Admiral Hotel Reviews

The Hotel Admiral has a great Swimming Pool area, plenty of sunbeds, a lovely reception area, and the rooms are adequate,(We had a nice view from ours). Thats the good news, the bad news is the restaurant service is poor and unhelpful with no tea or coffee served at the breakfast table, one very slow toast machine which then gave up altogether, lukewarm greasy eggs with nothing being cooked fresh in front of you (as you get used to in many Spanish resort hotels). The food is very repetitive with mostly Pork as the staple meat every evening which is also lukewarm and served with a "scowl". Unbelievably they even allowed one guest to bring her dog into the restaurant!! The day before we left we filled in the visitors comments book and included these items. When we checked the next day our page had been torn out!!! On speaking to one or two other English guests, it seems that the hotel has been much better in the past, but this year seems to have gone downhill certainly from a service point of view especially as it is supposedly a 5*. The response to our comments from Balkan Holidays was as poor as the hotel service so if we go back to Bulgaria it will not be with them.

August 2006-Just came back from golden sands it was a great holiday.

The admiral hotel was beautiful big marbel floors in the reception and the hotel was very very clean and well presented.The food in the restaurant was ok very clean but a little repetative although better than what I expected!There was a good selection to choose from.The swimming pool was nice and clean although you do need to put your towels down very early in the morning otherwise you just can't get a sunbed we had small children and had to set our alarm to get up and go down to put towels down if we intended to spend the day by the pool.The staff in the hotel was not the most helpfull but i feel this might of been a language barrier.The lifeguards by the pool were helpfull and quite a good laugh although be warned they are on the make, they were charging hotel guests money for the sunbeds when they are free a few people got quite anoyed with them and be warned they will try to sell you fake dvd cd ect.

Goldend sands resort is a lovely place there is somthing for everyone the nightlife is there if you want it pleanty of nightclubs the PR Admiral looked the most exclusive ,if you have children there are a few bars that do some entertainment The Rocks did an Elvis show it was great fun! they also have two big boucy castles and a bungee and a few small rides to keep your children entertained whilst you can have a drink and relax while they play there are tables right there so you can see them.The Irish bar was a good place to go for a beer and they had a singer on most nights.As for the restaurants I would recommend the Gibralter and the scandanavian steak house.

First time to Bulgaria and we will definitely go back again next year.

Flew on Airbus with Balkan which was fine (masses of leg room near centre of plane-front seats looked pretty tight)Resort was really nice but dont expect traditional Bulgaria - This is not it!Staying at Admiral was a pleasure could not have wished for anything better. If that is out of price range try to get accomodation near beach as it is a bit of a walk uphill to some hotels. Had room on high floor overlooking the pool and beach - standard of fittings was excellent and hotel food was quite acceptable. Two sunbeds and umbrella on beach cost about £9.00 a day, but they are very comfortable. Staff from a beach snack bar near to the hotel come around and serve food and drinks on beach - Pizza and kebabs were good afternoon snack. Good luck getting sunbed at the hotel, I put towells down early one morning and one ignorant German couple had left them on the floor and were on our loungers - words were said but to little avail.

Best restaurant we ate in was the Gibraltar (near to Admiral Hotel), steaks there were superb and so was their speciality dish - not just that but all meals came with a free drink. Only bad meal we ate was at The Kingdom and it was expensive! Weather was fine if a bit cloudy, but this gave a welcome break from the heat at times - we still got nicely tanned!

I did feel a bit harassed at times by shop workers and restaurant staff as I was walking down the street but after a day or two you get used to just ignoring it or turning them down point blank.
Went to Varna one morning for shopping and hated the place very run down, and saw lot of beggars in street, not just that but shops were nothing special.

Overall we had a fantastic holiday there and cannot wait to go back. People there were nice and it was cheap. Almost forgot the selection of larger/beer available was good all very drinkable, but dont expect real ales.

Just arrived back from goldensands july 2005, could not fault the accommidation the hotel was excellent, free sun beds at the pool but believe me you have to be up very early to get one as the germans hog them. In total in our two week stay we only managed to get beds one day so be warned.Food was good for the first week but after that it became boring all the same mostly aimed at germans, so we decided to eat out for the rest of our stay. There were plenty of good restuarants to choose from the parmey grill great for burgers,pizza, and salads the scandinavia did excellent steaks and the the service was great and if you just wanted a snack then we went to the sky bar on top of the hotel sirena where you could have full english breakfast,heinz beans on toast,pizza, or even yorkshire pudding the staff there are very freindly and helpful.
I would have to advise against going to the kingdom restaurant as the food was shocking, swimming in fat and very small amounts of whatever you chose.

I think the resort could do with a bit more entertainment in the evening although we did enjoy the night at the rocks,great atmosphere with an elvis impersonator had a real good laugh. Most of the shows that are on are repeated night after night which does become boring after you have seen them all once. My 14 year old son really enjoyed the go-carting which is right down the far end towards the harbour the price was reasonable as well.

Great holiday all round going back to sirena(mostly english guests) 2006.
Now i'll leave you to come to your own conclusion.