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8.0
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10.0
Food:
8.0
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8.0
The accommodation was one of the few downsides. We arrived at the hotel at about 15:00 with a tired from the road and half-asleep child, no one met us on the street. (In general, there is a booth to the right of the entrance, in which, apparently, a security guard should sit, only during the entire rest there was never anyone there, no control bracelet. For comparison, in Zena across the road, the security guard was constantly spinning on the street and showed keen interest when I took pictures of their blue fountains with a tripod in the evening. ) I dragged the bags to the reception and went to the manager's office to talk about a more interesting room at the invitation of the manager. He offered $100 for a room with a balcony, arguing that our room was noisy, the windows faced the street, there was no safe (it all turned out to be nonsense). Seeing that I was not fooled, I went to show a “good” room with a sea view: there really was a balcony, but the view from it was into solid green bushes, and somewhere behind them the sea is probably hiding. In general, the last offer from the manager was almost $30 after me, which I again refused, then for another 10 minutes I fought back from the question of why I refused. A friend from the reception gave me the keys to a standard room and waved his hand towards the corridor, I had to look for a room and carry things myself, which, including trade, I didn’t really like, and I don’t like trade in essence, the arrival was ruined.
The room turned out to be a normally working air conditioner, a free safe (as it is written on the hotel website), a normal bathroom with a shower. We practically did not use the rest (TV, refrigerator, bedside tables), and we were usually in the room from 00:00 to 07:00, the rest of the time we just ran in for some of the things. For fans of refrigerators, I’ll say that the refrigerator only cools, it doesn’t freeze, you can’t put ice cream in it, but you can cool vodka, you just need patience : ). The room was cleaned daily by a Turkish woman, towels were changed, no complaints in this regard. The beds in the room were of medium size, on the last trip we decided not to take the child a separate bed (but in fact they brought and put something like an arena near the entrance to the room, which was replaced a day later with a full-fledged folding bed), but to sleep with my wife on one - it turned out to be not enough, the next night they moved two and put a third side by side. The windows of the room overlooked the sea, although you can hardly see it because of the trees (so if you are told about the excellent sea view from any VIP room, do not be fooled, our number 226 was geographically closest to the sea). The fact that the street was under the window did not bother, because. buses passed through it at most a couple of times during the evening, there was much more noise from local cicadas and discos in Zena.
Well, then the positive began: the sea, pools, water football, slides, food, beer. The road to the sea takes about 5 minutes, from the side of the street the hotel has a gate that is locked at night. On the way there are shops (leather, fruits, alcohol, knick-knacks), you can also pump up balls there (the animator Zeynap showed me the way there, who hardly speaks Russian, but speaks good English, I went further in the morning before the animators appeared, because . we usually climbed into the pool one of the first, and the balls were lowered with an enviable daily regularity). Right there on the way, almost fellow countryman Fedya makes orange juices for $ 1, distributes oranges to children for free (in general, the attitude of locals towards tourists was very pleasantly surprised, I don’t remember this since my trip to Abkhazia). The sea is clean, the entrance is on small pebbles, sunbeds and umbrellas with a margin, you can even drag them to the water itself, in the evening the guy returns them to their place without emotions and conversations. (In general, there were almost no prohibitions: food was taken from the restaurant if necessary, water was taken from the cooler for children, they rode down the slides as they wanted, they gave beer at the bar without question. ) There are volleyball courts on the beach, wooden flooring leads to the sea.
