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DELPHIN BOTANIK WORLD OF PARADISE
My wife and two children (2 and 8 years old) and I stayed at Delphin Botanik World of Paradise in July 2010. Everyone liked it very much!
The Dolphin Botanic Hotel has five buildings. We lived in the quietest - in "Mimosa". "Mimosa" in comparison with other buildings is the most remote from all sources of noise. The noisiest building in this regard is the "Rosa" building. It overlooks Lunapark. But this is also not very scary, since Lunapark is open until 22-30.
Our room was small, but cozy. A double bed for my wife and me, and a couple of narrow beds for the kids. The balcony in "Mimosa" is small. The plasma TV showed a bunch of channels, there were also Russian channels. Children managed to watch some cartoons in foreign languages. We sometimes turned on the air conditioning in the room, but not often.
There is a small safe in the room. There is also a minibar with mineral water, pepsicol and Turkish beer. The minibar is replenished daily free of charge, but we hardly drank anything from there. Enough of a restaurant and bars.
The room was cleaned daily. As long as I left $1 on the bed, everything was fine.
Cleaned up in the morning, when we were lying in the sun with the whole family.
Then he decided to save money and stopped leaving a dollar. Therefore, the maids began to come to clean the room after dinner, when we put the children to bed. So it’s better not to be stingy and please Turkish girls with small handouts.
The territory of the hotel is large enough and very green. She is carefully looked after, watered, cut, so everything looks very good. The garbage is constantly removed, and puddles are regularly (quite often) wiped near the pools so that no one slips. Of the living creatures, guinea fowls run around the park.
The beach is located directly next to the hotel. The sea goes down rather steeply, it is already deep near the shore, you don’t have to go far from the shore. If there is a desire, then you can swim from the pier.
During our vacation, there were waves all the time and the sea was cloudy. Jellyfish and algae were not seen.
On the beach - pebbles. Walking on it is hot and sharp, so flip flops are needed.
Although there are paths along the beach along the sunbeds and to the sea, you will still need flip flops on the beach to walk normally from the end of the path to the sea.
On the beach there are free sunbeds with mattresses under stretched awnings. If you come to the beach after ten, then free sunbeds will be somewhere further from the sea and from the entrance to the beach. But you can always find a free sunbed. To receive beach towels upon check-in at the hotel, special plastic cards are issued with a deposit of one dollar. And on the way to the beach or to the pool, in exchange for this card, you can get a dry towel. And returning from the beach, having handed over wet towels, they give back the card. On the day, you can take a dry towel as many times as you like and return a wet one.
Our kids preferred to swim in the pools. In Dolphin Botanica there are three adult pools (up to 1.6 m deep), two medium pools near the slides (1 m deep) and two "frogs" for the baby with a depth of 40 centimeters.
Our eight-year-old daughter loved to swim in the adult pool near the Park building, because there is a part of the pool with a depth of about 1 meter. I also rode (for free) on water slides, which are not very large and are designed for children.
There is a jacuzzi next to the pool near the "Park" building (also free of charge).
I liked to lie down with a book on a sunbed near the pool in the shade of a palm tree. Near the bar - you can go to get ice cream or juice.
During the day, the animators gather the kids to keep them busy. For example: paint T-shirts or ride a banana. Daily entertainment for money. There is also a free kids club during the day. They observed in him a lonely child who, under the air conditioner, watched cartoons about Tom and Jerry. We did not let our children go there, and no one asked. For adults, there is also a day of entertainment: play beach volleyball, parachute flights, some competitions in the sun in the pool. Those who wish are found.
Main entertainment in the evening.
In the evenings, films are shown on a large screen near the Park building (sometimes even in Russian). But few people watch films.
The situation with the Russian language is quite normal. About a third of vacationers are Russian speakers. Therefore, adults will also find someone to chat with, and children quickly find Russian-speaking partners for games, and the servants understand the Russian language tolerably. Animators usually repeat each phrase three times: in German, in English and in Russian. Announcements in front of the entrance to the main restaurant are also posted in the same three languages.
