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9.0
Cleanliness:
7.0
Food:
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Had a great rest. Turkey met us with the July heat. After the cool Moscow and the dry air in the plane, the humid heat of Antalya knocked us down a bit. But we came to rest, and this could not spoil our mood. My husband and I rested for the first time in Turkey, and everything was a novelty for us, although the landscapes and climate reminded me of our (more precisely Ukrainian) Crimea. We arrived at the hotel at 11 (Turkish time) and for 1.5 hours they walked like white crows (while the room was being prepared for us) in jeans and shirts, while everyone was running around in swimsuits.
Hotel. We lived in the old building, in room 438. In the new building, parents and children were mostly accommodated. We had a corner room, the last one, which overlooked a small pool with a balcony. There was another room on our floor (439), but it was already at the end of the building, and looked at the disco. Upon entering the room, we were immediately given a remote control for the air conditioner and cards for 2 towels (all for $ 60).
In the evening, from the balcony, we saw how towels were dried in Pinara, they were laid out on the roof during the day, and collected in the evening. In the morning (at 6 o’clock), again from the balcony, I noticed our towels hung on solar panels on our roof, after which my husband and I handed over our cards for towels (we returned $ 40 without talking) and went to the beach with ours. After the sea, they wanted to dry towels, but the entire hanger was occupied with swimsuits and clothes. The neighbors had a towel hanging right on the balcony, we did the same. After 15 minutes, when I went out to the balcony to smoke, my husband did not find a towel (we lived on the 6th floor, no one could steal it). We found a towel after 5 minutes on the lawn under the balcony, then they hung everything only on a hanger. Roosters were crowing somewhere in the morning. They were screaming. With us, he will shout a couple of times to a crow, but they do not stop. With the balcony closed and the air conditioner turned on, we did not hear any roosters or discotheques. We slept with air conditioning, it was very stuffy.
Central air conditioning is a mystic, that is, instead of an air conditioner, just an extractor hood.
The partition wall in the bathroom was very disappointing. At the bottom, it was not airtight, and through the gap between the bathtub and the glass of the partition, water flowed onto the floor. No matter how hard we tried not to pour on the glass, the bathroom floor immediately became wet. The water from the floor stubbornly rushed to the door to the room, instead of draining into the drain by the bath. They tried to complain at the reception, it didn’t help, they didn’t cover the gap with sealant and didn’t even leave rags. I had to wipe the water with a foot towel ...Not pleasant ...
The room had 2 beds: a double bed and a children's bunk bed. Both are very comfortable
The elevators were a little annoying. They had to wait at rush hour (during meals) for 5 minutes. And they crawled like snails, and even stopped at each floor. But you had to run into them: a little late - the elevator closed the doors, and you were waiting for the next one.
When we arrived, the letter “O” was not lit on the large central sign of HOTEL KAPLAN PARADISE. So the sign was repaired only after 4 days. On the small signboards, the letters were crooked and also burned first in the forest, then for firewood. In our seedy cafes, this is not allowed. Signs are repaired during the day.
Food. I thought that I would eat little - after all, the heat. But it was not there. There was just a lot, everything looked very appetizing, there were almost no familiar dishes. And my husband and I began to try all the new items (he got 2 plates, I have one, plus a plate or two with sweets). We finished trying new things just before leaving (we rested for 7 days). Upon arrival home, I gained 3 kg, and my husband's jeans stopped fastening. Sweets for every taste. All kinds of cakes, potatoes, mousses, baklava, eclairs… Overeating. We even stole baklava from the restaurant to bring home: tender, melting, honey is not viscous and fragrant. It has several types, but the taste is absolutely the same.
Therefore, those who do not want to drink tea or Jupi or tap water at the sea had to take bottles (for some reason they were not on the beach). Of alcoholic beverages, more or less Gin tonic and beer. Vodka, cognac is impossible to drink.
Pools. Few bathed in them. The pools are shallow, quickly heated up, and it became disgusting to swim in them. In addition, we came to the sea, so we preferred it. My husband did not like the pool in the water park, he hit the bottom with his elbow a couple of times when he flew off the hill. On the contrary, I liked the depth in the water park: you fly off the hill, immediately the bottom, push off and quickly swim out, and flounder in the large pool for another 5 minutes until you get to the wall, and hope that no one will fly out on your head.
Sea. Pebble beach. Although they write sand and pebble. There is almost no sand. They envied people who had special shoes for swimming.
