50 to 50

Written: 17 october 2019
Travel time: 8 — 15 october 2019
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Meeting upon arrival. We arrived at the hotel in the morning. There is nowhere to drink water, the lobby bar does not work, they asked for water at the reception, they barely found it. There are no available rooms, of course. We are waiting in the lobby. Breakfast from 7.00, but we will not be fed, only children, we can only eat at the snack bar on the beach from 10.00. It's hot...We decided to take our suitcases, change clothes and go to the beach.

You can't bring suitcases into the lobby! You can’t take out light things and change clothes in the toilet either! HORROR! After explaining that we were flying out at night, before breakfast, we were still allowed into the dining room. The dining room is small, the food is not tasty, the choice is not large, there is a smell like camel. Barely shoved into themselves. True, on the way back they gave everyone lunch boxes: juice, yogurt, sandwiches.


Settlement. There are no rooms, we are 5 couples, we bargained, for $ 50 from all we found 4 rooms and settled somewhere at 10.00, one room was settled closer to 12.00. Here is your first impression, obviously more than 1 star does not pull.

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Double, with a balcony (terrace) on the first floor. At first they offered us on the second floor without a balcony and smoky, we refused. The rooms are relatively spacious, but old: there are bare wires, plumbing not working, mold on the bathroom doors. The air conditioner works without complaints, the linen is clean, cleaned every day, my $ 1 did not affect the quality of cleaning. Large TV, there are a dozen Ukrainian channels, refrigerator, kettle, tea set.

No mini bar! If anyone has, then for a fee. For a day, one bottle of water is allocated to the room, but this is not a problem, you can always take water in the dining room and at the bars.

Nutrition. The food is the same from day to day. We even know where it is, pick it up and go. For breakfast, they make an omelette, fried eggs. Sausages are not tasty. Three types of hard cheese, feta, yogurt, a place with food for diabetics, milk, breakfast cereals. Coffee is not natural, tea bags.
Hot milk may run out, you have to wait until someone brings it. They brought milk, mugs and disposable paper cups ended, by the way, they often leak. Here is such a service. You can make sandwiches with butter, there is chopped sausage, but also with an unusual taste for us.

Lunch and dinner are replenished with two types of soups, fish, beef, lamb, rice (2-3 types), fruits in assortment. In the evening, a grill bar is open on the terrace, there were crabs, chicken, mackerel and something similar to kebab. Local liquor is offered for lunch and dinner. According to the logic, the waiter should deliver the drinks, but he was often not there, they poured themselves what they wanted and how much they wanted. In general, there is little pleasure from eating, but we were not hungry either.

Territory. Large, beautiful, well-groomed territory with multi-colored colorful illumination in the evening. There are no complaints here, everything is fine, plus 1 star. It is not for nothing that the Bachelor program was filmed in this hotel.

In 2007, this hotel received a golden statuette. Feels like a luxury.

Near the hotel there is a small market with a pharmacy where you can buy fruits, masks, flippers. A survey mask from 10 to 20 $. Mango $3 per kilo, pomegranate $2. The pharmacy seems to have a fixed price, but the next day they called another cost + - $ 1-2.

Beach. There is a bar (snack bar) on the beach. There are various local drinks too. Real coffee only for a fee - $ 3, a can of beer - $ 5. Not bad for a 5 star hotel. The snack bar is just a name, more like a counter. They bring a plate of chopped cucumbers, tomatoes, such as sausages in the dough, sort of like pizza slices and similar to a casserole.

There are sun loungers (old, but renovated), there are awnings and umbrellas, towels are changed according to cards. The toilet is not always clean. The showers work, but there are broken taps on almost all of them. There are beaches for children (shallow water) and three small piers. Anti-coral shoes did not come in handy.
On the beach, coarse sand (fine stone) does not pleasantly rub your feet in slippers.

The sun rises early, it's better to wake up at 6.00, swim until it's hot, and by 7.00 for breakfast. At 17.00 everything stops working on the beach, the sea "closes", the lifeguard leaves, the red flag goes up. It gets dark early.

I don’t describe the pools, because if there is a sea, relaxing there is money thrown away. But, the bar here is better than on the beach. After lunch, ice cream machines work here and on the beach. Ice cream, unlike alcohol, is not bad.


Sea! Overseas plus 1 more star. The sea is clean, a coral strip stretches along the coast, there are many colorful fish. Everyone gets great pleasure from the contemplation of this beauty. It’s not even worth going somewhere on an excursion to see it, everything is nearby. For lovers of jumping, diving - there is a place on the pier, it is not forbidden. On the left at the end of the beach there is a diving center. They fed the fish from the pier, everything was already swarming, but it was impossible, it was forbidden.
By the way, taking something underwater on a mobile phone in a protective case is sooooo problematic. Take an action camera if possible.

Wi-fi is free, it covers almost the entire territory, where it is more, where it is less, but it is. I worked on the laptop in the room without problems. By the way, the room has a special connector for connecting a laptop. Viber works poorly, photos cannot be sent, WhatsApp - no problem.

In the evenings, there is not much entertainment, mainly karaoke.

Tour operator Join Up offers various tours, see the cost in the photo. We went to the square. Soho for $ 10 per person, there for this money they ate 2 ice creams, a can of Coca-Cola, water. We did not go to the cinema, instead of a hookah - ice cream. There, apart from the fountain, there is nothing to see, we sat on a bench for almost 3 hours.

We also took a romantic dinner on a yacht, the price is $45 per person, we are 10 people, they dropped it to $35. They didn't regret it. Beautiful yacht (pirate), live music, delicious seafood. I advise.

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Have a nice holiday everyone!
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