Larissa Holiday Beach Club Larissa Holiday Beach Club

I vacationed with a friend in beach Turkey for the first time, before that I always traveled to Europe (Italy, Spain, Greece, Cyprus). We chose this hotel because of the reasonable price and, in general, good reviews, although there were some terrible ones, but we did not believe them. Now our impressions: a hotel according to European standards - three stars with a stretch! They settled us for three hours, at the reception boorish staff. When we began to swear and resent, we were first offered to settle in a family room with two rooms with two women from Novokuznetsk, whom we see for the first time, as there are no rooms with separate beds, and in three days they will be free. To put it mildly, we were shocked by this proposal, then we were evilly given a room with one single bed measuring 5 square meters, without a balcony and with current taps, which was not cleaned at the same time! It was already twelve o'clock in the morning, we were simply horrified by what we saw! When I returned to reception,
in order to at least get them to leave, the employee suddenly changed his mind and gave us a normal room in another building on the fourth floor. Kind of dressed up! The most normal rooms, as I understand it, are on the fourth floors, they are newer, but at the same time, the toilet stinks of sewage for some reason. But in general, you can live normally in these rooms. Room cleaning is practically non-existent. Every day they just throw out the garbage, regardless of whether you leave it for tea or not. Bed linen was not changed once a week, towels were changed once. Beach towels can be changed three times a week strictly from 5 to 6 pm in the hammam. Hamam looks just awful! We came there, looked once and didn’t go again, I went to the hammam and for a massage at the nearby Hedef hotel, everything is much more decent there and excellent, friendly staff at the spa! The beach at the Larissa hotel is dirty, they only clean the trash next to the sunbeds, but since our people are just pigs,
then it’s hard to make claims to the hotel when people throw diapers and plastic glasses right by the sea. There are practically no Muscovites in the hotel, mostly people from the regions of Russia. The food is generally edible, but the choice is small and not very tasty. For breakfast every day there was rice porridge, yogurt, jams, honey, toast, delicious cheese, soy sausage, scrambled eggs or scrambled eggs, pancakes were baked once or twice. Of the fruits were watermelons, melons, apples, oranges, grapefruits. For lunch and dinner there were always pasta, potatoes, rice, vegetables, a lot of greens, chicken and fish (completely inedible), there was a small selection of sweets, and for some reason there were never any sweets for breakfast. We didn’t die of hunger, of course, you can choose something, but we are not very picky. From alcohol they sometimes drank beer and white wine, everything else, from our point of view, is just some kind of bodyagi, but our people drink... A separate topic is the guide Zaur! On the trail.

the day after our arrival he gathered us and for two hours he told us about his biography, how dangerous everything is around and that only his excursions can guarantee us safety! As a result, we bought a jeep safari from him for $ 50. This excursion is organized by local guys in Alanya, they have their own company, and it costs no more than $ 35, we paid Zaur 15 in his pocket, it turns out. The first part of the tour is just awful! They frankly took us to some bazaars, promised to bring us to a village with a mosque, tell us about the life of local residents, religion. They brought them to the village, but only with the aim of buying something from these local residents. We bought only green tea there, everything else is just consumer goods. In the village there was a type of museum and a mosque, which we could visit on our own, no one told us anything. But this museum and the mosque is of such a kind that it's just a shame for Turkey to bring tourists there! And, however, they were still brought to the fortress in Alanya,
There are very beautiful views, which is a plus. After the village we were taken to the mountains, we must pay tribute, the jeep drivers are just super! Professionals! And in the end they brought us to a beautiful place for lunch, there were no complaints, I liked everything. You can go on this tour, but only buy it not from the guides!!!
In general, the rest was normal, with the exception of the described nuances. If you have a choice, it is better not to go to Larissa! But if you still decide, then for this money (we paid 20 thousand rubles per person for a ticket from Moscow), be prepared for the above. Good luck! : )