Every man to his own taste

Written: 5 june 2012
Travel time: 9 — 20 may 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: 6.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 7.0
I will add my five cents about this hotel, as the hotel leaves a double impression, and the choice of a hotel for recreation should be based on various opinions and assessments.
The main impression of the hotel - the remnants of former luxury. The hotel has a large territory, beautiful architecture. But due to the crisis in the country, the flow of tourists has fallen to almost zero, and the hotel administration is trying to get out of this situation by saving a lot of money. The hotel in the evening resembles an extinct city. There are no people on the premises or at the reception. Empty. Of all the many buildings, people live only in the one at the reception level, across the bridge. Terrible extortionists work at the reception, they hang noodles that they can settle far from the restaurant and demand 20-30 dollars for it, but they all settle in the same frame. We arrived early in the morning and these freaks demanded money for an early check-in, although the hotel was empty. In normal hotels they settle without any additional payments, if there are free places. But not here. Moreover, even the French, who arrived on their own, but an hour and a half before the official check-in time, demanded their $ 20. I got the impression that this was an indication of the general manager, except for whom no one else was noticed at the hotel, which indicates the neglect of the hotel. Although, if we talk about cleaning the hotel, rooms, restaurants, then there are no complaints. All clearly work.
Dinner is attended by a few vacationers who cannot even fill the restaurant by a third. The latter has its advantages - everything that is prepared is not scattered and is available for almost the entire evening. I disagree with the lack of meat dishes. During our vacation, for lunch and dinner, there were 2 types of beef, chicken or other poultry - 2-3 types, fish - 2 types and barbecue (chicken, seafood, etc. ). Most likely this is due to the number of tourists. I will not say that there was an abundance of everything, but you will not be hungry. Very good selection of pastries. Fruits: oranges, bananas, grapefruits, melon, watermelon, peaches, physalis. Something ripe, which is not very. For breakfast (lunch, dinner) only two types of fruit are presented. Juices are completely absent. Cheap yupi, fanta, cola. The wine in the main restaurant is heavily diluted with water. In a la carte restaurants, wine is poured from bottles, you immediately feel a better drink.

The hotel has only 1 main restaurant, I can’t even imagine where the second one can be. The appearance of the restaurant is depressing in its appearance. It spoils the image of the hotel.
There are only 2 a la carte restaurants: Italian - complete crap in terms of interior and choice of dishes. After him, the whole family had a pancreas pain for the whole evening, although they ate everything different. Didn't go to it anymore. The second - the Lebanese one is more beautiful and well-groomed, you can go once for a change, no more. The choice of dishes is mostly larger and you already know better what is tasty and what is not, and you take as much as you need.
The hotel staff is very polite and friendly, which can be explained by a small number of tourists, and almost complete acquaintance, up to knowing each other's names.
The hotel rooms are furnished and decorated according to the style of 10 years ago. But in other hotels where I was, and which were not the last years of commissioning, the situation is similar. In the evening, the air conditioner in the room broke down. The epic took about 3 hours and ended only around 12 o'clock at night. At first, we waited an hour for the arrival of the air conditioner, with several trips to the reception and calls from the room, as no one was particularly in a hurry to come. Then the air conditioner called the reception and said that it could not be repaired, it was necessary to relocate, which the manager from the reception confirmed to us. Naturally, things were packed into suitcases and the waiting for the preparation of a new issue began. But an hour later, no one gave another number. But then the air conditioner started working and I had to hang all the things again. On the day of departure, the condo broke down again.
Next to this hotel is Inter Plaza Beach, they have a common area and owners. This makes it seem more lively and cheerful. The animators somehow still tried to entertain tourists in the morning with gymnastics, volleyball, etc. , but due to the lack of tourists, they could not organize someone. In the evening there was no animation at all. The beautiful amphitheater didn't even sound.

Slides are in a nearby hotel, but they are far away. There are only 3 slides and not very interesting ones. Almost no one was there. The orange hill is quite traumatic on bends, the child stuffed his head, elbows and fists.
The sea is more fun. I can’t say that the coral is some kind of supernatural, as others try to present in the stories. Other hotels are no worse. The advantage is the long coastline of beaches in this bay, and the freedom to swim wherever you want. No one looks, does not whistle, but it will not help to suddenly happen.
According to the story, it turned out more negative than positive, but in general we liked the rest. For us, a holiday is a relaxing holiday. I will add that in 12 days we paid $ 1.450 for three, and upon arrival home, the same hotel would have cost us $ 2.600 for this period. For that kind of money, we definitely would not like it))). So the question of the price of rest plays an important role in the evaluation of the hotel.
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