Quiet calm hotel

Written: 12 december 2019
Travel time: 5 — 14 november 2019
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 3.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 3.0
Overall impression 4.
Staff. Very polite and responsive, they try very hard from the reception to the cleaners.
Rooms. The rooms are not so hot. Maybe the Italians and Germans are accommodated in better rooms, or maybe as lucky. Family room 104 - the furniture is old, in the bathroom there is a curtain from the times of the USSR, in some places there is mold. The second bathroom, like from a children's room, without doors, a window, like a stable, there is no curtain in the shower. Water flies on the toilet and all around. Bathed in the same bathroom. The windows are small, more like window vents. Friends lived in room 110 (for two), their room was lighter, more spacious, and in the bathroom, no curtain, shower behind a partition, toilet bowl behind another partition. But a cute lizard lived in their hallway, and she also brought kids : ))) The safes worked. The refrigerator is barely cold. The water didn't even get cold. They tried to increase the cold in both rooms, but they seem to be twisting the regulator on purpose so that they don’t bring food to the room. The temperature is not regulated. It’s a pity we noticed it late when we bought shrimp in the old town : (((The advantages of these rooms are in the location, near the beach with a flooded pontoon, near the pool, near the bar and restaurant. Since we only spent the night in the rooms, we closed our eyes to the condition of the rooms.

Room cleaning. Fine. Cleanly. Soap and shampoo are poured into dispensers on the walls. Yes, yes, there is liquid soap and shampoo. Someone wrote in the reviews that towels and bedding were changed every laziness. No one will change your towels every day. If you came, and they are all neatly folded, then keep in mind that they were not changed for new ones, but they were also mixed up, you will no longer find where the fathers are, where the mothers are, and where the children are. Therefore, leaving the room, we ourselves put the towels in the closet, no one touched them there. But if you want to change, throw all the towels on the floor at the front door, then they will be changed for you. And no one changes the bed every day. The cleaner makes and smoothes the bed. That's the whole point.
Reception. They speak English. Only one employee at the reception speaks Russian, but he cannot work around the clock. Settlement. We arrived at the hotel at 10 am. At the reception they said "if you want to check in now 20 euros or come at 13-00. " Bracelets were put on immediately - this is a plus. Changed clothes, went to eat, shopped, sat in the bar and returned to the reception at 13-00. We were offered: 1) family room 104 (the smell of sewage); 2) two separate rooms offered, far from the sea. There, one number was normal, and the second was smoky, even hang an ax. Everything, they said that there were no more rooms, since the children and I wanted rooms next to each other. We returned to the family room 104. They aired it out, leaving the door to the bathroom closed. The following days, the smell was heard only 1 time. Plasma TV in one room. Shows 1 + 1 and the first channel of Russia, then Egyptian, Italian channels.
Nutrition. The variety of dishes is not very large, but the cuisine is delicious. On Fridays, something like sushi, well, so-so, you can eat. Grilled food every day. The chef is preparing pasta. The pasta is very tasty, but if you do not like spicy, and very spicy, you need to ask him to make it without chili. Falafel is not tasty, some kind of dry, there is something to compare. Once in 10 days there was squid stew with vegetables. But of course it had to be found among the vegetables : ), delicious potatoes with a crust. Fish, chicken, beef every day. Sweets are delicious. Pretty tasty yogurt in the morning. And by the way, this is the first hotel in which I tried an edible Egyptian sausage, look, pieces of meat are visible in it, if without pieces, but like boiled meat, it is not tasty.
Bar. Not a bad beer, but the degree in it is certainly small. The locals call it dog gasoline. The rest of the drinks, as elsewhere. The wine is not tasty. The pizza at the bar is delicious. The bar is served until 23-00. After dinner they give ice cream, in small portions.

Beach. Two beaches. There is a plastic pontoon, there is a flooded one. You need to try, see who likes what. The advantage of the beach is that there are always enough places and sunbeds for everyone. Sunbeds are old, beach towels are very old. It's time to replace the towels. You can leave masks, fins, goggles, etc. and here no one will take anything from someone else. Not that contingent. On the beach of the flooded pontoon, if you climb onto the stones, to the left of the pontoon, look down, there are crabs living on a stone in the water.
Pools. Both are deep. In early November, not one was heated, but since the air temperature was 31-33 degrees, the water in the pool was comfortable.
Animators. Respect, the guys are trying.
Mosquitoes. Here someone wrote in the reviews that they smoke mosquitoes. In the first half of November, no one smoked them. Mosquito darkness. They don’t buzz, you don’t feel the bite, you understand that you’ve been bitten when the itching begins. They didn't even bite, they ate you. So take something from mosquitoes with you.
Reef. Not bad, but we've seen better. Although divers said that the reef is very beautiful. Maybe the reef is better at depth, but if you snorkel, then half dead, half alive. Fish are varied.
Location. The hotel is on the outskirts, there is really nowhere to go. Only by taxi. Once we went to the old town on foot 4.5 km. Who likes to walk a lot, that's it. Taxi from hotel to old town $10. You go outside the hotel - $ 8, we say no, we don’t need to, we start walking. Then it’s already 6, and if you walk a little to Al Tawar street, from there we took a taxi to the old city once for $ 2 - three people, and the second time - $ 3 - 4 people. From the hotel, as other tourists told us, there is a free shuttle to the George Clooney market. They drive back and forth. You need to ask at the reception. But we did not go, we found out about it on the last day.
Entertainment. Every evening at 21-00 some entertainment. Fire show, performance of the Egyptian ensemble, photographing with a camel and pharaohs, magic show, belly dance, competition Mr. Hotel, etc.
Internet. Wifi only at the reception and at the bar. Weak. But it’s enough to write a couple of lines to relatives, they even managed to send a couple of photos. The password is changed every day. You have to pick it up at the reception.

Eviction. The plane was in the evening. The room was handed over at 11-50. No left accounts, no one put up for us. We politely asked to leave the cards on the towels and not to cut off the bracelets. They allowed us, they just asked us not to tell anyone : ))) At 16-00 a bus came for us, we got into it and then the receptionist took out 0.5 cold water for each. A trifle? It's nice, not every hotel sees you off like that. In general, we are happy with our holiday. If you do not care where to spend the night, you want silence, good food, then you are here.
The kids will be bored!! ! The hotel is aimed at European pensioners. But since we have adult children, 17 years old and 19 years old, plus we are also with friends, ours were not bored. Shall we go to Labranda again? Maybe if a major renovation of the rooms is carried out. Although... we didn’t see in which rooms the Germans lived, maybe everything is fine in their rooms : )))
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