Avliga Beach Hotel

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This was the worst holiday I have ever been on. I found Sunny Beach a dirty, cheap and tacky resort with not much to do at all. We went in September which is near the end of the season and we got the impression that the Bulgarian people couldn't be bothered with the tourists any more. They were rude and just stared at you, and so did the Germans who seemed to have taken over the hotel. You couldn't walk down the main strip at the back of the hotel without someone pouncing on you from a bar/restaurant trying to get you to go in. None of the Bulgarians seemed to understand the concept of 'just looking', and I even had an item snatched out of my hand in a shop because I was just looking and not buying. The beach was filthy and full of litter, cigarette ends, broken glass and sanitary products. I was bitten twice after going in the sea so decided to spend the rest of the holiday poolside at the hotel. The hotel was in general OK, but it was bed and breakfast and when we booked the holiday through our travel agent they told us it was self catering. The breakfast was mainly geared towards the Germans, with lots of sausage meat and cheese. Having an eating disorder, the only thing I could eat was eggs. We went out for meals in the evening (which were generally unpleasant) but lunches were a nightmare wth no cooking facilities in the room. I ended up eating tins of sweetcorn with cutlery obtained from the local Macdonalds, and triangles of laughing cow cheese. The hotel room was very basic but clean which we were grateful for. The maids always came in to clean whenever we requested, but they didn't change the sheets once in the week we were there. We didn't have tea and coffee making facilities in the room which was really annoying. There were horses on the beach which you could pay to have rides on but the horses looked miserable and they had no water for drinking. On watching one of the horse rides, the man started whipping the horse with a cane as it didn't want to walk. I saw another man put the horses reign over the saddle so it couldn't move its head up and down. This was very sad for us to watch and it was then we vowed never to return to the country again.

1 reader found this review helpful

hi we went to this hotel and vowed never to go AGAIN ..it was full of Germans that where rude and bad mannered . if they spoke to you and found out you was English they go off and muter something in German.. the staff where as bad .the maids did clean the rooms and provide clean towels ..but what i didn't like was left overs for breakfast ..my youngest son is a diabetic and we was not allowed to take food to our room for him due to him not wanting to eat at breakfast time ..all we wanted to take was a small amount of fruit for later on in the day..we did explain that he was a diabetic but no one listened to us ..we are going back to Bulgaria but not at the named hotel ..what i must say if its still there ..a lovely restaurant with fab entertainment is a short stroll away is well worth going to ..the people are lovely and make you very very welcome ..and the fire walker id brill

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avliga hotel very basic rooms have tv (news only every half hour) a small fridge no hair dryers no kettle very clean staff speak little english and none when it suits them wouldnt go back to bulgaria despite this being our third visit attitudes have changed which is a shame taxi to nessibar 20 leves boat 15 leves each bus 1 lev each( bus ok as long as you are aware of pickpockets) jeep safaries good value for money tex mex nights rubbish khans tent super