Beach of deceived people, 3 * and no more

Written: 27 may 2014
Travel time: 17 — 25 may 2014
Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 3.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 3.0
My friends and I bought a Fortuna 5 Star Kemer 5* tour from you from May 17 to May 25.2014, having a successful experience of purchasing such tours for ourselves and our next of kin. After a preliminary acquaintance with the room and refusing it, as well as disputes at the reception with the hotel guide Margarita, we were told that we had a room corresponding to Fortuna. The arguments that Standard Room (ROH) was written in our voucher, and the rooms provided on the Coral Travel website were announced as Garden Rooms were not taken into account. Further disputes and persuasion led to Margarita's offer to pay $10 per night for a room, after which we would be given a standard room…. but the next day. We were forced to move into the proposed rooms, where we stayed until the end of the tour. And then with the details as you become familiar.
Rooms. Located in a corner of the "two yards" under the fence of the main building of the hotel and a neighboring building.
If in the first "courtyard", the distance between the walls is still about 10 m, then in the second one you need to get to know the neighbors much closer.

In the first yard there is a clear advantage - a lawn with a withered tree. But this advantage overshadows the quality of laying tiles and paving slabs (the same in the second courtyard), which was never washed after the completion of the work. It's better to look at it bigger.
Steps at the entrance apparently and there is a terrace advertised on the site. The area of ​ ​ ​ ​ the living room of the room is about 11 sq. m (it is easy to calculate by the tiles), there is not even a chair in the room (it is replaced by an ottoman), there are no elementary devices for drying beach accessories. The chair on the "terrace" was brought from the bar themselves, then the staff for the rest of the rooms did it.
In the photo below, in addition to the area of ​ ​ the room, you should also pay attention to its height - something about 2.2 m. But remember that we were given a standard room for Fortuna.
Through the doors you can see the neighbors, but we (we lived in the first courtyard in room 5109) were still far away. The passage near the bed is also interesting. My wife and I disagreed there with difficulty, but the door from the nightstand did not open. It is interesting that there is a refrigerator inside that opens in the opposite direction. Convenient - there is nowhere else to go.
The furniture in the room is good, one might say new.
A bathroom as a part of the room that deserves special attention (No. 5109).
Relatively large in area, but... There was a constant stink of sewerage, a faucet dangling on the wall. I was afraid it would break off. The water from the shower did not drain. They called the Turk to fix it, he took out a decorative cork and said “OK? ” and that was it. Water began to "slow down" a little less. Of the two buttons above the toilet, only the large one works, although it must be pressed again to stop the water. The design of the washbasin is more interesting, the faucet is installed in such a way that to use it you need to press your hands close to the edge of the sink, otherwise there is no way.

Restaurant. In principle, there are no special comments, the food was normal. Although sometimes there was not enough fruit. There were interruptions in drinking, but temporary. True, it is not clear why in a 5 * hotel beer and whiskey are poured into plastic, but mostly into paper cups. But it's true. . . The design of the restaurant and halls is very reminiscent of the decoration of the House of Creativity of Scientists in Katsiveli (Crimea), built in the 80s of the last century. Surprising, but okay. . .
The photo shows tables with uncleaned dishes, they then began to clean them up, but the tables were moved into rows, between which it was difficult to pass. Like in a prison from an American movie.
Sea. The hotel schedule indicates that the sea is 50 m, and the private beach is 300 m.
It seems that the sea passes between the main road to Kemer and the hotel. In a straight line to this road about 150 - 200 m (see photo on the left). In a straight line through someone else's territory to the sea, you still get 300 m (in both photos - people going to the Arma's hotel without waiting for the shuttle).
In fact, it is about 800m to its beach. The last 50 - 100m to the sea pass through a local guesthouse, the road through which, as well as the entrance to Arma's own beach, is surprising, if you remember that this is a road and a 5 * hotel beach.
The approach to the beach, the state of the bar and the territory near it are fully consistent with unequipped Crimean or Odessa beaches, which do not have categories and 3 *.
For the first 2 days, a shuttle in the form of a tractor with a trailer drove to the beach, but it should be noted that he traveled regularly, which cannot be said about the bus that replaced him, which could be expected and not expected. By the way, the rules of the road generally prohibit carrying people in a trailer.
Animation. It is better not to write anything so as not to remember stupidity, vulgarity and wretchedness.
So, the hotel, including all of the above. The territory of the hotel is small, it doesn’t exist at all from the facade, but at the entrance there are 2 huge air conditioners, there are a few more of them along the facade, of course, everyone works and makes noise. In front of the facade and next to it, there is either garbage or an abandoned area, including the entrance to the office with garbage cans, etc.

The inner territory of the hotel is a swimming pool and 10 meters around it and the building, a place for the show, you can’t call it otherwise. Behind the fence is, obviously, an apartment complex, with a constantly noisy ventilation system. Actually, that's all.
The hotel is on the THIRD line and has a 5* category. Located on the first line of Arma's Beach from the outside, looking more presentable than Arma's Resort, it has a 4 * category.
Inside the hotel has a really complex and original staircase, which in fact is the only attractive place. Functionally necessary, because the elevator works "once".
The reception room is generally covered with wallpaper, accidentally knocking on the wall, you find out that it is obviously made of plywood at all (sewn up). The thickness of the walls is proof of this. In the room where we lived, the walls, by the way, are also not much thicker, there is no direct ventilation, and when you turn off the air conditioner, you immediately feel the delights of the heat, and it's still May.
The hotel also has an indoor pool, sauna, hammam, etc. The pool seems to be heated, but it is not felt. But it smells like bleach, like in a bad hospital after cleaning. But we didn't come to the hospital, did we?
In conversations on the beach, almost everyone scolded the hotel, the level of relaxation, the majority did not come by “Fortune”... Those who had not been to Turkey before said that it was worse here than in Egypt, etc. Scolded the hotel and beach workers. The impression people have that a 5 * vacation in Turkey is the level of Arma's Resort is, of course, wrong, but it has already developed. Many will not want to come here again. The hotel is a disgrace to both Turkey and Coral Travel. We were simply deceived - in the sale, settlement and provision of services.
Given the above, we believe that Arma's Resort cannot be rated higher than 3 *, and that we and you were deceived by its owners. In this regard, comparing the price of Fortuna Kemer 5 * and 3 *, we ask you to compensate for the extra costs incurred by us, as well as the spoiled vacation.
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