Many went to the sea in slippers, left them by the water, and after swimming tried to find them. A good caretaker of the beach caught 3 pieces in my presence. And when the wind picked up, and with it the waves, the people sunbathing closest to the water began to help him. In general, there are 2 beach rangers. One is a dyed yellow blond (about 40), the other is a natural Turk (45-50). So I saw the second one at work all the time, he helped with mattresses, caught flip flops, moved deck chairs. He did not speak Russian, but he understood. The first one all the time sat under a canopy at the bar, he occasionally ran along the beach, and if he noticed that the children were pouring water on the sand from a hose, he shouted the phrase memorized in Russian “do not pour water, it will rain! ". So not only in Russia there are freeloaders. The sea was very clean, only when the waves rose, it brought some algae ...Somehow watermelons were brought to the beach. They were brought in in the evening and there were not many people, so everyone got it.
Although the sea was easy, although it was 600-700 meters to go (usually they write 300). The road is shaded and there are trees all around. Walked A couple of times we drove a typewriter: we approached, but it was empty - we rode with a breeze.
Animation. Bambino is great! The kids don't leave him. It is not easy to meet such a correct and good-natured person. In the evening I lit such a crowd of kids on a mini-disco. Pro! Once Tarek replaced him, the children did not like it. Yunus is the best DJ in the hotel. I saw Ozi only at the evening animation, and his lean mine killed the high spirits. Tarek...On the first day of my arrival, I mistook him for a blue, and everyone says he is a ladies' man and heartthrob...We arrived on Monday and were amazed by the evening animation, everything was so good. The show was in the pool. We watched synchronized swimming and were amazed how girls can swim for so long (then they saw that the pool was up to their necks).
The animators walked around with torches, and someone jumped over the burning ring into the pool. The show ended with fireworks and the burning of the Kaplan Paradise sign. Tuesday was Turkey Day, we liked it too. They brought camels, set up a market, and a folk ensemble danced. On Wednesday, a competition for couples - we laughed heartily. On Thursday, the sketch show was quite tedious and not funny enough. On Friday, they laughed at the competition for men. And on Saturday there was a finish line: a show of leather and fur products from a local store (animators participated in the show) and a prize lottery. There were 4 prizes in the lottery, and 10 people participated (as it seemed to me), a lottery ticket cost $ 10. There was no animation on Sunday, thanks to which we packed our things for departure. The average rating for animation is 4. The week started with 5 and ended with 2. Of the animators, only Bambino spoke Russian more or less well, the rest hardly remembered Russian words.
And this despite the fact that 98% of vacationers are Russians, and this ratio has been exactly 5 years already.
Tours. Renat from Pegas Touristik suggested a revised price list. The leaflet with prices is Pegasus, but the prices for popular excursions are smeared and handwritten for $ 5-10 more. Before leaving, I was just interested in these prices. The tour was bought in Yukon tour, they are intermediaries. The agency is located 10 meters from the hotel on the left. Kekova-Demre-Mira costs 25+4$ (4 for the entrance to the church), while Renat has 60 (Pegas has 55). On this tour, we traveled through the Yukon with the Ganza tour. The tour guide was Aigul. She's just great! Aigul is Kazakh, speaking Russian without an accent is her second native language. She knows history very well, both ancient and Christian. She herself is a religious person, a believer, so in the church she gave a tour of 5 ++. She joked all the way and was attentive to tourists, despite the fact that she did not feel well (heart). I advise everyone to go on excursions with her.
While sailing to Kekov, the tour was led by the Turks. He spoke Russian, but with such an accent that I could hardly understand the meaning of the words ...On the trip, they fed lunch, a buffet. The food is very spicy, shawarma put a little. Drinks for $ 2 are brought to the table, if you buy from them at the bar, then 1. Turks make money on water, or rather drinks! With Yukon we went to the bathhouse for $17. It turned out to be 6 minutes by car to the bathhouse, and it was in some 4-star hotel. We had a foam and oil general massage. KAPLAN PARADISE has the same $30. It is better to go to the bathhouse immediately upon arrival, so that the tan lies better.
Prices and goods. The prices are high. Bargain! You can exchange dollars for lira, but not much. Having bargained from 8 to 5 dollars, you can find that you have only 2 bucks and there are 3 more lira, the Turks will agree to this. 1 dollar is somewhere around 1.2-1.3 lira. Before changing, ask the exchange rate, otherwise they will change 1.2, and maybe even less, even if yesterday you changed it for 1.3. Cigarettes from $3.
In stores, clothes, shoes, gold are 10-30% more expensive than in Moscow. Clothing and footwear of market quality. On Saturday, a market came to Tekirova. This market is not much different from shops. Prices and rags are the same, and sometimes more expensive. It is profitable to buy only terry bathrobes there.
We bought coffee, tea, Turku in a shop when we made a stop on the tour. As it turned out, they did the right thing, the prices there were the lowest. Turkish delight bought from the hotel (10 meters to the right of the entrance). $ 10 kilogram, the assortment there is the richest. Even in the market, I have not seen some types of Turkish delight. Seeds - as if soaked in the sea. Large ones are white, and the seed itself is small. Very salty, even washed down with water. It is better to buy in kilograms, somewhere around $ 4 kg. We bought for $ 1, but in 3 days we didn’t gnaw them, we took them home. Fruit on the streets is sold at Moscow prices, a glass of freshly squeezed juice from 2 oranges is $2, despite the fact that they are grown 10 km from the hotel.
