International House of Journalists Resort

Very cozy location near the beach, large parking lot, very good meals. The terrace and the botanical garden are beautiful.

The building itself looks like 80's. We had a room at the 4th floor and the sink was a little bit smelly.

Only the location

The property looked very old full of rust. A lot of spiderwebs drapes was dirty. The furniture inside the room was dirty. Also, the curtains was broken. I have picture of everything and the staff was the worst ever in my life. Not very welcome at all.

Buffet was good, the staff were great, and the location was good.

It is hands down one of the most unsettling places I’ve ever stayed in. It was very dark, and creepy. There are no lights in the halls at night or leading up to the hotel. You have to walk in complete darkness. Inside everything is dimly lit adding to an even more eerie vibe. There is also no elevator. Just a winding staircase.

There is no other place in the area, where you wake up to an amazing garden, birds singing and hearing the waves. Peaceful, sea view, nice food...

It was the worst hotel I have ever seen in my life. They say it's all inclusive but there are only 3 types of meals. everything is stale. The bed is extremely uncomfortable. It's not good at all. There is nothing fresh at breakfast. If you want to throw away your money you can go

everything

The room was okay, and the inside of the hotel

The food was awful. My girlfriend as a vegetarian didn't have much choice and in the choices she had the taste of the food was to salty or without any taste. I normally don't eat meat, this time I tried and also bad. Dinner and breakfast were bad. I did a lot of places in ?? this is the worst. The curtains are too thin, so the sun comes immediately in the room. When you arrive at the place you think it's a building that was left year's ago. The parking also. The beach is not far but the most of it is for chairs you have to pay.

Only food and staff from restaurant!

Not clean like they said ,I was asking after 4 days for clean towels and bed sheets.The lady doesn’t understand English,Romanian and even get upset when I ask for for toilet paper.Even we was using our staff but if they said on description that you gonna have something it’s that so normal to ask for that!

Location and spacious parking

No elevator , no A/C in lobby, for first time in my life I have been asked but hotel stuff to clean my place after me !!!!!

It was a very good and comfortable location.The personnel is very kind and helpful and the meals are tasty and enough.

I have nothing to say

This hotel is so underrated on booking and on google, and I don’t really understand why.I was terrified of going with my toddler, because of these reviews, and they are totally unfounded.The bathroom - was pristine, and I am really particular about bathrooms in hotels. Photo attached to my review. 10 for cleanliness.Parking space - There are more than enough parking spaces on the premises.The room - it was cleaned every day, towels changed as well, toilet paper and toiletries were more than enough. There is a mini fridge in the room, with no freezer part in it, but it does an okay-ish job of cooling water bottles. The AC worked perfectly the entire time, which I appreciate a lot.There are very few (i.e. little to no) mosquitoes around, I have a blood type which mosquitoes really like, so I don’t really get away without being bitten, anywhere I go.Reception personnel - are super nice and they do their best to communicate in English. I very much appreciated the fact that right at check-in they were honest about their beach, the hotel’s beach, and said theirs is terrible and very small (true) and we are welcome to use the next door hotel’s beach (Cabacum). We ended up driving downtown anyway to the promenade beach which is way smoother to enter the water, and the sand is smoother as well, also less waves than in other parts at the same moment in time, probably because it’s the most protected (by the two piers to the left and right).A lovely and thoughtful touch are the double drapes, the outer drape made of some sort of plastic like material which doesn’t let the heat through, and the inner drape made of some sort of silk-like material which keeps everything cool.The botanical garden is actually very lovely and so welcome because it keeps everything cooler than in town.Don’t count on the playground, it’s a relic from the 80’s, but we had no expectations there so all is well.

Make sure to read the good parts, the bad are negligible!!Food/Half-board - I don’t necessarily recommend, for one because “buffet” means you cannot pick your own piece of food but instead get served whatever the servers want (who don’t speak a word of English or any other language), and secondly because it’s not varied, or very little so, some mornings the omelette was almost raw, with raw yolk flowing freely all around, the menemen they had one morning had completely raw eggs in it, some mornings some of the hot dogs were very obviously left over from yesterday and thrown on top of the bunch (they were grey!).No playground, but I wasn't necessarily disappointed as I had no expectations that it would be usable.