When the sea got bored, we returned to the hotel to the pool and beer. Sunbeds and umbrellas, located two meters from the pool, enough for everyone, beer too. Local waiters and bartenders tried to flirt with children and women, but somehow kindly, not intrusively. One even tried to feed me cookies from his hand during the afternoon snack, when the bulk had already been sorted out, I jokingly waved him towards a lonely bored woman of about 35 (in Russia you can do without jokes for such tricks), let him flirt with her. The same waiter taught us to say “dö rt bira” instead of “four beers” and “teş ekkü rler” instead of “thank you”, although by the end of the rest we were recognized in the bar from afar, knowing why we came and to what quantity. He has a separate respect for the local flavor and the basics of the Turkish language, what grievances there are! By the way, in the hotel and the surrounding shops there was a pretty good local Efes, a light, not very strong, but pleasant beer. It is difficult for them to get drunk (and there was no such goal), because. it is poured into small plastic cups (sometimes disposable), from the strength of 200 grams, you often have to go to the bar for an additive (like Russians drink a lot and do not get drunk, but the container itself is small). Some tourists had problems, because. they wanted to drink from glass goblets, but apparently this was not provided for in AI (only for a fee of about $1-2), it didn’t bother us: we can even drink from a bucket, over the edge, and then give another lecture... (with ) And we ourselves carried the cups to the bar, for which the waiters even said thanks, mutual respect. By the end of the holiday, I wanted a non-filtered drink, something dark for a change (they came with a beer company) and, of course, fish, which, to our great surprise, was not there, despite the proximity of the sea. You can buy chips, salted corn seeds, nuts, but with salted fish (ram, ancheus, etc. ) a bummer - all the merchants shrugged in amazement - bring it with you!
If we develop the theme of drinks, then it is necessary to mention local wine and vodka. The Turks have a tradition not to drink vodka like we do, but to dilute it with water to 10-15% strength. This is how they serve it in the bar, it’s impossible to drink, and they already have a similar “cocktail” in the bottle, at least distill it back. But… They have a local Raki vodka infused with aniseed root (the aftertaste of drugs familiar from childhood, it’s impossible to make a mistake, try it! ). Sometimes you could find it in a bar and ask not to dilute it, by the way, when diluted, it becomes cloudy due to a change in the concentration of anise oil : ), but it’s easier to walk to the nearest store and buy yourself a normal 45-degree sample for $15-20. They brought vodka with them, and the masseurs who saw our packages (we met and talked well during the rest) asked with horror if we would drink it : ). We assured them that it was a gift to take home with them.
I liked the local wine less than Raki. In the bar, it is again diluted, I myself am engaged in winemaking, I took a sip and could not drink. In stores, you can buy a bottle for at least $10-15, but I still have a suspicion that this is actually a powder (wine from pomegranate, blackberries, etc. nonsense). Being in a restaurant on the way to the beach, they brought us 2 different bottles, like natural, local (unfortunately I did not write down the name), but a lot of acid. In their climate, grapes must ripen until the acid is completely converted into sugar, this is not the middle zone of Russia for you, so something is not completely clean here. French, Italian, Chilean or Abkhaz (Psou, Kono Sur, Cuve du Pape, Baron de Cresse, etc. ) are clearly better for comparable money, so I do not recommend local wine.
From non-alcoholic drinks there are fanta, sprite, cola, yupi - whatever you like. You can get good coffee from a coffee machine: I usually drink black at home, but here I somehow fell in love with milk; nearby you can get tea leaves and boiling water (there were no tea bags).
As for the food, there were pros and cons. The food is delicious, fresh, there is a variety of dishes for lunch and dinner, which cannot be said about breakfast: every morning the standard boiled potatoes, eggs, milk porridge or scrambled eggs with tomatoes (only there are much more tomatoes in it than eggs, probably a national feature : ), fresh tomatoes, cucumbers. Sausages are offered for this business (most likely soy and rather peppery, there were literally 1-2 times normal) and a kind of sausage of comparable quality, most likely I would not buy such a house. There was no cheese at all (apart from some kind of cheese, but this is an amateur, to which I do not belong), butter for sandwiches is more like margarine. However, every morning we gathered as a company for breakfast and with the words “Potato! ” (remember the gentlemen of fortune) went into battle, did not have to starve, ahead of football in the pool and the sea! Three types of dry flakes were collected for children, which could take them about half an hour (in general, from small children there is a lot of extra work for waiters, to which they are very positive).
According to Zadornov, the resourcefulness of the Russians is striking, two examples. Where can you find hot milk if you don't even have regular milk? Very simple: when preparing coffee with milk, the coffee machine first shoots the milk jet, and only then the coffee jet. If you arm yourself with two cups and patience, then by alternating them and repeating the process of making coffee, you can achieve what you want! Well, how to quickly move down the water slide? Put panties up your ass! Literally, the advice of a little girl, she says she works, the wife confirms, he himself moved out on his shoulder blades and heels. I understand if it's a thong, but if it's family? Here you have to think. . .
