Sabena Marmara 4*

Written: 15 november 2009
Travel time: 17 — 28 october 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 8.0
Were from 10/17/09 to 10/28/09
Upon arrival at the hotel at the reception, everyone is offered a superior room for $ 20, i. e. on the 2nd floor overlooking the pool. If you do not agree, then they settle on the 1st floor. Our room left much to be desired. The water from the shower flowed weakly, the chest of drawers collapsed, the air conditioner almost did not work, the bathroom was dirty, etc. The service staff is polite, knows a little Russian. The territory of the hotel is green.
Meals 3 times a day, without any "snacks". The food is delicious, but monotonous, on the 6th day it gets boring already. From food always: potatoes, pasta, rice, stewed vegetables, fresh vegetables, chicken, beef, fish and a couple of tasteless salads. There was also pizza and lasagna. Sweets are so-so, and pastries in the morning are delicious. From fruits: grapes, dates, melons, oranges. If you come to a restaurant for breakfast / lunch / dinner not at the very beginning, then most likely you will have to sit at a dirty table. For some reason they can't get rid of them. There were also no teaspoons.

Once during our stay they had dinner on the street around the pool, fried chicken skewers. We liked.
Beach 2: sandy and coral, carried by bus on schedule. Which is very stressful. There is no bar on the beaches from the hotel, so you can only buy all drinks at your own expense, which is not very logical when buying an “All inclusive” tour. Sandy beach (next to Oldmarket), if you walk, it's sooo far away. The beach is located in a bay, the entrance to the sea is very gentle, in order to swim normally you need to go far. There are a lot of sun loungers on this beach, there are always free ones. There is no life in the sea.
Coral beach is 20 min. walk at a fast pace. But in the heat of course annoying. Better by bus. The beach is designed for 8 hotels. However, the beach itself is very small. You can take a sunbed if you go early in the morning. We arrived at 11 am, we were gone. They just put their things in a bag, put them next to someone's sunbed and went for a swim. In principle, sunbathing on this beach will not work, because. umbrellas are close together.
The underwater world on the coral beach is very beautiful, especially if you swim to the left to the pontoon of the neighboring hotel. We saw stingrays and moray eels there. By the way, there was no pontoon on our beach, we first had to swim a decent distance over the old dead corals, this is of course the second big minus.
In the hotel pool, the water is warm, around the pool in the late afternoon a lot of annoying flies appeared, you can’t lie quietly. There were a lot of mosquitoes in the evening, so take the biting agent!
Once every 3 days there was a performance in the evenings (belly dance, dance with skirts, etc. ) about the same thing... after that there was a disco (it was every day), where 3.5 people hung out. During the day, unobtrusive music plays near the pool, which cannot but rejoice
The hotel rests a lot of Russians, 80%.
In the shop at the hotel you can buy a mask a little more expensive than in the market.

In general - Next time we will go only to the hotel on the 1st coastline. The hotel pulls a maximum of 4--
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