Hotel Information: Majestic Hotel 
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| Location | Sunny Beach |
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| Description | Set against a backdrop of tree-lined hills, Hotel Majestic is situated at the northern part of Sunny Beach resort. It lies directly on the beach front, approximately 1.5 klms from the heart of the resort. The promenade offers an easy walk to the resort centre where you'll find a multitude of bars and restaurants, and mid June to September you'll find that the walkway is lined with market stalls offering great jewellery, clothing and souvenirs.
The superbly stylish “Majestic” complex itself has three hotel blocks- “A”, “B” and “C” and two apartment blocks- “D” and “E” with a total number of 729 units, split up into 174 studios, 339 twin rooms, 198 one-bedroom and 18 two-bedroom apartments or a total number of 2064 beds.The hotel comprises of 4-star hotel facilities. All room are equipped with telephone, satellite television, hairdryer, bathroom, air conditioning. Studios are bedsitter type with twin beds and two extra beds with Equipped kitchenette (2 ring cooker, microwave, toaster, fridge etc.), telephone, satellite television, hairdryer, bathroom, balcony/terrace. Apartments are similar, but have separate twin bedroom and double sofa bed in lounge. |
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Main restaurant - 600 seats, Terrace of the Main restaurant - 150 seats, Thematic restaurant (A la carte) - 300 seats, Pool restaurant - 500 seats covered and 250 seats in open air. |
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| Visitor Comments |
From the other side hotel is quite clean but we were very disappointed sunbeds around the pools. The hotel has approx. 750 rooms and apartments, while having at max 200 sunbeds. When you got to the pool area around 9 am you could not find a free sunbed although there was 20 people at most and this was because people were early in the morning rushing down to catch sunbeds and placing towels on them. Officially, when a sunbed is not occupied you could ask the pool manager to remove towels from it. However, when I asked for it I was told that I should come earlier. Next day we were setting alarm at 7 to get down earlier and book sunbeds. If you came at 8 you might be not so lucky. What a great vacation with alarm on!
They also had perfect gym over there with maybe 6-7 machines spaced in 30 square meters with no airconditioning, no towels, no wipes, no water. Great gym for hotel fo 1500 people.
And food, dinner was quite good although meat was sometimes not cooked properly. While breakfast was great for egg and yoghurt lovers - eggs almost everywhere. And with it you could have 3 variations of cheap tea, 2 cheeses and 3 choices of hams, which looked as the cheapest ham you can get from a supermarket and you would resist to give it to your dog.
Lovely hotel, I will never come back!
I need to be proud that i am from Bulgaria. Very friendly people I just have a Holiday to Majorka and stayed in Vistanova Hotel. Know i can compaire and i would say Majestic and many more hotels in Bulgaria are much better with their new image.
Bulgarian food - lots of grill with meet, fry fish and chips, fresh salads nicely prepaired... What do you want more.
People nice and friendly.
If you have a depression or you want to relax or go away from everyday stressfull life this is the place to go.
For summer i would prefer Sunny Beech, Nessebar, Sveti vlas.
If you have any questions do not hesitate to contact on my e-mail: petya2005@hotmail.co.uk
I live and work permanently in the UK and i am visitng as a tourist like you on summer but it is grate and worth it.
Regards,
Frank and Betty(room 303)
maids are brilliant came in everyday to clean the room and give clean towels and also changed bedding twice and we were only there for a week.
didnt think much of the food but ive had worse!
pools were really clean but cold! which was nice after lying in the blazing hot sun for hours.
the rooms are huge aswell there was only 2 in my room and it was so big i nearly got lost!
seaview well worth it!!!
As promised, here's a review on Majestic:
IT'S NICE!!! PLAIN & SIMPLE!!! :-)
(but I guess you'd probably like some details, so here goes...)
Majestic is HUGE! It must be one of, if not THE, largest hotels in Sunny Beach. There are three complexes: the main complex, as shown in the pictures, where the lobby and all facilities are situated, and two side complexes. As I recall, the main complex has twelve stores/floors, and side complexes has nine. Our apartment was in complex 2, with (unfortunately) no seaview. But hey, we had the sunset instead!
