Do you know what *FORTUNA* rest means?

*FORTUNA* HOLIDAYS are a great opportunity to prepare a surprise for yourself, relax abroad and save money at the same time. System "Fortuna" - means that you choose only the class of the hotel (star rating), type of food, duration of the tour and date of departure, and you will find out a specific hotel only upon arrival at the airport of your chosen country.

If you choose a hotel, for example 4 *, according to the "fortune" system, then you will be accommodated in any of the 4 * hotels participating in the "fortune"; accommodation in a hotel of another category (higher or lower) is not expected. The price of tours with accommodation in hotels offered under the "fortune" system is 15-20% lower than the usual cost of tours. It depends on the fact that a few days before the start of the tour, there are free rooms in the hotels, which are issued Special offers. At the same time, the group of offered hotels for each category includes several hotels of different service and price (with regular sales), and according to the “fortune” system, the price for these hotels will be the same.

Thus, you always win, as the price of your hotel will be lower than the price of the cheapest hotel provided. “Fortuna” is your option if you “do not care” where to go, the main thing is that it is cheaper, and there is not much time before the expected departure date. In the high season, there may be cases with resettlement, i.e. when buying a tour, you booked one hotel, and upon arrival in the country you are accommodated in another, explaining that there are no places in the hotel you have chosen (unfortunately, sometimes such cases happen). Or, even when buying a tour, hotels do not confirm you for the same reason. In this case, the “fortune” system is just right!

"Fortune" is a tour selection system when the name of the hotel is not known in advance. You can choose the region, type of food and star rating, you will learn the rest upon arrival at the airport. The cost of the tour according to the "Fortune" system is lower than in any hotel from this category. Usually, according to Fortuna, they are sent to the cheapest hotels according to these parameters, but you may be lucky and get a better hotel. Even if you are assigned to the cheapest hotel, you will still win in price than if you booked this hotel yourself.

The Fortuna system operates on popular destinations, in which tour operators buy hotel rooms in advance - Turkey, Italy, Greece, Tunisia, Thailand, Vietnam. If the main thing for you is the price (and not the number of steps to the beach and reviews about the hotel), then Fortuna will help you save money.

By the way, when booking a Fortuna tour, you can get an instant discount if you enter .

Tour system "Fortuna"

The Fortune system implies a choice only the region of the hotel, the number of stars, the concept of food. The name of the hotel remains unknown until the very check-in (usually upon arrival at the airport before the transfer, or in the documents for the "visa support" service). The system "Fortune" has features:

• It is not guaranteed to check into the same hotel of a company that books accommodation together ( "together" option).
• Hotels can be within walking distance from the sea, or maybe a few kilometers away, you will have to travel by transfer.

Already being at the resort, you can not choose a different region, hotel and food concept. If the proposed hotel is not to your liking, it is possible to move to another hotel of the same concept for an additional fee. The cost of the surcharge is usually inhumane (from $ 200), and it's not worth it.

In fact, everything is not as scary as it seems. Tours on the Fortuna system are very cool. And profitable. But only if you are ready for adventures and quickly adapt to new conditions.

We went on Fortuna tours several times and did not regret it. But we are not fastidious, meticulous and spoiled tourists. We don’t roll our eyes and we don’t fight in hysterics if the hotel is three steps further from the sea, towels have not been changed, or something else is “terrible”. We do not sit in the hotel at all, but ride on interesting places. And the hotel will never spoil our impressions of the country.

How to buy a tour "Fortuna"

Firstly, Fortuna tours are not always available. They appear only at the moment when tour operators want to fill one or another pre-purchased hotel. Secondly, to see them, you need to sort by price in the search, Fortune tours will be one of the cheapest on the list.

If you are looking only for “Fortuna”, then you can specify the word “Fortuna” in the search, for example, on the site, and the system will show possible options and countries. You just have to choose a direction, and click the "Search" button.

