If there is an alternative to another budget hotel, choose another

Written: 26 june 2018
Travel time: 21 june — 2 july 2018
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
2.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 2.0
Cleanliness: 2.0
Food: 1.0
Amenities: 4.0
I think my comment will be useful to those who are going to opt for this hotel. If there is an alternative proposal for a budget hotel, choose another one.
We have been to Turkey many times and in its different regions. It was in Icmeler for the first time and he amazed us with his nature, the amount of greenery, flowers and silence. , bars... We rested in different stars from 3 * to 5 *, so there is something to compare with. This hotel is 2 * +, small, with one pool, a tiny reception. The rooms are small but cozy, the plumbing is old, the shower sticks out of the wall ( without a hose), so it’s not very convenient to take a shower. There is a refrigerator, a balcony, and an ancient hairdryer, after 1 minute of work it starts to smoke. It’s quite close to the sea: 5-7 minutes at a slow pace. any hotel you can buy sun loungers and umbrellas for the whole day for $ 2-3 (10-15 lira) per person. The beaches are clean, they are cleaned, you can safely leave your things and go for lunch (the Boss of the beach looks after everything).
Now the most important thing is food. For the first time I come across a hotel that does not have a kitchen and a restaurant. Even in the worst hotels (when you were young) there was a restaurant. In this hotel, food is not cooked, but brought and you eat not in a restaurant, but on a covered veranda. And this food is under a canopy in the heat. Categorically do not go here with children (only with babies), they will die of hunger or you will have to eat in restaurants. I have never seen such a breakfast that is repeated every day: boiled eggs (no scrambled eggs, no fried eggs), bread (no pastries, buns, no croissants), four bowls with different jams (why are they and what to spread them on, if no pancakes, no pancakes, no buns), sliced ​ ​ cucumbers, tomatoes, cheese (edible) , plastic-tasting like cheese, three types of non-edible sausages (local hungry cats even refuse), margarine in boxes, olives, tea, coffee from the machine. Corn balls (two types) a day later. No yogurt, no scrambled eggs, nothing at all.

Lunch is also marvelous: They give out in portions: rice, stewed beans, soy fried-stewed semi-finished products with flavoring of chicken, lamb. Twice they gave natural fish and chicken for dinner, once like stewed beef with vegetables. Salads, as usual, from what they didn’t eat for breakfast (eggs) and yesterday's dinner. True, there are enough fresh cucumbers, tomatoes, herbs, dressings on sour cream for salad. And for dessert, nothing, that is, at all: no cookie, no biscuit, no cake, no fruit. watermelon, every day (I don’t remember desserts anymore, they don’t exist). Drinks in the bar are standard: beer, cola, fanta, sprite (everything often ends), cheap local strong alcohol. And there is a problem with drinking water: the cooler is constantly empty, you have to ask pour water on the bar.
Cleaning: very rare, towels are changed every three days. Bring your own beach towels.
Bottom line: if you have already bought a ticket to this hotel and there is no way to change to another 3 *, then bring with you: dry sausage and hard cheese (for breakfast), muesli, crunches, cereals (sometimes there is milk or a Market nearby), cookies, sweets or buy in the market, because from 12:30 (lunch) to 19:30 (dinner) do not hold out, take a pillow with you, because it is not possible to sleep on hotel rooms, it seems that they are stuffed with sawdust, hard to the point of horror, as well as a mattress, a hotel mattress is more suitable for a board for correcting scoliosis. I wish you a pleasant stay. But you need to see the positive in everything: the sea, nature is super, don’t get better and you will have the opportunity to visit local restaurants and try Turkish cuisine.
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