We digress, now from the positive in food: there were a lot of different jams, honey, which can be applied in unlimited quantities, some kind of our sour cream, a good portion of which can completely replace breakfast. For lunch and dinner, the variety is much greater: sweets appear (it remains a mystery to us why they could not be put up for breakfast), salads (by the way, they have a specific sour mayonnaise, because of which we were in vain afraid of eating salads like our Olivier for the first few days) , stewed potatoes with chicken, stewed vegetables, spaghetti, etc. In the evening, a couple of chefs come out to the “hungry” vacationers and cook something on an open fire: fries, stewed vegetables, hamburgers, pancakes, chicken fillet, some local cakes / sticks from stuffed dough and something similar to cottage cheese with greens, fish in batter. Every evening something different, you can take as much as you like, although sometimes you have to stand in line for this. Although this can be avoided if you arrive for dinner a little half an hour late : ) when the main hungry crowd subsides. Separately, I want to note the spices (especially the red pepper, which came just in time) and something very sharp, similar to the heads of young garlic (on closer examination, it turned out that these were small yellow peppers). Very spicy, after one such pepper aftertaste for the rest of the meal, use carefully, but it's worth it! Well, you can’t mention the soups for lunch and dinner - just super! Something seemed sour to someone, spicy to someone, someone does not like milk soups, but IMHO these are minor nitpicks - the soups were very even. Once there was a very tasty borscht, several times there was a red soup, to which you can add lemon, olives and something like sour cream lying nearby (actually like yogurt or some kind of sauce) to get something similar to Russian hodgepodge. Against this background, the lack of meat and cheese was not so critical: for several days we were going to explore in a restaurant outside the hotel to try local wine and lamb skewers. The main problem that prevented us from implementing our plans was once again not to overeat for dinner, one evening we almost succeeded, Fedya fried a very tasty ram, they brought us a hookah for $ 5 (the same thing costs $ 10 in the hotel), which we they smoked for a long time in a reclining position in a pavilion stylized as local traditions. Also in the hotel were fruits: watermelon, melons, apples, apricots. If desired, on the way to the beach, you can additionally buy figs, strawberries, cherries.
During the meal, the waiters cheerfully run around the restaurant and collect the dishes: watch out for the half-eaten, otherwise you may lose goodies ahead of time. Sometimes there were not enough napkins, sometimes there were no spoons for soup, sometimes there were no salt shakers on the table, but IMHO these little things are not a reason for a scandal. You can wait 5 minutes until the waiter brings a new portion of spoons (and they really work very quickly), you can go to the next table and politely ask for a salt shaker, or you can make a scandal - to each his own... (I was very pleased that there were no "golden youth" in the hotel ”, Apparently three stars are too small for them, and there were only a couple of scandals from voluminous aunts or uncles aged only a couple of times and, IMHO, completely unsubstantial, they were lucky to relax with normal, adequate fellow countrymen, for whom it’s not a shame in the face of the Turks. ) During the reception almost constantly a cook is on duty in the restaurant, eaten dishes are promptly replaced with similar ones, new dishes do not appear in the process.
Food does not happen around the clock: there is a clear distinction between breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. There are only soft drinks on the beach, no food or beer. Whether this is good or bad, I find it difficult to say, rather it is a feature of the hotel. There are times when after an intense match in the pool or skiing with a child you already want to eat, and wait about an hour before the next meal. On the other hand, upon arrival home there were no problems with digestion, because, with all due respect to the culinary art of my wife, at home I don’t eat so much and so spicy, the stomach could be offended, but no, a healthy separate (in time ) food and fresh air work wonders : ). For an afternoon snack, which takes place not in the main restaurant, but near the stage, you need to make it in time, because. the first trays of cookies are scattered by vacationers almost with a whistle, and the next one has to wait a little longer.
