I really don't recommend

Written: 28 november 2021
Travel time: 9 — 18 november 2021
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 1.0
Amenities: 10.0
When choosing a hotel, I was embarrassed by the lack of fresh reviews, but on the advice of a travel agent, we decided to take a chance. Which was greatly regretted.

I'll start with a couple of good points:
- Good rooms. We got a nice room for two, which had everything we needed. And even a non-working faucet in the sink, at the request, was repaired within an hour or two. There are no complaints about cleaning, everything is fine, except that they do it a little chaotically in time.
- Nice swimming pool, the sea was a minute away. Perhaps we got to the very opening of the hotel, but there were always not enough places on the beach.
- There are a couple of shops on the territory, but the prices there are very high and the sellers are reluctant to knock them down. In short, to go into them once and find out the cost is useful in order to have an idea of ​ ​ u200bu200bwhat to compare with when you find yourself near the shelves on excursions.

Now - what was bad (everything else):

- Immediately from the main. The dining room is terrible.
Lines, lack of food, long waits for serving trays to be filled. Plates have to be looked for/waited. You have to look for devices / wait. Glasses have to be looked for/waited. Approached one dish, stood in line, waited for the empty tray to be replaced. You go to the next and everything repeats. While you collect everything, you get cooled food with a plate. You have to constantly pull the workers to fill the distribution, they themselves follow the hall poorly. If you arrive early - you will increase the waiting time, if you arrive late - some of the food has already ended. Catching the middle was not always easy. Plus - glasses / plates often come across poorly washed and with chips of varying degrees.
- Food is also a big problem of the hotel. There is no rotation at all, every day is the same. Unless it may turn out to be something that was in previous days. The food quality is bad. I often observed that vacationers put something neutral on their plates, such as vegetables, scrambled eggs, bread, rice.
In a positive light, one can only single out an omelette, which will be cooked in front of you, and once there were quails on the grill (which we miraculously managed to take after standing in line for almost half an hour). There was no more grill. We went to the beach to eat burgers (cutlet + bread and that's it) or hot dogs (tasteless sausage + bread and that's it) with french fries. Again, queues, queues, queues...
- I want to highlight fruits separately. They are brought in a relatively small bowl (one), random (mostly orange / banana / grapes, but I saw guava and mango once, although I didn’t get it), people flock, enough for 5-8 people. Then the bowl is empty for 5-10 minutes. During this time, a queue is formed. They bring again one bowl, which is immediately sorted out. A country with a lot of fruits and a harvest 4 times a year. Yeah.
- The sea, of course, is good, but they don’t let you swim beyond the buoys, near the buoys the depth is knee-deep.

You can swim near the pier under the supervision of lifeguards, but there is also a queue and you can’t swim far (10 * 10 meters, maybe a little less). You can climb a little further from the buoys and swim for your own pleasure, but: it will not be an insured event, there is no normal entry into the water, the waves are from the wind, the reef is still almost dead, or you need to swim far away.
- Construction / repairs are ongoing. Something sawed / painted / repaired. Half of the pools are not working. Slides - do not work. Workers are running everywhere.
- All pools, except for the main one (depth 140 cm, fresh) - for children. An adult will not even be there to the waist.
- If you go on an excursion for a long time, you will be very unpleasantly surprised by the assembly of dry rations for the road. We were on a bus with vacationers from other hotels - they have normal sandwiches, hamburgers, muffins and donuts there. You will be given one small sweet bun, two ordinary ones, two small slices of cheese, a piece of sausage of the same size and an apple.
- Wifi only in the main lobby and either very poor or not working at all. There is a Vodafon stall, but the prices are much higher there. It is better to take SIM cards at the airport (but do not forget that the number of gigabytes is divided by 2).
- I don't know about other operators, but we traveled from Biblio-Globus. The guides are mediocre (both on excursions and the one in the hotel), you need to ask everything thoroughly. As an example, they said that for the check-in you can go once for free to a local restaurant. The fact that you need to sign up for two days at least for some time to get there (or better for 3-4 to choose a convenient one) - the guide did not say, although he knew about this feature.
- There is no way to get out of the hotel, the village is far away, the bus does not go there. Just call a taxi yourself. The maximum is a limited embankment.
- In connection with the above, it is not worth it to drive from the airport to the hotel for 4 hours.

It is clear that there may not be enough workers, not everything was put in order before the opening, they could not bring up normal food, etc. , etc. But they already wanted to earn money. The attitude towards tourists from the hotel is very significant. Even if some shortcomings are eliminated over time, I would not take risks to spoil my vacation. Taking into account the fact that the low price tag for a stay in a hotel is not an attractive factor, it is quite average. And the 5-star hotel is out of the blue.
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