Hotel Riu Helios

Me and my sister stayed at this hotel for the second time in july. The location of the hotel is brilliant, close to alot of restaurants and bars. It is also close to the strip so good for people wanting to go clubbing however not so close that its noisy throughout the night for those wanting to chill. Although as 2 young girls, when getting nearer the strip we were harrased alot by club promoters but on noticing this we just ensured we remained in the restaurants and bars away from the strip. The restaurants and bars are extremely cheap. I would recommend morris bar which is just down from the hotel on the beach front, beautiful views. The cocktail menu is fairly limited but still had a number of delicious cocktails and they had a slushy machine which would add alcohol on request. The food in the hotel is brilliant, particularly the lunchtime menu at the pool bar as i am a fussy eater, it always had staples lile burger, chips, pizza and pasta but then had a selection of other dishes that changed daily. The use of plastic cups around the pool did bother me as they werent resusable, seems like a waste. The weather was also touch and go which obviously is not at fault of the hotel but we did have rain for 2 whole days and some showers dotted on the other days. Finally, we did take a trip to nessebar town during our stay however most of the shops were closed by the time we got there and had eaten (around 9), so if you visit (which i would recommend as its beautiful) go earlier in the evening to get the most of it. Rooms were always clean with good aircon but are fairly basic.

We arrived to very busy night life, hotel 30 mins from airports, lovely calm hotel, reception staff very friendly and helpful, we had the most perfect room overlooking the pool, entertainment and beach from the third floor, carpets in the room must have helped as we hardly heard any noise from other rooms, great air conditioning and real good wi fi. The food was very nice, my son age 8 ate very well ( he doesn’t normally on holiday ) food was well presented and good variety, would recommend the Asian restaurant in the hotel. We didn’t see much of the entertainment as it started late, but enjoyed the singing on our last night there, good selection of drinks and loved the pools, we didn’t use the kids club but were asked regular to join in by very friendly entertainment team. We wanted for nothing and spent most our money on day trips, the family adventure to see the camels and really recommend the jeep safari, great fun day out. We thoroughly enjoyed our 10 days here, the only regret was we ran out of money and would have loved to have tipped Hati our room cleaner as she done a really good job cleaning the rooms every day so please thank her and all the other staff they work really hard xx