Great hotel, great reef.

Written: 14 august 2011
Travel time: 11 — 21 july 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 7.0
We went to Aquamarine Pool, but we were settled in Elisir, which we did not regret for a second. I really liked the hotel - quiet, great pool without crowds of people, chic room. Beds with canopies and a dressing room blew my mind))). The beach is not very far - five to seven minutes. The staff does not ask for tips, they behave politely and friendly.
I read reviews of vacationers in other Domina hotels and am amazed - either people don’t have enough food, or the beach is small. As for food - I think that's what those who come at the end, when the fruits and desserts are really already snapped up (I'm always amazed - how much the "all inclusive" system increases the volume of the stomachs of vacationers. People go crazy, as if they are full a year ahead). The restaurant of our hotel was on the road to the Sultan beach, almost on the beach. Quiet, calm, no one knocks you down, as in the general restaurant Coral (we went there for dinner a couple of times). The choice of dishes is very decent, they cook quite tasty, the wine and coffee there are generally excellent (compared to Coral). Yes, there were sometimes charred chickens and dry meat, but no one forces you to eat - there has always been an alternative in the form of fish and stewed chicken meat. There were sweets, there were fruits - oranges, bananas, grapes, delicious melons, grapefruits, apples.
About water. Yes, it's not very convenient that they don't give bottled water in Domina. But, in principle, we did not particularly suffer from this. In the restaurant, in the bars on the beach and at the hotel, unlimited water was given in cups. If we needed water in the room, we took one or two glasses of water per person in the hotel bar and carried it to us. The problem, I think, is not critical.

Beach. The most important thing.
Sultan Beach is great. Half empty, sunbeds sea, there are very comfortable plastic sunbeds for sunbathing on the shore in the water. There were not very many people swimming near the pantone, unlike the central beach - yes, there is real pandemonium.
It was possible to swim from our pantone to the central one - it's about 500 meters. Of course, it's a shame that not the entire coastline is open, but believe me, 500 meters is a lot. An hour there, an hour back. And there was something to see at these five hundred meters. There are a lot of fish. We saw ringed and blue-spotted stingrays, aluter, lionfish, triggerfish, pufferfish, tylosur, hedgehog fish, large parrots, medium-sized Napoleons, octopus, etc. Once a small shark sailed - it was hunting for a huge stingray, but realized that it was too tough for her. She paid almost no attention to the swimmers, for about 20 minutes she twirled on the line of buoys and flew away. That was such an adventure.
A few days before our departure, a lot of young animals with "mommies" sailed to the reef, and the fish became generally "not overcrowded". It was very interesting to watch flocks of young fish.
In general, we really liked the reef. When (if) the whole beach is open, it will be a great place for snorkeling.
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