Hotel Kalina Garden
Hotel review Hotel Kalina Garden
Age: 26-30
Travel time: in August 11
I travelled as: Friends
Children: none
Duration: 2 weeks
Type of trip: Beach Holiday
Recommendation: No
Average rating of this review: 2
Terrible hotel, save yourself a lot of trouble
Enlarge letters A A Downsize letters A AThe hotel is quite big, 6 floors – but only one elevator works! My friend and me got a room on the first floor, above the reception. When we were using the shower the pipes were leaking and flooding the reception, so they asked us not to use the shower! We waited 2 days for a change of rooms and had to constantly remind the receptionist about it, he didn’t care! After a few days we had a problem with hotel towels, the cleaning lady took them and didn’t leave any new. At the reception they said we lost them and they made us pay 40 euro for them or they wouldn’t give our passports back! Seems impossible? It’s just the start!
Location
The only advantage of the hotel is it’s location – in the strict centre of the town. But if you plan a family holiday – it gets very loud in the evening.
The staff is rude and incompetent, only the bartenders were nice, probably because we are girls. When you go to the reception to complain about anything they don’t really care, hardly anyone speaks English! When you want to see the manager they bring you someone looking like a cleaning lady who is absolutely incompetent and speaks only Russian.
Gastronomy
The food is dreadful, every day the same, the meat is undercooked – it gives you stomach trouble. We had all inclusive – and regretted it dreadfully. Outside the hotel food is good and rather cheap, and after 3 days we just couldn’t stand the hotel food. The same goes for the alcohol. It’s not original, it’s being poured to the original bottles of Savoy but you don’t really know what it is and it tastes horrible.
Sport & Entertainment
no such thing exists in that hotel
Room
The sheets and pillow cases are dirty, the doors leading to the room wouldn’t close without a huge bang (which was making the neighbors angry) and the bathroom handle was constantly falling off. Besides that the room is rather big, with a joined bed, a nice sofa, a tv and a fridge. The bathroom is also big and rather comfortable as well as the balcony.
Tips and recommendations
So if you really want to have a good holiday, do yourself a favor and choose another hotel! I’ve been to Bulgaria 4 times already and didn’t have any problems in other hotels, Sunny Beach is really wonderful so don’t get put off by my opinion – it only concerns the the hotel! My opinion ins't isoletet, I talked to many people from many different countries during the trip, I haven’t found one single person happy with the hotel!
Additional info concerning your hotel review Hotel Kalina Garden
| What type of room did you review? | Double room Standard with view Pool |
| Did the hotel meet the standards of its official catalogue description? | No, worse |
| Does the hotel deserve its official star rating? | No, worse |
| How would you describe the value for money? | Very poor |
| Which tour operator did you travel with? | No details |