А нам было хорошо! And we were fine!

Turkey, Alanya, 2018. We arrived on July 14 at 4 am, drove from Antalya to Alanya for 2.5 hours. They settled everyone around 12.30, only a couple with a child were settled immediately. We took swimsuits, flip flops, pareos and cream in hand luggage in advance, changed clothes and went to the beach! When we arrived at the hotel, they immediately put on bracelets for us so that we could have breakfast, the suitcases were at the reception, in the room with safes. By the way, we did not rent a safe (rent $ 2 per day) and everything was in order.
In my experience of rest, the hotel corresponds to 3+. I liked the room, all the rooms have three full beds, two are right next to each other, one is separate through the bedside table. Cleaned every day, around 10 am. The bed was never changed in 9 days....well, maybe they wanted to when we slept during the day, because they knocked hard a couple of times, although the “do not disturb” button was on....Towels are changed if you throw them on the floor in the bath .
The territory of the hotel is large, green, very pleasant, clean. Neighboring fives have small and narrow territories.

There are three pools, one for children, one with water slides and a fountain, and a large swimming pool.
The sea was always stormy, it was calm for a couple of days, then stronger. It is very beautiful, the sound of the waves is pleasant, it is super to fall asleep on the beach under it, and the wind from the sea saturates the air with a pleasant smell. Of course, it’s scary to swim, but the adrenaline is what you need, the waves sometimes cover, then shake, then beat. People do not swim far, otherwise the waves are such that they are sucked into the sea.
It’s hard to go into the sea from the hotel beach, there are a lot of large stones, it’s normal to wear rubber slippers. A little to the right, between the pier and even more to the right of it, it’s good to go in, there are no stones, a small pebble, it’s cool to swim there, but there are correspondingly more people. The sea is cleaner on the hotel beach than behind the pier on the right, only if you go even more to the right, there is a class and entry into the sea is excellent. 100-150 meters is close.
You can also lie on the pier, but you need to take places even earlier than on the beach. You can walk to the pier and go down the ladder into the sea, then go out on the shore to the right of the pier or go up the ladder again. It is convenient and pleasant to sway on the waves there.
Sun loungers on the beach in four rows, solid canopies over each row. To take a seat in the front row, you need to arrive before 8 am, throw on towels and go to breakfast. And in other rows there is always a place, the beach is big. By the way, about towels, you can bring your own, at the hotel you can rent for the entire period for $ 3 (not per day, but for the entire period), do not change them, return them at the end of the holiday. A towel and a swimsuit dry overnight on the balcony, they hang everything on the railing, they consist of three crossbars. In order not to fall, we fastened the edges of the towel with clothespins.
Mattresses on the beach and near the three pools are free.

About goods and prices. In many shops there are no prices, they look at you and say the price....you can bargain until you lose your pulse. You can really profitably buy textiles, bed linen. A chic satin one-and-a-half set can be bargained for $ 45, and initially they ask for $ 70, a one-and-a-half terry bedspread with a pattern for 30, summer bedspreads of 100% cotton in different pastel shades can be taken for 10.
Shopping streets are located directly from the hotel, right and left. I bought bedding on the street that goes directly from the hotel, on the right along this street is the last shop. I liked the seller, you can bargain with him, he is a joker, he knows Ukraine, he kept a store in Uman. Almost everyone in the hotel and sellers speak Russian.
The bathrobes are cool, the quality is super, I don’t know the prices, but look at your place and bargain cheaper for sure. Towels, pajamas, nightgowns, Turkish quality is excellent. All prices are in dollars. There is an exchanger, one, but the rate is unknown....they will look at you and then they will say....somehow unpleasant. The guide said that 1 $ = 4 dinars, and the euro is 5 dinars. Take small dollars and do not change. Although they have change, because everything is sold for dollars.
From sweets I bought pistachio cotton wool, very tasty, 350 grams costs $ 3, I bargained for four for $ 10. I bought hibiscus tea 500 gr for $4. Their halva is delicious. Everywhere bargain at least 1.5 times. And my advice, do not buy sweets in opaque packaging when you opened a gift box of baklava... a surprise . . two baklavas instead of four and not at all the same as on the photo packaging....
Of the medicines, I advise you to take peroxide and a band-aid to the beach. Stones in a wave can hit my leg, well, it hit me right on the bone until it bled. Well, this is if there is a strong wave and you will stand near the shore, splashing your feet.
The food is very tasty, everything is there and there are plenty of vegetables and stewed and boiled and fried meat and vegetables, there is fish, delicious fruits, there are a lot of sweets.

The only thing, coffee lovers, take coffee and dry cream with you if you like!! ! It is impossible to drink hotel coffee..... I didn’t like it very much. Everywhere there are coffee machines and coolers with boiling water, you can brew . . Coffee machines have the main types of coffee drinks, I didn’t like any....
If you often drink water, then the hotel has water coolers in the bars, at the reception and in the restaurant. If you take it to the beach, then you need to buy bottles or pour half a liter from the cooler and take it to the beach or to your room for the night.
Ice cream by the pool $1 two circles in a cone, boiled corn also $1.
The Internet connection is very poor and only in the building where the reception is. . . the torment of sending photos and calling via Viber fails....
Kyivstar gives 15 minutes of calls in roaming for 30 UAH. per day and 100 MB of internet for 35 UAH per day. Vadafon wrote to me in roaming that 50 UAH per minute, although I checked on the site before leaving 2.34 UAH per minute..... You can call them and clarify, maybe they made a mistake, I did not risk it. Accordingly, check and replenish your account in Ukraine.
More of my observations on Duty Free. Everything was more expensive in Ukraine, well, what I was specifically interested in was perfumery. The difference in Coco Chanel Mademoiselle 100 ml is 18 euros. And in Turkey there were good stocks. For example, Yves Saint Laurent Elhom men's 100 ml bought at a discount as a second product for 57 euros. I think that stocks are a fickle business, but last year it was also more profitable to buy perfume from them....Prices in euros both from us and from them. It is better to pay in euros, conversion to hryvnia, lira or dollars is not profitable.
Vacation was a success! Thanks to Masha and her travel agency "Ukraine Connection", thanks to the tour operator "Teztour" for "minute by minute" all activities, pleasant staff, very comfortable transfer, guardianship of tourists. Thanks to the Windrose airline, we flew on time, comfortably, it’s nice that they gave tasty gifts, although they don’t feed at all on charters, water, coffee, tea, cream without restrictions. If you really want to eat, then for payment you can eat deliciously, see the prices on their website.

I wish you all the same pleasant holidays!
And here's what I want to add, a verse by Omar Khayyam:
Two people were looking out the same window. One saw rain and mud.
The other is green foliage, spring and blue sky.
Two people were looking out the same window.