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Rooms:
5.0
Service:
6.0
Cleanliness:
6.0
Food:
8.0
Amenities:
5.0
L'etoile beach.
It is located 50 meters from the hotel restaurant, 100-150 meters from the hotel.
Sun loungers on the sea are periodically sold to outsiders. That is, you can come to the beach and there will be no places, they were sold to someone and your hotel bracelet does not give you any advantages "who first got up and slippers. " Not the fact that it will be like this every day, a matter of luck.
Umbrellas - straw rotten, full of holes, not giving shade, sun loungers, many broken, dirty, randomly scattered along the beach, blocking the passage to the water. At any moment, a Turk can come up to you (if you are lying on the border of the beach - there are white sunbeds) with the opinion that this is his beach because his white sunbeds, and yours are blue, and therefore you need to buy a drink from him. Send it, or ignore it or buy a drink : -)
Alternatively, drag the white lounger to the right (this is what most people do). All options are working.
In general, the beach is a solid deuce!
There is simply not enough space near the pool.
In general, with such a large hotel, there is quite a bit of open useful territory.
Not always, but at certain moments, be prepared for the fact that everyone will be on top of each other.
Summary:
Little space. The hotel, in terms of its usable area, is not suitable for its load, neither in terms of the number of sunbeds on the beach, by the pool (small pool), nor in terms of the number of seats in the "restaurant". You have to be prepared to compromise the lack of space. This is absolutely not a problem. Please be patient, places are being vacated both on the beach and in the restaurant and by the pool.
The seats in the restaurant are comfortable both inside and out.
The staff - there were no comments, all friendly, fast.
Rooms are cleaned daily, efficiently and unobtrusively. There are indicators on the doors that show that the room is either free or there is a guest in the room.
Hammam and fitness center - beyond praise!
Animation Entertainment 3 people, good guys, trying quite varied.
For an amateur, in the absence of a place in the hotel for animation, in principle, not bad.
Kitchen. Fine. Seriously, for this hotel the chef and variety of food is just superb. Drinks ....well, good beer, a couple of good cocktails, there are paid drinks.
It is difficult to stay hungry, because in addition to breakfast, lunch, dinner, there are intermediate feedings in the form of ice cream, sweets, potatoes, hamburgers and soups.
Contingent. Specifically selected. Ukrainians and Russians, British and Scots, a couple of inconspicuous Dutch ...sooooo many Turks; there were no conflicts, everything was more or less calm, with the exception of a few drunken antics of Russian-speaking citizens (however, this did not directly concern vacationers, but rather annoyed). Quite noisy.
Internet.
He is paid. 10 lira per day or 50 lira per week. Each floor has 2-3 routers to which you need to connect as your location changes. The internet didn't drop, but it wasn't fast either.
Advice.
At the intersection of Kayabal cd. and 72 sk 300m from the hotel and 50m to the left of the Icmeler administrative center can be bought for 75lira or $22 a turkcell SIM card with 6g internet (in fact it will be 8Gb, 2 as a gift). Passport is required upon purchase. The procedure will take 15 minutes, they work from 9 to 1 at night.
4.5G speed 133/70.
It took me 6Gb in 7 days, 3 phones + laptop were connected through one hotspot. The speed is always perfect.
The next replenishment on your next trip to Turkey (the SIM card remains with you) will be from 15 to 55 lira, depending on your needs, you can pay the balance by credit card.
Or in any cafe you buy anything, get access to wifi and use as much as you want until the end of your vacation (but only in this cafe).
Earthquake:
On 21.07 at 1.30 there was an earthquake. We were on the 5th floor (in fact it is the 6th floor). It was shaking very hard, table lamps and cosmetics flew out of the bathroom. The walls cracked.
Cracks formed in the outbuildings and stairwells.
After that, shaking with sufficient regularity but with a small magnitude was felt on the 6th floor starting from 4 balls, on average 1-2 times a day.
It feels like 4 points jolts like in a train. At 5 there is already a slight crackle. Very uncomfortable.
Tip: AFAD is the Turkish civil service responsible for earthquakes. There is a site AFAD there is a program in IOS/Google play. You will see the real picture of shocks, receive notifications and you will have 10-15 minutes to react. Information is obtained from stationary seismographs. By the way, I don’t understand why hotels in seismically dangerous areas such as Mugla, Izmir, Bodrum do not install such seismographs.
