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I read here a super-negative review about Utopia and decided to drop my own. In Utopia for the second time I rested (the first - in September 2011 - left a review). The general impression is that it has become a little worse (an exception - annimatsya - is clearly better). we were met at the airport as usual, no other tourists were waiting on the bus, since we were the last and this time the bus was clearly smaller. The ride to utopia is long to the hotel - 2.5 hours, from the hotel to the airport - 3 hours (people are collected longer and there are more of them).
We arrived at the hotel at 13:30 - at the reception they asked us to go to dinner, because it was until 14:00, which we did. After 14.00 putting 20 c. u. into the passport. e. asked for a room with a view of Alanya (there are the coolest views (especially evening nights), but they gave it with a sea view (explaining that the requested rooms are occupied, there are only about 16 of them, except for more expensive rooms) this is worse, but not much, so we settled in without much regret. The room, as usual, is normal,
True, on this trip, the toilet cistern glitched in the room, then the safe gave an error, then the shower handle leaked, but fortunately, after contacting the receptionist, everything was eliminated relatively quickly (when leaving for the sea, they asked, when they arrived, the breakdowns were not detected) Cleaning - as usual, give a dollar - so generally lick. shampoos, conditioners and shower gels were delivered every day, by the end of the holiday they had accumulated a whole package - my wife took home for souvenirs (they have cool jars - black with a gold inscription). The food in the restaurant was slightly worse than last year: in 8 days, lamb was 2 times, fish - 4 times (halibut, red, etc. ), tuna - almost every day, but I don’t like it, veal and beef - often. What I don’t like about utopia in terms of food is the practice of serving yesterday’s unused food (vegetables, etc. ) the next day in the form of salads, stews, etc. (I didn’t catch it by the hand, but I’m almost sure of it). In general, you can eat (I'm spoiled in terms of products) eggplant, olives,

cheeses, rice, fish, lamb, some turkey, yoghurts (cool), sauces, some sweets, nectarines, veal. The rest is tasteless to me. You can eat at the hotel from 7 am to 1 am (night soup for our brother to eat at least something). Here a friend wrote in a review that the territory of the hotel is shit, the beach is shit, the water park is shit, etc. I disagree fundamentally. Yes, there are a lot of steps, but the bus goes to the sea until 18.00, but the entrance to the sea is rocky, but if it’s a little stormy, the sea is dirty (so it’s dirty everywhere in a storm), but: it’s useful to walk up the stairs (otherwise you eat there like a pig , at least somehow tedious to move), especially since I went up the stairs 1 time a day (in the evening from the sea), you can enter the sea from the pier (it is spacious enough with a lot of sunbeds with mattresses and umbrellas), and even better to jump from it (height is about 3 m), which many did with pleasure (it will wash everything in the head up to the frontal sinuses).
In general, our schedule was as follows: in the morning at 7 - walk to the sea (bus from 9.00), fortunately down, and there is an elevator, at 10-10.30 - by bus from the sea to the water park (this year it is not near the water park traveled, but it was necessary to walk there 80-100 meters), from 12.00 - on foot to the hotel for lunch (we walked along the alley to the road to the hotel, and further along the road, it took longer, but specifically easier than on the stairs), with 14.00 to 15.00 - quiet hour, from 15.00 - again to the water park, from 17.00 - to the sea, well, after 19.00 - to the hotel on foot and by elevator. The water park has a unique feature: it is always cooler than near the pools near the hotel by 5-8 degrees 9, since it is located in a canyon between the mountains), which is a very decent plus during the day, and I think few hotels can boast of having a relatively cool place. The views from the hotel deserve special attention: in any direction they are just fucking and I think in this regard Utopia will give odds to almost any hotel on the coast, including very good. expensive.
It was also very cool to listen to a pianist from Baku, who plays the piano in the lobby bar almost every evening. From drinks it was somehow possible to drink dry and semi-sweet wines, diluted beer, mojitos (only with rum and sprite - they do this only in the lagoon bar and in the lobby, and then on request) it was also not bad, brewed coffee and tea were very good in Turkish, you can also drink brandy and baileys in the lobby, vermouths have become worse this year. Animation this year obviously added (good animators were invited). Summary: this year, utopia has become a little worse, but still remains a good hotel for this money (I saw several fives on the way from the airport - against utopia - none (purely outwardly)) Pros: views, pianist, 6 pools, 6 bars, its own cool water park, just a huge territory (you like - open places, you like - a park around the villas and the water park) as for me - good service and animation. Cons: far from the airport,
far from the beach (but there are either views from the mountain or the beach), a lot of steps, a rocky entrance to the sea . . In general, I can recommend this hotel (for not very sophisticated tourists) for the sophisticated there are more expensive hotels.

As for ala carte restaurants - as for me, given the paid reservation, it makes no sense to visit them at all, last year we went to Turkish - the food from the main restaurant did not differ much in quality and taste, in general, I was disappointed.
Separately, I want to write about two excursions and in general about the attitude of tour operators towards our tourists (in a global sense). What is very annoying in Turkey is the constant desire of the Turks to make an idiot out of you. (Twice we went through Teztour and once through Kariya tour. ) For example: we left the airport, got on the bus - there is water -2 dollars. /250 gr. bottle. On the way to the hotel, we made a stop at the store, there was the same little bottle -3 dollars.
Well, your mother, add another 5 bucks to the ticket of 3 pieces and give free water on the bus !!! ! - this is me to Teztur !!!! ! And your mother, stop taking tourists to rolling shops "for free", where prices are 2 or even 3 times higher than in ordinary ones. It's already enough!!!!!
So about excursions from this opera. Let's go to the "Fires of Anatolia" - the show itself is not bad, there is a minus - the amphitheater is summer, on the street, so it's stuffy and hot to sit out without air conditioning. Separately, I want to write about the "restaurant" (as this institution calls Teztur) where everyone has dinner on the way to the show. Everyone ate outside - the heat was incredible, the flies were flying around, the tablecloths were dirty, there were no napkins, the dishes were served by the Turks without napkins (what he took with these hands before that - only God knows), there was not even soap in the toilet !!! ! (apparently it ended a long time ago), water and cola - for a couple of bucks, in general, just a mockery of tourists. Well, add a few bucks to the cost of the tour and bring people to a normal institution !!!!
(this is me to Teztur . . )
Although on a trip to the "Turkish Night" (caravanserai) everything was exactly the opposite, with which we were very pleased.