Non-hotel vacation

Written: 1 november 2018
Travel time: 4 — 11 october 2018
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 7.0
I really liked the rest, we can safely recommend it to those who will not stay at the hotel, but come to see the beautiful city of Marmaris, learn a lot of interesting things about Turkey.
HOTEL. We rested in it from 19.08-26.08. 18.
The hotel itself is actually not so terrible, read the reviews before the rest, expected much worse, but in fact everything is not even bad. We flew in before the Eid al-Adha holiday and first settled the Turks, then us, but we were still lucky with the check-in, the guide Sergey said on the bus that he was constantly in this hotel, helping everyone with the check-in and that he had a good relationship with the staff and all its vacationers are given good rooms, we were settled in block B, on the 5th floor. The guide said that block A seems to be the worst, block B is good, and block C is even better, but only Turks are accommodated there. The room was good, with a balcony and a view of the coniferous forest and the mosque.

All the way, the guide on the bus, Sergey (he was also our guide at the hotel, he said he was the only Russian-speaking guide from the biblio globe in Marmaris, i. e. he met and settled and saw us off) frightened us with this hotel. As soon as we got on the bus, he began to give information about hotels and gave a lot of information about Pineta. I even scared that there are rooms without windows, with a shower with cold water and much more)). About the room itself: the air conditioner worked perfectly, blew cold air, didn’t clutter and didn’t make any other sounds; the shower was normal and cold and warm water, only it is not convenient because there is just a watering can without a cabin, and when you wash for a long time, the water starts to pour out of the bathroom, but that's okay, you can turn it off, wait a minute until it merges and turn it on again; there was a TV there were several Russian channels, even TNT; the bed is comfortable; the view from the balcony is beautiful, in the evening, before dinner, you could constantly see wild boars from the balcony, which descended from the mountains and walked right along the road, the guide told us about them))
Somewhere at 5-5:30 in the morning you can hear how they sing from the mosque)) but she did not wake us up.
DINING ROOM. Food, of course, is not enough for us Russians, but we are used to eating borscht and dumplings in the morning, but you must understand that this is a different country and they have their own traditional dishes. In the morning, breakfast alternates between scrambled eggs, then pancakes, then fried sausage, there are always salads (cucumbers, tomatoes, greens), various types of jam, jam, there is also honey, cereal with milk, tea / coffee, cheeses. (The guide on the tour told us that their food is very healthy and their traditional breakfast can consist of crackers with milk and olives, or a sandwich)
Lunch: eat chicken, rice, spaghetti, nuggets, soups. The same can be said for dinner.
BEACH. It takes about 5-7 minutes to go to it, leave the hotel and go all the time down in a straight line, across the road. It’s very dangerous for them to cross the road, there are a lot of pedestrian crossings, but no one will stop you, as if it’s not in the rules for them to stop in front of a pedestrian, so be careful, they rush headlong.
Pineta does not have its own beach with sun loungers / umbrellas. We went to the beach from the DORA Beach hotel, this is how you get to the sea and to the right. There are sun loungers with yellow mattresses and this Dora is standing in front of them. I’ll tell you a secret, we never paid for the sunbeds, but just gently lay down on them from the edge, where it was fenced with tape and lay all day, for lunch, when we left, we left our towels on them. Also bought from them, from the hotel, ice cream is very tasty oreo. But in order to lie on the sunbeds, the watching guys can tell you to pay or buy a cocktail, ice cream will not be enough to take a sun lounger, we were just lucky and no one noticed us when we occupied the sun loungers.