Our 1-room apartment, located on the seventh floor, was very, very nice. Spacious, well-equipped with A/C, kitchenette featuring microwave oven, stove, fridge (not very cool, though) and... tadaaa: a kettle! Room had couch with table, small table with two chairs for breakfest, kingsize bed, desk with drawers and cupboard and sat-TV. There IS a mirror at the desk, too. Balcony was spaciuos, but lacked some privacy - neighbor-apartment could look right in, and (if you're the paranoid kind) with little effort, could climb over and enter your apartment, so you may want to remember to close the balcony door when not in the room. Bathroom also nice with bathtub, hairdryer (seemed ok, but didn't really use it) and a telephone at the toilet - gotta love it! Only thing i could point my finger at, was the pillows on the bed - bring your own, if you have neck-issues!
IMPORTANT! If you're not used to this from previous travelling, here's a hint: when we first entered the room upon arrival, we couldn't get the electricity to work. We even checked the fusebox, but no blown fuses. We called reception, and they would send a technician up. Luckily, we found the problem before he arrived: there is a "slot" right next to the entrance, where you have to insert the keycard for the door to get electricity... :-)
Other than that, we didn't have any problems, everything was super.
We didn't eat at the hotel, so I can't comment on the restaurants, but I did get a massage in the Majestic Spa - very nice! Ask for "Iskra", a very nice and competent girl.
The pool-area is, as one could probably imagine, pretty crowded, but in mid-june not a major problem, could be more crowded later in the season, though. Smaller kids go in the left pool, when facing the complex, bigger kids and adults should use the right one. There are showers and even an outside massage-tent in the pool-area, and even a nice round-the-clock bar, which has sunchair-servicing at daytime. And by the way, all sunchairs are free of charge, with a sunscreen.
As for the "sunchair-reservation-problem", hotel management officially PERMITS guests to practice this with statements in the elevators, so if you experience this, just remove the towels, claim your sunlounger, and refer to the rules - END OF STORY!
One downside is, that the pool opening hours ends at 5 pm, so no late afternoon dip allowed.
Oh, regarding the elevators: YES, they are indeed haunted! You'll just have to experience this for yourself... :-) And besides, they are a little tricky to use, if you are placed in the side complexes: From the lobby, they only connects to the side complexes via 4th floor - to get a heavy trunk up to, say the 7th floor, as in our case, you'll have to take the lobby elevators to the 4th floor, then walk to the left our right, according to your complex, and then take another elevator uo to 7th floor! You CAN take the side complex elevators to the ground level, but there are some stairs you'll have to use, not very clever!
Majestic has it's own exchange desk AND an ATM outside the main entrance - nice.
Other facilities include a little market (probably a bit overpriced, compared to street markets), hairdresser, doctor, internet café and a gaming room, and as mentioned, a spa. Also, there's a luggage-storage room, for those afternoon-after-check-out-departures. No need to sit on your luggage for eight hours!
We didn't have any problems with the staff in general, but didn't have the need for their services anyway, so can't really comment on that.
Regarding the location of Majestic, it is a fairly long walk from "downtown". It is a 20 minute walk or so from Flower Street, so I highly recommend using the "Choo-choo", those small trains that runs from the outer ends of the resort to downtown. A ride is 4 lv's pr. person, and it stops right next to Majestic. They only run at the day though, but at night, you can catch the "tuk-tuk-bikes", a bicycle cab which carries two or four people, usually driven by young lads with a love for loud technomusic :-) A ride from Flower st. to Majestic is 10 lv's, but it's fun for kids, and by far beats a long walk at night along the somewhat pretty spooky dark beachpromenade - trust me! DO NOT take the taxi's - the claim that it's the same price as the "tuk-tuks" and "Choo-choo", but when you arrive at the destination, he demands the price - pr. person! And you DO NOT want to negotiate with the driver! If you do need a taxi, going FROM Majestic, they have their own taxi's parked outside, and you may be able to arrange pickup in downtown at a prearranged time - don't know this for sure, though.
