Time stops there...

Written: 6 june 2011
Travel time: 7 — 14 may 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 10.0
We were from 7 to 14 May. I am with my wife and 13 year old daughter. When checking in, no one was paid money and got room 3517 on the fifth floor. From the balcony below there is a swimming pool, on the left you can see the sea through the roof, and on the right the mountains. Awesome view. There are no shelves in the closet. Take a drying cord on the balcony. Removed badly regardless of the tip. There was no wet cleaning of the floor. Sand and felt on bare feet were present.
We were afraid it would be cold. But out of 7 days, only 2 were cool with rain, and so we swam in the sea and in the pools with pleasure. Yes, you can’t sit long in the water, but after the scorching sun it’s great to plunge into the refreshing water. Very transparent. Magnificent division into two zones connected by a tunnel. There was enough space by the pools, on the beach, if you want by the water itself, then you take a sunbed and a mattress and move to the left side and lie down by the water itself. Our beach is extreme and away from Beldibi is free. In that direction, everyone likes to walk to the rocks. Local fishermen fish there. It was very cool to watch how solid fish are pulled out. Sun awnings on the beach. Shower with fresh water. The entrance to the water is rocky and painful. We bought 2 pairs of rubber slippers for $7. But you may not buy. At the end of the pier there are 2 ladders to descend into the water. Many did just that. The food doesn't have much variety, but you won't go hungry. For dinner there were interesting dishes on the street in front of the restaurant. You can sit with a flashlight in front of the pool. On the day of arrival on Saturday got to the "Turkish night" at the hotel. For dinner there were crazy dishes like when you bake a fish carcass in clay and other delights. Mini market on site after dinner before the show. Well, the show itself was very beautiful. It was based on national Turkish dances, drummers' shows. Who then went to the paid "Turkish night" in the village, they said that the hotel was better. Once, in the middle of the week, for dinner in a restaurant, two fresh tuna, the size of a small man, hung on hooks by their tails, were rolled out on a cart right into the dal. In our presence, the carcass was butchered from the tail and pieces of meat were cut off. It was immediately fried on the grill and handed out to everyone. SUPER!
Tennis is free, billiards is $5, there is a gym.

On May 9, after dinner, the chefs with torches in their hands, who carried a huge cake on a stretcher, were arranged to leave. 9 people are engaged in animation. There is a lot to do with children there.
A little about something else. Upon arrival, TEZ TOUR immediately takes into circulation on excursions. We already read the reviews in advance and wanted to buy from the locals. But I really dreamed of getting into the hamam bath. And when even in the foyer at check-in the guide said that due to the influx of visitors to the hotel bath, it was better to pay $ 25 right away and then on the day of arrival you can definitely get there. Do not believe - a divorce. As it turned out later, Nurik (the head of the bathhouse in our opinion) has 20 dollars. And in the village there are 15 each. I did not like. I was alone. They put him first in a Finnish glass steam room. Then they took me to the bathhouse, laid me down, rubbed it with a washcloth, washed it off, rubbed it with foam, washed it off, took it out into the hall and laid it on a sunbed, put on tea. The washing went on for 10 minutes and I was there alone for the whole hall. And so I lay for 20 minutes and began to freeze. Disappointedly, I thought that was all, but then the massage therapist appeared and said that not only did I want to eat, but he also needed it. He went to eat. The massage was 20 minutes and I liked it. The only one in the bath. Immediately, he finds salts in the spine and offers a massage with oils for $ 15.
Nurik is attentive to you for the first 2 days, then the interest disappears and he spends his strength on newcomers. It is an interesting flavor of the hotel.
By prices. Crazy and acting arrogant. But, if you move closer to the center of the village, already after the first bend in the road, prices become moderate. If you go from the hotel to the left to the exit from the village, then there is a small grocery store and we even saw PRICE LISTS there! And a large package of their local awesome long seeds cost 3 lira (2 dollars) there, and 3 dollars (4.5 lira) in the village. The locals seem to shop there. We devoted one day to Antalya. We got on a dolmush, showed the name of the center written in Turks, and drove off. The driver told us to get off where we needed to go. In the bus behind the driver GRS navigation map and we saw where we are on the map. Each bus stop has a minimap and a point where you are. In the historical center there are a lot of merchants with crazy prices. We moved a couple of blocks away from the center and there were shops with prices and cheap goods. My wife bought there a total of 5 or 6 pairs of good quality leather shoes for the family at ridiculous prices, a bunch of stone jewelry, a handbag and other things. Tip: do not spend money in Beldibi, go to Antalya and go away from the center.

Tours were taken. 25 dollars from all local operators in MIR-KEKOVO. And I advise you. We chose for a long time who to take. At all it is possible only 2 times a week. A bus runs every day in Ginza. And own. So there are a lot of people to gather. And they have a guest book. I have not seen anyone like this. Agensto is located after the bend of the street closer to the center. There is an elderly man, calm. And we saw his photo in other reviews. This is where they stopped. They didn't regret it. The tour guide did not stop talking for a minute the whole day. And this was not empty chatter, but everything was very informative historically, myths, legends, the history of peoples, etc. First, they sailed on a yacht to watch the ruins of the city of the Lycians, who had gone under the water. Then they swam into the bay for a swim who wanted to. Then we went by bus to see the amphitheater and the tombs in the rocks, then the church of St. Nicholas. There you can consecrate the icon at his grave. But the prices there are prohibitive in the icon shop. Take with you who wants. We have seen many people do this.
General impression. For the first time in our lives, our family went to distant lands. Now we will never go to the Crimea or Ilyichevsk again. There, time stopped and it seemed that the problems at home were somewhere very long ago, and not a week ago. In Ukraine, we didn’t sit out for a week and wanted to go home as soon as possible, but here we really didn’t have enough for a couple of days. Awesome vacation for 1192 dollars for three with a flight from Kyiv. We ourselves are from Brest. By car to Boryspil, where at the hotel "4 seasons" we spent an inexpensive but worthy night, we left the car 500 meters from the hotel for a week in the parking lot for 20 hryvnias per day. In the morning they called a taxi for us for 80 hryvnia to the airport.
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