Great quiet family holiday with a child

Written: 19 november 2009
Travel time: 9 — 20 september 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 10.0
We rested 09.09. 2009-20.09. 2009. Joy Kiris World was chosen on the advice of friends. There were 2 adults and a 2 year old child. We took immediately Delux Room. We lived in Hillside on the 4th floor in room 2045. A chic room with a sea view. And most importantly, no bracelets are hung in the hotel! They walked like white people. The territory is guarded, the entrance is with passes - strangers will not enter.
Information for those traveling with children.
Borispol airport". If you are traveling with small children on a charter flight, ask for a seat closer to the nose of the aircraft (the rule is the same as for the bus - not so sick). Wear sneakers on the plane, but not sandals - it's minus 45 outside, and sometimes it gets cold on your legs, especially for those who sit by the window. Although - the child was sitting in socks, and the cold did not reach him. Antalya Airport. When you pay for visas, look for free windows on the right. Everyone started paying at the windows on the left, which were closer to our exit - and queues formed. And there were no queues in the windows on the other side, all the windows worked, although it was 6.00 in the morning and the airport was half empty.

When paying for visas, immediately note that you are traveling with a child (even with a baby), so that you can put a stamp in the passport of one of the parents (of course, you also need to pay for a visa for a child). And then we had to return (and we were not the only ones).
We traveled from the airport on a comfortable bus from Pegasus - 1 hour 20 minutes. Although we were sitting in the very back seat, no one got sick. Make sure that you have small money - 1 dollar each. It is customary to tip the driver.
Check-in is the only thing that spoiled the mood for 2 days. The guide, who was on the bus, called our manager at the hotel and said that our manager would not be able to meet us (she was at a meeting with vacationers), but in theory she should. In other hotels, where we transported those who arrived, everyone was met. Well, I guess she wouldn't help us either. In general, we solved all the issues ourselves, without her participation.
We arrived at 8 am. Our family was the only one who came. And at the reception they tell us: “Check-in from 14.00, but for now you can have breakfast, take a walk, go to the beach. And let the bags stand here, video surveillance is underway. ” !! ! Waiting 6 hours!! ! And the child cries, wants to sleep, asks to go home. They tried to give money - they do not take it. The child yells all over the hall, but they don’t care. (By the way, they don’t have strollers for rent. ) We tried to go to breakfast, but I felt ashamed to walk with a child yelling all over Ivanovo. Already I burst into tears... returned to the reception with a screaming child and again began to ask. Finally, they went somewhere for advice, and settled us right away in a normal room. Turns out it was a number! And an extra cot for the child was already in the room (with an orthopedic mattress). They just didn't want to give us a good room… They were waiting for worse rooms to be cleaned. So we didn't give them any money. . . Only the porter got a tip.

The room is large, beautiful, with a balcony. TV LCD. Safe is paid. Mini-bar (aka refrigerator: 2 waters at 0.5, 2 sodas at 0.3, 2 cans of Pepsi, 2 cans of some kind of drink) - replenished every day (in general, water and everything else could be taken at any bar for as long as whatever). Air conditioning. (By the way, the air conditioning will not work if the door to the balcony is open - we did not immediately understand). Be careful with the compartment door to the balcony: our child managed to slam it so (just slam it! ) that it could only be opened from the inside! They closed me like that 2 times. ) In order for the electricity to work, we were given a special card. So, leaving the room, you could leave the air conditioner running. We tried to insert any other card - it was not inserted. Good and bright lighting only in the bathroom and at the entrance, and in the room - a little subdued light - 3 large table lamps (on arrival, only one was working. At our request, they immediately replaced the light bulb in another, and the third was taken away altogether. They brought it only a few days later , after I met an electrician on the street and reminded me of myself. Immediately brought it. )
Bathroom. There are two washbasins, a hairdryer, a toilet and a bathtub itself. There is liquid soap and shampoo (in my opinion, everything is poured from one can. Even cassettes are sometimes confused in places).
Towels were changed every day, although there is a note in the bathroom that you need to throw a towel on the floor if you need to change it. We didn't throw anything. And the bed was changed every day. But, "swans" were not laid out, although we always left 1 dollar. But on the 2nd floor, swans were laid out in the rooms, and we lived on the 4th (probably, we are less “privileged”). But for that, the sea was visible from the balcony, but on the lower floors it was not visible because of the trees.
The food is amazing, to say the least. But we tried to eat as simple as possible so that there were no surprises. But for those who are interested, I’ll say, there WAS red fish! (on some fish day)  . Places in the restaurant could always be found. The waiters are running around. Everything will always be brought. We gave a tip when we left. Everyone in the kitchen is also friendly. I once asked what kind of meat it was, so then this cook greeted me all the time, as soon as I entered the kitchen (I didn’t even immediately understand why). It turns out that if someone at least once said a word to you or flirted with a child, then he will always say hello. We could not remember everyone by sight at once and wondered how they knew us. You just need to behave like a human being, then they will treat you the same way. They really liked it when they said thank you in Turkish. For a long time I could not learn - "teshekyur ederem". I once got into a conversation with a saleswoman in a store, she was so surprised when she found out that I was from Ukraine. To my question “why”, she embarrassedly answered: “. . . everyone from Ukraine is so rude... ” Dear compatriots, let's not be like that!

