Pretty decent hotel

Written: 20 august 2010
Travel time: 23 july — 5 august 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 7.0
The hotel is large, almost huge. Located in the city of Lloret de Mar (it is spelled with two l) There are elevators, but they do not go very fast. Long corridors like in a hostel. The rooms are quite decent although for 4 stars they could be more luxurious. There is a telephone, air conditioning, bathroom, TV on which it seems even catches 1 Russian-language channel, a balcony. There is a cafe at the hotel, swimming pools for adults and children, by the way, for an adult, the depth changes from one end to the other, at the deepest edge, if my memory serves me right, 2.5 meters, the water is really overly chlorinated, but this is in all such hotels, apparently they have sanitary standards very tough. I don’t remember about umbrellas, but sunbeds are free. Meals at the hotel restaurant. At lunch and dinner, they don’t give you to drink, you have to buy. But you can scoop out the brine from the sauerkraut that is always served there or drink soup (although it is thick and although you can eat it, the smell is not the best,
besides, there is always an open refrigerator with small boxes of ice cream, but you can take these boxes as much as you like. Ice cream flavors are regularly changed about once every 2 days. For the rest, there are no complaints about food. The food is delicious and to the point of death. In addition to bread, they give pizza, well-prepared dishes of meat, chicken, fish, gave and oysters, there are always different salads. Good desserts and pastries. Although you usually overeat so much, with main dishes (I want a little of each, and the choice is not small) that tea and desserts no longer climb. Toadies quickly change dirty dishes and bring food if a dish is over, the restaurant is spacious so there is enough space for everyone. At the reception they give out something like a pass; it must be presented to go to the dining room. Passes are different depending on the type of food. If only breakfasts, then a piece of paper, if also dinners, then a plastic card.
The resort is truly international (I will describe in more detail when I describe the city itself), so there is no predominance of citizens of any one country (unlike the same Turkey). The hotel has a left-luggage office, vending machines with soft drinks and sandwiches, a waiting room where large groups of tourists can be accommodated on soft sofas and armchairs, and a souvenir shop. At the entrance there are 2 computers with network access. Access is time-based, in order to make it work, you need to throw euro coins into a special slot like in a vending machine, in principle, not expensive, sort of like 2 euros for half an hour, but I can’t say for sure, I don’t remember. The location of the hotel is bad. Far from the sea and to the club street too. But the town itself is not big, everything is nearby. Supermarket grocery from the hotel 8 minutes walk. Now the negative side of the hotel. Keys are issued one per room. Although it seems like you can ask for a second one, but I'm not sure.

Another negative feature at the reception, no one understands Russian. Safes in the rooms are very expensive (it seems 20 euros for 2-3 days), so they chipped in from several rooms to one safe where they put passports and valuables. According to the guide, it is impossible not to take a safe, since the Spaniards, like Caucasians or gypsies, are prone to criminality. They didn’t seem to steal anything from the royals, but incidents happened in other hotels. But this is not the most criminal region. Again, according to the guide, there are a lot of pickpockets, which is why it is strongly recommended to leave passports in safes, and for women to abandon the stupid habit of carrying wallets in purses and put them in their pockets during their stay in Spain. There are no idiots on motorcycles tearing out handbags, but they can cut or pull something out of the bag. Well, the bastards do not want to work, so they go to steal.
10 minutes walk from the hotel there is a street with nightclubs and souvenir shops. She leads to the beach. In general, in Lloret de Mar there are 2 beaches, one is closer to the hotel (there is no direct road, you have to go around all sorts of villas, a man will reach in 10 minutes, a woman or a child in 15), the second is further away behind this very club street. By the way, the beaches are small pebbles. That is, they are covered with small pebbles that strive to get into shoes. I did not see nudists there, but women often sunbathe with open breasts. There are no changing cabins, but fresh showers and toilets are available. By the way, everywhere in Europe toilets are not divided into 2 like ours, but into 3 compartments. In addition to men's and women's, there is also a department for wheelchair users. The club street is called differently, but I did not ask for the name. By the way, be sure to remember the name of the hotel, otherwise I forgot what it was called on the first evening, but I still didn’t remember the road. If you go overboard with cocktails in clubs,
then there will also be problems how to remember where to go. I was returning from the club street, and only Royal came up in my memory. I ask passers-by, they all point to me at the Royal Hotel-Casino located right there. It is easy to remember how in the old song there are the words "old piano", here it sounds about the same only the order of the words is different, first the piano, and then the old one. There are enough clubs in the street. More than a dozen. It makes no sense to go before 10 at night, people have not yet pulled themselves up. It is on this street that the international essence of the resort is manifested. The street is packed with companies and single young people from all over the world. Dozens of languages ​ ​ and nationalities, an atmosphere of fun, youth, enthusiasm and courage. Barkers stand next to each club and hand out flyers for entry. The usual practice is to pay an entrance fee (between 5 and 20 euros) and receive a check or a card. For her in the club you can get one cocktail in the bar.
All clubs arrange a striptease at 2-3 am to attract visitors. There is also a Russian club (it is one of the most expensive ones) called the Gala USSR, mainly Russian-speaking tourists gather there and the staff is partially Russian or speaks Russian. The club is really good and after midnight people are crowded decently. The entrance is 20 euros, but they give a card on which you can walk for free for a week (I wonder how they know that the week is over, they don’t make any marks on the map) and if not one, then they give a discount of 5 euros for each person. Since the club is a little expensive, the visitors start to catch up somewhere from half past eleven. There are spetszazyvaly there. Several beautiful young Russian girls. They go out to the dance floor (the dance floor is relatively small like the club located in the basement), to special platforms and dance there. At what they do it very professionally, beautifully. They are very flexible, young and graceful. But they're at work

so you can't get to know them or talk to them. After dancing a little, they go out into the street and start pestering male tourists (there are a lot of young guys there) explaining that we are Russian girls, dancing in this club and inviting you to watch us.
If you prefer a more spacious room and cheaper, then there is a good two-story ZOO club. The problem with the street is the blacks who stand on it. No, if these blacks were just standing there, then there would be no complaints against them, I'm not a racist. The problem is that this is a local version of the gypsies. They try to give tourists beads or watches (whether mechanical or electro-mechanical, in short with arrows, not numbers) and if you show interest, then it’s hard to get rid of until you buy something. They also offer drugs, but of course from under the floor and do not bother with it, since police patrols regularly appear on the street, although rarely,
Yes, and club bouncers in 2 steps. In general, in different EU countries, most often it is Negroes who are engaged in both legal and illegal street trading. Actually, apart from casinos, beaches, shops and clubs in Lloret de Mar, I did not see anything interesting. Come there for a couple of weeks if you want to party at night in clubs, and during the day bask in the sun on the beach or by the pool. For a longer period there is nothing to do there.
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