Turkey. Bodrum. Club Aqua Gumbet

Written: 3 july 2010
Travel time: 8 — 22 june 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
We went from 8 to 22 June, three of us with friends.
The HOTEL is 100% consistent with its three stars, and even with an overlap on top. Communicated with residents of 4 * th. According to the reviews, we realized that we live better than them. Yes - there are non-drying rooms overlooking the courtyard (even putting the air conditioning on for heating, they still could not dry the sheets on the beds and remove the mold in the bathroom). But since we arrived for a long time, on the second day we ate a bald patch to the reception, the manager and our REP (representative of the tour operator). As a result, we got a great room with a sea view. Conclusion: if you are not lucky with the number - go for it - bargain! and luck will smile upon you! There is a minus for light-sleeping "larks" - there is a noisy GrandHotel nearby, which likes to hold loud parties after 10 pm. Our hotel is a lot of two-story houses descending to the sea. And if you like to sleep, it would be better if you get a house lower to the sea (rooms from 400-500). And if you yourself are not averse to hanging out - welcome to rooms 100-300. And closer to the kitchen : )
Of the troubles: the phone in the room broke (incoming calls did not go through) - they did not fix it before departure; plus there was no hot water twice - but this was due to repair work in the city at the water utility.

BEACH: we walked 15 minutes on foot to the neighboring town of Bitez on the squares rented by our hotel. Cool view of the bay with yachts and Greece. Particularly lazy people are driven by a GAZelka-type bus at 10.11, 13-30 and 17.18 hours. Once we drove and decided that it was more beautiful on foot. We were told that there is a beach from the side of the hotel in another bay, we tried to go to it - but it was blocked everywhere, and we didn’t really like the view of the coast there.
DEPARTURE TO THE CITY: 10 minutes walk to the center of Gumbet (we had discos there), it is better to go to Bodrum. Minibuses run every half a minute. To Bodrum, the ticket price is a little more than 2 lira.
FOOD: excellent for three stars. Of course, little meat and fish, but it's 3 stars. Personally, I didn’t have enough yogurt in the morning (apparently, focusing on the British, yogurt was taken out at lunch). But then we got up to beg for food from the manager of the canteen (the world's uncle !!! ). If, for example, you want yogurt and it is not in the hall, but it is in the kitchen in the refrigerator, they could take it out to us personally : ) Meat - in the form of chicken and our Russian hedgehogs (minced meat with rice) or meat loaf (with soy). So I advise men to bring money to go to a restaurant for meat, and girls - to look for a sponsor : ) The fish is awesome! Sometimes ram, sometimes herring, sometimes mackerel. Fried, steamed, grilled! We liked! In the hall - tea, coffee, semi-dry wines and drinks like Jupi (who remembers this inedibility). There are 10 kinds of salads, 3 kinds of side dishes (fries are almost always), sausage, olives, watermelon, melon. By the way, we noticed a peculiarity: at the beginning of our stay (part-time the beginning of the season), the assortment was smaller, and when the hotel was full, there was heaps of food, even puddings appeared, but the line for it lined up right on the street.
SERVICE: we did not find a mini bar in the room, but the hotel bar is clearly better, the bartender is a cool agitator for various fun and just a cool guy! Cleaned perfectly, the floors were wiped almost every day, towels changed daily. One BUT: since I like to tuck everything neatly - the guys didn’t always change towels for me, then they said that they thought that I didn’t spend the night in the room and didn’t use anything. : ) I had to wind up all sorts of figures from towels or crumple them to indicate my presence. ENTERTAINMENT: they didn't ask for darts - I don't know, paid billiards, Internet, paid tattoos, occasional visitor trade, animation was done only by internal staff: the bartender and his friends. From time to time, REPs of tour operators came and invited their and not their wards to discos. Didn't see much entertainment for kids. TV in the room broadcast one Russian channel, the rest - Turkish-English, etc. The free beer at the bar was delicious. Milk is generally excellent (although the Turks slyly looked at Mademoiselle, who wanted milk from the bar for the night, they even invited friends from the dining room to spy on the process. That made it even more fun).

LANGUAGE: you need to know a little English! At the reception there was a Russian girl Lena and there was one Russian-speaking Turk Adnar, but they are not there around the clock. The staff speaks English and was very happy with our timid attempts to say a couple of phrases in Turkish. Hotel neighbors: many Englishmen, there were Kazakhs and Estonians, one more - a resident of Ghana, in general, an international.
TOTAL: inexpensive and completely self-supporting. Who is not greedy for five-star comfort - I recommend it from the bottom of my heart! I'm thinking of going back there myself.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original

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