Hayat Long Beach Resort

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Summary: a good choice for a holiday.
1. Entertainment: 7/10 - good for children. The mini club, which was supposed to ease your staying by taking the kids from 10 to 16 and leave you some time for rest actually worked from 10 to 12, and then from 14 to 16, which is extremely inconvenient, since you can't go rafting or do any other activity outside the hotel because of this stupid break in the middle.
Moreover, the slides too have a break from 12 to 14, therefore if you want use slides (which is fun with children) - then you give up the second half of the mini club. And if you get up not at 7:00, but at 9, take a bath and then go to breakfast, then the first half of the mini club time looses its meaning too. At short, the mini club actually pointless, prepare to be with the children most of the time. The children are happy though. 8-)
2. Clean: 10/10 (I read somewhere that there can be problems with room cleaners - we had no problems at all, moreover - the room was not only accurately cleaned, but also decoratively and humoristicaly set up)
3. Quality of service: 10/10 (at first we got quite small room, but since we where with 2 children, we wanted a bigger room - no problemo, in 5 minutes they gave us another room, facing to the sea)
4. Food: 7/10 - of course, it's a matter of individual taste, but we didn't find anything worth describing. Fish and chicken... Since our children eat almost only chicken at home, we can't look at it anymore and therefore where a bit disappointed from the food. Almost no pork, turkey or any other kind of meat except chicken in its varieties. The assortment though was quite rich and we never left the table hungry.
5. All inclusiveness: 9/10 - we had an all-included holiday for the first time and where shocked (positively) by the amount of food and drinks you can get almost everywhere - by the each pool there is some kind of bar or snack-bar where cocktails and hamburgers are served almost all the time. The only thing that was bad was those stupid breaks - the snack bars have breaks at different times (e.g., from 17:00 to 19:00) and if you accidentally fall at this break - you might get something to eat, but will feel like a beggar for food.
First thing you should do after getting a room is to ask:
1. What are the working hours of mini club (I suppose it changes from time to time)
2. What are the working hours of the slides and hammam
3. What are the working hours of all snack-bars and main meal hours
4. What are the times for the discotheque and the entertainment at evening

2 readers found this review helpful

This hotel is amazing. got a chinese, fish, italian and turkish restaurant which u book for the following day. theres only 2 people that can speak english, the hotels mainly filled with russians, polish and the odd belgium person. Theres probably 3 english to 300 russians. it is spot the english person. i was there a week and only saw 2 english people. fab hotel though! depends what company u wanna be in. swimming pools r stunning, got its own aqau park and beach. eveythink is beautiful aparts from not bein able to talk to anyone else or be understood!