Ожидали по отзывам, что будет хуже Expected from the reviews that it will be worse

It’s really a very long drive to the hotel from Antalya airport, but the bus was comfortable with air conditioning, which even worked too much, it was cold in the cabin. The hotel is located in Mahmutlyar, outside of Alanya. The area is still beautiful - on one side of the hotel there are mountains, on the other the sea. Beautiful views from all rooms.
We arrived at the hotel around 10:00 in the morning, settled very quickly. We booked a suite, the room is spacious, like two rooms and a balcony, clean, we expected a terrible room from the reviews, but everything is fine, clean, comfortable. Yes, air conditioners blow on the bed, but we hardly used them, although it was above 34 degrees outside. There was a bottle of water in the fridge for everyone, when it runs out at the bar you will be poured water into it. The beds with mattresses are spacious and comfortable, the beds are clean and white, as are the towels. In the bathroom for everyone there was a small bottle of shampoo, soap, a sewing kit and cotton buds and discs. They cleaned every day and twisted beautiful figures strewn with flower petals from towels, reported toilet paper. There are no complaints about the number. Yes, there is also an energy saving system, when you come to the room, you need to put the key in the cell and then the electrician in the room turns on. On the one hand, it’s good, on the other hand, if you need to charge your phone, you need to sit in the room, only one key is issued. The safe is paid, but we did not use it, money, a camera, phones were in a conspicuous place, but no one stole anything.
Swimming pool. There are 4 different pools, one of them is shallow for small children with very warm water. The slide only works 2 hours a day, but it seemed to us enough, perhaps because when we arrived, there were few people, and the children had time to ride. Animation and competitions are held in the large pool once a day. The downside is that there is no water animation for children. At first there were enough sunbeds, but then there were more people, probably due to the fact that the Russians began to arrive, and sunbeds were booked already from 7 in the morning. There were enough sunbeds on the sea, then they delivered more. The beach is a different story. Here it would be desirable more well-groomed. Firstly, this is not the hotel's own beach. Locals also come there, especially in the late afternoon there are a lot of them, there is nowhere for an apple to fall, as well as tourists from other hotels. Sunbeds without mattresses, explain the coronovirus. The sunbeds are far from the sea, you have to go to the sea on hot gravel, because for some reason there is a wooden path only from the entrance to the sunbeds, it would be nice to continue it closer to the sea, because it is very inconvenient for children.

There is no vegetation on the beach (((There is on the neighboring ones. Umbrellas do not save from the sun at all, you often have to move the sun lounger. On the beach there is a bar only with juice and soda, which is diluted everywhere, the taste of Pepsi, forfeits and sprite is not familiar, although in the first days were normal, they probably started to dilute when there were more people. Pour into disposable plastic glasses, which is very inconvenient, not environmentally friendly and not aesthetically pleasing, plus of course that there is no broken glass. Near the pool they also pour into plastic glasses, but they are reusable and larger by volume. In the glass only on the bar, and even then not always. The sea is clean, the law is rocky, there are areas with good entry. After reading the reviews, it was the bad sea that I was afraid of, but there’s nothing wrong there, of course it’s not sand, but you also need to take into account the peculiarity Children 4 and 6 years old swam there without problems, often and for a long time, none of us hurt our legs, there were no big waves, as they wrote here, on the last day there were small ones, but this only made the children happy. lucky. Entrance to the sea through the underpass, it is very convenient. We walked a little along the beach, to the right of our hotel, which we regretted very much, it turned out that our beach is still very good in comparison)))
Food. I must say right away that I would like it better, we were not hungry, but towards the end of the rest it gets boring. But! All the same, you can choose something, of course there is no gourmet cuisine there, but the hotel is not of that level. There is no normal meat there, tasteless soy cutlets and something incomprehensible. The fish was almost every day, but bony, the children could not eat it, on our first day there was a good fish without bones and a whole one, on the rest of the days there were pieces of fish. Had grilled chicken a couple of times. There are no pastries, every day a stale bun, for breakfast sometimes there were buns without filling and sesame bagels (they are normal), still fried cakes. Boiled eggs every morning, sausages sliced ​ ​ in gravy, stewed vegetables, zucchini and eggplant, by the way, are delicious. Every day the same chopped salads, but you can mix them, for some reason the tomatoes were unripe, in the morning they gave olives and olives. There are a lot of sweets, but the same type. Of the fruits, only unsweetened watermelons, on our last day they gave a melon. For an afternoon snack, cookies, and in the evening at 2.00 they give soup. The bar is open until 2 am, there are no cocktails, they are made from juice plus gin or vodka, the beer is normal, the wine is very sour. For dinner once they gave something like sangria, I liked it.
You can write a lot about food, I’ll just say you won’t be hungry, you can always choose something, except that you eat lobsters and shrimp every day, etc. There is no menu for children, this is a very big minus, we adults chose something for ourselves, it was difficult with children ((There is no children's room, at least a playground, but the hotel area is small. The hotel is not aimed at children, the only thing in the evening is a mini - disco, but it's the same every day, by the end of the vacation, the children and we have already learned all the songs and dances to study, on the last evening the youngest son did not even want to participate, it was already uninteresting. Animation for adults is also every evening in the form contests, also gets bored by the end. Although I must say, the animators are trying very hard, friendly, giving their best and, probably, doing everything possible so that the guests are not bored due to their capabilities.
There is no Internet, you can buy it at the reception, but they say it catches badly.

I also forgot, in the last days of our stay, a snack bar was opened near the pool, they did something like hamburgers and pita with fried sausage and tomatoes, but that's just the name, but at least the rolls were fresh and soft, and not like in the dining room.
The hotel is normal, not as bad as the reviews say, but this is not a downgraded hotel, and not even 5 stars. I don’t know if we’ll be back, but we didn’t regret that we rested here, as they wrote above “you get used to it over time)))))
BUT! An unpleasant personal aftertaste from the hotel. It so happened that on the last day of my stay at the hotel I had a birthday. But there was not even a verbal congratulations from the hotel, it is very unpleasant, since for the first time we encountered such an attitude, although the travel agent asked if anyone had a birthday during the rest period and indicated this fact. The sediment is unpleasant (((Just keep this in mind if it suddenly happens that you will have a birthday.