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Written: 20 april 2018
Travel time: 15 — 25 july 2017
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rested with my wife in the second half of July 2017.
pros
Good location. Private beach 5 minutes walk from the hotel on a flat road (no ups and downs), well suited for older people. The path to the beach is through the road, but it is not heavily loaded with transport. Excellent and varied food. Despite the large number of people in the dining room, the staff coped quickly with cleaning the dishes and almost always easily found a free table. In the dining room, people behave culturally, including vacationing Arabs and immigrants from the former USSR, there were, of course, cases when they were “with their hands in food”, but this was rare in the performance of the French and Arab children. On the beach, mattresses are provided for the sunbeds - very comfortable and everything is free. There is a free bar on the beach, although it only has water, tea, coffee, cola, sprite and fanta. A very good pool complex, fresh and salt water, located on the inner territory of the hotel, animators organize aerobics on land and in water, volleyball in the water. There is no Islamic fanaticism in observing the norms of behavior and dress code (as, for example, in the UAE. Inexpensive and high-quality: olive oil, leather goods, creams and other body care products (especially if you do not buy the cheapest).

Minuses
The sea is dirty (garbage floats, a lot of mud, after a storm it lies on the shore and rots, but it floats off the coast), the water is unclear (maybe we got into such a period), the underwater world is practically not represented by anything. Places for swimming are fenced with squares, there is little space, especially where the legs do not reach the bottom. Water transport drives right behind these squares, we tried to swim early in the morning behind the buoys, until the engines began to roar and the propellers turned. During a storm, the square narrows, they can still put a motor boat inside this corral, and in order to swim, you need to go away from your beach and sunbed. In principle, this is typical for all of Yasmin, and if you love the beauty of the sea, you are not here (for example, compared to Cyprus - heaven and earth).
Local. There are many normal, pleasant, modest and well-mannered people among the locals, but there are enough assholes and, unfortunately, they are well spaced and remembered for a long time. In the hotel, many employees behave boorishly, often show their irritation, constantly wait for tips, allow themselves inappropriate humor and familiarity, they perceive a normal attitude towards themselves as a weakness, while they are absolutely not worried about the reputation of the hotel and the opinion of customers about it. For example, on the advice of our tour operator, they handed over the keys to the room at the front desk. The first few times everything was fine, but then, when you come to pick up the keys, the reception workers defiantly leave you to make phone calls, talk and laugh with their friends, you start telling them that they are busy, etc. Naturally, they stopped leaving the keys with them. This is not the only case, there is no desire to describe everything. The situation is similar outside the hotel. Basically, the cattle there is represented by merchants. Again, I would like to note that the fixed-price stores have normal and friendly staff, there are many adequate sellers at other outlets, but encounters with defective genetic material cannot be avoided. They may shout something insulting after you if you do not go to their store or refuse to communicate and buy fruit on the beach. Going into the store, and not immediately buying what the “wiser” advises you, you will very seriously offend the local resident, after which you will experience his anger and contempt. Moreover, which is typical almost everywhere: if you bought a product, then: “Putin is well done”, “Putin is my friend”, “I respect Putin”, if you didn’t buy the product: “Putin is a cannibal” and other disrespect. To the phrase that we are from Ukraine and, as it were, nothing to do with it, at first they exclaimed like: “Oh! Shevchenko! Klitschko! ”, but in the end everything ended up talking about Putin again according to the above described scheme.
The cleaners are unpredictable. Some women cleaned, changed the bed well and quickly, and the next day it was the complete opposite, in addition, they could take almost all the towels and not give out clean ones. They don’t know English (only native and native French), but when you explain with fingers and gestures, they nod that they understood everything and will fix everything now, you leave satisfied and satisfied that you were able to resolve the situation, and they immediately forget about communicating with you (time 3 so it was).
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