Nessebar Beach

I visited during the last week of the season : It was brilliant, much better than I expected & reviews suggested. This is a 3 star hotel & the price I paid, I thought was great value. The food was excellent, I enjoyed the soups, stews and varied choices. Great breakfast too. The hotel music was also very well chosen. There was an animation team- but no kids the week I visited so very peaceful. There are 2 receptions & 3 specialist restaurants, but the hotel was down sizing for the winter closure. No queuing- Fantastic. The hotel is an old socialist design, but functional. It has a sand dune with sunbeds between pools & beach which is appealing. Short walk to the beach. The room was basic but included shampoo, soaps & creams. The shower was powerfully awesome. The bathroom tiles looked brand new ( super clean). I would definitely recommend for budget travellers. Good location : 5 minute walk to beach, 15 minutes walk to Flower Street ( centre), an hour walk to Old Nessebar Town, 2 hour walk to Sveti Vlas around the coast. About 15 minute walk to main bus station. The hotel was popular with mature Bulgarians & a range of nationalities. Very pleased with my stay. Don't let the negative reviews deter you. Finally, great country mentality. I didn't get harassed, molested or hassled, unlike Morocco, Tunisia or Turkey for example.

Let's start with THE ONLY 2 positives there are, the hotel is next to the beach and the pools look nice (too many kids in them for us, so we swerved using them). IF YOUR ENGLISH DO NOT BOTHER BOOKING THIS HOTEL. Rude and ignorant staff on the receptions. The staff are very poor in giving information out regarding the hotel and how things work during your stay. The cleaners and dining room staff are very unfriendly and never smiled or spoke when spoken to by guests. There were no cleaners in the room throughout our stay, only once to change towels but left thrown on bed. Nothing else was done by the cleaning staff. The bedding was not changed at all during our stay. You have to request a toilet roll from the cleaners if you need it. We were kicked out of room on the day of departure by cleaners before check out time. The bed was on the floor. Drains in shower blocked. Food was very disgusting and cold, my husband developed food poisoning whilst on our holiday and this was the only pkace we ate, drinks in the food hall often ran out or were turned off, poor selection of food not very veggie friendly. The floors are dangerously slippy in dining halls, with no lifts to other floors. Hotel rooms are very dated and very basic. Air-conditioning was not working properly. Early morning cleaners are very noisy hoovering hallways pre breakfast time. Hollow sounding hallways where kids were allowed to play from hotel rooms despite complaining to reception staff, nothing was done about this. Lobby Bar was closed most of the holiday. Only one coffee machine is working throughout the day. The dining hall only served coffee during breakfast time.

Where can I start, good bits first, beside the beach, nice sandy area beside the pool some of the staff in the bar pool area and reception were nice. Bad bits, room never cleaned carpets on the floors ready to leave on their own, only 1 lot of clean towels in the week loo roll scarce and as for the dining room it was like a zoo at feeding time, people grabbing food like animals and bagging up food to bring away with them to eat later, we gave up and ate out most days. Definitely not for English speaking people, definitely will never return.

The positives first. Near the beach. Nice pool area. Cold strong drinks. The negatives. They do not cater for people from the UK. The food while looked edible was certainly not. The room was never cleaned was in a week. We had to ask at reception for clean towels and bedding. It's also like being I a time warp back to the 1970s judging by the decor. Also had to go on a scavenger hunt for loo roll. Sun beds are uncomfortable and surrounding area covered in cigarette dumps. Thus hotel caters for Bulgarian. Ukrainian. Moldovan and other nearby nationalities. I can honestly say I have never met so many rude and ignorant people in my life. They would let a door slam in your face. Going for food was a free for all. This was our first time in bulgaria. Safe to say we will not be back.

We was apprehensive on booking the hotel as it seemed English are the minority and the hotel did not have many reviews hence feeling the need to write this one. The hotel is dated but extremely clean and everything you could need available. Food was of plenty yes more geared to Europeans but we had no problems whatsoever and enjoyed all. Restaurant could be a little chaotic at times but always managed to get a table. There is a snack bar with ham & cheese sandwiches and hotdogs, ice cream available 15:00 to 17:00. Drinks are good and staff have been friendly. The pool is good but freezing we have managed it a few times but the beach is over the dunes a 5 minute walk and the sea is warmer, Great hotel if you don’t mind being a minority and want a chill out time location is great and easy to get to Flower Street and all the liveliness. There is entertainment but we didn’t get involved as that’s not our thing. I would say go and try it you might be pleasantly surprised.

Starting with the positives The bar offered a range of drinks and the bartenders where reletivly easy to communicate with but not all off them where polite. However, the batatender Nazar was extremely polite, charming and made you want to go back and order more drinks from him. The two lady's at the snack bar Marina and Ola where also extremely polite and where easy to communicate with. The hotdogs and sandwiches offered where delicious. Also the ice cream was very nice with many flavour to choose from. The dessert in the main food court where also extremely tasty. The hotel had 3 pools (kids pool, larger pool and pool bar) which where well kept but the water wasn't very warm but on a hot day it was refreshing. The sheet and towels where changed regularly and rooms where kept clean by the staff. The hotel had lovely beautifully kept gardens. The beach was about 5 mins walk from the hotel and a lot of little souvenir shops and restaurants in the area not far from the hotel. Some negatives The hotel room was pretty small and was over packed with furniture. The rooms where extremely outdated and need work on. The bathroom floor would get extremely wet after showers and the drain wouldn't let the water out the shower quickly. Some of the staff was unpolite and hard to communicate with. Also one of the staff members shouted at a child for splashing then with water by accident. The food was nice but would repeat it self every other day/night. The animation program needs some work on as the activities would repeat everyday and some of the evenings activities where boring (bingo night). However, aqua gym was really fun but was the same every day. There was some fun evening activities to but they where only till 10pm and the music was also cut of most night even though it was supposed to run till 11pm. But the animation team thensleves where really nice. When going in the pool the lifeguards around the pool did an awful job as the would sit on the phones and just walk of and not make sure that you where safe. The sand which was all around the sunbeds was mostly covered in the ends of cigarettes as people would smoke anywhere and no one told then not to. Non of the pool staff bovered to clean the cigarett end off the sand.