Deckchairs tied with chains, soups prepared in the room of a three-star hotel, melons cut into bags and eaten like on the Maidan, seed crackers and swearing like on the stadium
I've had enough! For so many years I've seen people investing in businesses on the coast and trying to change for the better what I've been pointing out for years that doesn't work here, at the seaside. I've talked to them for hours, maybe sometimes I've put them up against the wall and I didn't believe them when they said that it's getting harder and harder for them to keep their hotels, beach bars and restaurants at an at least acceptable level. I told myself that maybe they don't want to invest anymore and that they have to assume some expenses, but now I'm starting to agree with them. Entire areas of the coast are "occupied" by people who lack any education, common sense or embarrassment.
"I tied the sunbeds with chains because they were stealing them"
I'm not saying it! The manager of a three-star hotel in Mamaia says it, desperate to cope with the avalanche of horrors committed by tourists. The hotel is an all-inclusive or half-board hotel, and a room costs from 300 lei/night. It's not cheap, and their rating on booking is almost 9. Each tourist has a reserved sunbed on the beach in front of the hotel, just like they have one by the pool. And yet, every day, you will hear scandals on the beach between the tourists of this hotel. You would think that they steal each other's sunbeds to invite their friends staying at other hotels to sunbathe for free on the sunbed. The beach manager tried in every way to explain to the tourists the conditions under which a sunbed can be rented for friends, but it has reached the extreme situation that the beach beds are chained to umbrellas so that they don't disappear. INCREDIBLE!
You can find the story about the soup in the room of another three-star hotel here
"I'm at the beach just cutting a melon"
"We're at the beach, I just cut a watermelon" is heard in a Romanian mixed with Spanish just a few sunbeds away from me. I look at the two, I think they are around 50 years old, and I can't believe that they are taking out half a watermelon from a bag, which they are cutting on the table between the deckchairs. A song from Ibiza is heard on mute. The two husbands came prepared from home with a knife to slice the watermelon hemos that was flowing on their bodies. There will be some solution to get rid of sunburn! Why such a lack of education! Next came the national sport of spitting watermelon seeds into the sand, followed by leaving the net full of debris there on the table at just... 30 degrees Celsius.
According to the hoteliers, the incidents described above are becoming more and more frequent, and real solutions to get rid of tourists lacking common sense have not really been found.
I leave here a photo received last night from the manager of a four-star hotel in Mamaia. "Look what I found in the apartment that rents per night for 150 euros"
A few minutes later, I receive a photo from the manager of a restaurant located in Mamaia, five meters from the beach.
I talk to the owner of the restaurant and ask him if he doesn't want to get rich managing a single toilet. I leave you his message which is eloquent:
" Brothers wash the children in the sinks! ANDand that... no access without shoes...They take off their shoes at the entrance. (period) Then I continue the idea with the fact that that's how their minds go. ANDThey come to the bar outraged that if they steal their sneakers... who gives them the money!!?!"
At the money that is being asked for them, people thought they had bought them :-Oh!
THE HOTEL MANAGERS HAVE SIMPLE SOLUTIONS TO THESE. WHEN THEY RECEIVE THE KEYS, THEY MUST SUBMIT A GUARANTEE AND SIGN A VERBAL PROCESS THAT RECORDS THE INVENTORY AND CONDITION OF THE ROOM, SO THEY WILL NOT LEAVE BY STEAL AND BE CAREFUL, BECAUSE IT IS ABOUT THEIR MONEY .
The Romanian tourist is an uneducated but airy mythocan. I see them on the beach with their Moschino bag and then they cut their nails with a nail clipper. This kind of people will not understand that in the hotel you don't bring food from outside, that you don't make soup and the beach is not his tac-su. I probably understand swearing and being publicly humiliated... For me, it's simple: they come to us on the coast and the beach is done by the Bulgarians. I discovered (with sadness) a neighboring people with common sense and who do not live in their country. The Romanian Maltese can be seen from a distance anywhere in the world. He is insensitive, stupid, noisy and wears his stupidity with pride.
