Hotel for a very relaxing holiday

Written: 20 october 2020
Travel time: 1 — 8 october 2020
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PROS (for me):
- super reef, a lot of fish and live corals, not very deep (5-6 meters, you can see the bottom, a short pontoon, though not stable. You could swim from the pontoon of the neighboring Sensatori to Baron downstream, this is the most beautiful reef according to many;
- sandy coastline, coarse soft sand. At high tide, waist-deep for an adult and knee-deep at low tide. There are two entrances to the lagoon (each one meter wide), where the bottom is clean and corals are not needed;
- good food, for breakfast there was fresh orange juice, red fish and beef bacon. Ice cream in unlimited quantities from 12:00.
- mini bar replenished daily (2 cans of Stella beer, Pepsi, cola, sevenap, juice);
- very spacious room, well cleaned. Everything is not very new, but the bed is snow-white without spools)))
- the air conditioner worked well, the card is not needed for it, it turned off only if you open the door to the balcony;
- you can visit 3 A la carte restaurants in 7 days;

- well-groomed lawn, clean sand on the beach (garbage was carefully removed), sunbeds on the beach at a distance of 1.5 m from each other. Mattresses made of white leatherette, wiped them every morning;
- for eight days, from 1/10 to 8/10, the pontoon was never closed, even when there was a red flag and waves, you could swim safely.
CONS (also subjective, as for our family):
- for early check-in, insistently require $ 50. We arrived at the hotel at 7 am. We settled at 10-11, I went to the reception desk 5 times! And my husband a couple of times
- in rooms with a sea view settle mostly Arabs. They wanted to negotiate for $30-40, but they want $30 for every day. We looked at the wall of the tennis court;
- upon arrival, they said until 12:30 we can neither eat nor drink anything. She asked for tea for the child, they said from 11 not earlier;
- they do not have beds for couples, they asked to move, but the request was fulfilled after a couple of reminders;
- the territory is very small and "flat", there is nowhere to walk except the promenade. Few large trees and bushes, very bald. There are few places for interesting photos, there is no "panorama", the hotel does not have a view;
- there is no toilet on the beach at all, and the shower is all 2 and far from the pontoon;
- the choice of food is very modest, for seven days I have never seen seafood, except for 1-2 types of fish, there are always 2 types of soups. In the spring, my sister was here, she sent photos of sushi and rolls with red fish for dinner, now they are gone. Grill 1 type every evening (for comparison, we got dinner in Rehana (the flight was delayed by a day), there is a choice of food 2-3 times more, 5 types of grill and 4 types of soup for dinner! and 2 seafood dishes). From the food I liked only breakfast, after lunch and dinner there was always some kind of disappointment. Cheese only for breakfast(((Desserts are mediocre;

- in the Mojito bar for a fee !!! , and non-alcoholic also $ 17. In the lobby bar, 5-7 types of imported alcohol should be poured, but the dispensers in the imported bottles were torn off and it’s clearly not right there... Again, in the spring there was normal alcohol. Although in our presence the Arabs were poured from bottles with dispensers, and at the request of us to pour the same, the bartender pretended not to understand us;
- from entertainment only sports and 1 musician in the evening in the Alacarte restaurant by the pool;
- the hotel is far from all the entertainment, a taxi to the Old Town is $8-10 one way (the hotel generally asked $20 one way).
P. S. The BARON hotel is for a very relaxing holiday, who only needs a cool reef and more or less decent food. Suitable for couples with small children with strollers or if you have problems with your feet. For us, he seemed a bit uncomfortable.
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