Modest "4", but we were satisfied

Written: 1 august 2019
Travel time: 4 — 10 june 2019
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For recreation with friends, for young people
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Dear tourists, due to the fact that the review here should still be short, rather than too long, it (review) will be shortened, but if you are interested in our adventures in a full story, please go to the travel section, that's where I am told everything as it happened. Why exactly? Because it is very difficult to briefly describe such interesting adventures.

Our room. With difficulty waiting for the end of the meeting with the guide, we ran to get settled in the room. You know, to be honest, everything was even better than we thought, because after our adventures it was already scary to think. Although, in our room, the cornice was skewed. They have a common problem. As well as problems with flushing the toilet. Everywhere this drain was the same, both in the room and in the toilet near the reception. And everywhere he is somehow weak. Therefore, I ask the hotel management to pay attention to this. Here I am already smoothly moving directly to the decoration of the room.

The room was clean, tidy, there were no cockroaches, the furniture was not super - new, but decent. So, in the room there were: a double bed, a TV, a bedside table on each side, a fairly large closet, a dressing table with a large mirror, a wide ottoman, air conditioning (old, but working), a couple of open shelves for things, a refrigerator (working), curtains and tulle on the windows. The room was in shades of green and beige. The bathroom was decent, not the newest but adequate. Remembering the bathroom at the Magnolia Hotel, nothing fell off. A wide washbasin, as I like, for example, (there is a place to put all my jars), a shower cabin (a bathroom is useless), a toilet bowl, a set of towels, which, by the way, were brought after we asked, and by the way, towels on the floor under our feet was not at all. Or the cleaners also forgot to convey. But we have already somehow tried to survive this moment.
Also from the room there was access to a small balcony, where there were a couple of plastic chairs, and a small table. Everything is standard here. The view from the balcony was globally to the sea, if you look far away, and directly, if you look close, to the pool with a slide. This is the pool near which there are discos, parties, music, etc. During the day, music played, in the evening the animation was very well audible, but strictly until 23.00. Therefore, if you are traveling with small children, or if you want more silence, check this point, if you want it to be quieter, it is better to ask for rooms near the second “quiet” pool. But again, the main thing here is if you are generally settled in Green Paradise the first time, otherwise you don’t want anything with these moves. (see travel section)

Beach and sea. Having thrown our things, and changed clothes, we decided to go to the sea. It is in a straight line and nearby, we could see the sea from the balcony. Really the first line, very close.
This hotel has its own beach, and so cozy. Well, this is just what I was looking for. True, there were enough sun loungers and mattresses back to back. But we are simple people, we can lie down with one mattress for the first ten minutes, and then, when we see a free one, we can run after him. Let me remind you that we were at the beginning of June. But there were enough people in the hotel. What I didn’t really like was the lack of wide awnings from the sun (such wide awnings, by the way, were on the beach at the Magnolia Hotel). There were miserable umbrellas, and of course from the strong sun they helped little. In terms of cleanliness: the beach is clean, tidy, and quite secluded, the workers clean up, and what is very nice, they even manage to protect nature. One day we noticed that several round vertical fenced nets appeared on the beach with a description sheet, and why they should not be touched.

As it turned out, the turtles laid their eggs there, and so that people would not trample on everything, the hotel workers fenced these places and painted in several languages ​ ​ (Turkish, German, English, and Russian) why these structures should not be touched. But some especially gifted individuals all the same began to throw garbage there. Personally, I was shocked after what I saw. People, are you people in general or pigs?? ? Then they write that they were rude at the reception, the bed was not white enough, the soup was not so fresh ....read, damn it, learn. By the way, this is not only the citizens of the former USSR, but also foreigners. Further along the beach. I didn’t notice the toilet and changing rooms on the beach, and most likely they didn’t exist. The beach has sand and small pebbles. When entering the sea, small and medium pebbles. The sea is clean, but what I didn’t like was large slabs where an adult average person is already somewhere up to his chest.
Adults, in principle, can survive, but children will probably not be very comfortable. Feet in the sea, anyway, I think you need to be careful.

