The cons outweigh the pros

Written: 22 october 2020
Travel time: 25 september — 2 october 2020
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
4.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 4.0
Amenities: 3.0
I don't understand so many rave reviews.

I'll write about the cons:
1. Loud, pop, Turkish music by the pool all day. You won’t be able to lie down normally and relax if you don’t like such music and its volume.
2. Uninteresting animation by the pool. Darts, some kind of dance and fitness in the pool (I only liked fitness).
3. You can get to the SPA declared in the name only by appointment and only for an hour. The spa includes a Russian sauna (good), a hammam (not very cold) and a shower. This is where the spa ends. Everything else is for the euro (massage, masks, etc. ), but it's easier to go to the city to the spa, it's cheaper and better there.
4. You can get to the gym only by appointment for 1 hour. It's small and the machines are so-so, frankly. It's easier to take a bike and go to the canyon in Goynuk.
5. Disco for children (from 20:30 to 21:30), and for adults (from 21:30 to 23:00) is very loud, and the music is like in a rural disco.

Everything in the room is very audible, so much so that rest in silence is out of the question! This is the worst flaw. When you come from excursions or a whole day by the sea and you want to take a nap or just be with your husband together, but no, please let Tarkan and Russian r'n'b stars into bed.
6. Rooms are distributed as it will. That is, as you check out / check in. You cannot choose a room, for example, with a view of the mountains, and not the pool. If you are lucky and there are free places, then you can be relocated, but for money. We were not lucky and there were no places.
7. Alcohol is local and frankly bad (especially wine, which I love, but I could not drink it), except for Amstel beer, local production. I don’t drink high-grade alcohol, but if you do, then you can ask for an imported one in the lobby so that whiskey is poured into a glass separately, separately, ice and cola, or rum, etc. The cocktails there are very bad, I never have such a disgusting pina colada didn't drink.
8. The food is not bad, but monotonous.
On the 5th day already tired. What is fried, it is better not to take, very fatty and dehydrated. Of seafood, only sea bass and something deep-fried.
9. The administrator girl we came across was very rude, when we complained about the noise in the room, she did nothing and accused us that they were to blame. In general, customer focus is below average at the front desk.
10. Not about the hotel, but more about nature, but still it's important! Because the mountains are often cloudy and the beach is not sand, but pebbles! This is our big disappointment!
11. It is better to buy shampoo, conditioner, shower gel on the spot or take it with you, you can only use soap in the department, everything else is of very poor quality.

From the pros:
1. Lots of fruits and vegetables on the restaurant menu. Individual items of food were very tasty, especially stews and grilled dishes. Good confectionery.
2. If not for this music, the pool is great, clean and spacious.
For those who love activity, there is volleyball and fitness in the water. Also at 10 or 11, on the beach of the hotel, on the sea, fitness in the sea, I really liked it, it was fun, thanks to the animator Christina)

3. The sea is close across the road, there is a bar, but there is not much food there. Mostly water, beer, watermelon.
4. Waiters and service personnel are competent and do their job perfectly. The room is cleaned every day, beach towels can be changed every day.
5. If you don’t have time for lunch, there are two mini-bar-restaurants near the pool where you can drink and eat pizza or pancakes. They won't leave you hungry.
6. The territory of the hotel is small, but well-groomed and beautiful.
7. It is not necessary to take a sunbed early in the morning, we had enough of them, because we moved them to a place where there is some sand in the open sun.

Our conclusions about the trip: it is better not to travel on all-inclusive tours, because.
you still won’t get everything (Turkey 5 stars does not correspond to 5 stars in Europe, by European standards a maximum of 3 stars) and the hotel is frankly boring and noisy, we ate and slept in the hotel, a couple of times we went swimming in the pool. If you like active holidays or active and passive 50/50, in this hotel you may not be interested in Goynuk itself either.
I'm not talking about relaxation at all, silence, peace, nature - not about this hotel.
It is better to take apartments, rent a car and decide for yourself where to go, what to eat and when to sleep. And a place in Turkey can be found with sandy beaches.
The hotel is not bad, but it is not for us, we will not go there again.
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