A family-friendly hotel, you can’t travel together, the standard rooms are terrible!

Written: 17 september 2020
Travel time: 6 — 14 september 2020
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 1.0
Service: 3.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 5.0
We stayed in a standard room. Let me tell you about this number first. The hotel buildings consist of one basement floor and seven more floors. Basement and six floors - all two-room family rooms. Standard class rooms - only on the top 7th floor under the most sloping roof. Because of this, in the bathroom in front of the washbasin with my height of 1 m 80 cm it is impossible to straighten up, my shoulder rests on the ceiling. I had to shave bent over. You can approach the bed only to one corner, to the other corners around the perimeter of the bed you can only move on all fours. There is a TV in the room, but you can’t see it from the bed at all, but you can only see it from the sofa to relax, and then if you turn your head 90 degrees. There are 5 Russian-language channels. You can insert a flash drive. Of the four films brought in, only one went with sound, the rest were not supported.
Checked in at 9 am, paying $10 for early check in. At 10:00 we went to the beach. We returned at 16.00, open the room, and inside the sauna - 70 degrees of heat. I went to complain to reception. We were given a second card so that the electricity would not turn off when leaving and the air conditioner would not turn off. During the day, the air conditioning was set to a minimum, only at the same time it was possible to stay in the room. But there is a plus in the room - the air conditioner does not blow on the bed at all, it blows on the sofa for relaxation, so I slept normally with the air conditioner on. In the bathroom, due to the fact that there is no water valve on the washbasin, and the tube is inserted into the drain pipe without sealing gum, there is an unpleasant sewer smell.
Upon check-in, they asked to change the torn bedspread, and said to the attendant and at the reception. Until 19.00 no one changed anything. I took the torn blanket to the reception, they promised to change it. An hour later I called the reception, said that I had not slept all night and I wanted to sleep. After 15 minutes, the maid came and laid a sheet on the sofa for relaxation. But thanks to the Google translator, I managed to explain to her and after 5 minutes the issue with the veil was resolved. The corridor and the lobby of the buildings are just white walls and ceilings without any decoration, in some places there are wire harnesses hanging, not even packed in boxes. In the elevator, in place of the mirror, the wall is smeared with dried glue with markings for the size of the mirror.

Now about the beach. A minibus goes to the beach every 30 minutes from 8.00 to 19.00. In the minibus you need to wear masks, if you don’t have it, a polite driver will give you one. Many thanks to the driver for his conscientious work. When there were a lot of applicants, he even went every 15 minutes. You can walk to the beach in 15 minutes. Near the place where the minibus (18-seater with air conditioning) pulls up near the hotel, there is no shade or benches to sit, you have to wait standing in the heat, and the sun beats much stronger there. In mid-September 39 degrees in the shade. On the beach, drinks are served from 10.00 to 18.00, and food is served from 12.00 to 16.00. There may not be enough sun loungers and umbrellas on the beach. That is what happened on the first day. But after spending half an hour in the bar, the seats were vacated. It seems to be a new hotel, but there are traces of mold on the umbrellas, and on the racks, rust appears through the paint. The beach is sandy, after 10 meters from the shore the depth is already headlong. At the end of the beach, between the sea and the river, there is a 5-meter isthmus, through which water flowed one day during the race and there was an unpleasant smell on the beach.
On the territory of the hotel and on the beach, masks were not forced to be worn, only in the minibus to the beach.
We ordered a sightseeing tour of Antalya from the TUI operator for $ 50 per person. We waited half an hour, as it was said at the reception. No one came, obviously the driver was a bummer to walk, and after waiting at the shutter, he left. We contacted the operator, after 15 minutes I drove up and returned the money. Booked the same tour on the internet the next day for $30. The money was paid on the bus. Behind us were guys who were indignant at why they were charged $50 each. I think that a day ago we could have been in their place.
The food was good, grilled fish every evening. Chicken day and night, fruits - apples and peaches, melons and watermelons, oranges, many different cheeses, salads in different variations of tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage, zucchini and blue. Lots of different olives. Cakes and pastries. On the beach: ayran, shawarma chicken, blue and grilled zucchini, burgers, meatballs, tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, watermelons and cottage cheese flatbreads (gozleme). From drinks juices: orange, cherry, pineapple, apple, cola and sprite, coffee, beer (it seemed that non-alcoholic), chilled water in bottles of 0.3 liters.
The hotel stands on a wasteland near the river, overgrown with reeds, there are almost no trees on the territory.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original