The local representatives of Pegasus (Elvira, Alejandro == Alexander) did not inspire. During the check-in, they were not there at all, at the evening meeting from an hour and a half of communication, to which everyone was asked to come, including children, at 1:20 they talked about excursions that are many times more expensive at Pegasus than on the street at Ginza- or Rum -travel. They write like that there, without hesitation: whoever bought a tour at the hotel is a goof! : ) We sailed to Phaselis all day on the ROMA yacht for $15 per person and did not regret it at all, Pegasus has a similar pleasure for about $40. The dry result of the conversation with the Pegasus: do not fight with the Turks (we were not going to anyway), do not buy excursions outside the temple and give vouchers for activation. Do not waste your time: immediately give vouchers and go to rest. Pegasus practically do not interfere in the problems of vacationers. Wi-Fi does not log in - your problem (at least they said the password, sanland123, they would have told from Zena, which was caught across the road in my room, they would not have had a price). I myself am partly an admin, I can set up Wi-Fi and ping the glitch, although on the first evening there was a glitch on their side and I didn’t do much, and then it suddenly worked. Later, I set up Wi-Fi for a couple of vacationers, because. their appeals to the reception or to the Pegasus people remained unanswered. There was often a lot of noise during the settling of a new batch of newcomers - apparently the first day "impressed" not only me. In one of the cases, the child broke his chin great on the pool (the blood was most likely sewn up later), the mother came to Elvira with a request to help call a doctor, to which she rather sparingly reminded about the phone number in the insurance and pointed to the reception, the phone is there. The business of the Pegasus people is to sell excursions and activate vouchers, rescuing drowning people and solving everyday issues is not part of their duties, although it probably should be a little different. Perhaps not all hotel guides are like that and we were just unlucky.
When making purchases or traveling by bus (Antalya, Kemer, Phaselis, etc. ), it is better to pay in lira, and not in dollars or euros, it will be cheaper. We realized this after the driver on the bus gave us change with $100 lira - the prices around us went down sharply (for reference, $1 ~= 2 lira). The drivers on the buses, who do not speak Russian and English, turned out to be very honest: they could take our $10 and pretend “I don’t understand yours”, but they always gave change, and according to our rough estimates in our mind, the cost correlated with the mileage, well done, correlates with the general positive attitude of locals towards tourists! On buses, without fear, you can travel even along the entire coast, the main thing is not to pass the destination. When buying tobacco for a pipe (try to explain to the locals what you want, and not for a hookah - the key word is "tü tü n" - tobacco : ) from the last day, when there was already little finance, the store took the amount of dollars, lira and rubles without any problems , no problem with that.
About the animation: most likely it is really boring, as already noted in other reviews. I am writing “most likely” because for me animation is not the main attribute of recreation, especially since we came to rest with two families from different cities, we had not seen each other for a long time, we talked a lot, there was something to do. In the afternoon, there was water aerobics in the pool once, then the leader with dark hair disappeared somewhere and there was no aerobics for the next 10 days. In football on the water, to which the Turkish woman Zeynap campaigned every morning, we could figure it out ourselves: there are balls, we know where to swing, the goal is at hand. In the evening, for children, there is a round dance to the music; upon arrival, the child sings “aram zam zam” and repeats the movements. Entertainment for adults performed by a local animator of short stature with a black beard (whom we called Barmaley among ourselves, he would have had a mustache and watch Russian cartoons : ) to put it mildly, they were not impressed: it’s rather boring, he tries, sorry, to fart into the microphone, which often causes negative reaction, not laughter. The positive comes from him, he can jokingly fight with 15-year-old girls on foam accessories from the pool, like with swords, but he does not succeed in entertaining the crowd as a whole, by 23:00 the stage was usually already empty, for some then that would definitely be a downside. In addition to the animation, the water slides worked with varying success, during the 11 days of rest the pump managed to break down and repair twice, and I would like the slides to be more abrupt, although the child could not be dragged away from them. Sauna worked fine, were twice, were satisfied. I even managed to explain to local masseurs (good guys) how the Finnish dry steam room differs from the Russian steam room, why Russians don’t sit in the steam room for half an hour (a cold shower is nearby, but there wasn’t enough pool) and don’t drink vodka at the same time : ).
Upon check-out from the hotel, we were not offered to leave a review (for reference, it was at the first hour of the night), they did not look at the room and did not cut off the bracelets. Probably also a feature... A local Turk periodically spun in the hotel and commanded waiters until midnight, and in the evening he dined at a separate table with glassware near the pool and waiters fussing around - either the boss or the owner of the establishment. I suspect that a complaint about the manager's actions could be left directly to him, but somehow it was not up to it.