The sea is gorgeous, transparent, you can see your legs even if you swim at a depth. Everyone writes that it hurts to go into the sea, Lord, you are like old grandfathers, it is very useful and the pebbles are small there, and when you go there is already sand.
We were still very lucky, we saw a huge turtle on this beach, it is called Carriage Carriage, when we were sunbathing a little boy with a mask swam and screamed a turtle! Everyone ran to watch it, it was visible at a depth without even diving, and my husband bought glasses for lunch and then we watched it until the evening, took a lot of pictures and videos. She is very large, more than a 5-year-old child))
EXCURSIONS. This is probably the most interesting part)) Do not rush to buy excursions from a hotel guide. Yes, he will intimidate you that it is dangerous to buy from street vendors. But nothing like that, everything is the same only twice cheaper. We took excursions, of course, as you guessed from Islam the Magnificent! )) you won’t pass him by, in front of his house there is a big sign that’s like going to the sea in a straight line. A very nice young man, speaks excellent Russian, very polite and he also has a little assistant, his brother, like. They both speak excellent Russian. We bought two excursions from him to the Aegean Islands and Pamukkale. When buying these two excursions, he gave us two more excursions as a gift (a foam party on a three-deck yacht and the confluence of the seas) and free Wi-Fi for the entire stay. He also said that if bicycles are needed, we can take them from him for free. But we didn't need them. He can also change money in a favorable currency, on the last day he exchanged the remaining lira for us for dollars. In general, buy excursions from him! He has a lot of great deals on every excursion.
We went to the foam party, it was fun, but after it there is no transfer back, everyone goes to hang out in clubs / bars. You can return to the hotel from the center of Marmaris by minibus with a green running line, but we didn’t see the point in taking the minibus, because after the party we decided to go to the fountain, it takes 5-7 minutes to go to it, it is very beautiful, shimmers in different colors and after After that, we went along the embankment and went into a bar to celebrate my husband's birthday and smoke a hookah. We were lured to this bar by a cute rabbit, who was sitting at the bar, the owner specially came up with such a lure)) but nothing, the prices are adequate, we sat for 45 lire. I also told the owner that it was my husband’s birthday and they merrily congratulated him with music “happy birthday”))

After this bar, we went along the embankment to the hotel, not far to go, 35 minutes, spotted), it's better to take a walk along the embankment than pay for a minibus and stand in a traffic jam.
We decided not to go on the excursion that Islam gave us “the confluence of the seas”, because when we were sitting in his Wi-Fi, a woman with her son came and said: they were on an excursion, but they didn’t understand where the confluence was? ))
I was in Greece on Rhodes, here you can really see two seas, on the one hand the Aegean (violent) on the other the Mediterranean (more calm) and they are separated by a small isthmus, very beautiful photos are obtained. But here in Marmaris you won’t see this, they don’t even really know what kind of Aegean or Mediterranean sea is here. A guide on an excursion to Pamukkale told us that when you swim, one half of your body is supposedly in the Aegean Sea, the other is in the Mediterranean. And on this “merge of the seas” excursion, you won’t even understand anything, they’ll just take you on a yacht, take you to a couple of places to swim, but you won’t see the merger, even in the booklet on excursions it says that you will supposedly feel a different air, but this all garbage)) for a real merger only to Rhodes! By the way, Islam has such an opportunity to go to Rhodes, you need to either already have an open visa, or he can make it for you right there, one-day. With us, people took such an excursion. There, Rhodes is within easy reach, 40 minutes on a yacht.
Even after the tour in Pamukkale, on the way back, when everyone was already taken to hotels, the guide warned everyone “do not forget things, especially phones” and, of course, my husband forgot)) went to Islam, he helped us, phoned the guide from bus and an hour later they brought us a phone safe and sound, and Islam's brother ran after him and brought it to us.

TOTAL. In general, the rest was very pleasant! The sea is gorgeous, with a view of the mountains, as if you are swimming in the bay. I also liked Marmaris very much, I liked all the excursions, especially Pamukkale! The next time we go to Marmaris, of course, we will choose a different hotel, but this one is not bad to spend the night. Most importantly, tune in to the positive, with what mood you arrived, with such a holiday you will spend, the sea and the beautiful view of the mountains will remove all negative emotions from the hotel, if they suddenly happen to you.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original