бочка меда с ложкой дегтя barrel of honey with a fly in the ointment

Using the services of TEZ TOUR, we got to the Imbat Hotel with a three-hour delay in departure! Outwardly, it looked very respectable, especially the facade. Left without dinner due to being late, we were settled at the reception desk in 10-15 minutes, having issued an electric key to the room. The boy loaded the bags onto a cart and we went to check into building 7, room 7209! Opening the door, they sighed and thanked the boy. AND IT STARTED HERE!! ! We open the curtains - and there is a JOINT OF WALLS and the sea is visible through a narrow crack. Room on the 2nd floor, near the elevator, although the building is 3-storey, tourists constantly use the elevator, and when you open its doors, you hear a nasty sound like in airports before announcements. The card in the door sticks - does not work, the water in the bathroom does not come off.
At the reception, the Turk turned on the full toggle switch and could not understand what I didn’t like so much. Having dragged the host Nastya, I made sure that he understood. Having told him about 20 dollars in connection with the exchange, he did not even move his ear.
I will shorten it: they moved us to a luxurious room after 3 days, for an additional charge of 40 dollars (they also mentioned the discount). Considering that the maids did not visit the first room at all - no cleaning, no water (2 bottles), no toilet paper, no soap, no garbage disposal and we had to call a plumber, the rest of the rest we admired the sunsets at the sea from the balcony, slept at night under the rustle of the waves on clean bedding and saw plasma. In the bathroom, except for daily gel, shampoo and soap, all 3 pcs. There were even shower caps. True, we did not see Russian-speaking people in this building. This is building number 2.

I have already seen about feeding, queues and lack of dishes on other sites. Because of the queue, we decided to have lunch at 14-00, since lunch is until 14-30. Taking the plates, we scraped together something, but we could no longer take the olives, because right in front of me the kitchen worker collected all the spoons. And they already ran out of wine before mid-afternoon. Fried eggs and croutons began to fry from 8-00, although breakfast from 7-30. We went to the beach early and did not want to wait until the pans were heated. Until the boss showed up. My husband came across a rotten boiled egg, which once again "pleased".
On the beach, the husband occupied places at 6 - 6-30 in the morning on the pier, since the sun appeared on the sandy beach after 10-30. But the pier was cleaned, there was no garbage. The sun loungers folded up in the evening and everything is clean in the morning.
Impressions of the ill-fated building No. 7 and the rooms in it are transmitted along the beach through Russian-speaking tourists. It turns out that we were not "chosen ones", before us from Moscow, after us from Minsk we were settled in this particular room. And only tourists from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine are accommodated in building No. 6 and building No. 7. Over building No. 6, the chimney of the boiler room smokes around the clock and the smell of burning is felt in the rooms and near these buildings.
When buying a tour, there is almost always a condition for an additional payment if you want to have a room with a sea view (this was the case with the Poles we met on the beach), but apparently TEZ TOUR decided to save (or earn) on its tourists. Prices in euros were the same as those of Europeans, only the numbers for some reason differed significantly. Apparently, the tour operator also earns on the difference, settling in the cheapest rooms. And there, as you want and pay.
On the last day before departure, we barely caught up with the Uzbek representative of the tour operator, who was surprised to learn from us that we had a plane tomorrow at 10:00 am and even promised dry rations before leaving. (“He will take care of”). Departure at 5-00 in the morning, oh what else would he whisper to us. True, 2 hours after the conversation, they posted the time of departure on the stand. And thanks for that.

In conclusion, the location of the hotel is convenient, the hotel is beautiful, if you don’t be capricious and calmly stand in lines everywhere in the heat, live in good rooms and get up early on the beach, everything else is fine. Even cool. To the center minibus number 5 or number 10 - 20 min. (2.25 lira) and on the waterfront in Kusadasi. We went on excursions every other day, so in the evening everything is purple, and there are a lot of impressions. A big plus is Turkish coffee on the terrace near the bar from 20-00 to 22-00 and live music. It is very pleasant to sit in the evening with a cup of coffee and brandy, listening to popular hits, including blues and jazz.
Excursions were taken at the bureau on the promenade near Lady Beach, which starts 50 meters from the hotel. And cheaper by 1.5 times and judging by the reviews, better. True, there are no Russian-speaking guides - everything is in English. And why is the Russian language in the Turkish bath, for example. we - for 15 dollars, and at the hotel for 30.