Second time in the same hotel and did not regret

Written: 24 september 2012
Travel time: 4 — 17 september 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 9.0
Good day to all! Rested in Jasmine from 4.09. 12 to 17.09. 12 three with her husband and son 7 years old. Before that we were in this hotel in November 2009.
I write as usual with details and who needs to answer questions.
Huge beautiful area, gorgeous beach. Mini zoo with monkeys (they can wear glasses and other trifles if you gape), rabbits. Near the lagoon there is a corral with goats - such wonderful, curly-haired ones. Now more;

This time there were minor problems with accommodation: for two days we were settled in the main building in a two-room suite, but at our request we were moved to a bungalow next to the pool without any problems. The rooms in the new building, in which we lived in 2009, you don’t have to ask - they were handed over to Aladdin, with what joy it’s not clear, but a fact. Although we were satisfied with the room - not far from the sea and all restaurants. They did not pay attention to the condition of the furniture and the quality of the finish, we are not interested. The room was cleaned very well and on time - a big hello to the cleaner Ahmed, very polite and beautiful figures from towels made us.
The food is quite on the level, breakfasts are only in the main restaurant. There is not much variety, but we were not hungry. Always pancakes, omelettes. deep-fried vegetables (very tasty), donuts and more. For children, various cereals with milk and rice porridge. Lunch at the main restaurant, Italian at the pool and at the beach bar (where we constantly dined, so as not to change clothes). In principle, it is better to dine in the main restaurant or on the beach, for lunch in Italian there is a very small selection of dishes, although there is delicious pizza and at 5 pm they put a stove and bake pancakes by the pool. We really liked to have dinner on the contrary in an Italian restaurant. There are always delicious soups, meat, chicken or grilled seafood. Very nimble and good waiters - you don’t have time to fill a plate, and they will already ask what to drink and you will come up to the table, everything is already worth it. A great cook who gives you a full plate of everything he cooks is never greedy. The main restaurant has more choice and air conditioning works, but more people and waiters with drinks can be a long wait. Although you can pour soft drinks yourself, and then go to the bar to pour beer and rum and cola. The rest of the local drinks have become worse, as it seemed to us, but everything is an amateur. In general, compared to 2009, the food has become better, although the oriental restaurant has disappointed us, there is less choice of dishes, the chef puts pieces of 3-5 cm, we managed to finish the whole dinner in dry food while we were brought drinks. You can go to a fish restaurant on the beach - it is paid, but worth it, everything is very tasty (huge shrimp, lobsters, lobsters, crabs, etc. ). You have to pay only for seafood, side dishes and all drinks for free. Huge hello to Ali, who, by the way, remembered us from the last vacation in Jasmine, which is very nice. We didn’t go to neighboring hotels to eat, it was too lazy to be honest. Although vacationers from Aladdin and Ali Baba said that Jasmine is better.
Animation can not say better or worse. If earlier everything took place in Pergola, now it is necessary to keep track of where the evening performance will be at the main building or in the same Pergola after the children's disco. We didn’t bother with this, so sometimes we missed everything ourselves.
ONE BIG BUT:

Among the vacationers now there are not many Germans, as it used to be, but Slovaks, Croats, etc. Take my word for it - worse than Russians. And it's a shame that the policy of the hotel as a whole takes into account their interests more than our compatriots (who waste tips, dangle on all excursions and leave a lot of money in local shops). For example, in a bar, if you ask for a gin and tonic, they will pour you gin and set you to top up the sprite from the machine. Although if you managed to make friends with the bartender, then you, like tourists from Europe, will be poured Schweppes from a bottle.
They witnessed an ugly scandal. A family with a young son swam in the sea from six in the morning, put their things and scoops with a child's typewriter on the sunbeds. We came out of the water, and two young girls from Slovakia are lying on their sunbeds and they say - there are no towels, we don’t know anything, everything was empty, and they start giving out towels from 8 in the morning. Asked to release sunbeds - sent. The reflex of "ours is beaten" worked, other Russian tourists joined in the disassembly. The Slovaks raised a scandal, senior managers from the main building came running, headed by Natalya, the manager for working with Russian-speaking tourists, who somehow ran into Russians the most. Natalya generally stated that it was forbidden to take sunbeds from 6 in the morning, although whoever occupies them in Moscow at this time is 8 urts and all of us go swimming. In short, instead of dealing with the Slovaks, this Natalya, no worse than a market woman, quarreled with the Russians, who sided with the Russians and expressed her phi to the poor father of the family, whose three-year-old son took out his toys from the trash with tears. And as a result, the Slovaks were left on sunbeds, and ours were sent to the end of the beach, where sunbeds were dug up for them from somewhere.
In general, if you do not pay attention to such attention, you can have a good rest. The price justifies the quality. And for the money that a ticket to this hotel costs, the rest is more than worthy.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original