Turkish hotels 1 star. Experience.
I have been to Turkey 23 times and lived in hotels from 5*+ to 1*. Not many people risk going to Turkey to a hotel below 3 *, but they have their own rather significant advantages. I'll start with the cons of premium hotels. Unfortunately, a significant part of the guests in these hotels are our compatriots who saved up for this trip for a year, and when they arrive, they set as their goal to find shortcomings in service, food, etc. Moreover, they express their dissatisfaction violently and tensely. It is clear that even in the most luxurious clubs there is something imperfect, but to look for it and spoil your vacation. What for? Another situation that is absolutely incomprehensible to me is the fear of our people before Turkey in general. People come to the country and see it only on the way to the hotel, or at best during herd excursions. In one of the clubs, one girl constantly shot cigarettes from me, arguing that cigarettes are indecently expensive in bars, and she was afraid to go out into the city (across the road). There are quite a few like her and they also strain with stories that people are being killed outside the hotel, and there is nowhere to go. Country is shit. Yeah. Within walking distance from any Turkish hotel you can find the ruins of one of the many civilizations that were here. Etruscans, Lycians, Byzantines, Romans, Venetians, Ottoman Turks, Seljuk Turks, etc. And if you rent a car or a motorcycle....
Further 3 * Everything, in principle, is normal if you're lucky. But God forbid you to be in a hotel where a large group of tourists from Togliatti or, say, from Kemerovo lives. It seems that in these (and not only in these) cities it is fashionable to be criminal. Fingering, show-off, name-calling of staff, squatting, well, understandable in general. Of course, it's great that the regions also have money for quality rest, but it's unpleasant to see this.
1* For the first time we went to the Berkay Hotel in Kemer with a large group of friends, newlyweds. By their arrival, the balcony of the room was decorated with garlands of flowers. Rose petals on the bed every morning. The rooms have the usual set - TV, condo. The food is quite normal, and when the servants realized that we liked a salad like Olivier, they began to prepare it additionally for us. The hotel owners and management are German Turks. They are just too lazy to apply for a big stardom. And so everything is no worse than chamber 4 stars and even better. Well, where else will you turn on the backlight of the pool at 2 am ? . (Breakfast, dinner)
Genghis Khan. Kusadasi. Izmir. The hotel is more modest than Berkay, but there are condos and a pool. There is no TV in the rooms, but there is a large plasma in the yard and when football is on, the owner pours it for the fans for free. Only breakfast. Unfortunately traditional Turkish. Eggs, very salty cheese, coffee olives. From the pros. The first floor of the hotel rents a private children's camp from somewhere in Siberia. Children from 7 to 18. So, whoever likes to fool young gullible virgins - you are here. Under the influence of the sea and the sun, they lose their heads.
Gul Beach. 2* Kemer. (Unfortunately rebuilt and now 4 *) But nevertheless. Stands on the beach. Everything is listed in the rooms. Plus, the price includes one Turkish night and all inclusive. (A record-breaking trip).
Side. Many very small hotels in a quiet part of the city. 10 -15 euros per room. Breakfast. There are no pools, but 30 m to the sea. In one of the hotels, the owner, having learned that we were Russian, offered us for a small surcharge, all inclusive,, . A big shame.
You may get the impression that I am a miser, but the choice of these hotels is not determined by the price. Here is something else. I can't stand the phrase - ,, it was bad there, there are a lot of Russians, but there are really few of us in these hotels. All sorts of European bourgeois of different ages, from an English writer to Danish hippies. And parties and conversations and new acquaintances. It’s also interesting to go to dinner in a new place every evening, and not to eat, albeit high-quality, but nevertheless conveyor food, all inclusive,, . So that's worth a try.
