You can go without thinking

Written: 13 august 2012
Travel time: 19 may — 2 june 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
Traveled with my husband and 4 year old daughter. For two weeks they paid 2500 USD, of which, well, just every dollar was paid "essentially". It took about 20 minutes from the airport to the hotel - very convenient with a small child. They settled us in a quiet room, as we requested, immediately after breakfast (we arrived at the hotel, filled out the cards, went to breakfast, returned and settled in). The room was on the first floor, overlooking the garden and jogging track around the hotel. Quiet and cool side. Immediately after settling into the room, my daughter fell off the balcony. Attention! The balconies on the first floors throughout the hotel are more like terraces without a fence. Shrubs separate them from the lawn. So my daughter decided that the bushes were flush with the floor of the balcony - this was grass, stepped on it and fell through (on our side, the height of the bushes was almost a meter above the ground). Thank God - no consequences, scratched a little leg. Parents, be vigilant, do not leave children unattended!
The room is large, my daughter slept on the unfolded sofa (two adults could easily fit there), we had a huge FrenchBed bed. "At first they brought us a folding children's bed, but we asked to unfold the sofa - it was more spacious. Everything worked in the room, everything was renovated In the bathroom there was a whole set of cosmetics: on the walls in dispensers liquid soap "Dav" and shampoo / shower gel, in bottles - hair conditioner and body milk "Dav", cotton swabs, cotton pads, comb , shower caps, a box of paper handkerchiefs, toilet paper - there was always enough of everything, everything was added every day. They cleaned the room at the time that we announced at the reception. We left the maid a dollar every day and every other day a chocolate bar - to go brought.
The territory is large, well-groomed, clean. Pleased with the cleanliness of the toilets and the availability of CHILDREN'S TOILETS!! ! throughout the hotel, and not just in the miniclub. It is very convenient for kids - small toilets, sinks at a height accessible to the child.

Clean and spacious beach, clean in the pools. Sun loungers were never taken on the beach in advance - they came to the beach after breakfast and you could always find free sun loungers even in the shade, even by the sea (about 9.30 in the morning).
Near the pools, especially near the children's pool with slides, sun loungers are occupied before breakfast - then it is problematic. After breakfast, my daughter swam with us in the sea, then she ran to the opening of the water slides with her dad in the children's pool - she splashed there with pleasure and delight.
The restaurant has a large selection of food, a lot of highchairs - whenever you come - you will always seat the child. The crowd is breaking into the restaurant for the opening at lunch and dinner. It gets quieter after half an hour. There is a children's buffet, it is served at lunch and dinner, the dishes are almost the same as on the adult table. Polls of guests were constantly conducted - who likes and dislikes what in the hotel. I wrote that there are no mashed potatoes, stewed vegetables and stew for children on the menu - that is, without spices. The next day, all this appeared on the menu and was every day for lunch and dinner. The staff is attentive to the requests of vacationers, they try to immediately fulfill any wish or request. There was nowhere to dry beach things in the room - we turned to the reception - they brought us a folding dryer and installed it on the balcony. People! Use the language! Contact the guest relations department or the reception, make a polite request - and it will be fulfilled!
One fat madam was indignant at the restaurant that she had nothing to eat for breakfast. Breakfasts in all hotels are always the same. This is what was served in the Kremlin every morning: milk porridge, all kinds of cereals, muesli, hot and cold milk, stuffed omelettes, fried eggs, boiled eggs, shaken scrambled eggs, stewed vegetables, stewed beans, fried sausages or sausages, baked or fried potatoes, pancakes, soup, yogurt with and without filling, a large selection of jams, chocolate, cheeses (there are 10 kinds of them, if not more), ham (it was delicious white), olives, pickled and fresh vegetables, salted crumbly cottage cheese, chopped fruits and compotes with fruits and berries, khachapuri with cheese and puff pastries with fillings, all kinds of buns, bagels, croissants - baking is just an unimaginable amount! In general, some starved with such an assortment... ((( From drinks - tea, coffee from a machine, juices like yuppies, water in a cooler at breakfast. We brought a package of juice for the whole family or a bottle of Nest to the restaurant with us. for lunch and there is enough food for dinner, there is a lot of fruit, there was fish every day, they often gave sea bream on the grill. Our compatriots did something unthinkable at the tables with fruit. Strawberries were given twice a day, while there was such a death behind it!! ! half a bucket of berries! I'm surprised - do you really eat so many strawberries at home ?? ? Well, a saucer, well, two - at most - eat... And they didn’t sprinkle them from that strawberry... They grabbed the berries with their hands, pushed the children away. who brought new trays, grabbed berries right on the go with their hands... In general, I got the impression that our people were starving all year, denying themselves everything in order to raise money for a trip to the Kremlin and eat there for the whole past year . . The same amount of food - half a bucket per dish - they they carried away from the hot table... and from the dessert table... overdream desserts, kebabs, strawberries, peaches - then everything was lying on the tables... It was just darkness. The most negative impression was from the guests from Russia. . . They were not enough!!!

In the bars on the beach and by the pool, they also fed something for lunch, but we didn’t even go there - it’s simply unthinkable to eat in such quantities. Also, in a tent near the beach, from 11 in the morning they baked cakes and khachapuri, in the evening they cooked dumplings - we heard about this, but, again, we could not eat.
The patisserie offered smoothies, a large selection of desserts and muffins, and ice cream for an afternoon snack.
By the way, the territory of the Kremlin and neighboring Topkapi Peles is common. Guests can use the entire infrastructure and restaurants of the neighboring hotel - so, for a change, so that they don’t get bored in one place. The range of food and drinks there is the same. A bar opens in the evenings on the tower in Topkapi. At 21.30 every evening from this turret one could watch a magnificent action - a show of singing fountains in the neighboring Mardan Peles. This sight, even from afar, amazed with its beauty!
In the evenings, after the obligatory Mini Disco, our daughter ran to the Luna Park. Buying tokens in bulk is much cheaper than buying two or three. On the very first evening, my husband bought, it seems, for $ 50 a whole bag of tokens - we had enough for all the rides until the end of the vacation, the little one came off to the fullest!
From excursions - we went only to the dolphinarium in Antalya. We also went to Antalya to the old city for a walk - on the minibus that goes right behind the hotel, for $ 1.5 per person we reached Antalya. Back, already tired and with a bunch of purchases, we arrived for $ 25 by taxi.
My daughter and I went to the hammam, the sauna and the indoor pool - when during our visit it was cloudy and windy for a couple of days. The baby warmed herself in the sauna, then doused herself in the hammam, then gurgled in the jacuzzi of the indoor pool, then again ran into the sauna. We arrived with the remnants of a runny nose and cough, and after a couple of visits to the sauna, everything went away.

The only thing that marred the trip was that my daughter, after a week of arrival, had a great swim in the evening - we couldn’t take her out of the pool - she learned to jump from the side into a deep pool with a circle - then she ate ice cream, and the next day we had a follicular sore throat with a temperature of 39. Bought in the pharmacy Augmentin in syrup and Tantum Verde - gargle for the throat. By the evening, they were still reinsured - they called the insurance company, they sent us to the hotel doctor - he confirmed the diagnosis and treatment, gave us another anesthetic and anti-inflammatory spray for the throat. On the 4th day after the onset of the disease, the daughter was already swimming in the sea. I attribute the child’s illness to my own oversight - my mother lost her vigilance, allowed me to eat ice cream and splash in the pool more than I could.
General conclusion about the hotel: it was very nice! There is absolutely nothing to complain about! Would love to come back to this hotel again!
Translated automatically from Russian. View original