Our long awaited vacation

Written: 31 may 2011
Travel time: 12 — 27 may 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 7.0
Hello! Finally got around to writing a review about our vacation in Beldibi in Sunland.
Traveled with my husband and 2 year old daughter. Before the trip, we were very worried after reading bad reviews, but still hoped for the best. Because 3 years did not go to the sea, this trip was very much expected.
We flew from St. Petersburg, we had a travel agency Riviera (Intourist).

We arrived at the hotel at half past midnight local Turkish time. The reception was empty, we were quickly issued. We immediately asked for a quieter room, because, as I wrote above, we are with a small child. The Kirghiz, who was at the reception, said that the quietest rooms are those overlooking the neighboring hotel. But I, after reading reviews about how noisy the animation is, asked to see a few rooms. Indeed the room he said was quiet BUT the first two days. And then it began, from 9 to 12 at night, it was simply impossible to be in the room, the music rumbled so, it seemed that all this was happening in the room, the animators were screaming as if they had been cut at the top of their lungs. In general, if you want to sleep, then do not take a room with a view of the neighboring Grand Ring Hotel, it's just a quiet horror. By the way, the music did not interfere with the child, but the main thing was for the daughter to fall asleep before the moment she was turned on. It interfered more with me and my husband, we fell asleep only after 12.
The day after we arrived, we met our hotel guide Nizam, tell me that guy! When at the meeting we told him that we would not go on any excursions with the child, he was so dissatisfied that he twisted his face soooo much that it was disgusting to look at, and later, when we saw him at the hotel, he turned away with a displeased mine . Also, a day before departure, he did not bother to inform us that the departure time of the plane had changed, we had to find out everything ourselves. Here he turned out to be such a reptile, not a guide! In general, the last time we flew with the Riviera!
As for food at the hotel. The child was, frankly, nothing. As the guys we met there said, the hotel changed the owner and chef, with the old chef there was a chic children's menu.
What was for breakfast: Huge selection of bread, tortillas, bagels with sesame seeds, small buns with poppy seeds, seeds, etc.
Boiled eggs 3 min and 5 min.
Omelette with herbs, cheese, and sausage.
Fritters + a dozen types of jam, chocolate paste, honey.
cakes with cheese, herbs, potatoes, minced lamb.
Cheese, feta cheese, 5 kinds. I really liked one kind of cheese, the most insipid (the rest were insanely salty), yellowish like that, I ate it all the time, well, just sooo delicious.
Sausage is also about 5 types.
Vegetables in huge quantities (tomato, cucumber, pepper) greens are just mountains.
Fruits are oranges, grapefruits, apples, and the local fruit resembles a pear, but we were told that it is a type of peach : )
Pastries, buns with dried apricots, with figs, well, you just lick your fingers, with cheese, with chocolate paste. Sometimes biscuits.
Drinks: tea already brewed, in bags, coffee, concentrated juice (peach, apple, orange), of course, it is impossible to drink it, only if diluted half with water.
Sometimes muesli steamed with milk, 3 times in 2 weeks there was semolina porridge, 2 types of mashed soup that we did not like.
Muesli, chocolate flakes, yogurt, cold milk.
Sausages (disgusting).

Then there was a late breakfast, but we did not go to it, friends say that everything is very poor there.
Dinner:
Vegetables, fruits, bread, cheese, sausage, tortillas as in breakfast.
Lots of mayonnaise salads, we didn't eat them.
Very, very tasty corn, I recommend; )
Pasta, rice (very tasty) have always been. Puree was only 1 time. Spiced baked potatoes.
Every day there was insanely delicious fish, fried, baked.
Turkey with vegetables, chicken, meatballs with vegetables.
Sausages in some kind of marinade. Grilled meat was done, but not every day.
Stuffed eggplant is just delicious : )
Stewed vegetables. Dietary table: broccoli, cauliflower, beans, carrots, etc. , either boiled or steamed.
Dessert.
Afternoon snack: Tea, coffee with pastries, ice cream, tortillas.
Dinner:
In principle, the same thing as for lunch, only almost every day they grilled meat, barbecue, chicken, but to get it, you had to stand in a rather big queue, but if you could come later, you would also get it. We rarely stood still, and there was enough food.
Desserts were weak.
About cleaning. The cleaning time coincided with the time when our child was sleeping, so we put up a sign later, and we were always cleaned. Towels were changed, the bed was made, by the way, linen was changed after 2 days, which surprised us, vacuumed. Mirrors are not wiped, dust too.
Beach. We always went to the wild, it is located 2 hotels from Salenda. As you leave the hotel, go right, you won't miss it. The beach has small pebbles. The child had a place to sip. The beach is clean, there are few people, it suits us very much.
The entry into the sea is rocky, nothing can be done about it. By the way, the child walked on pebbles and pebbles with bare feet without problems, it was impossible for my husband and I to walk without slaps.
Pier. You can go across the road, or you can go through the underpass. Lots of loungers. Enough for everyone.
Descent into the water along the ladder, very convenient, no need to go over the stones. The pier was completed only in the middle of our stay there, but we didn’t need it.

Upon arrival, we immediately went to the hammam (on the -1 floor in the spa), it costs $ 50, but we went from a travel agency of friends (tez tour) for $ 30. It was good, but not great, for a four.
Beach towels are also provided. It is better to take during the day and not give it away, because. they've been gone since morning. Hairdresser $20, manicure $20, pedicure $30.
Entertainment: water aerobics (a cool thing), water polo, table tennis, children's animators, evening animation in the amphitheater, night disco.
In general, they were satisfied with the rest. I repeat, the food for the child and desserts let us down; ) I would not give 5 stars, a solid four.
Thanks to everyone who read my long story to the end; )
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