Panorama Hotel, Albena, Bulgaria
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Panorama Hotel is located in the immediate neighorhood of Albena resort, in villas Zlatna Ribka (Gold Fish). The distance to the sea is about 350 m., and to the beach of Albena about 1500 m. For those of our guests who are not keen on walking, we offer free transport with a minibus to the beach. The Hotel offers comfort and calm atmosphere, giving the best possible conditions for rest, relaxiation and enterteinment all over the year. Natural sunlight, pure environment and unforgettable view over the sea, Albena and even Kaliakra cape are only a small part of the advantages of Panorama Hotel. loading...
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" This hotel shares both the pool and... "
Submitted By: Miss M Barry
This hotel shares both the pool and the restaurant with it's neighbour (Kompass). As a solo traveller, neither hotel was set up for solo travellers (i.e. restaurant's smallest table was for 4). Food was plentiful.
Staff were friendly but do not speak much English. Hotel was full of Romanians, Germans and Bulgarians - not very many English speaking people.
Entertainment by the pool is not great and I could not find the evening entertainment however I was advised by other guests that it's not great!
Staff were friendly but do not speak much English. Hotel was full of Romanians, Germans and Bulgarians - not very many English speaking people.
Entertainment by the pool is not great and I could not find the evening entertainment however I was advised by other guests that it's not great!
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- Date of Holiday:Aug 2007
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:Balkan Holidays
" We have just returned from a 2 week... "
Submitted By: Ms C Hey
We have just returned from a 2 week enjoyable holiday staying at the Panorama. There was a wide choice of food with availability of snacks and drinks all day. Beds were made everyday - with a regular change of towels and sheets.
The room was clean. The grounds to the hotel were pleasant with lawns and flowers, benches and a pool shared with the Kompas hotel. None of us were ill and we enjoyed staying here with the free courtesy bus to the beach stopping outside.
Customers must remember that this is a 3 star hotel in Bulgaria and not the UK,
What surprised me was the greed of people in the vast quantities of food they took at the end of the meals. There was no need as fresh food was available all day until 9.00 am. All in all a good hotel.
The room was clean. The grounds to the hotel were pleasant with lawns and flowers, benches and a pool shared with the Kompas hotel. None of us were ill and we enjoyed staying here with the free courtesy bus to the beach stopping outside.
Customers must remember that this is a 3 star hotel in Bulgaria and not the UK,
What surprised me was the greed of people in the vast quantities of food they took at the end of the meals. There was no need as fresh food was available all day until 9.00 am. All in all a good hotel.
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- Date of Holiday:Aug 2006
- Board Basis:Full Board
- Tour Operator:Blakan Holidays
" We were told the night before going... "
Submitted By: Mrs J Jones
We were told the night before going to the Marigold hotel that the Panorama was an upgrade. Well I agree with other comments before, this is no upgrade. The tv show Bad Girls had better cells than these Hotels rooms are. The food is great and the staff good but the hotel want pulling down as it is more like a prison. I don’t know who gave it 3 stars but it doesn’t rate 1 star.
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- Date of Holiday:Jun 2005
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:Balkan
" Our arrival at the hotel panorama was... "
Submitted By: Mr S Kelly
Our arrival at the hotel panorama was disbelief, it was meant to be a 3# but was probably only a 1 #. Albena is a lovely part of Bulgaria very scenic and the beach is amazing, but that is where the good stops and bad starts.
We went all Inc for a week, and we ended up eating out most days or living on cheese rolls in the hotel as the food was that bad.
99% of the food was raw, chicken that had been fried for about 5 seconds on each side and still raw in the middle, what was left from dinner was put out the next day, because nobody ate it, every party of people staying at the hotel had at least 1 person with some form of stomach upset. I myself was in bed for 2 days on Imodium plus.
Coming back to UK was the highlight of the week, and we spoke with others at the airport who had stayed at different resorts and they had the same problem, lovely place but hotels we very poor.
I would go back to Albena, but I would wait about 20 years until they had sorted out all the hotel and food problems they have, it seems that they are about 20 years behind the likes of Spain and Greece.
We went all Inc for a week, and we ended up eating out most days or living on cheese rolls in the hotel as the food was that bad.
99% of the food was raw, chicken that had been fried for about 5 seconds on each side and still raw in the middle, what was left from dinner was put out the next day, because nobody ate it, every party of people staying at the hotel had at least 1 person with some form of stomach upset. I myself was in bed for 2 days on Imodium plus.
Coming back to UK was the highlight of the week, and we spoke with others at the airport who had stayed at different resorts and they had the same problem, lovely place but hotels we very poor.
I would go back to Albena, but I would wait about 20 years until they had sorted out all the hotel and food problems they have, it seems that they are about 20 years behind the likes of Spain and Greece.
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- Date of Holiday:Sep 2004
- Board Basis:All Inclusive
- Tour Operator:Balkan Holidays
Yes, it isn't 3* by comparison to UK hotels but we weren't expecting it to be. The rooms were clean and the maid service was excellent. Rooms cleaned every day. Fresh towels etc.
Food was excellent although one criticism was the lack of bacon at breakfast (I do like full English). We did get it three times over a two week holiday.
There are plenty of sun loungers and parasols around the pool. They never seemed to be all full. I think a lot of people went down to the beach where a lounger and a brolly were 6 levs each. Pool attendants are very helpful, getting you an umbrella or a table when you want one and act as life guards although I never saw them tell anyone off for doing anything (eg bombing) which was sometimes a problem.
Hotel is full of Bulgarians, Germans etc but the Brits found each other through a shared love of football! There were always half a dozen or more English families there.
Entertainment by the pool during the day is good - from 10.30am to 12.30pm and again from 3.30pm to 5.30pm - darts, table tennis, chess, pool games etc. At night, it isn't so good. Most is rep led - games with adults, sketch shows, dance competitions etc using holidaymakers. Elvis was a "professional" act and although we didn't watch him, he had good reviews.
Toilets by the pool weren't very good at all so we went to reception to use them. Public toilets in Albena and elsewhere in Bulgaria are very clean and cost 0.50 lev to use.
Water Park at Golden Sands is excellent - 25 lev per person to get in and then the rep organised a taxi for us which cost 40 lev return (we didn't pay until the taxi driver brought us back to the hotel).
Hotel is not for the elderly or those with kids as there are lots of steps. Three floors in hotel plus steps down to the pool and also up to the restaurant or down to the main resort areas. There is a courtesy bus to the resort centre but it was always full. A mini train also does the run down to the centre and costs 2 lev single or 4 lev for a round trip where you stay on and do a circuit.
One final point - we didn't realise the clinics and first aid in resort are all private ones. You have to pay for treatment and then claim back on insurance if you can. My son hurt himself and got a big blood blister which needed treatment - cost 70 lev for what was essentially a visit to a doctor, opening the blister by using a needle to remove blood( sorry for graphic details ) and plaster. We can't claim back as it is less than our excess.
All in all, an excellent holiday.
Our party included two pensioners, my husband, myself and two teenagers.