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Were in the hotel from 02.05. 13 to 12.05. 13. Flight from St. Petersburg takes 4 hours. The difference with St. Petersburg is 2 hours.
It takes 2.5 hours to get to the hotel, there is no serpentine, the road veers a little, but this is not a serpentine, a normal freeway, so if there is a small serpentine in the grotto. The room was 2+ child. There are 3 beds (2 next to one near the wall) there are small passages between them. There is a table, a chair and 2 bedside tables. There is a wardrobe with 3 drawers and a large compartment with hangers (we had a lot of them, but our first check-in). There is a plastic dryer outside the room. It's all. There is a safe and air conditioning (located under the window). The rooms on the second floor have a terrace with wicker sofas and a table. There are also 2-bed rooms on the ground floor with large glass doors, there are 2 beds and 2 soft sofas. I liked the food. True breakfast is modest. Fried eggs (the cook makes it in front of you), scrambled eggs, boiled egg, sausages, bacon, mushrooms.
Natural and blueberry yogurt, ricotta, 2 or 1 type of simple cheese (in the evenings there is parmegiano and 2 more types of delicious cheeses), salami and ham (conditionally edible, it can be even worse, but I generally have a bad attitude towards sausage). Pickled cucumbers, tomatoes, onions (a strange set in my opinion). Pastries and fruits (apples, kiwi, bananas, rarely pears in our race). Lunches and dinners are ok, but without a crazy choice. 2 types of meat (pork, lamb), seafood (most often squid). a dish from the chef (tuna or some other tasty big fish, pork baked in different ways). Various appetizers, soup. Desserts were very tasty. On May 9, there was a beautiful big cake in the form of the Russian flag with the inscription Victory Day. We were all very touched. It should be noted the good attitude towards the hotel guests.
We arrived at about 1 o'clock in the morning, so they were waiting for us with dinner, and departed at 18 o'clock (the rooms were extended to us until 16 o'clock, in general, delivery at 10 o'clock) was offered fries with sausages and tea. Also take a bottle of water with you on the road. This is the first time I've seen such an attitude. Usually at best a sandwich for a night check-in.
Room keys and a hotel card are given on the bus, you must give the voucher to the guide. Upon arrival, the staff meets you and escorts you to your room (it is very difficult to find the first time. Then you will understand everything), luggage is taken by cars, you attach green stickers to them (they are in an envelope with keys). We were fine with that. When you leave, you also have stickers, only red write the room number and bus number. There was a problem in our race: one suitcase was put to the wrong bus number and someone (although you load them yourself) threw this suitcase into the bus that left earlier.
It took our bus 45 minutes to find out where this suitcase was, the workers checked the hotel. My advice is to check the shipment of your luggage and then come and check where it is. Luckily our flight was delayed by 40 minutes. And then they would come to the butt.
If you have any questions I will answer. I will write about where we went later.
About the beach: there are 2 small beaches with sand, but about 50 cm in the water there is sand then stones with sand. In other places there are stairs and immediately depth. The water is crystal clear. In May 17-19 degrees. But we swam, although before that I didn’t swim even in June. Only from mid-July. Although this is not swimming, but swam 10 meters there and back. Come in warmer for the second time. The air and nature there are wonderful, the hotel grounds are beautiful. It is a nature reserve and the construction condition was to preserve nature to the maximum. The terrain is mountainous, so up, down. Probably the hardest thing is with children 3-4 years old, when they themselves are too lazy to walk. The little ones are in the stroller, and the older ones are on their own.
Sunbeds, Umbrellas are all free. Beach towels for a deposit of 10 euros at the reception. There are 6 courts, rackets and balls deposit 10 euros - 2 rackets 3 balls. Ping pong is the same. There is archery, but this is already with an instructor. Kayaks are also with an instructor. For free.
there is a small refrigerator, it contains 2 bottles of water, a can of fanta and cola, 2 bottles of juice. It's free, you have to pay to refill. There is a hair dryer. The water in the pools, in my opinion, is fresh, but does not smell strongly of bleach.
We did not use the card, somehow there was no need. She is paid at the spa (atomic prices, for example: massage 100 euros for 40 minutes, they already offered discounts for our departure) and at the bar for drinks that are not included in UALL.
