“Budget all inclusive.”

Vehzen is an all-inclusive resort at the budget end of the range. Architecture is concrete Eastern European of a few decades ago. Furniture is functional, but the bed was comfortable. Air conditioning and shower worked fine. Bathroom came with hair dryer, towels and soaps. There is a fridge in the … more

Vehzen is an all-inclusive resort at the budget end of the range. Architecture is concrete Eastern European of a few decades ago. Furniture is functional, but the bed was comfortable. Air conditioning and shower worked fine. Bathroom came with hair dryer, towels and soaps. There is a fridge in the room. All was clean. Staff friendly and English spoken. Efficient reception. No safe in the room but safety storage boxes in reception. Sea view from the higher floors but trees block the view lower down. All rooms have a balcony and pool view. Wi-fi was slow at times and also stopped for a few hours. There is limited parking, but there is street parking nearby. Vehzen is one of a muddle of hotels and apartment blocks on a hillside a little way out of Golden Sands. The roads and paths are poorly surfaced and navigation is not straightforward. GPS worked well. Walking to St Constantine and Helena takes about an hour along the coast in one direction, while the centre of Golden Sands is 40 minutes in the other direction. Aladja Monastery is about a 50 minute walk and mostly through the picturesque forest of a nature reserve. Food was buffet style but varied each day. Little vegetarian choice. All inclusive gives a limited range of drinks, but includes one local fizzy beer, wine and some cocktails. There is a restaurant, with inside and outside seating, and a pool bar. The pool is clean and fairly large with a shallow area for children. Lifeguard on duty. Sun loungers were not all occupied. There is no entertainment programme, just piped music at the pool bar. There is table tennis, a pool table and pin ball machine. This is a basic hotel that provides value for money, not a luxury holiday experience.

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“Ok-ish”

Nice sea view, but that’s all…bad experience with the staff.. first of all : lack of knowlegde of any foreign languages (english/german/french), secondly they don’t know their job (reception ppl)…poor breakfast. At least the view from the room was nice.

“Delightful surroundings, bad approach”

We stayed one week in June 2018, B&B. The hotel is clean and tidy but decidedly dull. The rooms were cleaned each day and we had new towels and sheets every other day. We had a balcony with a lovely view over the treetops to the Black Sea, which was beautiful. We had air conditioning. The televisi… more

We stayed one week in June 2018, B&B. The hotel is clean and tidy but decidedly dull. The rooms were cleaned each day and we had new towels and sheets every other day. We had a balcony with a lovely view over the treetops to the Black Sea, which was beautiful. We had air conditioning. The television controls were missing their batteries so changing channels took some time. There was also a fridge in the room. The bathroom was clean but tired. No bath, only a shower. We had breakfast included which was presented buffet style. Plenty of food to eat, cereals and bread with a variety of jams and honey. Lots of cooked food, fried or scrambled eggs, cheese, frankfurter, tomatoes, ham etc. Also fresh fruit usually oranges and grapefruit. More than enough choice. You could sit outside to eat under the trees, very pleasant. The hotel had a very good sized, clean swimming pool and a bar although we didn’t use either! Really the hotel was good value, the worst part was the approach from the road past rubbish bins etc. But this is not unusual, a lot of countries have large communal waste bins, they’re just not very pleasant when they’ve been raided or are overfill. The walk to,the beach was difficult too. Quite a long way, lots of steps and very uneven paving.

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