Pleasantly surprised by the hotel

Written: 5 august 2018
Travel time: 16 — 21 july 2018
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 9.0
Initially paid for a Standard room for three adults. When we checked in, we were pleasantly surprised by the size of the room and the balcony, because, having read the reviews, we expected the worst. We lived in room 505, with a very good location: neither the mullah from the mosque nor the noise from the road was heard in the room, the music from the stage was heard, but not critical. The only noise was made by vacationers waiting for the bus to the beach under our windows.
The main disadvantage of the room is that the water in the shower does not drain into the drain hole and constantly stands in the pan.
The safe costs $2 per day, but we didn't use it.
The room was cleaned daily by a very nice woman who speaks Russian. Almost every day she changed our towels, although we did not ask.
The territory of the hotel is very green, well-groomed.

There is always enough food in the restaurant and they constantly take out more if suddenly a dish runs out. The food, of course, does not differ in variety, as in some 5 *, but no one remains hungry!
The waiters are great smarties: they quickly clean and re-set the tables, always help and bring napkins / cutlery, wipe the table if asked.
The owner of the hotel constantly monitors the order in the entire hotel. In front of our eyes, he personally collected and carried out dirty dishes by the pool. It can be seen immediately that a person is not indifferent and he cares about his hotel.
The restaurant itself is very stuffy, so it is better to sit on the terrace while eating.
At the bar, we usually took beer, but each time it was of different concentration: sometimes more, sometimes less diluted. Red and white dry wine for everyone. The bartenders always served quickly and there were no problems, although we never asked for more than 2 glasses in one hand. During the rest, we did not see a single drunken vacationer in the hotel))
The pool at the hotel is large, but the water is very chlorinated.
During the day at the pool bar, a woman fries delicious flatbreads (gozleme) and donuts.
The bus to the beach runs on schedule, it's not very convenient and makes you keep track of time. On the beach from the free there is only a vending machine with clean water and something like a yuppie. In the beach cafe, everything is already for $, to the left of the cafe, under an umbrella, a man sells fruits and fresh juices.
Beach towels, it seems, are given at the hotel on a deposit of $ 10. It is forbidden to take hotel bath towels to the beach. The man who looks after order on the beach (usually he sits near vending machines with water) picks up hotel towels. Therefore, it is better to bring beach towels from home.
Wifi works better on the beach than in the hotel. Wi-Fi password can be obtained from a man who works on the beach (it was sunset2018).
Wi-fi in the hotel itself is terrible! It works only at the reception, and is more or less tolerably loaded at night, when there are few users. Viber does not work at all with such an Internet, Whatsapp works intermittently.

There is no animation on the beach, only in the hotel: some contests, dances, etc. are constantly held for children. During the day in the pool they play water polo, do aqua aerobics. In the evenings, those who wish, by appointment, the animators take them to a disco in a club for $ 5.
We ourselves usually walked around the city in the evenings and came to the hotel closer to midnight, when all the animation programs had already ended, so we don’t know what competitions were held.
From the hotel you can walk to the ancient city, as well as to the promenade of the city beach. We also went to the neighboring city of Manavgat by minibus # 1 (the fare costs 3TL per person), from the city center you can get to the waterfall (? elale, the entrance costs 6TL per person) on another minibus (you need to go to the opposite side of the street, the fare - 2.5TL), or walk along the well-groomed embankment to a very beautiful mosque in Manavgat itself - Merkez K? lliye Camii, which is considered the largest mosque located on the coast of Antalya. Entrance to the mosque is free, but you need to follow the main rules: shoulders and knees should be covered, women should also have their heads covered, before entering the mosque you need to take off your shoes (there are shelves for shoes at the entrance, as well as a box with scarves that you can tie around if the outfit is not suitable).
Side is simply a paradise for cat lovers: there are a lot of them here, they are happy to approach people and eat from hands.
In general, the three of us had an extremely positive impression of the rest.
The only thing I want to remind vacationers: "Treat people the way you want to be treated" and everything will be fine!
Translated automatically from Russian. View original