Fine. Although I often see flaws, where others do not see.

Written: 26 june 2011
Travel time: 29 may — 12 june 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 6.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 6.0
We went on a burning ticket. Before that, I asked a hotel in travel agencies that a modest room, not far from the sea, but good food, so as not to get sick and there was a choice. Everything that was offered inexpensively, according to reviews, was complete crap and I did not risk going there with a child. So I went to the Crimea, rented an apartment. And then we were lucky with this burning one. Reviews in the i-no also turned out to be normal and we went. Of the shortcomings - cramped (we had 3 beds in the room, with two it would have been better), a cramped shower (somewhere around 60 to 60, you beat with your elbows), the entire bathroom is cramped. We didn’t have a shelf under the mirror (the tooth of the brush was placed on the toilet bowl), the girlfriend didn’t have curtains in the shower, but there was a shelf. Our 515 is a great number. View of the pool and the sea. There are 321 of them - a view into a deaf well - the wall of another house. If someone has a view of the street, it's terrible. Traffic is active around the clock. 515 - this is called the 3rd, but really the 5th floor. In the same rooms, but below you will no longer see the sea. Our room is very cool. that the sun sets on the balcony (not in the room) only after dinner. The wind blows from the sea. We turned on the condo once, before the thunderstorm it was very steamy. The TV caught only ORT, it seems, we did not turn it on.
If the first floor (and the second) with a balcony immediately to the pool - all day screaming and cigarette smoke in the room. Just close and breathe. At 22, the exit to the pool is closed. Silence.
Attention: the wooden floor around the pool is splintery, though you can't tell. The boy was taken in a taxi to remove three splinters from his leg. And the parents pulled the girl out of the hand. FREQUENT cases of "entrance" into the glass between the pool and the dining room. the staff, apparently, for fun, because they didn’t do anything (at least stick strips with opaque adhesive tape) even after the girl was taken away on insurance with suspected concussion and a blue bump on her forehead. A day later, the girl with the tray fit in, all the food was glass on glass. The waiters silently wiped off.

At the reception is a wonderful girl Agnia. Very pleasant, speaks good Russian, helps in all matters (up to what brand of oil, soap to buy, which excursion is easier on our own, and which is better through an agency). As elsewhere, it is cheaper to buy from travel agencies on the street. All agencies, shops work until 23. In the evening after dinner, everything is bought and solved without any problems. Russian is spoken everywhere. In English too. And in car rentals, and in shops, and in travel agencies.
The food is good, but not suitable for kids. The potatoes are tasty there, but they are in greasy (delicious) gravy. If you wash it off with boiling water (you can take it in the machine next to it), then you can also use it for babies. But there is no boiled or steamed meat, there is no lean fish. From fish all the time pangasius, sometimes breaded fish sticks. Meat: fried chicken, pork, lamb, beef. A lot of vegetables. Sweet pies, jelly, puddings are baked. Ice cream for free (tasteless).
Bar from 10 am to 10 pm. In Kyiv, half a glass of wine is enough for me to lightly intoxicate. There I drank a glass or two and nothing. Just a nice white wine. And in the local (not cheap) cafes, I didn’t get drunk either. Only after two full glasses was there any hint in my head that I was drinking.
Iron and background, in my opinion, one for the whole hotel. I once asked for an iron: it was busy. Received when released.
The maids are friendly. Almost no Russian is spoken. Indeed, I saw that they were smoking along the corridor between the rooms. But our room did not smell of cigarettes even once after them.
The beaches are all free. But on the beach near the hotel there is no toilet, changing rooms, shower. Until lunch we walked side by side with our umbrellas and bedding. And after 17, without umbrellas, we went to Star Beach (10-15 minutes). There is a bourgeois island : ) There are many children's pools with slides. Everything (except the big slides) is free. Paid, as everywhere, umbrellas and sun loungers.
In Hersonissos all the time is calm, and in Malia (we went several times to Ikaros Hotel) there are waves all the time.
The mountains and the sea in Crete are very beautiful. The sea is always transparent (in Crimea only when the water is ice cold). There are a lot of hedgehogs on the stones - be careful.
I liked Hersonissos very much. Night life starts after 12. By one o'clock they are already dancing. At 23 - only a few people near the bar, no one is dancing.

It is interesting to walk along the embankment to the lighthouse, to sit near it.
Write, I will answer questions.
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