Illusions and truth about the Club Onura

Written: 27 february 2009
Travel time: 28 july — 12 august 2008
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 8.0
PEOPLE! BE CAREFULL! Never believe beautiful pictures in catalogs for the CIS countries! See import catalogs, for example, for German comrades - there are truthful photos and information! If the photos show a sandy beach, then this is not the hotel!! ! This is a 5-star nearby (Samara Hotel). But first things first.
AS THE THEATER starts with a hanger, so any hotel starts with the reception. Well, the employees of a 4-star hotel cannot have unwashed, wrinkled uniforms, and not everyone has the same uniform !! ! The fact that they do not wait for Russian-speaking tourists has already been written about by other authors, but only one aunt, who sits in the back of the reception and comes out only at your urgent requests, also understands English. True, to the honor of the staff, it should be noted that they do not require money, and they do not take it. But they don’t do anything according to their service: the untidy and untidy hotel lobby - crumbs, stains from coffee and juices on glass tables and pieces of paper stuffed by children of different nations wherever possible and lay there all two weeks of our stay. The impression is already spoiled from the arrival...
The OWNER of Ora-Club and Onura-Club is the same (everyone knows about it too). A few words about the portrait of this chela. A sort of godfather in miniature: a plump, gray-haired frame, surrounded by hangers-on, who, along with him, not only dine in the hotel restaurants, but also bring their numerous children and household members for the weekend. These also eat and walk, live in a hotel in free rooms every Saturday and Sunday. On the weekends of the local natives and in the pool and by the sea there are almost more vacationers. If you like immersion in Turkish reality (they thump and have fun cooler than the Tyumen oilmen) - then this hotel is for you!

TERRITORY The size of the hotel is small, but if together with Onura, then average. The territory is not guarded in any way and access to it (as well as car access to the beach) is free for all local residents.
The owner is passionate about collecting retro cars, which can be seen and all the money and effort go to, because he maintains 2 Ford Mustangs of 1968 and 1972, Citroen Traction Avant 1952, etc. obviously not cheap.
NOW ABOUT THE MAIN thing for which we all come here - the sea! If you are an extreme at heart, you have slippers for walking on corals, you and your children are great swimmers and are not afraid to get hurt by sharp stones - then this is the hotel for you!! ! The entire coastline of the hotel is made up of sharp basalt rocks. The entrance to the sea is only (!!! ) from the pier or ladders from the same pier. Stones in the sea do not run in (see information about rocks), so they are always sharp. If they bathe small children, they carry them in their arms and all the parents' legs are often injured.
The coastline is narrow - it's like a wooden pier, on which there are sunbeds. The boards were rotten in places, and the carpeting was torn off from them, the pier fences were rusted...
THE PEARL OF THE BEACH - its caretakers! These dexterous guys can borrow sunbeds with their towels in the morning, and then sell them to those who came out late. But it's still flowers! In the midst of a poor day, freaks begin cleaning by actively sweeping sand with brushes right on their feet from sun loungers and shoes. If the children molded sand from the sand, then the freaks level all the sand right before the eyes of the children !! ! Jaws sag not only in parents, but also in children! Starting from four o'clock in the afternoon, beach caretakers begin to actively collect mattresses and take them away somewhere. Moreover, such topics are in use: he went to swim, returned - there is a towel, but the caretakers have already dragged the mattress!!!
Snack bars are far from the beach itself and once again go for a beer-cola is just a bummer (maybe everything is calculated by the owner? ).

AGAIN ALL ATTENTION! The hotel was sold to us as a hotel for a family vacation, and MOSTREVEL sold it to the guys from Moscow as a youth hotel (and they also said: What are you, there is no one over 22 years old there! ). There is no entertainment for children or young people!! ! A primitive children's show is a type of disco, but for children 3-5 years old, and for adults - generally melancholy. Local hotel animation - sucks! True, for all the time, a local blue star came once with a concert like Turkish Night. The unconventionally oriented dude was pleasantly surprised by the way he dances belly dance and local dances. Obviously he did "chess" in local hotels, since the program was not very big and he and his makeup stylists rushed on.
MEDICAL SERVICE. How much we travel, but we encounter doctors and insurance for the first time. This is a separate issue! Upon arrival, the child fell ill - the temperature was 39. Attempts to call a doctor on insurance ran into the game "Don't understand your mine" (This is despite the fact that one of the parents has fluent English, and the second has German). They bred the whole day: either the doctor went to the wrong hotel, or to the wrong city at all, and then they sent a car from the type of hospital, but not an ambulance with a doctor, but a private one with a driver. And the child is on fire... He is not transportable, especially on such a machine. Refused. The divorces went in a different vein: like the guys from the CIS have unreliable insurance companies and do not confirm insurance payments, so you pay in cash, and then at home, like a travel agency and insurance companies can return... THE QUESTION WAS RESOLVED only after a call to the travel agency in Kyiv. We must pay tribute - and the insurance turned out to be correct, and the doctor arrived in 20 minutes, he was kind, but disastrously illiterate (he trained with us in Odessa, but he doesn’t know Russian and Ukrainian, or maybe he mows like a jerk... ). The doctor diagnoses - tonsillitis with removed tonsils !! ! With an intestinal infection, as it turned out later... True, the doctor brought so much medicine that probably all the children of the hotel could be cured. But the instructions for all medicines are IN TURKISH!! ! Have you already learned Turkish? We are now almost. . .
FOOD is perhaps the only bright spot in this hotel (you can see the large-bodied owner and he is not a fool to devour himself)! Everything is always fresh, varied, an abundance of fruits and vegetables, meat, fish (lots and lots of fish!!! ).
SUMMARY. There was an impression that the hotel, which used to work for the French and Belgians (now there are few of them) began to decline. In order to work it out at 101%, they decided to gradually sell it in the CIS, but they just haven’t figured out who to pioneers or pensioners yet. Yes, Turkish comrades like don’t care, because they don’t strain in anything, at least it was like that with us...
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