Nice nice hotel, beautiful view of the beautiful sea

Written: 31 may 2015
Travel time: 10 — 19 may 2015
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 5.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 8.0
We chose this hotel because we like this region, and the hotel itself was advised to us by the agency, because he is inexpensive. So they said, not 5 *, but a solid 4 * ka.
The departure of the Turkish airline Onur Air from Moscow was delayed by almost 3 hours due to a late departure from Antalya, for some reason they didn’t feed and watered for money during the flight (the return trip to Moscow was gorgeous: they gave water and fed, and everything was on time). Apparently food is loaded only in one direction. The pilots are true professionals. How the landing went - they didn’t notice at all, it was so soft.
So instead of 7 in the morning we arrived at the hotel at 10, which gave us hope that we would not have to wait long for the room. Only 9 people brought us to the hotel (we were 4 girls and two families with children). And so it happened - we were instantly given rooms (although not nearby, but at least on the same floor) despite the fact that it was Sunday and the hotel was filled with Turks coming for the weekend.

Rooms on the 4th floor with sea views in the center of the building (No. 1428: one double bed and one single bed) and (No. 1420 - three single beds) almost at the end of the building, but also with a sea view. In my 1428, at first it smelled terribly of sewage. three days later, it seemed to disappear, at the reception they shrugged their shoulders in surprise that they heard this for the first time.
In general, the girls at the reception are strange: they turned away to complaints, pretending that they did not hear or understand, but they fulfilled the requests. Because the main MINUS of this hotel is that the cleaning lady can come every 3-4 days. She sort of walks around the floors with a cart, but somehow selectively: so it’s better to catch her yourself to take water (you can also ask at the reception), clean towels and toilet paper.
And, if you calmly treat these cleaning factors, then the rest will pass with a bang (and, as they say, cheap is not good, the hotel was deprived of one star, but it does not remove it from the inscriptions anywhere)
because We only slept in the room - in principle, everything suited us.
Further. .
The spa is small, with shabby walls and ceilings, but clean, cute and great people and great professionals working there. We went to a hammam-massage-mask for only $ 30, asked the women and did not regret it - excellent masters.
Restaurant: food does not shine with daily variety, but the choice of food is large: different vegetables and herbs, cheeses, sausages and hot dishes are also for every taste, a lot of sweets, only apples and oranges from fruits, although the season of strawberries was already ending and the season of watermelons began. In any case, we didn't go hungry. Fed on the beach, and tea and cakes at the pool bar at 16-00
Alcoholic bars always had beer, raki, vodka and gin. At some point, whiskey appeared. but perhaps due to the fact that there were big arrivals of the Turks on the weekend.
The pool is beautiful, clean, there are slides that worked on a strange schedule (in the morning they turned on almost on time, and in the afternoon they worked only for half an hour instead of two)

Wi-Fi is free, at first it worked only on two sofas at the reception, but then it was turned on more powerfully, so it worked in the entire lobby area, even sometimes getting it in the rooms on the 4th floor where we lived, and by the pool. Very lucky with the weather. The sea is drop dead turquoise in color, the hotel is one third full, there are no problems with sunbeds, peace and quiet. Well done animators - squeezed out as best they could, because vacationers are all like vegetables: even evening animation, few people came. In fact, she's a little sloppy. As the girls told us, the Turks are very fond of the vulgar. In short, due to the fact that there are few people, the owners of the hotel save on everything, especially on electricity - there is semi-darkness everywhere.
A few minuses that especially interfered (a particular inconvenience for vacationers with children) is the noise. Those rooms facing the sea suffer from noise from the 4-lane highway (you have to go through a tunnel to the sea), music (during the day and from the disco until three in the morning) and some from the singing of swallows (on some balconies there are swallow's nests). So who bothers the noise - you can choose rooms with a view not on the sea.
Also - the hotel is located on the absolute outskirts almost in the field: there is only one more hotel nearby and there are a couple of shops in front of the hotel (shops in the hotel are very expensive)
The beach is sandy, where sun loungers and awnings, closer to the sea - pebbly. The entrance to the water is sharp, the bottom is deep - at the first step immediately to the waist. Food at the bar is given from 11 to 16: vegetables, fries, meat for hamburgers, national flatbreads are prepared. The bar itself is open from 10 am to 6 pm. it was turned off for the convenience of vacationers. Only in the sand there are a lot of some kind of black beetles.
At the crossroads of the road to the hotel and the highway there is a stop of local buses, which will take you to Side in 20 minutes or on the other hand - 40 to Alanya. In the shops near the hotel, you can also buy everything more or less inexpensively: fruits, souvenirs, Turkish delight, clothes, swimwear, shoes, etc.
In general, we were completely satisfied (when we close our eyes to the shortcomings, because we want more from a 5 * hotel): we rested, ate, drank (good beer - Ephesus), sunbathed, swam and entertained us. Especially in any case: to rest - not to work! And inexpensive : )
p. s. We really didn’t find it, but the stories shocked us: the owners organized a huge holiday on May 9: songs of the war years, and St. George ribbons, and a gala dinner, and a festive general photo of tourists and staff, and ended with more and more fireworks.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original