Turkey, Kemer, Tekirovo, Queens Park Resort October 2009

Written: 28 october 2009
Travel time: 12 — 21 october 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
Tour operator Mostrevel. VimAvia airline. The first time I went to the airport without any documents at all, usually the whole package of documents is already on hand and you are calm about this, but here they booked on Friday, departure at 6:30 am on Monday, receiving documents at the airport 3 hours before departure. But I was worried in vain, everything went smoothly, I quickly found the Mostrevel counter, there were no people there at all (while Teztur had a long line), she said her last name and received the entire package of documents. They took off without delay. In Antalya Airport, in general, everything went very quickly: a visa (still $ 20), passport control, baggage claim, boarding the bus - everything took about 30 minutes maximum (while on returning to Domodedovo we only stood at passport control for 40 minutes) . I was glad that the bus was small and we did not wait an hour for the people to gather, and after 10-15 minutes we already went to the hotels. The road to the hotel is about 1.5 hours. Departure back also took place on schedule, although we arrived at the airport less than 2 hours before departure, the people were already nervous on the bus, but everyone was in time. I don’t need any more excursions or anything else from the tour operator, but I would like to note that the representative of Turtess Mostrevel (meeting company) has been at the hotel only 1 time in all our 10 days, although he has a schedule from morning to lunch and from afternoon to 8 – at the indicated time the guide was not at the hotel. But the representative of Pegasus was really present at the hotel all day long. One more thing: we left the hotel at 18:00, caught the guide at the hotel all the previous day to no avail, in the evening they posted information about our departure, but at lunch the next day it was gone, i. e. if you didn’t have time to see it the day before departure (well, you never know was on an excursion or thought that tomorrow is still a whole day), then I’m sorry.
Hotel. Territory. We arrived at the hotel at about 11 am, settled within 10 minutes. The hotel inside is very beautiful, on the ground floor the bar works on an all-inclusive basis. Two large 5-storey wings and 2-storey houses like villas. There is a restaurant under the windows of one wing, so you can always hear the clanging of dishes, just like if you decide to fall asleep early, you won’t succeed until 12 o’clock, because. in the room you can hear the disco music from the pool bar very well, the only exception, probably, is the rooms that do not overlook the sea, but the side of the road. The territory is not very big, but very beautiful, green, well-groomed. One large pool, the water in which is much colder than the sea, and a small bath for children, two water slides, but also, in my opinion, some kind of children. After passing the territory of the hotel, you immediately go down to the beach, the hotel is located on the first line. Hotel area see photo.
An excellent relaxation area on the -1 floor: a sauna - it's a pleasure to take a steam bath, a hammam, a cold indoor pool, soft sofas for relaxing, towels are given here - it's all free.

Number. Standard double with sea view. The room is standard like everywhere else, two beds, TV (Channel 1, Russia, TNT with subtitles in Ukrainian, there is Mtv and there is also a channel of Russian music, either Music Hits or Russian Hits), refrigerator (free cola, fanta, sprite, juice, water, replenished daily), a safe in the room is free of charge, there is an extra pillow, a bath, all plumbing is in excellent condition, a hair dryer, like everywhere else, carpet on the floor. The air conditioner did not please, indeed, as already mentioned, it works by the hour! Those. I turned it on one day, it doesn’t make noise, I didn’t turn it off, and after 40 minutes it arbitrarily started working. In 5 *, they could have made a round-the-clock condo, in general, I meet with such a 1st time, although earlier in 4 * with air conditioning everything was ok. There is a balcony: table, chairs, dryer. See photo for number.
Sea beach. A fairly wide coastline belongs to the hotel. Sunbeds, mattresses, towels free of charge. The beach is covered with sand, but about 2 meters before the entrance to the sea and further stones, the bottom is rocky, but thanks to this the sea is clean and transparent. There is a pier, you can go down the stairs to the sea from the pier or dive. On the beach, not umbrellas from the sun, but awnings. He has his own ship, takes him on sea excursions. There are all kinds of water sports (parachute $ 40, I don’t know the rest), canoes are free. The lifeguard is working. There is no bar on the beach, there are coolers with different sweet water.
