Holidays in Alanya

Written: 9 august 2011
Travel time: 17 — 30 july 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 6.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 5.0
Rested at the hotel with a girl 07/17/11 - 07/30/11.
The hotel is not up to 4*. But the low cost justifies in principle.
We arrived at the hotel at 18:00, quickly settled in 201 rooms overlooking the pool and the sea. The next day the hotel was at a stop and visiting tourists were accommodated for the night in a nearby hotel.
The room is normal, the floor is carpeted, the bathroom is in good condition. Conder used to start rattling in the morning due to the long service life. Electricity during the day happened to be cut down for a few minutes. Aluminum double-glazed windows are a little old, they did not completely save from noise. The mini-bar kept the temperature at 20 degrees. TV with 4 Russian channels.
The tap water is brackish, collected from the cooler as needed.
The cleaning lady came every day, but did not always clean thoroughly. Towels and sheets were changed every 3 days.

The elevator, which is closer to the reception, began to mow in the middle of the rest - it was on the 2nd floor, and it was impossible to call it.
Food. Having gone a couple of times for breakfast, I no longer wake up to it. There were tolerable sausages in tomato sauce, and so - eggs, cereals, jams, jams, butter, edible cheese, inedible sausage, very few buns and pancakes were taken apart.
For lunch and dinner there was always either chicken, or fish, or lamb, beef once. Soy balls, sticks not so good, nuggets one day, doner. For garnish - stewed potatoes and french fries, vegetables, rice, pearl barley. The Turks do not know how to make salads, so there is no demand from them. It is better to take freshly cut ingredients and make your own. They chopped the same cut from lunch into salads for dinner. At dinner, the cook additionally fried something and a queue lined up behind this. Once I cut out all kinds of beauty from watermelons.
Many sweets are tasteless, cloying, soaked in syrup. But there were normal biscuits, even choux pastries once. From fruits, always oranges, watermelons, rarely was a melon. Even in 3 * the variety of fruits is greater.
In the restaurant bar and lobby there are always bottled cola, fanta, sprite, mineral water. Vodka, gin, crayfish, wine, excellent cold Efes beer (about 1 degree of alcohol). Various tea bags, coffee, instant sweet drinks. All in glass jars.
The free bar on the beach was not only strong drinks. Beer on the beach in glass glasses, and the rest - in disposable cups.
From 12:00 to 17:00 A woman bakes cakes by the pool. And from 16 to 17 hours. At the pool bar, tea with cupcakes, salty cookies.
Beach. Sand-small pebbles-sand. The entrance to the sea is disgusting: eroded slabs, cobblestones with sharp edges. Many got hurt. The waves were always on the sea, often meter high, it's cool to swing on the mattress. You need to go into the sea to the right, closer to the pier or from it. All sorts of nonsense often floated in the sea: from leaves to plastic bags. Once a bathing suit was soiled with oil products, but it was washed off.
Loungers during peak hours could not be enough.

Swimming pool. From 140 to 230 cm. Children's 40 cm. The water is clean, chlorinated. Before dinner, the area around the pool is washed. The sunbeds are taken early, even at 6 am towels are already put. There are no more free lunches. All day long, 80% of the sunbeds are sunbathed only by towels.
Animation. This is a minus of the hotel. Boring, uninteresting. The animator could not recruit people, people were not interested. Evening animation is designed for a week, then repeated. Children's evening animation is always the same. During the day in the mini-club they made crafts from beads.
Animators at 11 p. m. They take you to discos in the city for $ 5. We visited Summer Garden out of town - not impressed at all.
Alanya. We went on a sightseeing tour in a jeep - just class. There is no point in going to the Damlatash cave - there is nothing special about it. Excursions were taken next to the hotel in the direction of the Alanium shopping center near Murat. Nightlife in Alanya is in full swing. On the embankment simulators, fountains - beautiful. We went to Cleopatra Beach - there is a normal entry into the sea, and also waves. On dolmush No. 1, the fare is 1.25 TL, and on the “minibus” - either 1 lira or $ 1.
We flew on a parachute together for 90 lire. The sensations of riding a jet ski to a parachute boat are much sharper than the flight itself.
In no case do not take a hammam from a hotel guide - you will regret it. Everything is done in 45 minutes. In the flea market, people climb into small steam rooms, and foam massage and peeling take 5 minutes. It's just bullshit.
The Water Planet water park was not impressive, but the alternative "Troy" is far away from Antalya, and it was not very well spoken about.
Service. This is a plus of the hotel. The restaurant waiters are good. Bartenders pour without any in one hand as much as you can carry.
Upon departure, the bracelets are cut off at 12 noon, but you can have lunch. And if you are smart enough, you can still fly home in a bracelet)
Summary: the hotel is suitable for those traveling to Turkey for the first time and for young people. The second time I would not go back there.
P. S. Hello Oksana and Egor from Tyumen, Seryoga from Omsk)
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