SH Dolce Mare /ex. Splendido Mare

Such a great experience, I really liked the guy with the drinks Nazar

Our stay at SH Dolce Mare in Varna was one of the worst hotel experiences we’ve ever had. – The elevators barely work, which is a nightmare in a multi-story hotel. – Food is poor – besides breakfast and dinner, there’s basically nothing to eat. Snacks consist of just 3 biscuits and 2 croissants. – The beach bar is a complete joke: they offer ONLY warm bottled water, the cheapest powdered juice, and awful beer that tastes watered down. That’s it. No snacks, no decent drinks. – Food at the beach is only available for an extra cost, and after 5:00 PM you can’t get anything. – Sunbeds are far too few for the number of guests – unless you wake up at 5 AM, you won’t get one, neither by the pool nor on the beach. – No towels are provided for the pool or the beach, which is unacceptable for a so-called resort. – The beach is NOT 300 meters away as advertised – it’s over 1 kilometer in reality. Completely misleading. – The hotel is dirty, the drinks are of the lowest possible quality, and the pool water smells terrible. Everything about this place feels like a money grab, offering as little as possible while overpromising in their descriptions. ❌ I absolutely do NOT recommend this hotel. Avoid it if you care about your money, time, and vacation.

Better not I do not recommend Hotel SH Dolce Mare at all! We spent 6 nights here and it was a wasted vacation. First of all, the food was not what it should be. It is not very diverse and you always had to stand in line for a good piece/morning pancakes/steak. If you didn't come within the first hour of opening, you wouldn't get all the "goodies". There are no healthy food options for children. Fried food is not an option. It's lucky that I brought jars from home, otherwise the child would only eat broccoli sometimes and bananas in the morning. The coffee is horrible. They have machines with beans, but not with milk, they use powdered milk and there is only a coffee machine with milk in the restaurant. And more time to wait in line on your annual leave. The restaurant doesn't have enough seats for the hotel's capacity. At lunch you couldn't eat with your family, you had to sit at the table with other people. That's in addition to the fact that it was unbearable heat. You sit at the table and sweat. They don't have a ventilation system, just a couple of ceiling fans that you can only feel if you grab a table under them. It must be some scheme of theirs so that you don't sit at the table for long, on your leave, on your own money, which you've been waiting for all year. Horrible. When it comes to cleanliness, things are done by halves. The microwave oven was not cleaned the entire stay. It was dirty from the first day when I had to heat the baby's food. The room was clean on the first day, then the towels were changed but that was it. The bathroom in the room is always a puddle because the walk-in shower does not have a bathtub or a proper slope. The only bathroom at the reception, which also serves the restaurant and pool people, is always dirty. As soon as I entered, I left quickly. Another very important reason for a vacation at the beach is that you have nowhere to sit on the beach, neither at the pool nor at the sea. After you eat what you can, when you want to go to the pool, you find sun loungers occupied abusively with a thrown towel, although at the beginning of the stay, the presentation sheet says that after an hour, objects left unattended are removed. It doesn't happen. And I don't feel like spoiling my good mood by arguing with anyone. If you dare to go to the beach, where you spend about 10 minutes, you will find some sun loungers with the hotel's name written on them, but they are also occupied. Parking is another minus. They don't have enough parking spaces in front of the hotel and they make you park 10-15 minutes away on foot. The car sits in the sun, crowded with others who open the door by leaning against your car... all for the wonderful price of 80€/ 6 nights. Now while I'm writing this review, I put the child to sleep in the room in the cool, I came to the pool and he woke up because of the music and the bass from the pool. 😤😐 At the pool, among the sun loungers, the floor is never wiped. You leave with black soles. Indeed, there are trees, leaves fall, flowers, ok. I only had one I saw a cleaning man collecting them. But all the dirt ends up on your towel, in the pool water, in the small children's pool. I hope we leave here healthy. Another minus if you have a small child and use a stroller, there are a lot of stairs, because the hotel is built in stairs, on several floors, with a swimming pool and everything. The Golden Sands resort is a big no no for us now. You can find about the same gypsyism and dirt in Costinesti. Another waiting line and wasted time from your annual vacation is spent at the elevator, which is cramped, dirty, only good for crowding with other sweaty people from the beach. I paid about 1000 Ron per night and that was probably the problem. I've been to all inclusive before and to Bulgarians and Turks, but it wasn't such a joke. It seems that for this money you get green cakes and double beer.

I was in this hotel on a week's vacation and I will tell you one thing. It was great. The food was very good, the drinks at the bar were phenomenal. But what impressed me most was the team of bartenders without whom this trip would not have been the same. Anna, Esra, Todor, Nikolay are definitely the biggest plus of this hotel. I will never forget those few evenings meeting at the bar, drinking drinks and talking to them. Amazing people whom I hope to meet again someday.