To sum it up: I enjoyed my stay. Good sea, good, although not very varied, food, excellent attitude of the hotel staff and surrounding Turks, pools, slides, sun, beer. Whoever came to rest will have a rest with a bang, whoever came to look for dirty dishes or pools with bleach will surely find them, like a pig in a well-known saying. Or invent. Have a good rest in a small cozy hotel on the Mediterranean coast!
The room turned out to be a normally working air conditioner, a free safe (as it is written on the hotel website), a normal bathroom with a shower. We practically did not use the rest (TV, refrigerator, bedside tables), and we were usually in the room from 00:00 to 07:00, the rest of the time we just ran in for some of the things. For fans of refrigerators, I’ll say that the refrigerator only cools, it doesn’t freeze, you can’t put ice cream in it, but you can cool vodka, you just need patience : ). The room was cleaned daily by a Turkish woman, towels were changed, no complaints in this regard. The beds in the room were of medium size, on the last trip we decided not to take the child a separate bed (but in fact they brought and put something like an arena near the entrance to the room, which was replaced a day later with a full-fledged folding bed), but to sleep with my wife on one - it turned out to be not enough, the next night they moved two and put a third side by side. The windows of the room overlooked the sea, although you can hardly see it because of the trees (so if you are told about the excellent sea view from any VIP room, do not be fooled, our number 226 was geographically closest to the sea). The fact that the street was under the window did not bother, because. buses passed through it at most a couple of times during the evening, there was much more noise from local cicadas and discos in Zena.
Well, then the positive began: the sea, pools, water football, slides, food, beer. The road to the sea takes about 5 minutes, from the side of the street the hotel has a gate that is locked at night. On the way there are shops (leather, fruits, alcohol, knick-knacks), you can also pump up balls there (the animator Zeynap showed me the way there, who hardly speaks Russian, but speaks good English, I went further in the morning before the animators appeared, because . we usually climbed into the pool one of the first, and the balls were lowered with an enviable daily regularity). Right there on the way, almost fellow countryman Fedya makes orange juices for $ 1, distributes oranges to children for free (in general, the attitude of locals towards tourists was very pleasantly surprised, I don’t remember this since my trip to Abkhazia). The sea is clean, the entrance is on small pebbles, sunbeds and umbrellas with a margin, you can even drag them to the water itself, in the evening the guy returns them to their place without emotions and conversations. (In general, there were almost no prohibitions: food was taken from the restaurant if necessary, water was taken from the cooler for children, they rode down the slides as they wanted, they gave beer at the bar without question. ) There are volleyball courts on the beach, wooden flooring leads to the sea.
When the sea got bored, we returned to the hotel to the pool and beer. Sunbeds and umbrellas, located two meters from the pool, enough for everyone, beer too. Local waiters and bartenders tried to flirt with children and women, but somehow kindly, not intrusively. One even tried to feed me cookies from his hand during the afternoon snack, when the bulk had already been sorted out, I jokingly waved him towards a lonely bored woman of about 35 (in Russia you can do without jokes for such tricks), let him flirt with her. The same waiter taught us to say “dö rt bira” instead of “four beers” and “teş ekkü rler” instead of “thank you”, although by the end of the rest we were recognized in the bar from afar, knowing why we came and to what quantity. He has a separate respect for the local flavor and the basics of the Turkish language, what grievances there are! By the way, in the hotel and the surrounding shops there was a pretty good local Efes, a light, not very strong, but pleasant beer. It is difficult for them to get drunk (and there was no such goal), because. it is poured into small plastic cups (sometimes disposable), from the strength of 200 grams, you often have to go to the bar for an additive (like Russians drink a lot and do not get drunk, but the container itself is small). Some tourists had problems, because. they wanted to drink from glass goblets, but apparently this was not provided for in AI (only for a fee of about $1-2), it didn’t bother us: we can even drink from a bucket, over the edge, and then give another lecture... (with ) And we ourselves carried the cups to the bar, for which the waiters even said thanks, mutual respect. By the end of the holiday, I wanted a non-filtered drink, something dark for a change (they came with a beer company) and, of course, fish, which, to our great surprise, was not there, despite the proximity of the sea. You can buy chips, salted corn seeds, nuts, but with salted fish (ram, ancheus, etc. ) a bummer - all the merchants shrugged in amazement - bring it with you!
