объемный отзыв voluminous recall

1. Location: The hotel is an hour drive from the airport.
2. Food: the menu is quite varied. Fruits: watermelon, lemon, orange, apple, pear, banana, kiwi, peach, apricot. Seafood: shrimp (boiled and in pancakes), octopus (in rice), fish. There is always meat (chicken, pork, beef tongue, lamb and all this in different versions). A lot of vegetables, both raw and grilled, baked, in sauces. Drinks: in the dining room there are 3 types of "juice" - orange, cherry and apple (juice does not smell here). For breakfast, you can order coffee from the machine (if IT can be called “coffee”). I drank coffee at the bar near the pool, but the bartender should order coffee not from the Jacobs machine, but from the coffee machine. After a week of our vacation (after the Russians arrived at the hotel), the drinks in the bar began to be heavily diluted. Color - juice, taste - water. In the dining room, pay attention to the "cleanliness" of the glasses.
3. Number: three of us went

(me, husband and 7 year old daughter). We booked a DUBL room but were upgraded to a superior room (bungalow). By the way, #312. The hotel was half empty and we were lucky… Now about the room: the plumbing is old, the faucets are peeling. There is no shower or bathtub. There was a curtain and a side 10 cm high on the floor. No matter how you curtain it, after taking a shower, the entire floor was wet. Water seeped even into the hallway. The drain, which should receive the remaining water, is made without a slope and the water in the bathroom stays until it dries. And it dries up badly, because. there is no ventilation in the bathroom. Instead, a small window opens, which does not ventilate the room at all. The water in the shower is cold, but if you drain it for 5 minutes (without exaggeration), it will go hot. After such a bath, the smell of dampness is especially annoying. There are also wood lice crawling in the bathroom. Spectacle - atas!! ! I forgot to say that this room is a bunk. Downstairs is a bathroom, children's bedroom-living room. From the furniture here: a wardrobe, a dressing table with a pouffe, a bunk bed (for children), a sofa, a mini-fridge, a coffee table. On the floor - ceramic tiles. From the living room there is access to the backyard, where there is wicker furniture. On the second tier: chest of drawers, dressing table and double bed. On the floor - carpet. Now about the furniture: all old, falling apart (no exaggeration). On the children's bed, instead of slats, there are boards on which the mattress is. The stairs to the second tier creak terribly. Probably because it's made of wood. The armrests on the sofa just fall off. Yes, I completely forgot that there are 2 TVs in the room, but there is only one remote control... if you turn off the TV on the second tier, it turns on on the first. Fun! By the way, about fun: there are no animators, even for children, just as there are no playgrounds. There is one faded hill, and even then a crowd of kids ruined it in our presence. 2 swings for one-year-old children hang on a tree. And that's it! In short, the rest here does not provide for children.
4. Territory: green. There are fountains, but they don't work. In the evenings, in the pools, you can see the garbage of vegetable "production", and the bird's too. The pool is not cleaned, and at 18.30 a man comes with a bucket of bleach. And pours it into the pool.
5. And finally, the beach. We were told that our bungalow, like the rest of the hotel, is on the first line. Yes, indeed, nothing separated us from the beach, except for a distance of 150 meters, which must be overcome along a dirt broken road. Then you cross the paved road and you are on the beach. On the way we came across a swamp where frogs croak at night. A sheepfold is located 200 meters from the territory. And the shepherd often grazes his pets here. But from the beach they are almost invisible. Oh yes, the beach here is urban. That is, umbrellas, sun loungers are free of charge, but they do not clean the beach. Dry algae, overflowing trash cans… There are no locker rooms, let alone toilets. Another nuisance is sea urchins. They nest on rocks and between them. I advise you to buy special shoes for swimming. The nearest civilization is 2 km away. It's called Metamorphosis. It took us 40 minutes to get there on foot. But, before you go down this path, look at your watch to see if you are in for a siesta (a kind of break during the heat for coffee drinking). During the siesta, most shops are closed.
6. Excursions: we went to Thessaloniki, to Kastoria. In Thessaloniki we were accompanied by a guide Victoria. A little about her: in Victoria's speech there were parasitic words that slightly "cut" the ear. Provided little information. And all this could be read in the booklet about Thessaloniki. Switched from topic to topic. In short, you be the judge. Oranges were bought at the market in Thessaloniki for 0.69 €/kg. Delicious, ripe. . . We don't have those. Strawberries at 1.5€/kg. Choice, ripe. We visited the church of St. Demetrius. Very nice. We visited the observation deck at the walls of Thessaloniki. Then we went to the White Tower.

The second excursion is Kastoria… the city of private factories for tailoring fur coats, and that says it all… The PKZ factory made a huge impression. When you tell the consultant that this fur coat is expensive for you, he offers to try on another - much more expensive. I was struck by the owner of the factory, Signor Popadopolos. The old man is still the same! Together with the consultant, he did not let me out of the room. Everyone was talking and talking. Then they waited until I got out of the WC to try on another expensive fur coat (and this after I said that I had not found anything suitable for me). Then he threw away an expensive blackglama mink coat and began to trample it (and his shoes cost, I think, no less than a fur coat). After that, the consultant picked up a fur coat from the floor and demonstrated its impeccable appearance after trampling. But I was never persuaded. There are a lot of impressions after Kastoria. The only annoying thing is the road. Drive there 3 hours. In short, even late for dinner. But on the way, the driver called the hotel back and ordered dinner in the room. Have brought. Yes, if you are going on a tour, you can take a lunch pack. Some snack + water. The lunch package is ordered until 20.00 at the reception the day before the trip. The morning after breakfast, tell the waiter that you want to take a lunch package, room number and get it.
Cost of excursions: Thessaloniki – 35 €
Kastoria – 20 €
7. Service: I'll start with the number plate. When changing towels they are taken away and brought the next day. The room is cleaned daily. Now the bar: the service is normal if you know which bartender to contact. We preferred Robert. Very friendly little guy. There was a local clown bartender there. Didn't recognize the name. Small and full. He played the fool and went too far with his jokes. At the reception of the two young ladies, only one speaks Russian. She also offered us a bungalow instead of the ordered standard. Said this number was better. We agreed. But then it turned out that we were settled in a bungalow with an old renovation, and the declared room, from which we were dissuaded, was a much better bungalow (recently built, with a brand new renovation and larger). We saw this with our own eyes, having met the Germans who lived in the standard. Our guide was Ruslan. The boy is absolutely purple, what is happening to you. If you ask a question, he reads the information from the booklet. If the question is not about excursions, he runs to find out at the reception. There was not enough sense from him. After the rest, on the way to the airport, the escort gave me to fill out a questionnaire about the time spent in Greece. There are a lot of grammatical errors in the questionnaire. But it was the road home, and mistakes only cheered me up. And I wanted to go home!
8. ATTENTION! This hotel is listed as a 4 star hotel. But this is according to local regulations. In fact (according to European standards) it is a 3-star hotel.
Well, that's all I would like to tell you. Have a nice holiday!! !