We spent 4 days with my wife and my 2 years old child to relax. We left with mixed feelings and definitely not relaxed..
On one side this hotel has very nice intrinsics:
- nice location right next to the beach with nice walks along the coast
- nice equipment in the hotel (swimming pool, hammam...)
- good food with variety of choice
On the other side the service was terrible and therefore the value for money quite low (total bill of our stay was over 1000€):
- some people from the reception were literally aggressive with us: « you lie you never told us that you were disturbed by the noise », « you don’t have money how will you pay? » ringing at our door at midnight for us to pay... whereas it was their card machine which was not working!!!
- hotel was organizing wedding EVERY DAY (so 4 weddings in 4 days) so as a result we got loud music with noisy boum boum EVERY night in our dacha (which was supposed to be the most luxurious one and was therefore the one chosen by couple to organize their party), difficult for us to relax and for our 2 years old child to sleep...
- the last day we learnt at 12:00 during the check out that we had to leave instantly (because a wedding privatized the hotel) and we couldnt get access to the swimming pool or the restaurant anymore (how to feed our 2 years old child? Would have been good to know before, no?) whereas the day before we arranged with the reception a pick up at 5pm with the taxi so that we can access the swimming pool the whole afternoon (?? why not telling us at that moment that there was a wedding and everything will be closed?? They did not know obviously. Very bad communication within the teams internally I guess)
So a few advices for you staff of the hotel if useful:
- Increase communication and transparency among your teams, especially the ones at the reception
- When you organize weddings (which seems to be the case every day during summer - sunday, monday, tuesday, wednesday during our stay) inform all your guests before, especially the ones sleeping in the luxurious dacha (who are the ones paying the most expensive price and therefore the one expecting most probably the best service and the most relax atmosphere...)
- Train your staff to think « customer first » and be nice and helpful with your guests...