Hotel with a negative aura

Written: 16 august 2022
Travel time: 26 june — 10 july 2022
Your rating of this hotel:
2.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 2.0
Cleanliness: 2.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 1.0
There were a lot of local tourists and guests from southern Europe in this hotel during the visit.
The atmosphere is oriental: bearded men wrapped in women's clothes. Lots of loud kids.
The hotel itself is old and rundown. There is almost no ventilation in the corridors, but synthetic carpets smell of something.
But the standard number - nothing, by the way. However, if we talk about a partial sea view, then in reality it is only starting from the 3rd floor.

There are flies in the dining room. Waiters are different. But the food is pretty good, oddly enough.

On the beach it was quite possible to find free sun loungers and the umbrellas themselves are quite comfortable.

We noticed that, with this contingent of tourists, there were a lot of smokers. Well, just a lot.


The hotel is located next to a small village. This is not quite Belek, as advertised, rather beyond Belek, where coniferous forests are already ending. The place is not very ennobled - right in front of the main entrance, behind the fence, some kind of building materials warehouse.
But Eastern tourists, it seems, are not very embarrassed.

We felt somewhat uncomfortable with the noise and different cultural environment, as we are more accustomed to the so-called "club" hotels with fewer rooms.
On the beach, they saw a couple of conflicts related specifically to differences in mentality - expressive teenagers hit one young Russian tourist in the head with a stone when she was swimming in the sea (accidentally, of course, but the woman was shocked).

After 2 weeks in Siam, there was some sediment left.
I would venture to suggest that the atmosphere of the hotel is affected by its small territory, which is too cramped for 500+ rooms and the number of people is well over 1000. If the territory were 2 times larger, there would be no crowding and friction of different cultures.
(For example, in the amphitheater, during performances, locals and their South European and Middle Eastern guests smoke heavily, the smoke hangs, children and non-smoking Europeans are right there.
And no one even thinks to ask permission to "smoke". The administration doesn't care either.

We consider this hotel an unfortunate choice and I cannot recommend it.
(I wrote a review about the hotel in Google, but for some reason their "algorithms" did not publish it, apparently due to inconsistencies with the rules)).
Translated automatically from Russian. View original