Total disappointment

Written: 28 january 2018
Travel time: 30 december 2017
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 3.0
Service: 3.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 3.0
Amenities: 3.0
We rested in Cuba at the Playa Caleta 4 * hotel from 12/30 to 01/10/2018.
Weather: extremely unstable, the North Atlantic cyclone brought strong waves, wind, cold to the region. Out of 10 days, only 3 days were swimming. In good weather, the ocean is great, despite the dirty beach and ragged, broken sunbeds.
Hotel: a seven-story barn, welded from steel beams, lined with blue panels. Of the 3 elevators, only 1 worked. At the hotel, we could only take beach towels with great difficulty and with the help of a hotel guide. For them, they take a deposit of 10 euros, and return the deposit in quasi-currency kukom (local currency for tourists), which then need to be exchanged only at a bank in the city of Varadero.
The menu in the restaurant is modest, and with the influx of local Cubans, you can generally be left without food, because. they collect restaurant food in containers for the future to feed their family.

Cuba has a card distribution system for basic foodstuffs, and there is nothing in stores except cigars, rum and liquor. Even fruits and vegetables are not freely available. The market is open for a couple of hours on Saturday only on 51st street in Varadero.
Our room on the 7th floor: great view of the ocean, but dim lighting, electrical outlets and table lamps not working, hair dryer and air conditioning did not work, mirror in the bathroom, moldy ceilings, only 1 NTV America channel worked with their annoying advertising about life in Chloride and endless series about Russian crime.
Wi-fi only by card (cost 1 euro per hour) and only at the reception, but it works for about 10-15 minutes, then it freezes.
Entertainment for tourists: poor animation in the evening, rum and alcoholic cocktails - without limitation. At the same time, it became a shame for our young compatriots drinking and screaming, accompanied by loud, annoying music.
At the airport, upon departure, prices in Dutyfree are set in euros, and you get the change in "cookies". You are offered here in the exchanger to change them for the euro!
That. the hotel is 2*. Cuba is a reserve of socialism, where poverty and wretchedness are manifested in everything. Pity this tropical country!
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