normal budget weekly vacation at the price of airfare

Written: 27 september 2016
Travel time: 13 — 21 september 2016
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 6.0
The first word about this hotel is BUDGET, and this must be understood when choosing. This is not the luxury of a five star hotel. If you are used to this, then collect the required amount and choose 5 stars. Secondly, the pictures on the pages of hotels always look better than in life, this should also be taken into account in order not to be disappointed. The first impression is not quite what I saw in the photographs, but after the sea everything falls into place. The village of Beldibi itself is quiet, "village" (gardens, singing roosters). There are shops and cafes. In my opinion, this is an option for a family vacation or for calm people over 20 years old. If you like detachment and parties, then it is better to choose a hotel in Kemer itself.
For a week-long vacation with air travel for two, we paid $500. I recommend to the curious to look at the cost of air tickets to Turkey and take this factor into account when there is a desire to make jokes on the topic "The worst vacation in the worst hotel! " For prevention, you can relax, for example, in a suite in Zatoka and feed yourself. Here for a week you don’t think about anything: they brought you back and forth, fed, watered, entertained, cleaned up after you. Magic is budget, but worthy!
What did we get for this money at the Magic Sun Hotel. Excellent room, with a fairly spacious, perfectly clean bathroom with a bathtub (no dampness, no mold marks). By the way, the common corridors look worse than the rooms. Large spacious closet. Two beds. The mattresses are comfortable, the bed is clean. Air conditioning (working, quiet), TV (old model, but worked properly) with 5 Russian-speaking channels, a furnished balcony overlooking the road (not noisy! ), school, mountains.

Wi-Fi was only on the first floor, the signal is not always stable. However, it was even possible to watch videos and chat via Skype.
Always in any quantity and freely available on the 1st floor, drinking water from a cooler, lemonade from a vending machine (not UPI, it’s still better. I still remember the taste of UPI : ), tea (green, black), coffee machine (coffee, cappuccino , chocolate - quite edible in taste). Fresh - for a fee.
Rooms are cleaned daily, linen and towels are changed every 3 days. We had more often (they are tasty treats in Turkey too : ).
Separate RESPECTISH for the restaurant! The cuisine is excellent: a lot, varied. If you follow any diet, you will still have something to choose both by the way of cooking (fried, boiled, stewed, grilled), and by the products themselves (vegetarians, eaters of protein foods, etc. ) You can absolutely choose a menu for children (milk, yogurt, milk porridge, soups, cereals, pasta - available. Fish, vegetables, fruits, herbs, olives, meat - mostly chicken (and wings, and legs, and brisket), liver, meatballs, some interesting dish based on stewed minced meat with vegetables. To understand the picture - meat in Turkey is expensive, even chicken, but was present on the menu daily for lunch and dinner. Sausage, sausages were for breakfast, but they are very different in taste from ours, not for the better. A very large selection of cheeses. I was not too lazy and counted 9 varieties for breakfast (including cottage cheese, hard yellow cheeses, soft white cheeses). Men will also be satisfied with the food - there is enough meat. Fried potatoes are served - fries, country style (quarters), grill. t pilaf. For dinner, an additional grill menu: shawarma, barbecue wings, fish. Between the main meals, the hotel had a snack bar: cakes with various fillings, pizza. Bread in various versions: white, gray, buns, cakes with sesame seeds. The dessert menu is a paradise for the sweet tooth: cakes, pastries, whipped cream with various fillings, puddings, casseroles, creams, jellies, Turkish delight. Cookies, jams, honey - for breakfast. Reused products could only be used once: for example, boiled sausages after breakfast were fried, poured with sauce and could be put up for dinner as one of twenty fresh food options. There were no poisonings. It is impossible to stay hungry in Magic. The chef was present in the hall every day during the work of the restaurant, watched, always ate something from the serving for the guests. The waiters are diligent, trying to be attentive and unobtrusive at the same time. Always ready to help (move tables, rearrange chairs, bring some water).

Animation in the hotel is in the evenings - a mini disco, a disco for adults, a disco with a trip to Kemer, there was a performance by Turkish musicians. The only problem is that our tourists need something special: either there is not enough doping, or there is too much doping, since beer, cocktails, white and red wine - everything is only locally produced, in any quantity and not diluted, starting from lunch, it was offered . If the Turks came to relax and have fun, then they successfully did it without any additional conditions!
The pool is clean. Works from 7 to 19, then cleaning and chlorination. In the morning, the smell of bleach from the water is gone. The pool water is cooler than the sea. The hill works according to the schedule.
The beach is close, small - 15 meters. To be honest, I can’t imagine how to accommodate everyone there when the hotel is fully loaded. The beach has sun loungers and mattresses. THERE ARE NO TOWELS ON THE BEACH (in some descriptions they were stated). Shower, dressing room, toilet - ugly, but there. There is a tent with water, lemonade, coffee (self-service). The entrance to the sea is pebbles, there are already boulders at the waist level at the bottom. We did without special slippers. You can buy them if you wish.
A good selection of excursions for every budget and different topics, both from hotel guides and street agencies. In street agencies there is a rental of scooters.
We did not go to the sauna-hammam and the gym at the hotel.
Yes! Be prepared for the fact that at 5.30 in the morning you will be called to prayer! The mosque is very close and the loud call of the muezzin interfered with some.
A week seemed not enough for us : ) When asked if we would come to Magic Sun again - a firm YES. Evaluation... According to a five-point system, perhaps 4 (repair, updating furniture - they will not interfere, the beach also needs to be paid attention).
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