Almost like home...

Written: 22 january 2013
Travel time: 17 — 31 july 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 7.0
How to choose a hotel
It's simple - we went for the first time in a long time and for the sake of improving the health of a 4-year-old child, so everything was aimed only at a comfortable stay there with a small child. Rested from 17 to 31 July. I was guided by last year's reviews of other tourists and my personal impressions and feelings, and therefore I express my deep gratitude to the girl who gave a detailed report on her vacation in this hotel with a small child - it was mainly thanks to her accurate report that I finally decided on Vita Park ”and I don’t regret it a bit, because... the rest was a success!
About the hotel

Nice small (relatively) and cozy hotel. Rooms without unnecessary frills such as a refrigerator, but with air conditioning, although a refrigerator would not be superfluous for us personally - we brought a lot of medicines with us that needed to be stored in the refrigerator, and upon arrival home we had to throw them away : ( The room is clean and quite comfortable, I liked it furniture - quite thought out, roomy, but devoid of cuteness... The hotel area is clean, they constantly clean it, mow the grass, etc. There is a lot of greenery and old trees, which cannot be said about some hotels on the first line of the sea - from Jordana (or Georgiana ”) to Nona, everything is fine with this, because they are adjacent to the reserve, but the rest, especially those close to the main shopping street, are not very good, just a couple of seedy rose bushes and small trees, so keep that in mind. Located from the sea 10-15 minutes at a leisurely walk, which sometimes it was even useful to walk after a hearty lunch or breakfast We didn’t get along well... For the sake of interest, we somehow went to Kom on Monday evening, when the animation team had a day off. So there is just some kind of madhouse: crowds of people, noise-din. Although very interesting interior design, large pools. And “our” hotel is quieter, calmer, I would even say homely : ) Somehow they hung out near the “Mura”, and it was during dinner - everything was also somehow quiet, peaceful, not stressful.
Cleaning was every day, tip left constantly. Once there was no small money, I left 2 leva - so they took it as a signal for action and changed both the bed and the towels : ) There was a remark about the iron that they couldn’t find it. The iron was always enough for me and at any time. True, they have 2 of them, and one is normal, and the second is like that... Well, the main thing with him is just not to use a steamer so as not to spoil the clothes; )
Eating and drinking
The dining room is a couple of minutes from the hotel. Actually, this is a type of restaurant, but my husband and I just called it that - a dining room, because from the restaurant there are only waiters and the presence of booze.

