Winter in Sungate

Written: 22 february 2011
Travel time: 13 — 20 february 2011
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: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 8.0
Tour operator "Pegasus", air carrier "UIA", city of departure "Donetsk"

Flight: Departure from Donetsk was a bit extreme - a blizzard, snowfall. They put me on the plane, for about 40 minutes they treated the hull with some kind of solution - they removed the ice. Takeoff - 5 points. Landing in Antalya - 4 with a minus (many were sick, the dinner they had eaten was asked to be returned). Return flight without any complaints, everything is normal. I would like to dwell on the food on board and back and forth as a separate topic: there - 2 fried hunting sausages, which may have caused discomfort during landing for many passengers, back - vegetable stew with meat (I found 2 pieces 0.5 by 0.5 in me). Meals on the return flight are clearly not "UIA" - instead of branded yellow boxes, beautiful plastic packaging. The work of the airline staff at the level.

I was surprised by 2 points - there: the crew is completely male, back: there are two women of Balzac age in the steward team - as far as I know, they work as stewardesses until a certain age.

Antalya Airport: Super level, but when landing back, it is not clear why they took away an empty plastic bottle from under Baileys.
Donetsk Airport: Let's hope the new terminal will be better………

The work of the tour operator: Compared to Egypt, there are no complaints, and even vice versa. Meeting, transfer to the hotel and back - all on time, quickly, without comment. Hotel guide - Roman, wonderful work - information meeting, excursions, guide accompaniment - 5+.

Excursions: We went on 2 excursions - Demre-Mira (in winter, they don't take Kekova), the cost is $ 45 per person. Guide - Tamara. An informative story on the way about the history of Turkey, Lycia and the cities that passed, and, in fact, about St. Nicholas and the city of Mira. All liked it.
I was impressed by the huge number of orange and lemon trees everywhere, it seems that this is a local weed. Lunch is held in Demre, 50 meters from the Church of St. Nicholas. "Restaurant" - covered with an awning summer area with long tables right next to the main restaurant. For some reason, the Germans were led there on chairs covered with white fabric with pink bows, who knows - maybe they paid 100 euros for the same excursion, we don’t know this. Actually LUNCH - side dishes: rice, pasta with tomato paste, mashed potatoes (do not recommend!!! ). FOOD - fried "herring" (did not understand what kind of fish it is, but VERY bony), "shawarma" - meat (chicken) fried on a skewer and cut into thin small slices. They lay down very little, asked to put two servings, they threw two more slices to me with a very dissatisfied look.
Salads - tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbage. Sweet - a big basket of oranges! ! !
By this point, you will see so many of them everywhere that you understand my irony.

The second excursion - Phaselis-Tahtali-Ulupinar cost $ 70 per person. Guide - Nariman, very good presentation of information, no complaints. The ascent to Mount Tahtali in the funicular to a height of 2365 meters was impressive, I recommend it to everyone. Lunch in Ulupinar (the village where the trout farm is located) “Botanic” restaurant, tables on the banks of a mountain river: a normal level of food, a choice of trout, lamb kebab or chicken kebab, all this with a side dish, salad and delicious flatbread. All tours do not include drinks, not even water. If anyone is interested, I still have a price list from Pegasus, I can write what and how much during this period.

Hotel: Very big, very beautiful. Room "standard" for two above the roof. In the bathroom - a bathtub, washbasin, shower, toilet, foams, gels, soap, hair dryer, towels, slippers, bathrobes, etc. - everything is there. The first two days we lived with a view of the sea and mountains.
On the third day in the morning they called, asked to move because of the repair. They offered a Sea View room. They themselves transported everything, as compensation, champagne and fruit to the room. The first two or three days you will “turn circles” around the hotel, then you will get used to it and it will take much less time to get to your destination. Meals take place in the main restaurant "Pino Restaurant" on the ground floor, next to it there is a snack bar "La Patisserie" where you can have a delicious snack and ice cream from 15:00 to 18:00. I highly recommend salmon sandwiches with beer. There are 4 A la carte restaurants, we were in the Aegean and Italian - $ 10 per person for entry and order whatever you want. They cook very tasty, we thought about going to Chinese and Japanese, but changed our minds, so everything was enough with our heads.

Drinks - whatever you want, there are 15 cocktails, we didn’t try everything - they mostly stopped by for mojitos and Absolut vodka.
In the menu of each bar, paid drinks are marked in red at the end of the menu, there are few of them 4 or 5.

Sea and weather: 18-19 degrees during the day, sun, cool at night. The water is about 15-16 degrees, but the feet were wet. Swimming is cold. The SPA has an indoor pool, very large, plus two jacuzzis. This is where they make fries.


Staff: No complaints, quite the contrary. The only moment was when they wanted to play bowling. No one at the front desk really knew if he worked. Everyone spoke differently. As a result, they found out who was responsible for him, and went straight to him - these are people from the store in the hotel, at the entrance there is a newspaper stand, in the store itself, children's toys, cigarettes, food - you can't go wrong. Everything was quickly decided there - $ 8 per person per game (20 throws). In any bar, they will give you canned beer to go, nuts, etc. without any problems, take a package, load it and go to play.

We went shopping in Goynuk, the prices are very good now.

If there are questions I will answer with pleasure.
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