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6.0
Cleanliness:
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Food:
8.0
Amenities:
7.0
Rested in this hotel from 19.09. 10 to 02.10. 10. Went and Anex tour.
The Aabella Hotel consists of two buildings: the old Arabella and the new one, built in 2010, Arabella World. The hotel has one swimming pool, one restaurant, one beach, one reception; to get to the new building, you need to go through the territory of the old building, go through the reception, and along the open bridge over the road you get to the territory of Arabella World and to the new building itself.
So this is ONE hotel, although some tour operators sell it as 2 different hotels; others like one, but with different accommodation options.
The hotel is located on the left side of the 2-lane road leading to Alanya, and the airport transfer bus did not even consider it necessary to turn around and drive up to the hotel, I was simply transferred across the road with quite serious traffic. Although someone is said to have been taken.
I arrived at about 9-00, and despite the $ 10 invested in my passport, I was settled only after 12-30. But I had breakfast, lunch and went to the beach, leaving my things in a special room behind the reception.
The Arabella World Hotel is brand new and that says it all. Spacious bright halls, panoramic elevators, marble all around. . . There are no usual keys to the rooms, only magnetic cards.
The room had 2 beds - single and double, 2 bedside tables, a table, an armchair, an ottoman, a closet with a safe (for a fee, I used a suitcase with a combination lock), a refrigerator (empty), an LCD TV, a telephone.
On TV from Russian channels were ORT, NTV, RTR Planet, RTR 24 and the Ukrainian New Channel, which showed our humorous series. Compartment doors led to the balcony, there were 2 plastic chairs and a convenient hanger for drying clothes on the balcony (in vain I was carrying a skein of clothesline with clothespins).
The view from the balcony was on the neighboring hotel Lionis, on the left was the territory of the My Houm hotel, on the right was our pool.
The air conditioner was strange, it seems to be not central, but not an individual split system either. Its control panel was located in the wall, it could be turned on and off at any time, but it was possible to set the temperature only during the day, somewhere from 12 to 14 hours, then it was impossible to change it.
The lighting in the room was very dim, there was a lack of sconces over the bed, it was not realistic to read something in the evening.
The bathroom had a shower with a full bath, with glass doors. True, hot water was not always warm enough.
The toilet bowl was with the functions of a bidet, on the right there was a faucet, when opened, a stream of water flowed slightly upwards from a special hole. The toilet always had 2 rolls of toilet paper, 2 shampoos in small branded bottles, liquid soap on the wall. In the room there was a branded pencil by the phone, an ashtray and branded matches on the table, a set of needles and threads in the nightstands.
Bed linen was changed twice in 2 weeks, cleaning was daily, but it consisted in removing garbage from the toilet and twisting flowers from the bedspread (no tip). But a couple of times washed everything thoroughly.
There were 2 towels - large and small, but after one of the cleanings they disappeared and did not appear again. But I preferred to use my own towels.
The doors to the room were rather flimsy, the audibility was very strong. Also at night, the light from under the door interfered, and the fire alarm lamp on the ceiling. Also the doors on the balcony were flimsy with single pane glass, so the music from the street could be heard very well.
Nutrition. Breakfast started at 7-30, but there was practically nothing there. There were boiled eggs (3 and 5 minutes), cucumbers, tomatoes, soy sausages and sausages, nasty cheese, portioned margarine in plastic packages, muesli, curdled milk-like yogurt, sour olives. Several times the cook cooked scrambled eggs on the street, deftly turning them over without a spatula in the air. But you had to stand up for her and she was half-roasted.
For lunch at 12-30 and dinner at 19-00 it was already more interesting. Every day for lunch and dinner there was meat (or fish)!! ! Which is very rare for Turkey! They gave shish kebabs on wooden skewers, fried shish kebab on a vertical spit, lamb cutlets, meat stew with vegetables....There was beef, chicken, turkey.
Yes, there were long queues at the restaurant for lunch and dinner, mostly for meat. But if you come 10 minutes before the opening, stand, then quickly taking the meat, you could easily dial the rest without queues. The cook served meat, or simply stood nearby, apparently so that people were embarrassed to scoop up meat with full plates.
