The Crescent Beach Hotel & Leisure Resort

A hotel on the decline. There are many problem some of which cannot be fixed without rebuilding. The rooms. Very average decor. Good comfortable bed and good linen and towels. No air conditioning but instead they have a blower system int be place of AC that uses centralise chilled or heated water. So I. The transition between season you will either be cold or hot and you have to open the window to adjust the temperature. But the worst is the noise. The walls are thin. The floor is on a metal beam structure so people steps going up and down the stairs can be heard inside the rooms adjacent. If you are lucky and your neighbour quiet and you are not next to the stairs you can sleep peacefully. The there is the bathroom. Badly maintained, sometimes bad shower head, mouldy smell in some bathrooms. The repairs to the grouting between the tiles is badly done the taps and shower fittings are old and sometimes corroded. The hotel is out of town but only 10 to 15 minutes by taxi which is cheap. The rates were ok for a corporate discount of around 65AZN per night but the price was astronomically over priced. Food was ok but others there are key ingredients missing and the service was terrible. The hotel staff in general look like entry level trainees. Very very few speak any English and many can’t even speak Russian. If it wasn’t my company booking paying I would definitely not have stayed here for more to an one night. There was one man in the reception area who spoke good English. He was charming and extremely helpful.

First visit to hotel, the food is served from the terrace restaurant and was of a reasonable standard with a decent choice. They also do a pretty good 24 hour room service as well if arriving late. They have recently renovated the gym and pool area with 2 racket sports courts, that at time of writing appear never to have been used yet, as are the changing rooms. The rooms are of an ok standard for this standard of hotel split over a possible 8 accommodation blocks, at time of writing only 3 were getting used.

We ordered Azerbaijani kabab, but they brought two bones with almost no meat on it. Waiter started to argue that this is what you get for 15 manats. I was disappointed with the service. The quality of food was ok.