Good hotel with some flaws

Written: 23 august 2009
Travel time: 12 — 19 august 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 9.0
Good afternoon!
It is impossible to say bad things about this hotel, however, there are some shortcomings, although this is probably not worth the shortcomings, because someone may not pay attention to these things. Therefore, I will divide the review into two parts: what I liked and what I did not.
Liked:
1. Large green and beautiful area
2. Pools: there are several of them, although they are interconnected, you can swim from one to another. Separately, there is only a swimming pool with slides. I usually like to swim in the sea, because I don’t understand why you need to fly to the Mediterranean Sea and then swim only in the pool and never go to the beach. And here I liked the pool so much that I didn’t know where to run - to the beach or to the pool.
3. The hotel is close to Antalya. He was the very first in line where tourists were dropped off.

4. There is a tennis court. The racket costs 2 dollars and it doesn't matter if you play for an hour or 2. The tennis court was already in the shade from 6 pm and, in principle, it was already comfortable to play from that time on.
5. There are 4 restaurants on the territory, you could eat in any of them. It was possible not to leave the beach, having lunch at a beach restaurant.
6. Based on observations, I realized that there were plenty of entertainment for children. And slides and animation, and an amusement park (though paid), table tennis (not only children were happy : )).
7. Beach - there are a lot of sunbeds, we came to the beach no earlier than 10 am and always found free sunbeds under a canopy.
8. Beach towels were left right in the rooms. They were free. But they cost $2 to replace.
9. Food - there were many delicious dishes, varied. Lots of fruits (peaches, apples, pears, plums, apricots, watermelon, grapes). The pancakes with chocolate (for breakfast) were divine. There were a lot of sweets, although I can’t say anything about their taste, we leaned on fruits, not cakes. From the drinks there were wine (white, red), beer, Turkish juice - a la "Jupi" : ), cola, fanta, sprite, schweppes, vodka, rum, gin, etc.
Did not like:
1. Too large territory. Yes, on the one hand it was beautiful, but not cozy enough. There are more than 1000 vacationers and it seemed that you were in a mini-town with its own infrastructure. I wanted more privacy and compactness, more comfort.
2. The beach - the entrance to the sea is pebbly, it was quite difficult to walk, special shoes were needed, but in general it was not so scary.

3. Service - a little everyone reacted to tourists indifferently. The waiters might not even come to the table, bring clean cutlery. At the same time, they could speak Turkish loudly, clearly discussing the tourists. Everyone's faces were angry, unfriendly. In the morning and afternoon they were dressed in shorts and T-shirts, looked like tourists on a tour, tortured by the heat. Only in the evening they put on trousers, shirts, aprons. At the reception, too, not particularly welcome. We gave 10 dollars in the hope that they would put us in a normal room. In the end, we were given a room overlooking the road.
4. Rooms and room service - the rooms are not so hot... I understand that they did not seem to have arrived in the rooms, but still... 5 * after all. The rooms were obviously renovated a long time ago, there is mold in the bathroom at the joints of the tiles. There were no bathrobes and slippers in the room, although the year before last I had a rest in 4 * and there were a bathrobe and slippers. It’s okay with a bathrobe, but there weren’t enough slippers - the balcony was with a tiled floor and it was not very comfortable to go out there after a shower and even smoke. The bathroom also had a fairly limited set of toiletries. There were no cotton swabs, cosmetic disks. I will repeat about 4 * where I was - these things were there. Even this time I wanted not to take it all out of the house, but at the last moment I threw it into my cosmetic bag. Towels - not the first novelty, quite old. Bed linen is also not very new. Last year we were in Bulgaria in 3 * - there the bed linen was chic, much better than here. The maid cleaned us 3 times a week, each time we left 1 dollar. Although she came every day, but after dinner, when we were sleeping in the room at the peak of the heat, we had to refuse her services. She left, obviously dissatisfied.
5. Food - in general, there were a lot of edible and very tasty things, but a lot of it was not clear what, it was already scary to eat. We practiced serving yesterday's dishes. Sometimes the dishes were not very clean, you had to look closely at the plates. Drinks were given every other time in glass glasses, depending on who - someone in plastic glasses, someone in glass.
6. During dinner there was a la live music. A man or a girl sang Russian pop and chanson. They sang terribly, ruining wonderful songs. I wanted more local flavor, or something, and not a terrible performance of already boring songs. One day only the Turk played some instrument and sang in Turkish. Everyone loved it.

7. Spa fat. We went to the hammam, but not for 60 dollars, as they ask for, but for 75 for two (a man walked around the territory, offering services and I said that I wouldn’t go to them for more than 35-40 bucks. In general, he realized that I know the real price and agreed). There was peeling and foam massage, classic massage, face mask... but somehow everything is very fast : ). Therefore, I do not recommend. Although maybe for the initial 60 dollars they do it not so lightning fast. They did not want to go to the hammam on the recommendation of the hotel guide. Usually, after a bath, you don’t really want to put on clothes on your body with the remnants of massage oil and get on the bus and return to the hotel... The hotel SPA also does not smell good of fungus and dampness.
8. Very intrusive and shameless photographers. Cling constantly. One photo costs 5 bucks. If they photoshop it, then another 3 bucks on top. They take pictures, it turns out about 100 pictures. They offer to pick up everything without printing on a disk for 150-200 bucks. The photos are generally cool, but on your own photo they turn out no worse. We and another couple wanted to take a picture and choose a couple of especially professional photos and that's it. They did all this to us, promising to dump it on a USB flash drive (we had it with us). As a result, we chose 6 photos, they printed them for us, but they refused to write them down due to the small number that we chose. And no persuasion helped. Printed photos are not very high quality. In addition, photographers try to photoshop as many of your photos as possible in order to take more expensive ones. And this consists in applying the most elementary things, there is no strong editorial at all, even red eyes do not remove or an unsuccessful shadow on the face, I just do some kind of jokes in the form of an eye in the background or in b/w color.
Look like that's it. . .
In general, the holiday was a success, it was good. what I didn’t like was probably the trailers, since there is something to compare with. These are all the little things that you can ignore. Although paying that kind of money you want ideal conditions in everything...
Have a good rest everyone
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