Onyria Claros: real 4 stars and something else to think about

Written: 23 june 2011
Travel time: 9 — 20 june 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 3.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 2.0
Amenities: 8.0
Pros: Beautiful area, beautiful view, modern building, villas after renovation (roof leaks). Children's ship with slides.

Disadvantages wagon! 4 stars for this hotel at best. Disadvantages: I do not recommend this season until the new manager gets the job done (the hotel was sold by the Turks to the Portuguese).

Bad: food, animation, beach, lighting, service for a deuce. Review: Sent by Intercity. I was with my family on June 9-20.2011 at Onyria Claros Resorts (ex. Carpe Diem): terrible food (no seafood at all, fruits - watermelon, orange, green sour plum, green peaches appeared in the county, I strained the meat, for dinner there can be beef and boiled chicken, few fish at best, and then it’s cheap, a sea of ​ ​ u200bu200bbones, all cakes or sugar or with chemical cream, mostly greens: tomatoes, cucumbers, corn, lettuce, parsley for lunch, carrots, etc. Pitas are mostly with cottage cheese, with meat there are big problems, constant queues.

For children, a complete "P", in general, hotels have never been given porridge, which is especially hurt when you travel with a child, in the morning everything is from an egg: fried eggs (you need to stand in line of 7 people, who take 2-3, and in total max . saw 2 cooks preparing fried eggs), scrambled eggs, rarely scrambled eggs, maybe potatoes or pasta. Of the side dishes, it’s generally bad: pasta, potatoes, asparagus beans were still there. There was rarely honey, in the morning everyone was smothered with an egg and chocolate paste with sweet pancakes (for which one also had to defend). Ala carte - tin: in all the choice of 2 dishes for each type. Tin with Russian language, all signatures in English. and Turkish. In gestrelation, only the girl Ulka (I don’t remember exactly something like that) can speak Russian normally, at other times prepare knowledge in English. The beach is dirty (stones and branches of various shapes), they clean only from glasses and plates, there are a lot of algae in the coastal shallow water, although the water is clear.
In the morning I got up at 7 to take a sun lounger on the first coast, at 9 it was already difficult to find 3 sun loungers in a row nearby; there were no more places under the umbrella. For ice cream from 16.00 to 17.00 for 70-80 people queue. Once I came, I got in line at 16.20, stood, finished exactly at 17.00 - I didn’t get it, and there were about 40 people behind me. stood. From drinks: bottled Pepsi, mineral water in small bottles, yellow chemistry ala fanta (it cost 1 tl per 2 liters in a bale), tea, coffee is disgusting, beer is generally sour on tap, even what was put in the Haineken Tuborg minibar - it was difficult to drink (but the Germans, as always, choked). There are a lot of Romanians, Bulgarians, and different Turkish nations. When they left, they just started painting the playground. Big minus: poor lighting all areas. After sunset, the coastal zone is not illuminated at all, the playground is without light, in the evening there is no place to take the child out (ours is 5 years old). The animation is disgusting, the most primitive, mostly visited by new arrivals.
Mini disco primitive: 3-4 songs with movement repetition, know 2 words in Russian, mostly German and English songs. Miniclub tries during the day, but still does not reach 5 stars at all. From entertainment: water football, archery, gymnastics on the water, minigolf, table tennis, regular bath for free. Football, if you can call it that, in the evening. Ride the catamaran for free. From 12 on the beach, french fries, spaghetti, and Turkish fried spicy pulp sausage. Our standard bungalow was far away on the 1st floor, we thought it was over 350 meters from the beginning of the beach to the room. Hotels have terrible prices for everything: leather things, etc. We went from the hotel to leather (garbage dump, to Kerzhilaki) of very poor quality, look at the evenness of the seams, what they are, crooked, overlapped or whatever. The Kazakh woman Oksana works there, she is very uncompromising, she knows the Russian mentality well. Less than 300 e.
no one was able to bring a simple jacket, more or less models with poor tailoring were sold for $450 (beginning 780). From the hotel they take to Fusion for clothes and textiles, a small indoor outlet (towels, blankets, jeans are few, there are very few shoes, there are practically no jackets, problems with slow-moving sizes, both large and small). Leather shoes, even with 20% discounts, did not cost less than $80, if the same shoes cost $45 in Antalya. Jeans consumer goods 20-30 c. u. e. , stylish for less than 116 tl (77 c. u. ) was not found. Remember, everyone wants to make money on you there. We went to Izmir and Kusadasi, the prices are sky-high compared to Antalya, we do not recommend going there for shopping.


We had a guide - Maria (NazTour). A friendly and sympathetic girl, she is very worried about her tourists, she helps them as much as possible.
As for us: she agreed with a villa closer to the sea, and helped to go to Izmir, talked about many places in Turkey: Izmir, Kusadasi, advised on shopping (much better and where to eat), was able to arrange a trip to Fusion and for leather in convenient time for us (there were two of us and a child), promptly responded to our requests. We thank Mary from the bottom of our hearts for her help and cordial attitude towards us. We would like to say special thanks to Erstem, who, in our opinion, also did a lot for us. We recommend that if you want to be constantly in touch 24 hours a day with a guide, stock up on a Turkish SIM card.

Children's pools are very chlorinated, they throw pieces and do not dissolve bleach. The waiters in the main restaurant, if you can't catch it, never came up themselves. For whiskey and Turkish brandy, I had to go to the bartender ourselves - it turned out faster.
Good 5-6 slides in the water park for adults, if slow and fast, children under 10 years old are not allowed, although ours rode with adults (basic depth 1.4). A little milk is poured into milkshakes for children, and poured with chemical syrups. We went to the lake for fruit, additional media, and natural juices. Now the prices are full of tin: for example, 1 kg. peaches - $2, apricots - $2, small cherries $3.2, large - $4.5.

Shuttles, cars, which are supposed to travel around the territory for free, always did not wait, they could drive for 20.30 minutes. We ordered some hot water before going to bed and hot water - it's free (everything else is an extra price - for grandmas in short), they drove 37 minutes, they spotted it. When we were, the sea was very cold, the child was not allowed more than knee-deep, lips immediately turned blue. By the end - they swam themselves, but constantly felt cold.
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