Turkey - instructions for survival

Written: 27 august 2010
Travel time: 12 — 20 august 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Service: 3.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 2.0
Amenities: 3.0
I must say right away that we were in Turkey for the first time, we went with a child of 6 years old, out of "necessity", just to escape from Moscow during the smog and fires in the month of August, unfortunately the hotels that we wanted were not confirmed to us and the tour operator offered " Magic Dream Resort" as an alternative, agreed to what it was and went, hoping that in Turkey, with its famous buffets and "ALL INCLUSIV", and even in a 4-star hotel, it shouldn't be bad at all, but how wrong we were!
The hotel deserves MAXIMUM 3 stars, there is no territory at all, there is a small path around the hotel and a fence a meter away from it, and a small pool with a bar veranda in the yard, that is, there is nowhere to go, either sit in the room or go to the beach.
The rooms are small, we had a "singl" - so for two with a child one bed - 6 sq. m. , but a huge air conditioner directly opposite blows in the face, the next morning everyone went with a cold, because without it it is unrealistic to sleep - stuffiness, heat and high humidity.

But most of all "pleased" the disco, starting around 22-00 and ending at midnight. Since all single rooms overlook the pool, it is impossible to move and sleep too, the music yells so that you can not hear the TV in the room.
Food - even in three-star hotels in Bulgaria, I have not seen such a disgrace, all 9 days we were given only chicken, for lunch and dinner, in different versions, with pasta, rice and sometimes potatoes, no cereal for breakfast, no meat, no fish, no seafood. After a couple of days, the child simply refused to eat, and if we hadn’t found the Georgian restaurant “Come Genatsvale” nearby, where, at my request, the child was prepared with boiled tongue with buckwheat and baked trout with mashed potatoes, I just don’t know what I would feed him. I was also surprised how they save even on fruits, serving them only in the form of sliced ​ ​ u200bu200bwedges, and grapes as individual berries. Is it the famous Turkish exuberance?
Soup for lunch is just some kind of slurry, of an indefinite color, where you can’t catch a single piece of vegetables or meat. Sliced ​ ​ vegetables - some kind of rotten and rotten, sausages for breakfast - soy and even their smell already causes a gag reflex. The water in the cooler is barely warm, the tea is not even brewed.
On the second day, either from local drinking water, or from feeding, the child began to have diarrhea. In the local pharmacy there was neither smecta, nor bifiform, nor other medicines known to us, but there is a wonderful drug "Diafuril", which quickly removed all the symptoms, and also "Maflor" - a probiotic, an analogue of our bifidumbacterin, and you can also buy good kefir in the local store, for $ 3.5 -200 ml, so they were saved.
The beach is located 10 minutes from the hotel, small and uncleaned, around cigarette butts, diapers, etc.
, sun loungers are all broken, but free, the sea was perfectly clean for the first five days, then something was thrown away and plastic bottles, cups, pieces of polyethylene and other garbage floated around the swimmers.

We took one tour - to the water park, so that at least somewhere to get away from the hotel, but we left there three hours earlier - the territory is very small, you have to queue for 20-30 minutes for each slide! , there are few balloons and there aren’t enough for everyone, as soon as you roll down, the next person immediately grabs the balloon from under you, but about the pool with artificial waves, in general, I want to say especially - they won’t let you in on free balloons, you have to take it for $ 5 or 4 euro, then check the schedule, because the notorious "wave" turns on only once an hour, and when you finally get there, you can enjoy skiing for exactly 2 minutes, and then wait another hour - the next wave.
Meals on the territory of the water park only with coupons - 1 drink - for the whole day! ! ! on the heat! ! ! (cola, sprite fanta or beer), 1 ice cream and a choice of hamburger, shawarma or hot dog, which even I could not eat without a shudder, let alone a child.

The only bright memory of this hotel is the girl from the reception, if I'm not mistaken, her name is Jamigul. She is the only one who speaks and understands Russian, very friendly, as far as possible solved all our problems and responded to any requests - THANK YOU SO MUCH!
If you dare to go to this hotel, contact only her. We probably won't go to Turkey again.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original