UALL includes: at the bar: myrto, limoncello - these are local liqueurs, champagne, bakarbi, campari produced by Cinzano. Some brandy, rum, vodka, sambuca, they make cocktails, there is a cocktail of the day (in a large "basin").
In the restaurant: dry red and white wine (not very good for me, but everyone drank and many said that it was nothing, someone likes something), it is poured from a barrel, beer from vending machines. You can take something from the bar and go to the restaurant for dinner or lunch. Some poured wine for themselves in the morning.
Regarding what is open: we only had the central bar and restaurant open and one bar on the beach. There are more restaurants and bars, but they were closed.
The rooms were damp when we arrived, but we were heated by air conditioners and on the 3rd day it was already quite normal. the linen was not damp at all. By June, it seems to me they will be quite normal, in the heat, on the contrary, they will keep cool.
Where to go: Adam and Eve buses run inside the hotel, so you pay for them by card (we had it for free).
A bus (adam or eve) departs from the reception near the central bar at 10 and 17 o'clock to the town of Tortoli (there is a central street with shops, everyone goes there for shopping: shoes, clothes and supermarkets - they are not on the main street, but to the side on Conad there is pointer from the main street). Pick up back at 13:00 and 19:30. costs 4 euros round trip paid in cash to the driver. A boat departs to Orri beach from the beach, where the “sea base” is (on the spot you will understand where). Tickets seem to have to be bought at the reception, also in cash, it costs 6 euros round trip. Several arrivals according to the schedule 8.30, 9.9. 30 and others look at the reception, return at 12.12. 3.13. 00, etc. , but there weren’t many people on our check-in and everything went like God puts it on the soul, but whoever went there liked it (white small pebbles, a sunbed and an umbrella are included in the price, there is a toilet, a shower) it takes 5-7 minutes to go .
The Arbatax municipal beach is located: exit the hotel from the central reception and go straight to the asphalt road, then to the left, turn right in front of the souvenir shop and go a little further and you will see the beach, the restaurant and the hotel. Sunbeds on this beach are hotel. There the sand is grayish, sand enters the sea and there are stones a meter from the shore, but there are fewer of them than on the beach of the Arbtax hotel.
You need to go to the town of Arbatax like this: exit the hotel, go straight and at the intersection with the asphalt road, go right. Where there is a roundabout, go right (if straight, then go to Tortoli 2.5-3 km) and straight along the road to the port. On this street there is a pastry shop (they make cookies), a grocery store, a butcher's shop (fresh meat, prosciutto, cheeses, honey, wine, all local). Small supermarket. Church and souvenir shops. Cafe. There is a tourist office in the port. At the very end, if you turn right, there is an embankment with a beautiful exit of parfira on a granite base.
We went with Pegasus on a yacht (85 euros per person) from 8.15 to 18 hours. We liked. Sail along the east coast to the north. You drive into the Fico Grotto - it’s very beautiful there, only a little cold, you need to take a sweater or jacket. Excursion 45 minutes. You sail past the caves, snow-white small beaches. The coast is rocky and beautiful. A stop on a beach with white pebbles, where it is bigger, where it is smaller, is beautiful. There is nothing on the beach except for a few boulders and rocks. We were given a swim for 2.5 hours. Then lunch on the boat (parmengiento cheese, sausage, then pasta with seafood, then grilled seafood and peach shortbread, all washed down with dry red wine - I liked it, although I couldn’t eat on the drift) On the shore, the team gave us fruit and water, coca cola.
We went to the capital of the island, Kaleri, to go 2.15. Give 2.
5 hours for shopping in the center of Kaleri, at 13 o'clock the siesta begins, only a department store on the waterfront (such as Stockman) works, it has a free toilet for women on the 2nd floor in our opinion (according to them on the 1st floor). Then at 14 o'clock they boarded the bus and drove to the very top of the old city. The tour is led by a Serb named Dobry, his Russian is so-so, although he thinks differently. He speaks very badly. Nothing really explains where to go, what to watch with a group of 54 people. He speaks into a megaphone, which he forgets to turn on. The town is pretty, but the guide is bad, that's the conclusion. Then at 15.30 they are taken to the shopping center "le vere" like this name, they called it Outlet, but this is a bad version of any of our shopping centers, there is only a large supermarket. The Geox shoes there were 20 euros more expensive than the ones I bought in Kaleri and Tortoli. There's a Chicco store there. Discount Beneton, but it's empty.
