Bingo Tour

Written: 3 june 2010
Travel time: 19 — 26 may 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 9.0
The hotel was bought by a new owner in 2009 and transferred from 4 * to 5 * status, although it only draws 5 stars due to the beautiful building and a relatively large pool, incl. closed. In fact, the hotel is located near the road on the second line from the sea. If we assume that we got to the hotel on a last-minute ticket called bingo (when you don’t know where you will be sent before arriving at the airport) at a price of 740 bucks for two, then this is a super hotel for this money, plus the most important thing we got along the way great company and we came off to the fullest, so we swallowed all the inconveniences such as the room and the view from it without question.
- GOTEL - two 7-storey very beautiful buildings with very slow elevators, as they stop on each floor, great big pools on two levels plus a large indoor one with warm water. Tip for a bribe ask for a room either with a view of the pool and the sea or closer to the elevator.
- BEACH: own beach - walk about 200-300 meters with free sunbeds and towels on bail for 5 bucks, as well as a pebble volleyball field (at first we jumped like on the sand until all our legs were worn to the blood, so we switched to a more relaxed style of play ) - there were always people on the court who played enough from the heart, they gave the ball at the bar counter in the hotel, as well as their own bar counter with tables in the shade where before lunch and after it was good to eat and drink simple and alcoholic drinks. Our rest time fell on storms in good weather, I warn you that even experienced swimmers drowned, the tide pulls to the bottom very strongly, so I advise you to swim only in calm, there is a pier on the beach from where we dived, the sea is very clear in calm, the entrance is pebbles with stones have special shoes.

- The FOOD is not bad, but again 4 stars, and for an omelet or chicken (when the chef cooks in front of you) you had to stand in a decent queue and this is at the beginning of the season, and it’s scary to imagine what will happen in the summer, salads and dishes are the same only for they are cut or cooked in different ways, it’s better not to even try the terrible sausage, but granny bakes fresh pita bread with cheese right in front of you, a lot of sweets but again of the same type, there is fruit, but we didn’t wait for watermelons and bananas, strawberries and cherries, we bought in the city ourselves, very tasty cucumbers, strawberries and ripe watermelons. If you sign up from 10 am to 12 am at the reception, instead of dinner, you can get Turkish or fish cuisine, as well as barbecue (fried vegetables and chicken like barbecue) in the evening, in principle, not bad, only the line at the barbecue is even worse than in the dining room.
- ENTERTAINMENT - a comfortable modern amphitheater in the shape of a shell, the animators tried to organize various competitions in the evenings, and then they lured Robin Hood to a disco in Alanya for 10 bucks, in principle they bring it for free, though it’s fixed at 3 o’clock in the morning, honestly speaking, it was enough for us up to two , and then they could not wait to be taken away. The disco is cheerful, you dance on the terrace on the 4th floor overlooking the beautifully illuminated castle on the mountain and the night sea with yachts - romance, if the waiters did not get it. who all strive to sell you an alcoholic cocktail for 15-20 bucks (here it is better to take their lira, if you change it in advance - the rate is 1.55 for 1 US dollar).
- TOURISM - definitely do not take tours in the hotel, it will be much cheaper to go to the center near the mosque there are excellent tours, you can bargain if the company at all for a ridiculous price, for example, a Turkish bath in a hotel cost $ 35 + $ 10 a mask, and we were 4 people in the morning taken to Alanya (12 km) for $20 per person. with a mud mask, the only thing when ordering is to be sure to clarify that the face mask is included in the price, otherwise they then try to dilute for an additional 10 dollars when leaving the bath.
Advice: you don’t have to complex with the Turks and be led to their divorces, always clarify what you pay for and never give in.
It is very cool to go rafting in Pamukal, in Pamukal we rented a diesel 10-seater minibus for $ 80 (the main thing is not to forget to take a license) and it will come out cheaper. Gasoline and diesel are expensive - 2 bucks per liter, rent a car from 35 to 80 dollars.

- PURCHASES - you need to bargain up to the price that you are ready to throw away for a thing without regret (because it's not yet a fact that you needed it). Turks are cunning if they see that you like a leather jacket, for example, they will drop the price of any other thing, but they won’t give much in price to a jacket, so you need to try on the thing you like as if you don’t need it at all and you even have to give it away to be hung back on the rack , and then, by the way, say that it can and would have bought it but for such a bag. We bought a fucking leather jacket for $ 350, but even then they noticed that we liked it and were no longer inferior, and the jacket because of which we came the second time didn’t want to lower the price significantly, so we didn’t buy it, remember that they need to sell it and not you buy it, so never regret that you didn’t buy something. so the price was clearly too high, the Turks take the choice, but not the price. Gold is generally this year, starting from 50 dollars. per gram - I don’t know who will need it, they have not yet felt the crisis.
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