Everything is fine, the nature is beautiful, but I will not come here again

Written: 22 march 2006
Travel time: 30 august — 6 september 2005
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We chose the hotel Letual /L, Etoile/.
In general, we have already been to Turkey 3 times, but we always went to Kemer / Goynuk / and were always very satisfied. This time we decided to change direction and chose Marmaris, because. We decided to go spontaneously / and in the high season / especially there was nothing to choose from, and the prices were a little surprised.
Letual cost us two adults and a seven-year-old child
at $3300 for a standard room with all-inclusive meals for 2 weeks. We flew to Dalaman, without delay, the operator met us perfectly, drove 2 hours to Icmeler.
The hotel immediately gave us the keys to the room, we went up to the 3rd floor and then I got a shock - the room is 15 sq. m, and the walls are not even, but with protrusions and recesses, which creates inconvenience when moving. The bathroom is in the same vein - it is very difficult for two people to disperse even sideways.

The furniture is all shabby, I don’t even know what year the TV is, one bedside table and two lamps. The dressing table has no light. True, we were pleased with the balcony - simple. And in this closet of Papa Carlo we had to "rest" for 2 weeks. So we ended up only on our first trip abroad in 1996, but since then how much water has flowed under the bridge and we go on vacation 2 times a year, although I always chose hotels myself, but then I trusted my husband what to choose in Turkey 4 stars is always decent.
They didn’t take things apart, so we decided to ask for a bigger room in the morning. Let's go for a walk and then dinner. Five minutes from the room and we are already on the beach, there is a pier a stone's throw away.
Dinner was quite decent, and in general the food corresponded to a four-star hotel. Breakfast is like pancakes everywhere, scrambled eggs - in line for 15 minutes, and choose the rest - vegetables, jam, honey, cereal, fruits, but their pastries are unimportant, 3-4 types of rolls of different shapes, but all for one taste / I don’t have them I eat - I don’t care /, but my men respect me, so they had to eat bread - very tasty white and gray. Lunch is also quite - soup, always hot meat, chicken, fish cooked deliciously not spicy, so that children can eat everything, side dishes, salads, vegetables, fruits.
For dinner in the same vein. The food is good - watermelons, melons, oranges, apples every day, grapes, plums, peaches not always. Drinks in the restaurant at the bar, pour water and wine yourself. This hotel has breakfast from 7 to 10, lunch from 12.45 to 14 / yes only 1 hour 15 minutes. and if you come to the opening of the restaurant or after 15 minutes, then you may not find a free place and the same thing with dinner, it is best to come 40 minutes before. before closing /, lunch 14.30 to 15.30 / I don’t remember exactly because was not - french fries, hamburgers, vegetables /, afternoon snack 16.30-17.30 / tea, coffee and two kinds of nasty muffins /, dinner from 19.30 to 21.30 / yes, yes, only 2 hours /.
So you see for yourself AL is quite peculiar, drinks all day long at the pool bar are naturally free, although we only drank tea and coffee a couple of times and beer once more, tried wine at dinner - we liked everything.

The territory of the hotel is missing. The hotel building itself is shaped like a G, in the middle there is an outdoor pool and a paddling pool, a "tennis playground" and a playground are stuck on the side, all of the same size as in a dollhouse. That's the whole territory, and there is also a tennis table by the pool.
Animation - I also think that it is missing, 3 girls alternately do gymnastics - in the morning 20 minutes, in the afternoon water aerobics 20 minutes. and in the evening a round dance with the kids for 15 minutes. True, every evening a musician comes and plays by the pool, and the Germans listen to him with pleasure and drink beer.
The beach - through a small footpath /sand and small galaka/ for this hotel is free, sun loungers and umbrellas are also free, and a mattress for money /but it is not needed at all/.
The sea is clean, although the boats are nearby, the entrance is good, the temp. water was 25 grs. Well, that's the description of this hotel. Change the number - please $ 560 and move / though I did not see the number. money was a pity, they took $ 1200 with them to Turkey and always praised $ 700 /.
When our guide came, we found out that our hotel was almost a five by local standards, which we were convinced of after a promenade to neighboring hotels. Nearby was the hotel "Aqua" 5, it almost did not differ from ours - also without territory and with the same pool, animation at the same level.
Hotel "JOY" just amazed us - a terrible dump, even though 5. But then there were completely different hotels "Marti la Perla" 4 - very nice and the area is good and animation / what we managed to see and hear / and "Marti Resort" 5 - cute but rather pretentious /evening dresses and all that/.
When we bought tickets, we were told that our hotel was new, and therefore no one was in it and the Russians did not rest there, and indeed we were the only Russians in the entire hotel, but about the "new" one, it's new on our market, because our tour operators have not worked with him before, almost only Germans rest there and are happy with everything - everything is simple and satisfying, they don’t need anything else.

And all the Russians are in "Marty La Perla" and "Marty Resort", but the toad crushed me $ 4100 cost "Marty La Perla", and we only went to Cuba in May for $ 5000, so $ 4100 for Turkey is debauchery.
In general, the prices for everything are simply atas - gasoline $ 2 liter, ice cream / at the hotel for money / $ 1 is the cheapest, and a snack on the street for three / soup, a small pizza and juice / 25 is the cheapest. Nature is of course very beautiful - mountains and pines are very close to the town / prettier than in Kemer /.
Icmeler itself is a very clean and cozy town, there is even a water channel / like Venice / very picturesque, especially in the evening. The Turks are very friendly and responsive, they always try to say something in Russian.
Naturally, we didn’t go on excursions from Teza - we rented a car or took excursions on the street / we always do this, much cheaper and no problems /. We went to Pamukalle, Dalyan, Knidos, Datca, Gekovo, my husband went rafting / is wildly delighted /. There were crowds of people in Pamukalla and Dalyan, which made me very nervous.
We went to Marmaris once - it's HORRIBLE!!! . There is practically nowhere to park a car, May Day demonstration and mud on the embankment, music yells everywhere, in general a nightmare / by the way, in Marmaris music plays until 4 in the morning, and in Icmeler until 12 at night /, so choose where to live for 2 weeks especially with a child.
When leaving, half of the bus spoke like this - "everything is fine, the nature is beautiful, but I will not come here again" and I have the same opinion, I think that there is nothing to leave such money for Kemer could go to the top five and Russians there are 70%, I like it, although my husband and son were very pleased and did not even want to leave.
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