Nevertheless, I recommend learning at least a few Turkish words, for example: arkadash - friend, merhaba - hello, gyule-gyule - goodbye, bayan - woman, burda - here, bardak - glass, koyva - bucket, fool - stop, attic - gazebo , keyf - high, mashalla - pronounced approval (such as: "excellent! zashibis! "), tamam - also approval, but not so cool (such as: "good, normal").
If in Turkey you have to address a man by name, then you need to add a respectful "bey" (for example: Uluch-bey), and when addressing the driver you need to add "captain" (for example: Cengiz-captain).
I really liked the food at Dolphin Botanica. You can eat almost around the clock. If the main restaurant in the Park building is closed, then you can chew something in the bars. In addition, a lad with a cart regularly walks around the hotel and offers to eat a plate of pilaf. Near Pul-bar from half past one to half past five they bake and distribute delicious Turkish cakes.
But on vacation, I personally had the task not to eat more, but on the contrary, try to skip something and refuse something. After all, there was so much delicious and appetizing food around that it was really possible to gain an extra ten kilos in ten days.
In the mornings for breakfast I ate muesli with yogurt and washed down with a very tasty compote of dates or figs.
For lunch I took myself a little soup, a lot of meat (or fish) and almost no garnish. For dessert - fruits.
In order to reserve a place for the evening in one of the A'la Carte restaurants, you need to call 4444 from your number before five in the evening. It is better to call in the morning, otherwise there will be no free places later. We went to Ottoman and Italian restaurants. I didn't like the Italian restaurant terribly. They gave us some shitty pasta, and a grassy salad. In general, after the Italian restaurant, we immediately went to "catch up" in the main restaurant. But the Ottoman restaurant really liked it. There is a huge selection of meat dishes and everything is very tasty. And a little later they brought a whole fried lamb, which they immediately cut into pieces and distributed to those who wished. Despite the fact that by this time I was already quite full, I still dragged a hefty piece of this lamb onto my plate. And until now, as I remember - so salivating flow!
And finally, some more information:
In Turkey in general and in Delphin Botanik in particular, high humidity. Therefore, household appliances may become damp.
If it is possible to take with you to Turkey not a cool laptop, but a simple netbook, not a cool Nikon or Kenon SLR, but a simple digital camera, then it’s better not to risk expensive equipment, but to take something simpler with you.
By the way, things do not dry well in Turkey. We had a dryer installed on the balcony for things, but I took three meters of rope with me, which I pulled on the balcony. This rope was very useful to us for drying wet swimsuits at night.
There were no mosquitoes in the room. In my opinion, they are successfully poisoned in the hotel. But at night, on the paths of the territory, individual specimens of mosquitoes are occasionally found. In my opinion, you should not take any anti-mosquito drugs with you to Turkey.
If you leave the hotel territory and stomp RIGHT (! ), then after a kilometer and a half there will be a market. Expensive and nothing special. But once a week (I don’t remember whether it’s on Thursday or Friday) a mobile market comes to the hotel. Merchants pitch their tents at a distance of three hundred meters from the entrance to the hotel.
You need to go to this market three hundred meters to the LEFT (! ) from the hotel and cross the highway. There prices are much cheaper. But still feel free to bargain! In Turkey, this is accepted!
If the Turk lost less than fifty percent of the original price during the auction, then he will consider such a buyer a sucker.
You need to go to Turkey with dollars. It is absolutely not necessary to change dollars for Turkish lira, since almost everywhere you can pay with dollars and everywhere you will be given change from a large bill. There is only advice - from home you need to take with you a piece of twenty dollars with a face value of 1 dollar, so that at first there is something to tip porters, waiters, maids ("twenty pieces" - this is exactly 20 PIECES, BILLS, not THOUSAND)
My wife and two children (2 and 8 years old) and I stayed at Delphin Botanik World of Paradise in July 2010. Everyone liked it very much!