Restaurant, food. Restaurant indoors and also plenty of seating outside. The food is varied, there is a lot of food, there is a children's table, there is dietary food (white rice, white boiled meat). Fruits: watermelon, melon, pears are absolutely tasteless, plums are delicious. For breakfast, delicious donuts, halva, they even give honey in combs, tea, coffee, you pour yourself water at breakfast, you order freshly squeezed orange juice for $ 2 to the waiter. Sweet: different beautiful cakes, but almost all taste the same, at least exactly all with the same custard, local buttery pastries. At lunch and dinner, alcoholic drinks (not everything you can get at the bar), plain water and gas. drinks are served by the waiter. There were problems with waiting for the waiter 1 time, when no one approached us at all, the rest of the time they immediately run up and serve. But we were when the hotel was 20% full, when all 1300 people there do not know how they serve.
There are 4 restaurants where you can order your dinner - Chinese, Italian, Ottoman and Turkish. You can sign up for dinner at the restaurant every day from 9 to 10 am near the reception, these are free restaurants. There is also a sushi bar, it is paid, but when we arrived, it was no longer working.

Throughout the day, cakes are baked on the street, even in the snack bar, which is located on the right side of the territory during the day, pizza, hamburgers, vegetables. At 5 at the Cookie Pool Bar it's like an afternoon snack. There is a late dinner at until 1:30 at night like.
Ultra All system alcoholic drinks until 2 am, non-alcoholic drinks in the lobby bar (inside the hotel) around the clock. Coffee is much tastier in a coffee machine in bars (cappuccino, latte, mocha, cocoa) than in concrete in a restaurant. The local alcohol is different, I won’t tell you specifically here, but there is tequila, rum, gin, supposedly delicious Baileys, martini - filipetti, cognac, beer is quite normal, they pour Red label, but they don’t expose it, it’s downstairs, you need to specifically ask, they make different cocktails, I saw Malibu, dry white and red wine is bottled. Martinis, if you order, are poured from a bottle, but somehow, after an evening show, all the people poured into the bar, and there, waiting for the influx, there were already glasses with spilled drinks, including martinis, and here it was just naked bodyaga, there didn’t even smell like a martini. It was disappointing. But it was only 1 time, because. then a lot of people subsided, but this is again only in connection with the end of the season, I think when the hotel is full, such things are regular. Once I went to a disco in their club, where alcoholic drinks were in the bar until 2 a. m. , I asked for a martini - no, gin - no, rum - was found. Well, if you state that all drinks are included until 2 am, well, make sure that they really are. You can always take plain water in any bar and in the room in the refrigerator.
Animation. Animation is the only thing you can write about - not write, read - not read, because. Something strange is going on with her in this hotel. Only one animator Franko has been here for 3 years already, in May there was also Yasin from Dom-2 and a certain animation team, a DJ who played only club music during the day by the pool and in the evening at the disco (I write this based on the stories of tourists who visited the hotel and in May). In October, only Franco remained from the above group, the rest of the team Serkan, Sheker, the twins Sefa and Mustafa arrived at the hotel only on October 1! The DJ immediately changed, it's just tin, the whole day he played only music like Relax fm, even the animators themselves danced to the sounds of normal music from a nearby hotel. The last straw was our last evening at the hotel, when there is something like a disco at the Pool bar, there are not many people, but the tourists are sitting, drinking and those who stayed want to dance, and this DJ turned on his Relax again and that's it . Everyone was outraged, old and young. Yes, after dinner you can lie down by the pool to the sounds of relaxing music, but listen to it all the time... I want some kind of holiday. What can I say about this composition of the animation team: unobtrusively. Rifle shooting, darts and bocha - the whole range of entertainment, you can play table tennis with them - rackets and a ball for free. There is a tennis court - one racket for 1 hour $5. There is a basketball court, the ball can be taken from the animators. We also played volleyball on the beach. There were no aerobics, yoga and belly dancing during our period, but before, just before our arrival, all this was. Evening shows (while they were) were quite interesting: beautiful professional dance shows, funny competitions. According to the schedule after the show, disco by the pool until 12 o'clock, and then in the underground disco club. Foam disco on Wednesdays and Saturdays in the amphitheater, but again we did not find this joy of life.