Search tours "Fortune"

In order not to go through all the sites of tour operators, it is better to search for Fortuna tours on the so-called aggregators. For example, and . We advise you to buy tours there. As a plus - the best support for tourists and discounts on.

Who does not suit the system of tours "Fortuna"

If you want to prepare in advance, read 100500+ reviews about a particular hotel, calculate the number of meters to the sea and the restaurant, then Fortuna tours are not for you. You will not have any specifics in advance, and you will not be able to calculate everything. Also, Fortuna tours are not suitable for all picky tourists and travelers with small children. Firstly, distance from the sea is not regulated in any way: the hotel can be on the beach, or maybe 3 km from the beach. With a child, this is especially inconvenient. Secondly, You will probably read the reviews after you check into the hotel.. No need to have high expectations, so as not to be upset later. This is a common reason why they write negative reviews about Fortuna tours to Turkey, Italy, Cyprus.

How to recognize a hotel by "Fortuna"

But Turkey, Thailand, Vietnam do not need a visa, so the hotel will not tell you in advance. Most often, a hotel falls out of the first 5 cheapest in this category with this tour operator. But it is not exactly. So you can see all 5 hotels in advance, and decide for yourself whether you are ready to be, by the will of fate, in one of them.

In Turkey, we got to the hotel on the Fortuna tour, and it was not the cheapest in the search. More precisely, in the search for it was not at all. But there was another trick - the hotel closed in November, so we rested just before closing and they lowered prices so as not to work in vain the last week. But there was also a minus - before closing, they didn’t really take a steam bath, and it seemed that they even saved on products, since there weren’t many people, why work at full capacity.

Benefits of Fortune tours

So, buying a Fortuna tour, these pluses are definitely waiting for you.

• Low prices
• Opportunity to get into a good hotel
• You can pre-select stardom, region, food

Cons of tours "Fortune"

And of course the cons.

Most of the Fortuna tours are in Turkey. But tours to Turkey, in principle, most of all. After all, this is the most popular country for Russian tourists (6 million of our tourists were there last year). Tours to 4-5 * hotels are most often bought here and all-inclusive is a must. You can buy the same "Fortuna". For example, at "Anex Tour" there are “Fortuna Alanya 4*”, “Fortuna Alanya 5*”, “Fortuna Kemer 4*”, etc. All directions of "Fortuna" from Anex Tour: Alanya, Antalya, Belek, Kemer, Side, Bodrum, Marmaris, Fethiye.

There are similar tours Sunmar and Biblioglobus. The Fortune Antalya tours include all regions with an arrival at Antalya Airport, but in 90% of cases they are sent to Alanya, where the cheapest hotels are. There are also separate Alanya Fortuna tours, here you will also be accommodated in any hotel in Alanya, but the difference is that the airport of arrival will be Gazipasa (save 1-1.5 hours on the transfer). Let me remind you that we took Fortuna to Turkey from Sunmar, and ended up in a very cool hotel in. Although in general, “Fortuna” to Turkey from “Sunmar” has not very good reviews. This is a photo of our hotel. He's cool, that's true.

Italy "Fortune"

At the tour operator "Biblio Globus" there are "Fortuna" tours in Rimini. There are hotels 3-4 *, meals "breakfast" and "breakfast + dinner". Prices are very low, and holders of a Schengen visa can buy a tour to Rimini "Fortuna" in the off season (for example, in February, March) for literally 12,000 rubles. with a flight from Moscow for a week. Let me remind you that we took such a tour and ended up in a hotel in the Viserba area. According to Fortuna, the tour came out for 2000 rubles. cheaper than if you book a tour at the Hotel Sacramora. The hotel was on the first line across the road from the sea (there are all the hotels in Viserba across the road, that is, nowhere closer).

Rimini beach

Cyprus "Fortune"

At the tour operator "Biblio Globus" there is also a "Fortuna" system for tours to Cyprus. They do not disclose hotels according to this system, they keep it in the strictest confidence. We didn't take.

