Really objective review!

Written: 28 september 2009
Travel time: 13 — 20 september 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 8.0
Travel time from 13.09 to 20.09. I will not discuss previous reviews, talk about the crisis and trouble in Istanbul (as the causes of malnutrition), only the truth and nothing else. For those who were in excellent fives like Mukarnos, etc. (again, in the first year of opening) and you know how to find any reason to find fault with something - this hotel is not for you, go to Europe or pay 2000 USD. per person per week (in my case, 1300 for two).
In order.
1. Arrival - excellent, met on time, transfer at the level, friendly guide. At the expense of the settlement after 14 hours - this is if you sit in the lobby and make a hollow with a disgruntled face. We arrived at 11, put on the bracelets at 11-10, until 12 we managed to "get acquainted" with the bar, but more on that below, and forgot the most important thing until 12 and got into the room. Regarding the rooms - the even side goes to the "courtyard" to the pools, the odd side - to the street, the number of the number is "3176", where "3" is the floor (4 in total) and the room number, increasing from bow to stern, the middle is about "120 ". There are 2-room apartments, you have to pay extra for about 20 USD.

2. Food - this topic is already tired to put it mildly (eat at home), firstly, we are not going to eat there. In principle, I agree with the previous review, especially since we rested at the same time. We rested during Ramadan (fasting), although I didn’t want to say - during the crisis and problems in Istanbul, so I rate the food at 5+. I will fight off any nit-picking, except for the line for shawarma, it was really incomprehensible that you could start cooking earlier and put two. To whom chicken, lamb, veal and fish are not enough - you are snickering! And all this in unlimited quantities and WITHOUT LINE!!!!!!!!! ! Do not fuck with a spoon and a plate to storm the doors before the opening of the dining room!
1500 "vacationers from the Volga region" burst into the dining room at the same time, minus 10 of us, but they were still smart. You sit down on the street and laugh for 30-40 minutes from the hungry, and then you calmly go to the dining room and take everything without a queue. One remark knowing us (immigrants from the USSR - 80-90%), a little wrong catering, in the sense that you need to put a few "dots" with meat. The conclusion is optional, but we could find mussels, shrimp, and squid places you need to know! You can not eat only from 5 to 7 in the morning.
3. Drinks - 4. Vodka is not bad, but you need twice as much, medium whiskey is not worse than RL, excellent tequila, good beer, rum, Malibu was something else, but that was enough for me. For 10 c. u. for the whole stay the bartender poured everything for us, for others it sometimes ended. And the waiter himself brought us whiskey and cola to the pool at night.
4. The rooms are good and spacious, clean, cleaning almost every day, but we weren’t cleaned, we didn’t have time, you son slept, then you yourself slept. The bar was filled every day, regardless of the drink (added until the refrigerator stopped closing). I can’t say anything about the air conditioner, since we were in September, if it’s also in the summer, then it will be tight.

5. Entertainment-infrastructure. There was an impression that the hotel is running, of the available entertainment and opportunities, 30% are working. Disco -... obviously, it's smoky and hot, somehow everything is a little morbid, there's an excellent exit to the roof, it's empty, the restaurants don't work, there's no advertising, the free area above the restaurants is also not occupied by anything, the luna park doesn't work, the skating rink - I don't know whether it is needed at all. SIMULATORS - were noticed on the 4th day, it's a pity, the Matrix firms - excellent everything works, the assortment is surprising. And in general, the hotel shows that a lot of money was invested, and then the owner changed, now there are four of them.
6. Animation. Children - 3, adults - 4, but only in the evening in the amphitheater.
Summary. Rest on a solid five, the hotel corresponds to the current 5 stars, the word elite should be removed from the name. I wouldn’t go again, because it’s only the third time in Turkey, I want to see everything.
If you have specific questions, please write, I will answer with pleasure.
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