There were many side dishes, always rice, french fries, pasta. I really liked the plate with pickles - pickles, peppers, cabbage, carrots.
There were wonderful mashed soups, often 2 types at a time! Only for some reason they added rice, vermicelli, onions or pieces of cabbage.
In the first 2 days, 2 types of fruit were given: watermelon + plums, watermelon + grapes. Then there were no watermelons, and there was only 1 type of fruit: apples, pears, oranges, plums, grapes, grapefruit, green tangerines. Of course, it’s varied, but I had enough apples even without Turkey.
The women brazenly stuffed their handbags with fruit, no wonder the huge fruit trays quickly emptied.
For sweets, in addition to traditional Turkish sweets, there were always 2 huge full-fledged cream cakes for lunch and dinner! Very good.
Delicious fresh donuts! You could also take cakes for dinner, they were baked on the street, but there was a queue.
From the drinks in the bar on the street, you could freely take white and red wine, cola-fanta-sprite, everything was already poured. Beer had to stand up, wait until poured.
The waiters worked well, quickly took away dirty plates and glasses.
There were a lot of people at the restaurant for dinner and lunch, but you could still find a place. There were always empty seats in the hall on the left around the corner, as well as on the street.
The beach is far from the hotel, you need to cross the road on top or through a dirty underpass, and go right along the road. This road is the access road to several hotels.
The beach is one of the best in Turkey! Only sand, not a single stone! Even if you walk along the berge for several hundred meters, stones are already beginning to appear. Entry into the sea is smooth.
The beach is short in length, sunbeds are in 5 rows, 3 with umbrellas and 2 without them. Sunbeds, umbrellas, mattresses - free of charge. The beach worker begins to clean the mattresses from 17-30, taking mattresses from empty sunbeds.
Despite the small size of the beach, you could ALWAYS find a free sunbed! And on some neighboring beaches, people were lying on bedding.
In the bar on the beach you could drink water, UPI juice, and 2 types of coffee, and only starting from 10-00. To the left of the beach there were water activities - a banana, a parachute, etc.
The hotel pool had 3 slides that worked on a schedule, the pool bar gave french fries and pastries with cottage cheese. But I practically was not there, I did not come to Turkey for the pool.
In the evening at 21-00 children's animation began, but there were practically no children, and swollen adults had fun listening to children's songs. At 21-30 a rather vulgar adult animation began, once there was a fire show - I really liked it!
The bazaar comes 2 times a week, on Sundays, to the left of the hotel in the Turkler village; on Wednesdays to the right of the hotel, in the village of Avsallar.
You can always buy fruits on the street, all for $2. I took peaches, pomegranates, igir.
It is better to take excursions on the street, but there are 2 types of agencies - Russian Travel Agency and Investment (something like that), the latter has prices lower by $ 5-10. For example, a yacht tour to Alanya in Russian tourist. agency $ 20 (and also offered on the beach), and in Investment - 15. This agency can be found in the center of Avsallar, near the monument, next to the gendarmerie trailer.
Hamam in the hotel is offered for $25, and on the street you can buy for $15! But still I took it at the hotel, after the procedure I want to relax, and not go by bus. Peeling was done by a man, and quite hard! Then the girl did a massage; I did not expect it to be like this - she put a towel on her back, stood up with her feet and began to jump on me! After the hammam, they asked me if I would like a course of medical massage, I refused, in which medical school they teach jumping on the back?
Bottled water could be freely filled in the apparatus at the pool bar and in the restaurant, it was forbidden on the beach.
Anex-tour guide was in the lobby every day from morning until dinner, it is not clear why. Guides from Pegasus were rarer, and I didn’t see the rest at all.
When it was 12-00 on the last day, I gathered my things and waited for them to come for me, but did not wait. I had to carry all my things to the reception.
Conclusion. Generally a good hotel for the money. I bought it for the price of a medium 3, it was the cheapest 4 in Alanya, even most of the 3 were more expensive.
Everything in the room was new, a full bath! , LCD TV! , refrigerator. The beach is very good, but far away.
Meat every day! Fruits are quite diverse! Three bars! Nobody got nasty once! Nothing was stolen, but anything can happen in Turkey!
