Great rest from the hustle and bustle

Written: 16 june 2008
Travel time: 16 — 23 may 2007
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
An excellent quiet rest from the Moscow bustle and stress.

Location (Good)
The "village" is called Avsalar.
From the airport 1.5-2 hours drive. Depends on how many hotels we visit along the way with the disembarkation of passengers (3-5 minutes are lost on each)
They didn't go far. In a 15-minute leisurely walk there is a market where everything is there, where you can and should bargain. Which works until 11-12 at night.
For leather, they went for free by car of the sales center. Prices are quite moderate. We compared the quality and price from the market and our purchases from the center. We have a little more expensive, but the quality is higher.

Territory (Good)

The hotel is divided into two parts. Garden and main building. The hotel is relatively small. The territory of the main building is completely scanty. But the Garden is bigger and it's very beautiful there. Lots of roses, exotic plants. Everything is blooming...Garden are two-storey houses with 4 or 8 rooms (I don't know for sure). There is a lot of greenery, including, it separates the hotel from the road.
The pool is bigger on the outside and very small on the inside. We did not use them, preferring the sea.
The hotel has a mini-hammam (Turkish bath), sauna, massage, fitness center.

Room (Good)
We lived in the main building. It's all right there. The bathroom is excellent (bath, toilet, washbasin), the air conditioner works. From the furniture you can see that she is already a few years old, but everything works. Furniture doesn't clean very well. This is a minus. Rooms on different floors are made in different colors. We got on the 3rd in swamp green. My wife did not like it, but I appreciated the coolness of the color when the heat started. Our rooms were with a sea view. True, it must be borne in mind that this is also a view of the highway, which is 50 meters away. The traffic, however, is very weak, and in the heat the windows are anyway closed, because the air conditioner is working. So it doesn't interfere in any way. On the other side, the windows look out onto a wasteland, beyond which there is a construction site. Not very impressive. But the windows are usually covered with curtains, so everything is ok : ) The room had a mini balcony.
It has three sticks for drying clothes and towels. There is really nothing to do on it.

TV works, two Russian channels. The rest are Germans and Turks.

Service (Good)
The attendants, it seems, plowed in the fields for half a year before the season. They look and act like uniformed peasants who want to do you a favor, but sometimes get awkward and stupid. In general, everyone is very friendly, smiling. They hardly know Russian, but they try to learn. English is not spoken. I came across this and was very surprised. The hotel is imprisoned for the Germans, so everything is understandable.

Cleaned the room normally, every day. No complaints.

Food (Excellent)

In terms of drinking, we had AI. The food is just excellent. Very tasty, for every taste, a lot, different. Dinner from 19:00. If you come at 20:30, then there are ALL dishes. As the vats are emptied, fresh new ones are brought into the vats. Buffet. Oranges (almost always, tasty, local), apples (always), strawberries (not every day). The kitchen is different.
Stewed vegetables, meat - just a fairy tale. Real jam. Soups...The hotel is not in vain considered the best in the area for food, even compared to 5-star neighbors. Drinks were also included. Beer is served locally in Ephesus, quite decent. Red wine is also tolerable, the hangover from it is rather weak. Jean is not recommended. Anise vodka (crayfish) - not for everyone. I didn't go at all. Tea and coffee are the norm. Juice, mineral water, Pepsi and other chemicals - no problem in any quantity. Near the beach there is a bar where all drinks are served from morning until 24:00. Before going up from the beach to the bar, do not forget to wash your feet with water and put on some clothes. Otherwise - will be expelled. Such an incident happened to me: (The only unpleasant moment for me during the entire vacation.

Sports (Intermediate)
The hotel has a small fitness room. How many times I passed through it - it was empty. The main contingent of the hotel - the Germans for 60 years.
Does the hotel have a tennis court. Free during the day.
For all the time no one played there (but this is only the beginning of the season, there were very few people in general). I was very sorry that there were no partners. I wanted to play.

Water sports at 500 meters, next to another hotel. Parasailing, scooters, banana. I didn't use it. $35 for 10 minutes on a scooter is too expensive for me.

Sea/beach (g/l slopes) (Excellent)
The sea was very calm, quite clean. The sandy beach (own for the hotel, but not fenced off from other hotels) delighted with softness and safety for the feet. There were enough sunbeds for everyone on the beach. Sunbeds with umbrellas are free. Mattresses - paid, $ 1 per piece per day. Towels are free. There is a volleyball net on the beach.

Animation, Entertainment (Intermediate)

The weak point of this hotel. That's why we chose him, to be honest. The neighbors were constantly noisy, the animators yelled into megaphones, in the evening too. This is for an amateur. We had only one animator. Once there was even gymnastics in the water. But there is really no one to entertain.
And even the cancellation of the return flight somehow went unnoticed. Well, they canceled it (on the same piece of paper at the reception, the flight number on which we were put instead of the canceled one would have been written). Well, we arrived at the airport. Well, they caught us at check-in and gave us new tickets for another flight. We took off 30 minutes later on the same Boeing-747. Everything is great. Employees in branded clothing. You can always find out from afar. Qualifications are different, but goodwill and responsiveness are unchanged. Well done, in a word.
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