Satisfied with vacation

Written: 4 august 2020
Travel time: 18 — 25 july 2020
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 8.0
For a long period of time we did not go towards Zatoka. In general, I was skeptical about this region, as I did not have a very good experience of resting in Zatoka itself. I will try to share all the pros and cons of staying at the hotel and the surrounding area.
Let's start.
We got to the place of rest by car, the road took about 7 hours. The Kyiv-Odessa road itself, for 4 balls, is frankly not a bad road, but there is something to work on, and in many places the road is very good. Be careful, a bridge across the estuary is being repaired in front of Odessa, this is a traffic jam, plus two traffic jams on circles after turning to Zatoka. I don’t recommend leaving earlier, since check-in at this hotel is exactly at 14:00, no way earlier. Although the choice is yours. As for stopping, refueling and having a bite, it’s terrible, at the SOCAR gas station, they realized that you can stand in queues for more than one hour, we went further to WOG, there are fewer people, but there is one cash desk that both refuels cars and sells food to people, plus foolishly on fuel. At normal consumption up to 10 liters of gas per 100 km. After refueling, they got 15 liters per 100 km. I recommend taking sandwiches with you and having breakfast in nature.

We arrived at the hotel at 13:00. They start the car on the territory and offer to go to the reception. The entrance is written on the doors only in masks, in fact, only we were wearing masks, nor the visitors, not the attendants, do not bother about this at all. At the reception, they fill out some kind of questionnaire, issue two passes, one for checking into the room, plus they take a deposit of 1000 hryvnia from you, which is returned to you after you rent out the room, the second pass to the parking lot, a day - 30 hryvnia. Payment only in cash, while you will not be given any document that you are staying at the hotel, which is amazing. As I said above, check-in is not earlier than 14:00. The check-in goes like this: the maid takes the key to the room in which you should be settled, escorts you to the room, shows that everything is fine with you, if the residents have any comments or requests, writes it down and eliminates it.
Our room was in building 6G, on the third floor, with a beautiful view of the sea and the pool. The room has one double bed, one sofa bed, wardrobe, flat-screen TV, safe (which surprised and pleased), refrigerator, kettle, furniture in good condition. On the balcony, two chairs, a small table, a rope is stretched for drying clothes and towels. Take clothespins, the wind blows everything that dries. The bathroom and toilet are standard, everything worked, clean, tidy. Room for 4+. Towels and bed linen are changed every 4 days.
There is Internet on the territory, but very weak, plus it doesn’t catch 4G in the room.
A little about the weather. Even during the day, the shade felt cool, there was a desire to bask in the sun. Mosquitoes woke up in the evening, it's terrible, take more mosquito repellent, there are VERY many of them.
The road to the beach takes 3 minutes. The beach is open from 6:00 to 22:00, at other times you go through the reception, along the hotel along the road you can go to the beach. The GoodZone Club hotel operates nearby, they have their own sunbeds, beach cleaning, here sunbeds are rented for 50 gr. it is not clear who, the beach has never been cleaned. The sea is a special case! The water is like jelly, green in color, for all the time I swam 5 times and then floated to the spit, which was 70 meters from the shore, when the sea is rough, you can’t swim there, but there is no algae cleanliness at all. You won’t get any pleasure from the sea at all, this is a big minus. But at the entrance to the territory from the beach, two showers work so that you can wash yourself and wash the sand off your feet. But there is no toilet on the beach.

There are 2 restaurants on the territory (Ukrainian, European cuisine), plus two dining rooms, one for those who paid for food, the second - a buffet, 1 kg. any food 300 gr. Lunch for three was about 350 gr. The food is normal. In the evening you can grill on the grill. There are few braziers, but people take turns frying meat, there was enough space for everyone. You can also eat outside the territory, in the dining room "Seagull", and the restaurant "Nest" where you can order both dishes from the menu and complex meals. I recommend the Gnezdo restaurant, reasonable prices, delicious food, good service (special thanks to the waiter Evgeny). Also nearby you can buy pizza, sushi, burgers and any fast food. Nearby - two mini markets, you can buy everything, the prices are the same as in Kyiv.
The hotel has animation. There are contests during the day. In the evening there is a mini disco, then an adult disco until 22:30. On Sunday, a cover band performed, worked live for 2 hours, liked it.
The hotel area is cozy and clean. There are 3 swimming pools on the territory, two have slides for children, one has slides for both children and adults. The water in the pools is cold. On the territory you can play volleyball, football.
Departure from the hotel before 10:00, you need to go to the reception, warn about the departure, the maid takes your room, puts a visa on your check-in pass and you are returned 1000 gr. pledge.
Let me summarize. Territory - 4+. Rooms - 4+. Meals - 4. Service - 3. We were satisfied with the rest. I’ll explain right away that quite a lot of money includes not only accommodation in a room, but also maintenance of pools, cleaning of the territory and buildings. The hotel is developing, two more buildings are being built, and the infrastructure is being improved. When positioning the hotel 3 stars, this is a very good level. And those who want a vacation for 20 kopecks "luxury" - you are not here. Would I go to this hotel again, probably yes (subject to continued progress). I would recommend it to my friends, yes (as an alternative to cheap Turkey, Egypt).
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