the hotel does not reach a C grade

Written: 30 november 2023
Travel time: 19 — 26 november 2023
Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 3.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 3.0
Food: 3.0
Amenities: 4.0
This hotel is worth going to only if the price is very cheap and you are very unpretentious. I've vacationed in C grades several times before, but I've never seen such a poor C grade.
Nutrition. This is probably the weakest point of the hotel. Potatoes were only for breakfast, and then they were quickly scattered. For breakfast there were also scrambled eggs and fried eggplants (delicious, but they also ran out quickly). The only baked goods were flatbreads, and then only for breakfast. There weren't even boiled eggs. The tea was in the form of tea leaves and you had to brew it yourself in small plastic cups. It’s good that I had a cup with me, I came to breakfast with it and made tea in it. And I wasn’t the only one who did this. For lunch and dinner there was one type of meat, in principle tasty, but they were given in portions and you had to go 2-3 times. Fish for dinner was often heavily salted. Dinner also included rice and pasta.
Cucumbers and tomatoes were finely chopped in salads with cabbage; there were cucumbers in slices for dinner, although not always, but they were sorted out very quickly. There weren't enough forks for dinner. And when a large group of Egyptian students checked into the hotel in the middle of the week, there was also a shortage of plates. There was never any fruit. We filled our bottles with water in the cooler.

Beach. The hotel has one free beach, Palma Beach. The bus takes you there only once a day at 9 a. m. and takes you back at 2 p. m. But the beach is nearby, a 15-20 minute walk, so you can walk. The beach is large, with toilets and showers. Entrance to the sea from a wooden panton. There it is immediately deep, there is a coral reef. There is an entrance from the shore, more like for children to splash around. There were waves in the sea for two days and the swimming pontoon was closed. Then we went to the paid El Fanar beach, a 10-minute walk from Palma Beach, right behind the Jaz Fanara hotel, turn right and down the steps.
El Fanar is located in a bay under the rocks, so there is no wind or waves there. The beach itself is very cramped. The sun loungers are in one continuous line, there is no toilet or shower there. Initially they will ask for $5 per person. but you need to bargain, it’s definitely not worth $5. There is a much better beach nearby for $5 (although the price may change, the same beach used to cost $10). This beach is also called El Fanar, you need to go straight and down to it, without turning right after Jaz Fanara. This is a large, spacious beach with all amenities, including a cafe.
The hotel rooms are large and spacious. The bed linen is old, all in pellets and with holes. The rooms were cleaned every day. Wi-Fi is available at the reception and, oddly enough, it works quite well; it was enough for instant messengers and voice messages. Although you won’t be able to sit at the reception for long, because there are just a lot of mosquitoes in the hotel.
The hotel is located in a convenient location, with many shops around.
Around the corner (opposite the 1001 night complex) there is a Mango market with fixed prices. We bought frozen fresh mango, guava, and strawberry juices there. Basically, you can buy almost anything there. It's about a 30-minute walk to the Old Market. by taxi.
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