Хороший отель, но не через Пегас Good hotel but not across Pegasus

We rested from May 21 to May 28 from Pegas Touristik. The hotel is good, there are no significant complaints about it, but Pegasus... It usually happens that you fly back and forth on a double flight, so in total the day of arrival and departure add up to almost a whole day of rest. And, probably, inconvenient charters (in the evening there and early in the morning back) are cheaper. These are the charters that Pegasus bought for us, we arrived at the hotel on Saturday, the 21st at 21:30, after dinner, and it was planned to pick us up on the return morning flight on the 28th at 4:30 in the morning. And someone else, respectively, arrived in the morning and flew away in the evening, i. e. got two full Saturdays of rest, the same formula of 8 days / 7 nights. We got 6 days and 6.5 nights. It is interesting that Pegasus posted information about flights for two days, but we could not use it, because. "Global Travel" gave information only 24 hours before departure. It is possible that citizens could not refuse an inconvenient charter in advance. By the way, the name "Global Travel" turned out to be a trademark, their seal now says "Universal Service Company". And a couple of years ago they put the seals of Family Travel LLC. This, apparently, is not accidental either, it was not possible to find at least some phones of responsible persons on the last evening before the flight. The sweetest girls in the Global Travel office on Komsomolskaya, who before that seemed just happy to help us with the rest, to the naive and absolutely correct question: "How so? " - they suddenly found steel in their voice and began to send short messages to read the contract. Like, what other oral discussions and agreements regarding the charter? Did you sign the contract? So go… Not that it was a tragedy for me, but I advised all my friends and acquaintances never, under any circumstances, to use the services of Pegas Touristik and Global Travel. To avoid unpleasant sediment from the rest.
The second stone in the address of Pegasus is the prices for excursions. This is the question why travel agencies are trying to sell the maximum number of excursions on the very first day of your stay at the hotel, while citizens still strive to buy an excursion from an agency on the street. The most popular tour of Demre-Mira-Kekov at the representative of Pegasus costs $ 55 per person, and at a travel agency on the street - $ 22.5 (respectively $ 110 or $ 45 for two !!? ). The difference is two and a half times! The curator of Pegasus assured us that there were old broken buses in travel agencies from the street, unknown drivers, no insurance... We later saw buses from these companies on excursions - they are exactly the same, and the seats are normal, the drivers look decent, insurance and museum tickets included in the price. It's just that Pegasus takes 200% of the profit on such an excursion. And the accident of the Pegasus bus on 06/24/2011 confirms that everyone is about the same in terms of safety. In general, shoe. The cheap ($20) excursion to Antalya offered by Pegasus with lunch and a boat trip is probably fully sponsored by shopping centers, where you will be taken first, and Pegasus takes all your money. By the way, textiles in such a center turned out to be one and a half times more expensive than in the store next to the hotel, don't expect freebies, this is an implicit payment for the trip : ). And after a free lunch in an Antalya restaurant, long-forgotten heartburn rolls in. In general, be careful with Pegasus.
And we liked the hotel. A beautiful place, polite staff, good accommodation, good food for every taste, a lot of meat, a shish kebab for dinner every other day, and what a trout ! ! That's just the fruit is clearly not enough for Turkey. There was nothing but sliced ​ ​ oranges, grapefruits, and a bowl of fruit salad. 2 times they gave a watermelon with melons and NEVER had strawberries, although the time was just strawberry for Turkey !! ! It should also be clarified that the hotel is not on the first, but on the second line. The advertising photos show that between the hotel and the sea there is a green area and an entertainment complex, and so they belong to the neighboring hotel Barut Labada, which just occupies the first line. Our hotel almost did not have its own territory, the entrance to the building was right from the street. Accordingly, we walked a little to the sea along the street along the hotel, then across the road and another 50 meters along the territory of Barut. Although it is absolutely not annoying, it takes 2 minutes to do everything. During our stay, the first 3 days were clear skies and hot sun, then 3 days partly cloudy and even rain at times. The sea is cool, +19, but absolutely transparent and clean, but you should not take a mask with you - I have never seen such an empty bottom anywhere before. For half an hour of swimming, only two small fish on the sandy bottom came into view.

I objectively lowered the service rating for three reasons. First, our room was at the very end of the hallway and the cleaning lady always got to it at 2pm. Just when you want to lie on cool sheets for a couple of hours after a morning sunbathing and a hearty dinner, to wait out the heat under the air conditioner. And then they knock - cleaning. As a result, she managed to get out only 3 times in 6 days, and she did this without fanaticism, although the dollar was left : ). A funny detail, while packing my bags, I noticed something black under the bed. It turned out - this is a case with sunglasses, by no means ours. How many weeks they lay there is unknown. I don’t change sheets every day at home, but I’ll put a small minus for the cleaning lady.
Second - crazy animators. In fact, they are almost everywhere. But the whole day on the beach, heart-rending cries with bad voices "parachute" are somewhat annoying. This entertainment cost $ 50, apparently, they were well unfastened for customers, so the boys, by hook or by crook, tried to drag the citizens onto the boat. The only one who travels with young children can relax for at least an hour in the evening. After dinner, every day the animators do them: they sing songs, dance, play. There are also programs for adults every evening. But worthy is not enough. With us was the "Turkish Night". Performance of a folk dance group and a belly dancer.
Thirdly, both WiFi access points of our hotel were present, but it was impossible to connect to them. At least with the codes given at the reception. Fortunately, some left unsecured network was accessible from the hall, and everyone used it. Also, it would be nice to have WiFi on the beach. This, in my opinion, is the main disadvantage.
Well, and, of course, Russians. . . The entire hotel is inhabited by Russian-speaking citizens: dimensionless aunts, the Russian outback, Ukraine and a bit of Kazakhstan. At times, it even created additional psychological comfort, all of your own, you know what to expect. You are not surprised that an aunt runs up in a restaurant to a tray with sliced ​ ​ ​ ​ watermelon that has just been put out, rakes everything clean into 2 mountains on large plates and happily runs away. Well, you know how it is. . .

I also planned to rent a bike and ride around the area. Alas, there were no bikes in the hotel, and the rental at the market near the main street offered very cheap bikes, which are dangerous to travel far - then it's hard to drag back on yourself. And on foot it was really only to walk along the path along the sea, or to wander around the shops. By the way, the cheapest goods are in the shops that are visible from the hotel restaurant, on the shopping area (the one where there is a restaurant in the middle, and shops around the perimeter).
In general, if you just go for a week to relax and swim, then Camyuva and l'Oceanica are a good choice. But I just do not advise you to do it through Pegasus.