Everyone needs a place to lay their weary head. For travelers visiting Saints Constantine and Helena, Hotel Koral is an excellent choice for rest and rejuvenation. Well-known for its proximity to great restaurants and attractions, Hotel Koral makes it easy to enjoy the best of Saints Constantine and Helena.
Rooms at Hotel Koral offer air conditioning and a refrigerator providing exceptional comfort and convenience, and guests can go online with wifi.
A concierge and room service are some of the conveniences offered at this hotel. A pool and breakfast will also help to make your stay even more special. If you are driving to Hotel Koral, free parking is available.
If you’re looking for a Mediterranean restaurant, consider a visit to Restaurant Shabby Chic, which is not far from Hotel Koral.
If you’re looking for something to do, Monastery of Saints Constantine and Helena (0.3 mi) is a nice way to spend some time, and it is within walking distance of Hotel Koral.
Whether you’re traveling for business, pleasure or both, Hotel Koral is sure to make your visit to Saints Constantine and Helena one worth remembering.
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HOTEL STYLE
Quiet
Quaint
Languages Spoken
Bulgarian
Location
Sv. Konstantin i Elena, Saints Constantine and Helena 9006 Bulgaria
Hotel Koral
172 reviews
Getting there
Somewhat walkable
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Hotel Koral is over at the back of the west end of the old St Kontantin & Helena resort and as such has survived the wholesale demolition and rebuild of the main centre and beachfront of the resort. An older mid-range family hotel with a small to medium sized pool, it's not a bad place to spend a few days. We stayed B&B and the breakfasts are best described as adequate, nothing exciting but not terrible either. Limited toast making facilities! It did suffer from an influx of coach party visitors whilst we were there over the weekend as well as hiring its main dining area out for a wedding, so at times there were so many people we felt a bit pushed out into the open air eating area, a bit nippy first thing in the morning. Our room was on the ground floor at the back, so no sea views and I was a little mosquito nibbled from spending time reading on the balcony (from which some sort of electric motor or pump could be heard most of the day possibly from the next building). Air conditioning in the rooms is of the shared building type and worked fairly well with your own controls on the wall. it's not a long walk to the beach but be aware that a lot of the seafront and beach area is hotel specific.
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Date of stay: September 2024
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Trip type: Traveled as a couple
Room Tip:The room cleaning and loo roll / towel replenishment seems a bit hit and miss so keep an eye out...
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My small family have just returned from a fortnight stay at the Hotel Koral. We found both good and bad points with our stay which I will list. Bad points : A few maintenance issues but nothing too major, also our room was next to the pool ( ground floor) and slightly damp.
Good points : Lovely outdoor pool and grounds, Nice dining area and foods and drinks,Cheap beer!! Nice and friendly staff, beach within walking distance plus a good market, very cheap bus into Varna or the other direction to Golden Sands. I must say Varna is a lovely City and well worth a visit. Golden Sands has a great beach and is an amazingly fun place to be both day and night. St.Constantines beaches are lovely too. Bulgarian cooking is great and there are many lovely friendly diners around. I found the Bulgarian people I came into contact with very nice and they have a special way about them. Overall I recommend a stay at the Koral if you want to retreat away from the louder places but still be within reach of them.
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Date of stay: June 2015Trip type: Traveled with family
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I think I can see why there is a dichotomy of opinion on this hotel. First the overall review -- which is very positive -- but please also read the stuff at the bottom!
The hotel is well located: although not particularly close to the beach, it's in a quieter area and nowhere is far to walk in this resort. There are many independent places to eat well and cheaply near the hotel, although the hotel food was also very good, if a little "samey" after a few days. The hotel pool is great, and provided hours of entertainment for the kids. Apparently there's a club under the hotel, but we were never disturbed. The staff could be a little uncommitted at times, but there was also some very good service -- the kids' animation team were excellent! The air-conditioned lobby with the bar and the ping-pong tables also kept us occupied for hours. Overall we had a great time here.