Of the minuses - queues at the restaurant, a small area, far from the beach.
The Aabella Hotel consists of two buildings: the old Arabella and the new one, built in 2010, Arabella World. The hotel has one swimming pool, one restaurant, one beach, one reception; to get to the new building, you need to go through the territory of the old building, go through the reception, and along the open bridge over the road you get to the territory of Arabella World and to the new building itself.
So this is ONE hotel, although some tour operators sell it as 2 different hotels; others like one, but with different accommodation options.
The hotel is located on the left side of the 2-lane road leading to Alanya, and the airport transfer bus did not even consider it necessary to turn around and drive up to the hotel, I was simply transferred across the road with quite serious traffic. Although someone is said to have been taken.
I arrived at about 9-00, and despite the $ 10 invested in my passport, I was settled only after 12-30. But I had breakfast, lunch and went to the beach, leaving my things in a special room behind the reception.
The Arabella World Hotel is brand new and that says it all. Spacious bright halls, panoramic elevators, marble all around. . . There are no usual keys to the rooms, only magnetic cards.
The room had 2 beds - single and double, 2 bedside tables, a table, an armchair, an ottoman, a closet with a safe (for a fee, I used a suitcase with a combination lock), a refrigerator (empty), an LCD TV, a telephone.
On TV from Russian channels were ORT, NTV, RTR Planet, RTR 24 and the Ukrainian New Channel, which showed our humorous series. Compartment doors led to the balcony, there were 2 plastic chairs and a convenient hanger for drying clothes on the balcony (in vain I was carrying a skein of clothesline with clothespins).
The view from the balcony was on the neighboring hotel Lionis, on the left was the territory of the My Houm hotel, on the right was our pool.
The air conditioner was strange, it seems to be not central, but not an individual split system either. Its control panel was located in the wall, it could be turned on and off at any time, but it was possible to set the temperature only during the day, somewhere from 12 to 14 hours, then it was impossible to change it.
The lighting in the room was very dim, there was a lack of sconces over the bed, it was not realistic to read something in the evening.
The bathroom had a shower with a full bath, with glass doors. True, hot water was not always warm enough.
The toilet bowl was with the functions of a bidet, on the right there was a faucet, when opened, a stream of water flowed slightly upwards from a special hole. The toilet always had 2 rolls of toilet paper, 2 shampoos in small branded bottles, liquid soap on the wall. In the room there was a branded pencil by the phone, an ashtray and branded matches on the table, a set of needles and threads in the nightstands.
Bed linen was changed twice in 2 weeks, cleaning was daily, but it consisted in removing garbage from the toilet and twisting flowers from the bedspread (no tip). But a couple of times washed everything thoroughly.
There were 2 towels - large and small, but after one of the cleanings they disappeared and did not appear again. But I preferred to use my own towels.
The doors to the room were rather flimsy, the audibility was very strong. Also at night, the light from under the door interfered, and the fire alarm lamp on the ceiling. Also the doors on the balcony were flimsy with single pane glass, so the music from the street could be heard very well.
Nutrition. Breakfast started at 7-30, but there was practically nothing there. There were boiled eggs (3 and 5 minutes), cucumbers, tomatoes, soy sausages and sausages, nasty cheese, portioned margarine in plastic packages, muesli, curdled milk-like yogurt, sour olives. Several times the cook cooked scrambled eggs on the street, deftly turning them over without a spatula in the air. But you had to stand up for her and she was half-roasted.
For lunch at 12-30 and dinner at 19-00 it was already more interesting. Every day for lunch and dinner there was meat (or fish)!! ! Which is very rare for Turkey! They gave shish kebabs on wooden skewers, fried shish kebab on a vertical spit, lamb cutlets, meat stew with vegetables....There was beef, chicken, turkey.
Yes, there were long queues at the restaurant for lunch and dinner, mostly for meat. But if you come 10 minutes before the opening, stand, then quickly taking the meat, you could easily dial the rest without queues. The cook served meat, or simply stood nearby, apparently so that people were embarrassed to scoop up meat with full plates.
There were many side dishes, always rice, french fries, pasta. I really liked the plate with pickles - pickles, peppers, cabbage, carrots.
