respect. Yelken Blue Life Hotel 5*

Written: 13 august 2013
Travel time: 23 july — 4 august 2013
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 7.0
Rested family - three adults - from July 23 to August 4 from Coral Travel. Third time in Turkey. In general, the rest was satisfied. The reception, as well as seeing off, from the Coral Travel company was organized, special thanks to them! The hotel staff is friendly, often communicated with them in Turkish. You address them in Turkish - they answer you in Russian (especially young staff), this is how they work out their communication skills  The location of the hotel is very convenient, it stands right on the seashore: you left the building, walked through the pool and you are on the sea...
The bulk of vacationers are Russians, then in descending order are: Turkey, Azerbaijan, Iran, Belgium, Poland. Pleased with the absence of our "tagil".
So in order.
Settlement.

We were three adults given room 1157 on the second floor without a balcony, with a double bed and a baby cot. The mood for rest was spoiled. And no 20-50 dollars solved the problem, they simply did not take them at the reception! But they promised to move to the right room in the morning. The problem is that the hotel is overcrowded with tourists: the number of arrivals exceeded the number of departures. With understanding, they doomedly wandered into their “apartments”. The next morning, as promised, we were moved to another room 1067 on the first floor, where there were double beds and one and a half beds, plus a balcony.
Number.
Good, new furniture, floor covering - carpet, free safe in the closet,
LCD TV with 2 Russian channels (a note to parents who leave their children alone in the room at night: after midnight on one of the channels they start to drive porn). About the air conditioner - it is supposedly individual, but at night it did not cool like during the day, apparently the central “cunningly” programmed for economy. At night we just toiled from stuffiness. Speaking of saving. The light often turned off in an emergency (or the hotel workers themselves turned it off). Those who left the room, leaving the air conditioner on, returned to the gas chamber  . The bathroom is standard, but there is no flexible shower hose, the shower is built into the wall. Hot water was always with good pressure.
Room cleaning.
Leaves much to be desired. The maid constantly forgot something: she wouldn’t change towels or pillowcases, or she wouldn’t put a towel for her feet, she “forgot” to pour gel and shampoo into dispensers. In general, they turned to her regularly, everyone received them without problems and with apologies, and the daily dollar did not solve the problem, but regularly went into her pocket 
Sea and beach.

Warm, clean, not stormy. From living creatures - small fish. With the Red Sea, of course, you can not compare. The people rejoiced at each feeding of the fish with buns and eggs brought from breakfast. The beach is clean, cleaned constantly. There were a lot of sun loungers, but if you like to sleep until dinner, you could stay without them. There were vacationers who clogged sunbeds with personal belongings as early as 6-7 in the morning, and they themselves went to sleep in the room, drawing only after dinner. Cattle, in a word. There were no problems with towels, cards for them are issued at the reception. The entrance to the sea is either from the pier, or from the sandy beach (especially for children) and from the pebble. The pebbles on the beach are small, in the water they are already larger. Some vacationers entered the sea in coral slippers. Tourists from the neighboring Peker 4 * hotel tried to enter the territory of our hotel in order to enter the water from the beach. they have an entrance to the sea only from the pier. But the hotel security, of course, did not let them in. This is for comparison.
Nutrition.
I liked it very much! Everyone found for themselves what they wanted. Many of our tourists are interested in the presence of meat in food. There was plenty of it: beef, beef liver, tongue, chicken, lamb, turkey in any form: stewed, boiled, baked, fried, barbecue and kebabs. There is no pork. Fish: rainbow trout, herring, mackerel, red trout, tuna, haddock and some other river fish. There were shrimp and anchovies in the salads. Grocery: pasta, spaghetti, french fries, mashed potatoes, rice. No buckwheat  Cheeses: processed, hard, cheese. Sausage of 4 types, for an amateur. A bunch of sauces and oils for salad dressing. Fresh vegetables are always greens, cucumbers, tomatoes. Stewed vegetables: eggplant, zucchini, bell pepper and many others. Fruits: red and green apples, melons, watermelons, plums, oranges, white and black grapes. Cakes are just a beautiful fairy tale - I wonder where the hotel confectioners have so much imagination The only thing I didn’t like was the cakes, as if made from semolina, oversweetened. Drinks: tea bags for every taste, herbal very tasty, brewed in a teapot, cappuccino coffee, coffee with and without milk, mochaccino, hot chocolate, cocoa, yoghurts.
I really liked the evenings of national Turkish cuisine, the chefs tried, even Turkish ravioli came across.
Juices, of course, are incomprehensible, similar to Yuppies. If you wish, you can take an orange fresh juice - $ 3 a glass. And everywhere drinking water, cola, sprite, fanta, mineral water. Ephesus beer is tasty, not body-drinking, as some say, just low-alcohol. Bottled wine - white, red, rose "Altyn Tepe" (Golden Mountain). Better than barrel sour. At night from 23.30 to 00.30 you can go to the night soup. In general, we never went hungry. From 15:00 to 16:00, kids and adults line up for ice cream.

Animation.

Excellent animation, most importantly unobtrusive, as in some hotels. The guys are just great! They try very hard to entertain the guests. Much has been written about them in other reviews, I will not repeat. Just thank them!
Hotel guide.
Many people speak badly about the hotel guide Fuad. Allegedly, he imposes excursions. This is not true. He explains everything competently and with a sense of humor, it's just a pleasure to listen to him. To go on his excursions or not, it's up to you. We took an excursion from him to the Antalya Oceanarium. They didn't regret it. You can save money on excursions by leaving the hotel and walking a hundred meters to the right along the street, where you will be offered cheaper. But you need to take into account one point: in case of an accident on an excursion taken from the street, NOBODY will pay for your insurance. You will pay from your wallet. Medicine in Turkey is expensive, calling a doctor costs up to $100. It is a fact
P. S. We rested during the Sabantuy of cicadas. This is something! At first they thought that someone's car alarm was working. It turned out to be the chirping of local giant flies - loving female cicadas  We listened to their serenades day and night.
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