young guys will definitely bring sunbeds, put them where you ask, bring a table and an umbrella. Waitress girls on the beach and in the pool will come up and ask if you want to order something. If ordered, they will bring. Very unobtrusive, which is certainly captivating.
The hotel manager is indeed present at the restaurant almost every evening. Sitting at a table at the entrance to the restaurant.
The fact that the manager is constantly available is respectful. You can always come up, ask something, ask to solve some problems that have arisen.

Nutrition. Breakfast is plentiful but always the same.
I can't say it's bad. I'm just stating a fact. We have opinions in the family
split up for breakfast. Daughter (18 years old) said that it is very good for her that the dishes for breakfast are always the same, she likes it so much.
I would like some variety. Breakfast: several types of meat and cheese cuts, vegetables, scrambled eggs, scrambled eggs, bacon, sausages, sausages, milk porridge (rice, semolina, oatmeal), buckwheat, curd mass, butter, milk and dairy products, juices, honey, jam, pastries, tea, coffee, wine, and something must be cooked "live": scrambled eggs with different fillings or pancakes, or pancakes.

Lunch and dinner are more varied, just as plentiful: delicious and unusual salads, several (at least three) types of meat and fish hot and side dishes, two types of soup, a children's hot table, meat (+ two types of fat) sliced, almost always watermelon or melon, fruits (apples, peaches, grapes), pastries, tea, compotes.
No queues at the buffet, at most you can wait until one person in front of you fills his plate.

Sufficiently large and clean swimming pool for adults and children's pool. There is also a children's pool with sea water on the beach.
I can’t objectively evaluate children’s animation, because they watched it only sometimes from the side. I liked the swimming coach, works well with children. In the morning on the beach for the children there was a fun exercise to the music, then the children on the beach were also occupied with some kind of games, drawing. In the evening, discos and karaoke were watched in the children's room. The children's room seemed to be open all day long.
There is no adult animation, but, in fact, no one promised it.

Having read that at check-out the rooms are accepted according to the inventory (especially since we did not accept the number from anyone, and there is no inventory in the room), we tensed a little before leaving. I didn’t want any misunderstandings at the end of the holiday and a bad mood on the road.
They even came to the reception to ask how to rent a room. We were told that when we got ready, we should come with the keys to the reception, we don’t need to look for a maid, they will contact her themselves, she will check everything. When leaving, it turned out that our maid (by the way, a very pleasant and pretty young girl) was cleaning the next room. Noticing that we were leaving, she asked to leave her keys, but we said that we need to bring the keys to
reception. We asked her to check the room right away. It took her less than a minute, we closed the room and left. Handed over the keys, saying that our maid had already checked everything. All. We got into the car, the gates opened, we moved home. They also joked that everything went without "calling the police and the consul" : ))

Cons of the hotel (or rather our comments! , they did not interfere with our rest, but I just want there to be fewer such minor flaws! : )) :

The shower in the room was also leaking. There was a small puddle in the corner.
They told the maid, she reacted immediately, invited a plumber, but the leak could not be fixed. Apparently, this is some kind of incurable disease of showers : )
The toilet near the pool should be cleaned more often. Untidy and no soap.
Music on the beach and by the pool - club "swotting" - sometimes annoying.
The coffee at the buffet is a real minus! Only in the morning and instant Nescafe, I guess. And only this one. Although in the sample menu on the site natural coffee was declared in individual coffee pots. But this is a myth. Ordered coffee at the bar (coffee machine or Turkish).
Wine buffet only in the morning for breakfast. Strange logic. When I asked her to explain, they explained it this way: "Only in the morning and only dry wine is good for digestion. " Like this. Wine was ordered at the bar.
At breakfast, the chefs who prepared hot dishes right on the buffet did not start working from the beginning of breakfast, they were always late,
and since we had breakfast early, we almost never got to try these dishes. For lunch, sometimes there were not enough plates for soup.
Very noisy hotel neighbors in the evenings and at night - on the one hand a children's camp, on the other - a boarding house. Discotheques can rattle until 2 am. Falling asleep with an open balcony is unrealistic. The balcony was closed in the evening, at night one of us got up and opened the balcony, because we don’t like to sleep with air conditioning. Maybe such audibility was only in the area of ​ ​ ​ ​ the first cottage, I don’t know how the rest of the vacationers slept.
And the saddest thing is that the sea disappointed, that, for which, in general, we went. Poor entrance to the sea, the sea is muddy, constantly stormy, weak in the morning,
after lunch, a lot. The last two days the sea has calmed down, but the water has become 16 degrees! It was strange to see in sunny weather and completely
calm sea completely empty beach. Everyone preferred the pool.

We stubbornly every day in the morning were on the beach, "broke" only on the last day.

Let me summarize what has been written: we liked our stay at the hotel, we were looking for a quiet, calm and comfortable stay, it turned out just like that. We swam, sunbathed for our own pleasure, ate delicious food, drank Crimean wine, ate the most delicious juicy and sweet peaches and grapes that we bought directly from the fields (we were in a car and went out for fruit and wine)
lived in decent conditions, always positive, thanks to the Internet they were "in touch". And the owners and staff of the hotel created this holiday for us, for which we thank them. We wish the hotel to keep up, not to lower the bar and work on the mistakes!
I would be glad if the review is useful to someone. I will be sure to answer anyone who has questions.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original