Greece "Fortune"

Fortuna also sells tours to Greece "Anex Tour". From the directions they have only Rhodes and Crete. These are the most popular islands among our tourists. During the season, a large number of charters are put there, hence a bunch of cheap last-minute tours even in summer. On Rhodes and Crete there is "Fortune" from 2 to 5 *.

Vietnam "Fortune"

At the tour operator "Anex Tour" there is a Fortuna tour system in Vietnam only in the Nha Trang resort. Hotels offer 2*, 3*, 4*.

Tunisia system "Fortuna"

"Anex Tour" also sells tours "Fortuna" ("Fortune") in Tunisia. There are only 2 directions - Djerba and Enfidha. Moreover, buying a tour "Fortune" to Djerba, you can get to the regions of Djerba, Zarzis. And choosing Enfidha, any hotel in the regions of Enfidha, Hammamet, Mahdia, Monastir, Nabeul, Sousse, El Kantanoui can be offered. There are 3* and 4* hotels.

Hot tours

Sometimes it is more profitable to buy last-minute tours than to look for Fortuna. You can see 1000+ burning offers on the page.

These are tours when you do not know the name of the hotel in advance. There are various names for such tours: Fortune, Roulette, Express, Secret.

From time to time, such tours are formed by tour operators Pegas Touristik, Anex Tour, Tez Tour, Biblio Globus, Coral and Sanmar, Intourist.

A fortune and roulette tour, if there is no addition in its name, can include any hotel on the coast. But quite often operators have clarifying terms for such tours.

• Roulette Crete 2* - any hotel in any area of ​​the island of Crete (Greece), category 2* or higher.
• Fortuna Kemer 3* - any 3* hotel in the Kemer region including the nearest settlements of Beldibi, Goynuk, Tekirova.
• Fortuna Kemer city 4* - any 4* hotel in Kemer city
• Fortuna Antalya 5 * - any hotel in the Antalya region (operators in this definition lay the entire Antalya coast of Turkey: Kemer, Antalya, Belek, Side, Alanya)
• Anex has its own names, for example HTOP SECRET COSTA BRAVA 3 * - any hotel of the HTOP network of 3 * category in the Spanish region of Costa Brava, as well as Costa de Barcelona (only the city of Calella as a rule). In such tours, it is enough to look at all the hotels of the HTOP network with which the tour operator cooperates, filter out those in which there are no more places and see the rest. If they all suit you, then feel free to book such a tour and save a lot.
• Fortuna 2 hotels 3 * - means that you will be accommodated in two 3 * hotels (for example, for 5 nights in one and the rest in another), such vouchers are quite rare, but they are the cheapest.

How to find out the name of the hotel using the Fortuna, Roulette, Secret, Express system.

It is not possible to find out exactly which hotel you will get to, tour operators keep this information a secret. After all, if you know in advance, then you can cheat and buy fortune (roulette), which is cheaper than a particular hotel.

A few weeks or months before arrival, the operator himself does not know which hotel he will put you in. Closer to the departure, the operator will already know where he will settle tourists according to Roulette (Fortune), but will not say for obvious reasons.

However, if you buy a tour a few days before departure, then you can try to figure out which hotel the tour operator plans to accommodate you in. It’s impossible to know for sure, but you can try to select 2-3 options. How to do it?

• For nutrition. Some hotels in Spain have unusual meals such as FB SILVER (Silver Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner).

  Accordingly tour HTOP SECRET LLORET DE MAR 3* 3 *** (Lloret de Mar) with the tour operator Anex tour, with meals FB SILVER. According to which the operator undertakes to settle you in any hotel of the HTOP 3 * network in the city of Lloret de Mar. In order to try to calculate the hotel in this case, it is enough just to find 3 * HTOP hotels in Lloret de Mar, which work on such a special diet. And there is only one such hotel - HTOP PALM BEACH 3 *. Accordingly, having bought such a tour, you will get to this hotel with a probability of 99.9%. And the difference in price between a tour of such fortune and a classic tour to this hotel is more than 20,000 rubles for two. Whether it's worth the risk or not is up to you.

