Is it worth it?

Written: 4 august 2013
Travel time: 1 — 8 july 2013
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:
Rooms: 3.0
Service: 2.0
Cleanliness: 2.0
Food: 4.0
Amenities: 3.0
We, two adults with a child, decided to spend our vacation in Gagra, chose this hotel simply through the Internet according to the description. We chose a three-room suite, spacious, with air conditioning, a TV, a refrigerator, etc. , the cost of 1 day was 5100 rubles. But what we ended up getting for the money left us despondent:
1) The information about the hotel says that it is located 200 meters from the sea. Yes, it is, but the distance is calculated in a straight line, i. e. if only head over heels from the mountain, but in fact you need to walk 200 meters to the elevator and then the same amount from there, this is at best.
2) The room is huge, yes, but this is perhaps its only plus! The condition is very deplorable. A persistent smell of dampness and mustiness, old furniture left over from the times of the USSR and never repaired, mattresses from the same time, a leaking toilet; broken glass (that and look, the window will slam from the draft, and the glass will begin to crumble into fragments); cracked frames (i. e. sound transmission is such that it is simply unrealistic to fall asleep before 00:00 - music is loudly yelling on the beach, local performers are bawling songs, there is a disco); TV - 3 channels, working with varying degrees of success (and the weather is such that it can rain for half a day, there is simply nothing to do there at all, naturally there is no animation in the hotel); room service is generally a song, cleaning consisted only of taking out the garbage once a day, no change of bed linen, towels, carpets everywhere that no one vacuums;

3) Nutrition. I didn't think it was even possible in today's world. Feeding level below the school canteen, no choice - what they gave you eat, and it can be liver cutlets with dry rice / buckwheat, and empty pasta, and pea soup... Allergic to some foods? Don't eat something? Vegetarian God forbid? Your problems! Everything is greasy and low-grade, in general, from the cheapest products. From drinks, compote and the cheapest tea brewed in a common large teapot.
4) All more or less nearby points of sale of products have such a meager assortment that there is no sense in them: ice cream, beer, sweets. The nearest grocery store is 30-40 minutes away, and you need to cross a busy street in the absence of a pedestrian crossing, since the underpass has been flooded with water for a long time, and no one uses it. The store itself, of course, is not a supermarket, but a classic general store, with a queue.
In a word, the ratio of price and quality of the services offered is so skewed that it makes no sense at all to travel to this country, to this hotel for sure.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original