Normal hotel for your money

Written: 22 august 2011
Travel time: 12 — 19 august 2011
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 5.0
In principle, as for a beach holiday, the hotel is normal.
Problems, I think, arise for those who were sent there by travel agents as in 4 *, so it turns out a conflict between expectation and what is actually received.
In fact, the hotel does not claim such stars, they are not even on the pediment at all. On foreign sites, the hotel is positioned as 3 *.
So, if you go "Sleep-eat-swim", then the hotel is normal, with some reservations, of course.
So, in order.
1) The hotel really has no territory. The building is in the shape of the letter U, which has a swimming pool and an animator's patch inside. However, what is there is densely planted with greenery - limes, tangerines, bananas, figs, it seems, pistachios, and all sorts of grass-bushes. Next to the pool there are exercise machines, I didn’t see much excitement there. There's also a playground.

2) Such a compact territory has a big minus - you can’t hide from the animator’s party. Taking into account the fact that almost all rooms overlook the patio, you will be drunk through the windows until 2 am.
3.2 pools - no. In fact, there is only one pool, the second is a mixture of a jacuzzi and a paddling pool, one adult can lie down comfortably there, no more. Near the pool shower and toilet. There is practically no bar near the pool, at 4 o’clock they took out pastries and compote, they came up and collected themselves. The whole bar for you.
4) The pool itself - you can see in the photo, you can’t swim 20 meters with a breaststroke, but you can refresh yourself. You can also play polo and all that.
5) There were no particular problems with sunbeds, neither by the pool nor on the beach. If there were no sunbeds in the shade, there were sunbeds that could be dragged into the shade.
6) The beach is normal, relatively clean, although there are a lot of cigarette butts in the evening, but who makes them if not ourselves, although there are plenty of trash cans, but too lazy to get up...
7) The sea is clean, and without jellyfish (hooray-hooray-hooray!!!! ) However, it is quite deep. After a couple of meters the bottom is no longer groped. So this is not quite a children's sea, it is better to watch the kids all the time.
8) The beach is pebbly, slippers are welcome.
9) Regarding the beach bar - the choice of drinks is small (tea-coffee-chocolate, water and talkers like "yupi", but the two neighboring beaches had even worse - only "yupi"). Chocolate at times was very tasty, and at times - vile burda. We didn't have time to trace the pattern in a week. The bar is open until late, the uncle is very helpful.
10) There is a shower (however, once there was no water for several minutes in the evening, while I ran to the neighboring beach - water appeared), there is a locker room, a toilet shared by several beaches, but not far, relatively clean, with toilet paper, etc. , not like ours.
11) Staff - I didn’t notice much stink, although I’m sensitive to smells, yes, the guys were sometimes in wet T-shirts, but you try to run at this temperature for an hour or two, you will be the same.

12) The guys are quite helpful, everything was cleaned from the tables very quickly, in the dining room, near the pool, on the beach. One minus - in the bar they give drinks to take away in glass glasses, then people leave them anywhere, they break and... they are not removed immediately. I managed to get my foot into such a place and cut my foot.
13) Cleaning in the rooms is normal, they cleaned every day without a tip, my husband got hurt and stained the sheet - they changed the bed without waiting three days, left 2 dollars in gratitude - a bunch of shampoos appeared.
14) Animators - everything seems to be lively, the people mostly participated everywhere: darts, polo, gymnastics, volleyball, boccia, etc.
15) I liked the massage, one of those when you feel a real effect when you leave. I went to Serkan, but one of the women with whom I talked also praised the second one very much - a short dark-haired man, I don’t know his name.
16) Food - I don’t know, as for me, it’s satisfying. There has always been meat in one form or another. Once a week - kebabs, duck, half-carcass fish, but mostly roasts and meatballs. I see no reason to complain, it is unlikely that a contingent of hotels of this level in ordinary life allows themselves steaks every day. Personally, after 2 days I stopped getting into the trousers in which I arrived. Pies were mostly soaked, there were no pastries like pies and croissants, biscuits could be tasted by the pool during the day. Of course, there is a problem with drinking, from non-alcoholic normal, except for water, only cola-fanta-sprite, but it's all sweet. We ran to buy juices in the supermarket. And we drank the most delicious orange fresh juice at the Soso-Loco cafe, a sign in the form of a red male silhouette with a pipe, along the sea promenade towards the center and on the shore approximately opposite the shopping center. In a restaurant near the hotel fresh is much worse.

17) One of the biggest disadvantages of the hotel is the rooms. We were immediately settled in a very tiny one, but then moved to a larger room (albeit a triple one). But it is also significantly inferior in terms of comfort to the double rooms in which we lived earlier. The bathroom is small - the amenities include shampoo, soap, toilet paper and a telephone over the toilet. At the expense of washing, do not flatter yourself too much, you can’t wash a thing larger than a topic. So take a couple of extra things. A rope and 3 clothespins are stretched on the balcony. By the way, a piece of advice - 2 days after the "accident" I pulled out the white trousers filled with orange fresh juice from the bag and hung it on the balcony, for 4 hours in the morning the stains burned out without a trace. So sometimes you can not wash! : -))
18) Tips on what to bring with you - there is only one socket in the room, a tee taken from home was very useful to me. True, there is another one in the bathroom. There is nowhere to put things, there is a table with one chest of drawers, and a bedside table, and a wardrobe with 4 hangers. So it helped us a lot that we took things in 2 small suitcases, and not in one large one. The big one would have nowhere to put it, and the little one got into the closet. I used the second one as a wardrobe - it just fit into the “furniture”, something like a box without sides - there was a suitcase with things on the bottom, we put bags on top and the servants put towels
19) We bought sweets for home in a supermarket in the shopping center opposite, the Turkish delight store was closed. They turned out to be nothing, not spoiled, as the guides frightened. True, I took those that were in the store, they also gave me a small discount.
20) I bought a bed in the same place, near the hotel, where you can pay with a card, which helps a lot for those who are without money, but with a credit card. We bought - bamboo towels, bedding and bedspreads of the type that we were given at the hotel. The family was delighted.
21) The contingent of the hotel is about half, Turks and Russians (I calculated 3-4 families of Ukrainians). Turkish staff walks with Russian badges, understands Russian, dinner is accompanied by chanson. Turkish children are slowly learning Russian thanks to Russian animators. There are not many Russian children, but those that were shocked me (the Russian boy shouted to the animator “die, Diego! ”). Turks are quite quiet, sane and cheerful people. I did not observe especially noisy companies (with the exception of the above-mentioned children). Perhaps the point is that there are very few Russian men, mostly women of pre- and Balzac age. So there was no "get drunk and vomit in the pool" show.

22) Internet - Wi-Fi is caught almost throughout the hotel, even in the room, sometimes with the door open. On the balcony and around the pool - the signal is weak, but there is (20-40%, it was enough for me).
Translated automatically from Russian. View original