Странный отель для гостей с крепкой психикой и желудком A strange hotel for guests with a strong psyche and stomach

Planning my trip ahead of time, I reviewed a lot of hotels and re-read a large number of reviews. I stopped at this hotel based on the following criteria: close to civilization (Antalya) and the airport, the first line from the sea and a direct view of the sea from the window. The choice fell on the Falcon due to near-perfect reviews. I will especially note that I bought the trip from Coral travel, the host company in Turkey Odeon tours (remember this well)). Meeting and transfer from the airport was perfect, and then, driving up to the hotel, I saw (almost near the entrance) a trash can and an environment of ordinary high-rise city buildings. In other words, this is an ordinary city hotel.

The room was provided according to the declared category with a really amazing view of the sea, rocks and mountains of the bay. On this admiration ended because the music and noise coming from the hotel grounds shocked with its powerful sound.

Closing the balcony doors, I realized that this did not reduce the soundproofing. The noise in the room is like a music box. All this went on until 01 o'clock in the morning until the bar closed and the last visitors left. So the state of psychosis is guaranteed to you, the owners of rooms with a sea view! I note that I immediately hurried to the reception with a request to change the room, which I was denied. Here, it is especially necessary to note the not very friendly staff, who pretend that they do not understand you and you turned to them with this or that question at a very inopportune time. They can easily hang up the phone and not speak.

The only bright spot in the management of the reception service is the Russian-speaking girl Diana, who kindly answers all questions (she only works during the daytime). Otherwise, there is an unpleasant feeling that you are superfluous here and prevent the staff from living their lives. Extremely unfriendly public works.
A few words about the host company and the company that sold the tour (see their name above). I made an unimaginable number of calls asking to be moved to another room, to another hotel, and finally just to change my ticket in order to save me from the torment of staying in this hotel. The reaction was from complete disregard for requests, to simple - these are your problems, solve them at your own expense. Amazingly boorish attitude towards the client (we got the money, we don't care about the rest)! I had to resort to a simple solution, remembering the experience of Soviet hotels, where there were never any places and they miraculously appeared after investing Soviet ruble notes in the passport. Thus, I was moved to a building in a lower category room, but where it was possible to live in relative silence.

Now about the room and the hotel. Definitely not a 4+ star hotel. The maximum is three. A hotel with a very (! ) small area, squeezed by a residential area.
The rooms are extremely small (if you are a large build, you will have trouble squeezing between the bed and the table); the plumbing is very old, the shower (room) needs a major overhaul. For the sake of objectivity, it should be noted that the design of the room was well conceived, but everything needs urgent repairs (! ). And yet, the bathroom is made of tinted glass (understand that your silhouette will be clearly visible to your companion in the room. For Internet lovers. Wi-fi in the rooms practically does not work anywhere (! ). Consider this if you plan to use gadgets.


Now about food. A restaurant, or rather, what they feed there can be designated as follows - only eggs in the morning; lunch and dinner poultry meat. Bread, vegetables and greens I omit. The food is monotonous and not always tasty. Breakfast is generally a problem. Omelet in one form or another, non-edible bright red sausages fried in oil - and this is every day.
For the rest of the rations, chicken, chicken, turkey and sometimes fish are one kind of fried for lunch. The rest is salty side dishes: potatoes, rice, pasta in various forms of serving. Desserts, despite the large assortment, are hardly edible, since this is a sweet mess of various colors and shapes of almost the same taste - dough richly soaked in sugar syrup. From fruits: watermelon, melon, apples, pears and that's all.

A few words about vegetables. It is surprising how in season, in a country exporting tomatoes, one can find such not tasty, often rotten fruits for a restaurant? ! Freshly squeezed juice for 150 ml - 2€. Tea bags are cheap. The waiters are not attentive and not efficient. In a word, all this resembles a roadside fast food buffet restaurant, which is not expensive in price.

About the sea. Not unambiguously. Pantone on high farms. Access to the sea under the pontoon on the stairs.
The feeling is strange, as if you are swimming in some kind of industrial zone (not pleasant). The sea is immediately deep (! ). The bottom current brings ice water from the depths into the bay, so be prepared that you will fall into an ice stream (for a lover of contrast baths)). I am worried about something else that I have not seen lifeguards on duty in such an extremely dangerous place for sea bathing - an extreme disregard for all conceivable safety rules for guests!

About sunbeds. If you come closer to dinner, then with a 100 guarantee there will be no empty seats due to the fact that they cannot physically be enough for a sufficient number of guests due to the small pantone area. So, what's the bottom line. A noisy three-star hotel in need of urgent renovation and repair, with mediocre cuisine, with staff in Russian, "they won't scatter. " And one very important plus is a gorgeous view (from certain rooms) of the sea!