Calm rest

Written: 9 august 2011
Travel time: 29 july — 8 august 2011
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: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 8.0
The hotel is good. It is located in an area where there are only hotels, it takes about 30 minutes to walk to the center of the old city, but there are already restaurants and shops within a 10-15 minute walk. For children in the evening there is a small amusement park near the hotel.  In addition to the Bulgarians and Russians, there are many Germans and Englishmen in the hotel. Married couples without children or with children. There are almost no youth companies. In general, the hotel is quiet. The room is cozy with a large balcony. Park View, as we ordered - this is a fiction, since there is only on the street or on the sea. Most of the rooms (like ours with a sea view). The room has air conditioning and a TV with 1 (at least) Russian channel, which shows good entertaining films. Linen was changed 3 times in 11 days, towels - every other day. Room cleaning - no complaints. The restaurant is ordinary, with dishes, as in the whole city. Breakfast is included in the accommodation, and lunch and dinner are available for a fee with a 10% discount for guests. Safe at reception. The ladies at the reception are very friendly, if there is a problem, they help, they quickly solve it. The hotel has two small clean pools, we swam in them without consequences. There is a beach at the hotel, but we did not like to swim there because there are a lot of algae. We walked to Harmanite beach for 10 minutes - there is excellent swimming, this beach is better than the central one in Sozopol, Burgas and Nessebar: sand, almost no algae and normal depth - not shallow and not deep. Sozopol is a decent seaside town. It is presented as a city of intellectuals, therefore, the Bulgarian Koktebel. Every evening there are some performances: in the city center in the summer theater and on the main street, but we just walked. Probably, the main entertainment for everyone there is shopping: you can buy anything, including a lot of silver, prices are lower than in Moscow. By the way, about the currency. In Sozopol they exchange for levs and euros and dollars and rubles. (for 100 euros 191 levs, for 10 rubles - 0.43 stotinki) corresponds to the world market. (But thanks for the advice to change the euro: I did not lower the dollars and bought the euro). There, both in banks and in exchangers, they change honestly without a commission, but in Nessebar I watched the scene that you warned about:
the woman demanded to return the money, indignant that it was written - without a commission, but they took the commission, how it ended - she did not understand.
The only stress is the flight from Burgas. For Non Shengen area - a small hall full of people with huge queues. The secret is that you can go through passport control in the Shengen area, where everything is "for people": there is a lot of space, and the suitcase can be wrapped in film, and the queue for passport control is short.
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