Food safety on the Romanian coast is, if not non-existent, at best derisory. I say this as a parent who risked going with children under 5 years old to our beloved coast and ending up five times with them at the emergency room for infusions and then home because the hospital in Constanța for infectious diseases is (or at least it was 10 years ago) a real camp. The so-called all-inclusive regime allows the "recycling" of uneaten food from previous meals, if not from the previous day. For children, such of food is a real biological bomb. In exchange for a small tip, the cooks would make a white pilaf with carrots or a vegetable soup, also with rice for the children. This in some places. In others the only solution was to make a soup on the stove, in a 3-star plus hotel that served at the buffet thighs that smelled of chloramine! So I understand those who try to protect their offspring and who, if necessary, make a soup... In relation to eating watermelon on the beach, what can I understand, c after paying 100 lei for two sunbeds, you also have to buy a fruit salad for 30 lei, also from the hotel robber? Why robber? Well, let me tell you: In Greece, in Paralia, at 3 stars, on the beach, the housekeeping was done by a Romanian woman. Internal and paid for 800 euros. From May to October. The prices for accommodation with half board (where no child got sick) were comparable to those in Romania, let's say in Eforie or Venus. The hotel belonged to the Greek, built by him or bought, I don't know. It was not taken during the privatization for one euro and later renovated with the money collected by to the Romanian tourist. Well, she could afford to pay a housekeeper with that much, while here seasonal workers are remunerated with the minimum on the economy, in the happiest case. Ours scream that they have no facilities and at the end of June the entire Romanian coast is barely was preparing for the reception of tourists and the resorts were almost empty, because - the locals said - the season had not started! A day later, in Bulgaria, from Balchik to Duni, the resorts were full of tourists. What. did the locals say? That the season hadn't started even at their place, but everything was green, arranged and ready to receive their guests. The vast majority of Slavs: Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles and Slovaks. Plus some Bulgarians and Romanians. Let our "investors" learn to do honest tourism and then pay for advertising articles with "how insensitive Romanian tourists are". They have those who deserve them.
Difficult with moderation!
There is only one clarification I would like to make regarding the photo with the stove in the apartment rented for 150 euros / day in Mamaia: I notice in the photo other elements from which I can deduce that it is a family with a small child (pampers, wet napkins, thermos , milk powder, pacifier chain). I am the mother of a 1 and a half year old child and every evening I have to heat the water to prepare the milk powder. Also, if the kitchen of the apartment was not equipped, it is possible that the mother will need to prepare snacks or meals for the child if she does not want to give them only from the restaurant.
I wanted to specify this so as not to misinterpret and generalize. This exception does not excuse the picture of the soup from the hotel or the other examples that leave no trace of interpretation.
Exactly about the room/studio/apartment rented for 150 euros per night - I am also the parent of a 2-year-old and 5-month-old child. What is seen there is exactly what is being prepared for a small child. This is if we manage to get over the fact that the "manager" entered the room in question, in the absence of tourists, took a picture and it ended up in the public space... It can be seen that the gentleman is not guided by common sense, nor by good faith - otherwise he would have realized what it was about - but maybe at least a GDPR if not some more criminal law. I'm curious if there is a confidentiality clause in the signed rental contract (if there is one) or something like that, which would prevent him from getting in on people.
If we are talking about making soup, there is something completely different, but if you put in that room the image of one or two - three children (look closely, you can see cars and some children's sandals), it starts to make sense if you look to the execrable food served in the public catering units on the coast, 90% of them totally unsafe for feeding a child... You see things completely differently when you are a parent and you end up with your "little one" at 3 in the morning at the emergency room, on infusions because of the food . And there is still someone to tell you why you don't take care of what you give the child to eat...
The rates in Romania are at least the same as those outside, I have been to several places, many times higher, but nevertheless the services are not the same. What's more, they also have higher employee salaries than ours. While in other countries you put whatever you want and as much as you want/hungry on your plate for breakfast, here the "boss" hunts you not to put more than 2 slices of salami. How so? There are explanations, but no one assumes them, and of course it is easier to blame the "insensitive Romanian tourist", he is an "entity" that cannot defend itself, because it is made up of several individuals who suspect each other each other.
Let's take it another way: why are there exactly so many places in accommodation units in other countries so that people don't sit like tins in a pot??? Has anyone forgotten that a hotel recently appeared on that beach in Jupiter and another one is under construction, with a very large accommodation capacity? Did someone calculate WHERE those people will fit before giving the permits????