The hotel Barcelona is a high class modern tourist hotel in a town where the majority of the accomodation is aimed squarely at the backpacker market.

The hotel is located alongside the Barhal river, close to the town centre. The road to the hotel is not asphalted and is pretty bumpy. But this seems to be fairly typical of many roads in the area.

We stayed for three nights on a tour of the black sea area, and were generally impressed by the high standards of comfort and service.

The hotel restaurant was excellent and reasonably priced.

There is a large open air swimming pool, but it appeared to have been heavily dosed with chlorine, which was extremely difficult to get out of our hair afterwards.

The hotel makes an exellent base for touring in the area. However anyone touring in this area should be aware that road signs and maps are almost non-existent in this part of the world. more