budget hotel

Written: 22 september 2009
Travel time: 30 may — 10 june 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
Traveled with my wife and 2 kids ages 8 and 10. We chose this hotel solely because of the location and price for 2 weeks. Therefore, the claims were removed away in advance. Center of Side. Went for 13 nights with Coral. Red Wings Airlines from Nizhnekamsk. The plane looks like an ancient tram - so shabby, the chairs creak terribly, the change of position does not work almost anywhere. They don't give blankets - because it's a charter. Arrived, arrived as usual - there are no complaints about the transfer. The hotel is really small and old. By our arrival, 8 people lived in 5 buildings!! ! It's cool - an empty hotel. A man who speaks Russian works very well at the reception, he is so healthy. All issues were resolved with him. The room was prepared for us in advance - they put 4 non-folding beds. Everything in the room worked - but old. We went and looked at other numbers - all the same, it makes no sense to change to something. Feeding - modestly, more than))). But the standard set was. Beer - bottled,
local - not bad, better than draft Ephesus. White semi-dry wine - also bottled in 2007. Excellent. Red - from packages. The waiters are just great - they try very hard. He gave a couple of times a dollar and a lira. The pool is great - cleaned every evening. The mechanic started the slide every day with shamanism))) a whole ritual)). But she worked. Sunbeds, mattresses, umbrellas are new by the pool. We went to the hammam at the Asia hotel - through a street agency (35 euros for two). Fine. Transfer in the morning to the commercial beach - 10 min. The beach is excellent - many Germans also bring. Dream places - on 2 lines of sunbeds)). Sunbeds, umbrellas, mattresses - free of charge. Drinks - food - paid and expensive. Pick up after 15.00. That is, you need to dine either on the beach or stomp to the hotel through Cape Side, which we did)). 35 minutes walk to the hotel along the beach. On the way - camels)), freshly squeezed juice from grandfather with a cart of oranges (1 lira), an amphitheater, and if you're lucky, wild turtles, both sea and land.
Option 2 - go down from the hotel to the sea - 200 meters, and there are beaches of other hotels. Either negotiate with the beachboys about a fee, or brazenly lie down on sunbeds or on the sand. Option 3 - right there, 200 meters away, there is an excellent paid Turtle Beach. Worth a sign. awnings, deck chairs, toilet, shower. It costs 1 euro per day from 1 seat. It's cheaper than in our city on the beach. So there is a choice where to sunbathe. We walked to the right along the coast to the plastic pontoon, probably 1.5 km. - they also sunbathed on it - unusually - it moves. A sea turtle also lives there - vacationers see it several times a day, it swims right off the coast with people, we also saw it - it swam past the pontoon - about 1 m in diameter shell. There is no animation at the hotel in principle, but we studied the city, the ruins, walked a lot along the coast and in the city. That's why we went to the city hotel - not to sit on the animation.

It is worth going deep into the city and going to a regular store designed for ordinary Turks - the prices for everything are 2-3 times lower. Therefore, we bought fruits, sweets, chips, etc. in the supermarket "101", it is on the road towards Manavgat, 300 meters from the hotel. Payment only in lira. They changed at the post office near the hotel, they also accept rubles there. Not far from the hotel disco "Oxid" entrance 8 lira. The hotel neighbors were Turkish families, Czechs, Belarusians, Russians. All sane - except for the Czechs. They sat topless all day by the pool, also swam and went to the pool bar, forcing young Turks to grab their cell phones all the time (they filmed while they didn’t see their wives)). And in the evenings, the Czechs asked to turn on the music by the pool to the fullest in order to dance with the Turks. However, it was enough to go to the reception once, when all this got tired. Everything stopped and the staff apologized wildly to us the next day. In general, due to the fact that the hotel is sparsely populated - everyone knows each other,
a sort of intimate family atmosphere. On Cape Side, near the harbor - a lot of shops - but the prices are dray. We bought souvenirs, ice cream, either downstairs at the hotel in the rows, or behind Oxide down the street further.
On the way to the airport, they brought them to a huge sweet shop - prices are 3 times higher than usual, while guides give their cards to each tourist for purchase - as I understand it, interest falls on these cards for guides, although this is presented as a discount. I don’t believe when they care so much for vacationers, if you don’t take a card, they look like a wolf. But the people took it - apparently they poured out the excess currency)). Yes, more. I really did not like the hotel guide from Coral. Miss Tourist Contempt. It's something. I have never seen a more disgusting attitude towards tourists. Apparently people who came to 3 * for her cattle. Although we didn’t need anything from her, and after a single meeting we didn’t see her. The rest fully justified itself - the hotel is triple and it is not necessary to demand 4 or 5 * service from it.
Absolutely no disappointments - but the very friendly attitude of the staff was simply pleasing. By the way, before leaving, I learned quite a lot of colloquial phrases in Turkish - it helped a lot, because we walked around the city among ordinary Turks. And in the pharmacy, when they were looking for a cough ointment for the youngest, my Turkish one simply captivated the pharmacist - he gave us a hamam mitten and fastened the children's eyes on T-shirts. I couldn't believe that I was Russian)). By the way, in the jewelry store, the youngest son liked the seller so much that he gave him a silver eye-pendant. In general, as you treat people, so they treat you. We flew back in the same tram, although the food was better - from the Turkish airport.
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