It takes 2.5 hours to get to the hotel, there is no serpentine, the road veers a little, but this is not a serpentine, a normal freeway, so if there is a small serpentine in the grotto. The room was 2+ child. There are 3 beds (2 next to one near the wall) there are small passages between them. There is a table, a chair and 2 bedside tables. There is a wardrobe with 3 drawers and a large compartment with hangers (we had a lot of them, but our first check-in). There is a plastic dryer outside the room. It's all. There is a safe and air conditioning (located under the window). The rooms on the second floor have a terrace with wicker sofas and a table. There are also 2-bed rooms on the ground floor with large glass doors, there are 2 beds and 2 soft sofas. I liked the food. True breakfast is modest. Fried eggs (the cook makes it in front of you), scrambled eggs, boiled egg, sausages, bacon, mushrooms.
Natural and blueberry yogurt, ricotta, 2 or 1 type of simple cheese (in the evenings there is parmegiano and 2 more types of delicious cheeses), salami and ham (conditionally edible, it can be even worse, but I generally have a bad attitude towards sausage). Pickled cucumbers, tomatoes, onions (a strange set in my opinion). Pastries and fruits (apples, kiwi, bananas, rarely pears in our race). Lunches and dinners are ok, but without a crazy choice. 2 types of meat (pork, lamb), seafood (most often squid). a dish from the chef (tuna or some other tasty big fish, pork baked in different ways). Various appetizers, soup. Desserts were very tasty. On May 9, there was a beautiful big cake in the form of the Russian flag with the inscription Victory Day. We were all very touched. It should be noted the good attitude towards the hotel guests.
We arrived at about 1 o'clock in the morning, so they were waiting for us with dinner, and departed at 18 o'clock (the rooms were extended to us until 16 o'clock, in general, delivery at 10 o'clock) was offered fries with sausages and tea. Also take a bottle of water with you on the road. This is the first time I've seen such an attitude. Usually at best a sandwich for a night check-in.
Room keys and a hotel card are given on the bus, you must give the voucher to the guide. Upon arrival, the staff meets you and escorts you to your room (it is very difficult to find the first time. Then you will understand everything), luggage is taken by cars, you attach green stickers to them (they are in an envelope with keys). We were fine with that. When you leave, you also have stickers, only red write the room number and bus number. There was a problem in our race: one suitcase was put to the wrong bus number and someone (although you load them yourself) threw this suitcase into the bus that left earlier.
It took our bus 45 minutes to find out where this suitcase was, the workers checked the hotel. My advice is to check the shipment of your luggage and then come and check where it is. Luckily our flight was delayed by 40 minutes. And then they would come to the butt.
If you have any questions I will answer. I will write about where we went later.
About the beach: there are 2 small beaches with sand, but about 50 cm in the water there is sand then stones with sand. In other places there are stairs and immediately depth. The water is crystal clear. In May 17-19 degrees. But we swam, although before that I didn’t swim even in June. Only from mid-July. Although this is not swimming, but swam 10 meters there and back. Come in warmer for the second time. The air and nature there are wonderful, the hotel grounds are beautiful. It is a nature reserve and the construction condition was to preserve nature to the maximum. The terrain is mountainous, so up, down. Probably the hardest thing is with children 3-4 years old, when they themselves are too lazy to walk. The little ones are in the stroller, and the older ones are on their own.
Sunbeds, Umbrellas are all free. Beach towels for a deposit of 10 euros at the reception. There are 6 courts, rackets and balls deposit 10 euros - 2 rackets 3 balls. Ping pong is the same. There is archery, but this is already with an instructor. Kayaks are also with an instructor. For free.
there is a small refrigerator, it contains 2 bottles of water, a can of fanta and cola, 2 bottles of juice. It's free, you have to pay to refill. There is a hair dryer. The water in the pools, in my opinion, is fresh, but does not smell strongly of bleach.
We did not use the card, somehow there was no need. She is paid at the spa (atomic prices, for example: massage 100 euros for 40 minutes, they already offered discounts for our departure) and at the bar for drinks that are not included in UALL.
UALL includes: at the bar: myrto, limoncello - these are local liqueurs, champagne, bakarbi, campari produced by Cinzano. Some brandy, rum, vodka, sambuca, they make cocktails, there is a cocktail of the day (in a large "basin").
