Халабуда. Halabuda.

If you want to ruin your holiday, then this is the place for you. I am writing as a person who flew to Istanbul once a month for work for about 10 years. For the first time in my life, I was checked into a hotel after screaming, crying, agreeing to call the police (no one ever called her) and a call to the representative of ANNEX TOUR (not a hotel guide, who quietly sat on the sidelines, then offered to run away to look somewhere else hotel, then intimidated by writing an explanatory representative) - I got it all on the demand for a room not on the 1st floor. The concept there is this: You are a poor relative who came to live for free with a rich relative - the senior administrator of the hotel Mamuka. As a result, we were given a 3-bed room on the 2nd floor with a view of the garbage dump and periodically a strong smell of gas, but this is better than the constant loud music from the animation. My husband and I are unpretentious, so a broken wardrobe, two hangers there (in a 3-bed room), a ridiculous safe for $ 2 / day, a complete lack of shampoos, shower caps, slippers and bathrobes, the usual washed bed linen (the hotel guide warned that for its damage in the form of hard-to-wash stains, a fine of 4000 rubles) - we were not embarrassed. During a meeting with the hotel guide, he warned that he was not a pipe repairman, I did not understand what it was for, then a girl approached him with a request to give her a rag, she agreed to clean the water in the bathroom herself, because. it is impossible to go there, for the second day she has been going to a wealthy relative Mamuka with a request to solve the problem - there is no result. For food: tolerably, if you didn’t come to the opening, you will have to look for a place for a meal, the dishes are cleaned, and the tables are rarely wiped. Carts with slop bags are carried between tables right during the meal. Tomatoes, cucumbers, cheese, lettuce, chicken, fish, noodles (a lot), potatoes, muesli, watermelons, sweets, coffee and tea - vtoryaki, we drank in a cafe on the street to the left of the hotel entrance. People went with beer, vodka (we didn't try it, I can't say for the quality). Water in coolers (plastic bottles of 0.5 liters are useful). The bar in the room is empty. The pool is small (it looks much larger in the photo), there is a toilet at 20m, but I have never seen people coming in and out, so they didn’t use it. Towels - $10 deposit. The beach was never found, there were buses there too, we went ashore ourselves, lay on the pebbles so that they would not be kicked out of other people's sunbeds (quite somehow dumb). Take from the slippers for swimming, because. it is difficult to get out of the sea even with small waves. There are no foreigners in the hotel. Right next to the hotel. stop, 8 km to Kemer, a ticket for two 7 lira, the rate is about 2.5-2.6 lira for $ 1. Go, take a walk - buy yourself things, have fun. Also rent a 2-seater electric moped not far from the hotel - the first hour is $10, the second is $5-8. We were 5 days, of which we flew to Istanbul for one day (I bought tickets at home, 12.000 rubles for two, locals say that you can come to the airport and buy before departure for $ 30-40 for one, there are always places, fly 1 hour, Antalya-Ataturk airports). Wi-fi only in the lobby, we caught 2 times, didn't work anymore. We were warned not to leave anything more or less valuable in the room.
We paid 44700 rubles. for 5 days, people on the bus on the way home from our flight had a great rest in 5-stars for 60.000 rubles. for 8 days, I lived in Marmaris in 4-stars - excellent.