For many Russians, Bulgaria has long been a favorite vacation spot. In Soviet times, everything was almost like ours. Today, Bulgaria has headed for the creation of a tourist service that meets the highest international standards. The best resort of the country has always been and is now Sunny Beach. Iberostar Sunny Beach Resort 4 * is one of dozens of its hotels where you can find comfort, coziness, impeccable service, decent living conditions in all respects. It is good for both adults and children, so many tourists who repeatedly come to Bulgaria always choose this hotel. We offer you to take a short virtual tour of it to see what rooms are here, how good food is, how leisure is organized.
Location
In hospitable Bulgaria in the resort of Sunny Beach, Iberostar Sunny Beach Resort 4 * hotel is located. It is built about seven hundred meters from the center and less than a hundred meters from the coast. In the brochures it is indicated that this is the second coastline, but go to the promenade and the beach even with small children no more than 5 minutes. Sunny Beach administratively refers to the city of Nessebar, to which you can go by bus in a matter of minutes, and you can slowly walk along the beach on your own. The resort is located away from major highways and railways, which provides it with perfect ecology. The largest center of Varna is 90 km from here, and the city of Burgas is only 36 km away. Sunny Beach is connected with them by bus. The intercity bus station is very close to the hotel, you can walk to it in 10 minutes.
How to get there
Organized tourists who used the services of travel agencies, buying a tour to Iberostar Sunny Beach Resort 4 *, to Bulgaria (to Sunny Beach) are most convenient to get by air to the airport of Burgas. There they will be met by representatives of travel agencies and delivered to the hotel by transfer. For unorganized tourists who have independently booked a hotel room, it is more economical to get from Burgas by intercity buses to the bus station in Sunny Beach, and from there drive to the hotel with local buses. Travel in total will cost no more than 5 leva (as of the end of June 2017, 1 lev is equal to approximately 34 rubles). If you take a taxi from the airport, you will have to pay from 5 to 15 leva per km.
From Moscow it is very cheap to get to Burgas by train departing from the Kievsky station. Travel time is almost 2.5 days, but a ticket is much cheaper than a plane.
Description of the hotel and territory
The four-star Iberostar Sunny Beach Resort in Sunny Beach (Iberostar Sunny Beach Resort in the Russian version) was built relatively recently, in the winter of 2005, and in 2011 it was overhauled. The hotel consists of two nine-story buildings connected by a passage and forming an internal territory closed from the road. Its area is small, there is no garden where you can take a walk in the evening, there are almost no green spaces, only several green lawns with flower beds are broken and individual trees are planted. The main part of the territory is occupied by large and small pools, around which paving slabs are laid. Specialists working on the landscape design of the hotel successfully placed a paid parking lot, a bar, a mini club and a playground on its territory. Everything is very compact, but creates a pleasant impression.
In travel agencies, advertising this hotel, they say: "Iberostar Sunny Beach Resort - All Inclusive". Prices for tours here are quite high, but the level of service and service are worth it. Here guests can completely relax and not worry about anything. Friendly reception staff are waiting for them upon arrival from the airport. It is located in the very spacious and luxuriously decorated marble lobby of the central building. The staff understands the Russian language, but speaks mostly in English. At the reception you can profitably exchange money, buy a tour, call a taxi, leave your suitcases in a luggage room, use a fax and photocopy machine. Near the reception there is a 24-hour lobby bar, comfortable sofas and tables. It’s good at catching free Wi-Fi. Both the first and the second buildings are equipped with modern high-speed elevators that will quickly bring tourists tired of the road to their room.
Infrastructure
In a wonderful corner of Bulgaria, called Sunny Beach, in Iberostar Sunny Beach Resort 4 *, one of its best hotels, you can not only have a great rest, but also hold a festive event, for example, to celebrate an anniversary, arrange a wedding or engagement. For these purposes, the hotel has a large and amazingly beautifully decorated banquet room. If necessary, employees can arrange it according to the theme of the event. For business people, the hotel has a business center and a conference room equipped with the latest equipment.
In the lobby of the central building there are shops with beach accessories, souvenirs, cosmetics, which is very convenient for guests. There is also a small Internet cafe, a billiard room, a room for playing cards, a medical room. For those who wish to improve their health, the hotel has a spa. Here you can visit the massage room, Finnish sauna, hammam and sunbathe on the large outdoor terrace. In addition, the hotel has a beauty salon, where there is a hairdresser and a beauty parlor.