This hotel is a great bargain, value for money! Comfortable, clean, lication is great, pool is very good, food is delicious.

view.. green..

old furniture..

i wanted to leave from the first day. They refused to give me back the money, as was non-returnable. /the hotel looks worse than the pictures. The pictures are done a long time ago. Was a horror experience

the cleaning, the position, the stuff, the room

The breakfast was acceptable and the location was perfect. We liked the perfect mix between a large park, that, practically was a botanical garden and the sea in the very proximity.It was a quiet, peaceful atmosphere- perfect for relaxing.

The building with the apartments was built several decades ago, at the standards of that time so there’s no elevator nor escalators inside. That makes difficult carrying the baggage at the upper stories.The area of showering should be separated from the rest of bathroom space.

Pool: the small swimming pool is nice, if you just want to lay for the siesta. Unfortunately in Bulgaria anyone can smoke, wherever they want. At the bar, you can take a simple drink, if you have cash with you. You cannot put it on the room_Food, restaurant:whether breakfast or dinner, you will have to go to the desk and ask for your food. You are not allowed to take your portions. The name of the dishes is written, in Bulgarian. Foreigners are forced to use online translators or to ask the waiters (who are very kind and try to explain to you the various Bulgarian dishes). the temperature of the food is rather cold (soup or grilled dishes as well). The Bulgarian salads are very tasty.Drinks: you can take from the tap, what you would like: vine (red, white or rosa), beer (unknown pilsner) or soda. For breakfast, you can choose coffee from the machine (more like black water, not an espresso), or guess what kind of tea bag you have in front of you (no individual packing or labeling available).

General:the hotel is a remanence of old socialist luxury, showing the standards of the 1970s. It remained at that level. You can see at the stairs, where the old red carpet was, or you can feel on the floor, where the original pavement underneath the carpet floor is broken. The best part: cleaning; all staff members are really doing their best to keep the hotel in a clean status. Lobby:the clerks are very friendly, but they have limited resources to solve any issue: e.g. you can use a billiard table if you can buy a coin from the receptionist. If they have no more coins (weekend is coming), you cannot buy it, and cannot play. In the lobby bar you can drink coffee (simple black from the machine, no fancy cappuccino, nor latte, nor any other type; maybe some milk, if you insist).Rooms:very spartan. Furniture is outdated, TV is from the last century. The refrigerator is very noisy. At least you have an air conditioner ? and a mosquito net on the terrace door. Bathroom:“all in one” type: if you use the shower, the toilet gets wet from the outside as well. No place to put your things (only a small shelf at the mirror). The smell of the drain/sinkhole is not handled properly. Beach:forget it. The hotel beach is not useable, and very dangerous to go down the broken stairs. The sea there has a rock bed, so you better go 200 meters to the city’s beach, where you have normal sand bed.

The food was very good, great pool - clean and big, a lot of green space, very nice staff, free parking.

The beach is very small, but the main disadvantage: the stones in the sea, very difficult to get in and out of the water, a lot of sea weeds on the beach that were never cleaned. There is no investment there.The same for the botanical garden / the hotel yard: no investment.

Old photos, I booked a double bed and we got 2 separate beds. There was a bad scent coming from the bathroom. The food was bad. There were no towels in the room. The staff in the restaurant didn't knew where I can find salt. There was only sparkling water in the restaurant. I do not recommend it.

Pool, beach, garden, free parking, bar.At all, there was a good price for all the stuffs.

Food has always a poor quality.At one of the dinner's almost all of the food has a bad taste that could endanger our health.Sometimes, breakfast looks recycled from dinner.At checkout I was taxed for drinks I didn't ordered.

Nothing!!!

Rooms and furniture are Old. Matreses stained and old. No queen bad, only 2 single beds.Very poor and cheap food. We were forced to eat somewhere eles. Biggest mistake to stay there with an 1 yo baby and that Kind of food and conditions. Also the baby crib had no matress and was broken. Everything around în the hotel was abandoned. Hotel next door under construction. Small beach full on rock in the water so difficult to swim close. My grandmothers TV in room...like first model of color tv. At dinner no tea or coffe, only for breakfast. Swiming pool very small also the rooms small ,nothing at all like in pictures. Spend money more like at 5* hotel! Shame !Big No!

It’s unlikely to book this place again

Very old, needs to be refurbished .We had a broken sofa and asked to be replaced but this didn’t happen