Good but not enough!

Written: 8 june 2011
Travel time: 31 may — 7 june 2011
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: 8.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 7.0
My name is Elena. Went to Turkey with my husband for the first time! Rested from May 31 to June 7. We arrived just yesterday and immediately want to share our impressions so that they are useful to someone when choosing a hotel. We are 25 and we wanted to have a fun and active vacation! I chose the hotel for a very long time, carefully, read reviews, looked at photos, etc. When Maxim appeared on sale, he immediately interested me because he was located on the first line from the sea in the city of Kemer (I wanted to go there), and of course the UAL food system. And the price compared to other 5 * was acceptable.
We were lucky with the weather, because Before our arrival, it rained for 3 days, although on 2 days in the evening it still passed for about an hour!
The hotel is somewhere around 70% of Russian speakers (Russians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs, probably only we were Belarusians) and 30% of foreigners respectively (Germans, British, Iranians, Turks and someone else... ). A lot of young people came, it was especially fun for those who came with a group (they were crazy around the clock).

We didn’t have time to get to know anyone in 7 days, and there was no time either for an excursion, or for a disco, or for a water park. Speaking of excursions… Never take excursions from a tour operator! Unreasonably expensive!
It was a little annoying that we were waiting for a room for about 1.5 hours. But I was glad that the room was good, everything worked! With sea views on one side and mountains on the other. We didn't give money. Cleaned well, though once we forgot to put clean bath towels.
The hamam in the hotel is a rip-off, the prices are exorbitant, but because we are inexperienced - we are fooled. $35 The simplest session costs about 1 hour. From Ginza Travel it was possible to take the most expensive one for 3 hours with Thai massage, masks and body wraps for this money. But oh well, let's not talk about sad things, the first pancake is lumpy.
As for the UAL system, it is a free safe, ice cream and alcoholic drinks around the clock, only local production. Like everything!
The animation is very good! Team of 10 people! Well done guys! Evening show class! During the day, dance lessons, aerobics, water aerobics in the pool, water polo, beach volleyball were held. Quite a rich program for children! We don't have kids, but I don't think they'll be bored. Although I heard that they were dissatisfied with the small number of slides (there are only 2 of them). There was a disco in the hotel several times, on the basement floor. In general, I liked the atmosphere and the music. But we were so tired during the day that we were no longer enough for discos.
As for beach towels, they can be changed by 8 am or 2 pm, otherwise there will be no clean ones.
There were also those who were dissatisfied - those who go to 5 * hotels all the time and know a lot. Here they said that the hotel is not up to 5*! But for the first time we really liked it!

The most important thing is the kitchen! The food is delicious and varied. Although there was something that I did not even try. If you didn't know, don't experiment! Grilled vegetables and chicken every day. The beef was, but tough. Fish neochen, bony. There was no seafood. There are a lot of cakes, but I liked only a couple of types. Some strange cream in almost everyone.
We didn’t like the Rybny a la carte restaurant - I think everyone who went there will support us in this, it’s better for dinner! The declared trout WAS NOT!
All alcohol is not alcohol, I didn’t feel any degrees there! We drank mostly beer!
All alcohol is brought from Duty Free!
The staff at the hotel are very nice! The guys are trying like bees!
The beach is pebbles, quite large, you need special shoes. Without it, it is very painful to go into the water. There were enough beds and mattresses for everyone. The beach is clean, constantly cleaned!
I recommend the hotel!! ! Not very picky like us, everything will be fine. Maybe there were some cons, but they are not significant at all!
Tour operator Coral Travel - everything is OK, met, taken, brought!
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