in detail

Written: 2 august 2009
Travel time: 26 july — 2 august 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 7.0
I'll tell you about everything in order.
We stayed at this hotel from 26.07. 2009 to 02.08. 2009.
The cost of the tour is about 38 thousand rubles.

According to the contract, our tour is 7 nights and 8 days. In fact, it turns out 6 nights and 7 days. Since the departure from Turkey was postponed 3 hours earlier and we were picked up at 1:40 am. Accordingly, we did not sleep that night and it cannot be called an overnight stay.

Tour operator Sunrise tour. (The meeting party is also Sunrise).
We naively expected that the transfer to the hotel would be carried out on large comfortable buses, as on our first trip to Turkey (last year the host was Tour Tez from the Mostrevel operator). But to our surprise, we were met by a small bus, about the size of a Russian "gazelle". It's okay that the bus is small, but most importantly, it was hot in it, the air conditioning was almost imperceptible. Yes, and the windows in the car were open, cooling, if any, was instantly weakened because of this.

Airline Orenburg Airlines.

All without complaints, the food is good, polite flight attendants. True, when we flew from there there was a delay of 30 minutes.
The first impression of the hotel is positive. At the reception we were offered a room either on the second or on the fourth floor, we chose the fourth.

The room is nice, clean, it had 3 beds. There was no minibar (and we don't need it). Hot water in the shower was around the clock. The water sometimes smelled of hydrogen sulfide. Excellent individual air conditioner. All electronics in the room work with a key.

There was no air conditioning in the dining room. Dinner is very hot.
Tea and coffee were always present in unlimited quantities. So, tea lovers need not worry (tea is scarce in some hotels in Turkey).

The meal schedule is quite rigid because the time range is very small. Last year we rested at the Marin 3 * hotel (also located nearby in Beldibi, 300-500 meters), so dinner lasted 2-3 hours there.
Lunch is also not an hour like here.

Breakfast 8:30-9:30
Lunch 12:30-13:30
Afternoon snack 16:30-17:00
Dinner 19:30-20:30

I have mixed feelings about the food at the hotel. Sometimes at breakfast, in addition to the notorious yogurt and jam, there were fried potatoes, pancakes. There were always cereals with milk, vegetables.
At the afternoon snack, several types of cookies, delicious pies with cottage cheese, muffins.
During the rest several times there was real meat. Some side dishes are very unfortunate. Once there was a stuffed pepper, many took it, but then no one ate it, because it was impossible to eat it.
Sweet drinks, quite tasty, not frank chemistry for you, there was a natural taste. It’s convenient that you yourself go to the machine and pour it. I can’t say anything about alcohol, because we don’t drink.
The beach is not far from the hotel. There is a small jetty next to the beach, which does not add to the pleasure of swimming.
The entrance to the sea is unpleasant, but we swam only in special slippers, so we were always fine.
Tours

We went only to the survey evening in Antalya. (Duration about 9 hours).
We knew that Sunrise had a free tour and decided to immediately ask questions about it, but the guides somehow react strangely to these questions. On the way to the hotel, they asked the guide Christina about her, at first she laughed it off, then she nevertheless said that they really have such a thing, only you have to pay $ 10 for food, if you don’t want to eat, then you don’t have to pay. The hotel guide Vasib was also reluctant to respond to the question, but he arranged us for this tour without any problems.
In general, the tour is weak, we had a licensed guide (as he boasted), a historian by training. He spoke with a very pronounced accent, but he told interesting things willingly answered the questions of tourists.
The tour includes (in order):
A trip to the Ataturk monument;
To the Karpuzkaldyran waterfall (translated as “lifting watermelons”);
Well, then a shop tour to the jewelry center (products are expensive and rough work);
Dinner. Dinner at the restaurant is poor and tasteless (not a buffet) with expensive paid drinks.
Center type "leather sheepskin fur", textile store.
Diving show in the entertainment park of Antalya.
During the tour, there was a conflict between the guide and a girl who, after dinner, approached the guide and offered not to go to the leather goods store, because, in general, no one was interested in it and no one was going to buy anything there, he refused her. And then on the bus, we all had to listen to their bickering, the guide argued that he had no right to deviate from the program, he himself did not like the shops, she insistently insisted that he should not “poke” her, in general, it was unpleasant and the sediment remained.
The tour is tedious and stupid, I do not recommend booking it.
By the way, although the bus was large, it was quite old, probably 15 years old, or even more, the air conditioner could not cope with the heat of the day.

In general, my impression of the Sunrise Tour is not the best. I don't want to travel with them anymore.
The hotel is good enough.
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