Holiday hotel, fireworks hotel

Written: 1 november 2017
Travel time: 18 — 26 october 2017
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 10.0
If you want to get from gray rainy everyday life into a riot of rainbow colors, to a real celebration of life, then you are here. This, I would say, is a fireworks hotel that gives a surge of emotions just by its very appearance. Moreover, it burns and shines not only outside, but also inside: in the lobby, restaurants, bars and even in the interfloor space. There is no place for calm peace and meditative contemplation to quiet trance music, a completely different atmosphere is created here - it's a carnival, show, fun, glamour. This is probably why there are images of Christina Aguilera, Lady Gaga, Katy Perry and other extravagant ladies with their own funny sayings.

In my opinion, of course, "that match" is somewhat off scale, especially all kinds of gilding and brilliance. Most likely, the main investor here is a woman and also bright, energetic, cheerful, such a woman-fire - this can be seen from the style.

Well, how to do, for example, in a public toilet without a golden floor and plasma over toilet bowls and urinals, and even rhinestones on the handle? )) But, in principle, all this fits into a single concept of that very "Celebration of Life", since, in addition to some pompous excesses, there are also interesting, very original design finds and, admittedly, even quiet corners come across. There is something to stop the eye on, and the semicircular artistically curved pier with original rattan chairs, sun loungers and beach gazebos, in addition to its intended purpose, clearly has an aesthetic purpose.

The total transfer to the hotel takes 1 hour 50 minutes, but, to clarify, we were unloaded second, and the rest of the fellow travelers were taken to Alanya. Check-in at the hotel was quick, they immediately issued 2 keys and cards for beach towels, and instead of paid land view, they gave a side sea view, which we found out only in the room itself.
Came here with my husband to celebrate the 15th anniversary of family life, Crystal wedding, after all. My daughter insisted on this hotel, the final choice was hers, but we didn’t really resist)) Holiday, so holiday! The soul, fortunately, does not age! "...Let fun reign with us, guests will not burden us, let the years ring merrily with a crystal drop ... " In mid-October, when it's already cold at home, the wind is pouring rain outside the window, this is it!

When we took a tour package from Aneks, as usual, a couple of days before departure, they immediately sent an application through Tophotels for such an option as "Hotel compliment for wedding anniversary", if there is, why not use it? A trifle, but nice. The hotel staff responded promptly and gave a confirmation with a number through the bonus program. Business is a couple of minutes, but for some reason many people ignore this function, and it includes birthday parties, weddings, and something else.
I looked at the statistics of the hotel, which has been operating for two years, so these compliments were used only 104 times, and the hotel is not tiny, after all, 330 rooms. At our request, the due bottle of wine was replaced with a bouquet of fresh flowers. We decorated the table in the restaurant with rose petals, as well as the bed, well, we thank the hotel for the attention - we are always happy, from such details a real festive mood begins to take shape.


The hotel fully justifies its name "Azure" when you look at it through the pool from the sea - all shades of blue and balcony partitions to match. There is a lot of interesting author's furniture in the lobby. There are 5 bars and 6 restaurants: two free - Italian "Bella Azura" and spicy Mexican (one to choose from if you stay more than 5 days), three for a fee: Asian, Fish and Turkish "Ottoman", well, the main one with Swedish table, divided into three separate sections and two terraces.
There is also a snack bar by the pool and Lyric restaurant on the beach.

They make excellent coffee in the lobby bar, but when ordering, you need to specify that you prefer coffee from a coffee machine, and not from a regular machine, where, of course, it is easier and faster for them to make it. We must pay tribute, the bartender clearly remembered this and all subsequent times he made me the right coffee))

AZURA has 7 floors, deluxe rooms (from 30 sq. m. , on the hotel website with a sea view are $ 10 more expensive than land view, but on the spot, as agreed, if anything), two-room family rooms (from 46 sq. m) and 5 different rooms of the author's design "Fantasy" with round beds, a jacuzzi and sun loungers on the terrace (from 63 sq. m). Free Wi-Fi throughout the hotel, including rooms and the beach right next to the water's edge, pleased, catches perfectly.
In our room 1216 (regular deluxe) there were originally 2 beds (double bed and one and a half), but with a deft movement of hands, two beds quickly turned into an excellent kingsize, and the mattresses are wonderful - they are a strong five: high, comfortable, and the edges allow you to almost perfectly dock . In the refrigerator, water, mineral water, lemonade, cola and 2 juices, everything was replenished daily, moreover, the juices were different every day. The safe is free and bolted to the wall, otherwise, you know, "free-standing" often came across. Name labels are sewn on many towels, linen, bedspreads, which means that quality is clearly monitored, and this is felt. I liked the unusual, but very comfortable glasses on the table near the sink, they clearly fit the shape of the hand. There is no iron in the room, if anyone is interested and bathrobes on request. Need? Please, take it, but no, they don’t take a steam bath once again)) We took it, it’s convenient for a sauna, steam room, the quality is good.

