Holidays in Turkey

Written: 10 april 2011
Travel time: 12 — 26 march 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 5.0
Amenities: 5.0
Good afternoon everyone.
Finally got around to reviewing.
I want to note that in Turkey for the first time we rested, before that we were in Egypt 3 times at different resorts (4-5 star hotels), so I compare it with respect to Egypt.
I'll start in order. The ticket was bought quickly, i. е. today we saw the tour, tomorrow we brought it, the day after tomorrow we will depart at 6 am.
Bought from Mostrevel (already used this operator).
When buying a ticket, they worked quickly, the courier arrived competent, well, there are no complaints at this point.
I note right away that we flew 2 + 1 (6 years) for 14 nights, the amount was 30.800 (with fuel).
We flew with the airline Colavia, Airbus 380 (we had not previously flown with either Airbus or Colavia). A small digression, flew a Boeing, tu, silt.

So, we took off on time, without delays, but I can say that the pressure drop is very felt in the airbus, especially when landing, my child (he flew 3 times already) was crying, this had never happened before, the air carrier did not even take care of lollipops. Well, we got out of the situation with water, taking small sips.
Arrived at the airport, there by bus to the hotel, go 1 hour. We arrived at the hotel, the hotel opened only the first day. They settled us quickly, they immediately brought a baby bed (or rather, it's a folding bed). The room was standard, the view was of the pool, the sea, and the dolphinarium, not a large balcony, but dumb, in terms of the fact that the balcony railing is low and flimsy, in general, the child was not allowed on the balcony. The bathroom, of course, needs repair, taps and drains are rusty somewhere, water was collecting in the bathroom while you take a shower, but everything was repaired.
About cleaning, they didn’t clean it very carefully, we decided that cleaning in a day would suit us and broadcast a do not disturb sign, towels were changed if you threw them on the floor, I can’t say about linen, I didn’t follow it. The towels in the room are better than beach towels, but also not the first freshness and appearance, shabby, with torn edges, bed linen also met an tear along the edge, but washed. Beach towels are terrible, old, like "shit mammoth" - sorry for the expression.
About the hotel, the hotel is average, made in the form of a 5 coal star, when viewed from above, or rather 5 corridors with rooms.
Now in more detail:

1) I was interested in what the temperature and weather would be in Kemer at that time, I write: the first week was generally gorgeous, under 30 degrees in the sun, the sea was 18, we swam in the sea, in the evening we put on light sweaters. On the second week, the weather deteriorated a little , sometimes there were days for half a day of rain, but not cold, 22 degrees, half a day of sunshine. By the end of the second week, everything returned to normal. The sea is a 7-minute walk, a pebble beach - it is cleaned with a bulldozer, literally a meter in the sea there are pebbles, then sand, but they didn’t reach the depth, after all, 18 degrees is not so comfortable, they entered somewhere waist-deep and swam. Yes, still, let’s go on the sea - there are no sunbeds from our hotel, they came to the hotel, asked, we were told that the beach would start working from April 1, we were indignant that if they opened the hotel for tourists, they would need to take care of the beach on the sea, the next day beds set.
2) about the pools, upon arrival, only one pool worked on the street and one inside the hotel, the street was 15 degrees, i. e. dived and immediately onto the sunbed, it was closed with heating, but at first it was 22 degrees, then we went to the reception and asked to make it warmer, since the children are swimming, they did everything, then it became somewhere around 26-28. A large pool with a waterfall and slides was opened on March 23, but the slides were launched only on March 25 and then for 1 hour, without slides the water in the pool is the same - 15 degrees, but warm water pours from the slides, so after 1 hour of the slides the pool warmed up noticeably .
3) about the sauna and Turkish bath, we didn’t use paid services at the hotel, so there’s not much to tell, the sauna and Turkish bath (without massage) are free, the gym is the same.
4) a kitchen, a restaurant, a bar - I’ll note that the first week they lived in the hotel: Russians, Ukrainians and that’s it. It was fun, until the morning the drunks yelled under the windows, since our rooms overlooked an internal small pool, and there was a bar, well, nothing , survived, audibility is of course good.
Bar - you can say there is no choice (crayfish, whiskey, rum, gin, red wine, white and beer) and sprite, cola, mineral water, fanta - everything. Well, it didn’t really bother me, but still, in Egypt I like their tequila, it wasn’t here and I like beer in Egypt more, you can drink at least a bucket and nothing, but Ephesus is still heavier.

