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The Fame Residence Lara & Spa 5 * hotel should be evaluated primarily by the level of service, and this is how it looks to anyone. I proceed from what I get by paying 95 thousand rubles for 12 nights. We arrived there at the end of May, just ended the rains. The heat was only gaining strength, but it was already subjectively hot, since it was not yet summer in Moscow at that time. And found. Operated on the trip TezTur. Met normally, brought to the hotel. At the reception, we were registered and placed (refusing a monetary incentive) on the top floor with a view of the road, houses, other hotels and Antalya on the horizon. Not at sea. But this was not bad either, because there were rooms overlooking the windows of the neighboring hotel and above the kitchen yard, where the hustle and bustle begins at 6-00 in the morning, plus the smells of the kitchen. You, Russian tourists, will never get a view of the sea, no matter how hard you try, even for a surcharge. The maximum sea view is oblique, and this is the limit, unless you buy a suite for 250 thousand for ten nights. And that's why. The hotel is completely German, the owners are Germans and vacationers are 85% Germans. The servants are completely focused on the Germans, they have all the attention. The rest according to the residual principle. The waiters in front of them dance what is called on tsyrla, bring them wine, water, cutlery and everything else at the slightest pretext, speaking strictly in German. They are not in a hurry to serve others, although they will bring what you need, but after when you literally impose themselves on them, with your whole appearance showing a demand to come up. Plus, at the reception from the first day no one wanted to understand the Russian language, everyone pointed to the place of a special employee who knew Russian, which was always empty. We were never able to get the air conditioner turned on day and night. There's a problem with that. And in general, it seemed to us that the hotel saves electricity on everything that is possible. But more on that later. Why are the Germans there in such favor? In addition to the fact that the owner is German, the hotel is full of Germans of retirement age all year round. They live there for months, giving the hotel the main income. Their German travel agents will skin their servants for the interests of the burghers, that's why "on the tsyrla". Our agents said that there was a short break in this idyll, for the May holidays, when Russians come to the hotel these days and pouring alcohol all over the place can cause problems for the Germans. For example, they say that there was a case when drunk Russian Germans were driven into the pool and released only if they said that they would capitulate, that Hitler was kaput. True or not, I don’t know, but if so, then this is chaos and shame. We, Muscovites, were pleased that we hardly saw our compatriots in this hotel. There were several couples and family groups, calm and polite. But there were frank "badlyaks" and men and women who swear at their kids and at each other. It was annoying that such crap can afford to come to a decent hotel and bullshit on the principle of "I want and in general, I paid. " It's good that there were very few of them and they could not spoil the rest. As they say, the entire coastal region of Antalya with the name Lara is the patrimony of the Germans, there are a lot of them there and you have to put up with it. Another disadvantage of this hotel is a very small territory. . Yes, it is beautifully decorated, there are a lot of pools, but there is nowhere to take a walk. In addition, we go to the sea, we go to swim and sunbathe near the sea, but not for swimming in the pool, of which there are a lot in Moscow, and in other cities it is not exotic. Maybe this is interesting only to those "bulls from Muhosransk" who swore at the whole beach, but again, this is just an episode. The abundance of pools is a significant disadvantage also because there is only an indoor pool with heating, which means that they need heat to swim in them. In addition, a "rotovirus" lives in them - very unpleasant. If they get infected: three days of temperature under 39 degrees you are guaranteed. True, doctors quickly solve this problem with medical insurance, since the medicines in Turkey are good, genuine and therefore effective, unlike Russian medical devices. So you think: Lord, the Turks do not allow themselves what the Russians are doing in their country with their own compatriots, feeding them no one knows what instead of medicines. Here are the Muslims. Yes, another flaw. . Every morning, at about 5 o'clock in the morning, prayers were heard from the mosque, the voice of the muezzin announced the morning prayer. I woke up and closed the balcony, depriving us of the morning freshness of the beautiful sea air. Now about the pleasant. The hotel is very nicely done from the inside. This is an old European classic style of luxury, the interior of rich houses and restaurants. Beautiful and luxurious, no words. The restaurant has 5 halls, all of them are stylized in a classic style and do not look like one another. There is a club hall where everyone is in linen covers, in another it is almost a pub. Food is a whole other story. Everything seems to be outrageously diverse, but in fact everything is based on mixing the same basic ingredients in such a way that the taste sensations are hardly distinguishable. Chicken in all forms. Fruits were also not in abundance, except for watermelons, but we hardly ate them. There was fried fish, but not always. Sweets, oriental, such as baklava and others, are also all the same in taste, but different in design, mercilessly filled with sugar syrup. The water is bottled and tasteless. There are many visitors, but there is no crush. There is also a terrace with tables, where there are always no empty seats. The beach is not big, but neat, free sunbeds are always available due to the fact that many vacationers seal by the pools. The disadvantage of the beach and the hotel is that there is no pier extending into the sea with a platform for a bar and sun loungers, as was the case at the Sueno Beach Side Hotel - a very useful facility. Any 5 star hotel must have this!! ! By the way, Sueno Beach Side is also five stars, but it will be cooler and more expensive, and there are not so many Germans there, if they are there at all from May to September inclusive. Animation nonsense, although partly funny. I am not against the Germans, on the contrary. But I am against discrimination. In the described hotel, they have all the best, and what is left for the rest. It also depends on the tour operators. German agents there do not pump their rights like a child, they have insurance and legal protection with expensive lawyers, a contract where all the best delicacies of the hotel are spelled out, and our “tour operators”, like poor relatives, without claims, agree to everything that remains. Quiet and inconspicuous, they quietly agitate our citizens on excursions, quietly pinch a coin on excursions, and this is where their interest in the tourists they brought ends. It is not right. Hotel for one time to come. It has its own charm, but no zest, no friendliness. There is no hospitality, but there are German citizens who, in the evenings, stick around all the bar counters and tables under the street canopies, in the halls like bunches of grapes and ferment everything that is there until they pass out. However, unlike the Russians, they behave very decently, without disturbing anyone and almost imperceptibly. That's culture for you. For this alone and for the way the Germans pay attention to the elderly and the disabled, I forgave the hotel for those national distortions that I wrote about. Very good hotel, service and work of the staff is just on top, well done. The rooms are cool, clean and comfortable, no words. Toilet and bathroom are great. Change of linen and cleanliness daily and impeccable. With this we were very pleased. And yet this hotel is for once. I won't go there again. But I would still go to Sueno Beach Side. He is friendlier and everyone at the reception willingly speaks Russian! By the way, outside the hotel, all Turks know Russian as their native language, and even on the territory of the hotel, but not at the reception! It's amazing, but true: the hotel management managed to find only German-English-speaking employees to work at the reception, and they suffer very much from this, deprived of the pleasure of familiarizing themselves with the great and powerful, including the obscene Russian language! True, if you push it, then right there, like a genie, a person who knows our language appears, but is very shy about his knowledge. It's funny and just funny. Good hotel.