I am writing a review for those who have not yet decided, I really hope it will help in the choice. Vacation once or twice a year can not be spoiled. Rested there with my wife from February 14 to February 25.2012. After reading the previous reviews, we were ready for anything, but staying at this hotel struck our imagination. If you want to travel by "time machine" - you are here. For minor domestic inconveniences (cockroaches, lack of hot water, infrequent change of linen and towels, etc. ) we were ready to close our eyes - 2 stars. I had to close my eyes to everything. Who lived in the USSR is a hostel. For a small fee, we got a room on the second floor with a balcony right on the ocean, listened to the surf for 11 nights. I just wanted to lie on the beach and go on excursions.
1. The beach is a garbage can. You will lie on the beach, the surface of which consists of coarse gray sand, plastic cups, straws, butts of cigarettes and cigars, bottles and ocean debris (algae, dead fish, etc. ). Every morning the tractor mixes it all up with a rake. Sunbeds are not enough, but they are free. There is a hotel employee and a lifeguard on the beach, whose main task is to sell you cigars and coconuts, they have a working day until 17-00, after that the sunbeds are collected and being on the shore is your personal responsibility. Sick bald dogs are constantly present there, quarrels occur between them, they shit on sunbeds and sand. If you are not an animal lover, it will really strain and spoil your mood. According to UNESCO, this has nothing to do with the beaches of Varadero, which are among the five best in the world. The best beaches in the world are located at the end of the spit, after the city of Varadero, look at the map. There are 4.5* hotels. Within Varadero, the beaches are better than here: whiter and finer sand, a more gentle entrance to the ocean, less garbage (but it is also there).
The kitchen in the hotel was normal, as in the Soviet dining room, if something ended, they brought more. There was always meat and fish, fruits. A separate song is BAKERY. The taste is familiar from childhood (natural products), it did not differ in variety, but it was impossible not to eat it.
2. Excursions were ordered from the guide of the state company H-TUR, the cost of all excursions for two is 610 Euros:
1. Havana, Hemingway Museum, tobacco factory. I advise you to visit only not as part of a large group, we got a terrible guide. The brightest spot was the tobacco factory, on Thursday they have culture day, it's something. Now a market for private guide services is developing there, negotiate with them cheaper and see what interests you. When you get to tourist places, be prepared that the citizens of victorious socialism will fly at you in the form of mummers, crooked, oblique, mothers with children, artists and will beg for money.
2. Fishing - a pleasant boat trip on a well-equipped boat. The boat is rented from 9 am to 2 pm. One tuna weighing 1.2-1.5 kg was caught. The task of the team is to sell lunch, the result of fishing is on the drum. But we must pay tribute to the tuna was cooked amazingly.
3. Cayo Largo. Islands in the Caribbean. Flight on the ancient AN-18 is a separate adventure. On the spot as in the Bounty advertisement. There was a guide Carlos from the state company. The guide is great, he graduated from a university in the USSR in the 90s, a great storyteller. E
A trip to this hotel can only be advised to a super ascetic lover of spearfishing, if you don’t belong to them, look for something else.
1. The beach is a garbage can. You will lie on the beach, the surface of which consists of coarse gray sand, plastic cups, straws, butts of cigarettes and cigars, bottles and ocean debris (algae, dead fish, etc. ). Every morning the tractor mixes it all up with a rake. Sunbeds are not enough, but they are free. There is a hotel employee and a lifeguard on the beach, whose main task is to sell you cigars and coconuts, they have a working day until 17-00, after that the sunbeds are collected and being on the shore is your personal responsibility. Sick bald dogs are constantly present there, quarrels occur between them, they shit on sunbeds and sand. If you are not an animal lover, it will really strain and spoil your mood. According to UNESCO, this has nothing to do with the beaches of Varadero, which are among the five best in the world. The best beaches in the world are located at the end of the spit, after the city of Varadero, look at the map. There are 4.5* hotels. Within Varadero, the beaches are better than here: whiter and finer sand, a more gentle entrance to the ocean, less garbage (but it is also there).
The kitchen in the hotel was normal, as in the Soviet dining room, if something ended, they brought more. There was always meat and fish, fruits. A separate song is BAKERY. The taste is familiar from childhood (natural products), it did not differ in variety, but it was impossible not to eat it.
2. Excursions were ordered from the guide of the state company H-TUR, the cost of all excursions for two is 610 Euros:
1. Havana, Hemingway Museum, tobacco factory. I advise you to visit only not as part of a large group, we got a terrible guide. The brightest spot was the tobacco factory, on Thursday they have culture day, it's something. Now a market for private guide services is developing there, negotiate with them cheaper and see what interests you. When you get to tourist places, be prepared that the citizens of victorious socialism will fly at you in the form of mummers, crooked, oblique, mothers with children, artists and will beg for money.
2. Fishing - a pleasant boat trip on a well-equipped boat. The boat is rented from 9 am to 2 pm. One tuna weighing 1.2-1.5 kg was caught. The task of the team is to sell lunch, the result of fishing is on the drum. But we must pay tribute to the tuna was cooked amazingly.
3. Cayo Largo. Islands in the Caribbean. Flight on the ancient AN-18 is a separate adventure. On the spot as in the Bounty advertisement. There was a guide Carlos from the state company. The guide is great, he graduated from a university in the USSR in the 90s, a great storyteller. E
A trip to this hotel can only be advised to a super ascetic lover of spearfishing, if you don’t belong to them, look for something else.
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