Latest Reviews for St Constantine

We booked our holiday to Bulgaria, then found the reviews on this page. So we arrived at our hotel late at night to find ur entrance was big metal doors. Our first thought was OH GOD! once inside though everything was lovely.

Our room was kept clean the sheets and towels changed every few days. We were a bit outside teh resort but that was why we had chosen it. Transport was cheap and frequent (50 stotinki to St Konstantine, 1lev to Varna).The pool and patio were clean.

Hotel Preslav is in fact 4km from St Konstantine and 7km from Varna, it is by no means teh shack that was reported and the staff were friendly and helpful. In all we had a lovely holiday and I would recommend this hotel to anyone looking for that quieter holiday. There are two beautiful restaurants in walking distance of the hotel, Solerio and Marguarite and the staff are very friendly and helpful.

Bulgaria is a must do holiday beautiful and interesting.

I would just like to add to my earlier review, yes the hotel was up a steep hill and there were no footpaths but it is very common in Bulgaria not to have footpaths unless in a big town like Varna. The other two restaurants I spoke of are further up the hill from Hotel Preslav but very well worth the visit.We didn't find the gypsies a problem but we were warned about them and kept everything close at hand,bags zipped and nothing in pockets. Bulgaria was lovely and very much worth visiting.

The hotel is situated about half a mile up a steep hill, with no footpaths. At the bottom of the hill there is a very busy dual carriage way. There is one restuarant about half a mile down the dual carriage. The pavements along the dual carriage way are all broken making it dangerous to walk. The nearest town is St Kostin about 2 miles away and in the other direction is the city of Varna about 2 miles away.

The first impression of the Hotel is it looks like a shuttered garage door with a door next to it, the garage door was always down and the other door was always locked and you had to ring the bell and wait to get inside the grounds.

It is only a small hotel about 35 rooms but there was only a total of 7 sunbeds.

There was a shuttle bus to St Kostin but they kept changing the times of it and did not tell anyone unless the went to wait for the bus and then you would either have missed it or it was delayed for about 2 hours.

Hi,
We have just come back from weeks stay at the Hotel Preslav in Trakata, just outside St.Konstantin. My wife Jayne, Callum (4) and myself found the hotel to be just what we were looking for. all the staff make you feel welcome and nothing is too much trouble. Yes the rooms are basic but this is a 3 star hotel, if you want 5 star pay for it ! When you go ";allocation on arrival"; you take your chances. The hotel is clean and the pool was a joy. The hotel is very secure and this allowed us not to worry so much about Callum, he had the run of the place!

When you arrive you are greated by big grey walls and a steel door, and this can put you off, but once inside you are made to feel at home.

Our stay was made all the better by the friends we made, there was a language problem but we soon learned to speak Scottish and Geordie!

In all we found Bulgaria and this hotel a pleasure to visit and we will visit again next year.
One word of caution, when you visit Varna, be carefull and watch your bags. I am six foot three and still was made to feel uncomfortable by the gypsies.
When using taxis make sure you ask ";how much?"; before you get in, it will stop you getting ripped off.

All in all a great place to stay, 3 star hotel with a 5 star welcome.

This was out first time to Bulgaria. Originally we were booked to stay at the Rousalka but when we got to the airport in Varna our hotel wasn't even on their list! Apparently the hotel was being refurbished. We found out that we had been upgraded to the hotel rubin which was all inclusive. (we booked bed and breakfast) We were pleased at hearing this as it was a four star hotel and was right on the beach.

The cleanliness and the furnishings of the hotel cannot be faulted HOWEVER it seems the hotel is exclusively ALL INCLUSIVE and everybody on all inclusive wears a yellow band. Because we were not all inclusive we were treated like dirt. The staff were very uncooperative, cold and unwelcoming and seemed to totally ignore the very, VERY few English that were there. They all stared at you like you were something that had crawled out of the sewers All because we weren't all inclusive (we only met 2 other English couples who had, like us, been upgraded from the Rousalka.) they were treated in exactly the same way as us. I can honestly say that i have never been treated so badly on a holiday in my life. This was also the opinion one of the English couples who had been to Bulgaria 8 times and they said they had never ever been treated the way they were in the rubin.

The staff in the hotel spoke virtually no English, so little infect that they did not understand the words ";Balkan rep!"; Funnily enough though the woman behind the bar was quick enough to say ";you must pay"; before we had even ordered our drinks!!. The hotel was full of Germans and seemed to cater just for them. There was a crèche with No English board games or toys in. There were posters for animation and things for children to do and various shows that were on, NONE were in English. The people in this hotel don't seem to realise that it's not only the English who speak English. there are many other countries with English as their second language.

The resort of saint konstantine is lovely. There is a large hotel called the Varna where we went to use the bar if we didn't want to walk to the market as the staff in our hotel were so unwelcoming. We were treated like human beings there and the staff were very polite and helpful and could speak very good English.

The resort had a nice market with lovely little market stalls where you can pick up some great bargains. The people too are very nice and most can speak better English than those at the hotel. Eating out is cheap and the food excellent (this is why we booked bed and breakfast) If you go out to eat i STRONGLY recommend 'figaros"; the food is lovely, along with the staff. we ate the most nights. It's adorned with British flags and various football scarfs. I really enjoyed eating there and it was sad to leave behind.

There is also a great cocktail bar just past the varna at the beginning of the market. The staff there are lovely and the drinks are good but BEWARE you can run up a big bill without realising it.
But food, drink and shopping elsewhere in the resort are AMAZINGLY cheap.
I Loved Bulgaria and I would love to go back to the resort but i would NEVER stay in the rubin again. I just cannot get over how we were treated there.
so if the same happens to you i strongly suggest that you do all you can to avoid being moved there.