Our vacation in July 2017

Written: 27 july 2017
Travel time: 2 — 16 july 2017
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 10.0
Rested from 02 to 16 July 2017. We flew from St. Petersburg on Turkish Airlines. This is a special topic - the plane is regular, takes off once a day according to the schedule, there are no delays. The crew is very nice and friendly, drinks and food in sufficient quantity and all in a timely manner. On request, they offer any alcohol (vodka, whiskey, wine), not to mention juices and water. No one "gets drunk", no one sings songs, and "muzzles" do not hit anyone. The flight to Antalya is 3 hours 20 minutes. The meeting party in the "stand-by" mode, an air-conditioned bus, was taken very quickly. Settled immediately after arrival and filling out the cards. They asked for rooms in the new building, but the hotel was completely full, and if they had ordered the “elite standard” right away, they would have settled in the new one, and since there was only “standard”, then the old one. But we did not regret it, the room is spacious with a large balcony, a view of the mountains and the sea. The air conditioner was set to the minimum temperature and maximum airflow, it turned off when entering the balcony and also automatically turned on when the balcony door was closed. There were no problems with the cold. True, two days before departure, in the morning there was a smell of the kitchen, but this is already a ventilation system. The room has:
- free minibar, which is replenished every day from 1500-1700, in it: beer, Pepsi, Fanta, Sprite, mineral water, ordinary water in excess, you can take any amount in the restaurant for breakfast, lunch or dinner, or at the beach bar, if the minibar is not filled, we call the reception and everyone immediately informs (for all 15 days this happened only once, usually there is no need to remind),
-slippers,

-bathrobes are brought on request at the reception desk, the main thing is to ask.
I want to immediately warn the a la carte restaurants, you can visit for free only once, subsequent visits for an additional fee of 6 euros per person, although the guide did not tell us this. As for the guide from Odeon Tour (this is the meeting party from Coral Travel), it’s not even worth talking about it, the main thing for him is to “divorce” vacationers and get the appropriate margin. The desire to communicate with him disappeared after 10 minutes of conversation.
The territory of the hotel is large and well-groomed, cleanliness is monitored. Bars on the beach are open from 1000 to 1800, the guys are trying, there are practically no queues, everything is fast. I was tired only by the heat: in the morning 29, in the afternoon 36, after 1600 -42 degrees, the sea is 30-32, the Turks themselves are surprised by such weather in the month of July. Dawn was met several times, usually at 0550-0605 - beauty, you don’t want to leave the sea. The animators are doing their best, a lot has already been written about them, they will be repeated, I will not be in one word - well done! The hotel's beach is clean, there are enough sunbeds, but the most impatient take it right from 0600 in the morning. The sea is also clean, the water is clear, the entrance is small pebbles. There are small excursions on the beach: a parachute, a jet ski, a banana, a sofa (like a banana), kayaks, water skiing, a boat - 1.5 hours, a little time, and the prices go off scale - however, whoever likes what. We went to the caves on a boat, to see an elite white sand beach, supposedly from the Maldives - just wasted time and money.
The food is decent, no one will go hungry. A wide variety of dishes with or without meat, for every taste and color. True, compatriots caught lamb and left only vegetables, in other respects nothing surprising. Fruits, in any quantity, such as: watermelons, melons, plums, apricots, peaches, grapes, oranges, apples. You can buy strawberries and cherries from the hotel for $3 per kilo. There are not so many people for breakfast, apparently they are still sleeping, but for lunch and dinner - just a crowd! Moreover, it seems that people have not eaten for at least a year. But this is a problem where there are many compatriots, in hotels with a large number of foreigners, this is not the case. Something to think about when planning your next vacation. There are a lot of Ukrainians, but they behave normally, no one is rude, they do not scold Russia. Although I heard that the Turks now, in the event of a conflict, immediately evict both one and the other side from the hotel.

Alcohol for every taste, whatever you want. There is a bar open 24/7.
No cleaning! Room cleaning takes five minutes, although the garbage is taken out and the towels are changed every day, but the dust is not wiped. Compared to 2013.2014, it's day and night. Maybe it was the fact that last year we didn’t fly to them and the hotels were idle?
You shouldn’t go to the hammam, it’s easier to take your own washcloth and wash yourself, especially since visiting saunas and issuing towels is free. They don’t know how to do massage, but as usual, they try to impose, I motivate the client with some fictitious problems. Don't see me!
The nature of Kemer, of course, is charming, mountains, pines, air! The cicadas sing non-stop. Mountains as painted.
The location of the hotel is very good, there are many shops and shops. Moreover, the Turks have become much more friendly towards us, almost everyone began to speak Russian, only our former compatriots shamelessly invite, and the Turks themselves are very courteous and friendly. On Fridays, the market is open, located a kilometer from the hotel, there is everything, the prices are also acceptable, but the sellers are very intrusive, however, this is a market. You can buy decent enough things if it's hard to walk back to the hotel, there is a taxi that will take you for a moderate fee. The market itself, in comparison with previous years, has become even larger. I advise you to visit.
In general, everything is very cool! The hotel left the best memories. We did not regret that we spent our vacation in it. Small issues are simply ignored. If we decide to return to this hotel, we will take a room in an elite building, but as practice shows, it is better to choose small hotels for 150-200 people, although in Egypt we rested in large hotels several times, so there were no crowds, again, the hotels were for foreigners , few Russians.
Internet only in the lobby bar, do not take a paid one - constant problems.
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