Extend your summer

Written: 19 october 2006
Travel time: 19 — 26 september 2006
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 9.0
Pleasure received a lot. The end of September is just the period when the number of vacationers is almost half as much as in the season, and the weather is completely summer, but somehow mild. The percentage of Europeans and former allied citizens in the hotel was 50 to 50. The food is wonderful and varied, especially pleased with 4-5 types of lettuce, including arugula for lovers of Italian cuisine. There is more than enough meat and fish, snacks are innumerable, alcohol (beer and local wine) is very good. The mini bar is replenished for free, apparently this is their vision of ultra inclusiveness : -) In terms of service, friendliness, grooming and commensurability with the money spent - we put the hotel 5. Animation is a completely different question. She was weird, to say the least. The humor is "sexual", jokes are flat, causing cackling among Europeans and misunderstanding among ours.
Although, thanks to the animation, they didn’t bother at all, they let us rest in peace, although, to be honest, we spent more time on sightseeing trips, that is, there was neither time nor desire for controversial shows.


The beach is wonderful, 200 meters from the hotel, a perfectly normal comfortable walk to the sea. The hotel is across the road from the sea, the path to the beach runs along the path between the two parks of the Majesty hotels. A very kind uncle brought mattresses at first glance in his direction, tirelessly cleaned the sand and trash cans, helped in the snack bar and generally behaved like a bee. Tea was given with great pleasure. Speaking of tips, don't be greedy, fellow citizens...and if you learn a couple of Turkish words, like hello, goodbye, you will be greeted like family. 2 dollars a day (on the beach and a maid) will not impoverish you, but how it helps the friendship of peoples : -)

I would like to advise those traveling to Turkey (not only to Greenwood) not to be afraid to take tours from agencies outside the hotel.
During the transfer, of course, you will be told a lot of horrors about street agencies, but among them there are large network ones like Ginza-Travel, for example. They provide normal transport, and the program is interesting and the guides are very literate and necessarily Russian-speaking, the difference is only in price. The agent at the hotel will offer you everything for 40-50 (conditionally), Ginza - 20-25 USD. e. , i. e. a pleasant difference twice. We went on 2 excursions from the hotel guide and 3 tours from Ginza, so we can say with confidence - do not be afraid, do not believe the stories about the bus without air conditioning or boorish service. But regarding trips, from whomever you go, be prepared for the fact that in addition to "historicisms" you will be brought to 3-4 shopping centers for free, usually leather, carpets, gold, textiles, souvenirs (the prices are completely uninteresting compared to the markets in every resort place, the quality is the same) ....it's useless to argue, but it takes a lot of time.
For information - a trip to Pammukale: the whole road - 5 hours, shopping centers - 4 hours, Pammukale itself with pools - 2 hours. They weren't even allowed to take a picture in the ancient city. 15 minutes. - and on the bus.


Special thanks to Muscovite Olechka, informant of the health center at the hotel. Thank you for persuading us to "water procedures" at the hotel, and not to go to the general bath in Kemer. Although the bath itself is unpretentious, but the attendants are good, they are masseurs. My husband was happy to go to the procedures and the sauna, and with his sore back it is very important to be in the "right hands". I don’t know how it is in other hotels (according to reviews, hotel hammams are rarely praised), but we were very pleased with ours (even compared to the Rixos bath). There was no rush, no flow of tourists demanding attention and urgent bathing for the money paid, the whole procedure was unhurried, very pleasant and quite lengthy. And most importantly - exclusively for our company of 5 people.
As for housing - we really liked the bungalow - quiet, calm, around the park. The central building is also not bad, but the rooms that overlook the pool certainly suffer from noise and the sun (from 12 to sunset it shines in this direction). Air conditioning is probably a common problem in all hotels. If it is central, it is not enough. True, in September you don’t feel it so sharply. In general, I liked the hotel very much. Of course, there is no limit to perfection, but the ratio of money-quality-comfort-rest is just wonderful. A similar hotel on the first line would cost a third more
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