Great vacation with a 1 year old.

Written: 23 september 2008
Travel time: 23 — 30 september 2008
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; 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: 10.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 9.0
We rested in Sera in the first half of September for 2 weeks. Everyone LOVED it.
Our vacation belongs to the category "vacation with a one-year-old child" : )
But I can say that the hotel is also suitable for youth recreation (disco every day until 3 am, shops, etc. ) and in general for all categories of vacationers.
Half of the tourists are from Russia, the other half are from Germany, Poland, Ukraine.

We lived in the main building (Elegance), initially we planned to get into it. But I can equally likely settle in a 5-storey building (pink-green design). Because they are the same price. They will settle in the annex building only if you buy a tour there, but the tickets there cost 30 thousand rubles cheaper (if for two for 2 weeks). That is, the difference is significant, given that you can use all restaurants, swimming pools, etc. Only the numbers are better. Since we were traveling with a child, we only wanted to go to the elegans building, for $ 20 at the reception they gave a room on the 8th floor with a sea view. Do not regret the "modest surcharge". In relation to the total cost of the tour, this is not money at all. But the number will be very good; )
Sera is a city hotel, that is, it is located within the city. A big plus for us, since the child is small and the transfer from the airport is only 15-20 minutes. It is also a plus for us that there are supermarkets with baby food and diapers near the hotel. Well, the fact that you can always go outside the hotel, go shopping, enjoy the local flavor. Not lovers of rest in the forest, bungalows . . If the hotel is a beautiful tall building with chic rooms! Like here ; )
Breakfast and lunch are held in the main building, on the floor marked R in the elevator. A very beautiful room, varied food. There is a children's table, a dietary table. Where can you choose for a child. There is always milk porridge, mashed potatoes, boiled vegetables, boiled chicken, spaghetti. Daughter loved the buns. There was always 1-2 types of soup (for breakfast, lunch, dinner). All restaurants and cafes of the hotel have high chairs, enough for everyone. The slopes on the territory are equipped with ramps, it is convenient to dissect with wheelchairs.
For breakfast, she ate cereal with milk. There were a lot of fruits: apples, plums, grapes, watermelons, melons. Sweets are in abundance, and oriental and ordinary cream cakes . . In general, you could eat on the territory, closer to the beach. During the day they fried pancakes, there was also ice cream. Dinner was held outdoors. It looked very cool: tables were laid beautifully, music was playing, vacationers came dressed up. For dinner all the time there was meat and fish (red and white) on the grill, shawarma, something fried in a cauldron with you. The food is varied. Almost never happened again. Once there was borscht, and with sour cream, so the Russians came off!!!
In the lobby you could always drink Turkish coffee, cappuccino, alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, beer. From 5 o'clock cakes and cookies.

About a la carte restaurants. You can walk in them at least every day, and not once per check-in, as in other hotels. We went only once to a restaurant with Far Eastern cuisine, because the ceremony of changing dishes is still not very convenient for us because of the child. Just a delight, a beautiful room, dynamic lighting, sofas, tables . . California rolls, Peking duck, presented ice cream - just a delight, such a yummy! True, drinks were offered for money, we took white wine for 28 euros, it seems to me that the most ordinary tastes like everything else in the hotel. Anyway.
There is free internet in the hotel lobby, which my husband was very happy about, as he worked remotely a little. In the room, the Internet was caught badly, but probably due to the fact that the high floor, closer to the lobby, I think it worked in the rooms.
The rooms are beautiful, just like in the pictures! Everything is new, clean. Large plasma TV. Bed linen changed every day or every other day, did not notice. By the way, we checked for ourselves that they clean up worse for a dollar. And if you don't leave anything or leave $5, they'll clean it up nicely. The mini bar is replenished daily with mineral water with gas, without gas, juice. All in doubles.
About the beach. The main one for us was the children's beach. Because of the breakwater, there were never waves there, the depth is maximum up to the knee for an adult. Kids expanse, and mothers. This beach was constantly cleaned with a rake, and then a metal cylinder was dragged through, the sand was equal.
There is also a small public beach (this is perhaps the only negative), there is a beach where you can immediately dive into the water. In general, for every taste. There are plenty of loungers everywhere. I have never seen everyone busy.
There are 3 pools, one of them with sea water, small slides and a waterfall. But we did not swim in the pool, only the sea.
We went to the leather store not from the hotel, but from the shop opposite the hotel. For 500 dollars we bought 2 jackets (stylish for me and my husband). Sheepskin coats cost from $700.
Sweets, nuts can be bought in supermarkets near the hotel.
Went twice to Migros Shopping Center. On any bus you can get there in 15-20 minutes, it costs 3 lira for two people one way. Bought 3 dresses, shorts, shoes. The prices are attractive!

There is a Photoshop shop on the territory of the hotel, a photographer from this shop can take a picture of you, make a souvenir with a photo (mug, pillow, plate, etc. ). 1 photo costs $8. We did 2 photo shoots, from each we chose a few photos we liked. Still, it turns out beautifully, for memory! Usually it is difficult for us to take a picture of the three of us, but here the photographer works for the result.
The hotel has a beauty salon, dental office.
Extraordinarily beautiful lobby (foyer), with dynamic lighting.
Animation-guys from Ukraine. We didn't participate in anything. True, the husband played bocha on the beach. Every evening there was an entertainment program.
After dinner, at 8.45 there was a children's disco, mini-disco. The kids enjoyed participating. Our doll also tried to dance, crouched, swayed, clapped her hands.
The staff is very polite, attentive, no one passed by the daughter. They gave her a bracelet and a dolphin, and from a jewelry store a man gave a pin with a pebble, attached it to a sundress.
All in all, a great vacation! Looking forward to our next vacation so we can come here again! Previously, they were not in Turkey, they rested twice in Egypt (Sharma), Tunisia, Sochi. But this hotel just captivated with its magnificence! Now just here!
Translated automatically from Russian. View original