Restaurant - the food is monotonous (even in Egypt they feed better), for 2 weeks there was nothing unusual for dinner, but it seemed like the chef stood in a corner, like with a signature dish, but it turned out that this was a signature dish, let's say it was for lunch yesterday, or there for dinner just in the dispenser, but now it’s supposedly standing separately and the chef put food on a plate with such a view, like eat...., he didn’t even put it, but threw it) although I’m not picky and I’m going on vacation for the sake of relaxation), but it jarred me. We were not hungry, but in 2 weeks we were tired of everything.
5) disco, etc. - I didn’t go, my child ran to children’s dances, he liked it, someone went to the city to a disco with a hotel, everything is strict there, the main guard left and made sure that, God forbid, the tourists did not disappear anywhere.
6) children's animation appeared by the end of the first week and it was difficult to call it animation, so-so. They practically did not deal with children, since there were enough children and they themselves played among themselves.
7) in the second week, a bunch of Iranians settled in the hotel, here are friends, it’s terrible, so terrible, they are worse than our gypsies, they rode the elevator with a wild scream, it was impossible to get out of the elevator, they brought you back, in the restaurant like locusts, they could stupidly stay from a common plate from a common spoon, in general, horror, even the Turks themselves do not like them.
8) about the guide - for two weeks we never saw the guide Mostrevel at the hotel, the Pegasus girls sat every day, if there were questions, we asked them, thank you very much, they helped in everything. Mostrevel didn’t even have an information board, they found out about the departure at the reception (they were unpleasantly disappointed, because Mostrevel flew to Egypt (Marsa Alam) and the guide was chic, he sat in the hotel every day, everyone had his mobile, solved all issues on the fly) .

9) Excursions - since there was no guide at the hotel, and this is for the best, there is a travel company opposite the hotel, Emil, who grew up and was born in Rostov, works there, all vouchers are 2 times cheaper than those of the tour operator, a child under 7 - free, professional drivers. I’ll tell you what tickets we bought: we went to Pammukkale - we didn’t regret it, beauty, the only thing we stopped on the way there was at a large store where goods made of cotton, I’ll write the prices right away, so that later we could find out where it’s better to buy, we somehow miscalculated what sometimes not (a terry bathrobe with a hood - 25 dollars, branded jeans for 50 dollars, bamboo socks for 6-8 dollars, a tracksuit for a child 30 dollars), on the way back they brought to a wine store, they offered wine, pomegranate, cherry, and etc. , they say there is nothing like this anywhere else, the price is 25 dollars, but if you take 3 bottles for 60 dollars, then another grape as a gift, it turns out for 15 dollars - they bought it, then they saw the same in the store for 10 dollars, well, what you can do it, it costs 10 euros in a dutik.
We took a fishing excursion already 2 times, went to a trout farm, there are a lot of fish, our child caught the most.
I went to the spa, nothing out of the ordinary, the massage was not done very well, they just stroked it stupidly and tried to swindle it into all sorts of rubbish, but I refused.
Not far from the hotel there is a market, a leather shop, a wholesale and retail store for souvenirs, but it takes a long time to describe the trajectory of movement, so if anyone is interested, they can ask questions in a personal mawisi@mail. ru
The departure was a little delayed, or rather the landing, by 40 minutes, since the plane arrived, unloaded and immediately went back, there was not even water on the plane when they flew back.
A few more words, the Turks-sellers are certainly not Egyptians, the Turks are more crazy, breaking prices like in Moscow in boutiques, I don’t understand what the point is, so we didn’t really buy anything from things.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original