The hotel is good, with Wi-Fi problems, its child-oriented is debatable

Written: 8 june 2018
Travel time: 28 april — 23 may 2018
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 9.0
We went to this hotel with the tour operator Anex Tour, we were two adults and two children (3 years and 8 months old) settled in a large room, in the so-called bungalows overlooking the sea, they didn’t pay anything extra, they didn’t specifically ask. Their bungalows are not separate houses for each family, but two / three-story buildings with many rooms, in which the entrance is from the street and very thin walls. You can hear the whole room as the neighbors go to the toilet (sorry for the detail).
Of these obvious disadvantages for us: no internet in the room (not enough), no bathrobes, gels / shampoos had to be asked, as well as very loud music from a neighboring hotel until 12 at night. The walls are thin, the windows and doors are old wooden ones with large gaps.
The beach is sandy, but it is not natural, a concrete-filled shore, and sand was brought from above, so the entrance to the sea is by stairs and immediately the depth is somewhere waist-deep for an adult (it is inconvenient and dangerous for children). The beach is wide and long, there are a lot of places, a lot of sunbeds. Purely.

The sea was still cold, about 20 degrees. The children were not bathed. The pools are also cold, they began to warm up only by the end of May. Swimming pools: one large, one medium, one for children and two small under the exit from the water slides.
The food is typical for Turkish hotels, we did not go hungry. But there was nothing special. Seafood was sometimes in the form of salads. The restaurant is very large, both outdoors and indoors. There is a children's menu and a separate room with a TV where children can eat (but the menu is the same as for adults, everything is the same fried, fatty, etc. ) I fed the eldest mainly from the vegetarian menu (there are more boiled dishes), and the youngest brought everything with her (porridge, mashed potatoes). Separately, there is no place to cook such babies up to a year. The only thing that went to a meeting at the administration and was given a kettle in the room (we asked for it through our guide). In general, the hotel is designed for 2 thousand people. May is not yet the season, so it was 60 percent full. By the end of May, there were noticeably more people and somehow less comfortable (but this is for us lovers of a relaxing holiday). By the way, there is no animation in May. Only in the evening at about 9 o'clock, on the stage, children can dance with the animator to children's songs.
The air temperature was 23-28 until mid-May, after 20 numbers it became sharply hot in the morning 28-30, in the afternoon it was already 35.
The room was clean, there were no foreign smells. Since there are a lot of things made of wood in the rooms, you can’t smoke, you can’t have a kettle, you can’t iron. I asked for an iron for rent, they said no, but only order ironing clothes at the price list through the maid service (I’ll say right away that it’s very expensive, for example, ironing one skirt costs 4 euros, shorts - 2 euros, shirt - 5 euros, dress - 6 euros ). Since I didn’t expect this and brought everything crumpled, I had to go buy an iron in a store in Marmaris (it came out cheaper). The bed was changed every three days, the mattresses were of course stained, the furniture was old. Many wrote it in the reviews that the hotel needs renovation.

The most important thing, of course, is there, which is why we went, this is territory and air. The mixture of coniferous and sea air is very useful for children. And another big plus is the promenade along the hotels along the coast, which stretches all the way to Marmaris and along the whole of Icmeler, if in the other direction. The territory of the hotel is large, not flat, with hills, but the slopes are not steep, you can carry a stroller almost everywhere. There is nothing to do outside the hotel, there is just a route to Marmaris. We walked to Marmaris, along the promenade and back with a three-year-old child who is without a stroller. If it’s not hot, then it’s quite comfortable and not hard to walk, in an hour we reached the Bim store from the hotel (this is the cheapest place where you can buy diapers / wipes).
I’ll note one more nuance - I didn’t find dairy-free cereals for children in any store, so if you have questions about milk, keep in mind. Hipp saw baby purees in shops near hotels.
Well, in conclusion, advice to those traveling with babies who are light sleepers and they need silence, ask immediately upon check-in, the right side of the hotel (this applies to bungalows), if you look at it from the sea.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original