Survival Marathon

Written: 10 september 2012
Travel time: 14 — 27 august 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
2.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 3.0
Service: 3.0
Cleanliness: 3.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 5.0
So, Turkey, hello again!
This time, three of us flew out, two adults and a child for 13 nights in this "Wonderful" new hotel.
I would like, of course, without emotions and only facts... it is unlikely to succeed.

The hotel is located on the seafront. Around the area is quite deserted. A neighboring hotel on one side, a wild beach on the other, villas, construction. In general, walking around will not work with all your desire. As soon as we checked into our room, the problems started immediately. We booked in advance and paid for a room with a sea view. Coral offered Sea Side View and Sea View. The latter is correspondingly more expensive by an order of magnitude. This hotel has a direct sea view only in Deluxe rooms, two-room. There are very few of them! So don't even try to overpay! Book the most simple room and view : -)) Anyway, opening the doors to the balcony, you will admire either the construction site or towels and other things hung out on neighboring opposite balconies. The hulls rest against each other. The sea view is only very lateral. By the way, I note that the photos on the sites are outdated long ago. If you look at the hotel directly (the sea is behind), then on the right side of the balconies a new hotel under construction rests against the balconies. We were interested in the locals - it turns out not even Sherwood's building, just a neighbor's, another... On the left - the hotel of the same owner, SanSiMar. It's a little nicer to look at. The problem with the rooms, or rather with the views from the windows, is common... both for Russian tourists and for foreign ones. We watched how the head of the European family lamented sadly and asked for forgiveness from his family members for the view of someone else's balcony instead of a direct view of the sea... "Sorry, I must have mixed something up. . . " No, no! It's all right! Sherwood refused to provide us with a tariff scale for matching the rooms to the specified categories. There is an official request from our side to both the hotel and the Tour Operator.
The room is normal, everything is tolerable, suited. Perhaps apart from the fact that throughout the rest the air conditioner practically did not work! Imagine sleeping in stuffiness for 13 nights! The system is not split, but built-in throughout the hotel, it works as one. . . Again, I will omit my emotions about this. . .
On the third day of rest in the morning we swam on the sea. Next to the beach is the Watersports company, which attracts tourists with trips on rafts, scooters, etc. A young man driving a scooter lost control, an inflatable platform of a sufficiently large size with passengers crossed the fenced water area of ​ ​ u200bu200bthe hotel and rushed at full speed straight towards my head... All this was observed by tourists on the beach, and my girlfriend, and frightened terribly my child. I was lucky to be saved only because I swim perfectly and was able to calculate the behavior, deciding at the moment of the maximum approach of the raft to dive under it. Having escaped with a strong push in the neck, a fright and a powerful adrenaline rush, we decided not to leave things like that... We called the police, hotel representatives, the authorities of this caricature office... There was a sea of ​ ​ u200bu200beverything... I’ll just say that the hotel services initially refused us in any help, they did not even ask about the state of health. For two days we traveled from the police gendarmerie to the hospital and back to the hotel. The hotel accused me of swimming outside the fenced area and their witnesses allegedly could prove this. With the hotel, the proceedings were completed when the general manager joined, who accidentally found out about the lawlessness that was happening to us. We drew a line under the situation, accepted his apology, refused the compensation offered. After all, health and life - they are not for sale, they cannot be exchanged for money or procedures in the SPA. They said that our only desire is that this should never happen again and with anyone. After all, if a child had been in my place, he would not have survived unequivocally!
I also want to voice the incident with dogs, always defecate on the territory of Sherwood Beach. First one, then two, at the end three big dogs ran all over the beach, pestering tourists and children repeatedly. At some point, one morning, they just rushed into the sea on my child. My daughter swam close to the shore, at first without even noticing them. My friend and I were not far away, we began to make noise, call for help and swam faster to the child. Apparently frightened by the noise raised, the dogs ran away, but after a while they came running again. The security then said that they had previously reported these incidents to the Hotel management several times... they don’t know why there was no reaction...

It should also be noted that the beach on the right side turns into a desert strip, open and accessible to all locals. They constantly rested there, caught fish nearby, brewed tea in a fire... A couple of young Turks managed to offend a tourist girl. The whole beach then watched as they were kicked by the girl's father and the guards he called, for he turned out to be some important local gentleman with a large family...
Well, what else to note....there are a lot of sunbeds everywhere, the Germans occupy them by the pool from five in the morning. I couldn’t sleep in stuffiness, so I constantly watched how chains of German women waking up for 10 minutes from five in the morning stretched to the pool to lay towels.
Everything else can probably be experienced. . . A crowded swimming pool, a huge hot sandy beach, on which you walk and your feet sink in the burning sand, stones at the entrance to the sea. . .
The food was really excellent. Full full of fruits, vegetables... there have always been places. Separately, I would like to note the service in the restaurant as a plus: fast, respectful, clear. . .
In general, Turkey is full of surprises! Either she opens her arms to you and makes you happy... or upsets and makes you think about why the attitude towards a person is worse than towards some dogs. And why for your own money (and a lot of it... for a ticket for 2 adults + a child we paid 152.000 rubles) you can be deceived, insulted, harmed to health?!
Personally, I advise you to choose another hotel for your holiday!
Translated automatically from Russian. View original