Smartline Meridian Hotel

Location: The hotel is generally praised for its convenient location, being close to the beach and various restaurants, bars, and shops, making it a suitable base for exploring the area.

Not much of a welcome or information shared on arrival. The rooms are spacious and clean, we did have a faulty toilet but it was fixed immediately, so good service there. A complaint as such is that the cleaners seem to start at 8am,? Now I work hard all year & really don’t want to be up, dressed and out for 8am! They’ve returned once, so if ur not up ur stuck without fresh towels etc - your choice! This is a very large complex 11 floors & the lift situations awful,, they’re too small, not enough & you could be up and down 3 times before you reach the restaurant on the 11th floor! The pools nice but the floors filthy, the best thing is they don’t allow ppl to reserve subbed, removing towels of unused beds. They’re a good support if you need a bed or brolly. We’ve some half board. Now this has many plus & minus areas. If you’re not early for food they don’t replenish very often. Breakfast & dinner only seem to top up for the 1st hour, after that ur done. The foods tasty but very repetitive and if ur fussy then it’s a long wait for a slice of pizza. I sadly have lots of allergies, so found meals difficult The drink situation for non- all inclusive guests isn’t the best. You can’t even get a drink of water without paying, and you can only use 1 bar, which is frequently unmanned. Right outside the doors a great restaurant, fabulous staff, welcoming and helpful. Things to watch out for - the trains - they catch you out by saying they go to Nesebar & sunny beach, they stop & start at the border of each area so get the orange bus if you want to go to Old Nesebar,, it’s a squash like never before but only 2L. The beach is lovely but a subbed 16L for the day, worth it for a breeze! The pubs - be careful of hidden charges. Those with entertainment like The House, add 6L per person charge for being there whilst the shows on,, no warning offered! There’s lots of bars, shops, public loos - they charge 2L, but are kept clean Shop around for excursions, there’s a big difference in price between hotels, shops and the harbour, All in all, we’d come back, it’s a good location and friendly enough.

The hotel location is excellent you are in walking distance of shops bars restaurants and beach, in 15 minutes walk could be at flower street in 30 minutes walk nesebar old town, which you must visit. The hotel has one small pool which is adequate, if it was main season you would struggle with sun beds, there is two all inclusive bars one is in the pool and one is in the day time snack lunch restaurant both open at 10.30. There is a lobby bar but for payment only which I found strange and is the best to access. Staff were all lovely and helpful. The main restaurant is on top floor for breakfast and evening meal, lovely views, breakfast was good yougurt, tinned fruit, cereal, only fresh fruit was pea aged, banana and grapefruit. There was pancakes, scrambled and fried eggs, bacon and continental. I did miss more fruit and omelettes. Lunch was in the downstairs restaurant, great salads, usually meat on grill and a few options and ice cream available all day. Evening meal back on roof restaurant which we didn’t go to choose to go out for more choice. My husband is not good with heights we were on 8th floor so he couldn’t go on balcony and found the top restaurant a challenge. There is 5 lifts and apart from peak times no issues. The room is big in size, no double beds only singles pushed together. The beds are very hard, so I had to lay on extra pillows as have a bad back and was causing a lot of pain. There is a ward robe with 6 hangers so bring spare. The bathroom is small and dated but good shower, the towels are small and hard, air con really doesn’t do much, no safe you have to rent a box in reception, no kettle, but you do get hotel soap, shower gel and shampoo but why you would need these on a weeks holiday is beyond me as would last a day. All in all basic, cheap good location, good staff but a 3 star at best this needs reviewing, the room was disappointing hence the low score. The