A great Turkish holiday or an ode to Topkapi Palace Hotel!

Written: 24 august 2013
Travel time: 17 june — 1 july 2013
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
10.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 10.0
Oh-oh-oh-oh-oh!!!!!!!!! ! What a class it was!
The hotel is amazing! Situated in a vast area. Guests live in 6 separate buildings, everything is built in the likeness of the famous Topkapi palace complex in Istanbul (the series "Magnificent Century" shows us this palace).
Nearby is the second hotel of the same owner, built like the Kremlin Square - incredible copies, as you are in Moscow. But we did not go there (except for one occasion) did not want to disturb the oriental mood.
We lived in the first building - we really liked it there, the windows overlooked a huge natural park located outside the hotel and cicadas and some grasshoppers chirp there around the clock, and birds also sing.

The road to the main building, where the management and staff, as well as in general from the building to the pool and restaurant and the beach, goes through chic arched galleries. Around the heat is 40 degrees, and as soon as you enter the gallery coolness and breeze and so much greenery around. All greenery is regularly watered and therefore all trees, shrubs and grass are in perfect condition. POOLS: The crystal water of the pools is amazing, and how warm it is, and in the evening it is generally like tea. Well, water slides are generally mega-class !! ! And big and twisted and small for kids!
FOOD: The hotel's restaurant is generally a separate song - goodbye waist!!!!!!!!! ! How many cooks and confectioners work there. And what divine food they cook there! My Muslim husband was just in seventh heaven - every day lamb and every day grilled dishes! Different meat and poultry, a sea of ​ ​ vegetables, fruits and an ocean of greenery! Any different tasty green grass!! ! Lots of cheeses and pastries! And how many oriental sweets !!!!!!!!! ! I have never tried baklava, and now this is my favorite sweet in the world!! ! And also a huge terrace of the restaurant, where we ate every time. And the cooks fry in front of you, bake kalachi, fry vegetables according to your order! And what twisted omelettes with tomatoes and herbs in the morning!
ENTERTAINMENT: Entertainment in the hotel for adults and children is more than enough and a computer game center for teenagers, a mini club, games in the pool and on the beach (there is a team of 25 animators), discos for children and evening shows, a mini amusement park for the smallest, tennis courts, as well as paid evening entertainment for children, where they paint with colored sand, draw pictures on canvas and make stained glass pictures. And what kind of Turkish evenings and nights they arrange with bazaars, parades and camels!
The hotel has representative offices from large jewelry and leather stores, you will be taken to these shopping centers for free and brought back - you do not have to buy anything! We never went to the jewelry factory, because before that we visited the fur center and from my husband I got a fur coat, a fur coat and a sheepskin coat! Here it would be impudence to drag her husband to the jewelry store.
On the way to the beach from the hotel, there are tents where grandmothers bake tortillas and fill them with toppings to your taste, and there is even a cafe for hamburger lovers like in McDonald's!

Our tour operator Anekstur offered a lot of entertainment, we agreed on two - we went to the musical Disney heroes - a complete delight! And most importantly, we flew to Israel for a day and were in Palestine and went to all the holy places - the Church of the Nativity, the Church of the Holy Sepulcher, the Wailing Wall. And my husband was in the main mosque and saw the Stumbling Stone (Stone of the Universe). I singed a bunch of 33 candles with blessed fire, and touched the myrrh-streaming stone of Anointing and saw the ill-fated Golgotha. All this is such an ANCIENT MIRACLE and ANCIENT WORLD that even at a certain moment my husband was so moved that tears flowed. And Olivia, who, having traveled to Israel all night, gave us a terrible tantrum from fatigue and extreme heat, suddenly finding herself in the Church of the Nativity, her mood changed dramatically. It was as if grace descended on her - she began to laugh, have fun and run - it is allowed there!
My husband was skeptical about my suggestion to go to Turkey, he visited many hotels around the world, and thought that the rest in Turkey was so-so. And now his opinion is completely opposite - he believes that this is the best hotel for families with children, that this is the best cuisine and the best service!
In short, the holiday went with a bang! Three times URA-A-A!!!!
We will be back next summer!! ! And I advise you to take a closer look!
Translated automatically from Russian. View original