Cuba is super, the hotel is terrible

Written: 17 march 2007
Travel time: 17 — 24 march 2003
Your rating of this hotel:
1.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 3.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 1.0
Amenities: 8.0
I really don't want anyone to end up like us.
Choose another hotel. The rooms are disgusting. The floors are swept every few days. Towels are yellow (when clean), they are also not changed often. Of course, swans are rolled out of them, straight from the dirty ones and left in you on the bed, more like a mockery than a service. It’s easier to knock out the rug by the bed yourself than to wait for the maid to do it. There is mold on the seams of the tiles in the bathroom, it doesn’t even occur to anyone to wash it off. But if you do not turn on the air conditioner, then you can hunt Cuban cockroaches. They stomp when they run (very big ones).
Nutrition. The restaurant is small, the hotel is big. When the table is vacated, the waiter does not remove it until he is reminded that this must be done. There is socialism in Cuba in general, therefore - "the economy must be economical. " Yesterday's cut on the buffet is quite a common thing. The quality of cooking is according to the principle, so long as they do not get poisoned. You have to salt everything yourself. At the distribution of a mess, serving utensils, one for several dishes. The restaurant hall is not ventilated and the air conditioners are not turned on, respectively, it is stuffy in the hall and the smell, God forbid. If only the windows were open. On "tepani" (it stands in the hall) they can easily fry chicken, meatballs and fish at the same time. It also doesn't get washed very often. When you take "clean" plates, you need to see if there are fragments of food left on them from the last meal, this is also in the order of things. The tablecloth filled with wine is turned over so that the stain is on the edge.

The peso left on the table is valid once, for tomorrow the same waiter will not pay any attention to you if there is not another peso.
Bars. Plastic dishes are everywhere, glass is only in the lobby bar, when there are not many people. And when there is also a lot of plastic, it is too lazy to wash. In principle, plastic is more hygienic with their quality of washing. Only plastic cups are small and if you want to drink beer, you need to take five of them at once, it’s very uncomfortable to wear. Recipes of all cocktails are maximally simplified. Therefore, if you want to taste Cuban cocktails, it is better to do it in the city and for money, they differ very much. If you speak Spanish, then you are very lucky. All that you will ask the staff will have to be repeated only twice. They always hope that you will think that you are not understood and leave them alone.
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