Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
9.0
Service:
9.0
Cleanliness:
9.0
Food:
9.0
Amenities:
10.0
I wanted to write a review while still at the hotel, but my husband dissuaded me: he said to wait until returning home, take a break from rest for a couple of weeks))), calm my emotions and then write. The first week I was in a crazy-enthusiastic mood, I liked literally everything. When I put my daughter to bed after dinner (she is a year and two months old), my husband stayed with her in the room, worked on the Internet (in the main WI-FI building), and I, a mother who had come off the family, went to enjoy life - or to the beach with delicious cocktail and ice cream, or to the gym - to spend the accumulated calories.
Now more specifics. We chose the hotel carefully, because with such a small child, normal nutrition for the baby is very important (there is a special children's buffet in the hotel, the food there is very monotonous, mashed meat and vegetable purees, chicken broth - but you can always feed the baby), a large shady green area for walks (with little ones you don’t really travel around the country, and it’s difficult to get out of the hotel), a good beach with clean sand and crystal water, children’s swings, high chairs in the restaurant. The hotel fully complies with all these criteria, a wonderful territory, beautiful meadows, on which the baby runs, wallows in the grass, digs in the sand on the beach))) Good cuisine in the main restaurant, however, food for children could be more varied. I did this: I took vegetable or fish, chicken puree soups on the adult table (there was always a choice of at least two soups), I added mashed turkey puree from the children's table to the vegetable ones. My daughter ate with pleasure. For breakfast, among other food for children, two types of milk porridge were offered, natural yogurt, which my baby ate with a spoonful of some kind of jam. For an afternoon snack, I took fruit and cookies from the restaurant, made in the room with a blender (I brought a small blender with me, I highly recommend it to everyone if you are traveling with children) mashed potatoes and gave it to my daughter, plus we took Humana yogurts with me (convenient as a snack for kids , as well as at the airport as a quick meal for children), instant porridge "Humana" (just in case), children's tea in granules and a package of children's juices (be sure to take it with you, it is undesirable to drink juices from a restaurant for a child - they are from concentrate and very sweet ! ) The restaurant has a lot of high chairs, there is also a special children's area for children who eat themselves - with small tables, chairs, a TV with cartoons and a children's buffet. Our baby ran there as if for a walk - everything is so colorful there, in pictures! ))) Also, the restaurant always has fresh milk for children.
Food for adults is a separate issue. I haven't tried anything bad there. I became a fish eater - every day there was a huge selection of fish for lunch and dinner: Chipura (in our Dorada), Livrek (aka Sea Bass), Trout, Likhia, Merlan, Catfish, Salmon, Tuna, Needlefish (with capital letter, because it was VERY delicious!!! ). Shrimps and squids were every day, several times there were king prawns. I tried Peking duck for the first time in Papillon - I liked it! A lot of grilled dishes - meat, fish, and vegetables. In short, you do not notice how you start to get better from all this delicious abundance, which is impossible not to try.
The beach deserves the highest marks! We went to the sea opposite the children's club - there is a gradual increase in depth. But in front of the pool and bar on the beach - two hundred meters deep to the chest. The shore is wide, there were always enough sun loungers for everyone, despite the fact that all the rooms were bought out at the hotel. Clean sand and a strip of small pebbles near the water itself - what you need to build apiaries))) I liked the fact that the territory of both the beach and the entire hotel as a whole was perfectly cleaned. The sand was sifted every night, the children did not find any cigarette butts or other rubbish there and did not drag it into their mouths.
There is a mini-zoo on the territory of the hotel, lambs, ducks-hens-geese-peacocks-mavlins, two monkeys and many dogs live there, we fed all of them with gifts from the restaurant, there is also a larger zoo on the territory of the neighboring hotel, we went there ( the entrance is free). There is also a large ranch, you can ride a horse, and the kids ride a pony.
For people leading an active lifestyle, there is a strip for jogging around the entire hotel, as well as in the park (although there is not a path, but just a path) when leaving the hotel. I ran there (shadows, no prying eyes, turtles rustle in the bushes, and squirrels jump along the branches).
The gym is well equipped, all machines are in working order and fairly new. Sometimes after three in the afternoon there were no clean towels, but at that time the hall was often empty. SPA center is not cheap pleasure. If you want to take a course of self-care procedures - prepare a thousand and a half dollars. But they provide a huge range of beauty services, the rooms are well equipped, all conditions for high and relaxation. From the free pleasures of the hammam (very mediocre) and the sauna (the most ordinary, there is no pool in the dressing room, and the circulation showers do not work). From the relaxation room there is access to the lawn with sun loungers - relax wherever your heart desires: even in the shade of the room to the music, even on the street under the sun. In the rest room there is tea and coffee from a vending machine, self-service, no vitamin bar.
