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“Do you like this yacht? Only $45 - and you will be full of impressions from a walk on it.
Filled with determination, we went for the money. But we were intercepted in time by the neighbors on the beach.
"How much? 45? Yes, everything is so with them - 2, or even 3 times more expensive. Go to a Turkish market nearby and ask them for prices. ”
Indeed, exactly the same walk, organized by a Turkish travel company, cost us $20.
True, there were some adventures. For example, the road to the market located outside the hotel, a stone's throw from the checkpoint, was blocked by security, working on the principle of Maxwell's demons from the law of thermodynamics - passing through the checkpoint is carried out only in one direction, namely: the checkpoint works only at the entrance. That is, anyone can enter the territory of the hotel, but no one can leave.
“Maybe this is a new tactic in the fight against terrorism? ” - an interesting thought dawned on us. Indeed, the terrorists have already adapted to the old method of not allowing strangers inside, it would be time to change the regime: leave the entrance free, but not let anyone out.
Everything turned out to be simpler: Tez Tour, concerned only with getting more money from vacationers, could not tolerate dumping competitors under its nose and forbade the guards to let anyone out of the hotel through a convenient exit, directing those who wished to bypass for 1.5 km .
But we are Slavs. Why go through the heat 800 m one way and the same back when you can, like a kangaroo, jump over a low fence literally 20 steps from the formidable post? And they jump in one direction, buy goods in the Turkish market, and then, quite legally, with full bags they return through the checkpoint. The guards are watching these exercises with curiosity and regret, probably only that they are forced to let buyers back to the hotel territory without hindrance. Of course, it would be much more interesting to watch jumping bags: then the parallel with marsupials would be more complete.
So who turned the hotel into a kind of "Russian reservation"? We have not achieved an official answer, but a comparison of the facts points to only one brilliant author - the travel company Tez Tour, whose employees under its banner are engaged only in personal business.
Fact one: at the exit from the airport, you are met by smiling guides of this company, seated in a comfortable bus and offered water to everyone. Those who wish, after a long flight and getting into a 47-degree heat, find themselves in an almost full bus. After supplying tourists with small bottles of water, and making sure the bottles are open, the bus guide announces with a sweet smile that each bottle costs $1. A little later, with the same sweet smile, she announces that this year, beach towels will not be issued at the hotel and she recommends buying them at this, by the way, shop.
We go out and buy a towel for $15. Indeed, if they are not on the territory of the hotel, then what to do? Later it turns out that beach towels are really not issued at the hotel, but here on the beach you can buy them for $ 7 apiece, and in the same Turkish market behind a kangaroo fence - for $ 4.
After that, casually mentioning that Nikolai Ugodnik was from Turkey, she urges not to be stingy and give $ 1 to the driver as a tip. Referring to the widespread custom in Turkey to always and everywhere leave a tip, she tells us in a terrible secret that if we want to get a good room, it would be better to secretly pay not the Reception about $ 20, but you can not do this if, as M. Zhvanetsky said, “ you are not interested in the result.
Fact two: all excursions organized by Tez tour are 1.5-2 times more expensive than exactly the same ones organized by the Turks. But this is not so bad, perhaps you have to pay a lot of money for a "roof", or something else. Another thing is striking: Hotel guides greet you with a smile, but making sure that you are not interested in excursions, but, for example, the place and time where and when you could play volleyball or tennis, or do aqua aerobics, they immediately lose you interest, referring to the fact that the hotel has an animation team whose schedule they do not know. This is all the more strange because in the nearby Kemal Bay hotel, the schedule of sports events hangs in the most visible place and is made in a font much larger than invitations to paid excursions.
Fact three: An elderly lady, our roommate, had the imprudence on the eve of departure to ask the hotel guide about the order of departure. To this seemingly simple question, but not promising money, she received information that everything was written in an ad attached to the door. Being short-sighted, and unable to make out the text typed in the Times Roman 10 typeface, she was forced to return to her room for glasses (about 800 m). This is not surprising: such consultations are not paid, why waste time talking?
By the way, about sending home. Isn't this the concern of hotel guides, and not the Turks, but our Russians?
On the eve of departure, having been taught by the experience of a neighbor and armed with glasses, we carefully studied the posted schedule of planes and the transfers dedicated to them. On the same ad, we read a handwritten note that the restaurant will be open from 03:00 in the morning. Indeed, leaving at 5:00, we arrived at the restaurant at 4:00 and found it open, but there were no guides, cooks, or waiters nearby. There was a pile of yesterday's buns, and in the tea and coffee machines there was only hot water with no traces of tea leaves. Indeed, why mess with us if everything that we had we had already “rested”?
Our neighbors son's ear caught. I bathed in a pool with bleach, the water in my ear froze, inflammation began. Who does not know, let me briefly remind you that there is medical insurance, and it does not pay only if the client was drunk or he became ill from sunstroke, and the like. In any case, THIS is included in the insurance. However, the guide quickly said that $ 30 or we won’t even reach for the phone. The frightened mother instantly forgot about all the laws, if only nothing happened to her child. This is the number 1 tour operator.
