Aktinia Hotel Reviews

Aktinia if you havn;t booked DONT if you have sorry. Good thing about hotel is maid service very good towels and sheets changed regulary although towels thin and small maids very friendly. But that is the only good thing I can say. The food is absolutly disgusting very little choice always cold or tepid it is the worst food I have ever had on holiday.. Breakfast lumps of pork fat sausages fried eggs in one large tray laid on top of each other and cold yuck!! the "coffee" and "juice" so weak they needed crutches to come out of containers evening meal no better always cold or tepid the fruit for desert very poor quality apples not left whole but cut up and brown pears and peaches battered and bruised "yuck" again the resturant manager always messing with food perhaps to make it look good...impossible.Then on to the bar and waiting staff very unprofessional and unfriendly at night taking over seating area and tv one night they had no Brandy Vodka or Bicardi two nights later they had no draught beer it was not unusual to find them sleeping on sofas or kissing and messing about behind bar. You can get a good meal next door in the mexican bar or in Bistro Billy in the centre. Aktinia rated as 4 star I would give it 2 star at best

Hotel is a little out of the main resort but thats not a critism in fact its a bonus! Our first visit to Bulgaria turned out to be a delight but hurry if you intend visiting as the resort is growing at a rate of knots and I think that will be sad -friends who visited last year could not believe the amount of new hotels and development but admitted that new hotels were badly needed as the standard previously had been a little iffy. No longer there are some top class hotels.

I checked this site for good eatery ideas and can say a big thank you for the advice Billys Bistro is a great experience and very reasonable-wine buffs try the Kadarka it is superb. Tropicana is for the brits who like a british atmosphere and chips-the Marbella on the main street heading north just out of the centre from the Globus is again a great eating place but sadly only 3days before our holiday was over we discovered a small square just a short walk from the hotel heading south and a restaurant called the Amphora- the sizzler was a treat and for those who want it the Karaoke bar at the back was good fun and it only takes about 10minutes to crawl back the the 24hr bar at the hotel,however,though a hard choice my favourite was the Old Anchor in Nessabar. A definate place to visit. Nessabar still has some of the old charm of cobble streets and a nice relaxed atmosphere.

Despite horror stories about Balkan Holidays with the exception of the chaos at the airport on our homeward flight they were great - the trips are a bit pricey but well run -one exception a video of the trip to the Bulgarian Village was blank!! I will take that up with them.

One other word of warning if you do the Istanbul trip be prepared for a very tiring 2days its hectic -we are glad we had the experience despite being ripped off by the money exchange guy at the Turkish border -beware make sure your courier is with you. All in all a great holiday give it a try but before 2007 when they become members of the EU.