Excursion to Mount Tahtali. It’s better to take an excursion not from hotel guides, but right outside the hotel gates there is a tour agency, Misha is there, he is unlikely to be next season, but it’s still more profitable to take it in this agency or in any other on the street. We went to the Turkish bath on the first day for $ 20, you sit in the sauna, then in the Turkish hammam you get peeling, foam massage, then oil massage. We also took an excursion to Mount Tahtali - an ascent to 2365 meters, the cost is $ 35. This excursion is good from Tekerovo, because. only 15 minutes drive to the mountain. First, a bus takes you up to a quarter of the mountain, outside the reserve, mountain sheep walk. Then the ascent to the mountain by funicular for 15 minutes is the coolest experience!! ! On the mountain they give half an hour of free time, walking, taking pictures. The view is beautiful, the coastline is visible, in clear weather Antalya and, they say, even a little Istanbul. I warn you: you need to go on this excursion in absolutely clear weather, because. when we were, there were small clouds, the view is not so impressive and wear warm clothes, be sure to take a warm sweater, because. strong wind on the mountain.

In general, I liked the rest. It should be noted that we were from October 12 to 21, and on October 24 the hotel was completely closed. Those. when we arrived on the first day the hotel was full, we walked around the territory: there was nowhere to lie down by the pool, there was also a full house on the beach, we had to look for a place in the restaurant. Then there were 350 people left for 4 days, this is the most normal place, you can find a place, there is not much queue for food and it’s fun in the evening. By the end of our vacation, there were probably 50 people left in the hotel, and here it became boring. Of the 5 animation people (18 animators worked in the hotel during the season), only 3 remained. During the day they were almost invisible, they walked by themselves, played backgammon, cards. There were no evening shows at all, the mini-disco was canceled altogether on the second day of our arrival. Disco at the Pool Bar, see above Relax Party.
Another thing I want to pay attention to, the contingent of the hotel is 70% Ukraine, 25% Russian, 5% of them Moscow, and the remaining 5%... although I saw only two grandmothers from Germany. And that's it. All service personnel, if they don’t speak, then understand Russian for sure: reception, bartenders, waiters. The hotel has many couples, many families with children. Good for relaxing if you come with your cheerful company.
In principle, the hotel is good, but 5 * in terms of service does not pull. I was in Turkey and Egypt, where the service is certainly not worse. I spoke with tourists, many of the same opinion. But in general, the hotel leaves a good impression, many people come here regularly. There were tourists who came for the 4th time. The price-quality ratio plays here, for such money as the cost of a trip to this hotel, you are unlikely to find 5k and the same conditions. Therefore, the hotel fully justifies its cost.
For me, everything was perfect when there were 350 of us, to be honest, I can’t imagine what is happening in the hotel when it is completely packed. The line for food, the line at the bar, the sunbed must be taken at 7 in the morning...
I will say a few more words about the neighboring hotel Club Phaselis - a youth, moving hotel. Music was turned on there in the morning, you could immediately hear the animation work (when ours were still sleeping), they entertained tourists all day long, in the evening there were super-discotheques on the street, fashionable foreign and Russian music, we listened with envy to our Relax party. And the people were there, the closing of the season and did not smell. But the hotel itself, according to the guests, is worse, the rooms are simple, the hotel is old, some were hungry. So who cares.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original