what do you want to get in turkey?

Written: 22 september 2011
Travel time: 14 — 21 september 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
4.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 3.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 1.0
Amenities: 1.0
My wife and I have been actively traveling for ten years, we lived in different hotels - from 2 to 5 stars in different countries. When choosing a hotel in Turkey, its value was put in the first place - the smaller, the better. But, honestly, I must admit, it was not necessary to meet a worse hotel. I don't know how it got stars. This is more of a hostel than a hotel.
Shabby rooms, broken hair dryers, and toilet lids, permanently broken railings between floors - that's all about him.
If you are going to Turkey as a beach goer, by no means go to Santana. You will die of boredom, b. c. the beach is far away, and the beach itself is a code name - the distance between two ropes, broken sunbeds and rusty mushrooms. Entrance to the sea on the cobblestones. The food at the hotel is just awful. Some kind of herb mixed and separately. There is basically no meat. Not every dog ​ ​ dares to eat what they call sausage, they saw fish twice in a week. If there were no watermelons, you can die altogether. We ate mostly in the cafe Traude - 150m towards the sea, on the right. The owner is a Turk with an Austrian wife. They cook, they serve. The prices are very democratic, for 15-20 dollars you can eat like a human, together, with beer, but without alcohol, of course. There is no animation at the hotel, the territory, as such, too.

In order not to denigrate the hotel completely, a few positive impressions. The staff is quite friendly, does not steal, the rooms are cleaned every day, regardless of the tip.
If you are going to go on excursions, and the hotel is just a place for you to spend the night, then this one is also suitable as an extreme option. The hotel is small, and if there are no too cheerful neighbors, you can spend the night in it. If funny guys come across, you will hear them from morning to night, the audibility in the hotel is 100%. There are no thresholds in the doors, the partitions are made of unknown things, the floor is made of tiles both in the corridor and in the rooms. In general, it will not be boring. We lived in a corner room overlooking the mountains, the people in the hotel were adequate, so we learned about the charms of soundproofing only on the last night. There were many departing, and they came off in earnest.
In general, to be honest, Turkey disappointed. The sea is a charm, nature is a miracle. But the service is too intrusive, the desire to extract money from tour operators, hotel guides is too undisguised. The final touch was raised at 5-30 in the morning in order to be taken to the airport (four hours before departure, driving to the airport - half an hour maximum), and all in order to finally bring Turkish delight, textiles and all sorts of rubbish to the next store. And judging by the traffic at 6 am, not a single group passes by this store. Tourists from the last hotel in Antalya, after which we still had to go to the airport, did not wait for the bus and left by taxi. This is what Turkey is like.
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