I expected it to be worse...

Written: 1 october 2018
Travel time: 12 — 21 september 2018
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My wife and I ended up in this hotel thanks to the machinations of the TPG tour operator, who, 2 days before departure, announced the impossibility of our holiday in the hotel we chose in Side, and offered several hotels with terrible reviews to choose from... Since there was no point in showing off too much, we Decided to go somewhere. . .
And then we were met by the Alonia hotel. First impressions were simply amazing - a normal hotel, a pretty decent dinner, a room with a sea view... We didn’t even believe our eyes right away.
Now in order:

1. The hotel room is a fairly spacious room with a balcony overlooking the sea. The room has everything - a safe, a refrigerator, air conditioning, a dressing table, a bathroom with all amenities... The hotel's Wi-Fi caught even in the room, but on the balcony you could catch fast Wi-Fi from neighboring hotels. Towels were changed only once, room cleaning was done daily, but very superficially - limited to wiping the floor and replenishing toilet paper. But after all, we (for the most part) at home don’t change the bed every day either...
2. Food - every day the menu included chicken, fish (first mackerel, then herring, and at the end - some kind of fried sprat), nuggets, potatoes, rice, soups, salads and vegetables, various seasonings. My wife really liked their signature pie with some greens.
At first we came to the restaurant at the beginning of dinner and udin, but were surprised by the huge queues of our intellectuals, humbled for a place in this queue. But then we started walking 40 minutes late - there is no queue AT ALL, and all the food is available.
For the first few days, a snack bar worked - they fried donuts and gave sherbet. Drinks - vodka, gin, beer, cola, fanta, tonic - all the time. I liked plain water in refrigerators, in factory-made packages of 200 grams, like yogurts. Coffee machine in the lobby, tea in all places. There was never any wine.
They really didn’t give fruit even once, but we found a tent with fruit at a local market (at a bus stop across the highway), where almost all fruits cost 5-6 lira per kilogram. We provided ourselves with grapes, pomegranate, tangerines for the whole rest.
3. Territory - quite decent. We didn’t even go to the pools - after all, we came to the sea. There were always free sun beds with umbrellas on the beach. The sea is calm due to the bay in which the beach is located. There are stones at the bottom, but the skills of an experienced skipper from the second day made it possible to bypass dangerous areas... The beach was also cleaned purely symbolically, but our tourists did not pay attention to this and continued to quietly litter near their sunbeds, while resenting the traces of their predecessors. The word "animation" in this hotel is unknown to anyone.

In other words - if you don't dream of oysters and champagne splashes in a sparkling clean room - you'll love it. Quite an average quality stay. We have been to much worse places. . . Flocks of Russian tourists, outraged by the shortcomings of the hotel and demanding relocation, can be found in the hotel lobby. . .
True, on the last day of rest there were rumors about the bankruptcy of the hotel...
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