My review

Written: 7 may 2010
Travel time: 26 april — 3 may 2010
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 8.0
Hello!
I want to try to highlight in a review about this hotel a few points that may be useful to those who are going to visit it.
1. Weather (late April)
The air temperature during the day is very comfortable, 25-27C degrees, it was enough for a light tan, the evenings and nights are cool, warm sweaters were welcome.
Water - somewhere around 18C.
Both air and water slowly but surely begin to warm up.
It rained once a week, torrential.
2. Beach
The first days it was very convenient for us, leaving the hotel, to pass through the territory of the hotel standing on the first line, simultaneously swinging on a swing and doing fun outdoor exercise equipment.
However, the administration of that hotel soon stopped this disgrace, closed the passage, and to get to the sea you have to walk 400-500 meters.
First to the left of the hotel, along the street, then turning towards the sea, along the path, descending not so gently, to the beach.

The infrastructure on the beach is a group of sun loungers under awnings that are not stretched yet + a bar.
Coffee / cocoa / water / instant drinks are always available. Beachboy does not always "notice" those who come to the beach. To get mattresses for sun loungers had to wander around looking for it. On the other hand, it can be understood - a friend at the same time is a tractor driver, to which a trailer is attached, plying from the hotel to the beach, about once an hour.
On the beach there is a volleyball court. Like almost every hotel.
The beach areas between the hotels are not separated by barricades, you can walk along the edge of the sea along the sand for many kilometers, which in my opinion is just fine. Water sports are on offer.
The entrance to the sea is unhurried, for children - expanse. For adults, it is a little tiring to jump on the water towards the “deeper”, breaking through the oncoming waves like a breakwater.
3. Hotel contingent
Mostly Germans, Scandinavians. There were few Russians.
4. Hotel
The main building with a reception desk and a restaurant and three-story houses.
About the houses: the first floor is a basement, with windows under the ceiling, unheated and uncomfortable. There are 4 rooms on the floor. Please be careful when purchasing a tour - these rooms are called "economy". In my opinion, for tourists with children are not shown categorically! In some houses, these rooms are used for storing bed linen and other household needs of the hotel.
Be sure to check this point with your travel agency.
The second and third floors have 2 rooms per floor - "standards". But these are more like family rooms. Two-room apartments, bedroom + living room (with a kitchen section, but without a stove). Balcony in every room. Excellent, spacious rooms.
You can try to exchange the already purchased economy on the spot, but the results of bargaining in Turkey are unpredictable, be prepared for this.
We didn't see the rooms of the main building, so I can't say anything.
5. Hotel entertainment

We played ping-pong, rapturously. Even the battered rackets were not a hindrance. But if they can confuse you - take your own. I'm sorry I didn't take it.
The slides turn on according to the schedule, and we forgot about them all the time.
In bochu, darts or mini golf, we did not see the animators calling to play.
In the main building on the 2nd floor, billiards and another ping-pong table, we discovered this by accident.
In the evenings - discos for children, then shows for adults, stage, stalls, everything is just as it should be.
The bar was open all the time until late at night.
A pool without frills, a pool like a pool, not heated.
6. Nutrition
Beautiful.
7. Communication
Side district - "German" district. The locals speak German better than English.
At the same time, English and Russian are actively taught. I have long envied their ability to learn foreign languages.
8. Currency
see point 7 - take euros with you, dollars are accepted, but often there are difficulties with the exchange. We did not have to exchange for Turkish lira at all.
9. Bath
What is a visit to Turkey without the standard "but what about the hammam on the first evening, so that the peeling and then the tan lie down better? "
The hotel has a bath. But we didn't even go there. On the way to the beach, it is worth turning off the highway, there is a bath complex "Kumkö y" (by the name of the area), and we went there.
The trade was appropriate.
10. Evening
In the evening there is really nowhere to go, there are several discos in a small distance, cafes. Every second local resident you meet will invite you to a disco in Laguna. This is such a fed up place.
11. Side
Walking along the coast for about 4 km, but we were lazy. They got on a minibus with the inscription "Side" and for $ 1.5 they reached the final stop.
The stop is specific - there are trees and bushes all around, it doesn’t smell like a city.
Along the path, along the path, past the Colosseum (by the way, one of the three in the world that were built not on hills, but on flat terrain, practically unique) - and so we went to Side.

Side is shops, restaurants, the promenade, the picturesque remains of the temple of Apollo, the tiny houses of local residents.
If you stay late, you can take a taxi back, you can ask him to call an employee of any restaurant. To the hotel 12 dollars. Bargaining, again, was appropriate.
11. Excursions
The same as in other resorts. Cappadocia, Pamukkale, rafting, yachting, etc. , etc.
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