Об отеле, экскурсиях. About the hotel, excursions.

My husband and I rested in Turkey this year for the first time, although we traveled to many other resorts abroad, so there is something to compare with. The hotel certainly does not pull on 5 stars - that's for sure. The rooms are a little old and dirty - but in general no better or worse than in other places. We never dwell on it. The main thing is that there is hot / cold water, air conditioning - the rest is garbage. Having traveled Marmaris by private cab up and down, we came to the conclusion that it is in Marmaris that this is the best hotel (good territory, tolerable food, good animation for adults). P. S. Of course, if you do not pretend to a hotel worth 3000 bucks a day, and that is better than Marmaris Resort 5. The hotel has many pools (you can swim at night). All booze at the hotel and beyond is poison. Prices for a bottle of the same wine range from 15-35 bucks (with its real cost of 6-7 bucks). All excursions are burdened with endless trips to local retail outlets, where, in my opinion, there is nothing to buy. I can buy all this at home. It came to eccentric incidents when the aunt bought pillows for the future and could not push them onto the top shelf of the bus, and when she was offered to put a valuable purchase in the trunk of the bus, they could not pull the pillows from the top shelf - all the men pulled in turn. In general, our foolishness will show itself everywhere !! ! We liked excursions to the Aegean Islands; to the pool of Cleopatra; to the river reserve with crabs and huge turtles (turtles can NOT always be seen). Do not buy like we are on a trip to the Marmaris hammam - x. . . I am complete, at the hotel everything is the same, even better and cheaper. It’s also not worth rushing to buy sessions for massages - very inept girls and anxious little men work there, and the quality of massage can cripple really sick people. Diving here is super - many types of fish; shellfish; there are snakes; some beautiful and colorful underwater worms; several types of crabs. Although the Turks say that blue crabs are freshwater and can only be found in the river reserve, we saw how a man killed a blue crab in the sea from an underwater gun (in order to show it to his son and then throw it away, although the animal is listed in the Red Book ! ). I still do not advise all lovers to smear with therapeutic mud on excursions. I saw a lot of therapeutic mud and with full responsibility I can say that this is imported silt from the river (dirty; with leaves and twigs; pissed by tourists in this puddle, where everyone is squelching). I do not recommend rubbing it into the skin, so as not to infect. I paid attention - the spectacle of rubbing dirt into the body - entertains the Turks and causes mocking antics over fools tourists. In general, I liked the rest. But we don't want to come here a second time.