The main restaurant and food in it. After swimming, we went to eat lunch. Dear tourists, remember I drew your attention to the fact that in the Magnolia Hotel the main restaurant was partly in the main building, and partly on the street under awnings? So, here the main restaurant was completely under awnings, and we fully felt it when one day it started to rain. After all, only the kitchen itself and the room where all this food is located are completely in the building. And to eat please stomp outside under a canopy. Or out in the sun.
For food: several types of side dishes, for example, french fries - almost always, pasta / spaghetti, mashed potatoes, potato slices, several types of casseroles with vegetables, for meat - fried wings or paws, or chicken pieces, also about a day later there was fried fish , just do not ask which one, I will not say, I do not know. It was tasty, satisfying, fresh, as for the food, we were very pleased. As for the stomach, we felt great. In the bar, as usual in Turkey, cold drinks were poured: sprite, cola, fanta. Also on the tables were Turkish sweets, tea / coffee, and water in the cooler. By the way, there were cups and saucers. And little spoons. ))) Yes, yes, I am an esthete. After dinner there was an afternoon snack, cookies and cakes were put on the table near that very loud pool. Also nearby in the bar, please take it and pour yourself tea-coffee-cappuccino-water. And right there next to it is paid ice cream for $1, sort of. But I don’t know exactly why, we didn’t take it. But definitely for the money.

Dinner on a variety of food was similar to lunch, everything is very tasty, satisfying and plentiful. There were a lot of people, the hotel was quite full, someone came, someone left, something like that. Knowing that our people are active, for lunch and dinner we came to the beginning in order to try to the maximum and find a free table. They came to breakfast at an average of 8.30-9.00, that is, not at the very beginning. For breakfast: pancakes, scrambled eggs, hard boiled eggs, bread, different types of butter, Turkish sweets, different types of jam… it was delicious.

The territory of the hotel. Girls, you must like it. There are a lot of places where you can take beautiful photos, and even on the beach, there is a remote place where only the sea, the beach, the rocks, and you. In general, what we liked most about this hotel was the territory.
Clean, beautiful, well-groomed, just walking along it, you will run into hotel workers more than once, one of whom will wash the floor, the other will take care of the vegetation, the third is repairing something. Very nice. And the hotel is...cosy. And there are no tall buildings here, everything is on the ground, closer to nature. You feel like you are out of town. Let me remind you that there are 2 pools, 1 slide, and several 4- and 5-storey buildings on the territory. The reception is also located in a low building, close to shops, one bar is located near the noisy pool, the other - near the main restaurant.

Services. Already returning to the room, we decided to go through the reception and check something with the staff. Seeing us, our guide, almost forgetting about the tourists with whom she was talking at that moment, rushed to us and tried to please us, saying that she had a surprise for us.

At the same time, we repeatedly went out for a walk outside the hotel to buy souvenirs and see what is next to the hotel. If you leave the territory of the hotel, then if you go immediately to the right, you can cross the road there, on the other side there will be a lot of shops and shops, and you can also look at other hotels. We bought a lot of everything: sweets, and tea, and olive oil, and such useful things to someone as, for example, a lighter. We also bought an excursion to the hammam for $17 per person. I liked it very much. The next day, in the morning, a minibus was supposed to come for us, and it happened. There was already a woman with her son, on the way we captured another young lady, and after 15-20 minutes we were already in the hammam. This is not the first time I have been to a hammam in Turkey, I like it very much, therefore, as soon as I arrive, I go. Real relaxation. Who has never been - go. Just don't go to hotels, expensive and inefficient.
The hotel offered us everything for free and only paid massage - $ 25. It was very difficult to understand what was meant by the word “everything”, and for $17 we got several types of saunas, a swimming pool, a sink, a massage, a face mask and delicious tea. But if you go to the left of the hotel, then there is just nature on the left hand, and on the right - the road. Everything was interesting to us, so we walked for about half an hour. But the picture before our eyes was the same, so we soon returned back to the hotel. The hotel is really located in a secluded area, and compared to the same Magnolia and its location, it is quite quiet. Therefore, think about what attracts you more and what is closer to you.

Eviction and departure. The night before, when we arrived at the reception, we found all the information we needed, that is, when and what time they would pick us up. Therefore, we first collected all the things, and even went to bed to sleep at least a couple of hours before the flight.
At the appointed time, we were already standing outside, waiting for the bus. I had to wait literally +5 minutes from the declared time and the bus was already in place. In fact, we left on time, arrived at the airport on time too, except that the flight was again delayed by about half an hour, but given that this is a charter, everything is fine.

As a result: every time you go to a hotel, you need to understand very clearly where and for what money you are going. Of course, if it's stupid to walk and look for flaws, then they can be easily found in any hotel. "Green Paradise" was worth the money, in fact it is a modest "4", but we were satisfied.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original