Турецкая подделка на роскошь. Turkish counterfeit luxury.

If you are willing to put up with a rather impressive number of unpleasant "trifles", just because someone once assigned this hotel 5 stars, and if you are not tired of drinking instant free Yuppies, then you can choose this hotel.
In order about the main thing.
Hotel/service (service).

It looks like an alluring Turkish handbag under Louis Vuitton, until you come closer and look at it) It seems to be luxurious, marble floors, a chandelier and a spiral staircase seem to shine, there is a fountain (it stupidly never turned on and was covered with greenery, “absolutely all "))), a lot of "applications" in the form of bars, slot machines, bowling (the cost is such that even 2 lanes were always free), a gym (not everything worked and no one repaired it), a jacuzzi that did not work in time, and everything listed in the hotel description... BUT in many places something falls off, peeled off, not smudged and not smeared. It seems that there is an idea, but the execution is clearly in the spirit of Ravshan and Jamshut.
One thing I can’t understand is how in 4 years of operation it was possible to run a hotel like that.
The toilet was ticking in the room, or maybe it was from the bathroom. In the corridors, in some places the plinth torn off with meat drags out its existence.
And it seems that the staff is all the time in front of our eyes with rags and mops fussing, but more like a mouse fuss. And either the "authorities" of the hotel beat off the money and do not pay them for their slave labor, or the Turks are simply lazy. Well, this is poetry, but the prose is such that all the plumbing is in limescale, the tiles on the wall in the bathroom are in black fungus, the carpet in the room has never been vacuumed. Fortunately, towels were changed, garbage was taken out, a puddle under the toilet was wiped off and tips were regularly taken. The owner, about whom many people write, appeared only in the dining room, so, by and large, everything was tolerable there. Except for slop coffee and that infamous fried herring.
Pools. The main one, that near the "new" building is very untidy. I fished out a toothpick and a tuft of hair and didn't go there again. Indoor - just cold, probably for the walruses from the sauna. And the best part, a deep and clean pool near the building across the road on the subway. At least they cleaned it, I personally saw it. The old building seemed like a completely different hotel today... but it looks like a Greek villa from the outside, it’s very nice outside, I wasn’t inside, I was scared of the reviews and asked to be settled in the “new building”.
They settled us quickly, in an hour or 1.5. But our companions were less fortunate, their number was "removed" after 3.5 hours.

The service is more than intrusive. It simply doesn't exist. They didn’t wake us up for the planned excursion, since the alarm clock on the mobile phone worked))), and the wake-up call was ordered at the reception by the hotel guide. But alas))) On the day of departure, no one was going to wake us up either, but God is with him, but in all hotels in the world, a wake-up call for departing people is the norm. Rise at 4.30, did without lunch boxes (dry breakfast) - I wonder. We didn’t actually eat until the plane’s lunch, and since takeoff was delayed by 50 minutes (we were sitting on the plane), we ate just about 11 hours. At the Airport, just a hand did not rise for tea for 5.5 dollars and a glass of juice for 6.5.
At the reception every now and then turned out to be unwitting witnesses to various proceedings, our room was on the second floor near the atrium.
In general, with the "little things" perhaps enough.
Beach.
For an amateur. This is not sand, and not even pebbles, this is a cobblestone beach. For me personally, this is hellish torment. She knocked off all her legs, she slipped. The husband invented a way to enter the water with a "crab", i. e. sit on your ass and move with all limbs until the water reaches your nose, and then turn over on your stomach and swim. Getting out is harder
There is an option with beach closed slippers with thick soles, then you can avoid all these unpleasant procedures with forced and inevitable "massage" of the feet.
There are also types of ramps, on which you can go into the water, there are only 2 of them, but you still have to walk to them. Or dive off the pier.
The beach is two levels. Over the wall and near the water. Quite narrow, plus in this one, almost no one roams around you. Dirty. Cigarette butts, glasses galore.
One fine day out of our 7, the sea spewed out on us all its grievances inflicted on it by the inhabitants of Ukraine, of which 80% are in the hotel and our compatriots. These grievances in the form of panty liners, tubes from juices, bottle caps, bags and candy wrappers from chocolate. I've seen everything... but this is too much.
On another beautiful day of our 7, we were lucky to see a carcass of a gnawed fish washed ashore, smelling so that the flies died. I caught up with the scourge boy and asked her to clean it up. Fortunately, he did it quickly, but dragged it in front of everyone, with the stench flowing from it to the beach shore, instead of dragging the package and hiding it from vacationers as it should be.

On the third day out of seven, we splashed in a puddle of solarium, probably thrown down by one of the boats, of which there were in abundance during the days of our stay. Throughout the rest, we rubbed blots of black fuel oil from our flip flops and our own feet. When asked where it came from, the guide said that a large ship passed here 2 weeks ago, so in general we were not lucky. Full 2 ​ ​ days we were on excursions.
It's a pleasure to swim, if you count the days, we managed not so much.
Nutrition.
By and large, I don’t have much to say about this separately. Husband liked it.
You can eat different meats, usually chicken or lamb with gravy. In Tunisia, I liked the food more, otherwise it was a four. For garnish, just rice or mashed potatoes. 1 time was pasta. National couscous, which I love so much, was given as an appetizer . . little and only in one form. Breakfasts with enviable constancy were monotonous, so I ate scrambled eggs and pancakes for a long time ahead. There are cereals, kissels, honey, various pastries and eggs.
There is no separate table for children, and there are quite a lot of children there, which is strange for me. So you have to choose from the general. People choose this hotel for families.
What did you like. It's for dessert. I don't like to end on a sad note.
The hotel area is not large, but there are trimmed trees, it's beautiful, the area in front of the sea across the road is also quite nice, to the beach. Lots of greenery. Thanks to what enough picturesque photos.
Animators are engaged with children and evening shows are funny. For children there is an active mini-club.
We went on 2 excursions. Fishing in the Botanic restaurant. We caught 10 river trout for two. We ate well. Ice cream in Turkey, as always, delicious and cheap. The hotel also gave it for free every day on the beach (1 tube in hand).
We visited the Cathedral of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker. Normal, not tiresome excursion. The second part of the tour goes on the water, so we also swam in the clear water in the bay.
Work "Tez tour" flawlessly. Met, brought, on the way to the hotel gave a lot of general information.

The guide for the excursion to the temple of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker turned out to be a wonderful girl. Turkish, speaks good Russian. Her name is Irem (Airem) or Ira, she is used to the Russian version of her name. Interesting, funny, respectful and very attentive. Hotel guide Oksana is polite, but nothing more. We had to go to the temple of Nicholas in a group of 5 people. But the child had a fever the night before. So part of the family stayed at the hotel. Irem called Oksana in the morning and told her the situation. The money for the tour was returned to them in full. But Oksana insisted at first on the transfer of the tour. Yes, this is understandable.
Draw your own conclusions gentlemen. But personally, I no longer want to relax in the company of Ukrainians and Russians in a hotel where everything is done carelessly. I expected more from the hotel. But the rest in it did not meet my expectations and it does not correspond to five stars unambiguously.