C grade with a big minus

Written: 2 june 2007
Travel time: 3 — 10 may 2007
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 9.0
Immediately the general impression is that this is a hotel for families who are accustomed to a "vegetable" holiday - both in the direct (food consists of 90% vegetables) and figuratively (lie down like a vegetable and fry all day).
What is good: sea, sun and air. I can also note that the animators and bartenders are not bad guys. In general, all employees of the hotel left a positive impression. A very good pier from which people dive. I can also note that we got a nice room in a new building with excellent views of the sea and the pool. Also, very lucky with the weather - all 11 days were perfect.
What's wrong - here I will answer very briefly - everything else.

1) Food and drink. For those who want to lose weight. Basically, vegetables - tomatoes, cucumbers, onions, lettuce and their combinations. Sausage - terrible, ham - white, meatballs - burnt. There is also shawarma, but you have to stand in line for about 20 minutes. Freshly squeezed juice is only in the morning and diluted, and you also have to stand, otherwise you won’t get it. Fish - also some kind of burnt and nasty. French fries - after 2 days on the third and ends very quickly. In general - everything is good and more or less tasty - with queues and ends quickly.
Free drinks: beer (Efes, so-so), wine (in the first days I couldn’t take it in my mouth, but then, grimacing, I began to drink), vodka (rubbish, I advise you to drink with tonic), cognac (well, this is such shit that even and I don’t advise sniffing), etc.
The local chefs have a talent for turning the simplest foods (potatoes, eggplants, zucchini) into inedible ones. They even manage to cook french fries in such a way that you don’t want to eat more than once.
A few words about soups. If they are eaten "in their pure form", then it resembles some kind of gruel of indefinite taste. But once I did an experiment - I poured rice and spices into the gruel. And a miracle happened! It made a pretty good soup. At the bottom, I began to experiment with might and main - I poured vegetables into the soup and it turned out something like okroshka, and so on.
Were in a fish restaurant and Turkish.
The fish restaurant was saved, in fact, only by the fish. Which was simply fried without any twists and thus could not be spoiled. I took trout, and my friends - sea bass.
And the Turkish restaurant, in general, was better. The mutton shish kebabs, however, smelt (this, of course, was the meat of a "boy" who was already about to die).

2) Entertainment. Children are entertained by animators. I think it's good. Adults are offered to play football, volleyball and water polo. Well, and some other quizzes and competitions, but I didn’t participate, I can’t say anything. In the morning you can shoot a bow. Everything else is FREE. This is Russian billiards, pool, Internet, ALL WATER ENTERTAINMENT (someone wrote that a bicycle or something else is free, so he should spit in his face). All trips outside the hotel must be ordered from their guides and, of course, leaving 100 meters from the hotel gate, the same trips will cost 2 times cheaper. One day we went sailing. We swam well, lunch and drinks were free. Cost: $35 per person. Outside the gate: $20 and you can still bargain (especially if there are several people). One day the three of us went to Alanya (35 km) by taxi. The taxi driver asked for 70, persuaded for 50 and he was waiting for us there for 3.5 hours. So, the trip turned out just for free.
In the evening - entertainment program. I only looked 1 time. Complete bullshit. At about 11 or 12 at night the disco starts. I'm over 40, so I didn't want to listen to this rhythmic noise. You can shake your bodies for 5 minutes, but you get bored quickly. Very monotonous. The disco lasts until about 2:30. I noticed that young people, having gone to a disco a couple of times, grow cold towards it. So, the cultural life in the hotel stops at around 11 pm.
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