Very good for your money

Written: 22 june 2015
Travel time: 11 — 20 june 2015
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 6.0
We are on vacation for the fifth year in a row. Always in the top five and every time in different hotels. Have seen better and worse. Each hotel has both advantages and disadvantages, and the main thing is that everything is very subjective. What is important to one is completely irrelevant to another. Therefore, the description of the pros and cons will be exclusively from our point of view. Perhaps it will be useful for someone to choose a vacation on their own. So the overall rating in our opinion is 4+. Let's start with the bad: a completely insignificant drawback is the general location of the hotel away from populated areas. In addition to the only (and, as they say, completely new, as if not from this year) market and a small leather store, you can get acquainted with the local similarity of the market and the Turkish Magnet minimarket. There is nothing else in the area. The hotel building itself looks very pathetic in comparison with a couple standing next to it, it is frustrating upon arrival. As in the top four they brought not the best.
However, the inside of the hotel is quite decent, and in fact we came to relax or watch? And rest, oddly enough, it turns out great. What is really bad: first of all it is the beach. It does not matter that through the highway on the transition. The trouble is that there are still a couple of hotels and the beach itself is very small. And very dirty. And to enter the sea without slippers is torture. A kind of corner of a masochist. I was still a savage on the Black Sea resting, we can not be intimidated. There is sun, there is sand (dirty), there are mattresses on sunbeds (respectively dirty), there is beer in the bar (not always). Yes, God bless him, with entry into the sea. Lie down and sunbathe. You can find the positive here too. The sea is warm, the bar gives excellent pizza and cold drinks - this is present. What's the second? Personally, I did not like the bartender from Dream Bar. Very slow. And pours with such a physiognomy, as if I drink for his money. He often jokes to children - “a cola is not”, the child will be confused, “and eats eats” then pours.
Although cola really often ends. In general, this is the trouble of the hotel - something is always over. Now cola, then beer, then sprite, then glasses, then coffee in the machine, then chemical juices. There is always only whiskey and vodka. Apparently they live on it. But in the water bar by the pool, the bartender Khalil (HALIL) for some reason managed to do everything. And mix a cocktail, and distribute beer and do not offend the kids. And the relationship with the client is important. The hotel is 99% Russian-speaking, as in Anapa, except that the service is Turkish. Perhaps this is why the mattresses by the pool are a little cleaner than on the beach, however, they are sewn with the same fiberglass as a bag of a shuttle-in-china. And even the colors are the same. It's also a little sad. Apparently my wife and I are aesthetes. And yes, beach towels are often full of holes. But clean : ) And thanks for that. By the way, many people praise the SPA and Deniz, my wife barely got unstuck from his sticky calls to the hammam. Impossibly manipulative. Someone likes it.

If we hadn’t come across him right away, we would have visited the spa, which looks like an ordinary salon, no worse than anywhere else. Animation. This is a very strange concept for this hotel. It looks like it's there, but it's like it's not there. And the animators are visible, and there are some games, and there are also shows in the evening. But somehow not really. In Insula Club, the animators are very well coordinated, the program is exactly like here, but how well executed! The hotel is tiny, and the rating is solely because of the animation. Aidinbey's chief animator (with a tail) even eats separately from the team. They don't seem to be together at all. He loves himself very much, and works solely out of condescension. And the last minus - the hotel needs a normal gardener. Beautiful plantings are running. The bushes are unkempt. The territory will immediately be better.
The rest is either excellent or good. The interior is quite decent. A bit old, but creates a mood. The rooms are small (and where are they big? ). Cleaning is rare as in any other hotel.
The food is somewhat monotonous (especially breakfast), as it is everywhere.
Well, for those who have read to the end, the main secret of the hotel is alcohol. Whiskey is quite decent, though not Scotch. Vodka is great. Not "Absolute", but definitely from a bottle not the cheapest. Vermouth. Bianco (a little dry), Dry (almost never), Rosso (just right). Aperitif bitter (a la Campari). Cream liqueur (Turkish Baileys). Liqueurs orange, coffee, strawberry, cherry, coconut. Syrups of four colors. Jin, by the way, is also quite himself. Turkish Raki. The bartender can be strained and mix excellent mixtures. Starting with a banal gin tonic with vodka, and ending with milk alcohol mixes. For lunch, I poured vermouth with vodka in half, threw in a couple of olives from the restaurant - very tasty. Sorry for the long text - as best I can.
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