Good for your money

Written: 26 june 2021
Travel time: 12 — 19 july 2019
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 5.0
I would like to share my review about the Endam Garden Hotel, since when choosing a hotel, it was the reviews that I primarily paid attention to.
So let's start with accommodation. We arrived at the hotel by 12 noon, 6 more people were staying with us. In total, 8 people for whom 4-5 rooms were prepared within an hour and at 13 we left our suitcases and went for lunch. Although officially the check-in starts at 14. In our small area there is free WiFi, which caught both in the rooms and near the pool. The Internet, although weak, is enough to send text messages in instant messengers, with photos it will be harder. But they can also be exchanged.

Next, I'll talk about food. You won't go hungry if you arrive right at the start of your meal.

In the morning they give an omelet with sausage like salami, just boiled eggs, more vegetables (tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, lettuce leaves), salads (both with mayonnaise and without), there is hard cheese, several types of soft cheeses of varying degrees salinity, margarine, two types of boiled sausage, olives, black olives, baked vegetables and grilled vegetables (eggplant, zucchini). Also for breakfast they give a small but very tasty bun (sometimes with chocolate inside). There are jams, both in individual packages and in large containers from which you can pour them into your own waffle cups. There is cold milk and oatmeal.

For lunch they always give meat, most often chicken (there are kebabs, nuggets, grilled chicken or just fried chicken parts on the bones). Baked or steamed vegetables (cauliflower, broccoli, carrots) are near the meat. Rice, vermicelli, bulgur are given as side dishes. The vegetables still have couscous and fried potato wedges with bell peppers.
There are dumplings. For vegetables and salads, the set is the same as for breakfast. For lunch they give fruits, but most of them are not ripe. For dinner, meat and fish are again, french fries appear from the side dishes, rice and vermicelli are also available. Grilled peppers and tomatoes. The same set of vegetables and salads. For dinner, they give unpretentious small desserts (something like a moist juicy biscuit, banana mousse, pudding, something like a potato cake).

I forgot to write that there is still soy meat, both in salads and as a separate dish. Kind of like meatballs.

At every meal there is fresh bread and the opportunity to make yourself tea or coffee (coffee machine).

At the bar, you can take non-carbonated water (0.5 or 1.5 l) and order juices (very tasty, less sweet than ours, they taste much more like natural ones, although packaged local juices) or sweet water (also locally produced).
From alcohol, wine (strong enough), vodka, gin and crayfish (something like aniseed vodka). There is no beer.

The only downside is the utensils (plates, forks, spoons, knives and glasses) are not always well washed. There are chips on the plates, cutlery of completely different appearance, quality and condition.

I would like to say that all the staff are very friendly and helpful. There were no complaints from anyone. Only gratitude.


Now about the hotel itself. I advise you to pay attention to whether you will be in Endam Hotel or Endam Garden. We were in the Garden, it is a 10-minute walk from the main building of the hotel, which means further from the sea. The road to our building is not at all picturesque, there are a lot of garbage cans in this alley and the corresponding smell. The very territory of our Garden complex is small and neat, there is a small pool and sun loungers. Near the pool there is tea leaves and boiling water, you can make yourself tea, and there is also a cooler with water.
The staff here is also friendly and welcoming.

Near the entrances to the rooms there are coffee tables and armchairs, in our room there were three beds (double and single). The air conditioner is located in such a way that it does not blow directly on the bed and on you, so you can safely use it without fear that someone will blow it. From the furniture there is a single wardrobe, a chest of drawers, a dressing table with a mirror, two bedside tables and three double hooks, as in the corridor. The bathroom has a toilet bowl, a sink, a mirror with a shelf and a cup for toothbrushes, two liquid soap frothers. The shower is a slight decrease in the level of the tiled floor, about 5 cm with a hole for draining water, there is no curtain, a shower with a small number of holes, some jets of water are directed to the sides, it is not convenient to wash, water flows out little and at a great distance. In the sink, the faucet is too short, washing hands and rinsing swimwear is also not convenient.
In general, the room is simple, shabby in places, for 3 balls somewhere (I don’t know about the stars).

Now about the beach. The beach is sandy and pebbly, at first small pebbles in the sea, then rather large boulders go. Be sure to take reef slippers with you. But if not, then here they are sold at every turn. The beach has three lines of solid canopies across the entire beach. And under it there are trestle beds, on which the names of hotels are written with a marker (there are plastic and modern ones with mattresses, and there are older wooden ones, they are more often without mattresses). But in fact, no one makes sure that you lie on the couch of your hotel, which one is free, you take it. But given that most vacationers are Russian slobby tourists, then get ready that half of the sunbeds will be sort of "occupied" with things and towels, but during your stay on the beach, no one may approach them.

Here, decide for yourself, put up with it and move on in search of a free sunbed or dump nobody's things. At the bar and during meals, these tourists also behave like pigs who have never seen alcohol in their lives and have never eaten in their lives (they gain everything in excess, they don’t eat it, and someone who comes later may not have enough.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original

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