June 2009 Cyprus, Ayia Napa. The Dome Hotel.
Rested with family 2+2. I’ll immediately dot the I: we are a family of travelers, we have already been to many countries, we are looking for only positive impressions from the rest.
So let's go. Before the trip, I combed the entire Internet in search of a suitable vacation spot in Cyprus. The place got out very quickly - Ayia Napa. The best beaches (white sand), the cleanest sea (there are no ports nearby, as in Larnaca and Limassol), the least Russian (Limassol is a city of Russians, for the future). Already resting, we learned that it is even better to relax in Protaras, there are no Russians at all and the cleanest of all (given that the whole of Cyprus is a big garbage dump, the cleanliness of the resting place decides a lot). When choosing a hotel, I proceeded from the principle - fewer Russians (I thought that the service would be better), a quiet place (because the whole of Ayia Napa is a continuous disco), the presence of a good beach. Chose The Dome, 4 stars.
Hotel. The price is… big. We opted for all inclusive due to the presence of children. This year the hotel has changed the owner, so you can not read the reviews of previous years !! ! The hotel is old and shabby. The rooms have old furniture, gnawed carpets, and towels... oh, especially beach ones. The paint is peeling off the walls, the refrigerators are leaking (some had leaking plumbing), the ants walk around the room in orderly rows (advice - pour The Dome shampoo on their path, which will be put in the bath, my ants were gone by the evening! ). Room cleaning only upon arrival. Because during our stay in the room, in my opinion, they only folded (not changed) towels, and wiped the entrance with a rag. But the cleaning lady of our room drank our whiskey and ate my Swiss chocolate!! ! This was not the case with us anywhere! Going to the reception and complaining is useless. The hotel manager did not hear the Russian-speaking Lithuanian Iolanta at close range and only waved his hands (the girl was young, we felt sorry for her), and he pretended not to understand our English. But since I didn’t want to wag my nerves on vacation, then we even scored on my eaten chocolates (that is, we quickly ate and washed down the rest of the whiskey to the chagrin of the cleaning lady).
Pools. There are two in the hotel. They are not cleaned at all! When someone pooped into one pool, which is bigger (I’m not joking and not imagining it), an uncle came into the pool, kicked everyone out of the water and... poured a huge bucket of bleach, saying that after 2 hours you can swim again (in it none of the witnesses of this purge bathed for 2-3 days). In another pool, which is smaller, i. e. for children, leaving the beach, the locals washed themselves and caressed their clothes (we were told that they had a problem with water and this is normal! ). Oil painting: Saturday-Sunday, all foreigners with children stand around the pool and watch how the entire local village bathes there (thank God that Russian children are not drawn to the pool, for us the main thing is still the sea). To the complaints of foreigners, the hotel administration said that the Cypriots are an endangered nation and everything is possible for them. You understand, the hotel is not guarded, anyone can enter there for any problem, rejoice if the local does not knock on your room and ask to use the toilet!
Sea. There are two beaches in the hotel: own, where you can only sunbathe, because. it is problematic to go into the sea because of the blocks, and municipal, with gorgeous white sand and clear water. About the municipality. As people resting in this hotel told us for more than a year, this is one of the best beaches in Cyprus. Therefore, on weekends, many Cypriots with the whole family and all the grub go here. They go to rest, which means 4/5 of the beach is theirs (they will simply trample you there, shower you with grub that they don’t clean up after themselves, beat you with a volleyball sword or simply lie at your feet, because it is vital for them on this square centimeter of the beach put your ass down! ) You are left with 1/5 of the beach (as you enter the beach immediately to the left and to the end), though the entrance to the water is worse there. The remaining 5 days a week you can swim on the entire beach. Conclusion: PLAN ALL EXCURSIONS TO THE MAXIMUM ON THE WEEKEND! The fee for a sunbed or umbrella is 2.5 euros. There are also water sports: catamarans, scooters, surfers, bananas, etc.
Restaurants. Main big one for breakfast, lunch, dinner and 2 small ones by the pools. On the street, all the drinks in restaurants are poured into dirty plastic glasses (they are so old, dirty and cracked that my little son at first refused to drink from them! ) All bartenders understand Russian, because. they are from Slovakia (let them not play the fool in front of you).
The food. . . It's ok if you don't play gourmet. The breakfasts are the same. Lunch - a mix of dishes left over from dinner. Dinner is something edible. Don't take all inclusive. Calculated by RussiansJ: 2 weeks for two costs 800 euros cheaper if you take only breakfast, and then you buy food for lunch and dinner in the same hotel restaurant!! ! Fruits - watermelon, melon, apples, bananas, oranges, apricots.
Animation. She is. Our family was not interested in daytime animation, and in the evening we had to sit at a children's disco (as in all hotels). Disco for children is only in English and German, since our children rummage in English.
Excursions. To be honest, there is nothing to see in Cyprus. Only the sea and everything connected with it: cruises, boat trips, yachting, diving, fishing. We went to Paphos, swam in the place where Aphrodite came out, looked at the amphitheater, drove into the castle... NOTHING, a tour sucked from the finger! They tried to drag us to the monastery, to the local village, it’s good that they didn’t fall for it. We went, stupidly, to the singing fountains. This is generally amateur performance for Russians, don't be fooled! After that, we decided to score on excursions and do only the sea. True, they agreed to a cruise to Egypt. I liked it very much.
SEA!! ! Class! Awesome!
Will I go to Cyprus again? Yes! But only now I will rent a luxurious villa by the sea (which all vacationers do from the second visit). I'll save a lot of money, not stress at all, and I'll swim and swim and swim.
