The name of the Hotel Splendid always makes me smile. A hotel that can call itself Splendid must certainly live up to its expectations, right? Well, this hotel did, and far exceeded any expectations I had for the place.

After a long and sometimes frightening drive from Banesa Airport in Bucharest to Contstanta, we arrived at the Hotel Splendid in Mamaia. The hotel was not hard to find at all. I recognized it from the picture on the Internet and the fact that it sat on the lake side rather than the sea side. We parked the car in the lot, said our hellos to a few stray dogs, and walked in to the hotel. Before we got into the hotel, our impressions were that there wasn’t much near the hotel. You would have to cross the street and then there were a plethora of resorts. Being that we were staying there at the end of March, there were not many people out and about. When we walked into the hotel, we weren’t sure if we were the only ones staying in the hotel.

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