I do not recommend

Written: 16 june 2010
Travel time: 1 — 12 june 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
So, in order!
I met Odeon, as always, since I only rest with Coral. Something began to strain, starting from the airport. If before that the guides' trademark was a smile and goodwill, this time I saw tired guides from the provincial cities of the former Soviet republics, with a wild accent, incorrect speech and lack of a minimum of information in the brain to interest tourists. After the guide found out that all the tourists had already been in our bus in Turkey, she had an excuse that "you yourself can tell me more", she lost all interest in us, remembered only about the tip, although I always leave them anyway . By the way, I did it alone on the buses, and my daughter also pushed me. Russian tourists looked askance at me like a fool, although this is a normal practice, since all services around the world exist on tips. THIS IS WHY THE GERMANS ARE LOVE!!!
Drivers also somehow began to feel badly oriented in hotels, and since experienced guides probably left, they stopped and asked other drivers for directions. Thank you for not getting lost at all.

I watched the hotel for 5 years passing through, and it even seemed pretty. This year it has become a shabby building with non-burning moments of illumination. The mood has already begun to deteriorate.
Reception. This really deserves thanks, which was expressed in a tip. We arrived at about 11, I thought that we would have to wait until at least 12, but we settled in 5 minutes, instead of a standard room they provided a family, and the price of the safe was generally pleasing. The girl Guzel speaks excellent Russian, is friendly and sweet. The young men at the reception also understand Russian and solve all problems very quickly.
The second and last pleasant surprise in this hotel is the hotel guide Bakhtiyar. He was in the hotel all the time, even more than his schedule. Correct. He responded immediately to any request (complaints about changing linen, an ind. transfer, rescheduling excursions due to poor health), and most importantly: he did not sell excursions. I found out that we might be interested and accepted the payment. Before that, I had an experience when I did not see a hotel guide at all, or when a hotel guide was engaged only in selling tours, and this one is engaged in YOU. Thanks!!!
Number! This is not 4 *, but 2-. Shabby walls, torn curtains of Soviet colors, towels with holes of 10 cm and in the amount of 3 pieces for two, which changed 2 times in 2 weeks after wild kicks. Once they managed to collect them, but there weren’t enough clean ones for us until the next day. Probably, a year or two ago, tinting was carried out in the rooms, traces of whitewashing are everywhere: on cabinets, lamps, etc. Light bulbs are not screwed in, in the corridors, as in a crypt, it is constantly dark and uncomfortable. Room cleaning is smearing something sticky in the center of the room and an ashtray. Tips did not inspire the aunt, the beds were not that in swans and butterflies and petals, but simply did not get better. She stopped tipping, although she felt sorry for her, the impression was that she washes ALL 240 rooms and restaurants and so on. I didn't see any other aunts. But she systematically poured some kind of acid-colored detergent crap in the shower and put toilet paper. By the end of the holiday, we had accumulated 4 rolls of it on the shelf.

Location! To the sea to go 2 minutes along the path, easy. The bay is all surrounded by hotels and located in such a place that if everything around is black, thunder rumbles and it rains, then here the sun, silence and grace.
Sea! The entrance is soft and smooth, the sand is like on the Azov. This is a simple song for kids. By the way, more about the kids later.
Beach... I want to use obscenities... you can’t, I’m a girl, but I want to. This is a 10 by 15 sushi klaptik (I could be a little mistaken), where there is no bar even with UPI (as they were given 4 stars), with broken sunbeds in the amount of 70 pieces and torn mattresses. And this is for 240 rooms, where at least 3 people each. The sunbeds are "lapped" to each other, so there is no hike, and someone's butt may be next to your face. It's disgusting. They need to be taken at about 6 in the morning. After the scandal, they bribed the sunbeds a little more, but there was nowhere to put them, so they put them right next to the water, so that all those walking along the shore poured sand on your head (they also need to go somewhere).
Food! I won’t scold: like everywhere else in threes and budget fours. For such a price, you do not need to demand pickles from them. If this food is unacceptable for me, then I made my own salad, seasoned with oil and was extremely pleased with the salad and my shape. If you want meat, then you can go to eat it in a cafe nearby almost "for nothing". A lot of pastries, pizza, tortillas and pancakes for lunch and dinner. Fruits are presented only in the form of pesticidal watermelons, although it is also easy, you can go and buy a kg of plum-sized cherries for 5 US dollars. Here they kill "Russo tourists". Eternal grasping of plates with a slide, as if he decided to recapture all the money for the tour with food, swearing and pushing with his elbows, picking up food more than 7 times than they are able to eat. Shame on my compatriots.

But the manager at the hotel should think not only about bed linen and towels, but also about appliances and utensils. She is 90% broken. I can't eat with this. I had to sort through the whole stack to find a whole plate. There are not enough devices for everyone. Tea spoons, dessert spoons are generally absent. It's very erotic to eat mousse with a tablespoon. . . Nightmares. I can't say anything about alcohol because I don't drink. Fanta and Pepsi are local, like everywhere else. An eternally tired bartender who crawls like a sleepy fly.
If I were the owner of the hotel, I would fire the manager altogether, walks like a somnambulist and hangs out forever with the animator. In principle, you only need to invest a little money and a lot of managerial experience in this hotel to make it a chamber budget hotel for a family relaxing holiday.
The attendants are boys from distant villages, very poor and tortured, simply “tired by the sun”, forever in dirty T-shirts, who can immediately wash the toilet by the pool and clean the restaurant. They pay little or no pay at all, but you can’t wait for Russian tips, and in the hotel there are 95% Russians, and 5% Poles who quietly drink beer by the pool.
Animation NO! It would be wonderful if there were no filthy and unpleasant animator!
And the last! Dear Russian mothers, do not yell at children “from dawn to dusk”, pretending to be Makarenko! If you have not taught your children to behave properly in 7 years of their little life, then do not try to re-educate them in 2 weeks of rest. Passing by hotels with Germans, you see happy children who are raging and having fun on their own, and that's nice. Our Russian aunts yell at them constantly, on business and for order. Perhaps this is the Russian mentality.
I wrote as honestly as possible, realizing that little money was spent and I initially had no extra expectations, but this is not 4 *, but much less. I won’t go again, I don’t recommend it to you, but I wish the owner of the hotel to safely fire the infantile manager and hire a person who understands at least a little about the tourism business.
I still love Turkey and the hardworking and friendly Turkish people!
Translated automatically from Russian. View original