St. Elena
November 17, 2023
The hostess is friendly and gave me a room on the 6th floor, which is further from cafes, bars and with a good view. Thank her very much for this. Although I asked for a very long time why I booked a room on this site and not on Agoda (what difference does it make who pays? I spent half an hour figuring it out). The room is very large, clean, the bed linen and towels are white (if not, they will replace them without question, it happened once), the bed is very hard, but comfortable: a good mattress). When you book a room, sliding doors are displayed, which usually provide at least some sound insulation. As a result, I got a room with a narrow swing door and a 1 cm hole to the street around the perimeter. So, the location of the hotel relative to the beach and entertainment is excellent. But regarding sleep: on the one hand there are bars under the window until 2 a.m., on the other hand there is a school in which music plays at the stadium “open your eyes” from 6.30, and after class until 8 a.m. the microphone from the teacher is played. And yes, the same hole around the perimeter in the balcony door does not provide any protection against this. That is, you have a maximum of 4 and a half hours of sleep. The hotel also has a kitchen. Accordingly, the same hole in the balcony door carries the smell of burnt oil and garlic into the room. I taped up the window in the bathroom (there was just a hole out there) and stuffed bags from 7.11 into the holes in the balcony door so that the smell of old oil and spices wouldn’t make the room sick.
If the balcony door was replaced with a solid one, and a hinged window was installed in the bathroom, then the hotel would be an ideal place to relax. In fact, every day I had to use earplugs and “strengthen the house.” I got tired and moved to a hotel with sliding doors to the balcony and a lockable window in the bathroom.
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