If we develop the theme of drinks, then it is necessary to mention local wine and vodka. The Turks have a tradition not to drink vodka like we do, but to dilute it with water to 10-15% strength. This is how they serve it in the bar, it’s impossible to drink, and they already have a similar “cocktail” in the bottle, at least distill it back. But… They have a local Raki vodka infused with aniseed root (the aftertaste of drugs familiar from childhood, it’s impossible to make a mistake, try it! ). Sometimes you could find it in a bar and ask not to dilute it, by the way, when diluted, it becomes cloudy due to a change in the concentration of anise oil : ), but it’s easier to walk to the nearest store and buy yourself a normal 45-degree sample for $15-20. They brought vodka with them, and the masseurs who saw our packages (we met and talked well during the rest) asked with horror if we would drink it : ). We assured them that it was a gift to take home with them.
I liked the local wine less than Raki. In the bar, it is again diluted, I myself am engaged in winemaking, I took a sip and could not drink. In stores, you can buy a bottle for at least $10-15, but I still have a suspicion that this is actually a powder (wine from pomegranate, blackberries, etc. nonsense). Being in a restaurant on the way to the beach, they brought us 2 different bottles, like natural, local (unfortunately I did not write down the name), but a lot of acid. In their climate, grapes must ripen until the acid is completely converted into sugar, this is not the middle zone of Russia for you, so something is not completely clean here. French, Italian, Chilean or Abkhaz (Psou, Kono Sur, Cuve du Pape, Baron de Cresse, etc. ) are clearly better for comparable money, so I do not recommend local wine.
From non-alcoholic drinks there are fanta, sprite, cola, yupi - whatever you like. You can get good coffee from a coffee machine: I usually drink black at home, but here I somehow fell in love with milk; nearby you can get tea leaves and boiling water (there were no tea bags).
As for the food, there were pros and cons. The food is delicious, fresh, there is a variety of dishes for lunch and dinner, which cannot be said about breakfast: every morning the standard boiled potatoes, eggs, milk porridge or scrambled eggs with tomatoes (only there are much more tomatoes in it than eggs, probably a national feature : ), fresh tomatoes, cucumbers. Sausages are offered for this business (most likely soy and rather peppery, there were literally 1-2 times normal) and a kind of sausage of comparable quality, most likely I would not buy such a house. There was no cheese at all (apart from some kind of cheese, but this is an amateur, to which I do not belong), butter for sandwiches is more like margarine. However, every morning we gathered as a company for breakfast and with the words “Potato! ” (remember the gentlemen of fortune) went into battle, did not have to starve, ahead of football in the pool and the sea! Three types of dry flakes were collected for children, which could take them about half an hour (in general, from small children there is a lot of extra work for waiters, to which they are very positive).
According to Zadornov, the resourcefulness of the Russians is striking, two examples. Where can you find hot milk if you don't even have regular milk? Very simple: when preparing coffee with milk, the coffee machine first shoots the milk jet, and only then the coffee jet. If you arm yourself with two cups and patience, then by alternating them and repeating the process of making coffee, you can achieve what you want! Well, how to quickly move down the water slide? Put panties up your ass! Literally, the advice of a little girl, she says she works, the wife confirms, he himself moved out on his shoulder blades and heels. I understand if it's a thong, but if it's family? Here you have to think. . .