*But* you need to be aware that this is in effect two hotels: - The new 3-star hotel. This is air-conditioned throughout, and is what you see in the photos. - The old 2-star annexe. This presumably comprised the hotel in the former communist days.
We started off in the 2-star rooms. Having thought we were getting cheap rooms in a 3-star hotel, this was more than a bit of a disappointment. These are small, old (so old that despite best efforts from the cleaning staff, it is not possible to keep them really clean because of rusting metalwork, damp plaster in the shower etc.), and most importantly if you're here in the summer: they are not air-conditioned. I've stayed in hostels of a better standard.
For a moderate upgrade fee, we were able to move to the new part of the hotel for the last few nights. This was a completely different experience: indeed, the upper floors looked wonderful: light, airy, and modern, with what appeared (from the fire evacuation plan) to be large rooms. Unfortunately we were in two of the smaller rooms on the ground floor -- still a huge step up, but here's the other thing to look out for: the hotel permits pets, and from the smell, we definitely had the Dog Room. The strong smell of dog was with us night and day until the end of our stay.
So yes, we'd stay again, but be much more careful about choice of rooms!
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Date of stay: August 2012
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Trip type: Traveled with family
Room Tip:Be very aware of the gulf between the 2-star and 3-star rooms.
Try to avoid the pet-owners'...
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The hotel is very old The bathrooms are with mold and spiders. Cleaners are coming not everyday,they don't even collect the garbage from the room.We needed to ask our bedsheets to be changed,and this happen just once for 2 weeks.Often we didn't have toilet paper and clean towels.When we were asking the answer was that they don't have right now as had a embarcation day. The water in the pool is very cold. The food is nice but the staff is awfull.Spoil everything.They are argumentive with bad attitude,no manners - magority russian speaking. Most of them speak only russian,not even English or Bulgarian.The same with our room cleaner and some of the night shift reception.We had very big problem with communication and understanding. So at the end for 2 weeks we get bad hygiene in the room,non professional reception service, and mean and rude staff in the restaurant.
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Date of stay: August 2022Trip type: Traveled with family
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Nice hotel with good quality of service for affordable price. Quiet location with plenty of trees and roses on the territory and around. Don't miss the opportunity to visit hotel's massager Saro - he's great professional with decades of experience. Constantine and Helena overall and Koral hotel in particular is far from loud and noisy clubs and discos. Hotel has open pool on the territory, where we enjoyed swimming with roses' petals on the water. Koral hotel is also pet-friendly.
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Date of stay: June 2022Trip type: Traveled as a couple
Room Tip:I would recommend to take swimming suite to visit town's hot springs complex. It operates all...
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I DO NOT RECOMMEND it and I'm surprised that the travelers don't fall into shame!!! See photo - Mold everywhere in the room (see, feel) including sheets, dirty walls, broken room, cobwebs. No electric kettle only mini fridge. Mattress dirty. In the bathroom glass from dust with mosquito, broken tiles in the shower not to mention mold and smell urine. The children's corner is a chapter in itself: it's about the yellow house - disgusting (no one cleaned there for a whole week, maybe even years, 100 years of dirt. see the photo, this is how it looked during our entire stay) Wi-Fi hardly works at all. My son cut his finger in the pool. All inclusive does not work at the bar by the pool - the bartender is bored, bothers you when you want one wine and God forbid when you want another. After an hour he says he has nothing to drink. The food is average. This has nothing to do with a 4* hotel! And absolutely, ABSOLUTELY nothing for children!!!