Program in Turkish and English.
If you have a twitter subscribe to Deprem Takip you will receive notifications on your phone or smart watch.
I read some British reviews where it was said about the evacuation of the hotel. I didn't see any evacuation. Maybe they didn't reach the fifth floor.
The panic was very light, people spent the night on the street, the hotel provided everyone with hot and cold drinks.
External signs of a beginning earthquake: inadequate behavior of cats (I even wanted to take one into the room), a sharp wind in the absence of clouds, a sharp temperature drop in the sea (as if someone were throwing warm water).
Tip: keep documents, money, a phone and a set of clothes at hand at night that you can quickly put on, this will shorten your evacuation from the room.
Transport
Dolmushi white-orange 3 lira one way for about 20 minutes. They go until 2 am.
Boat to Marmaris 15 liras, the last one goes to Marmaris at 20.00 to swim for 35 minutes, the entrance is right on the pier by the beach. Very beautiful, you will swim through very beautiful places. Definitely worth a try. The boat goes back at 23.00 this is the last return flight. They run in both directions with a frequency of 2-3 hours.
Infrastructure
In the center (200m from the hotel) there are supermarkets with adequate prices, transport, shops, a lot of cafes, restaurants with original design and good cuisine. Almost all of them are rated on TripAdvisor.
Good selection of car, electric scooter and bike rentals. From the hotel to the center of Marmaris - the promenade along the promenade is 7.5 km.
General impression
Icmeler compares favorably with Marmaris with a milder climate, not so hot and stuffy, clear sea, calmness, unobtrusiveness (this is strongly felt after trips to Marmaris) and very picturesque nature. This is a bohemian vacation.
You can spoil your vacation except for the little things that I mentioned above and the wrong choice of a tour operator.
I put the hotel 4-, the tour operator 2.
*****
Accommodation with Annex Tour
All jokes start at the airport. On the bus, they begin to importunately load you with information from the "well-known facts about Turkey" section, about the need to wash your hands, drink clean water and not sunbathe in the active sun.
To the question, "Will they accommodate us normally"? : the answer is - we do not settle, these are your problems with the hotel. The load on general topics lasted about an hour, exhausting you.
We arrived at an intermediate hotel: Sentido Lotus. And it turned out that 13 passengers from the bus were denied accommodation. Resale. They settle in another hotel (and without the right to choose). More interesting - Anex and the accompanying guides knew about it. All this nonsense on the bus was to torture people with talk.
Couldn't you put these 13 people separately in a separate bus and resolve the issue only with them? You knew there would be conflict! No, why? ! - the principle of 30 waiting for 13 was in effect. And naturally, after the entire bus waited in the parking lot for 40 minutes, those 13, corny guided by a sense of guilt before the rest, gave up and settled in a lower-class hotel. What would you name the tour operator after that? I was not among these deceived people, but from the outside it looks just disgusting.
Eventually. We left the airport at 13.
30 arrived at the hotel and settled at 17.40.
Really cool?
....
It's really horror! Rudeness, swindlers at the settlement, the hotel guide Tatyana Avdonina is a separate moment of Anex's reputation, she will explain to you in an accessible way that she is not interested in your problems, that you are no one and she will not deal with you. This applies to all aspects of the stay from accommodation, excursions, solving problems with the hotel to receiving any information. Do not expect assistance or help, there will be a contemptuous look and the phrase: "you need it, you decide. "
I absolutely do not understand the position of Aneks on this issue, your people are spoiling your already not chic reputation. And I see this in other reviews, so my opinion is not unique.
I believe that if Anex is not able to train his staff, as they did in TUI or Join Up, then it is better for Anex to refuse hotel guides altogether. A little more and they will be beaten corny.
And the process of registration and settlements can be automated, as it happens with self-settlement. Moreover, those who settle on their own, the Turks, for example, have no problems with the settlement.
Avoid this tour operator, you will ruin your mood and most likely spend extra money on solving your problems yourself.
The only thing that smoothed out the disgusting impression from the tour operator was the return transfer with the guide Vladislava. Everything here was correct, informative, unobtrusive, with a sincere desire to help.
