OK. My first negative review. We went to the Kinar because nothing else was available and some people told us it's okay and it was kosher. We signed up for the room with breakfast. We took 3 rooms. My wife and I, my two son in laws, my two granddaughters and my great niece.
We walked into the main lobby which is right by the entrance to the dining room. What a "balagan" as they say in hebrew. Noisy as anything. This is a family resort so kids galore.
We got registered relatively quickly. The rooms were down one flight. (So you had the lobby/dining room floor, one down and one up. Also disconnected bungalows outside that I cannot rate but was told by some people was newer but not nice rooms - again, I didn't see them). In any event, upon opening the door to the room you are assaulted by a terrible smell. All rooms with the same smell. Carpets were dirty, linen old and stained. Room was quite large. Checked for bed bugs, but didn't find any. Had two beds pushed together and a couch that became a bed. When my son in laws separated the beds they found sunflower seed shells all over the place. great cleaning crew. Good things - had a fridge and a safe. Had a tv but I'm not interested in that. The noise outside the rooms of children was very loud. There were kids skating and biking in the hallways!
The bathroom had a soap dispenser on the wall and one in the shower. The soap was supposed to double as body wash and hair shampoo?? Good thing we brought our own. No soap bars (is that like the no soap radio joke?). The shower had one of those handheld nozzles that is supposed to be able to hang on top, but that was broken. Had to be a contortionist to take a shower without washing down the whole bathroom. The toilet paper was cut sheets of toilet paper. Exactly two bath towels and two hand towels and one bathmat, stained as well. When I got into the shower I nearly slipped and killed myself, it was so slippery. The second day we got replacement towels but no bathmat - maybe we weren't entitled to it.
At night the AC wasn't very high. When I checked the controls, it was set to the coldest.
We went out at night. When we returned we wanted to buy bottles of water, but they couldn't sell us any because the refridgerator is locked at night! No drinks, no nothing! In a hotel where we paid big bucks to get our rooms.
Safety - The door had a lock and key on both sides. No chain or anything else on the inside.
We did not use the pool or beach. We were there for nights and spent the days sightseeing the country - which, by the way, is incredibly beautiful with tons to do and learn - but that's not for this review.
The best thing about the hotel was breakfast. A lot of different items and pretty good. I think they get eggs from different chickens because the eggs didn't taste very good. the coffee machine only filled your cup between a half and three quarters, so by pushing the button a second time it overflows. The second morning we took two cups of coffee each! Little things but annoying.
They made fresh eggs, pancakes, pita, etc.
Cheese cake was horrible.
But overall, the breakfast was the best thing about the hotel.
I had an issue to discuss with the front desk but they only knew hebrew.
Checkout was easy and painless.
My reviews are usually positive, but that's because we seek out hotels highly recommended at this site. This one was a bomb. I gave it two stars because there was a roof over our heads!
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