Mediocre hotel

Written: 19 march 2007
Travel time: 19 — 26 may 2006
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 3.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 8.0
A very average hotel. Obviously not 5 * as they sell it, objectively 3 * +

ACCOMMODATION
It consists of two large buildings Main Building, Family Building and Garden Village houses. In total, the hotel has 1252 rooms, all rooms are equipped approximately the same. The buildings are located on a huge, very poorly landscaped area, solid concrete and steps, steps, steps ...

Sea views are available in the Main Building and most of the Garden Village.
Get ready to pay $10 extra for accommodation in the Main Building. per day,
guaranteed to get a large balcony overlooking the pool and the sea,
cockroaches from the two restaurants downstairs and every evening during dinner, the smell of a burnt grill.

In front of the Family building there is a swimming pool, a bar, a playground, an amphitheater, a gym and a bus access area.
Amateur animation ends at 23-00, but you still won’t be able to sleep peacefully - buses run all night.

Animators in general work well: water aerobics, yoga, dancing, volleyball and everyday evening animation. True, the evening programs practically do not change, since they are designed for only a week, then all the shows are repeated, and are more reminiscent of rural amateur performances.

Garden village houses are built on four tiers, so almost every room has a sea view. Water supply in the houses is intermittent, air conditioning too. To get to the sea from distant houses, you will need to walk for 10-12 minutes, overcoming about 70 steps, or wait for a free car plying around the hotel, an interval of 7-10 minutes.

NUTRITION
The hotel operates on an all-inclusive basis, but not all restaurants and not all of you will be able to try this system. The hotel has two restaurants operating on the ALL system "Lotus", "Al Dente", one paid restaurant "Marhaba", a cafe in the lobby "Vienna" and bars scattered throughout the hotel.
The food at the Lotus and Al Dente restaurants is mediocre, the menu hardly changes from day to day. When choosing dishes, you need to be careful - if sausages are not eaten for breakfast at lunch, they can be found in salads, half-eaten salads turn into casseroles in the evening. In the main restaurant "Lotus" almost everyone makes a grill, mostly chicken, they try - it burns badly.

Drinks in these locally produced restaurants without restrictions - wine, beer, juices, cola sprites, tea, coffee, imported ones are offered for money.
Restaurants are open from 4.30 am to 1.00 am, please stand in line at the entrance - there are many vacationers here. 15-20 minutes before the end of work in all restaurants, all food is quickly removed, but you really are not kicked out. Restaurant "Marhaba" opens at 19.00 and is open until 23-00. They manage to burn food there too, but for money. The £.15 "freshly squeezed" juice is prepared the day before opening and stored in the refrigerator. Tea bags.
You can eat for two in the range of 250-320 pounds. We must pay tribute - an excellent hookah.

BEACH
The beach is very large, but very dirty - the sand is not sieved at all.

A free sunbed can be found at any time, but towels run out by 16-00. The entrance to the sea is very gentle - up to a depth of 150-200 meters, on the left side of the beach there are remains of cut corals, wear slippers. Showers - please walk 180-200 meters from the sea and the same back.
There is a pier, our vacationers take it for a pantone. In fact, there is no equipped descent from it into the sea - only a rusty staircase without a railing, at the bottom there are remains of cables and pieces of iron, but there are corals nearby. Plus hotel - corals in the middle of the beach at a depth of 1.3-1.5 meters.

SERVICE
Cleaning in the rooms from 10-00 to 17-00, the administration complains that they have a lot of us vacationers.
Hilton Long Beach loves to conserve water and it says right on the flyer in the bathroom to change your towels just tell the cleaner "Change the towels" when you see him.
They don't clean well, they don't do anything all the time. Tipping does not affect the quality of cleaning. The air conditioner broke down 2 times in 11 days, the repair took from 3 to 8 hours, with two or three reminders at the reception. The staff is polite and smiling, in bars they will definitely tell you with a smile "Sorry, closed" 10-15 minutes before the end of work.

SUMMARY
Of course, the hotel has great potential, but it will take more than one year to realize it. For absolutely the same money, you can have a much better rest at the Hilton Plaza or Hilton Resort. After last year's vacation in Plaza, only positive emotions remained, and I will definitely return to it if necessary, but in Long Bech it is unlikely.
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