Отель только 3 * не более! Hotel only 3 * no more!

Holidays in CyprusVenus beach hotel ***** PaphosFor the first time we are going to Cyprus. Two adults and children aged 6 and 2. Considered the system "all inclusive", so that at any time you can feed the children. A hotel with its own beach, so that with children in the heat you can quickly walk to the sea. The mood is wonderful with suitcases waiting to leave our house. It turned out that our driver overslept (and here he is the first call - you don’t need to go to Cyprus! ), but we got to the very end of registration at our airport and flew! We flew with the Teztur Company. A nice girl met us at the bus and on the way told us a lot of interesting things about Cyprus. On the way, we brought tourists to their hotels and waited for our hotel. About 15 minutes before our hotel, our guide Christina said goodbye to us and got off the bus, warning that the driver would take us to the hotel and wished us a wonderful holiday. (Well, we think she escorted everyone to the hotels and helped in resettlement, we can do it ourselves! ) and we immediately regretted her departure. As soon as the doors closed, our driver opened the window and lit a cigarette. In the bus in the heat (poor air conditioning), a cloud of smoke immediately formed. There was nothing to breathe and it was not even ventilated during our 15-minute trip. We ordered later in the company of trips and entertainment, our guide talked us a little for 10 euros and, when paying by card, took an additional 3% of the payment. Child 2.5 (infant, a separate seat only on the plane, but here there is no cost like 40-45 euros for a child) But this is all for the Teztour company. Now about the hotel: Pros: sea air and free. The sea view from the room is excellent although it cost 10 thousand rubles (a little expensive! ) The rooms are clean, the rooms are spacious. Disadvantages: 1. Leaving the bus, we dragged a folded stroller, a child sleeping in our arms, and two suitcases. It's hard, but we did it. Nobody even helped. 2. Everyone at the reception has dissatisfied faces. 3. There was no refrigerator in the room, but they brought it in 5 minutes and showed that the refrigerator needed a key! Pick up at the reception. At the reception they gave us the key and said everything is free in your refrigerator (I was glad that it was not necessary to run to the bar for the same water), BUT as it turned out later and completely by accident - MINIBAR IS PAID (after all, you have everything inclusive! ) - even this phrase was funny ! 4. Food! On the first day, we thought about how we would live here. Children, and even adults, just went out hungry every time from the DINING ROOM (you can’t call it otherwise! SOVDEPO’S DINING ROOM - you can’t even call it a restaurant). There are not enough places, people take places at a time when they are still eating at this table. Relax and enjoy - ha ha try it. The menu is just terrible. There is nothing to eat (if there is a desire to starve, then you are here). Three courses and dessert of fruit oranges with apples. Between dinners there is nothing but cocktails. One hour a day they give free ice cream. The rest was held under the motto - Mom, I want to eat. But they ate a ton of oranges! 5. Wine or drinks. At lunch or dinner, a waiter comes up to you (we were always approached by a psychotic and nervous one), we make an order and if you suddenly want to, you won’t get more supplements. The waiter won't even come to you anymore. For any glass of wine, you must sign (strangely, on an all-inclusive system : ) there are not enough attendants. 6. Cards (for towels) are a simple little PAPER! (not even jammed) that you wear and exchange for a towel, and if you suddenly lost this piece of paper from you 20 euros! 7. In bars, when ordering something, you need to show another piece of paper, otherwise you will be billed when you leave the hotel. I remind you! All inclusive system! 8. The beach - it is not! Waves (no breakwaters), but this is not a problem for us. But the descent to the beach is just all the reefs. Came only to get some air. I had to swim in the pool. 9. Excavations with graves around the hotel (maybe someone will like it) But even around the hotel everything is dust and dirt in construction sites. Go across the road is a problem. No pedestrian crossings! No zebras, no signs! With a stroller, they tried to pass through the stream of cars. At least someone slowed down. Drivers still grumble! Shops across the road! And oh horror, everything is covered in dust and dirt. We didn’t even dare to go to restaurants (or taverns) along this road. In 15 minutes we inhaled dust and returned to the hotel. 10. Internet 3 euros per hour. Turns out it didn't work in our room. Activated in the corridor and went into the room, but here it is not. The children were sleeping and had to sit on the floor in front of the room so that at least somehow 3 euros were not wasted : )11. Playground - located under the scorching sun. There is a plastic slide and a small house (in which once the children were playing, they found a bunch of children's surprises). That is, when the playground is opened, they don’t even look after hygiene and order! There was also a kids club room. This institution is open from 10.00 to 14.00, a pleasant animator Maria can chat and laugh with her, but the children are left to their own devices. Maria cannot occupy them with anything, she just watches so that they do not run away. Our jack-of-all-trades grandmother entertained the children there by giving origami and modeling lessons. There are many toys, but of course there is no one to wash them, so many of the toys are covered with years of dirt. 12. There is no water for children to drink on the playground. Children are not allowed to leave the playground alone. And in the heat of 40 degrees! ! Children without elemental water!! ! 13. Towels and bathrobes in the room are just like sandpaper, hard prickly. The children were told that they were massage, but they believed the explanations only 2 times. 5 star hotel! Have your own towels! 14. Service! They asked to clean the room in the morning, as the children sleep in the afternoon. : ( It's useless! We put the children to sleep at lunchtime. They put up a sign "do not disturb" - the phone call woke the children up!