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Date of stay: August 2023Trip type: Traveled with family
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Koral Hotel is exceptionally clean, set amongst pine trees, grass and flowers. Wide variety of choice for breakfast and sitting within such a lovely scene made a relaxing start to each day. The pool is a reasonable size and clean, but watch out - some surrounding areas got rather slippery when wet. The maid service was the best we'd ever had, spotless rooms, faultless service and with a cheerful smile. Beds were comfortable, decor had been recently updated, air conditioning came in handy some days, always had hot water available for showers whatever time of day. (No kettle/tea making facilities, took our own with plug adapter, and put milk in fridge). Located about 7 minutes stroll from a couple of sandy beaches with lifeguards; sunbed hire 5 Lev (£2) and sunshade 5 Lev each per day. 3 mins walk to a local permanent market and selection of places to eat and drink made it ideal. Staying B&B, we preferred the Koleloto 'snack bar' (restaurant) for excellent evening meals - delicious and cheap. Wish we had eaten there every night! Did not experience any rowdy behaviour during our stay, so seemed suitable for all. Cheaper to exchange English sterling at the Hotel (and locally) than it was back in UK. Hotel offered 2.70 Lev to £1 no commission, whereas UK Post Office offered only 2.57 Lev. (best we found was 2.85 Lev - but DO NOT exchange money on the streets - you will be cheated as old obsolete worthless currency will be given to you). Taxis are reasonably priced but barter and fix a price - we got 8 Lev for a trip to Golden Sands about 10 min drive, but lowest for trip back was 15 Lev - car share makes sense. Can bus there, with half mile down hill walk from bus terminus to beach (uphill walk at end of day, so may prefer taxi back?) Bus trip in other direction to Varna (the no. 89) was only 1 Lev (40p) each way for 20 min journey! We throughly enjoyed our whole stay 13th-20th July 06 and would come again.
We do need to say BEWARE- beach traders selling clothing eg. Tee shirts or shorts - they will say 2 Lev to get you interested which they immediately bump up to 40 or 25 Lev once they have you in conversation. They are extremely persistent, just repeatedly say No! Also if you agree a price try to give exact amount - our friend got robbed in Varna market - he agreed a price of 25 Lev for 2 Tee shirts but only had 2 x 20 Lev notes, which he handed over and the trader pocketed the lot and refused pointblank to give change. This is not always the case but just be alert.
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Date of stay: June 2006
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Not knowing anything about Bulgaria and the hotels, Me and my partner just chose this from a travel agents brochure as it looked and sounded the best.
We got a great deal on this hotel and we were pleased with the first impressions when we got to the hotel.
The hotel room is bigger than expected and has a little balcony where you can sit outside of hang wet clothes out. The beds were single beds pushed together to make a double bed, but you got used to it and wasn't really an issue. Bathroom/shower was bigger than expected as well so on the whole the room was brilliant.
The hotel food for breakfast had a range of cheeses and cold meats with a few bits of salad items and fruit. The hot food consisted of poached eggs, scrambled eggs, frankfurters and sometimes bacon. There was also cereals and a range of breads and rolls to have with these. Overall, it was much the same everyday, but it was buffet stye so you can change what you have if you get bored of the same things.
The staff at the hotel were brilliant and most of them have speak good english, which is very handy as you will find many places outside the hotel have limited english. The Bar people especially Krasi (who is commonly known as Chris) are very friendly and helpful if you want to know about places around Bulgaria and just general chit-chat. The cleaners were very quick in the rooms and were very good. Even the Taxi driver was friendly and helpful. His rates vary a bit but as long as you agree a feebefore then there can be no arguements.
I don't think I would go to Bulgaria again, as I have probably seen of what I want to, but I would recommend this hotel if you wish to stay in St. Konstantin.
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Date of stay: May 2007
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Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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I just returned from a week with my family at this hotel and all I can advise people is do not go near either this hotel or this resort, whatever you do. The hotel staff are rude, inexperienced and arrogant. The management is rude and incompetent. Upon check-in, we were given the wrong room on the wrong side of the hotel, despite being told specifically which room we were booking through the agency. Other highlights include a breakfast that makes one sick, extremely dirty resort during which in the evening I saw a rat as large as a cat (or at least a guinea pig) and unfortunately even the Black Sea is currently dirty due to 6 weeks of very unsettled weather earlier in the summer. You are asked to pay for internet in the room (unusual for Bulgaria), you are asked to pay to use the loungers by the pool (even if you are a hotel guest) and you are even asked to rent a towel from the lifeguard if you use the pool (even if you are a hotel guest). When my wife argued about this, the lifeguard violently snatched the towel from her hands and yelled at her. I have been coming to Bulgaria on visits for 20 years and have honestly never seen this level of rudeness and dirtiness at either a hotel or the beaches. I do not normally write hotel or airline reviews, but wanted to put this into the public domain so that others do not waste their time or money with this hotel or resort as my family has done.
