Good hotel with limited food options

Written: 28 august 2019
Travel time: 18 — 25 august 2019
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 4.0
Amenities: 7.0
We rested as a family: me, husband, daughter (7 years), son (10 months). The hotel rested from the tour company Anextur. We chose a hotel a week before departure and with a budget limit, so the choice was not great.

Check-in: we had Anexroom vouchers - rooms in the second building. We were immediately offered to pay an extra $5 per day and settle in the main building, later we heard from many that they offer everyone. We decided to see what we are being dissuaded from. They showed us a room on the first floor, the stink of chemicals, bleach met us at the entrance to the building, dampness, mold, tiles on the floor, dead furniture - in the room. Maybe if you see it, it’s not so bad, but we didn’t dare to live in such a smell with children. We paid extra $35 for 7 days and we were settled in the main building.


In the room: 2 wardrobes (6-8 hangers), a table, a refrigerator, air conditioning, 2 bedside tables, 1 double bed, 1 single bed, carpet on the floor, a balcony (we got a view of the mountains, on the other hand with a view of the second building in 10m), hair dryer.
In the bathroom, a bathroom with a curtain, there was no mold on the curtain. The room is good because there is no direct sunlight, and since we are with a baby, we practically did not turn on the air conditioner, and it was comfortable. You can put a solid 5 for the number.

Children's furniture (rating (-1)): my child got used to his space and for me it was a goal to take a crib into the room. I sought it for more than a day, they brought it. Tin is not the right word, this is not a bed, but a cradle for babies. It is small, the bottom is plywood with a hollow, it is clear that someone has stepped into it, the foam has yellowed over the years in a circle. We just didn't get in, and we didn't want to. High chairs, I have never seen such and could not even think that there were high chairs in the USSR. Here in this hotel somewhere from the 70-80s there was a high chair. We used the stroller as a high chair, not comfortable, but better than a rusty high chair.

Lobby staff (score 4): I work on the principle, ask - they will answer with a short phrase.
Upon check-in, we were advised to go for lunch first, as lunch ends in 15 minutes. Friends asked to change the room, with a view of the neighbors, with a view of the mountains. Okay, we'll change it tomorrow. Tomorrow has come, there are no such rooms, tomorrow morning. Coming again tomorrow, come back later. And so, after 4 days of rest, they did not change them, they abandoned the idea of ​ ​ u200bu200bchanging, since 3 days remained. We bought paid wifi from them, it was lousy in the room, it was excellent near the pool and in the lobby. The cost is $10 for 7 days.


Meals (for 3): 5 hot dishes in total, 1-2 more dishes are added for lunch and dinner. A lot of salads, either on sour cream, or on maynaise. There are also a lot of chopped vegetable salads, but you lubricate them with sauces to your taste. Chopped vegetables, herbs. Sweet: divided into 3 categories: soap squares, jelly and cake or pie. I often read that meat is rare and there is a queue. I will say this, meat for dinner is one kind, there are 3 people in line, I can’t even call it a queue.
It's just that a lot of people hid under the dining room for 30 minutes, before lunch or dinner. And when the dining room was opened, of course, everyone huddled together, why I don’t understand, having come 30 minutes later, the same dishes, but without the excitement. The only cake then will not get.

Breakfast: from 7.30. boiled eggs, milk porridge alternating rice and cereal, zucchini and egg casserole, roasted blue or other vegetables and 5 hot in the morning, these are fried or semi-finished cutlets, the taste is probably for an amateur. Lots of chopped boiled sausages, strange taste, many types of cottage cheese, suluguni, vegetables (mainly cucumbers and tomatoes), olives and olives, herbs, yogurt and kefir, 5-6 types of jam and, at the end, cereals, balls, rings - from breakfast cereals . Sometimes on the street in the morning they fried either an omelette or scrambled eggs.

Lunch: from 12.30 Soups of 2 types, always mashed, more liquid than usual. Rice boiled almost like a permanent dish, which saved at lunch.
Lots of different stews, where most of the pepper, blue and zucchini. Potatoes are very rare here, we chose them with stew, as we saw them separately as a dish on their own once for dinner. There was a baked fish. Mayonnaise salads. Vegetable salads, greens. Sweet cake was not given for lunch. Fruits: apples and oranges, watermelon.


Dinner: from 19.00, as I understand it, this is their main meal, since dinner is the most satisfying. From meat there was all the time: navels, chicken frogs, liver with hearts, just stew, nuggets, chicken stew, etc. However, there was meat for dinner, not in a variety of one type for dinner, sometimes there was potatoes among the meat . From cereals only rice and lentils. Well, as usual, fried vegetables, stews, etc. Salads, vegetables. But for dinner they added 1-2 hot dishes, fried pancakes, homemade potatoes, vegetable stew more often, meat like shawarma, pita bread with cottage cheese and sausage, rolls with cottage cheese.
Sweet: all their cakes are like at lunch + cake, but there is so little cake that if you came at 19.15 then the cake was already over. For dinner, they added fruits, plums and grapes.

Nutrition for children: I collected dry cereals for my son, bought yogurt in stores, gave milk porridge from the common table in the morning. I will say this, my child is not whimsical about food, and he ate what he was given. My daughter is picky, she was almost always half-starved.

Drinks: available until 22.00 free of charge. Juices, sodas, local alcohol. All drinks are diluted, the taste is completely different. Husband tried beer - we didn't take it anymore. All cocktails are 5 ml of alcohol, the rest, Pepsi, Sprite (also diluted). We tried and didn’t take it anymore, for us it was not the main thing.

Cleanliness: in the room cleaning began at 12.00. At this time, we put the child to bed, so they cleaned our place 1 time in 7 days. At least we were vacuumed well, our friends asked for cleaning, then the garbage remained on the floor.
Towels are changed upon request. Someone wrote that they change those that are thrown on the floor, the system does not work. I threw it away, and they put them on the table for me, I had to go to the lobby and ask for clean towels. Cleaning includes, throwing out the garbage from the bin, cleaning the ashtray, vacuuming and mopping the floor. In the dining room and on the street, the guys clean constantly and well.

Animation Entertainment staff is great, always fun. Often it was not possible to visit, because, then they walked, then they went somewhere.

Noise: If you like to go to bed early in silence, this is not the place for you. It should be noisy in the evening, this is a rest. We opened the balcony and put the child to sleep under the noise, I like listening to music in the evening and often listened to competitions. Silence here after 00.00. We were not embarrassed, our balcony went just to the site of the animators.


Pool and slide: 4 pools, one from 1.5 m and deeper is not large, large 1.5 m of the same depth, on which the slide. And 2 small 2.2 or 3.
After a couple of days, we got used to the stones and it seems like it should be like that.

In general, we had a good rest, as they say, it all depends on the mood with which you come to rest. But I will say that I will not return to this hotel again. But if the budget and time do not allow you to choose a better hotel, then you can freely go.
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