It is located 50 meters from the hotel restaurant, 100-150 meters from the hotel.
Sun loungers on the sea are periodically sold to outsiders. That is, you can come to the beach and there will be no places, they were sold to someone and your hotel bracelet does not give you any advantages "who first got up and slippers. " Not the fact that it will be like this every day, a matter of luck.
Umbrellas - straw rotten, full of holes, not giving shade, sun loungers, many broken, dirty, randomly scattered along the beach, blocking the passage to the water. At any moment, a Turk can come up to you (if you are lying on the border of the beach - there are white sunbeds) with the opinion that this is his beach because his white sunbeds, and yours are blue, and therefore you need to buy a drink from him. Send it, or ignore it or buy a drink : -)
Alternatively, drag the white lounger to the right (this is what most people do). All options are working.
In general, the beach is a solid deuce!
There is simply not enough space near the pool.
In general, with such a large hotel, there is quite a bit of open useful territory.
Not always, but at certain moments, be prepared for the fact that everyone will be on top of each other.
Summary:
Little space. The hotel, in terms of its usable area, is not suitable for its load, neither in terms of the number of sunbeds on the beach, by the pool (small pool), nor in terms of the number of seats in the "restaurant". You have to be prepared to compromise the lack of space. This is absolutely not a problem. Please be patient, places are being vacated both on the beach and in the restaurant and by the pool.
The seats in the restaurant are comfortable both inside and out.
The staff - there were no comments, all friendly, fast.
Rooms are cleaned daily, efficiently and unobtrusively. There are indicators on the doors that show that the room is either free or there is a guest in the room.
Hammam and fitness center - beyond praise!
Animation Entertainment 3 people, good guys, trying quite varied.
For an amateur, in the absence of a place in the hotel for animation, in principle, not bad.
Kitchen. Fine. Seriously, for this hotel the chef and variety of food is just superb. Drinks ....well, good beer, a couple of good cocktails, there are paid drinks.
It is difficult to stay hungry, because in addition to breakfast, lunch, dinner, there are intermediate feedings in the form of ice cream, sweets, potatoes, hamburgers and soups.
Contingent. Specifically selected. Ukrainians and Russians, British and Scots, a couple of inconspicuous Dutch ...sooooo many Turks; there were no conflicts, everything was more or less calm, with the exception of a few drunken antics of Russian-speaking citizens (however, this did not directly concern vacationers, but rather annoyed). Quite noisy.
Internet.
He is paid. 10 lira per day or 50 lira per week. Each floor has 2-3 routers to which you need to connect as your location changes. The internet didn't drop, but it wasn't fast either.
Advice.
At the intersection of Kayabal cd. and 72 sk 300m from the hotel and 50m to the left of the Icmeler administrative center can be bought for 75lira or $22 a turkcell SIM card with 6g internet (in fact it will be 8Gb, 2 as a gift). Passport is required upon purchase. The procedure will take 15 minutes, they work from 9 to 1 at night.
4.5G speed 133/70.
It took me 6Gb in 7 days, 3 phones + laptop were connected through one hotspot. The speed is always perfect.
The next replenishment on your next trip to Turkey (the SIM card remains with you) will be from 15 to 55 lira, depending on your needs, you can pay the balance by credit card.
Or in any cafe you buy anything, get access to wifi and use as much as you want until the end of your vacation (but only in this cafe).
Earthquake:
On 21.07 at 1.30 there was an earthquake. We were on the 5th floor (in fact it is the 6th floor). It was shaking very hard, table lamps and cosmetics flew out of the bathroom. The walls cracked.
Cracks formed in the outbuildings and stairwells.
After that, shaking with sufficient regularity but with a small magnitude was felt on the 6th floor starting from 4 balls, on average 1-2 times a day.
It feels like 4 points jolts like in a train. At 5 there is already a slight crackle. Very uncomfortable.
Tip: AFAD is the Turkish civil service responsible for earthquakes. There is a site AFAD there is a program in IOS/Google play. You will see the real picture of shocks, receive notifications and you will have 10-15 minutes to react. Information is obtained from stationary seismographs. By the way, I don’t understand why hotels in seismically dangerous areas such as Mugla, Izmir, Bodrum do not install such seismographs.
