The hotel is good, comfortable, no beach

Written: 20 july 2018
Travel time: 13 — 20 july 2018
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 10.0
The first vacation in Turkey, the choice was stopped at Pineapple.
The hotel is not small, the rooms are not luxurious, but good, the TV shows both Russian channels and Ukrainian and Turkish. The TV is flat and big. Our air conditioner was old but working. Cleaning every day. There are bottles of shampoo and soap in the bathroom. Two separate beds, as ordered (I was with a friend). Beds are good and clean.
The territory is medium in size, fenced, nothing is visible from the street (like some hotels). Large swimming pool, next to it is a small children's pool (there are enough children). On the other side is a small pool with three different slides. Purely. After dinner, the territory is thoroughly washed, the sun loungers are partially shifted and tables and chairs are placed, because. animators work every evening. They start with children, then periodically change programs for adults. Recently, 7 African acrobats performed and they did gymnastic tricks for an hour! At the same time in the rhythm of the dance. It was cool. On the street there is a free bar where: spirits, cocktails (ice), tea, coffee, beer Ephesus. Juices are slightly diluted, the rest is not. At 4 pm there is a snack. Drinks are dragged wherever they want, the waiters patiently then collect everything.

Food. Some good words
The first days can burst from (I'm not ashamed to tell the truth) greed. Because the eyes run wide from abundance and I want to try everything. Meat, chicken, fish. Everything is always fresh. Yoghurts, salads in assortment. The first is always there, stands separately with spices to choose from. Very delicious. Every morning a cook stands separately and cooks an omelet, then scrambled eggs, then toast with eggs in front of you. Dessert is a whole other issue. Just a lot. Every time I tell myself that enough is enough, but it's so yummy! I had fruits with me: red apples, some huge plums, melon, sweet and chilled watermelon. In the hall there is a separate bar counter, where, at your request, they pour: vodka, red and white dry wine, coca cola, sprite, beer. In another part of the hall, juice machines are not diluted, such as we drink in tetra packs, just chilled water, a machine with coffee to choose from, tea. Drink what you want and how much you want. Yes, I forgot, olive lovers are also in the assortment and olives and olives. Big olives too. The waiters clean up after you immediately, they don’t wait for you to fill up with dirty dishes.
Excursions offer different. There is an opinion that excursions are cheaper somewhere there. We went for two days, coupled. First, to the excavations of the church of St. Nicholas. The road is very dangerous, serpentine, where 120 turns! Ride for a long time. After it, we were taken to a boat with a tour of the islands. There are ruins of destroyed historical buildings, streets. Very interesting. Then the boat enters the bay you like and the people bathe in the depths. Water is a fairy tale! Then lunch at the hotel. Then we were taken to spend the night in a 5-star hotel, where there is a source of thermal healing water. Dinner is there. Good numbers. Continuation the next day - breakfast in the morning, an excursion to the ruins of the amphitheater of the Roman Empire, then to the Cleopatra lake with healing water, then to the lakes with calcium water. The view there is just amazing. White Mountain and small lakes are like steps, each lake is lower and lower. Unforgettable impression.
So, if you take excursions separately, it is more expensive and do not forget that the ride there takes several hours. It's tiresome.

What I didn't like was no Wi-Fi! It's impossible to use it. If you manage to get through, great happiness. The message can still be sent, but only near the reception. It doesn't exist in the rooms at all.
The beach. . . the biggest minus. It seems to be there, but it is not possible to swim there. Slabs, stones, large pebbles. I specially brought silicone shoes for pebbles. But I almost broke my leg. They are not so slippery, but the waves, even not big ones, do not allow you to see where you are standing and the wave does not allow you to stand on your feet. Feet get caught between rocks. This is a thug! And they also warned that there are boulders a little deeper. In general, if you want to mutilate, go ahead. And comments, such as go to the left, go to the right, there are the same banks. We went to the beach in the center, Cleopatra Beach. It's fine there . . if there are no waves. If there is something fun. You can jump on the waves if you can... jump hard. But if the wave wraps up early in a surf, then you will wrap yourself in a surf like a chip and throw you ashore, and while you are with a bunch of rubble-sand in your nose and mouth and, of course, a kilogram in shorts and bras, you are trying to get up and crawl away, you are the surf of the next wave will process additionally. You crawl out on all fours with difficulty. He spat, caught his breath and again on the waves... if there was a desire to swim like that. We went once from the other side of the mountain (whoever was there will understand. Cleopatra's beach is on one side, and we are on the other. There is also a good coast, perhaps the best. But... there is such garbage... there are some predatory fish. She bit her friend on the leg. She was frightened, but calmed down, she thought that some kind of wand was scratched. But when she bit for the third time, she flew out like a scalded one, her leg was already bleeding. And people periodically jumped out of fright. It turns out that if on the body there is at least some old, even healed wound, for them it is like a bait. Those who do not have wounds swim calmly. There are none on Cleopatra Beach! Prices for everything in Alanya are high. For Ukrainians, for sure.
Cons: no beach or wifi. And so everything is fine.
Yes, very hot and high humidity. It feels like being in a sauna all the time. But you adapt, it's not very depressing.

The city is very beautiful and green.
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