We digress, now from the positive in food: there were a lot of different jams, honey, which can be applied in unlimited quantities, some kind of our sour cream, a good portion of which can completely replace breakfast. For lunch and dinner, the variety is much greater: sweets appear (it remains a mystery to us why they could not be put up for breakfast), salads (by the way, they have a specific sour mayonnaise, because of which we were in vain afraid of eating salads like our Olivier for the first few days) , stewed potatoes with chicken, stewed vegetables, spaghetti, etc. In the evening, a couple of chefs come out to the “hungry” vacationers and cook something on an open fire: fries, stewed vegetables, hamburgers, pancakes, chicken fillet, some local cakes / sticks from stuffed dough and something similar to cottage cheese with greens, fish in batter. Every evening something different, you can take as much as you like, although sometimes you have to stand in line for this. Although this can be avoided if you arrive for dinner a little half an hour late : ) when the main hungry crowd subsides. Separately, I want to note the spices (especially the red pepper, which came just in time) and something very sharp, similar to the heads of young garlic (on closer examination, it turned out that these were small yellow peppers). Very spicy, after one such pepper aftertaste for the rest of the meal, use carefully, but it's worth it! Well, you can’t mention the soups for lunch and dinner - just super! Something seemed sour to someone, spicy to someone, someone does not like milk soups, but IMHO these are minor nitpicks - the soups were very even. Once there was a very tasty borscht, several times there was a red soup, to which you can add lemon, olives and something like sour cream lying nearby (actually like yogurt or some kind of sauce) to get something similar to Russian hodgepodge. Against this background, the lack of meat and cheese was not so critical: for several days we were going to explore in a restaurant outside the hotel to try local wine and lamb skewers. The main problem that prevented us from implementing our plans was once again not to overeat for dinner, one evening we almost succeeded, Fedya fried a very tasty ram, they brought us a hookah for $ 5 (the same thing costs $ 10 in the hotel), which we they smoked for a long time in a reclining position in a pavilion stylized as local traditions. Also in the hotel were fruits: watermelon, melons, apples, apricots. If desired, on the way to the beach, you can additionally buy figs, strawberries, cherries.
During the meal, the waiters cheerfully run around the restaurant and collect the dishes: watch out for the half-eaten, otherwise you may lose goodies ahead of time. Sometimes there were not enough napkins, sometimes there were no spoons for soup, sometimes there were no salt shakers on the table, but IMHO these little things are not a reason for a scandal. You can wait 5 minutes until the waiter brings a new portion of spoons (and they really work very quickly), you can go to the next table and politely ask for a salt shaker, or you can make a scandal - to each his own... (I was very pleased that there were no "golden youth" in the hotel ”, Apparently three stars are too small for them, and there were only a couple of scandals from voluminous aunts or uncles aged only a couple of times and, IMHO, completely unsubstantial, they were lucky to relax with normal, adequate fellow countrymen, for whom it’s not a shame in the face of the Turks. ) During the reception almost constantly a cook is on duty in the restaurant, eaten dishes are promptly replaced with similar ones, new dishes do not appear in the process.
Food does not happen around the clock: there is a clear distinction between breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. There are only soft drinks on the beach, no food or beer. Whether this is good or bad, I find it difficult to say, rather it is a feature of the hotel. There are times when after an intense match in the pool or skiing with a child you already want to eat, and wait about an hour before the next meal. On the other hand, upon arrival home there were no problems with digestion, because, with all due respect to the culinary art of my wife, at home I don’t eat so much and so spicy, the stomach could be offended, but no, a healthy separate (in time ) food and fresh air work wonders : ). For an afternoon snack, which takes place not in the main restaurant, but near the stage, you need to make it in time, because. the first trays of cookies are scattered by vacationers almost with a whistle, and the next one has to wait a little longer.
The local representatives of Pegasus (Elvira, Alejandro == Alexander) did not inspire. During the check-in, they were not there at all, at the evening meeting from an hour and a half of communication, to which everyone was asked to come, including children, at 1:20 they talked about excursions that are many times more expensive at Pegasus than on the street at Ginza- or Rum -travel. They write like that there, without hesitation: whoever bought a tour at the hotel is a goof! : ) We sailed to Phaselis all day on the ROMA yacht for $15 per person and did not regret it at all, Pegasus has a similar pleasure for about $40. The dry result of the conversation with the Pegasus: do not fight with the Turks (we were not going to anyway), do not buy excursions outside the temple and give vouchers for activation. Do not waste your time: immediately give vouchers and go to rest. Pegasus practically do not interfere in the problems of vacationers. Wi-Fi does not log in - your problem (at least they said the password, sanland123, they would have told from Zena, which was caught across the road in my room, they would not have had a price). I myself am partly an admin, I can set up Wi-Fi and ping the glitch, although on the first evening there was a glitch on their side and I didn’t do much, and then it suddenly worked. Later, I set up Wi-Fi for a couple of vacationers, because. their appeals to the reception or to the Pegasus people remained unanswered. There was often a lot of noise during the settling of a new batch of newcomers - apparently the first day "impressed" not only me. In one of the cases, the child broke his chin great on the pool (the blood was most likely sewn up later), the mother came to Elvira with a request to help call a doctor, to which she rather sparingly reminded about the phone number in the insurance and pointed to the reception, the phone is there. The business of the Pegasus people is to sell excursions and activate vouchers, rescuing drowning people and solving everyday issues is not part of their duties, although it probably should be a little different. Perhaps not all hotel guides are like that and we were just unlucky.