In the restaurant: dry red and white wine (not very good for me, but everyone drank and many said that it was nothing, someone likes something), it is poured from a barrel, beer from vending machines. You can take something from the bar and go to the restaurant for dinner or lunch. Some poured wine for themselves in the morning.
Regarding what is open: we only had the central bar and restaurant open and one bar on the beach. There are more restaurants and bars, but they were closed.
The rooms were damp when we arrived, but we were heated by air conditioners and on the 3rd day it was already quite normal. the linen was not damp at all. By June, it seems to me they will be quite normal, in the heat, on the contrary, they will keep cool.
Where to go: Adam and Eve buses run inside the hotel, so you pay for them by card (we had it for free).
A bus (adam or eve) departs from the reception near the central bar at 10 and 17 o'clock to the town of Tortoli (there is a central street with shops, everyone goes there for shopping: shoes, clothes and supermarkets - they are not on the main street, but to the side on Conad there is pointer from the main street). Pick up back at 13:00 and 19:30. costs 4 euros round trip paid in cash to the driver. A boat departs to Orri beach from the beach, where the “sea base” is (on the spot you will understand where). Tickets seem to have to be bought at the reception, also in cash, it costs 6 euros round trip. Several arrivals according to the schedule 8.30, 9.9. 30 and others look at the reception, return at 12.12. 3.13. 00, etc. , but there weren’t many people on our check-in and everything went like God puts it on the soul, but whoever went there liked it (white small pebbles, a sunbed and an umbrella are included in the price, there is a toilet, a shower) it takes 5-7 minutes to go .
The Arbatax municipal beach is located: exit the hotel from the central reception and go straight to the asphalt road, then to the left, turn right in front of the souvenir shop and go a little further and you will see the beach, the restaurant and the hotel. Sunbeds on this beach are hotel. There the sand is grayish, sand enters the sea and there are stones a meter from the shore, but there are fewer of them than on the beach of the Arbtax hotel.
You need to go to the town of Arbatax like this: exit the hotel, go straight and at the intersection with the asphalt road, go right. Where there is a roundabout, go right (if straight, then go to Tortoli 2.5-3 km) and straight along the road to the port. On this street there is a pastry shop (they make cookies), a grocery store, a butcher's shop (fresh meat, prosciutto, cheeses, honey, wine, all local). Small supermarket. Church and souvenir shops. Cafe. There is a tourist office in the port. At the very end, if you turn right, there is an embankment with a beautiful exit of parfira on a granite base.
We went with Pegasus on a yacht (85 euros per person) from 8.15 to 18 hours. We liked. Sail along the east coast to the north. You drive into the Fico Grotto - it’s very beautiful there, only a little cold, you need to take a sweater or jacket. Excursion 45 minutes. You sail past the caves, snow-white small beaches. The coast is rocky and beautiful. A stop on a beach with white pebbles, where it is bigger, where it is smaller, is beautiful. There is nothing on the beach except for a few boulders and rocks. We were given a swim for 2.5 hours. Then lunch on the boat (parmengiento cheese, sausage, then pasta with seafood, then grilled seafood and peach shortbread, all washed down with dry red wine - I liked it, although I couldn’t eat on the drift) On the shore, the team gave us fruit and water, coca cola.
We went to the capital of the island, Kaleri, to go 2.15. Give 2.
5 hours for shopping in the center of Kaleri, at 13 o'clock the siesta begins, only a department store on the waterfront (such as Stockman) works, it has a free toilet for women on the 2nd floor in our opinion (according to them on the 1st floor). Then at 14 o'clock they boarded the bus and drove to the very top of the old city. The tour is led by a Serb named Dobry, his Russian is so-so, although he thinks differently. He speaks very badly. Nothing really explains where to go, what to watch with a group of 54 people. He speaks into a megaphone, which he forgets to turn on. The town is pretty, but the guide is bad, that's the conclusion. Then at 15.30 they are taken to the shopping center "le vere" like this name, they called it Outlet, but this is a bad version of any of our shopping centers, there is only a large supermarket. The Geox shoes there were 20 euros more expensive than the ones I bought in Kaleri and Tortoli. There's a Chicco store there. Discount Beneton, but it's empty.
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