Too much money for such a holiday

Written: 20 september 2006
Travel time: 21 — 28 august 2006
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
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Were from 15 to 29 August 2006. Two adults, daughters 1 year 1 month. and 3d. 8 months Lived in a family room. Building 22. Room 29. $6500. Friends paid $4.000 for a double.
Room: in the corridor there is a sliding wardrobe (there is a free safe in it); in the bathroom there is a shower, a washbasin with a large countertop around, a toilet with a built-in bidet; in the first room there are two beds, a mini-bar (every day it contains Coca-Cola, Fanta, water, mineral water free of charge), TV, chair, drawers, balcony with clotheslines; in the second room there is one double bed, a mirror, a large chest of drawers, bedside tables, a chair, a balcony.
To understand the principle of igniting the light in a room, one must be at least an engineer. We did not fully understand the purpose of some switches. The light in the hotel was constantly cut down for a minute or two. Once there was a thunderstorm - so our TV in the room burned down. Changed in five minutes.

This is the first hotel where I saw cool dispensers for soap, shower gel and Dove shampoo. In all other hotels, I used only products brought from home, because. what is usually poured into small jars does not suit me.
In the room, I was not satisfied with the quality of mopping and, in general, the tiled floor is not very comfortable. I took slippers with everyone. And then the legs were black, even if you come to a freshly cleaned room.
Terrible audibility through the windows (they are wooden). You can't hear much from neighboring rooms unless you're in the bathroom. There I could talk to the neighbors downstairs.
I liked that there were a lot of hangers in the closet. Usually there are very few of them in hotels.
I would especially like to note the key to the room, on which instead of a key fob there is a huge barn key. So as not to lose apparently. It's good that we always went with a stroller on which a bag hangs. It was easier to carry both the notorious cards and this key in it.
The funniest thing is the door between the two rooms. You know, like a saloon. Hole at the bottom, hole at the top. And we hoped to close ourselves from children at night : )
This is also the first hotel where laundry is very cheap. Everything up to 2 euros. In Adora, for example, I remember washing shorts costing around 4-6 euros.
Beach: the hotel is served as a children's one, but if you are going to show the children the sea, you are not here. The sea is stormy almost constantly. And on the day of departure, the waves were 3 meters, if not more. My eldest daughter practically swam 2 times in 2 weeks. I was afraid of the waves. Sunset in the sea that way, that way. Depending on what the storm brings. Either more or less sand, then specific pebbles. And deep immediately.
The sand on the beach is imported and very rough. The husband fell while playing volleyball, the abrasion was in his legs.
What pleased: there are always sunbeds. In fact, it's incredibly heavy. Well, we had men with us. I can't imagine how grandmothers and children carry them.

Once my youngest daughter fell asleep in a stroller on the beach and my husband stayed with her, and we went with our older daughters for lunch. Scoop molds were left a meter from the reading dad. We come from lunch - there are no molds. Dad doesn't understand either. Went bought new ones for 11 €. On the same day, we all go swimming together. I deliberately remove the molds closer to the sunbeds so that they don’t take them for ownerless ones, and press them down on children’s shorts so that they don’t fly away. We arrive - the shorts are gone. Well, who needs them?
Food: There is a problem with drinks in the hotel. There is no beach bar. And you can't go anywhere at the same time. You need to either carry a card with you, or go God knows where (taking into account the fact that the territory is not at all small) for it. Cards are demagnetized from: mobile, moisture, sand, etc.
Gozleme only with cheese. With potatoes, meat, chocolate, etc. no. Probably because almost no one eats them.
Breakfast from 7 to 10 in the main restaurants. From 10 to 11 at the beach restaurant on the side of the Ali Bay Club. From 12.30 to 14 lunch in the main restaurants. From 15 like an afternoon snack in pool bars (incomprehensible sandwiches, and delicious berry pies). Around 17 - chips in the pool bars. Algida ice cream in a glass or in a cone 6 varieties to choose from - around the clock. From 19 to 21 - dinners in all restaurants. True, in the last three days, one of the restaurants on the beach was closed. How to explain - I do not know. They simply transferred the guests to less comfortable conditions - there were not enough tables by the sea for everyone, and indeed not enough. Of course, it’s more pleasant to have dinner by the sea, that’s where most of them went.
It bothered me that there were practically no signatures to the dishes. You take - you don't know what.
In general, the food is good, edible, varied within one day. But day after day it's the same.
There are highchairs for children. Children's menu. But again, apparently, you need to try what is cooked there, because. no signatures. And so I would like some washbasins near the restaurant. There are many children, few of them are clean. After eating, the grimy child had to be carried to the toilet to be washed. And disposable bibs for small ones are my blue dream.

Very friendly staff. And for tips they will leave you the best tables at dinner, constantly ask what you want and other signs of attention. Although once I was at dinner without my husband - not a single waiter approached us. I had to go to the bar myself for drinks and cutlery.
The hotel in general: in general, I was satisfied with the rest, only all these minor flaws pissed me off. It would be nice if it wasn't all that expensive.
The territory is very green, I liked the style of the hotel, mosaics everywhere, funny fountains at every intersection. However, in the early days, I was scared not to find a number, because. I'm not very oriented. Fortunately, hotel cards with a flashlight “You are here” are everywhere.
The hotel is very conventionally divided into AliBey Club and AliBey Park. That is, everything is in duplicate at different ends of the hotel. Even the show is not one for the whole hotel, but each side has its own.
My daughter loved to go to the toilet, because. there is a special cubicle for children with a small toilet. Only now they didn’t finish the children’s washbasin, they had to struggle to raise their daughter to wash their hands after the toilet.
The way you treat kids is just amazing. My small Turks were constantly squeezed, waved with a pen, etc. Not a single person passed by, not even the entire staff. They just stopped wherever they went and made sure to pay attention to her.
Water park: I'm not a fan at all. Most of all we liked the children's pool with a ship, the kids pool with sand and the adult pool with a river. Hills are different. There are dark ones, there is a toilet bowl, there are straight ones, there is a wide gutter, there are narrow pipes. Cylinders for skiing for 1-2-3-4 people. Donate-receive towels not at the entrance (where logic dictates), but at the far end of the water park.

Animation: if you like animation, when you are entertained all day long, everyone knows each animator by name, bright shows in the evenings - you are not here. Silent children's disco - just killed me. That is, there is music, one of the animatrises shows something in absolute silence, the children stand in a circle and repeat something. During the day I did not see animators at work at all. Here sitting in a bar with tourists - as much as you like. At 12 o'clock pool-game with sin in half. And for some reason, a hotel dance at 15.15, when there is almost no one at the pool. It comes out funny when the animators themselves are dancing alone, and as soon as the music is over, they run and hide (as if they will be beaten now). As a result, NO adult guest danced the hotel dance. I saw this for the first time.
Photo: photographers, as in every hotel, take pictures of guests, then post mini-photos, from which you can choose and order large ones. Photos cost $6 or €5. For filming at sunset on the sea - arrange in advance. The disk can be obtained only with a very large amount of photos (we apparently did not quote with our 40 pieces, we were never given the disk, no matter how we persuaded). You can buy a CD with all the frames. Then one recorded frame will cost $8!!! ! ! And it’s also strange: they take pictures of guests in the first days (when everyone is not yet tanned). Then they seem to lose interest in you and begin to shoot newcomers. Where is the logic, gentlemen?
There will be questions - write, I will answer. I'll try to post a photo here.
Savosina_stu@mail. ru
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