the worst is VERY dirty beach

Written: 13 june 2006
Travel time: 13 — 20 august 2004
Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
The hotel is good but not up to standard. In principle, you can spend money and with great sense.
Disadvantages:
- The rooms are not cleaned well. The coffee stain on the carpet did not decrease in 2 weeks.
- in the room where I lived, the television antenna was connected "on the snot", because of which the image constantly flickered. Although TV on vacation is not really needed.
- the number was opened with a key-card from the fifth or sixth time.
- the maids ignored the "Do not disturb" signs twice while cleaning.
- in the restaurants on the territory of the hotel there were two times big delays with orders - until you politely remind you that you are waiting for 40 minutes, they ignore;
- the exchange of beach towels is creaking - three times we had to wait about an hour until they were brought from the laundry;
- not a single employee of the children's club speaks Russian, despite the fact that among the waiters and at the reception, many speak Russian very well.

As a result, my daughter was "overboard" of all events, because she does not speak English or Greek at the age of 7.
- coffee for breakfast was terrible (probably because it's free) - burda, one word.
- the worst - VERY dirty beach. It is, of course, municipal, but in the nearby Le Meridien the beach was cleaned every day. The beach was not cleaned even once in 2 weeks. There are cigarette butts everywhere, scraps of chips, after they found a rusty pin and broken glass on the beach, they moved to the sea only in slippers.
There were some good ones too:
- for those who checked in with breakfast only, at the hotel it was possible to "buy" up to half board for 250 pounds for 14 days, and use the received coupons for food of your choice at lunch or dinner, or on some day not eat at all hotel, and in the other - to have lunch and dinner;
- safe at the hotel free of charge at the reception, which was a pleasant surprise;
- there is a kettle in the room, tea, sugar and instant coffee are regularly brought. We bought ground coffee on the spot and drank normal coffee in the morning instead of hotel bourda;
- there was never a shortage of beach umbrellas or sun loungers, there was always enough for everyone;
- a good contingent of vacationers in case you like a quiet holiday;
- again, for lovers of a relaxing holiday - the hotel is far from the tourist zone, in the evening it is not noisy.
- I really liked the Sailor's Rest restaurant next to the yacht pier, good food, fast service, etc. (unlike Octagonal and Palladium)
- no problem allowed to stay in the room for a couple of hours after 12 - when leaving, I did not have to sit at the reception for two hours with suitcases.

Bottom line: if you like to swim in the sea, not in the pool, and sunbathe, then you should not go to St Raphael. The beach is really nowhere worse, nowhere before this (except on the "wild" beach in Russia) I simply have not seen it.
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