Good stay for a reasonable price

Written: 6 october 2009
Travel time: 19 — 27 september 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
Only good memories will remain from this hotel.

Pros:
1. the hotel had a quick check-in (arrived early in the morning) even before check-in. Perhaps we were lucky because we were with a small child. But all the same - it's nice to take a shower right after a night flight and lie around a bit.
2. old but clean room. Clean towels, beds, bathroom.
3. normal cleaning, without much effort, but the bed / towels were changed, there was no dirt. The minibar was replenished as it was empty.
4. large, well-planned area. The environment is clean, the two-year-old child went without shoes all the time, and I was not afraid that he would hurt his feet. Sometimes it was a little dirty in front of the bar - but it's normal with so many guests, everything was cleaned quickly.
5. the possibility of using the territories of two hotels (Topkapi Palace), i. e. two hotels for the price of one. Both hotels have a small water park that you can use.
A big plus for promenade lovers and families with children.

6. Good quality food - no frills, but no one in my family got sick or got sick. Cooks are prepared in disposable caps and gloves.
7. good service - as far as possible in all in hotels. Once my child overslept lunch, woke up one hour before dinner and urgently wanted bread. We went to a closed empty restaurant, stumbled upon a manager in a suit. I explained the situation. The manager took us to the bakery, where they baked a crispy delicious cake in the oven especially for my son.
8. try the local drink ayran, something like our whey. we could not give cola or juices a la yuppies to the child, but he really fell in love with this Turkish natural drink. By the way, it quenches thirst very well. The adults liked it too.
nine.
the presence of free water activities on the beach - banana and skiing (but according to the schedule and only 2 hours a day, they managed to ride once).
10. the availability of sunbeds - the problem with the shortage surfaced only a couple of times when they wanted to take sunbeds by the pool from the sea. They were not available.
11. good professional animation, good atmosphere of rest, architecture of the Kremlin. It's nice to swim along Red Square and admire the historical museum.
12. availability of free internet (for those who do not want to lose touch with the business).
13. Nearby is MARDAN PALACE, you can calmly walk along the seashore and see what the owner of Cherkizon built. To be honest, I wouldn’t go there for the money - a narrow strip of beach between a river with dirty banks (on one side) and a city beach full of bottles and old rusty boats on the other. The sand of the Maldives has long been mixed with Turkish, and this gives the feeling that clean sand has become dirty.

So this is a hotel for lovers of unnecessary show-offs (former red jackets). We talked with the vacationers of this hotel, they have two feelings - that they were unfinished and that they were ... , oh, sorry, they deceived. The hotel is loaded by 10% (and this is in season! ), in the evening everything dies. Not a hotel, but a haven for old people tired of the noise. My wife and I already thought - maybe the GDP made such an advertisement for the hotel for money : -) otherwise no one would have known about the hotel ...
14. The sea is super, warm, 28 degrees every day! Almost all the time - clean!

Back to the Kremlin Palace
MINUSES:
1. The presence of guests from Arab countries - with their own culture. The difference in culture was felt everywhere - from the restaurant to the beach. RUSSIAN - they take 3 plates on the buffet, if they don't like it, they leave it. ARAB GRANDMA OR BABY - first they try everything on the COMMON TABLE WITH A FINGER OR COMMON SPOON, and then they pick it up. I understand not to leave anything.
The Europeans made no secret of their disgust at such daily scenes. According to Muslim tradition, women and girls wear pontaloons, skirts, sweaters and scarves. In the same clothes, they bathe in the pool and at the sea, and even in the water park. Hygiene under this themselves understand what. Arab children, as a rule, were unattended by their parents - fights on water attractions, dragging other people's beach towels from sunbeds (probably forgot where they left theirs), etc. Arab guests were 30% percent, and it was felt. Although the above does not apply to all guests - there were also very decent ones, perhaps familiar with European culture.
2. The absence of packaged (and even more so - freshly squeezed) juices (only UPI). There is tea of ​ ​ all kinds, mineral water without gas, cola, ayran, milk. But in principle - enough to last a week : -)
3. Beach in cigarette butts, cleaned badly.
But in principle, this is typical for most hotels in Turkey and Egypt, and this situation arises due to the lack of culture of vacationers, including Russians. After all, there are urns everywhere, pick up yours...and take three steps - it will be more pleasant for you and those around you.
4. According to our hotel guide, the hotels were 102% occupied - that is, even the owners were released. rooms for guests. A large number of guests was felt.
5. I don’t drink alcohol, so I can’t say anything about its quality.


I didn’t notice any other shortcomings, because I went to rest with my family, and not to look for what was wrong where. And the rest was good, the child flew out with serious snot - everything went to the sea in a week. We returned tanned, rested and happy in our dirt and cold.

for me, all the places in which I have been are divided into only 2 categories - those where I want to return and where I will never come again.
So, with the above shortcomings, I would love to go to this hotel again.

I hope that I will help someone make a choice, but it's up to you to decide.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original