There were wonderful mashed soups, often 2 types at a time! Only for some reason they added rice, vermicelli, onions or pieces of cabbage.
In the first 2 days, 2 types of fruit were given: watermelon + plums, watermelon + grapes. Then there were no watermelons, and there was only 1 type of fruit: apples, pears, oranges, plums, grapes, grapefruit, green tangerines. Of course, it’s varied, but I had enough apples even without Turkey.
The women brazenly stuffed their handbags with fruit, no wonder the huge fruit trays quickly emptied.
For sweets, in addition to traditional Turkish sweets, there were always 2 huge full-fledged cream cakes for lunch and dinner! Very good.
Delicious fresh donuts! You could also take cakes for dinner, they were baked on the street, but there was a queue.
From the drinks in the bar on the street, you could freely take white and red wine, cola-fanta-sprite, everything was already poured. Beer had to stand up, wait until poured.
The waiters worked well, quickly took away dirty plates and glasses.
There were a lot of people at the restaurant for dinner and lunch, but you could still find a place. There were always empty seats in the hall on the left around the corner, as well as on the street.
The beach is far from the hotel, you need to cross the road on top or through a dirty underpass, and go right along the road. This road is the access road to several hotels.
The beach is one of the best in Turkey! Only sand, not a single stone! Even if you walk along the berge for several hundred meters, stones are already beginning to appear. Entry into the sea is smooth.
The beach is short in length, sunbeds are in 5 rows, 3 with umbrellas and 2 without them. Sunbeds, umbrellas, mattresses - free of charge. The beach worker begins to clean the mattresses from 17-30, taking mattresses from empty sunbeds.
Despite the small size of the beach, you could ALWAYS find a free sunbed! And on some neighboring beaches, people were lying on bedding.
In the bar on the beach you could drink water, UPI juice, and 2 types of coffee, and only starting from 10-00. To the left of the beach there were water activities - a banana, a parachute, etc.
The hotel pool had 3 slides that worked on a schedule, the pool bar gave french fries and pastries with cottage cheese. But I practically was not there, I did not come to Turkey for the pool.
In the evening at 21-00 children's animation began, but there were practically no children, and swollen adults had fun listening to children's songs. At 21-30 a rather vulgar adult animation began, once there was a fire show - I really liked it!
The bazaar comes 2 times a week, on Sundays, to the left of the hotel in the Turkler village; on Wednesdays to the right of the hotel, in the village of Avsallar.
You can always buy fruits on the street, all for $2. I took peaches, pomegranates, igir.
It is better to take excursions on the street, but there are 2 types of agencies - Russian Travel Agency and Investment (something like that), the latter has prices lower by $ 5-10. For example, a yacht tour to Alanya in Russian tourist. agency $ 20 (and also offered on the beach), and in Investment - 15. This agency can be found in the center of Avsallar, near the monument, next to the gendarmerie trailer.
Hamam in the hotel is offered for $25, and on the street you can buy for $15! But still I took it at the hotel, after the procedure I want to relax, and not go by bus. Peeling was done by a man, and quite hard! Then the girl did a massage; I did not expect it to be like this - she put a towel on her back, stood up with her feet and began to jump on me! After the hammam, they asked me if I would like a course of medical massage, I refused, in which medical school they teach jumping on the back?
Bottled water could be freely filled in the apparatus at the pool bar and in the restaurant, it was forbidden on the beach.
Anex-tour guide was in the lobby every day from morning until dinner, it is not clear why. Guides from Pegasus were rarer, and I didn’t see the rest at all.
When it was 12-00 on the last day, I gathered my things and waited for them to come for me, but did not wait. I had to carry all my things to the reception.
Conclusion. Generally a good hotel for the money. I bought it for the price of a medium 3, it was the cheapest 4 in Alanya, even most of the 3 were more expensive.
Everything in the room was new, a full bath! , LCD TV! , refrigerator. The beach is very good, but far away.
Meat every day! Fruits are quite diverse! Three bars! Nobody got nasty once! Nothing was stolen, but anything can happen in Turkey!
Of the minuses - queues at the restaurant, a small area, far from the beach.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original
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