Thank you Tez Tour for a wonderful stay!! !
Filled with determination, we went for the money. But we were intercepted in time by the neighbors on the beach.
"How much? 45? Yes, everything is so with them - 2, or even 3 times more expensive. Go to a Turkish market nearby and ask them for prices. ”
Indeed, exactly the same walk, organized by a Turkish travel company, cost us $20.
True, there were some adventures. For example, the road to the market located outside the hotel, a stone's throw from the checkpoint, was blocked by security, working on the principle of Maxwell's demons from the law of thermodynamics - passing through the checkpoint is carried out only in one direction, namely: the checkpoint works only at the entrance. That is, anyone can enter the territory of the hotel, but no one can leave.
“Maybe this is a new tactic in the fight against terrorism? ” - an interesting thought dawned on us. Indeed, the terrorists have already adapted to the old method of not allowing strangers inside, it would be time to change the regime: leave the entrance free, but not let anyone out.
Everything turned out to be simpler: Tez Tour, concerned only with getting more money from vacationers, could not tolerate dumping competitors under its nose and forbade the guards to let anyone out of the hotel through a convenient exit, directing those who wished to bypass for 1.5 km .
But we are Slavs. Why go through the heat 800 m one way and the same back when you can, like a kangaroo, jump over a low fence literally 20 steps from the formidable post? And they jump in one direction, buy goods in the Turkish market, and then, quite legally, with full bags they return through the checkpoint. The guards are watching these exercises with curiosity and regret, probably only that they are forced to let buyers back to the hotel territory without hindrance. Of course, it would be much more interesting to watch jumping bags: then the parallel with marsupials would be more complete.
So who turned the hotel into a kind of "Russian reservation"? We have not achieved an official answer, but a comparison of the facts points to only one brilliant author - the travel company Tez Tour, whose employees under its banner are engaged only in personal business.
Fact one: at the exit from the airport, you are met by smiling guides of this company, seated in a comfortable bus and offered water to everyone. Those who wish, after a long flight and getting into a 47-degree heat, find themselves in an almost full bus. After supplying tourists with small bottles of water, and making sure the bottles are open, the bus guide announces with a sweet smile that each bottle costs $1. A little later, with the same sweet smile, she announces that this year, beach towels will not be issued at the hotel and she recommends buying them at this, by the way, shop.
We go out and buy a towel for $15. Indeed, if they are not on the territory of the hotel, then what to do? Later it turns out that beach towels are really not issued at the hotel, but here on the beach you can buy them for $ 7 apiece, and in the same Turkish market behind a kangaroo fence - for $ 4.
After that, casually mentioning that Nikolai Ugodnik was from Turkey, she urges not to be stingy and give $ 1 to the driver as a tip. Referring to the widespread custom in Turkey to always and everywhere leave a tip, she tells us in a terrible secret that if we want to get a good room, it would be better to secretly pay not the Reception about $ 20, but you can not do this if, as M. Zhvanetsky said, “ you are not interested in the result.
Fact two: all excursions organized by Tez tour are 1.5-2 times more expensive than exactly the same ones organized by the Turks. But this is not so bad, perhaps you have to pay a lot of money for a "roof", or something else. Another thing is striking: Hotel guides greet you with a smile, but making sure that you are not interested in excursions, but, for example, the place and time where and when you could play volleyball or tennis, or do aqua aerobics, they immediately lose you interest, referring to the fact that the hotel has an animation team whose schedule they do not know. This is all the more strange because in the nearby Kemal Bay hotel, the schedule of sports events hangs in the most visible place and is made in a font much larger than invitations to paid excursions.
Fact three: An elderly lady, our roommate, had the imprudence on the eve of departure to ask the hotel guide about the order of departure. To this seemingly simple question, but not promising money, she received information that everything was written in an ad attached to the door. Being short-sighted, and unable to make out the text typed in the Times Roman 10 typeface, she was forced to return to her room for glasses (about 800 m). This is not surprising: such consultations are not paid, why waste time talking?
By the way, about sending home. Isn't this the concern of hotel guides, and not the Turks, but our Russians?
On the eve of departure, having been taught by the experience of a neighbor and armed with glasses, we carefully studied the posted schedule of planes and the transfers dedicated to them. On the same ad, we read a handwritten note that the restaurant will be open from 03:00 in the morning. Indeed, leaving at 5:00, we arrived at the restaurant at 4:00 and found it open, but there were no guides, cooks, or waiters nearby. There was a pile of yesterday's buns, and in the tea and coffee machines there was only hot water with no traces of tea leaves. Indeed, why mess with us if everything that we had we had already “rested”?
Our neighbors son's ear caught. I bathed in a pool with bleach, the water in my ear froze, inflammation began. Who does not know, let me briefly remind you that there is medical insurance, and it does not pay only if the client was drunk or he became ill from sunstroke, and the like. In any case, THIS is included in the insurance. However, the guide quickly said that $ 30 or we won’t even reach for the phone. The frightened mother instantly forgot about all the laws, if only nothing happened to her child. This is the number 1 tour operator.
Thank you Tez Tour for a wonderful stay!! !
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