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Date of stay: August 2014
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Trip type: Traveled with family
Room Tip:Do not go to this hotel
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We visited this hotel a few times 10 – 12 years ago, it was rated as a 3star hotel then and was very good. We decided to visit again to see if things had changed much, the hotel certainly has we cannot find one good thing to say about it now. (it’s now rated as 4 star) Hardly any of the services stated in the brochure were available, no exchange desk, no mini bar, no restaurant facilities, no adult entertainment. We booked 2 rooms for 4 adults. The first problem was that our toilet would not flush, we had to fill the waste bin with water and pour this into the loo to flush it. On our first full day we returned to our room at 5pm to find none of the rooms had been cleaned but the waste bins had been emptied. The breakfast was terrible the bread products were dry and stale and there was hardly any hot food choice. We complained to the hotel about the cleaning and the toilet, the rooms were now cleaned but not very well, there was mould in both bathrooms and the glass and mirrors were never cleaned. The complimentary shower gel and shampoo were not replaced until 3 days before the end of our 2 week holiday. We had to make do with wet and dirty towels for 4 days. The internet was unusable unless you paid for the service. Finally on the Wednesday (over 4 days into our holiday) our rep came with us to our room with the hotel maintenance man to see our non flushing toilet. The maintenance man put one square of toilet paper into the toilet but it would not flush away, he blamed it on Italian toilets. We were now offered a family/apartment room, this was not acceptable as there was only one bathroom and was a downgrade and not what we booked. We also complained about the breakfast as indeed did a lot of people, a family of Germans had their rep with them who had called the restaurant manager out to talk to them. The next day there was indeed a lot more available at breakfast, this lasted for 2 days then went back to as before. We also complained to the rep about the lack of restaurant facilities, most of the guests were from other countries and were all inclusive. Days before we had asked for a lunch menu, we were passed around a number of people all said that there was not menu available or food for us. On the Wednesday the rep now said there was food available for us to purchase, this was after she had had a long discussion with a manager, we did finally manage to order some food a few days later although with much difficulty and a long search to produce a bar menu. There is a general complacency amongst all of the hotel staff from the top to the bottom, the cleaning is very poor in fact some of the large windows in the public areas are so dirty you can hardly see out of them. All this is understandable because the hotel manager is not available, it’s well known in the resort why he is unavailable. We have of course took photo’s of all our complaints as we will try to recover some of our money back from the holiday booking. We had of course asked the rep to move us to a 4 star Hotel of which we had paid for, all she would offer was a move to Golden Sands, another resort miles away or we could pay a lot more money for another Hotel, we did not agree to this as we had already paid considerable money for this hotel. I have to agree with another reviewer that it was very obvious that they were not bothered about western tourists. The only good reviews are from eastern tourists who’s expectations are not the same as ours. If you look at my other reviews you will see that I am an honest Tripadvisior reviewer I like to commend a place if it is good as well as bad. I cannot stress enough do not go to this hotel you will regret it!
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Date of stay: August 2016
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OK. 1/2 godziny. Atrakcje j.w. Można też dojechać autobusem do Złotych Piasków. W hotelu część basenowa z brodzikiem. Specjalne dania dla najmłodszych.
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PRICE RANGE
$35 - $78 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
ALSO KNOWN AS
koral hotel golden sands
LOCATION
BulgariaVarna ProvinceSaints Constantine and Helena
NUMBER OF ROOMS
110
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