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Written: 20 september 2009
Travel time: 9 — 16 september 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 7.0
We stayed at the hotel with Coral Travel. The tour itself is organized slightly unsuccessfully: arrival at the hotel at 13-00, departure at 4-30 in the morning. But first things first.

Coral Travel represented the Odeon Tour at the hotel. Upon arrival at the hotel, of course, none of the representatives of the travel agency met, the guide girl briefly recalled the registration rules and left to settle in other hotels. Our representative showed up the next day for a divorce for tours (see below). I didn't see him again. True, on demand and presenting about the room and food, he brought the hotel manager, who in Russian did not gu-gu. After a joint conversation in Russian-English-Turkish, he promised to correct the situation, but that was it.
Settled, as expected, after 14-00, lunch, of course, missed (12-30-14-00),
I had to wait until dinner.

The room turned out to be as in the photo, with clean towels and bedding, BUT with a strong smell of burning cigarettes and an ashtray, which disappeared after 3 days, with an empty bar (mini-bar (soft drinks and beer for free, updated daily)), not to mention about "fruits and a bottle of wine on the day of arrival".
The hotel itself is built interestingly from the point of view of beauty, but stupidly from the point of view of convenience. The most convenient way to all rooms is through the elevators to the reception to your floor, then by foot to the room. If the room at the beginning of the ship is buzzing, but if it is in the stern, then it is stomping through the entire hotel. In addition to the elevators at the reception, there are elevators in the center and in the stern, but they can go down to the 0th floor-way to Ch. restaurant and swimming pool or -1- "internet cafe", bowling, hammam, etc.
Meals at the hotel are declared as Elite class all-inclusive, but in reality they barely reach the level of a 3 * hotel. Some foam cups for hot drinks are worth something!
What was enough was tomatoes and cucumbers in various combinations, and all kinds of salads of dubious origin. Meat was present in the amount of 3 for lunch: stewed beef with lamb, stewed chicken legs made in USA, and boiled fish. For dinner, 2 types: 2 and 3, breakfast-no-no. There were a lot of stewed vegetables, 2 types of pasta without limitation, the stand with sweets turned out to be very scarce (as for Turkey). Of the declared 6 restaurants and 10 bars, I saw 4 restaurants and 4 bars. The chef never bothered to go out to people, apparently he was afraid that the food would be put on his head.
Animation-Turkish-practically 0. If something was done, it was done without a "factory" - for show.
In general, the hotel staff is very lazy and careless. I heard about uniforms (sailor's), but did not see any of the servants. Who is in what.
Bags of garbage from the rooms, for some reason, need to be taken out of the hotel at the exact time when people are in a hurry to take a turn for meat, and it is necessary to lower them (bags) by the passenger elevator, although the service elevator is 2 steps away and empty.

The Internet cafe is represented by 2 cars, for which there was always a queue, the ice rink was closed 2 months ago, I also did not see the indoor pool.
Bath and sauna sucks. Paid procedures more or less.
The beach is 150-200 meters from the hotel. Crossing a wooden bridge or down the street is not at all annoying - on the contrary, after a vegetarian lunch it's nice to take a walk. Although this has its drawbacks: near the pool and a better bar, and slides (3 out of 5) and ice cream (1 in hand).
The sea itself smooths out the negative. And again, towels at 10-00. Many took towels to the room in order to be on the beach with a sun lounger in the morning and not bake in the sun.
The beach bar features Coke, Sprite, Fanta, mineral water and beer - all cold and unlimited. From 10-00 french fries, plums, pears, watermelons. The sand is dirty, although this is partly the fault of the vacationers themselves: urns are almost everywhere - is it really so hard to throw a cigarette butt or a plastic cup into the urn?
Goynuk itself and especially the hotel area is a normal place: many shops, a couple of cafes, a travel agency, which, by the way, offers the same tours as in the hotel, but 2 times cheaper. The man's name is Kosta, in Russian he says bless you.
If you don’t bother with shopping, then souvenirs can be found near the hotel, or you can walk or drive in the direction of the Club Phaselis hotel, there are also normal boutiques, and in almost every one a native of the CIS works.
If you want to buy something more decent-welkome to Antalya. The city is very interesting, clean: there is something to see, and you can skimp, just do not forget to bargain: until exhaustion, hoarseness and blue in the face.
The price can be thrown off really 2-3 times, especially at the time of opening or closing. This does not apply to branded clothing stores: the prices are real. After the bargain, be sure to thank the seller and smile, you will be recognized. But I digress.

We rested for 4, thanks to the fact that we went with friends and without children. I do not recommend taking children, although there were even newborns. There is nothing to feed, except for salads, but pasta, children's animation -0.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original