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Written: 30 june 2011
Travel time: 18 — 28 june 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
My opinion: the price-quality ratio is optimal.
I recommend to families with children, middle-aged people.
Location: I didn’t like the village. The only plus is the proximity to Side (no more than 15 minutes by bus), where you can study history without spending money on excursions, but just walking around the city.

The territory of the hotel: unlike some tourists, I think the territory is well thought out. Approaching the hotel, I was horrified: the buildings are surrounded by wastelands, separated by a road. Passing through the reception to the hotel, I was pleasantly surprised - a clean, green, well-groomed, flowering area (respect to the gardeners), neither the road nor the wastelands from the courtyard can be seen or heard. Presentation photos correspond to reality. You can settle from buildings 1 to 6 (7 and 8 are somehow on the outskirts), the main thing is that the windows overlook the courtyard. The sea is somehow visible from all the rooms. From building 6 to the beach slowly waddling no more than 8-10 minutes of walking.
The pools are cleaned daily. Water slides are three for adults and three for children.
The rooms are simple. Good condition, spacious. Plumbing and household appliances were in good condition. Spacious closet with full length mirror. Cleaned normally, towels changed every day, bed - 4 times in 10 days. The quality of cleaning does not depend on the presence of a tip. In the room: water in the mini-bar (replenished regardless of whether the previous one is drunk), swimming caps, ear sticks, cosmetic disks, sponge for shoes, thread-needles. Liquid soap and shower gel in wall dispensers, no shampoo. Beach towels - deposit. Exchange daily.
The food is good, always fresh, a lot of vegetables and fruits, ice cream. Advice (the Germans suggested): take a manual citrus press with you and you will always have freshly squeezed juice (oranges, lemons, grapefruits in abundance for breakfast, lunch and dinner). Pork there cannot be, but chickens, turkey, fish, lamb are in abundance. I wonder what people who write negative reviews about food eat? If for breakfast with bird's milk, and for lunch with black caviar, then why Sural for a hundred dollars a day including air travel, and not the Seychelles with a VIP concept ?????
In the beach bar during the day, drinks, Turkish cakes and from 12-30 to 14-00 a full meal.
Beach: gorgeous wide coastline, fine uniform sand, those who run - take sneakers with you: an ideal place for a morning run. Sunbeds are in good condition, the sea is shallow (good for children), full of fish, there are stones in the beach area, but there are places for entry into the sea is enough, besides, the water is clear - the stones can be seen from afar.
The animation is very unobtrusive. In this regard, the hotel is calm. There is wireless internet in the lobby.

Inaccuracies in the description of the hotel: the hotel is not located on the seashore, central air conditioning with an individual control panel, a la carte restaurants do not work, I counted five bars (they write seven). Sauna is free, in the hammam all procedures are for money.
The disadvantages of the hotel are:
- the sand on the beach is not sieved;
- too early dinner (unlike Kemer, here on the beach you can sunbathe until almost 8 pm - the sun sets late, but you have to go out for dinner (dinner until 21-00);
- poor assortment of alcoholic beverages;
- Poor soundproofing in the rooms.
I consider all other claims to the hotel to be the costs of living in it of our compatriots.
As for the Germans and the attitude of the staff towards them: minus your travel agent, if he, when selling you a ticket to a hotel where the main contingent of vacationers are Germans, did not tell you that, firstly, there would be no luxury there - the Germans are unpretentious in everyday life and do not overpay for excesses. Secondly, the Germans give good tips to the staff, as is customary in Europe (mind you in euros, not dollars). Thirdly, you will be treated well even without a tip, just try to say hello to the maid when you leave the room, say thank you to the waiter and smile at others, as the Germans do.
there will be questions - write. I will answer with pleasure.
I don’t advise neighboring Surala - I haven’t been in the rooms, and the hotels are really very old.
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