Does not correspond to the declared star rating

Written: 10 january 2014
Travel time: 14 — 22 december 2013
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 5.0
Standard category number. Double bed, wrought iron furniture with marble or granite surfaces, refrigerator built into the nightstand. The "bottom" of the bed is about two-thirds solid, i. e. if you sit on the side, then everything is OK, but if at the legs, then you fall through. From the terrace access to the beach. It is better to take the number on the left side of the buildings (if you look at the sea), because this part is lit by the sun almost all day. The right side is mostly in shadow. The wooden parts of the furniture are old, shabby and loose. The room has a free A5 safe, so you will have to leave your tablet and laptop as is. In the bathroom, as usual, a large mirror, granite surface, hot water all the time, regardless of the time of day, as is the case in other hotels. There is a bath, however, there is no stopper for closing, so even if you want to warm up in cool weather, you will have to be content with just a hot shower. The face towel ring is positioned so that the hanging towel almost reaches the floor. Near the bathroom, a rusty nail sticks out of the floor, on which, apparently, there used to be a door stopper. In addition, when checking into a room prepared in advance for the guest, the remains of broken glass were found on the floor in the bathroom and the hallway, which after a week continued to remain in the same places. Initially, the bathroom had two sets of towels for hands and a shower, but only one for feet. Two days later, when towels were changed, it was removed and never came back. Moreover, the towels were not changed, but simply folded and hung up. At the same time, the towels are washed out, with a fringe of threads that have come out over the entire area. The tub, like the washbasin, was never washed. Mini shower products have never been updated. Audibility "is beyond praise" - in the morning you can be awakened by the conversation of neighbors who are going to have an early breakfast or gossip, and walking along the corridor, you will enjoy the sounds of draining sewers. There is no hair dryer in Standard rooms. Upon arrival, there will be 2 half-liter bottles of still water in the refrigerator. In the future, as it is written in the information sheet, you can "use these bottles to collect water in any cooler on the territory of the hotel in unlimited quantities. " Those. no one will replenish your supply of drinking water in the room, as is the case even in seedy "triples", you will have to take care of it yourself.
Beach towels, as usual, are issued on special cards in tents located on both sides of the lagoon. At the same time, living on the right bank, on the left you will not hand over a towel and vice versa.
As for nutrition. White, red cabbage, chopped carrots and zucchini, lemon halves, cucumber-tomato-cabbage salad, where the main ingredient, of course, is cabbage, something remotely resembling a vinaigrette and fresh beets with oranges. Side dishes: white and mixed rice, stewed zucchini/vegetables, potatoes, pasta. Separately prepare pasta with different additives. It offers strange-looking fish in small pieces breaded, fish in the same small pieces with vegetables, stew without tomato, different processing of chicken, something like beef stroganoff / goulash, something like minced meat in a sauce called “English beef”. Soups are mostly cream soup type; I didn’t feel any mushrooms in the mushroom, but it was suggested to put boiled pasta in the “pasta soup” yourself))

In the morning, classic queues to places where they cook omelets and pancakes; there, for lunch and dinner, pasta, minced meat on a brazier, the same beef liver with onions, kebabs are offered; fried eggplant, deep-fried fish in flour. Somehow there were dumplings, though four times larger than usual ones and from a thicker dough, but the attempt was counted))
Absolutely no complaints about bread and pastries. From sweets, a standard set of cakes and puddings, sometimes you can get some interesting citrus biscuit. Fruits: oranges, dates, pomegranates, cut into pieces, green guava, green melon and green bananas.
In terms of capacity, the restaurant is not designed for the declared number of guests if the weather is bad. You need to choose the time to get between the influx of visitors.
In the restaurant and lobby, they offer a liter of alcohol “only for $ 5” from a cart))) - the same mumbling that is served in hotel bars.
There is Wi-Fi, the signal is available almost throughout the territory, but is unstable; access is paid even in the lobby - $ 4 / hour.
The club has a show every evening, however, sometimes they try to force you to buy $5 tickets for some kind of fakir show. "Fish Party" is also paid, something around $20; I haven't heard any rave reviews.
There is also a PADI certified center on site, but the equipment is old, the costumes are tattered; computers are not included in the package, nor are they available for rent. In general, the Egyptian is such a PADI... A day trip on a boat, including two dives, a light lunch and a full set of equipment will cost $ 45. In this case, of course, you can bargain.
SPA-salon with massage, sauna, hammam and jacuzzi. A full body massage with oils will cost $100 for five sessions after all discounts.
The hotel guests are mostly Russians, followed by Ukrainians in terms of numbers and then foreigners, who make up about 5% of the total. Youth and older people are approximately equal; many vacation with children.
The overall impression of the hotel is mediocre, 4 + * (or as many Russians say - 5 *) does not pull at all, my rating is 3 + *.
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