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The long-awaited trip to Turkey with my wife took place from 9 to 19 July 2008. Until now everything seems like a dream, it seems that we were just sleeping. Because it only happens in a dream.
We flew from Ulyanovsk by Pegasus through the Hot Tours agency. The Tez-tour was canceled immediately, as it flies from our city on the Tu-153, and this is simply unacceptable for me. I flew Carcasses to Spain. There is only one feeling: their condition is like that of the Ikarus, welded somewhere, patched somewhere... Fuck it, fuck it! We flew in a normal clean Boeing 737-500. To the credit of this airplane, I can say that it practically did not shake either back or forth. And there were no failures, and pulling the steering wheel towards you and back during takeoffs and landings, when you are either pressed into a chair, then thrown back. I suffered so much on our planes that even here I did not let go of the handle of the Boeing chair and could not bring my heart back to a normal rhythm.
I must say right away that only the most unpretentious tourists can fly from Ulyanovsk, because the attitude of the airport staff (more precisely, customs officers) towards those who arrived was simply boorish, and the state of the airport (to which there are not even signs on the roads and had to circle around the neighborhood in the dark) leaves much to be desired better: the small shabby little rooms into which 130 people were shoved did not have much to do with the words “Hello, Motherland! ”, pronounced with a happy intonation. There was only one intonation in this phrase: sadly critical. Especially after a trip on a dilapidated ZIL man carrier from the plane to the place of customs control.
I will make a reservation that upon departure, customs control was carried out quickly and professionally, quite decently and humanely. I was surprised by the control on arrival.
Of course, Antalya Airport (a technogenic giant made of steel and glass) cannot be compared with Ulyanovsk-Vostochny. There is only one problem at the Antalya airport: terribly high prices for everything. 0.33 bottle of mineral water costs 5 bucks. And we had 1 bucks left on the flight. And I was terribly thirsty. . .
The Pegasus Tourist did not disappoint at all. They sent us normally, they met us perfectly, they immediately put me on a bus with air conditioning, the girl Leah was constantly sitting in the hotel. She was always kind of frightened and sleepy On the way back, we were forcibly taken to some supermarket and the bus was traveling with ventilation, but without air conditioning.
Tez-Tour is everywhere in Turkey. At the airport, a sea of banners and flags of Tez-Tours. There are a lot of advertisements for the tour along the way. In general, one gets the impression of a large international company or Turkish. True, the staff there, as I saw, is local and does not speak Russian very well. In any case, apart from Tez and Pegasus, I saw only the Odeon Tour.
We arrived early in the morning. And there was one problem: check-in at the hotel began at 11 am. And we were already at the place at 9. Indeed, we were immediately tied with fluorescent orange bracelets, which gave us the right to use everything in the hotel for free.
According to reviews on the net, they read that you need to give 20 bucks so that the number is picked up better. In fact, they asked us for 50 bucks. We couldn't go for that! As a result, we hung around the hotel until eleven. But we liked the room they gave us. And he did not go out to the sea, but quite the opposite, which we really liked, since the rooms that overlooked the sea went to the places of evening programs (read - noise).
The hotel was very clean, the staff was friendly, the bed was always clean. One strained: central air conditioning. He worked from 14-30 (after lunch) to 20-00 and from 23-00 to 3-00. Everything would be fine, but in the morning we woke up in a terrible heat. So creepy that they went into the bath, turned on a cold shower and poured water on the walls of the bathroom to get cool air. With all this, early in the morning we were freezing But this was our fault, since we did not set the temperature regulator of the air conditioner normally. The rest of the time, the air conditioner was regularly noisy, but it drove warm stuffy air into the room...
Hotel "Side Corolla" 4 stars, if you do not find fault, just a fairy tale. Large and beautiful swimming pool, several shops, bars, restaurant, service, two Russian girls at the reception, cleanliness and comfort - everything is just fine. Of course, if you walk with a magnifying glass, measure seconds and want more, it's better not to come here. In principle, people will not like this anywhere. I can only say that we did not go to the water slides, as we were not sure of their smoothness and the depth of the pool where you slide down. There was no volleyball on the beach, at night it was impossible to swim either in the pool or in the sea. Well, the disco - sucks. It sucks so much that even my wife and I's tolerance and omnivorousness in music did not allow us to break away to the fullest
They feed very well. From 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. , at least fill up with beer, red and white wine, gin, whiskey, locally produced vodka, cola, sprite, fanta, mineral water and soft drinks like Jupi. Meals by the hour: breakfast, lunch and dinner in the form of a buffet. Breakfast is so-so. Lunch is excellent. Dinner is above all praise. A very colorful chef walked around the restaurant and supervised the workers.
