Отдыхом остались довольны Satisfied with vacation

I stayed at the hotel with my wife and a child of 8.5 years. First time in Turkey. Prior to that, he had been to the Crimea, the Sea of ​ ​ Azov and the Caucasus many times (Caucasus 2007 and 2009). Like many, before the trip, we frantically chose a hotel and feverishly re-read the reviews of tourists about them. Since we have no experience of vacationing in Turkey, we pointed our finger at the catalog and settled on Relax 4 *. We read a lot of good, not so bad bad reviews about him (about the boorish attitude of the staff, about the nasty rooms, about the queues for food, about the bad beach, the lack of sun loungers, about the bad attitude of the guides, etc. ) We were very worried about this. Vouchers were purchased from the tour operator "TezTour" through the travel agency "4 Seasons Plus Belgorod". Special thanks to the employees of the travel agency for their attentive attitude to us, help in choosing a trip and a hotel, as well as for explaining everything intelligibly how to behave upon arrival in Turkey and during the rest. Upon arrival in Antalya, we were pleasantly surprised by the meeting with the representative of the tour operator, accommodation in the bus and delivery to the hotel. During the journey from the airport to the hotel, the guide told us everything in detail about the country, customs and traditions, behavior during the holidays and the excursions provided, of course.
At the hotel, we (three of us), at the reception, were offered a choice of a room on the 2nd or 3rd floor (they number the floors from the floor on which the rooms are located, i. e. from the 2nd. On the first floor there are different shops and administrative premises) . We chose on the 3rd floor, i. e. according to ours on the 4th. The hotel staff was very kind and attentive to us. Single room, with a balcony, view of the hotel courtyard with a swimming pool, partly on the sea and the market located near the hotel (not bad). The room has one large double bed and one single bed. as expected, air conditioning, TV with three Russian and one Ukrainian channels, toilet, shower, washbasin and hair dryer. The furniture is new, everything is clean and tidy. By the way, this hotel does not allow towels to be taken out of the room. The safe is in the room and costs $2 per day.
To the sea about 100-150 meters. On the way you pass a small local market, where local merchants will talk to you with pleasure and wish you a pleasant stay (To be honest, I was pleasantly surprised).

The beach is sand and pebble. Along the coastline, at the entrance to the sea, there is a monolithic stone slab that stretches in both directions from the hotel’s beach for at least 100 meters in each direction, and maybe more (I didn’t go further. ) Near the hotel’s beach there are beaches and other hotels . On the territory of the beaches of hotels, cuts are made in this slab so that you can go into the sea. The beach of our hotel is about 15-20 meters wide and about 30-40 meters long. The entrance to the sea in this place is sand and pebble, further (at a depth) pebbles. Then the slab begins again and on it the depth is noticeably waist-deep for an adult. When the plate ends after 10 meters, the deep sea begins. For swimming, this stove does not create interference, and vice versa, the kids like it, swim on it. On the beach, from 12.00 to 15.00 there is a Snack bar (free of charge).
About nutrition. Mostly these are vegetables, from which an uncountable number of various salads, side dishes, soups and other dishes are prepared. Personally, I really liked it. Never experienced a feeling of hunger. From meat - chicken and fish. There was always a lot of food and in my opinion, no one was ever hungry.
Now about the queues for food (meat) and the lack of sun loungers on the beach and by the pools. In my opinion, this is not the fault of the staff and chefs of the hotel. I was ashamed to observe such a picture, when 15 minutes before the start of the meal, a huge queue of vacationers lined up near the restaurant. When the restaurant opened, everyone naturally ran straight with empty plates to the cook who cooked and distributed meat, where they again lined up in the same huge queue. Having collected a mountain of meat on their plate, the vacationers scattered to other tables, where other dishes were put up, and scooped up no less mountains of them. After that, they ate only a third (at best, half) of what was on their plate, and left the rest thrown on the table and left. It was worth coming to the restaurant about 30-40 minutes after the start time of eating, you could skip the queue, hustle and fuss, take any dish, including meat (probably many did not understand that they were reporting the dish as they were eating) and eat calmly .
The hotel staff regularly brought new sunbeds by the pool and on the sea and delivered them to the old ones as soon as the area of ​ ​ ​ ​ the hotel territory allowed, but they were still not enough, because the vacationers, waking up in the morning, went to the beach and to the pool, where on a sunbed (at best on one) put their towel (thus occupied it), after which they went about their business and these sunbeds were empty throughout the day. Because of this, vacationers who really wanted to sunbathe on sunbeds could not find free places.

In the market, prices for fruits are much lower than the Crimean ones and much lower than the Caucasian ones.
In general, I really liked the rest in this hotel and in my comparison it was much better than the boarding houses of the Crimea and the Caucasus. And if our compatriots still behaved properly, then there would be even more positive emotions from the rest.