• For children, even if the tour is without children. Suppose you found a fortune tour from the 1st for 7 nights, write down 10 hotels of the same category that the same tour operator offers on these dates, past the fortune. And then in the search, enter 2 adults and 3 children, since not all hotels accept this composition, you will see a different list of hotels.

  If there is fortune for 2 and 2 + 3 children, then you already need to calculate the hotel from those who accept 3 children, there are already fewer such hotels.

  But if there is no fortune for 2x + 3 children, then hotels that accept children should, on the contrary, be excluded from potential options where you can get in two.

  Perhaps, by fortune, two hotels are burning, accepting children and not accepting, so this method does not give a 100% guarantee. But it's much better than just guessing.

• By the importance of the hotel for the tour operator. Hotels recommended by the tour operator are indicated in the search engine with various icons. Do you think the operator cares about you? Of course not, this means that the operator has serious obligations to these hotels, as a rule, rooms are bought in advance (commitments in the tourist language). Therefore, it is more profitable for the operator to sell tours and load these hotels first. Therefore, if we see a tour of fortune and see that the list of hotels below is "recommended", and even marked in green as instantly confirmed. So with a high probability, by fortune, you will be accommodated in this hotel.
• Subject to hotel availability. If the tour of fortune in the tour operator's system is marked with "instant confirmation" (Anex and Pegasus are marked with a green background), then the hotels in which you will get with a high degree of probability will be with "instant confirmation". Therefore, you can put a filter on hotels with instant confirmation and see possible accommodation options. If the availability of places on the roulette table is "on request", then the hotel will be one of those places where the tour operator has a place on request (at Pegasus and Anex on a white background).

Why do we need Roulette and Fortune tours?

Operators need such tours in order to sell a "pig in a poke". They can sell as a bad option, far from the sea, and even the sea with a terrible beach. They can also sell a completely normal hotel, which turned out to be underloaded for random reasons.

Why sell tours without specifying the hotel?

• Just imagine you bought an early booking tour, and for some random reason the hotel turned out to be underloaded, but for 7 nights in the middle of the month, and then it was 100% loaded. If he lowers the price openly, then there will be talk of expediency early booking. It's easier to drop prices "into the dark" by selling by fortune. Such situations are rare.
• A tour operator wants to sell a certain hotel that is not being bought well. If you just lower the price of it, people will think that the hotel is bad. The hotel may be really bad, but people who buy a fortune tour will hope for the best.
• At the time of the sale, the operator may not know which hotel will accommodate you. But from experience, he knows that it is at this time that some hotel will definitely burn, so he sells such tours for fortune, and closer to the departure, which hotel will give a cheaper price there and populate tourists by roulette.

Is it worth buying tours using the Fortune, Roulette, Express system?

In my opinion, you can travel by fortune to Spain, since all the hotels are located on good beaches. Especially if the name of the tour indicates a region, for example, Fortuna Blanes, in Blanes, all hotels are located approximately the same from good beaches. If you need discos, choose Fortuna Lloret de Mar. In such a situation, the name of the hotel will not change your holiday much.

You can also say about Thailand, if Phuket's fortune is Karon beach - you can take it, because a specific beach is indicated. But it’s just Phuket’s fortune, you can be accommodated both in a hotel in the party Patong with less than ideal beaches, and in secluded Karon. And vice versa: you planned to hang out in Patong, and you will be settled on Kata Beach and so on.

In Turkey, Greece and Cyprus, the quality of the beaches depends on where the hotel is located. Some hotels have beautiful beaches, and some, although located in the same region, have disgusting beaches. For these reasons, tours to Turkey, Greece and Cyprus under the fortune system are not very attractive.

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One of the most common ways to buy tours to Turkey at the cheapest price is to take part in a promotion called "Fortune".

What is hidden under the word "Fortune"? Is it really so profitable and if there are any "pitfalls" when buying such tours?