Hotel. We lived in the old building, in room 438. In the new building, parents and children were mostly accommodated. We had a corner room, the last one, which overlooked a small pool with a balcony. There was another room on our floor (439), but it was already at the end of the building, and looked at the disco. Upon entering the room, we were immediately given a remote control for the air conditioner and cards for 2 towels (all for $ 60).
In the evening, from the balcony, we saw how towels were dried in Pinara, they were laid out on the roof during the day, and collected in the evening. In the morning (at 6 o’clock), again from the balcony, I noticed our towels hung on solar panels on our roof, after which my husband and I handed over our cards for towels (we returned $ 40 without talking) and went to the beach with ours. After the sea, they wanted to dry towels, but the entire hanger was occupied with swimsuits and clothes. The neighbors had a towel hanging right on the balcony, we did the same. After 15 minutes, when I went out to the balcony to smoke, my husband did not find a towel (we lived on the 6th floor, no one could steal it). We found a towel after 5 minutes on the lawn under the balcony, then they hung everything only on a hanger. Roosters were crowing somewhere in the morning. They were screaming. With us, he will shout a couple of times to a crow, but they do not stop. With the balcony closed and the air conditioner turned on, we did not hear any roosters or discotheques. We slept with air conditioning, it was very stuffy.
Central air conditioning is a mystic, that is, instead of an air conditioner, just an extractor hood.
The partition wall in the bathroom was very disappointing. At the bottom, it was not airtight, and through the gap between the bathtub and the glass of the partition, water flowed onto the floor. No matter how hard we tried not to pour on the glass, the bathroom floor immediately became wet. The water from the floor stubbornly rushed to the door to the room, instead of draining into the drain by the bath. They tried to complain at the reception, it didn’t help, they didn’t cover the gap with sealant and didn’t even leave rags. I had to wipe the water with a foot towel ...Not pleasant ...
The room had 2 beds: a double bed and a children's bunk bed. Both are very comfortable
The elevators were a little annoying. They had to wait at rush hour (during meals) for 5 minutes. And they crawled like snails, and even stopped at each floor. But you had to run into them: a little late - the elevator closed the doors, and you were waiting for the next one.
When we arrived, the letter “O” was not lit on the large central sign of HOTEL KAPLAN PARADISE. So the sign was repaired only after 4 days. On the small signboards, the letters were crooked and also burned first in the forest, then for firewood. In our seedy cafes, this is not allowed. Signs are repaired during the day.
Food. I thought that I would eat little - after all, the heat. But it was not there. There was just a lot, everything looked very appetizing, there were almost no familiar dishes. And my husband and I began to try all the new items (he got 2 plates, I have one, plus a plate or two with sweets). We finished trying new things just before leaving (we rested for 7 days). Upon arrival home, I gained 3 kg, and my husband's jeans stopped fastening. Sweets for every taste. All kinds of cakes, potatoes, mousses, baklava, eclairs… Overeating. We even stole baklava from the restaurant to bring home: tender, melting, honey is not viscous and fragrant. It has several types, but the taste is absolutely the same.
Therefore, those who do not want to drink tea or Jupi or tap water at the sea had to take bottles (for some reason they were not on the beach). Of alcoholic beverages, more or less Gin tonic and beer. Vodka, cognac is impossible to drink.
Pools. Few bathed in them. The pools are shallow, quickly heated up, and it became disgusting to swim in them. In addition, we came to the sea, so we preferred it. My husband did not like the pool in the water park, he hit the bottom with his elbow a couple of times when he flew off the hill. On the contrary, I liked the depth in the water park: you fly off the hill, immediately the bottom, push off and quickly swim out, and flounder in the large pool for another 5 minutes until you get to the wall, and hope that no one will fly out on your head.
Sea. Pebble beach. Although they write sand and pebble. There is almost no sand. They envied people who had special shoes for swimming.
Many went to the sea in slippers, left them by the water, and after swimming tried to find them. A good caretaker of the beach caught 3 pieces in my presence. And when the wind picked up, and with it the waves, the people sunbathing closest to the water began to help him. In general, there are 2 beach rangers. One is a dyed yellow blond (about 40), the other is a natural Turk (45-50). So I saw the second one at work all the time, he helped with mattresses, caught flip flops, moved deck chairs. He did not speak Russian, but he understood. The first one all the time sat under a canopy at the bar, he occasionally ran along the beach, and if he noticed that the children were pouring water on the sand from a hose, he shouted the phrase memorized in Russian “do not pour water, it will rain! ". So not only in Russia there are freeloaders. The sea was very clean, only when the waves rose, it brought some algae ...Somehow watermelons were brought to the beach. They were brought in in the evening and there were not many people, so everyone got it.