The Dolphin Botanic Hotel has five buildings. We lived in the quietest - in "Mimosa". "Mimosa" in comparison with other buildings is the most remote from all sources of noise. The noisiest building in this regard is the "Rosa" building. It overlooks Lunapark. But this is also not very scary, since Lunapark is open until 22-30.
Our room was small, but cozy. A double bed for my wife and me, and a couple of narrow beds for the kids. The balcony in "Mimosa" is small. The plasma TV showed a bunch of channels, there were also Russian channels. Children managed to watch some cartoons in foreign languages. We sometimes turned on the air conditioning in the room, but not often.
There is a small safe in the room. There is also a minibar with mineral water, pepsicol and Turkish beer. The minibar is replenished daily free of charge, but we hardly drank anything from there. Enough of a restaurant and bars.
The room was cleaned daily. As long as I left $1 on the bed, everything was fine.
Cleaned up in the morning, when we were lying in the sun with the whole family.
Then he decided to save money and stopped leaving a dollar. Therefore, the maids began to come to clean the room after dinner, when we put the children to bed. So it’s better not to be stingy and please Turkish girls with small handouts.
The territory of the hotel is large enough and very green. She is carefully looked after, watered, cut, so everything looks very good. The garbage is constantly removed, and puddles are regularly (quite often) wiped near the pools so that no one slips. Of the living creatures, guinea fowls run around the park.
The beach is located directly next to the hotel. The sea goes down rather steeply, it is already deep near the shore, you don’t have to go far from the shore. If there is a desire, then you can swim from the pier.
During our vacation, there were waves all the time and the sea was cloudy. Jellyfish and algae were not seen.
On the beach - pebbles. Walking on it is hot and sharp, so flip flops are needed.
Although there are paths along the beach along the sunbeds and to the sea, you will still need flip flops on the beach to walk normally from the end of the path to the sea.
On the beach there are free sunbeds with mattresses under stretched awnings. If you come to the beach after ten, then free sunbeds will be somewhere further from the sea and from the entrance to the beach. But you can always find a free sunbed. To receive beach towels upon check-in at the hotel, special plastic cards are issued with a deposit of one dollar. And on the way to the beach or to the pool, in exchange for this card, you can get a dry towel. And returning from the beach, having handed over wet towels, they give back the card. On the day, you can take a dry towel as many times as you like and return a wet one.
Our kids preferred to swim in the pools. In Dolphin Botanica there are three adult pools (up to 1.6 m deep), two medium pools near the slides (1 m deep) and two "frogs" for the baby with a depth of 40 centimeters.
Our eight-year-old daughter loved to swim in the adult pool near the Park building, because there is a part of the pool with a depth of about 1 meter. I also rode (for free) on water slides, which are not very large and are designed for children.
There is a jacuzzi next to the pool near the "Park" building (also free of charge).
I liked to lie down with a book on a sunbed near the pool in the shade of a palm tree. Near the bar - you can go to get ice cream or juice.
During the day, the animators gather the kids to keep them busy. For example: paint T-shirts or ride a banana. Daily entertainment for money. There is also a free kids club during the day. They observed in him a lonely child who, under the air conditioner, watched cartoons about Tom and Jerry. We did not let our children go there, and no one asked. For adults, there is also a day of entertainment: play beach volleyball, parachute flights, some competitions in the sun in the pool. Those who wish are found.
Main entertainment in the evening.
In the evenings, films are shown on a large screen near the Park building (sometimes even in Russian). But few people watch films.
The situation with the Russian language is quite normal. About a third of vacationers are Russian speakers. Therefore, adults will also find someone to chat with, and children quickly find Russian-speaking partners for games, and the servants understand the Russian language tolerably. Animators usually repeat each phrase three times: in German, in English and in Russian. Announcements in front of the entrance to the main restaurant are also posted in the same three languages.