"Fortune", or other names are possible - "Express", "Bingo", "Roulette" - is the purchase of a tour in which you go to a hotel whose name you do not know. Tourists choose only the category of the hotel and the region where they would like to relax. Everything else is decided for them by the same Fortune, or a random choice. Travelers also have the right to choose the type of food at the hotel and travel dates. But the main intrigue - in which hotel the tourists will rest - remains a mystery for them until they arrive at the place of rest.

The intrigue is offset by a rather tangible difference in price. When buying a tour to this region in hotels of your chosen category through Fortuna, you can save up to 20-30% of the usual cost of the holiday. In some cases, the discount reaches 50%, but this is rare.

Many tourists think that travel agency employees know in advance which hotel is hiding under the “Fortune” promotion, and for certain “bonuses” they are trying to find out this information from them. This is not true at all, travel agents are as ignorant as the tourists themselves. Even large tour operators learn about the name of the hotel only a day or two before the departure of the group.

The Fortuna system is ideal for those tourists who turn a blind eye to the shortcomings of hotels in the form of remoteness from beaches or proximity to a construction site for the sake of an additional discount on tours. No one guarantees you the first coastline, the absence of sewerage on the beach or broken plumbing in the bathroom. All that a tour operator can guarantee you is the most favorable price for tours in this direction.

Our advice - if you still decide to try your luck and buy a tour to Turkey using the "Fortune" system, choose hotels of a high category. The hotel's star level must be at least 4, and better than 5. You will not be able to make a claim to the travel agency from which you bought tours if something does not suit you at the hotel. It will be possible to replace your place of residence only if the star rating of the hotel does not correspond to the one declared on the tour. Be prepared for the fact that for your money you will be taken to the worst hotel of the category you have chosen.

However, the Fortune system also has its advantages. It is not for nothing that it is very popular among tourists, and if there is a demand, then there will be an offer.

The advantages of buying a tour through the Fortuna system include:

Tour price;

A pleasant surprise if you are still lucky and you get to a good hotel;

The disadvantages of the Fortune system are obvious:

Under the guise of a promotion, tour operators sell tours to the most unpopular hotels, on the pages of which negative reviews of tourists prevail;

High probability that the rest will disappoint you;

However, the chances of good vacation are big enough. Tourists don't quite buy a pig in a poke. A list of participating hotels is attached to the Fortune promotion. As a rule, among the list of ten hotels there are 7-8 really excellent hotels on the coast of Turkey, and 2-3 hotels with not the best conditions for recreation. Of course, with a probability of 90% you will be taken to these 2-3 bad hotels, but there is always a chance for luck! In addition, you know in advance the worst option, and you can mentally prepare for it.

Before you decide to succumb to the temptation and buy a tour through the Fortune system, remember once again that cheap cheese can only be found in a mousetrap. Well weigh all the pros and cons, and then no one and nothing will be able to overshadow your long-awaited vacation!

It doesn't matter where, as long as it's cheaper and to the sea" - you often hear this phrase in travel agencies. Cheerful young people who have learned to save money, "white collars" and just frank misers - many believe that the main thing in a vacation is a low price. Usually, when faced with such clientele, the travel agency manager opens the catalog page with an extremely cheap hotel and begins a monotonous story about its services, which, however, dries up very quickly, since there is, in fact, nothing to paint there.But do you know that every tourist has a chance to buy for the most modest money We emphasize: a chance, since buying a tour according to the "Fortune" system adopted in many countries is reminiscent of a landing: only the approximate landing area and the conditions of the task are known.

Who is she? Why dont know?

The meaning of the Fortuna system is as follows: you buy a ticket without knowing the specific name of the hotel, but limiting yourself only to formal signs: category, type of food, in some cases - distance from the sea. And only a day or two before departure, or even right at the airport of arrival, you will find out exactly where you will live. Terrible, you say? Not at all, because in this way you can save from 10 to 20% of the cost of the tour.

