Good budget stay with no frills.

Written: 8 june 2010
Travel time: 23 may — 5 june 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 9.0
Returned from vacation 06/05/2010. Impressions are still fresh. I'll try to share some of them. In general, it can be assessed as satisfactory. If we take into account the cost of living and a package of services, then everything is very even nothing.
And so, in order.
Met and accommodated just fine. The whole procedure of accommodation in the hotel took about 15 minutes. The room is fairly standard. The only gripe is that there is practically no lighting in two rooms, not counting a couple of nightlights, so it is unlikely that you will be able to read the bedtime in the room. I don’t know if everyone knows that initially the hotel was twice as large, and when I bought the tour, the information was still old: 96000 sq. m. area, 4 pools, 4 slides, etc. In reality, I saw everything cut in half, since half of the hotel is fenced off with a mesh chain-link for civilized Europeans, in particular Germans, and the second half is reserved for not very civilized immigrants from the former USSR. there is nothing particularly terrible in this, it was just that such a reduction in the hotel was unexpected for me. Being not a big supporter of interethnic communication, I did not really suffer from the absence of a German.

The next positive thing is that the hotel is family-run and 90% of the guests are families with children. In view of this, the hotel is very calm, because parents cannot afford to take a walk and get off to the fullest. You let children go to any event quite calmly, and there are a lot of events for children.
The third positive point is animation and animators. The program is very rich. It should be noted that the organizational preparation leaves much to be desired, but the animators are trying very hard and are very nice guys themselves. Animators working with children are Russian girls, so there are no problems in communication. For adults, it's also not a bad program with charming Turkish guys and Russian girls. So you can get bored if you try very hard.
The fourth positive point is that all the hotel staff are very attentive and responsive, if you do not unnecessarily compost their brains with your unfounded claims. This means that a person bought a tour to a budget hotel for a family vacation, and requests from him as the owner of V. I. P. tour. This has often been observed. In this case, the staff abruptly ceases to understand you and your further communication with them will be difficult. If you want to be respected, respect those around you.
The fifth point is pools and slides. The pools are very comfortable, the slides have become a favorite place for kids. My son was just delighted and did not leave them until he collapsed from fatigue.
Now a little about what I did not really like.
The first negative point is the trestle beds and umbrellas. Place at the pool must be taken until 8.00. The administration failed to overcome this tradition, so we also had to put up with local traditions. I had to borrow sunbeds and an umbrella at 6.30 - 7.15. Places near the two pools and the sea are sorely lacking, with umbrellas the situation is even worse.
The second point that was not very pleasantly surprised was the lack of changing cabins. Why they were neglected, I myself could not explain.

The third point that parents should especially pay attention to is that when the water in the pool warms up, a certain reaction occurs with the bleach in it and it becomes very aggressive, those. a persistent smell of bleach appears, eyes begin to feel it, rashes occur on the skin, which in turn cause itching and itching. Naturally, you should not blame the administration for this, you just need to know about it and take it into account.
The fourth point - the capacity of the hotel is not very designed for the number of people received. In May, we did not experience any problems with a table in a restaurant, in a bar, with the speed of cleaning dirty dishes from the tables, the assortment of dishes during one meal did not change much. In July, the situation changed coordinately. The waiters do not have time to clean the tables, change appliances, but the tables themselves become insufficient and you just have to hunt for them. The bustle in the restaurant is worse than in the oriental bazaar, everyone is scurrying about in search of tol, hunting for quickly disappearing food, respectively, the general noise and rumble is not very conducive to a comfortable meal.
Fifth moment. In July, the general situation began to hurt in the eyes to resemble a Soviet boarding house. Before sitting down, in perfectly clean toilets, a corresponding persistent smell of Soviet public toilets appeared. Food scraps and other garbage began to appear around the pool more and more often. It became much louder in all places of mass congestion of tourists. In short, I personally regretted that I had to capture five days of June. And it is not the hotel administration that is to blame for this, but the shameless and arrogant contingent that has arrived, for which the established norms of behavior are not yet known. This is the case when I really understand the Germans, when they do not want to go to hotels with Russians on pain of death. To be honest, now I don’t burn with this desire either.
As for food, it is determined by the general level of the hotel and the cost of your stay. Everything is very budget and modest, but quite acceptable and edible. If you, like me, are a vegetarian, then you, like me, should not have any problems, vegetables were in abundance. For meat-eaters, the situation is not so rosy, although not deadly, Turkish sausages are constantly available. If you want good meat and a lot - pay more money and go to a hotel of the appropriate class.

Eventually. If in a nutshell to describe the rest in this hotel - a budget holiday for not wealthy citizens of the former USSR, who really want to relax abroad. For the sake of fairness, it must be said that despite all the modesty and simplicity, Crimea cannot be compared in terms of money or service. So if you do not have a little more money - then this is your choice. Have a good rest and a lot of positive impressions.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original