Welcome to Antalya, the all-Union health resort!

Written: 3 october 2010
Travel time: 25 september — 2 october 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: 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: 10.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 10.0
Rest is a lottery... The coincidence of a lot of circumstances and factors and on a trip to Kemer from 25.09 to 02.10 we won this lottery ! ! We chose the Simena Sun Club hotel "by pictures" and by the reviews of tourists on different sites and did not fail . .
Firstly, as for the month of October, we had excellent weather up to 42 during the day and from 24 at night, in short, a full-fledged summer vacation - with swimming at night and other delights. Secondly, compared to summer, people at this time in the resort much less, which means that every tourist can count on much more attention, both from the hotel staff and from the staff of the host, in our case, the ODEON Tour campaign. (In fact, the second assumption remained only in theory)
We flew from CORAL TREVEL AND THEIR AGENTS IN ODESSA-FREEDOM COMPANY, special thanks and "respect" to the guys, to completely reissue vouchers for one of the tourists an hour before departure, at 7 am on Saturday due to a change in the departing lineup, a sign of unconditional professionalism! Moreover, the changes were made without loss in value, without SANCTIONS, thank you!!!

As they say, we just arrived, immediately sat down . . One minus - from Antalya airport to Simena we drove 1.5 hours, not close, impatience on the way was intensified by the proximity of the alluring blue of the sea and the outboard temperature of 42 degrees...
Upon arrival, the hotel was immediately struck by the service, in Turkey, not the first time, we know how it happens. collected our suitcase and waited for us in the club square, ready to deliver to the place of further residence.
There were 5 people, we paid for 2 standards - adjacent or in the neighborhood, there were none at the time of arrival. elevator, kitchen, veranda, jacuzzi in the same place, and, most importantly, a private pool in a fenced area.
In general, you can imagine our delight from what we saw. Naturally, we were so pleased to be in our own, even if temporarily, home that on the first day we did not even look at the hotel, having only visited the restaurant for dinner.
The next day we were moved to the standards of 20 meters from the pool and 100 meters from the restaurant, room 731.732. The hotel as a whole is large.
They could have settled at the "hell in the middle of nowhere", but the cherished 20 dollars of the receptionist did their job. Impressions about the exterior - clean, white, it looks like Greece with something, grass, palms, everything is very green, - a lot of huge sprawling trees - plus old hotels, in new ones such hulks simply did not have time to grow up. bed, we were lucky, but our friends were not lucky, we had to sleep, hiding with our heads and turned white anyway. from the key-holder, when the power is turned off in the room, it still works... But otherwise, everything is super.

About nutrition, they feed almost constantly, the range of dishes offered is quite wide, the only thing is BUT, it is constant from day to day and in the end it’s already a little boring . . The order of eating is as follows: from 7 to 10 breakfast, buffet, then until 12 late breakfast in the snack bar - where about a third of the assortment of the main restaurant is presented, from 12 to 14 lunch - in the main restaurant, until 16-00 lunch in the snack bar - on the same principle as brunch, from 19 to 21 dinner, at 23-30 late dinner. All day until 17 ice cream at the bar on the beach, from 10 to 12 and from 15 to 17 Turkish cakes with meat and cheese on the beach, hot dogs and shawarma by the pool, ayran, yupi concentrates ( there are no juices at all in the hotel, no fresh juices, no packaged ones) - all day, local drinks, cocktails based on them - free of charge and in unlimited quantities - hours until 2 am. In short, you won’t have to lose weight, definitely.
About entertainment... it so happened that until the moment we got acquainted with Simena animation, we never attached much importance, did not participate in it and did not regret about it. But Simena had a wonderful team of animators, Ukrainians, Russians, Turks and Moldovans worked there, obviously it is clear that the guys love their work and live by it. For 7 days, neither the evening program, nor the show program, nor the animation contests for children have ever been repeated in our country.
About the evening show, "having hand on heart", we lived both in Hayat in Egypt and in Rixos in Hong Kong, there is no comparison. In Simen every evening they invited troupes touring Turkey, we saw the Chinese circus and Kenyan acrobats and the Turkish night show, before us , people said there were a Brazilian show, everyone also really liked it
About children's animation and about the attitude towards children in general . . In the hotels of 1300 vacationing children, according to the animators themselves, at the same time with dreams, a little bit - about 150 people rested, but the GIRLS knew all the children by name, they tried to pay attention to everyone . . rested with us my daughter, 2.5 years old, for her convenience, 4 children's pools, 2 heated pools, a water park with three slides, a children's club with constant animation, from drawings on the pavement and creating masks for children, to a children's disco, leaving the children separately buses to the equestrian club in KEMER and to the dolphinarium, to Disneyland in Antalya, moreover, from the age of 5, children could travel without parents, only accompanied by animator girls. In general, the children are treated kindly by the sun and the attention of the staff

About recreation for young people. Despite the fact that SIMENA is positioned as a family-type hotel, there is something to do there for both young people and teenagers - there is a DISCOS in my hotel, until 2 am, I didn’t go myself, but my friends went (27 years old) - frankly weak, few people, the music is so-so . . BUT, the animators, without exception, tell everyone to go to KEMER for a disco in Inferno or AURA, trips every day, except Monday, on average, such a trip costs 15 dollars, and that and there - normal level, INFERNO GENERALLY AMAZED, no worse than Moscow clubs. Throughout the disco, the animation chief did not leave his tourists a single step, driving away the annoying Turks.
Sea razlekalki on the territory of the hotel-pier, 2 pantones, 1 hill the owner of the mountain (like whoever climbed, he jumped), 2 trampolines, 4 kayaks, windsurfing lessons, free of charge. Paid parasailing (parachute), sea skiing, scooter, walk on a catamaran under sail, a trip on a motor boat, for "pretty" girls - for free. By the way, the water temp with us was constant day and night 26-27 degrees.
A fly in the ointment - in a barrel of honey - in the process it seemed to me that the child-doctor almost never happens on the spot, we talked 2 times with his TRANSLATOR-assistant from the countries of the former USSR, the only thing she agreed to talk about was the insurance policy, that's all , neither when the doctor comes, nor what to do if we got water in our ears, even my exhortations on the topic of paying for their services with our own money did not help, in short, it’s scary to get sick there - take care of yourself and enjoy your vacation!
Translated automatically from Russian. View original