The fact is that, just as not all yogurts are equally useful, so not all hotels of the same category are similar to each other. Let's say the N3* hotel stands on the seashore, has several swimming pools, tennis courts, a gym, a golf course and even a mini-zoo. And the other, 03*, is located on a city street and is nothing but close to shopping center can't boast. Of course, the price of accommodation in these hotels differs by one and a half times, despite the equal number of stars on the facade.

Sales system "Fortuna"

It combines several hotels of the same level at once, and the client will be accommodated where there are currently free places. And the price of such a tour is calculated according to the CHEAPEST hotel category. That is, by paying for accommodation at hotel D, you can get to N (if you are lucky, of course) and spend your vacation happily.

The game is worth the candle: for example, last May, "Fortuna" 3 * with a full (!) boarding house on the Costa Dorada cost the client $ 750, and settled tourists in hotels, the price of which was at least $ 920. Moreover, it happens that the operator adds hotels of a higher category to the "fortune" list. But the seller has no right to lower the bar.

Having bought a "fortune" ticket to Western Europe, you are unlikely to get into a hotel without a pool or shower in the room. And when buying a "blind" tour to the former socialist countries, it is better to prepare for difficulties in advance.

Despite the common name, "Fortune" is different but in origin.

Its most common and attractive option is usually offered by large operators on a year-round basis. The fact is that serious companies buy large blocks of hotel rooms in advance for the whole season, but they do not always have time to sell them: either a couple of rooms remain in one hotel, or a dozen in another. You can, of course, lower the price on them, but this is not always convenient. Firstly, it is quite difficult to quickly convey such a special offer to customers. Secondly, there may be too many applications for one hotel, and nothing at all for another. Thirdly, it happens that the hotel is too good for a "markdown": it's like selling a coat "from Cardin" for 500 rubles: prove later that it is a hundred times more expensive!

This system is often clothed by operators in the "author's form": for example, the TEZ TOUR Company calls it TEZ-Express, its competitor Pegas Touristik calls it Rulettka, the Deep Tour company called it Deep-Garant, and the Russian Travel Company" - "Lucky event". But no matter how proud the name she wears, her essence is the same: the client pays for no one knows what, but cheaply.

The operator's "Fortune" is good because frankly bad hotels practically do not fall into its assortment - no one buys blocks of places in them, which means that you can "play" without much fear. The gain in this case can be significant: for example, one respected company offered to meet New Year on the island of Phuket in a 3* hotel for $599!

There is another "Fortuna", no less pleasant to the heart and pocket - network.

It is offered by hotels of the same chain, that is, united by common owners and uniform standards of service. True, world leaders - say, Marriott or Hilton - never spin the roulette wheel, but they are not alone in the world! And, for example, chains of elite Caribbean superclubs, such as Grand Lido, Hedonism and Brises, where everything in the world is included in the price (up to sprinkling rose petals on the bed), are combined into the SuperSurprise system, which allows, having paid $187 per day, to live on $320. However, there are hundreds of other, more modest and cheaper chains consisting of 3-4 * hotels, and they are almost never bad. Therefore, feel free to agree to go to any of the hotels united by a common brand.

Much more risky option "Fortune" No Name, in which even an approximate list of hotels is unknown. Usually it is used by operators who need to fill their seats on charter planes at any cost. They receive inexpensive offers from owners of different hotels and combine them according to formal criteria: the number of stars and the type of food. Such a blind game is cheap for the client, it simply cannot be cheaper (for example, for $ 160 - a weekly tour to Bulgaria, and a 2 * hotel with breakfast), however, there are much more chances to end up in a fly-filled hole.

The more expensive the direction, the fewer offers there are on the Fortuna system and the more reliable they are.

