Hotel Aphrodita Reviews

Hotel Aphrodite is a very well maintained and clean hotel.Its staff are very friendly and speak good english allthough the hotel has no entertainment what so ever which lets it down quite badly its as though they cant be bothered.The rooms are very good clean and modern.

The food on the other hand is a bit naff they seem to cater mainly for the germans at meal times rather than the english.There is no entertainment during the day ie pool games just music playing day in day out.The pool is a decent size but very raley noticed it being cleaned.You have to pay for your sunbeds every day and also pay for the use of the gym and sauna facilties which should be inclued in the price of your holiday.The hotel itself is bang smack in the middle of all the night life which is great for young people but not so good for familys.The surrounding area is full of prostitues at night one time i was walking down the main street with my partner and he was approached with me at the side of him which was just unbelievable.On the second week of our holiday we discoverd that a room on the lower ground floor of our hotel was being by prstitues taking men in and out all the time fortunatley this did not bother us or spoil our holiday.

The resort itself is mainly for young people and not familys its just bars after bars and resturants nothing for the kids and to be honest you get sick and tired of the local people working outside these bars handing out flyers every where you go.The local beaches are fantastic when the weather is good and the weather is not all that good as we discovered on our second week windy rain and very cloudy.On the sea front the areas are a lot better and much cleaner the hotels are amazing and most important there are no prostitues but still not a graet deal to do.Unfortunatley Golden Sands is a place that me and my family will not be visiting again.

Looks like I have the honour of the first review of this new hotel, so here goes.

Basically, it's good news all the way.

Location is about 10 minutes from beach and actually on Party street, but don't let this put you off - it's sort of laid back and you don't get any noise or disturbances. Try and get a room overlooking the pool, it's better than the ones overlooking the car park! The hotel is excellent, the staff very polite and helpful. The rooms are spacious (relatively), clean and modern (well, new of course). Everything advertised was there, ie air conditioning, minibar, TV etc, (but don't expect Corry or Eastenders, English channels are very limited). Very good maid service (with clean towels) every day. We only had breakfast but this was OK, with a fair amount of choice (although the same choice every day, I'm afraid). Pool is nice, one big plus is no 6am scramble for the beds, the hotel gets round this with a small charge of £1.20 per bed (brollies free), an excellent idea in my opinion. Slight hiccup when a contingent of youths arrived half way through the week and promptly laid territorial claims to the pool, but fortunately they rarely surfaced before mid-afternoons (hangovers, presumably). It never ceases to amaze me how an entire nation's youth can be so arrogant, loud and obnoxious!

Thr resort itself is brilliant if you like Blackpool and Benidorm but don't expect any local culture. We're peasants and found loads to do, an excess of drinking holes virtually all with some sort of entertainment. Most are honest and cheap (although prices have more than doubled since I was in Bulgaria two years ago), but beware a few tend to add bits and pieces onto your bill - it's usually the waiters who tell you how much, instead of giving you a written bill, which they're supposed to do. The Dolphin (on the front) is very bad for this. The worst one was the Dallas Country Club - don't go near this, not only was the wine overpriced but they stuck £12 on my bill (for 2 of us) for ";the music";. We simply demanded to see the boss, he hadn't come 10 minutes later so we just wandered off and left what we thought was the right amount. For an entertaining evening, get a roadside table at the bar opposite the hotel and watch the h**kers - they hang around in droves and virtually molest any poor bloke on his own (they're quite harmless really, it's just funny). Lots of interesting items in the multitude of shops that you don't see here, the ones selling knuckledusters and flick knives were a revelation!

Best way for money is to take English notes, better rate of exchange than here. Cigarettes are a lot cheaper on the plane or at the airport, rather than in the resort, which was unusual. And Varna airport categorically DOES accept leva (at least in the snack bars we went in). Have a nice time.

Well all I can say is we are glad to be home.

The hotel itself is very nice, clean and friendly. The hotel has an awful lot of rooms with poor views so dont unpack if your unhappy as they will do all they can to accomidate. The breakfast isnt up to much so dont be to dissapointed. We personally didnt like where the hotel was situated, right on party street whre you have to walk day and night whether its the beach you want or the main tourist area.The road is full of girls pestering you with leaflets and people dragging you into restaurants, you cant get away from it. They seem to charge what they want in Bulgaria they think we have money so try to rip you off everywhere you go, and dont argue with them they turn nasty(wouldnt even say the wine was corked).

The place itself is very built up and full of tac very Blackpool with sun. Anyone with teenage daughters dont let them out of your sight they try to get them into the clubs at only 13 and 15. And your husbands well the prstitutes all over party street may take a shine so keep your eye on him.

Well arriving for the first time in Golden sands was dissapointed with the attitude of the hotel staff. We were unhappy with the room as we were looking out onto the carpark and road which was vey noisy, they eventually after two days of shoulder srugging moved us to a pool view we were on the bottom level but it was ok.
Morning arrived and after a buffet breakfast of frankfurter sausages uncooked scrambled egg cold pizza as ther english section we headed out to the pool.

We had to pay for sunbeds every day and if you want a good spot you have to get up early for it about £1 per bed. The rooms were cleaned and fresh towels changed every day. The hotel was always in darkness at night nothing was lit up you couldnt even have your balcony light on. The bar at the hotel was always empty because it was uninviting and miserable.

We found alot of young gangs of german lads staying at the hotel which meant between 4am and 6am every morning they were drunk diving and screeming in the pool no management ever stopped this. The music was also vey loud round the pool and they allowed them to drink with their bottles in the water.
Aphrodita back onto Pary Street which they dont tell you in the brochure you have to walk this street every day and night to get to the beach or the main part.

The street is full of prstitutes at night gangs of youths on booze organised parties and girls permanantly pestering you with leaflets it drove us mad. Bulgaria wasnt for us paying to use toilets in bars and resterants and being told you have to pay for food which was unacceptable was not my idea of luxery .

We couldnt wait to come home.