We did not visit a la carte restaurants, because there is nothing to do with small children - there is nothing to feed them. There are several such restaurants in the hotel: Turkish, fish, Chinese, Mexican and Italian. Turkish and fish - on different days of the week, the beach bar offers its own menu - in the fresh air by candlelight. Chinese and Mexican restaurants set tables both in the hall and on the lawn nearby. Italian restaurant - next to the main one, indoors on the second floor.
We were very pleased with the service both in restaurants and at the reception, as well as cleaning the room. We never pinch a dollar or two for tea, as a result, the maid cleaned the room while we had breakfast, the cleanliness was perfect, she changed the bed-towels for us every day, shampoos-shower gels-cotton buds-cotton pads-soap-hats for a shower, the bathroom was stocked every day, if I had known, I wouldn’t have dragged a set of all this stuff with me))) The waiters in the restaurant are very kind, they brought drinks themselves, for the third time without even asking what we want, they brought our loved ones tonics on our chosen table, as soon as they saw our appearance in the hall. All staff love children - and this is completely sincere, and not just a desire to please! Kids are simply spoiled for attention, sometimes they twist flowers from napkins, sometimes they make boats from starch napkins, sometimes they bring bouquets of fresh flowers. Each breakfast-lunch-dinner chef personally controls the quality of service and cooking (he tries a little of everything himself). You can turn to him if you want the child to cook something that is not on the common table. We were brought fresh peaches for the child, although they were not on the table in their raw form, they were only in the form of a flambé (it's just some kind of overeating, especially with a scoop of ice cream! ).
Many vacationers note that animation is not a strong point of this hotel. I don’t know, I haven’t tried it))) Our main animator was our daughter, so we didn’t get bored in her company at all))) True, I went to aqua aerobics a couple of times. Well, quite mediocre, exercise for pensioners who suddenly decided to lead a healthy lifestyle))) In general, the set of entertainment is standard: yoga in the morning, boccia, darts, beach volleyball, archery, aerobics and aqua aerobics during the day, evening mini-disco for children, evening show and disco. There is a mini-club for kids, it is interesting for children there, but perhaps for three to five years old. From the outside, it was noticeable that there was an animation team, but it was not a "lighter", as it happens in some hotels. The best animation I saw only in Sofitel in Hurghada. And these guys - well, for a change.
General conclusion: this hotel is amazing for a holiday with small children, for a calm and quality relaxation on the shores of the purest sea. Young people and those who need to be actively entertained throughout the day, I recommend looking for something else. The hotel was perfect for me.
Separately, I would like to tell you about the experience of communicating with the insurance company. Our dad bought improved insurance with a zero deductible and insurance coverage in the amount of 30 thousand euros, since we are going with the baby and let there be a firefighter for every need. As a result, two days before the end of the rest, the child began to have a runny nose and a strong wheezing cough, at night she coughed in attacks, to the point of hoarseness. I was very scared, because in small children all diseases develop at lightning speed and in a matter of hours they can acquire various complications. In the morning we called the insurance company. Five minutes later a car came for us, after another seven minutes we were in the waiting room of a doctor (Russian speaking). The doctor examined and listened to my daughter, diagnosed laryngitis, gave the necessary medicines, prepared one of the drugs with us - a children's antibiotic syrup based on clarithromycin, also an anti-inflammatory syrup for children with paracetamol, a spray for the nose "Otrivin". He told me when to give it and for how many days, he said that we should call back if an attack of such a strong cough occurs at night - the baby will be given an injection that relieves bronchospasm. And the same car we arrived in took us to the hotel. The very next day after I started giving the medicine, the cough and runny nose stopped at the doci, she became cheerful and active again. We drank the prescribed drugs for seven days, I was very pleased with the doctor's appointment and the work of the insurance company as a whole. I will say separately that medicines in Turkey are no more expensive than in Kyiv, and some are even a little cheaper. There are drugs in pharmacies with similar names, in almost every pharmacy there is a Russian-speaking person (at least in Kadriye, where we went shopping and went to the pharmacy at the request of new acquaintances from the hotel for nose drops, it was exactly like that). BUT! A doctor's appointment costs 60 euros. And the amount of insurance for two adults and one child, which we paid when buying a tour, is less than fifty dollars. Conclusion: if you want to protect yourself in advance from possible health troubles and get qualified help if necessary, buy normal insurance.