Although the sea was easy, although it was 600-700 meters to go (usually they write 300). The road is shaded and there are trees all around. Walked A couple of times we drove a typewriter: we approached, but it was empty - we rode with a breeze.
Animation. Bambino is great! The kids don't leave him. It is not easy to meet such a correct and good-natured person. In the evening I lit such a crowd of kids on a mini-disco. Pro! Once Tarek replaced him, the children did not like it. Yunus is the best DJ in the hotel. I saw Ozi only at the evening animation, and his lean mine killed the high spirits. Tarek...On the first day of my arrival, I mistook him for a blue, and everyone says he is a ladies' man and heartthrob...We arrived on Monday and were amazed by the evening animation, everything was so good. The show was in the pool. We watched synchronized swimming and were amazed how girls can swim for so long (then they saw that the pool was up to their necks).
The animators walked around with torches, and someone jumped over the burning ring into the pool. The show ended with fireworks and the burning of the Kaplan Paradise sign. Tuesday was Turkey Day, we liked it too. They brought camels, set up a market, and a folk ensemble danced. On Wednesday, a competition for couples - we laughed heartily. On Thursday, the sketch show was quite tedious and not funny enough. On Friday, they laughed at the competition for men. And on Saturday there was a finish line: a show of leather and fur products from a local store (animators participated in the show) and a prize lottery. There were 4 prizes in the lottery, and 10 people participated (as it seemed to me), a lottery ticket cost $ 10. There was no animation on Sunday, thanks to which we packed our things for departure. The average rating for animation is 4. The week started with 5 and ended with 2. Of the animators, only Bambino spoke Russian more or less well, the rest hardly remembered Russian words.
And this despite the fact that 98% of vacationers are Russians, and this ratio has been exactly 5 years already.
Tours. Renat from Pegas Touristik suggested a revised price list. The leaflet with prices is Pegasus, but the prices for popular excursions are smeared and handwritten for $ 5-10 more. Before leaving, I was just interested in these prices. The tour was bought in Yukon tour, they are intermediaries. The agency is located 10 meters from the hotel on the left. Kekova-Demre-Mira costs 25+4$ (4 for the entrance to the church), while Renat has 60 (Pegas has 55). On this tour, we traveled through the Yukon with the Ganza tour. The tour guide was Aigul. She's just great! Aigul is Kazakh, speaking Russian without an accent is her second native language. She knows history very well, both ancient and Christian. She herself is a religious person, a believer, so in the church she gave a tour of 5 ++. She joked all the way and was attentive to tourists, despite the fact that she did not feel well (heart). I advise everyone to go on excursions with her.
While sailing to Kekov, the tour was led by the Turks. He spoke Russian, but with such an accent that I could hardly understand the meaning of the words ...On the trip, they fed lunch, a buffet. The food is very spicy, shawarma put a little. Drinks for $ 2 are brought to the table, if you buy from them at the bar, then 1. Turks make money on water, or rather drinks! With Yukon we went to the bathhouse for $17. It turned out to be 6 minutes by car to the bathhouse, and it was in some 4-star hotel. We had a foam and oil general massage. KAPLAN PARADISE has the same $30. It is better to go to the bathhouse immediately upon arrival, so that the tan lies better.
Prices and goods. The prices are high. Bargain! You can exchange dollars for lira, but not much. Having bargained from 8 to 5 dollars, you can find that you have only 2 bucks and there are 3 more lira, the Turks will agree to this. 1 dollar is somewhere around 1.2-1.3 lira. Before changing, ask the exchange rate, otherwise they will change 1.2, and maybe even less, even if yesterday you changed it for 1.3. Cigarettes from $3.
In stores, clothes, shoes, gold are 10-30% more expensive than in Moscow. Clothing and footwear of market quality. On Saturday, a market came to Tekirova. This market is not much different from shops. Prices and rags are the same, and sometimes more expensive. It is profitable to buy only terry bathrobes there.
We bought coffee, tea, Turku in a shop when we made a stop on the tour. As it turned out, they did the right thing, the prices there were the lowest. Turkish delight bought from the hotel (10 meters to the right of the entrance). $ 10 kilogram, the assortment there is the richest. Even in the market, I have not seen some types of Turkish delight. Seeds - as if soaked in the sea. Large ones are white, and the seed itself is small. Very salty, even washed down with water. It is better to buy in kilograms, somewhere around $ 4 kg. We bought for $ 1, but in 3 days we didn’t gnaw them, we took them home. Fruit on the streets is sold at Moscow prices, a glass of freshly squeezed juice from 2 oranges is $2, despite the fact that they are grown 10 km from the hotel.
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- Budget hotel, diligent staff, had a good rest
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