Thanks to those who read my essay to the end.
Rested with family 2+2. I’ll immediately dot the I: we are a family of travelers, we have already been to many countries, we are looking for only positive impressions from the rest.
So let's go. Before the trip, I combed the entire Internet in search of a suitable vacation spot in Cyprus. The place got out very quickly - Ayia Napa. The best beaches (white sand), the cleanest sea (there are no ports nearby, as in Larnaca and Limassol), the least Russian (Limassol is a city of Russians, for the future). Already resting, we learned that it is even better to relax in Protaras, there are no Russians at all and the cleanest of all (given that the whole of Cyprus is a big garbage dump, the cleanliness of the resting place decides a lot). When choosing a hotel, I proceeded from the principle - fewer Russians (I thought that the service would be better), a quiet place (because the whole of Ayia Napa is a continuous disco), the presence of a good beach. Chose The Dome, 4 stars.
Hotel. The price is… big. We opted for all inclusive due to the presence of children. This year the hotel has changed the owner, so you can not read the reviews of previous years !! ! The hotel is old and shabby. The rooms have old furniture, gnawed carpets, and towels... oh, especially beach ones. The paint is peeling off the walls, the refrigerators are leaking (some had leaking plumbing), the ants walk around the room in orderly rows (advice - pour The Dome shampoo on their path, which will be put in the bath, my ants were gone by the evening! ). Room cleaning only upon arrival. Because during our stay in the room, in my opinion, they only folded (not changed) towels, and wiped the entrance with a rag. But the cleaning lady of our room drank our whiskey and ate my Swiss chocolate!! ! This was not the case with us anywhere! Going to the reception and complaining is useless. The hotel manager did not hear the Russian-speaking Lithuanian Iolanta at close range and only waved his hands (the girl was young, we felt sorry for her), and he pretended not to understand our English. But since I didn’t want to wag my nerves on vacation, then we even scored on my eaten chocolates (that is, we quickly ate and washed down the rest of the whiskey to the chagrin of the cleaning lady).
Pools. There are two in the hotel. They are not cleaned at all! When someone pooped into one pool, which is bigger (I’m not joking and not imagining it), an uncle came into the pool, kicked everyone out of the water and... poured a huge bucket of bleach, saying that after 2 hours you can swim again (in it none of the witnesses of this purge bathed for 2-3 days). In another pool, which is smaller, i. e. for children, leaving the beach, the locals washed themselves and caressed their clothes (we were told that they had a problem with water and this is normal! ). Oil painting: Saturday-Sunday, all foreigners with children stand around the pool and watch how the entire local village bathes there (thank God that Russian children are not drawn to the pool, for us the main thing is still the sea). To the complaints of foreigners, the hotel administration said that the Cypriots are an endangered nation and everything is possible for them. You understand, the hotel is not guarded, anyone can enter there for any problem, rejoice if the local does not knock on your room and ask to use the toilet!
Sea. There are two beaches in the hotel: own, where you can only sunbathe, because. it is problematic to go into the sea because of the blocks, and municipal, with gorgeous white sand and clear water. About the municipality. As people resting in this hotel told us for more than a year, this is one of the best beaches in Cyprus. Therefore, on weekends, many Cypriots with the whole family and all the grub go here. They go to rest, which means 4/5 of the beach is theirs (they will simply trample you there, shower you with grub that they don’t clean up after themselves, beat you with a volleyball sword or simply lie at your feet, because it is vital for them on this square centimeter of the beach put your ass down! ) You are left with 1/5 of the beach (as you enter the beach immediately to the left and to the end), though the entrance to the water is worse there. The remaining 5 days a week you can swim on the entire beach. Conclusion: PLAN ALL EXCURSIONS TO THE MAXIMUM ON THE WEEKEND! The fee for a sunbed or umbrella is 2.5 euros. There are also water sports: catamarans, scooters, surfers, bananas, etc.
Restaurants. Main big one for breakfast, lunch, dinner and 2 small ones by the pools. On the street, all the drinks in restaurants are poured into dirty plastic glasses (they are so old, dirty and cracked that my little son at first refused to drink from them! ) All bartenders understand Russian, because. they are from Slovakia (let them not play the fool in front of you).
The food. . . It's ok if you don't play gourmet. The breakfasts are the same. Lunch - a mix of dishes left over from dinner. Dinner is something edible. Don't take all inclusive. Calculated by RussiansJ: 2 weeks for two costs 800 euros cheaper if you take only breakfast, and then you buy food for lunch and dinner in the same hotel restaurant!! ! Fruits - watermelon, melon, apples, bananas, oranges, apricots.
Animation. She is. Our family was not interested in daytime animation, and in the evening we had to sit at a children's disco (as in all hotels). Disco for children is only in English and German, since our children rummage in English.
Excursions. To be honest, there is nothing to see in Cyprus. Only the sea and everything connected with it: cruises, boat trips, yachting, diving, fishing. We went to Paphos, swam in the place where Aphrodite came out, looked at the amphitheater, drove into the castle... NOTHING, a tour sucked from the finger! They tried to drag us to the monastery, to the local village, it’s good that they didn’t fall for it. We went, stupidly, to the singing fountains. This is generally amateur performance for Russians, don't be fooled! After that, we decided to score on excursions and do only the sea. True, they agreed to a cruise to Egypt. I liked it very much.
SEA!! ! Class! Awesome!
Will I go to Cyprus again? Yes! But only now I will rent a luxurious villa by the sea (which all vacationers do from the second visit). I'll save a lot of money, not stress at all, and I'll swim and swim and swim.
Thanks to those who read my essay to the end.
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