My review

Written: 14 september 2011
Travel time: 3 — 10 september 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 8.0
Rested with my wife at Club Insula from September 3rd to 10th. We arrived at the hotel at about 11. At the reception, they quickly settled those who put $ 20 in their passports, we paused, saw that the workers didn’t care about us and you could wait in the lobby until 2 pm, threw them $ 10 and the people immediately began to fuss. We lived in building 2 overlooking the pool on the 3rd floor. The room is clean, bright, new furniture, LCD TV on the wall 20”. The room is quite compact. The room has a free safe, free minibar (200 ml cola, sprite, fanta, 2 water), free Wifi (only the password must be obtained at the reception). The room has a fresh redecoration, although everything in the bathroom is not done very neatly (sealant is smeared with a thick layer along the edge of the bathroom, etc. ). Chips of the room - instead of a key for the door - a plastic card, after entering it must be inserted into the card reader and only after that there will be electricity in the room, i. e. leaving the room in the evening or afternoon, leaving a working conder or charger for something will not work. When you open the balcony, the conder turns off (in principle, correctly). At three o'clock in the morning, the air conditioner turns off automatically, at that time I got up and tore off the balcony and the window, because. there were already 25 on the street. In the bathroom, there are problems in the design of the sewer riser (you can see there is no ventilation fungus on the roof), so when the neighbors flushed the toilet, our sink purred happily and sucked water from the siphon. The ventilation also worked very poorly, although there was a fan on it, but very often cigarette smoke flew to us from the neighbors. There are tiles on the floor in the room, so it was very clearly audible that various objects fell on the floor of the neighbors from above, although the noise of the rooms is quite tolerable.
The area is clean, lots of greenery. Everything is nearby.
As for nutrition. Breakfasts are monotonous - eggs 3min and 5min, omelettes, scrambled eggs, vegetables, a variety of buns, cheeses, ham, 10 kinds of jams, cereals. Children's table - spaghetti, sausages, fries, milk porridge. Watermelons, melons. Tea coffee.

Lunches and dinners - Always different chicken and turkey. Fish every three days, sometimes fish in sauce, herring. A huge amount of vegetables in raw, stewed or baked form. Lots of salads and pickles. Side dishes - rice, bulgur, pasta, potatoes (baked, sometimes mashed, etc. ) Pureed soups. Sweet table - cookies, cakes and all sorts of buns. Fruits - melons and watermelons, sometimes apples, plums, grapes, .
All days except Saturday - animation. From 10.00 yoga for women, volleyball, water polo for men, children's miniclub. At 11.00 aqua aerobics for women, which turns into sports games in the pool, they end at 13.00 with a club dance, then a lunch break. From 15.00 to 17.00 animation continues, in the evening there is a children's disco and a show for adults.
In the basement of the 1st building, there is a spa center with a hairdresser, a sauna, a simple gym and a small pool (free of charge), massage and a Turkish bath (for a fee). For $35 you will be offered a sauna complex, a Turkish bath, a general massage and a face mask. There are also various massage programs, but a little expensive.
Guides will woo various excursions, which in the city, across the road will be 2 times cheaper. I was also particularly pleased with the free tour to the 3-storey Alanya supermarket, which turned out to be a 2-storey small shop + a basement full of cheap junk, at a price three times higher than in our homeland. We quickly left this store, walked 2 blocks to the side and found a store with knitwear all for $ 3.
What I didn’t like was the culture of our post-Soviet population. Everyone smokes, a lot and everywhere, the wife stayed by the pool near the elderly Germans, because. there is no tobacco cloud near them. In the evening, the poolbar is packed with smoking and drinking people, and because there are no benches on the territory, we had to hide from the smoke on the sunbeds by the pool or on the beach.

With a normal, clean toilet near the snakebar and toilets on the 1st floor of the main building, many mothers considered it normal to let their child go to relieve himself under a tree by the pool or restaurant. At night, a drunken trinity with obscenities and shouts of “Russia” dived into the pool, after their polite security guard fished it out in half with grief, they rushed to their room with the same screams, raising the entire body to their ears. Visiting a restaurant is a separate topic, some orangutans in swimming trunks and with inflatable BOATS on their shoulders did not understand why they were not allowed into the restaurant for dinner. I was also always tormented by the question - why put so much food on the plates if 23 goes into the trash?
Summing up, we can say that the hotel is quite good, the animators are great, if you need peace and quiet on vacation, then you are clearly not here. If you want entertainment and the music breaking through the double-glazed windows into the room does not bother you, come. 80% of Russians bring a special flavor to the hotel.
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