коротко об отеле briefly about the hotel

We arrived at the hotel in the evening, waited for check-in for two hours (the hotel staff slowed down, to put it mildly) until I gave up on everything, took the key to the room, suitcases and went to look for a room. I found it pretty quickly, since the room was not far from the main building, well, I think I’ll finally change clothes, take a shower, but it wasn’t there, there was no electricity in the room. I took my wife by the arm of a five-year-old child in our arms, we are going to settle in the second round. We explain at the reception that we checked in, we found the room ourselves, but there is no light in the room, the receptionist looked at us as if we were African natives who saw a stapler for the first time, they say don’t fool your head, learn how to use the key card, insert her card into the hole and hallelujah light . We explain that although we are not from such a “developed” country as Greece, we can get into the hole with a card. To our requests, with irony on his face, they give us a Russian-speaking Mikhail (in fairness, Mikhail is not a bad guy, and if it’s not easy to bring you to this hotel, contact him, he will always help) to teach us how to use a magic card. Having opened the door of the apartments, Mikhail takes out the key and, with a gesture of a fakir, inserts it into the card reader, at this moment the spotlights should have flashed, the music should have started playing and crackers were loudly showering us with tinsel...... but nothing happened and the face of our guide became sad and at the same time thoughtful. Mikhail called the reception and said that there was still no electricity and that an electrician was needed, the next hour “flew” while talking with Misha while waiting for an electrician. Finally, the long-awaited electrician appeared, with the plasticity of a panther, he walked around the room, looked into the shield, went to the card reader, inserted the card into the slot and with an expression on his face “they say, it’s not for nothing that I studied electric fur for five years” with all his might hit the device with his fist. Electric lamps of a hundred candles flared up brightly and everyone felt a little warmer and more joyful in their souls, and in my soul under jets of warm water.
The next day, at a meeting with a representative of the tour operator, 25-30 people from those who settled yesterday took part, and it turned out that everyone had problems with settling in, but we were more lucky, we had a good room with a wonderful view of the sea and we did not have to run to change rooms throughout the hotel. The conversation was standard they say buy our elephants, our elephants are the best (I'm talking about excursions, car rental, etc. ). Speaking of car rental, I ordered a car from a girl from a travel agency, paid 120 euros for a Peugeot 308,
And the girl took the money and forgot to tell us about the car that she was booked, and we got a wonderful Opel Corsa car with a robotic box that refused to drive along the not-so-wonderful roads of Crete. So if you decide to take a car not far away ten minutes walk, in the opposite direction from Sissi there is the village of Milatos, cars are half cheaper and much better. In the same village there are a lot of taverns, I recommend the Panorama tavern, the Russian-language menu and everything is very tasty.

If you expect Turkish 5 stars, you will be disappointed, the food is not varied, there is no animation for children or adults, cleaning of the territory and cleaning of the pools takes place before your eyes. When the vacationers are located on the sun loungers around the pool, the children, escaping from the hands of their parents, jump into the water, a man appears with a long handle of a water vacuum cleaner and blue hoses and begins his monotonous work. Most of all, this pleases the younger generation, they dive under the hoses and it amuses them a lot, and the parents, in the stance of a cop ready to jump, look to see if their child is tangled in the hoses. There is also a person in charge of the sunbeds, so exactly at 17-00 he begins to fold the umbrellas and move the sunbeds to their places along with the rest, well, what if he has the same working day as ours. Women washing steps and paths, exactly when everyone goes to breakfast, don’t stand on ceremony, pour water from a hose and wave brushes, ignoring passers-by, noisily discussing the next episode of the series in an incomprehensible language.
In general, the movie character known to us was wrong, who claimed that Greece has everything. Summing up, the positive aspects of the hotel are a large beautiful area, good rooms (I judge by my number), a beautiful warm sea, food, although not varied, but tasty, differs from Turkish with the same taste of all dishes, with the exception of Turkish sweets in Greece they don’t know how to cook them .
Cons - sun-weary personnel, and problems arising from this.
But if you decide to go to Crete, relax and have fun, accept it as it is, with a high price (price-quality), with inhibited residents, with “unobtrusive service” but with beautiful nature and warm weather, and then It will make you feel good about your vacation.