Keep in mind that cleaning in the room, at least twice a day, but exclusively at your request: do not forget to press the "Cleaning" button, otherwise they have a total struggle for the environment there, info-placards with turtles calling for this hang around. And about bed linen - they always change it when you put this turtle on top of the bed. By the way, quite reasonable system. I support.

The room, by the way, personally turned out to be somewhat more compact than in the photo of the hotelier - the pros of their business obviously worked: that is, the room is exactly like in the photo, do not find fault ...only very miniature, this effect is obtained due to not high ceilings . The balcony is cozy, but also tiny, triangular in shape with a table, two wicker chairs and a dryer;
The elevators are quite nimble and very quiet (our room was just not far from the elevator), there are a couple of them in each wing, there have never been any problems with them. Yes, and the soundproofing of the room is also decent, we didn’t hear the neighbor’s noise (or did we get very quiet ones? ), the carpet in the corridors is thick, no steps outside the door annoyed us with their knock.

The hotel was built in 2015, so the rooms are not at all tired, no serious shortcomings were found (we visited new friends), Azura clearly feels the master's hand, one of the bosses constantly monitors the work of the staff on the territory, pointing out, what to do and how, so employees here do not relax, as, in principle, it should be.

The concept of the hotel clearly states: "When checking into the room, please inspect it and report any problems with the furniture to the guest relations department.
When checking out, if breakdowns are found, the demand will be from the guest and a fine is possible" - in fact, this applies to any hotel, it's just that many do not pay attention, but in vain, I personally witnessed a problem with friends when leaving another hotel, when they tried to divorce them for a broken door before them (someone left a good, but not a through dent from a fist, we all laughed at this “seal” together earlier), perhaps it was even a special feature of that room to catch a sucker when leaving, because everything else it was perfect there and hardly anyone wanted to replace it.

Sea, beach, pier.


Due to the intricate hook pier (in any case, this is how it looks on satellite maps), the hotel has significantly expanded the beach line, so there are much more sun loungers and beach chairs, and, accordingly, vacationing guests, because
the beach itself is only 70 meters long, no more - a very small piece - this is a minus, but with yellow soft sand and an honorary Blue Flag awarded, this is a plus. In addition, a bay closed on both sides was formed, a well-thought-out solution. If you walk along the concrete of a neighboring hotel and cross a small but picturesque rocky ridge with numerous crabs, fish and shrimps hiding in the stones, you can get to the endless sandy shore, which more than compensates for the small area of ​ ​ the hotel beach, the other way is the same, even there a picturesque island with Buddha figurines and numerous stone hills - it looks just fabulous on the photos, especially at sunset.

After lunch, a delicious kumpir is made on the beach (large potatoes baked in foil, cut in half and mashed with various fillings and sauces to taste) - I recommend it. Ice cream of 3 types (no queue!
), I especially liked the lemon one, and my husband liked the chocolate one. There are good traditional gozleme flatbreads baked by a very smiling young woman next to the Lirik restaurant. I also liked ayran on the beach in packed closed glasses (always in the refrigerator of a beach restaurant along with small bottles of water), but my husband didn’t, he said that it was too salty, well, it tastes and color, you know))

But with a volleyball big problems! Well, we’ve been really unlucky lately with balls, and my husband is a fan of playing. The shame and disgrace of a deluxe hotel! ! You need to be able to keep the level in everything, including the ball, everything is known in the details. I hope the administration will correct this oversight.

The Azura beach itself is a walk-through, like all the beaches of the nearest coast - complete freedom of movement, and that's good, we didn't come to the closed zone, but the pier itself is only for hotel guests, and it is strictly guarded, I watched it several times.

In front of the beach there is a picture where one umbrella stands over a pair of sun loungers, and next to it three umbrellas crossed out in red over the same sunbeds. Everything is very clear: one umbrella is possible, but not many. Yeah, right now)). For the Russian inquisitive mind, the question immediately arises: "And two umbrellas? " - What is not forbidden is allowed. This is how all of ours used it, and the Germans and other British always took one, as indicated in the rules.

