Good vacation

Written: 28 september 2009
Travel time: 16 — 25 september 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 9.0
Hi all! Finally found a site where more or less recent reviews. Just arrived, went with a small group. I will divide my review into three parts.
Pros.
1. Personally for myself, I will immediately single out the pool. Deep and big. I swam happily. The water itself in the pool is sea, but slightly desalinated.
2. Location of the hotel. Close to everything. We went to discos, and to the market and to Dalmatash, and just to the city (the city is not bad, albeit a little, but there is something to stare at).
3. The rooms are not bad, although without frills, the air conditioner works.
4. The guys from the reception and the bar are quite friendly and even rummage in Russian quite well. I can't say the same about the girls at the reception - wooden ones.
5. The beach is quite tolerable, the entrance to the sea is boulders. We were ready for this according to reviews, but I thought it would be much worse, in connection with this I did not experience any difficulties.

6. Nutrition. I would say the food is more of a plus than a minus. Probably this is due to the fact that I am not a picky eater. Every day there was whole chicken meat, kebabs. I didn't find too much variety.
7. Shop. Inexpensive. If you run out of cigarettes or want to buy some water, then you don’t even have to think about it, but taking it there, in the city, is also very convenient. As for other products in this store, I do not know, I was not interested.
8. The contingent of vacationers. 80% of Russians and mostly young people, it was fun. In addition, there were Czechs, Poles, Belarusians, a little bit of Bulgarians, Ukrainians and Germans. I don’t really envy non-Russian-speaking vacationers, since all the animation and entertainment in the hotel was tailored for Russians.
Minuses.
1. Hotel guides. To be honest, I didn't expect this kind of work. There were two guides, the Turks Sheriff and the Central Asian Sultanate. I actually saw the Sultanate only once at the info meeting, and the Sheriff is just a dead dude with the same stony expression on his face. In short, nothing good came from them. In the same section, you should talk about tours and excursions from the Tez-tour - this is complete crap. Firstly, they cost 2-3 times more than on the street, and secondly, they will tell you about some kind of security and kidnapping from street travel agencies, this is also crap, it is not necessary to pay immediately for the tour on the street, but only deposit $ 5-10 and the rest on the day of the tour, except for this tour is no different from each other. For example, in a hotel in the Tez-Tour price list, rafting costs $49, on the street we took it for $20. dedications and food. In short, on the third day of rest, we simply forgot about the existence of guides.

2. Animation. Not to say that it was a serious minus, but still. It is not clear what the animation team of 5 people do all day. All competitions and miniatures are very worn out by time. I did not see any work on making at least some diversity. And yet, the animators offer a visit to city discos for a fee. So do not settle for city ones, such as Robin Hood, Havana or Doors, you can visit them in the sense of yourself (either dolmush 1 dollar or lira, or a taxi can be bargained for 7-9 bucks), otherwise you will pay the animator 5 bucks from the snout only for the fact that he organizes a transfer back and forth. When planning a visit to city discos, remember that all discos are only open until 3 a. m. , and almost all taxis are three-row, so more than 4 passengers fit into them, which is very convenient to share.
However, if the animator offers to go to Summer Garden, which is not in Alanya but in the area of ​ ​ five-star hotels in Konakli, you should really agree. Although I'm not a big fan of clubs, this one is top notch. A taxi to him will be 25 - 30 bucks. The hotel disco, of course, is also not very good.
3. Noise isolation. Lame on both legs. I read old reviews, I understand that before there were no carpets in the corridors - I can imagine. You can hear everything if someone is talking in the hallway. Our room was on the first floor, that is, above the restaurant, you can hear all the movements when food is being prepared. That is, not much sleep during the day. Yes, and still the road, during the day with an open balcony you can not sleep.
4. Drinks. Although this is an obvious minus. Beer, although not bad in taste, had no effect, vodka, gin could not be drunk, they were used only in cocktails.
In general, I evaluate the rest positively, we went on excursions, a water park, rafting.
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