How we vacationed in Turkey

Written: 1 september 2011
Travel time: 21 — 30 august 2011
Your rating of this hotel:
4.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 4.0
Amenities: 8.0
Rest in Turkey - impressions are very polar.
The maximum positive score is the beach, including its arrangement. Enough sunbeds, there are awnings, umbrellas. The beach is sandy, the sand is clean, the beach is also clean. There are fenced areas on the beach - there are laying eggs of turtles. The maximum positive score is the sea - clean, warm, comfortable descent. Sufficient strip for children and for adults. There are water activities (banana, parachute, jet skis - I can’t say anything about them, because I didn’t use them. On the beach, these services are offered actively, but not intrusively. Well-equipped area near the hotel, a lot of greenery, the area is actively cleaned. Equipped pools .
Meals - a maximum of three. The food is monotonous. Of the fruits, only watermelon, a day later a melon. For 10 days - 2 times there were oranges. Meat - chicken and turkey. Fish - rare, seafood was not at all, which is strange - like the Mediterranean... There was a lot of grass (several types of salads, parsley, green onions). Very worthy - eggplant, zucchini and potatoes - in various variations. From drinks - several options for water with a concentrate dissolved in it, a kind of Zuko. Fresh juices are paid. From wines - red and white, red is better. Beer. Several cocktail options.

SPA - used the hammam (sauna, peeling, foam massage, massage), the procedure is cool, but it makes sense to bargain for the price - the base price is $60, you can drop it up to $45-50. We bought 5 massage sessions, the specialists who worked with us - Ali, Sonel, Tan. The instructors are great, they work great.
Hotel guides - somehow sluggish, everything is approximately the same scheme - it's not for us, it's at the reception. Almost always sent somewhere... Several times you need to come up and remind / ask. Excursions were sold very actively, but this is a separate issue. All excursions are built as follows - a lot of shopping (usually stock centers, with inflated prices), shopping from the excursion accounts for 70% of the time. You arrive on the tour in the most active sun, the temperature is +38 +40, I think there is no need to comment. When buying an excursion, you are assured that drinks are included in the price, with an excursion lasting 18 hours, of which 10 is a road - this is important. That drinks are included in both lunch and dinner. When you arrive at the first parking lot, it turns out that water must be bought throughout the entire excursion, both on the road and at lunch / dinner. Having reached the place, it turns out that you have to pay extra for something else interesting....The cost of the tour increases by 40 percent. When selling excursions, the guides kept silent about this. Moreover, they were cunning - they assured the opposite. Leaving the hotel at 4:45 in the morning - returning at 23:00 - there are many impressions, a visit to a very beautiful place is overshadowed by endless attempts to make you buy something at exorbitant prices. Well, at least something....But buy water anyway....
The hotel - the room was not cleaned for several days - the hotel, as the hotel guides explained to us, lacks staff... The maid could be caught in the corridor and asked to change towels - in this case they changed.
Excellent sea, beautiful place, interesting country. On many points, the complete lack of service, everyone is trying to deceive - there was an assumption that this is a feature. I won't go again. Such an aftertaste from the country for the first time. This is sad.
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