Nevertheless, I recommend learning at least a few Turkish words, for example: arkadash - friend, merhaba - hello, gyule-gyule - goodbye, bayan - woman, burda - here, bardak - glass, koyva - bucket, fool - stop, attic - gazebo , keyf - high, mashalla - pronounced approval (such as: "excellent! zashibis! "), tamam - also approval, but not so cool (such as: "good, normal").
If in Turkey you have to address a man by name, then you need to add a respectful "bey" (for example: Uluch-bey), and when addressing the driver you need to add "captain" (for example: Cengiz-captain).
I really liked the food at Dolphin Botanica. You can eat almost around the clock. If the main restaurant in the Park building is closed, then you can chew something in the bars. In addition, a lad with a cart regularly walks around the hotel and offers to eat a plate of pilaf. Near Pul-bar from half past one to half past five they bake and distribute delicious Turkish cakes.
But on vacation, I personally had the task not to eat more, but on the contrary, try to skip something and refuse something. After all, there was so much delicious and appetizing food around that it was really possible to gain an extra ten kilos in ten days.
In the mornings for breakfast I ate muesli with yogurt and washed down with a very tasty compote of dates or figs.
For lunch I took myself a little soup, a lot of meat (or fish) and almost no garnish. For dessert - fruits.
In order to reserve a place for the evening in one of the A'la Carte restaurants, you need to call 4444 from your number before five in the evening. It is better to call in the morning, otherwise there will be no free places later. We went to Ottoman and Italian restaurants. I didn't like the Italian restaurant terribly. They gave us some shitty pasta, and a grassy salad. In general, after the Italian restaurant, we immediately went to "catch up" in the main restaurant. But the Ottoman restaurant really liked it. There is a huge selection of meat dishes and everything is very tasty. And a little later they brought a whole fried lamb, which they immediately cut into pieces and distributed to those who wished. Despite the fact that by this time I was already quite full, I still dragged a hefty piece of this lamb onto my plate. And until now, as I remember - so salivating flow!
And finally, some more information:
In Turkey in general and in Delphin Botanik in particular, high humidity. Therefore, household appliances may become damp.
If it is possible to take with you to Turkey not a cool laptop, but a simple netbook, not a cool Nikon or Kenon SLR, but a simple digital camera, then it’s better not to risk expensive equipment, but to take something simpler with you.
By the way, things do not dry well in Turkey. We had a dryer installed on the balcony for things, but I took three meters of rope with me, which I pulled on the balcony. This rope was very useful to us for drying wet swimsuits at night.
There were no mosquitoes in the room. In my opinion, they are successfully poisoned in the hotel. But at night, on the paths of the territory, individual specimens of mosquitoes are occasionally found. In my opinion, you should not take any anti-mosquito drugs with you to Turkey.
If you leave the hotel territory and stomp RIGHT (! ), then after a kilometer and a half there will be a market. Expensive and nothing special. But once a week (I don’t remember whether it’s on Thursday or Friday) a mobile market comes to the hotel. Merchants pitch their tents at a distance of three hundred meters from the entrance to the hotel.
You need to go to this market three hundred meters to the LEFT (! ) from the hotel and cross the highway. There prices are much cheaper. But still feel free to bargain! In Turkey, this is accepted!
If the Turk lost less than fifty percent of the original price during the auction, then he will consider such a buyer a sucker.
You need to go to Turkey with dollars. It is absolutely not necessary to change dollars for Turkish lira, since almost everywhere you can pay with dollars and everywhere you will be given change from a large bill. There is only advice - from home you need to take with you a piece of twenty dollars with a face value of 1 dollar, so that at first there is something to tip porters, waiters, maids ("twenty pieces" - this is exactly 20 PIECES, BILLS, not THOUSAND)
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