Rooms
Almost every guest in his review of the Iberostar Sunny Beach Resort hotel in Bulgaria notes the coziness and comfort of the rooms. There are 636 units here, all of one category are apartments. The difference is only in the views from the windows (to the territory and pools or to the surroundings with a small capture of the sea landscape). According to tourists, the rooms are very spacious and bright. All of them are one-room, but with partitions that divide the total area into zones of the bedroom, living room and kitchen. They also have large balconies with outdoor furniture sets.
Room facilities: beds, a sofa bed or a folding armchair, a wardrobe, a table, a desk, a mirror, air conditioning, a modern TV, a refrigerator with a regularly replenished minibar, a paid safe, an iron and a hairdryer. The hygiene rooms have a washbasin, toilet and a large recumbent bath. On the day of check-in, a wide range of shower products is provided (shampoo, gel, cream and shaving gel, wet wipes, ear sticks, toothbrushes and pastes, there are even threads and needles). In the future, these sets are not replenished.
Nutrition
With two types of food, tours to Sunny Beach are offered at the Iberostar Sunny Beach Resort: All Inclusive and the elite All Inclusive Premium. In the second case, the minibar in the rooms is replenished for free. If tourists book their rooms on their own without buying a tour at agencies, they can choose between HB (half board) or BB (breakfast only).
The infrastructure of this hotel has two restaurants, one of which is vegetarian. The central breakfast buffet, lunches and dinners are served. According to tourists, the choice of dishes is huge. Every day, the menu includes dairy and sour-milk products, cereals, meat of 3-5 kinds, fish, vegetables, side dishes, fruits, ice cream and desserts.
During the day, you can take drinks in any of the five bars available on site.
Conditions for children
All conditions for children's recreation are created in the resort of Sunny Beach. In Iberostar Sunny Beach Resort 4 * for younger guests there is also a wide range of services. The rooms have the ability to install for them not only a crib, but also an arena. The restaurant has a special menu. Three children's pools are equipped on the territory (two depths are 100 cm, one is 30 cm deep). The shallowest pool has waterfalls and a water slide. Children can be entertained on a wonderful playground with rides, on trampolines, in a kids club and in game rooms. In one of them a rope attraction for climbing was built.
In addition to all this, good talented animators play games and funny contests with the kids.
Leisure for adults
If you believe most of the reviews, the rest at the Iberostar Sunny Beach Resort is organized as interesting and varied as possible. On the territory there are two deep and spacious pools and one not very large in area, but with a helical water slide. Around all the pools there are many sun loungers and umbrellas, and a bar is nearby. Sports enthusiasts can have fun playing tennis, golf, volleyball, and also use the fitness room for free, while relaxation lovers will find a modern spa center. There is a solarium, indoor pool, sauna, bath, massage room.
In the reviews of the guests, the excellent work of the clockwork and always cheerful animators, which do not give a bored person, is noted.
Outside the hotel is also a lot of interesting things. Vacationers in Iberostar Sunny Beach Resort 4 * Sunny Beach will be remembered for a lifetime, it is so interesting and fun here. Near the hotel there is an amusement park with breathtaking attractions. The resort has three water parks. In its western part an “Action” with 30 slides was built, near Nessebar - “Paradise”, and on the territory of the “Kuban” hotel there is a small water park of the same name, where you can have great and inexpensive fun with small children.
In the evening, the resort does not calm down. Here, until the morning, dozens of bars, restaurants, and nightclubs work.
Sea
The resort with the beautiful name Sunny Beach in Bulgaria is famous for its wonderful Black Sea coast with clean golden sand. Iberostar Sunny Beach Resort 4 * from the city beach is only 60 meters, which is very convenient for its guests. According to their reviews, the beach and the sea are very clean, the entry into the water is excellent, the depth along the coast is small, there are practically no jellyfish and algae. Sun beds and umbrellas are paid, but you can borrow them for the whole day. Free on their towels can also be located, but a place for this is allocated far from the water. There are many attractions on the beach, from banana riding to parachuting. The peculiarity of this section of the coast is its frequent waves and dangerous undercurrents, therefore, here, it happens, they put up a red flag forbidding entry into the water. It is important to note that professional lifeguards are always on duty at the beach.
Iberostar Sunny Beach 4 * (Sunny Beach): reviews
This hotel has a very high rating, ranging from 8.8 to 9.5 points out of 10 in various travel agencies. Noted by tourists advantages:
- good location, close to the center of the resort and to the beach;
- many pools;
- chic rooms;
- plentiful and varied, and most importantly - delicious food;
- wonderful animation;
- Great service for kids.
Noted disadvantages:
- in the children's menu of the restaurant there are few dishes suitable for children;
- not always quality cleaning in the rooms;
- Not always friendly staff.