Mixed feelings about the hotel

Written: 22 june 2021
Travel time: 13 — 20 june 2021
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:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 5.0
Amenities: 5.0
Let me start by saying that this is my first time in Turkey. The goal is to compare the service and rest in all respects with Egypt (has been 5 times). Everyone around insisted that the service was better than in Egypt. The cost of the tour for 1 adult and a child 13 years old is $900 for 7 nights. I booked during the reduction of tours in early May, when flights from Russia were canceled and prices decreased by 30-40%.
pros
1. A good entry into the sea, the pebbles are small, safety shoes are not needed, the depth is good, almost immediately, if children are a nuance, shallow water is not more than 1 meter from the shore.
2. The presence of slides, the height and extremeness are not significant, it is possible for both children and adults.
3. The presence of different recreation areas, on the second line there is a pool with slides, a main pool and a paddling pool, there is also a snack bar from 12-16 (burger, french fries, nuggets, spaghetti), soft drinks and beer and wine.

4. The main pool on the first line, next to the bar (the best selection of alcoholic drinks, local tequila, cognac, baileys, wine, brut champagne). There are also tables under large umbrellas, about 20 tables, in the evenings after 20-30 there is a disco here, i. e. you can drink cocktails, and sit and dance. Discos until 22-00, but plan to extend until 23-00. The music is excellent and Turkish and hits, fun, not noisy, if you take audibility for those who live in the first line building.
5. Animation during the day - darts, yoga, aqua aerobics, lotto (1 time per week prize draw, three winners in stages, discount on parachute, free massage, T-shirt, badges, excursion, etc. ).
6. Beautiful view of the mountains.
7. Near the city center, 15 minutes to shops.
Minuses
1. Hotel occupancy, guests are divided into 2 meal shifts depending on the color of the bracelet you choose, the first shift is 12-30-13-30 - lunch, 18-30-19-30 - dinner, the second shift is 13-30-14.30-lunch, 19-30-20-30 - dinner. No one observes this, it’s not even about quarantine measures, but this is caused by the lack of free tables, but they violate it all over again.
2. Quest - find a free table, not even clean, but at least dirty and find a cleaner to clean it.
3. There is food, but stupid, we make abundance from several components. Food examples.
Breakfast - scrambled eggs, no omelets, local sausage such as chicken and beef, Adyghe cheese, suluguni, vegetables, fried zucchini, eggplant, pancakes and all sorts of preserves and jams, waffles, cookies - store-bought. Fruits - watermelons, apples and oranges. Dry breakfasts, milk for them. Dairy porridge. Baking - buns with cheese and simple. There are no sweets like a croissant or with filling or chocolate (according to the principle as in Egypt). No toaster.
Lunch - two soups, all of the type of mashed potatoes, Alya gazpacho or yogurt, nothing to be honest. Vegetables, one grilled main dish or fish (mackerel), chicken. In general, chicken is the main meat, there is no beef and lamb, sometimes turkey, maybe beef liver, but in seasonings with gravy, there was also a heart according to this principle. Side dishes - rice, powdered mashed potatoes, pasta once under cheese, but very oaky, stuffed peppers with rice. There were ala pizzas

The result - there is little meat, for dinner the same thing as for lunch, one main distribution of the cook at the grill station, or cutlets (specific), or wings, on a skewer. At the same time, in the distribution hall, as an alternative, some kind of sea fish in breadcrumbs, specific, there may be chicken legs in gravy, or chicken fillet.
Baking - in the afternoon, ala cakes, a biscuit is not very creamy, like not even a vein, but based on starch, so that it stays, it’s not tasty (if anyone understands what they are talking about and desserts in Egypt), in the evening baklava, but not a super option, salted dough with ala nuts and everything is sprinkled with sugar syrup
In a restaurant, when eating from alcohol, there are only three types of wine - white, rose and red, brandy and vodka, beer.
Those. normal drinks at the pool bar only.
There are few staff, they do not have time to clean, from this you look for a table and wait for it to be cleaned.
Snacks - from 12-16 snack bar - french fries, burger, nuggets, pizza type.
At 16-00 some pastries with you (1 hour) some kind of donuts, donuts, dough, dough and more dough.
The rooms are very small, smoky, the smell was all week, a small bathroom. Repairs were made in the building on line 1, I paid immediately when booking for line 1 and an official letter from my travel agent saved the situation, many also had payment, but they settled on line 2 (not critical, a small underground passage), but they can settle in the basement . !! ! Family rooms only on 2 lines (take note), Contingent - Turks, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Baltics.
Safe and internet for a fee. Especially the last one. Cleaning, asked to clean every 2 days, left 1 dollar.
Would you go again? Yes, but for another more reasonable price, for a price of $ 750 I rested in July 2020 and in February 2021 in Egypt, the service is better, the people are friendlier, the food was much tastier and there was a choice, we didn’t repeat dishes for a day, it was possible to combine any options.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original