The contingent of vacationers is half foreigners (Germans, Poles, French, Czechs, Austrians), half are Russians. There are very few Ukrainians. Mostly families with small children, married couples, older people. The people are solid. We were not afraid to leave the bag with the camera on the sunbed - no one would touch it. Everything is normal people, "no show off. " No one carries fruit with plates from a restaurant. (I only saw the family once. ) Although for the child I sometimes took fruit with me.
I'm not talking about nature. This is probably the only hotel in Kirishi with mountains behind it. Mountain goats descend three times a day, fish in the pond, a duck near the pond (or rather, an Indian duck), sometimes a turtle crawls up to drink some water. Kittens, hens with chickens. They are right there and spend the night in the bushes on the branches. Due to the fact that the hotel is old - throughout the territory there are large trees (pine trees provide good shade), you can hide from the heat.
The kids club and playground are located in the shade of the trees, under the mountain. The kids club has a computer club. In the evening there is a children's disco, but our child did not like it - very loud music. By the way, we went to Antalya to the Dolphinarium - there is also loud music and very hot - the child did not like it either. So there is nothing for 2-year-old children to do there. We didn't see mosquitoes. They took the Raptor with them, but never used it. One evening they saw a car that sprayed something into the air (probably from mosquitoes). But she didn’t drive far into the territory - she drove along the paths near the entrance to the hotel and left.
The animation is unobtrusive. I liked Alena, who taught yoga in the morning, then aerobics in the pool, at 15.00 - aerobics in the sea with foam pasta, and at 17.00 - classes on balls (Pilates).
There was enough space for everyone on the beach. We went to the nearest beach with small pebbles. Good access to the sea. If you stand in the water, fish can bite your leg, and if you throw a roll at them, they will grab the roll and swim close. The husband swam a little further - he saw a lot of beautiful fish.

Yes, if you order professional photos, be careful. We were scammed 2 times. We ordered 12 photos on a disc. We received our order the next day. But they don't have a computer to check. I had to go to the Internet - club. When we opened the folder, there were 11 photographs. We didn’t even carefully consider what photos were there (we still didn’t remember which ones we chose: there were a lot of beautiful photos and it was hard to choose a few), and hurried back to them in the studio. We asked them to redo it. And they have a laboratory somewhere far away. The next day they brought us the same disk and said that they could not add 1 photo. It `s naturally. To all our explanations that for such a price (7 dollars for 1 photo) you can buy 20 discs and you just need to record a new disc - the girl pretended to be a fool. It was easier for her to return the money to us for 1 photo. We agreed. But when we looked at all the photos at home, it turned out that they still wrote us down incorrectly: there were 2 identical photos - just one was taken closer, and the other farther away. Naturally, we could not order the same pictures ourselves.
But these are all trifles. The mood was still good. We returned home in a great mood, for a long time we could not adapt to reality. Every morning began with viewing photos from the rest. We are even thinking about going there.
We recommend for a quiet quiet holiday with children.
P. S. Thank you, someone in the reviews advised me to take a rope with clothespins to hang clothes and towels on the balcony - it was very useful, but I had to take more clothespins. Towels could be handed over on the beach, but this kiosk was open until 18.00, and at that time we were still swimming.
Have a good holiday everyone!
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