As for Sunny Beach in general, not a lot has changed. There are more hotels, bars, restaurants & shops than three years ago, obviously. Some of the old places are closed or changed, but the majority is still there - also our favorite bar from last time, "Amigo" on the promenade opposite Hotel Globus. Give it a try on one of the first nights, chances are you'll be coming back the next! If not, there are millions of other places to go.
Prices has gone up a bit from last time, but that was expected. Still, Sunny Beach is much cheaper compared to Spain and Greece.
The Beach is fantastic. Lots of sunchairs with sunscreen to rent, and lots of facilities like paragliding, jetski ("Di-Di Team", the place just opposite Hotel Evrica is recommended!) and other crazy waterrides. Even in june, the Black Sea was actually warmer than Majestic's pool.
As i stated in my last "review", there ARE some issues with Sunny Beach being controlled by the maffia. This is still true, but nowadays, the Bulgarians has taken over. Again, you will not notice this generally. Well, apart from the luxury cars, that is - we had a Maybach and a Bentley parked outside Majestic the entire week :-)
And about safety and prostitution: actually I think this has improved. I did take some very... VERY!... late walks from the bar home to Majestic, even on the beach, and I never felt insecure. I can't state that prostitution and pocket-lifting is gone for good, but I didn't experience anything of the kind this time. But be careful anyway.
All in all: Majestic has two thumbs up from us, and Sunny Beach - it is, what it is, and we WILL return. Maybe allready later this year.
Hope this was helpful, and have a nice holiday!
Regards, Jacob - Denmark
I'll give a review once we get back! :)
As for Sunny Beach generally, we liked it very much the first time. We are now both in our thirties, but we still like to have a fun night out. And we did! 6, to be exact. At daytime, we strolled around in the resort, and were amazed how cheap everything was, compared to Greece or Spain. At nighttime, we spend hours at the bars, mainly "Amigo" on the beachfront opposite Hotel Globus. Cheap and strong drinks, highly entertaining staff and LOUD music :-) We never visited any of the real disco's, as we didn't felt the need for it. They are pretty crowded with very young kids anyway.
But if you like partying & clubbing, I'd say that the only places in Europe that beats Sunny Beach would be Ibiza and Ayia Napa. The whole resort is flooded with bars. To those who fear for the noise, Sunny Beach has a "music regulation" of some kind for the bars, so they turn the volume a bit down after midnight, and the Majestic is located convieniently far from the noisiest areas, so don't worry.
As others has mentioned, DO NOT - (I repeat) - DO NOT use the exchange booth located around the resort. The nice girl in the booth seems friendly, but when you give her your money, she dissapears and is replaced with a NOT very friendly goon, who give you a shit rate. Instead, use an international creditcard and use the ATM's.
Also, DO NOT believe that ANY of the various brands of clothes, bags and so on is genuine - THEY ARE NOT! It is ALL fakes, knock-offs and copies. That goes for the CD's and DVD's you can buy. We did buy some CD's and the quality was ok - can't say for the DVD's, as we didn't buy any.
As for safety and prostitution, well... there are so many people on the streets 24/7, so as long as you keep to the crowded streets, there are no problems. But be CAUTIOUS when going home late at night along the beach promenade, cause this is were the prostitutes reside. They "do their thing" on the dark beach, if you know what I mean. And if they spot you, going home alone after a night of heavy drinking, they WILL try to pick you up - AND steal your wallet. Take my word for it, a girl tried it on me... my advice is to never walk alone late at night on the beach area.
Also, the rumours you may have heard, about Sunny Beach being controlled by the Russian mafia - those are NOT rumours, it is infact very true. But you don't really notice, apart from all the VERY expensive luxury cars with russian licenseplates :-)
As for excursions, I would only recommend the trip to nearby Nessebar, the penninsula you can see from the beach. We also went to Varna, but I can't really recommend it, unless you are interested in local culture.
Can't think of anything else right now, so I hope you all have a nice holiday!
Regards, Jacob - Denmark.
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Check out "The Voice" on the beach front past The Helena hotel; fantastic live music. Mini Golf along the sea front. Tastes and Traditions tour gives you an insight into the country and it's history. Nessabar is the local fishing town with loads of shops, restaurants and definitely worth a visit.