Program in Turkish and English.
If you have a twitter subscribe to Deprem Takip you will receive notifications on your phone or smart watch.
I read some British reviews where it was said about the evacuation of the hotel. I didn't see any evacuation. Maybe they didn't reach the fifth floor.
The panic was very light, people spent the night on the street, the hotel provided everyone with hot and cold drinks.
External signs of a beginning earthquake: inadequate behavior of cats (I even wanted to take one into the room), a sharp wind in the absence of clouds, a sharp temperature drop in the sea (as if someone were throwing warm water).
Tip: keep documents, money, a phone and a set of clothes at hand at night that you can quickly put on, this will shorten your evacuation from the room.
Transport
Dolmushi white-orange 3 lira one way for about 20 minutes. They go until 2 am.
Boat to Marmaris 15 liras, the last one goes to Marmaris at 20.00 to swim for 35 minutes, the entrance is right on the pier by the beach. Very beautiful, you will swim through very beautiful places. Definitely worth a try. The boat goes back at 23.00 this is the last return flight. They run in both directions with a frequency of 2-3 hours.
Infrastructure
In the center (200m from the hotel) there are supermarkets with adequate prices, transport, shops, a lot of cafes, restaurants with original design and good cuisine. Almost all of them are rated on TripAdvisor.
Good selection of car, electric scooter and bike rentals. From the hotel to the center of Marmaris - the promenade along the promenade is 7.5 km.
General impression
Icmeler compares favorably with Marmaris with a milder climate, not so hot and stuffy, clear sea, calmness, unobtrusiveness (this is strongly felt after trips to Marmaris) and very picturesque nature. This is a bohemian vacation.
You can spoil your vacation except for the little things that I mentioned above and the wrong choice of a tour operator.
I put the hotel 4-, the tour operator 2.
*****
Accommodation with Annex Tour
All jokes start at the airport. On the bus, they begin to importunately load you with information from the "well-known facts about Turkey" section, about the need to wash your hands, drink clean water and not sunbathe in the active sun.
To the question, "Will they accommodate us normally"? : the answer is - we do not settle, these are your problems with the hotel. The load on general topics lasted about an hour, exhausting you.
We arrived at an intermediate hotel: Sentido Lotus. And it turned out that 13 passengers from the bus were denied accommodation. Resale. They settle in another hotel (and without the right to choose). More interesting - Anex and the accompanying guides knew about it. All this nonsense on the bus was to torture people with talk.
Couldn't you put these 13 people separately in a separate bus and resolve the issue only with them? You knew there would be conflict! No, why? ! - the principle of 30 waiting for 13 was in effect. And naturally, after the entire bus waited in the parking lot for 40 minutes, those 13, corny guided by a sense of guilt before the rest, gave up and settled in a lower-class hotel. What would you name the tour operator after that? I was not among these deceived people, but from the outside it looks just disgusting.
Eventually. We left the airport at 13.
30 arrived at the hotel and settled at 17.40.
Really cool?
....
It's really horror! Rudeness, swindlers at the settlement, the hotel guide Tatyana Avdonina is a separate moment of Anex's reputation, she will explain to you in an accessible way that she is not interested in your problems, that you are no one and she will not deal with you. This applies to all aspects of the stay from accommodation, excursions, solving problems with the hotel to receiving any information. Do not expect assistance or help, there will be a contemptuous look and the phrase: "you need it, you decide. "
I absolutely do not understand the position of Aneks on this issue, your people are spoiling your already not chic reputation. And I see this in other reviews, so my opinion is not unique.
I believe that if Anex is not able to train his staff, as they did in TUI or Join Up, then it is better for Anex to refuse hotel guides altogether. A little more and they will be beaten corny.
And the process of registration and settlements can be automated, as it happens with self-settlement. Moreover, those who settle on their own, the Turks, for example, have no problems with the settlement.
Avoid this tour operator, you will ruin your mood and most likely spend extra money on solving your problems yourself.
The only thing that smoothed out the disgusting impression from the tour operator was the return transfer with the guide Vladislava. Everything here was correct, informative, unobtrusive, with a sincere desire to help.
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