Detelina Hotel in Golden Sands

We had a 7-day stay at this hotel and here’s what we noticed: 🏖️

🏠The room was reasonably sized, equipped with a bed made up of two separate mattresses (a bit uncomfortable, especially if you're sharing it with a partner), a small TV, an old and rather weak air conditioner. If you left it running for hours, it eventually started cooling the room, but in my opinion, it wasn’t really effective. There was also a small pull-out sofa.

📍The bathroom was the biggest disappointment — it was extremely small, the shower had no cabin or curtain, just a basic handheld showerhead, which meant you would splash water all over the place. The drain was next to the toilet, so you had to wait quite a while for the floor to dry before using the bathroom again. The toilet itself was very unstable and squeaked from every angle, and the hairdryer was just as small and old, with almost no drying power.

📍The balcony was okay, but there was no drying rack for towels. You had to hang them over the balcony railing and just hope they wouldn’t fall from the 6th floor.

📍The cleanliness was okay — the room was cleaned daily, and the towels were changed every three days (two small and two large). Personally, I think there should have been an extra towel or bath mat to step on when coming out of the bathroom, which was always wet after even a short shower. (We ended up using one of the small towels just to step on with our feet.)

📍The hotel has an indoor pool, which was clean and overall we had a pleasant time there. However, the number of sunbeds is limited, and people “reserve” them as early as 7 AM (some even during the night) by placing their towels on them — something that didn’t seem quite fair to us. Some guests would leave their towels on a sunbed and then go to the beach for hours, just to make sure they’d have a spot by the pool when they returned.

📍Food – All-Inclusive Experience

We were expecting the food to be very good, especially from an all-inclusive hotel, but unfortunately, it didn’t live up to expectations — we were quite disappointed. While there were a decent number of options, most dishes were bland — and I really want to emphasize just how flavorless they were. A lot of the food seemed to be frozen, deep-fried, and overly greasy.

During our first days, we were excited to see pork and chicken schnitzels — but what we got was thick, tough pork meat with some breadcrumbs on top. It was the same story with other dishes. Even the desserts were a letdown — they looked nice on the outside, but once you took a bite, they had no taste and usually stayed on the plate.
Overall, the food was a real letdown. Drinks were available all day, but even those weren’t impressive — most tasted like diluted flavored water.

📍Also, it’s worth mentioning that the food was not available all the time. Meals were served at fixed hours, so it wasn’t truly “at your convenience.” As for the “famous” 4 PM ice cream — there’s really nothing special about it. It came from a machine and was more like melted soft serve. It probably had some flavor, but by the time it came out of the machine, it was basically liquid.

☀️The sea is relatively close, but in the way back you have to climb quite a steep hill (a classic Bulgarian thing :))) )

📍The staff was generally nice, but communication in English was difficult.It was nice, but we wouldn’t come back.