Good hotel

Written: 12 july 2015
Travel time: 28 june — 11 july 2015
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
Good hotel with some flaws. But I think that they are so insignificant that they do not spoil the vacation. And if you start to get hung up on problems, then you will only spoil your mood, and with a bad mood, not a single hotel, even a super-five-star one, will make you happy. Don't worry, be happy.

So, I rested for 2 whole weeks, and I liked the hotel. The rooms are comfortable, the mattress on the bed is excellent - after many kilometers of walking it was very nice to stretch out on the bed! There is a hair dryer in the room which is a big plus. And a well-functioning air conditioner (they did not ask for a separate fee for it, as is the case in some other hotels). There is a TV, we never turned it on. Bed linen is normal, clean and dry. Towels too - big and small. The room was cleaned every day, towels changed a couple of times a week. I have absolutely no complaints about cleaning, the maid does her job well and honestly.

The hotel has a good location. To the sea about 15-20 minutes on foot, we went 2 times a day. A bus runs to the beach several times a day, but we never took it, walking is more pleasant and more useful. The hotel is located away from noisy shopping streets, in a quiet area. At the same time, even at night it is not scary to walk there - calmly and safely.

We got a room on the first floor and with windows to the mountain. Peace and quiet - exactly what I wanted! Rooms with windows overlooking the pool are more suitable for party-goers and cheerful youth companies, and for people looking for peace and solitude, rooms with mountain views are better. The latch on the balcony periodically broke, but as soon as you turned to the porter, he immediately called the technician, and he repaired everything. Given the first floor, we rented a safe in the room, I advise you to do the same - it is quite reliable, and it is inexpensive, $ 2 per day. There is no theft in the hotel, everyone is honest, but when the passport is in the safe, you feel much calmer.
The food is delicious! I don't know what kind of gluttons write down there in the reviews that they were starving - we were always satisfied with the food, even when returning from a late excursion in the last minutes of dinner. There are always fresh vegetables, which in Turkey are incredibly tasty, ripe and with a real taste, and not "plastic", as in St. Petersburg. There are 2-3 types of fresh salads - they can be poured with some kind of sauce, or just lemon juice. There is always feta and olives of different types. There are salads of stewed vegetables (mmm, what eggplants were there! ) For especially strange "gourmets" there is a salad with mayonnaise. Hot dishes are also good - always some kind of meat stew, more often with chicken - well, good! There are always stewed vegetables and other side dishes. For dinner, cooks always cook something on the fire: they fry cutlets, cook pasta with vegetables, and squash pancakes. They cook good soups, they serve wonderful cupcakes for dessert, there are always melon and watermelon for fruits.
The chef, the wonderful Abbas, prepares a breathtakingly delicious watermelon punch during the day - no matter how much I tried to get the recipe from him, I did not tell! : )


The hotel has an excellent hammam. I advise everyone to go on the first day, so that later the tan lies on the renewed skin! My friend and I spent about 3 hours in the spa center: sauna, hammam, excellent peeling right on the marble benches of the hammam, foam massage, pomegranate tea, classic full body massage, face mask - a complete buzz! And all this happiness for quite modest money. The masseurs are very delicate and skillful, in the hands of Emil I literally melted and ascended to heaven, a friend says the same about the second masseur. There is also a female masseuse. High and relaxing every centimeter of the body. In addition, I advise you to go to the hamam in the hotel, and not somewhere "on the side", because there is a guarantee that they will not molest rudely, for my girlfriend and I it was very important.
On Wednesdays they arrange "Turkish night" - a holiday with animation, invited dancers. Chefs and waiters dance the national dance "halai" - be sure to take part, it's a lot of fun and gives an unprecedented feeling of unity and happiness.

I advise you to travel on excursions, it was a discovery for us that there are so many interesting places in this part of Turkey. Excursions can be bought not from a hotel guide (the price is 2 times higher, the tour is the same), but in street agencies, for example, in Lilha-tour on the embankment, there is a very intelligent manager Mustafa who speaks excellent Russian.

The hotel has one minus, which I cannot keep silent about: sometimes the water in the shower did not flow hot, but cool. Like the sea, the same water temperature. But it was so hot outside that it didn't bother me at all. I decided for myself that it is useful: it hardens the body and tones the skin.

Perhaps the main advantage of the hotel is the staff.
These are kind, honest and caring people, I spent two weeks as if in a big family and managed to make friends with these people and fall in love with them. I will definitely come again, together with my mother - at the end of the season, in September-October.
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