Alanya, Sunshine Hotel, June 2009.

Written: 30 june 2009
Travel time: 7 — 19 june 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 5.0
Amenities: 9.0
A family of three rested in the Sunshine Hotel for 13 days from 07.06. 2009 to 19.06. 2009 for 1500$.
Just want to say the weak point of the hotel is the food.
Don't expect variety. The most interesting thing is that this is the scourge of this hotel for several years.

To be completely honest, you will not remain hungry, but no one is going to cook “pickles” for you there - this is the policy of the hotel, saving on tourists in Turkish style. Meat was not seen at all during the rest. Chicken in small pieces with vegetables and fish in portions every other day for dinner or only for lunch. That's the fish and meat menu. The rest of the time, stewed vegetables with different sauces. From fruits only oranges and apples. We did not see any watermelons, melons, strawberries, cherries or bananas in 13 days. Although on Wednesdays on a neighboring street 50 meters from the hotel local Turks organize a mini-bazaar, and so there we bought strawberries for $ 1 / kg (30 rubles), watermelon for $ 2 / kg (60 rubles), melon for 3 $ / kg (90 rubles), sweet cherries at $ 3 / kg (90 rubles).
Strawberries could be given to vacationers.

As for the cleaning of the hotel room, there were no complaints here either.
The cleaners don't work too hard until you tell them the towels won't be changed. For 13 days the bed linen was changed one!! ! once. Although the site claims that they change underwear 1 time in 3 days. We immediately made a mistake and did not complain, but we should have. But with the representative of the travel agency, who had to make claims so that they would resolve issues in Turkish with the hotel administration - this is a separate story a little lower. So do not repeat our mistakes - make claims to the representative of the travel agency! Although at the end of the holiday, we found out that other vacationers said that you could put on a bed from $ 1 to $ 5 and everything will be changed for you. But for us, $ 1 acquired a different value, after we found strawberries for $ 1 / kg (30 rubles), especially since I already wrote that the fruit was a complete strain in the hotel.
It is better to buy an extra kilo of strawberries for your child and yourself (there are no such prices in Russian large cities) than to pay these lazy cleaners. It's easier for me to go to the reception and "build" the hotel administrator than to deal with an ordinary cleaning lady who is "not in the teeth" either in English or in German.


We took a tour from the NEVA travel agency. As for the organization of the tour, there are no complaints against the company. Round-trip flight by GLOBUS airline (affiliated with S7 airline) with an hour delay, transfer was taken to the hotel on time and picked up on time, the buses are clean with air conditioning. The polite transfer manager entertains all the way, he calmly answers all sorts of "bad" questions from tourists. But all the good impression about the travel agency NEVA is spoiled by the representative of the travel agency at the hotel - this is some kind of "elusive Joe". Appeared when he was comfortable and when we were uncomfortable when we were on the beach.
With this, the NEVA travel agency has a “big joint” in the hotel. Although we saw a representative of TEZ TUR in the hotel lobby every day from 9.00 to 21.00. A good girl - Oksana from Kharkov, told us about all the excursions, showed promotional materials, although we had nothing to do with her travel agency at all and were clearly not going to order tours. A trifle, but nice. TEZ TUR - offset, NEVE big minus!

Alcoholic drinks of local production do not fit into the mouth - they are diluted with water to disgrace. Beer - sucks. On the beach you can drink no more than one glass. Children should not be allowed to take their local lemonade, such as INVITE. Let them take Cola better. Also disgusting, but better, at least bottled.

Animation is an amateur, if it weren’t for a child, I wouldn’t go to it at all. "Sharpened" for the Germans and Poles. Children's animation is monotonous, although all children like it.

It is better not to stay in rooms with a sea view.
In front of the hotel there is a four-lane road on which trucks are allowed to pass, you just won’t fall asleep at night.

Of the excursions, I advise you to definitely go on a "review" of Alanya - $ 10 per adult and $ 5 per child with lunch,
as well as for the "Turkish night" in ALARAHAN - $ 40 per adult and $ 30 per child from 7 years old with dinner.

The sea is clean if the wind is from the mountains. If the wind is from the sea, then by lunchtime the sea is a little dirty. You can enter the sea without any problems for both an adult and a child. There are enough sun loungers and mattresses for everyone.

CONCLUSION: You won't stay hungry, but don't expect pickles. The sea is just lovely. The beach is prepared - no complaints. The rooms are good. 2 Russian TV channels: ORT Europe and RTR Planet. Air conditioning is a big plus. The hotel is located 5 km from Alanya, in the city the sea is dirtier.

And what do you want for that kind of money, according to reviews on the Internet, I chose from 16 hotels of this price category, and I don’t regret it at all.
For more money, people in other hotels complained about all sorts of inconveniences. And here, apart from the monotonous food, there are no minuses. You choose!! !
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