The more cheap accommodation options in the country, in principle, the higher the chance of getting into a hotel without a hint of attractiveness. However, each country has its own system. In Turkey, for example, there are a huge number of accommodation facilities on the coasts, both high-quality and frankly inferior. If "Fortune" is operator or network, you can use it without much fear. But the No Name options, especially in the 2-3 * category, according to experts, are best avoided. Firstly, Turkey is the only country where vacation offers under such a system are not tied to a resort, and you can get to both Kusadasi and Llanya. Secondly, along with wonderful clubs and hotels, there are also real sheds, with poor service, standing far from the coast. And even "fortune" money will be a pity for such a "gift of fate." Thirdly, in Turkey, as the pros themselves reluctantly admit, it happens that the hotel where tourists will stay is unknown even at the time of arrival. Last summer, a large firm drove a whole bus of "fortunists" along the coast all day, stopping at every hotel along the way and finding out if there were any free rooms!

The Turkish "Fortuna" 4 * is much safer - the quality of hotels of this level is usually quite decent, only the distance to the sea can be disappointing. But there are practically no dissatisfied with the five-star offers of the system: sometimes just wonderful clubs get into it.

In Egypt, the situation is similar: 2-3 * hotels, as a rule, are extremely unpretentious. True, almost all of them are located near the sea, since all the Red Sea resorts are stretched along the coast in a narrow strip, "Fortune" of a higher class is practically safe.

But Spain is truly a golden country! Hotels of the same category there are very similar to each other, and it is unlikely that a chic hotel and its shabby brother will be in the same "weight". In fact, a tourist can lose only in distance from the sea, but, according to Svetlana Komarova, director of tourism at Alt-Voyage, the remoteness is compensated by an additional service: for example, enhanced meals, a free sauna or some other "lure". Moreover, the No Name option is a rather rare system for this direction, usually tourists are offered a certain resort and a list of hotels.

You can easily use this system in Thailand: hotels of the same level are approximately equivalent, all, even the most modest, have good service and are usually not more than 500 meters from the sea.

But on expensive European destinations, such as Cyprus, Greece and Italy, "Fortune" is quietly dying out

Fewer operators include it in their price lists, this is because the exacting "expensive" client would rather overpay an extra hundred dollars than go to an unknown hotel. In fairness, we note that the chance of getting into a frankly bad hotel along the "Fortune" in these directions is small. It is especially careful to turn the roulette with the resorts of Eastern Europe. For example, hotels in Croatia were built mostly 20-30 years ago, some of them have been reconstructed, and some still look like soviet holiday homes. And two 3 * hotels can differ from each other, like a young diva from her great-grandmother. The former are in great demand, and therefore they rarely get into Fortuna, therefore, the prospect of unsuccessful resettlement is quite real. The risk is also high when buying a "disguised" hotel in Bulgaria: there "Fortune" usually applies only to the weakest 2-3 * hotels.

thimblers

Along with operators offering their own tours to Fortuna, dishonest companies also actively use the system. They negotiate with some modest hotel about exclusive low prices and put it up for sale under the motto "fortune", putting next to "beauty" the names of quite decent hotels. Of course, in the end, they settle all tourists where they were going, earning good money, and they only shrug at indignant questions: what to do, today you are out of luck!

And there was a company on the market (we will not mention its name, especially since it has already sunk into oblivion), which earned even more from budget tourists. She announced a "fortune" sale to No Name, and moreover, at such low prices that competitors could only groan and wonder who could give the company such golden conditions. When there were about thirty tourists, the managers called some simple hotel and literally squeezed the right price out of the owner, citing the fact that they were ready to send a large group on vacation to this hotel at once as the main argument. Further, the managers looked for "burning tours" and, at the very least, sent unlucky clients. If any of the points of the trip failed, they were explained that, they say, what a nuisance, all the hotels are overcrowded, and therefore it is better for you to take the money back. I must say that it was these "thimble-riggers" that drove away a lot of tourists from "Fortuna".

seize the moment

In principle, "Fortuna" can be found at any time and in any direction, however, in the high season - that is, in July-August, as well as during holidays and vacations - the game becomes more risky. Quality hotels fly like Pepsi-Cola on a hot day, and simpler options remain "disguised". And, on the contrary, in the low season you can "fortune" almost with certainty of success.