Hotel Kaliakra Beach - Ultra All Inclusive

“Nice, clean hotel in a lovely resort area”

We visited Albena and stayed in the Kaliakra Beach hotel in early October. We knew the weather would not be particularly sunny and that this was off season so a lot of the resort was closed with only about 4 hotels covering the off season trade. The hotel was lovely, it was spotlessly clean, our ro… more

We visited Albena and stayed in the Kaliakra Beach hotel in early October. We knew the weather would not be particularly sunny and that this was off season so a lot of the resort was closed with only about 4 hotels covering the off season trade. The hotel was lovely, it was spotlessly clean, our room overlooked the beach and had a balcony with chairs and table, the staff were generally nice, and friendly, though as there are a lot more German than British guests they often spoke to us in German. The food was very good for buffet food with a fairly varied selection from day to day, plenty of sweet treats and ice cream, we always found something we could eat, and with 2-3 hour dining times we didn't need to plan our days around specific meal times. The Tropical Mini Golf, situated one minute's walk from the hotel, is good fun. with an increasing difficulty of holes and although it had a lot of repairs it was actually in decent condition and we played most days during our stay. It was a lovely peaceful stay but if returning we would maybe go in September when it's still quieter but with slightly higher temperatures. There seem to be a few complaints about there being no sockets near the beds in the rooms. This is true but there are plenty of sockets available so we just charged our phones, buds etc when going down for meals or during the night so not sure why people have shown this as a negative as it doesn't affect the stay at all. Also one person has complained about paying 70 Leva for the taxi from and to the airport. I'd recommend prebooking a taxi, we did so with Booking.com, and the taxi was waiting for us when we arrived and was early picking us up and was only 32 Leva each way.

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“Great stay”

Great service & facilities, very quiet due to out of season but we knew that nice staff & good varied amount of food . If you want more to do other than relax go earlier in the year………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………..

“Another year at Kaliakra”

After a relatively long journey, we arrived at the hotel at around 2 p.m., hurrying after standing in customs and hurrying to catch lunch through Dobromir customs, where the police kept us for 90 minutes for no reason. I left the luggage and the car parked in the upper parking lot, at the hotel we… more

After a relatively long journey, we arrived at the hotel at around 2 p.m., hurrying after standing in customs and hurrying to catch lunch through Dobromir customs, where the police kept us for 90 minutes for no reason. I left the luggage and the car parked in the upper parking lot, at the hotel we didn't catch a crowd at the reception probably because of the time, the boy at the reception helped us quickly and we didn't even go to see the room because we went to eat something before that we were waiting for the restaurant to close. The room was a standard one, partial sea view, just like last year. This time the balcony door and the mosquito net were intact. The room was clean, but clean like tourists, that is, don't expect someone to put the vacuum cleaner under the bed. The bathroom is ok, clean, relatively equipped, that is, don't expect to have shower gel and soap for 10 days in our case, but you have to bring your own from home because the ones there won't be enough, the towels are changed almost daily. At the beach after the meal I found 2 sunbeds in the middle at 3 pm on the first day, good beach, clean sea, places with sheets on half of the beach for those who want it. The food is good, at breakfast it's the same, but you can find almost anything you eat in the morning, lunch and dinner are not repetitive, but don't expect to receive 5-star food like in the resorts in Turkey. At the snack bar, they make doughnuts, pizza, grills, etc., it's ok if you like snacks between meals and want to gain a few extra kilos. The bars are ok, nothing special, the beer is good, the juices from the dispensers are cheap, but the bartenders are 90% professional and helpful. There is enough parking up under the forest or behind the hotel on the street, in the green area, 20 leva per day. Now as cons : - in the room, at least in ours, the beds were not changed once in 9 nights (although we are "nice"), not that we necessarily wanted to, but it seems strange to me. - I have never met water that stains the nails with a red tint, the first hour I saw how the water remained in the shower and how the shower curtain was stained, I think there was some iron metal in the water. - the toilet splashes water on the lid and on anything standing next to it less than 50 cm when you flush, so you had to clean the bowl non-stop if you care about yourself or the children - the furniture and arrangements from 2007, many are left or creaking very badly, if you want to go out in the morning without waking up your partners, they have children, you can't, on the wall in front of the bed 3 paintings placed next to each other and with the same picture, a lack of good taste - the rooms no longer have 4 stars, if they were reclassified they would not get more than 3 stars. - at the restaurant, a terrible mess on the floor, including at the beginning, in the area of ​​the tables, because when the tables are wiped, everything that remains on the table is taken down, and with the broom I have never seen it happen - the Asian workers who work at the tables do a good job, those from Bulgaria spend more time on their phones - I saw two things that bothered me badly, more precisely one day the head of the gym was testing with her hand how hard the fruits were and then putting them back in the bowl, and her subordinate took a plate from the cakes and dirtying- he rinsed his fingers lightly at the drinking water dispenser - the bathroom at the snack bar (swimming pool) has some urinals at a height of 1m, I think the plumber was 1.90m or taller. - at the snack one day they put flour instead of sugar in the dispenser, in the garbage bin there were many donuts thrown away because of this, it seems that they messed up the bags, because even after a lady's warning, they put the same thing. - the bathroom at the reception is permanently clogged or full of napkins sticking out - the drinks are by the dozen, if you want, I don't know what specialties you are looking for elsewhere - 2 bartenders behaved badly, one at least didn't feel like explaining (a tourist: latte machiato, bartender: no latte machiato, tourist: frape, bartender: no frape, in the end I explained to the tourist that the bartender doesn't only iced coffee and water and that the frappe on the menu is just a story), some of the drinks on the AI ​​menu didn't work because I didn't have what I needed - at the beach it's a disaster with the blocking with towels, I went down to the beach at 7 o'clock and 4 rows were already occupied with towels plus the two in front which were with money - in other years they would come to ask you for the room number, now it is no longer practiced, for this reason although if there are 2 adults and a child, the child was sent by the parents to go somewhere else, in this way occupying two other sunbeds and an umbrella (each room only benefits from an umbrella and a deckchair included in the price) from here and the limited number that you could still find free - although at the entrance to each beach it is displayed that smoking is prohibited, it is a disaster how many cigarette butts are on the beach, everyone smokes around you, but I rarely see them taking their trash with them - Mom, I'm peeing, there's nothing to do here next to the lounger because we're stuffy and tomorrow we're staying somewhere else anyway, even though there are 3 bathrooms at 2 minutes each. - a lot of free dogs running on the beach and in the resort Overall, this hotel offers more than similar hotels in Albena (but at a higher price) or in Romania (at a lower price than those of the same classification), so I will come back, even though there are many which the managers should take into account, but since they belong to the biggest hotel company in Bulgaria, it is probably more difficult to manage it.

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