Honestly and frankly, given the "ultra all inclusive" I wanted something more and interesting. By the end of the holiday, my husband was already taking over his head from the thought that I had to go to the dining room, because I had no idea what to feed the baby - she turned out to be very picky about their food. The remarks about the monotonous breakfast are still relevant from my side - eggs, a couple of salads like "pick, make and season yourself", pancakes, scrambled eggs and a couple of types of sausages or sausages. It seems nothing, but most of the sausages and sausages were not the most edible - live soybeans. They didn't take pancakes often, because they came when there were very queues for them. There were also dry cereals for children. Lunch and dinner were already more interesting, more choice. There were lines, but... I always waited a bit, came up in 3-4 minutes and could definitely take the meat that was cooked on the grill without a queue. Something, but the meat was the most delicious they had, the cooks there cooked it well. Those. pork, lamb, veal, chicken have always been a win-win tasty option. The loss was pasta and potatoes. It's something inedible. Macaroni - okay, but potatoes! How can you ruin a potato? We need to bring them our Belarusian varieties, so that at least they feel the taste : ) There were 4 times fried squids during our stay, twice mussels. Oh, and fish! Their mackerel is something. I have never eaten such mackerel with us - it is fatty, tasty, juicy... This is what it means to live near the sea... There were always two types of soups for lunch and dinner - some are generally inedible, many are very tasty... Well, cucumbers, tomatoes, onions , asparagus beans, cheeses and cheese, olives, there was always some kind of porridge - rice, semolina, pearl barley... Two types of white and two types of red wine on tap - you come and pour it from a barrel. There were often queues at the bar, so their service was rarely used. There was also a mini-pizzeria, but we did not try it - there was still the same soy sausage, and I personally did not see the point of taking it on pizza. And yes, everything that is made from minced meat - cabbage rolls, meatballs, sausage - is very soy, almost only soy, which did not give them a taste. Once I took, like, their signature “shopska salad” - terrible muck, another time for the sake of interest - it was delicious... Why so - I didn’t understand... And yes, juice! Apple! They have it really super-duper, with pulp, not sour and not sweet. There was also something like "Jupi" divorced. I took it a couple of times - and that’s all, thanks, we can drink chemistry at home, although we won’t use this at home any more : ) Several coffee machines in the dining room, I always took coffee with milk, I liked it. They also have delicious teas. Fruits were always pretty monotonous - at the beginning of our visit there were very tasty apricots, then there were not the most delicious peaches and normal nectarines, bananas, oranges, grapefruits, melon and watermelon were several times. Moreover, the melon is not quite familiar to us, some kind of melon they have there is different...
Drinking... Well, my husband only drank beer and wine at lunch or dinner, sometimes he took a gin and tonic. I drank mostly : ) Cocktails. Well, once in a while, of course, it didn’t happen, but my husband found a common language with one barmaid from a snack bar, he came up and asked me to cook something for the girl to her taste, and it was always great! At the end we even gave her a tip for good work : ) Well, Spry, Cola and Fanta. Only everything was somehow not quite real or something, as my husband laughed: “What, for ultra all inclusive, do you want to not be diluted yet? ” Those. in my homeland, from such an amount of drunk alcohol, I would have already rolled around in slums, but here... Even that rarely gave me a head.
Separately, I would like to say about the cuisine on the beach in Havana. I always liked everything there. Compared to poolside snack bar pizza, their pizza is a masterpiece. Sausages were with real minced meat, not soy. There was always enough. Ice cream… Well, there were several varieties, but… I personally liked only banana, everything else is not really mine.
Sea and beach

There are buses from the hotels to the beach - from "Ralitsa" and "Koma", and from "Koma" it always stood near our hotel, the schedule is at the reception. Therefore, I suspect that "Kom" has also joined the "Ralitsa" and "Vita-Park" and they have one owner. We always tried to go there (although we didn’t always succeed), but back on foot. And so twice a day. In the morning, the bus from Ralitsa stopped near our canteen, picked up those who wanted to, but there were always twice as many people who wanted to fit on the bus. Whoever wanted to try to squeeze in, but we always calmly walked to our hotel and got into a comfortable tourist bus, almost free, "Komovsky". The bus from "Ralitsa" was taken only after 4 o'clock, and so it is always packed for some reason, and for some reason "Komovsky" is always, if not half empty, then quite free. But again, I’ll say that if you are not with children, the bus is not so important, you can either knock around for 3-4 minutes, or you can walk like white people and get some fresh air.
There are many sunbeds and umbrellas, but there were not enough umbrellas. True, this happened only on weekends, when a lot of Bulgarians themselves came, and they simply took their places. Sometimes their rescuers drove them, but I saw it only once in all the time.
The biggest disappointment is, alas, the sea. It turned out to be restless. Very restless. When my husband asked, the lifeguard said that the sea would almost always be like this now, because some kind of season changes there. And indeed. The calm sea was only two days before our departure. During these two days the sea was so clear, the water was crystal blue like in a swimming pool. And since the sea was restless, the water was not the cleanest. The husband and daughter were once covered so that the child was afraid of the waves and did not particularly climb into the sea until the end of the trip. Once I was covered so that I lost my glasses (regular). As the optician later said, "these days the sea is working for us. " There were so many like me. Honestly, I expected the beach to be cleaner, since it supposedly had to be sieved every day through some kind of aggregate. And he was still dirty. Probably, it's all about culture, but still... About 15 years ago, the beach near Odessa was even cleaner than here.
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