The hotel is tired. Compare well with similar prices

Written: 25 june 2021
Travel time: 4 — 11 august 2020
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 3.0
Service: 1.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 4.0
Amenities: 8.0
Hello! Last year I had a rest at the hotel, then it was also called Amara Club Marine.
It has been a very difficult year due to the pandemic. Since July, the borders have been open for Ukraine, and in August we also decided to go.
So we arrived early in the morning (about 5 am). The first impression is that the hotel is a little tired, although they try to maintain it in a viable condition.
Was 10 years ago in this hotel. Now, when I arrived and talked with the guide, I concluded for myself that Amara is no longer the same. Yes, and in 2020, Amara, but was on loan in the Armas group (as I understand it).
Accommodation and room. And so, upon arrival, we were taken to a snack bar, where you can have a snack around the clock with sausages, french fries, etc. Then, in contrast to the words that the room will be available only after dinner, I gave 20 euros. After that, literally 10 minutes later, a free room was found.

The room is good, the bungalow is on the second floor. Minibar replenished, cleaning every day. There are no complaints.
Restaurants and food. The food is good, but no frills. In August, we did not see tuna, crayfish, shrimp, lamb, red fish, beautiful performances - ala pasta in a cheese head. If there was something tasty, then long queues lined up and, even behind this "delicious" one, I noticed more than once how the cooks were put aside separately (as I understood, they left it to themselves). Even this moment is unpleasant. There was baklava, a couple of types of ice cream. Freshly squeezed orange juice for breakfast. In addition, ice cream was also given in the middle of the day.
For drinks in the main restaurant had to stand in line for a long time. Drinks were not served. And especially, in extreme heat, when at 22 o'clock it was still 28 degrees, then I really wanted to drink and not once for dinner
We didn't go to the a la carte so I can't comment. The animation was near the pool, the amphitheater did not work. There was no animation for children.
Sea beach everything is good, clean, cleaned. The pool is also ok. It was a little embarrassing that sunbeds were bubbling with towels, but this happens in many hotels.
True, there was one minus - I would advise you to buy corals, since there are large sharp stones under water in the area of ​ ​ ​ ​ the beach of this hotel. I myself presumptuously thought that it was okay to go around the stones, but I cut my leg at the beginning of the vacation, cut it deeply. Until the end of the vacation, I sealed it with a band-aid, and at the end of the vacation, although I went in with caution, I cut my second foot, though not deep. The first time so suffered from pitfalls.
SPA, shopping and photo studio
SPA - very intrusive guys, right now they "press with such an onslaught" that it is uncomfortable to offer their SPA. Although we say that we have already burned down a little, anyway they say let's go and that's it.
Shops and shopping trips in Kemer. Also "pressure", but not as much as with the SPA.

Photo - well done guy. More loyal offers. By the way, he’ll come up, talk, a nice guy. They even agreed to take pictures. The photos turned out bombastic. And at the end of the day, they didn't pay well. The main thing guys BARGAIN. When the pictures were taken.
The photo studio liked the mood, unobtrusiveness, with the approach to talk.
Hotel occupancy
We caught two days when the borders were opened for Russian tourists. And the hotel was 100% full. There were very long queues, just insane. This is not said in the direction of Russian tourists, but in the direction of the hotel itself. The staff could not cope, obviously there were not enough hands, because of this, the service became long in time.

General impression:
Pros: The hotel is ok. From the positive - green territory, a relative variety of food, a clean beach and pool, orange juice in the morning.
Cons: food without frills, and although we looked at the reviews for the past 2019 - the variety was chic, and it seems like August is the peak month - the high season, and the occupancy in the hotel is not 70% as they said, but all 100%, they didn’t particularly indulge in food US.
Intrusive employees of the SPA and hotel shops.
The hotel is a little tired.
The hotel is overcrowded, the staff is very small, the staff in the main restaurant can not cope. When guests of the hotel put off food "for themselves", despite the fact that the guests are standing in line for it. Unpleasant.
Sharp stones in the sea on the beach. Perhaps here everyone just needs to go into the sea in corals.
There is no animation for children, except for the evening disco.
Perhaps, as for the time of the pandemic, he spoke out in a negative way. But I have something to compare. I compared similar hotels by price category on Instagram, so in other hotels it was noticeably better. Perhaps he relied on the AMARA network, which used to be one of the best, but now it is not.
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