If you want to break away - you are here!

Written: 26 june 2011
Travel time: 12 — 21 june 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 6.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 8.0
I want to warn everyone right away, this hotel, and the resort as a whole, is designed for young, healthy and active people who want to have fun at discos. People who love a quiet and relaxing holiday and families with small children will not be quite comfortable here. As:
1) the walls in the hotel are very thin, the audibility is simply unreal, and the people have fun almost all night, so if you don’t have fun with the others, but want to sleep, you will just suffer until the morning, cursing all the residents of the hotel;
2) the hotel is located on a hillside and has a tiered structure, so those who got rooms in the upper part of the hotel (and they are considered the best) will have to overcome a huge number of steps on the way to the beach and back. For us, this was not a problem, we simply did not notice them, but some people complained that it was hard for them;

3) the sea is very clean, but also very cold - just right to cheer up after a nightly disco, but for small children it is not very suitable. In addition, the beach itself is very dirty - a lot of cigarette butts, glass and other debris. And it's not big enough, and if you don't take a seat before breakfast, then they simply won't be there. However, this is not scary, on the right side of the hotel beach there is a Ruj beach bar, we went there - comfortable soft sunbeds, everything is clean, beautiful, and the fact that for this pleasure you need at least once for a couple of days that ordering at the bar is not a problem.
Here, perhaps, all the minuses of the hotel. The rest is just a plus. The territory is quite large and very beautiful, a lot of flowers. Food for 4+. Every evening there is a show program on the lower terrace, sometimes even a very decent one. And after the show at 11.30, everyone is taken to a disco for free (each time is different, but by and large it doesn’t matter, since they are all located on the same street - bar street, and if you are tired, you can go to another disco, entrance is free everywhere , drinks - for a fee). They take you back to the hotel at 2.30, but if you really liked it and decided to stay longer, or vice versa, you got tired and want to return earlier, then you can walk for 15-20 minutes at a leisurely pace. Or you can go down a narrow street to the sea, relax and admire the night Gumbet.
In general, if you are attracted to a vibrant nightlife, and you easily endure the regime of eternal sleep deprivation, interrupted by a short morning nap and partial sleep on the beach, then you will really like it here. You will not look under the toilet in search of mold, be offended that somehow the room was not cleaned properly, suffer that TV has only one Russian channel, and the balcony overlooks the wall of the neighboring building (this is the most common option for this hotel).
A separate story is the hotel guests, the bulk - the British, then the Turks and in 3rd place the inhabitants of the former Union (Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Moldova). So, the British plunged me into shock. It is generally accepted that only our tourists get drunk to unconsciousness, yell, and then burp, but in comparison with the British, our fun is just a kindergarten, here we clearly cannot withstand the competition of a “civilized European country”.
And a few more words about excursions. Since we have already been to Turkey and have already visited the objects of interest to us, this time we limited ourselves to our own excursions within this area:

1) Visit Bodrum. A one-way trip by minibus (green with an orange stripe, stops right in front of the hotel) costs 2.7 lire. There is something to see in Bodrum: St. Peter's Fortress (entrance 10 lira, open until 18.30, except Monday); Mausoleum of Halicarnassus (more precisely, its remains, on the site of which a museum now operates; entrance fee - 8 lire, open until 18.00); the Hellenistic amphitheater (it seems to be fenced and there is some kind of booth that looks like a ticket office, but the gates were open, and there was no one who would demand tickets, so we just went in and walked around the amphitheater as much as we liked); and finally, the Myndos Gate, which was once part of the city walls that surrounded the ancient Halicarnassos, and served as the western entrance to the city (there are no fences and access to them is free around the clock).
2) Windmills 18 st. on the cape separating the bays of Gumbet and Bodrum. They take you here on a free sightseeing tour, but we walked so as not to waste time on the obligatory visit to the shops that are the “main attractions” of this tour.
3) Islands in the Aegean. Strange as it may sound, but we also went on this excursion ourselves and also on foot. First we went down to the neighboring Bitez bay, passed by the yachts and along a fairly wide path along the coast. We had to walk 4 kilometers for a long time, but then we went to a completely magnificent bay, where numerous yachts cruised, bringing tourists on an excursion to the islands.
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