I will put an end to this, because you can write laudatory odes to a wonderful vacation in Papillon for a long time. Happy rest!! !
Now more specifics. We chose the hotel carefully, because with such a small child, normal nutrition for the baby is very important (there is a special children's buffet in the hotel, the food there is very monotonous, mashed meat and vegetable purees, chicken broth - but you can always feed the baby), a large shady green area for walks (with little ones you don’t really travel around the country, and it’s difficult to get out of the hotel), a good beach with clean sand and crystal water, children’s swings, high chairs in the restaurant. The hotel fully complies with all these criteria, a wonderful territory, beautiful meadows, on which the baby runs, wallows in the grass, digs in the sand on the beach))) Good cuisine in the main restaurant, however, food for children could be more varied. I did this: I took vegetable or fish, chicken puree soups on the adult table (there was always a choice of at least two soups), I added mashed turkey puree from the children's table to the vegetable ones. My daughter ate with pleasure. For breakfast, among other food for children, two types of milk porridge were offered, natural yogurt, which my baby ate with a spoonful of some kind of jam. For an afternoon snack, I took fruit and cookies from the restaurant, made in the room with a blender (I brought a small blender with me, I highly recommend it to everyone if you are traveling with children) mashed potatoes and gave it to my daughter, plus we took Humana yogurts with me (convenient as a snack for kids , as well as at the airport as a quick meal for children), instant porridge "Humana" (just in case), children's tea in granules and a package of children's juices (be sure to take it with you, it is undesirable to drink juices from a restaurant for a child - they are from concentrate and very sweet ! ) The restaurant has a lot of high chairs, there is also a special children's area for children who eat themselves - with small tables, chairs, a TV with cartoons and a children's buffet. Our baby ran there as if for a walk - everything is so colorful there, in pictures! ))) Also, the restaurant always has fresh milk for children.
Food for adults is a separate issue. I haven't tried anything bad there. I became a fish eater - every day there was a huge selection of fish for lunch and dinner: Chipura (in our Dorada), Livrek (aka Sea Bass), Trout, Likhia, Merlan, Catfish, Salmon, Tuna, Needlefish (with capital letter, because it was VERY delicious!!! ). Shrimps and squids were every day, several times there were king prawns. I tried Peking duck for the first time in Papillon - I liked it! A lot of grilled dishes - meat, fish, and vegetables. In short, you do not notice how you start to get better from all this delicious abundance, which is impossible not to try.
The beach deserves the highest marks! We went to the sea opposite the children's club - there is a gradual increase in depth. But in front of the pool and bar on the beach - two hundred meters deep to the chest. The shore is wide, there were always enough sun loungers for everyone, despite the fact that all the rooms were bought out at the hotel. Clean sand and a strip of small pebbles near the water itself - what you need to build apiaries))) I liked the fact that the territory of both the beach and the entire hotel as a whole was perfectly cleaned. The sand was sifted every night, the children did not find any cigarette butts or other rubbish there and did not drag it into their mouths.
There is a mini-zoo on the territory of the hotel, lambs, ducks-hens-geese-peacocks-mavlins, two monkeys and many dogs live there, we fed all of them with gifts from the restaurant, there is also a larger zoo on the territory of the neighboring hotel, we went there ( the entrance is free). There is also a large ranch, you can ride a horse, and the kids ride a pony.
For people leading an active lifestyle, there is a strip for jogging around the entire hotel, as well as in the park (although there is not a path, but just a path) when leaving the hotel. I ran there (shadows, no prying eyes, turtles rustle in the bushes, and squirrels jump along the branches).
The gym is well equipped, all machines are in working order and fairly new. Sometimes after three in the afternoon there were no clean towels, but at that time the hall was often empty. SPA center is not cheap pleasure. If you want to take a course of self-care procedures - prepare a thousand and a half dollars. But they provide a huge range of beauty services, the rooms are well equipped, all conditions for high and relaxation. From the free pleasures of the hammam (very mediocre) and the sauna (the most ordinary, there is no pool in the dressing room, and the circulation showers do not work). From the relaxation room there is access to the lawn with sun loungers - relax wherever your heart desires: even in the shade of the room to the music, even on the street under the sun. In the rest room there is tea and coffee from a vending machine, self-service, no vitamin bar.
