Good budget hotel

Written: 20 july 2021
Travel time: 5 — 12 july 2021
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 6.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 6.0
We rested at Senzo Grand Santana from July 5 to July 12.2021.
What can be said about the hotel - a beautiful modern exterior, the hotel looks spectacular, especially against the backdrop of KLAS hotels standing 100 meters away.
The interior of the hotel is not so impressive, gray walls in dark corridors, as there are practically no windows, and lamps with equipped sensors
only turn on for a few seconds. The hotel is equipped with modern elevators, which for some reason do not have air conditioning : -(
Air conditioning is also clearly not enough in the reception area, stuffy there.
It should be borne in mind that the hotel is in the city and some of the rooms do not overlook the sea, the pool, but the nearby houses where the Turks live.
View, to put it mildly, well, so-so. Therefore, we paid a little extra and moved.
We rested in a two-room family room on the 3rd floor. The room was overlooking the pool and the sea. The room itself is small, the second room has no windows.

Everything in the room is clean and whole.
In the refrigerator, upon check-in, they put a 1.5-liter bottle of water, cola, fanta, juice.
This is a one-time, in the future, water can be taken at bars in bottles of 0.5 liters.
There is a kettle in the room with disposable cups and a few tea and coffee bags.
The room has two new air conditioners, one TV (there are Russian and Ukrainian channels).
Safe in the room - paid 2 euros or dollars per day.
Balcony with table and chairs. External units from air conditioners hang on the balcony and if they work, hot air blows on you.
The bathroom is working. Hair dryer is new. Shampoo, shower gel - constantly replenished. With soap, for some reason worse, two tiny pieces for a week.
Towels for the beach, give a deposit of 10 euros.
WI-FI in the hotel is paid ($ 2-3 per day, depending on the number of days), but it takes everywhere, including on the beach.
Minus - only one device works at a time, you can use the second one when the first one is turned off.
The feature of the hotel is a restaurant on the 7th floor with a beautiful view of the sea, part of the restaurant in an open area (works only for breakfast and dinner).
Minus, with the full occupancy of the hotel, there are not enough places for lunch and dinner, it is better to come in 30-40 minutes after the start, there is enough food and it is unnecessary to look for a free table.
The food is generally good, varied, but without frills. At the entrance to the restaurant, the temperature is taken and forced to wear a mask.
Collect food - on your own, with the exception of drinks. Drinks at the bar and there is a constant queue.
Of the fruits were: watermelon, melon, apples, oranges, grapefruit, plums.
The hotel has a fish restaurant "a la carte" - 1 visit is free, but you must pre-register.
In addition to the main restaurant, there is a cafe "Bistro", with meals like McDonald's: french fries, hamburger, pizza, salad.

Served by waiters. The cafe is open from 12, but after 21.00 - in the cafe you can only have a bite to eat "night soup".
The hotel has four swimming pools.
Central, where all the animation takes place and all the sunbeds are constantly occupied. Places must be taken before 8 am.
Nearby is a small children's room - for kids. medium pool with 3 slides, slides are open from 10 to 12 and from 15 to 17.
Indoor pool, which appears to be used by the spa.
Bars ...are in the restaurant, by the pool, in the Bistro cafe and on the beach.
The assortment + is the same, local alcohol: vodka, whiskey, rum, bottled wine, champagne, beer from skittles.
Fanta, cola, sprite, juices. Good cocktails, bartenders, unfortunately, don’t know how or don’t want to make, but it’s hard to call what they make a cocktail.
There is no free ice cream for children in the hotel.
Beach - through the underpass. Surprisingly, there were always enough sunbeds, under a canopy and umbrellas, unlike the pool.
The hotel has its own pier, where there are sun loungers with umbrellas and there are two stairs to descend into the sea.
Entrance to the sea, from the shore, on slabs, in some places there are passages without slabs.
At the bar by the beach, Turkish cakes are baked during the day, so you can have a bite to eat and drink ayran.
Animation - is, but hangs out exclusively near the pool. On the beach, during the day, they offer to play volleyball.
Animators are actively arranging a trip to a nightly paid disco, a foam party for $ 10 per person.
In the evenings, in the amphitheater, standard animation programs, at 21.00 for children, at 22.00 for adults.
The hotel staff, in general, is friendly, almost everyone speaks good Russian.
There are no areas for walking near the hotel, not at all : -(, but it helps that the hotel is located in the center of Mahmutlar.
In front of the hotel there is a beautiful promenade, where it is pleasant to stroll in the evening.
Behind the hotel is the central street of the village, where there are shops, cafes, etc.

On Saturdays, a market arrives where you can buy fruits that for some reason are not in the hotel: apricots, cherries, peaches, bananas, passion fruit, papaya, figs ...
Not far from the hotel there is a bus stop number 1, where you can ride to Alanya and visit Cleopatra Beach, ride a cable car and visit the fortress,
Yes, go shopping. Travel 3.65 Turkish lira, if you pay through PayPass, cash is a little more expensive.

To summarize: in general, a good budget hotel, there are disadvantages, but what budget hotels do not have them.
Therefore, if your budget for Rixos does not pull, you can safely choose this hotel.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original