On the pier and in the restaurant, pleasant calm music always plays not loudly.

I don’t like pools, I rarely swim in them, they are exclusively visual pleasure for me, part of the design of the territory, and they look nice from the balcony, especially when they are backlit, so I skip them, I’ll upload only spectacular pictures here.
Don’t look for the territory as such, it’s not their strong point)), but it’s very close to the sea: you left a cozy room, walked through a chic hotel, then through a beautiful terrace through the bridges over the pools you go down the stairs and you get right away to the beach and to the sea! Just a couple of minutes! It’s great for us, we just came to the sea, so you don’t have to wander for about ten minutes along the inner alleys of the hotel park in order to finally swim enough (we are not supporters of pools, as we already mentioned, we love everything natural so that the energy beats and even goes off scale, the sea gives all this in full, charge as much as you want, but what about the pool? Only one of the artificial entertainments, of which there are a great many, well, I understand, if there is no sea nearby, what can you do)
From the territory of only 12 thousand square meters. m here tried to make candy. Bravo!
It turned out quite cozy and everything is reasonably distributed, the only thing that could be added is living plants, at least in tubs. Natural greenery is clearly not enough, namely, it creates a pleasant, irreplaceable aura.

Well, to be honest, for 9 days of rest, the actual absence of a park area in Azur did not bother us much, during the day - the sea or travel, yachting, and in the evenings or a concert program, or walks along Avsallar, or just a 5-minute walk to the left from the entrance to the neighboring Ruby Platinum with a large well-groomed green area, why not look into their light? What we did, we do not regret at all, it is always interesting to visit new places.


As for the food in AZURA, the main restaurant and daily bread, it has already been written and rewritten here, I will not repeat myself, I will say briefly - they arrange a feast for the whole world.
They really try and cook tasty and varied, during the rest I didn’t have time to try half of the dishes, in addition to fish and seafood (shrimp, mussels, oysters, squid, by the way, very soft, well cooked) there was a daily large selection of grill and steamed : lamb, beef, veal, duck, turkey, chicken, mushrooms in various forms, etc. Confectionery is also at a good level, honey in combs, 12 kinds of different jams, and most importantly, a lot of fruits and herbs. We used to think that the most delicious sesame simits were tasted in private bakeries in Istanbul, but here they turned out to be even tastier. But with the fresh juice for breakfast declared in the concept, not everything goes smoothly, the orange pulp is present in the juice, obviously squeezed out, but it’s also not sickly diluted with water, so we liked the packaged juices displayed nearby, there were seven types to choose from. Feeding at the hotel around the clock.
By the way, keep in mind that if you have an early flight or you go on excursions, the hotel does not make lunch boxes, referring to this round-the-clock food - this is a clear minus, but you can, with effort, collect at least a whole lunch bag on your own) ) is a plus, which we did when we went traveling, but it’s still more convenient and faster, of course, to take the prepared package to the reception.

SPA, indoor pool, etc. The relaxation complex under the sonorous name "Symphony" is beautiful and well equipped to match the hotel itself, the relaxation area (lounge) with pleasant lighting and comfortable sun loungers.

The animation is not intrusive, but it is always present, the guys are trying, they liked the friendly girl Anya from Kharkov (hello to her! ) and the colorful guy from Tunisia, the host of the concerts, also fluently spit in four languages, including Russian. In the evening there were always different guest artists.

For fans of the horror stories of the 2017 season, I’ll immediately reassure you, well, there wasn’t this ill-fated coxsackie virus, NOT-WOULD-LO (! ), but there were a lot of kids, so I was specifically interested in their mothers, and we ourselves didn’t get sick with anything there, not upon arrival, thank God, otherwise, they say, adults also caught on this garbage.

We wanted to change our usual deluxe suite for a room with a jacuzzi on the balcony with an additional charge, they gave us the key to room 1333. It was after a downpour, and it turned out that all the water from the roof drains into this very jacuzzi - it was not thought out. The room has a round bed, of course, a gilded shower, also round and right in the room itself, but ...from the abundance of gold in the room, my eyes began to ripple, for me it's too much. The museum, for example, is also beautiful, but not comfortable for life))) there is no warmth or something, everything is too much like in a shop window, in short, we wanted to go back to our room, although the balcony in No. 1333 is large, wonderful and with a great view of the sea, you can't fault it here.
Will I recommend the hotel? Yes, of course, but to clarify about the compact territory, if people go specifically for the sake of the sea and love outdoor activities, like we do, then this is just the thing. Do you want to return to this hotel? Yes, we will definitely visit again.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original