Отпуск у моря Vacation by the sea

Just arrived and stayed at this hotel. What to say? We are glad. The main thing is to decide exactly WHAT kind of rest you need before the trip (active, passive, in peace and quiet, or with discos and a show program 24 hours a day).
I will say right away that my husband and I are not experts in 5 * hotels, but for us this hotel deserves 4 * + for sure. You can always find some "-", but when you start to find fault too skeptically, you immediately remember Crimea, its "hospitality" and conditions. The problem is that we (I mean all of us) almost never fully read the contract with the tour operator and the hotel. And everything is spelled out down to the smallest detail. and the phrase of our Russian "brothers" I HAVE EVERYTHING INCLUDED, I PAID FOR EVERYTHING does not mean that you will be allocated a hotel servant and will bow at the waist like a master.
So the hotel. We had a standard on the 3rd floor overlooking the mountains and the main entrance to the hotel. it's good or bad - it's how to look: if you want with a sea view + $ 15 per day and it's yours, BUT no one says that perfect acoustics and musical accompaniment of this hotel + 2 people around will stick to the sea view. Very cozy and compact: a bathroom, a wardrobe, a safe, a balcony, a sofa and a bed, a small "kitchen" with a tap, shelves and a refrigerator. I clean almost every day. In the minibar every day I offer sweet water (cola. yufanthu sprite). towels (a set of white towels) are changed at your request. Yes, you shouldn’t take towels from your room to the beach - when you check into a hotel, you are given a card that is exchanged at the spa for a beach towel: it is blue or coffee-colored and you can change it at least every day at the spa.

Restaurant. I was very worried, because. very careful with unknown dishes. But when I entered the hall, I realized that I would not die of hunger. The fact is that there are no classic restaurant dishes (a finished dish that makes up one whole) here. Here you are offered a la buffet: a huge number of "semi-finished dishes" (individual dishes: rice, vegetables, sauces, sob, chicken), and what you "draw" on your plate is your merit. Delicious grilled vegetables, grilled chicken, a variety of sauces, side dishes are all available. I'm not talking about sweets. There are always vegetables and fruits. There is a soy restaurant on site, and on Tuesdays and Thursdays it serves a fish and Italian menu.
Sea. Gorgeous transparent body sea. no jellyfish, garbage, algae, snot (sorry), etc. Even from the pier on the beach you can see the bottom. The beach is small-pebble, I would say very small-pebble. Every evening, a beach worker arranges deck chairs in rows, mattresses in a separate pile. there are small tables for convenience and thousands of trash cans in the form of large clay flower pots, just use it.
There is also a large adult pool (1.4 m) a separate children's (0.4 m) pool in the spa under cover, a jacuzzi, a sauna, a hammam (highly recommend), there is a vip hammam where they do all kinds of foamy massages, incl. Just use it. The territory is really not big, but there is always where to "get lost".
At the expense of the children. It's not that the hotel is not designed for families with small children, but that the hotel is not a pioneer camp, and not a kindergarten. The hotel staff (everyone from the receptionist to the beach worker) is very friendly to children. besides, they understand that the children came with their PARENTS, and if you already came with the children, then deal with them, and do not push them to the animators. A young family with a little girl Varenka (about 6 months old) was resting with us. The child was only visible. She almost never cried and only laughter and the sounds of toys spoke of her presence.
This is the impression from the rest and the hotel.