We did not visit a la carte restaurants, because there is nothing to do with small children - there is nothing to feed them. There are several such restaurants in the hotel: Turkish, fish, Chinese, Mexican and Italian. Turkish and fish - on different days of the week, the beach bar offers its own menu - in the fresh air by candlelight. Chinese and Mexican restaurants set tables both in the hall and on the lawn nearby. Italian restaurant - next to the main one, indoors on the second floor.
We were very pleased with the service both in restaurants and at the reception, as well as cleaning the room. We never pinch a dollar or two for tea, as a result, the maid cleaned the room while we had breakfast, the cleanliness was perfect, she changed the bed-towels for us every day, shampoos-shower gels-cotton buds-cotton pads-soap-hats for a shower, the bathroom was stocked every day, if I had known, I wouldn’t have dragged a set of all this stuff with me))) The waiters in the restaurant are very kind, they brought drinks themselves, for the third time without even asking what we want, they brought our loved ones tonics on our chosen table, as soon as they saw our appearance in the hall. All staff love children - and this is completely sincere, and not just a desire to please! Kids are simply spoiled for attention, sometimes they twist flowers from napkins, sometimes they make boats from starch napkins, sometimes they bring bouquets of fresh flowers. Each breakfast-lunch-dinner chef personally controls the quality of service and cooking (he tries a little of everything himself). You can turn to him if you want the child to cook something that is not on the common table. We were brought fresh peaches for the child, although they were not on the table in their raw form, they were only in the form of a flambé (it's just some kind of overeating, especially with a scoop of ice cream! ).
Many vacationers note that animation is not a strong point of this hotel. I don’t know, I haven’t tried it))) Our main animator was our daughter, so we didn’t get bored in her company at all))) True, I went to aqua aerobics a couple of times. Well, quite mediocre, exercise for pensioners who suddenly decided to lead a healthy lifestyle))) In general, the set of entertainment is standard: yoga in the morning, boccia, darts, beach volleyball, archery, aerobics and aqua aerobics during the day, evening mini-disco for children, evening show and disco. There is a mini-club for kids, it is interesting for children there, but perhaps for three to five years old. From the outside, it was noticeable that there was an animation team, but it was not a "lighter", as it happens in some hotels. The best animation I saw only in Sofitel in Hurghada. And these guys - well, for a change.
General conclusion: this hotel is amazing for a holiday with small children, for a calm and quality relaxation on the shores of the purest sea. Young people and those who need to be actively entertained throughout the day, I recommend looking for something else. The hotel was perfect for me.
Separately, I would like to tell you about the experience of communicating with the insurance company. Our dad bought improved insurance with a zero deductible and insurance coverage in the amount of 30 thousand euros, since we are going with the baby and let there be a firefighter for every need. As a result, two days before the end of the rest, the child began to have a runny nose and a strong wheezing cough, at night she coughed in attacks, to the point of hoarseness. I was very scared, because in small children all diseases develop at lightning speed and in a matter of hours they can acquire various complications. In the morning we called the insurance company. Five minutes later a car came for us, after another seven minutes we were in the waiting room of a doctor (Russian speaking). The doctor examined and listened to my daughter, diagnosed laryngitis, gave the necessary medicines, prepared one of the drugs with us - a children's antibiotic syrup based on clarithromycin, also an anti-inflammatory syrup for children with paracetamol, a spray for the nose "Otrivin". He told me when to give it and for how many days, he said that we should call back if an attack of such a strong cough occurs at night - the baby will be given an injection that relieves bronchospasm. And the same car we arrived in took us to the hotel. The very next day after I started giving the medicine, the cough and runny nose stopped at the doci, she became cheerful and active again. We drank the prescribed drugs for seven days, I was very pleased with the doctor's appointment and the work of the insurance company as a whole. I will say separately that medicines in Turkey are no more expensive than in Kyiv, and some are even a little cheaper. There are drugs in pharmacies with similar names, in almost every pharmacy there is a Russian-speaking person (at least in Kadriye, where we went shopping and went to the pharmacy at the request of new acquaintances from the hotel for nose drops, it was exactly like that). BUT! A doctor's appointment costs 60 euros. And the amount of insurance for two adults and one child, which we paid when buying a tour, is less than fifty dollars. Conclusion: if you want to protect yourself in advance from possible health troubles and get qualified help if necessary, buy normal insurance.
I will put an end to this, because you can write laudatory odes to a wonderful vacation in Papillon for a long time. Happy rest!! !
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