When making purchases or traveling by bus (Antalya, Kemer, Phaselis, etc. ), it is better to pay in lira, and not in dollars or euros, it will be cheaper. We realized this after the driver on the bus gave us change with $100 lira - the prices around us went down sharply (for reference, $1 ~= 2 lira). The drivers on the buses, who do not speak Russian and English, turned out to be very honest: they could take our $10 and pretend “I don’t understand yours”, but they always gave change, and according to our rough estimates in our mind, the cost correlated with the mileage, well done, correlates with the general positive attitude of locals towards tourists! On buses, without fear, you can travel even along the entire coast, the main thing is not to pass the destination. When buying tobacco for a pipe (try to explain to the locals what you want, and not for a hookah - the key word is "tü tü n" - tobacco : ) from the last day, when there was already little finance, the store took the amount of dollars, lira and rubles without any problems , no problem with that.
About the animation: most likely it is really boring, as already noted in other reviews. I am writing “most likely” because for me animation is not the main attribute of recreation, especially since we came to rest with two families from different cities, we had not seen each other for a long time, we talked a lot, there was something to do. In the afternoon, there was water aerobics in the pool once, then the leader with dark hair disappeared somewhere and there was no aerobics for the next 10 days. In football on the water, to which the Turkish woman Zeynap campaigned every morning, we could figure it out ourselves: there are balls, we know where to swing, the goal is at hand. In the evening, for children, there is a round dance to the music; upon arrival, the child sings “aram zam zam” and repeats the movements. Entertainment for adults performed by a local animator of short stature with a black beard (whom we called Barmaley among ourselves, he would have had a mustache and watch Russian cartoons : ) to put it mildly, they were not impressed: it’s rather boring, he tries, sorry, to fart into the microphone, which often causes negative reaction, not laughter. The positive comes from him, he can jokingly fight with 15-year-old girls on foam accessories from the pool, like with swords, but he does not succeed in entertaining the crowd as a whole, by 23:00 the stage was usually already empty, for some then that would definitely be a downside. In addition to the animation, the water slides worked with varying success, during the 11 days of rest the pump managed to break down and repair twice, and I would like the slides to be more abrupt, although the child could not be dragged away from them. Sauna worked fine, were twice, were satisfied. I even managed to explain to local masseurs (good guys) how the Finnish dry steam room differs from the Russian steam room, why Russians don’t sit in the steam room for half an hour (a cold shower is nearby, but there wasn’t enough pool) and don’t drink vodka at the same time : ).
Upon check-out from the hotel, we were not offered to leave a review (for reference, it was at the first hour of the night), they did not look at the room and did not cut off the bracelets. Probably also a feature... A local Turk periodically spun in the hotel and commanded waiters until midnight, and in the evening he dined at a separate table with glassware near the pool and waiters fussing around - either the boss or the owner of the establishment. I suspect that a complaint about the manager's actions could be left directly to him, but somehow it was not up to it.
To sum it up: I enjoyed my stay. Good sea, good, although not very varied, food, excellent attitude of the hotel staff and surrounding Turks, pools, slides, sun, beer. Whoever came to rest will have a rest with a bang, whoever came to look for dirty dishes or pools with bleach will surely find them, like a pig in a well-known saying. Or invent. Have a good rest in a small cozy hotel on the Mediterranean coast!
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