With children in Hotei!

Written: 11 may 2012
Travel time: 23 july — 5 august 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For business travel; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 5.0
We rested there in the summer of 2011, with two children (1.1 and 4 years old) in a standard plus room. At first, as soon as we arrived, everything seemed just awful! A dangerous swimming pool, passing by which the head was constantly spinning, in some places the walls were chipped in the room, some kind of incomprehensible step near the front door from which the youngest immediately collapsed, terribly unsafe railings on the balcony (three horizontal bamboo beams, between which the child could not even crawl through trying) and most importantly - the absence of the promised beach. Those. it seems to exist, but in reality it is a public beach on which for Hotei vacationers there are simply free places on some strange wooden pallets lying in the middle of the beach....
But, after a little rest from the move and resigned to the inevitable, we realized that not everything is so bad. We got used to the pool, and the children just fell in love with it, the guests rarely sat near the pool, and basically only we swam there with our numerous circles and balls.
We no longer paid attention to the walls, we coped with the step, having taught the baby to climb it, dangerous beams were forced into balcony furniture (a sofa for two persons, an armchair and a table). And the beach was found to your taste not far from the hotel. Entrance is free and wooden sunbeds - 40 UAH / day (about $ 5), but you don’t have to take them, many just lay there, under their umbrellas, on bedding...

The staff is just fabulous! Your every wish is fulfilled immediately! Cleaning every day, change of towels (3 or 4 per person) every day, change of linen every 3 days. Once, the youngest had an embarrassment right on the sheet, so we changed the linen immediately, without additional payment and without problems! =) Everyone was extremely friendly, helped to carry the stroller up the stairs, joked with the kids, responded to all requests quickly and accurately.
Nutrition. The buffet breakfast was not particularly pleasing in abundance, but there was everything you needed: soup, second course, salad, fruit, sweet pastries, yogurts, tea / coffee, black and white bread. The breakfast restaurant is beautiful, with good furniture, there is never a crowd, there is enough food for everyone.
Restaurant on the 3rd floor. You can talk about the view from the sushi bar for hours. The city (Gurzuf) located on the mountain, in the evening turns into hundreds of lights spread over the hill, AyuDag rises in the light of the setting sun, the sound of the sea and the smell of pine needles....In general, unforgettable impressions. (By the way, all this can be seen / felt on the balcony of your own room located two floors below). Returning to more mundane issues, I can't get past the prices at the sushi bar. Prices tend to go up (probably to AyuDag =) For four of us (2 adults and 2 children 1 and 4 years old), the minimum amount in the check was 300 UAH ($ 37), it's just dinner, without wine and culinary delights. But even here we found a way out - we ate in a cafe near the sea, unfortunately I forgot the name. The prices there are reasonable, the food is tasty and fresh, and for comparison, for dinner in this cafe we ​ ​ paid not 300 but 100 UAH ($ 13), so you can not go broke on food =)
Almost forgot. If you arrive without a car, you will have to walk around. The nearest grocery store is about 2 km walk. (maybe 1.5, please don’t throw slippers), and if you are with children, then it’s just a “madhouse” to saw 2 km uphill in the heat, and then drag it all down in that heat..... Not much pleasant, good at least there is a fridge in the room. And you need to buy food, whatever one may say, because if you have children, then there is also: "I want yoguuuuuuurt" or "give me soookkk" and also "do we have something tasty ??? " etc. =))) And you can’t run after every snack in a cafe)

Swimming pool. Very clean and well maintained, near it there are many sunbeds and several tables with chairs to sit and drink coffee. The pool is very deep, the minimum depth is approximately 1.5 meters. (Checked by eye =) and the maximum... probably 2.5 meters, and maybe more. In the morning the water is cold (but people swam, probably I'm frozen), but at about 11 am the sun begins to warm it up and already somewhere at 12-13 pm you can start water procedures. =)) Swimming is allowed around the clock, but they warn that at night the water is chlorinated =))))
Another disadvantage is the lack of its own territory. There is nowhere else to sit besides the pool area.
In general, the impressions are different, and although the prices there are quite high, I definitely want to return =)
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