There have always been watermelons and melons. They also gave grapes, apricots, cherries, nectarines, plums. I really liked the soups. There were sweets - heaps. And every day is different. And all with imagination. Turkish women sometimes sat on the street and cooked lavash with stuffing. At the same time, they sat at the restaurant in the hotel and at the bar on the beach. The sunbeds at the pool and on the beach were free.
The beach itself is quite clean, the sea is generally crystal clear when there are no waves. You go up to the neck - and you can see the bottom!
In general, the sea and the pool were warm, warm! And the sea is salty. So salty that the ears, eyes and nose were terribly torn, but then there was no cold or runny nose. And it was difficult to put a foot: it threw water to the surface.
My wife and I bought diving goggles and dived. It turned out like in the movie: under water, by the hand....Romance…
We saw many different fish. But the main thing: we saw large turtles (1-1.5 meters in diameter), which the locals call Kareta-Kareta. They were watched almost every day. A couple of times I dived in their direction. For the first time, I followed this huge turtle under water. The second time was almost at arm's length, she swam right under me. Impressions are amazing.
The weather was pleasing: 35-38 degrees, not a cloud. There was always a cool wind.
Nature is amazing. Around - high mountains, palm trees. On the territory of the hotel we saw a banana palm, pomegranate, tangerine, lemon tree.
The animation was pretty good. First of all, I was pleased with the lighter guy named Kimo. He is half Tunisian, half Italian. With a wide smile, always groovy and active, he tried to stir up the visitors of the hotel almost all day. In the evening, when he appeared on a children's or adult program, he was always the main battery. His famous "Catastrophe! " passed into his nickname among tourists. I liked that they are working with children. Evening mini-disco in German, Spanish, French, Turkish was repeated every evening. The songs are a little boring, but the children came off with pleasure. And the language barrier was not a problem. “A ram-zam-zam”, “Chuki-chuki”, “Kleine papagai”, “Veo-veo”, “Ay um e music man” and our acquaintances “We dance boogie-woogie, turning in a circle” (in French ) and “Dance of the Little Ducklings” (in French) - even adults were turned on. A cool song in German at the end of the children calmed down and prepared for bed. After that, time was given to put the children to bed before the evening adult program. From the adult program there were: Mr. Corolla, belly dance, fakir show (Kimo walked on glass, swallowed fire, lay on nails), synchronized swimming (6 Russian girls in the illuminated pool - performed well), etc. Quite decent and fun.
In general, Side has long been considered a German resort. Therefore, most sellers in shops, hotel workers speak more German. At first we doubted whether it was worth going to a German hotel, but then we realized that it was worth it. The attitude towards people there is normal, and the group of tourists is such that you won’t worry that the Germans will get drunk on vodka and will stagger drunk around the hotel.
In Corolla there were 60 percent Germans, 30 percent Russians, and 10 percent everyone else, including the Turks themselves and even representatives of the Netherlands.
The German-speaking nature of the hotel led to funny cases: I went up to the reception to take the key, I told the girl: dry-dry-zibn. And she told me in pure Russian: “Zibn is six or seven? I'm constantly confused!
Safes in the hotel are paid. But we took for peace of mind. It cost us 500 rubles for about 10 days. TV channels were Polish, Italian, English, German, French, Turkish. From Russians - sports and culture. The first channel was on, but all in cubes and without sound.
The girl Leah from Pegasus suggested many tours. True, their prices were quite high. “Around the corner” there are many travel agencies that offer the same trips cheaper. We took a trip to Manavgat Falls for 20 bucks per person from Said. Tovarisch told all sorts of stories in pure Russian in such incendiary language that we could not resist.
I liked the trip. True, the group was German. And on the ship, all the booze is paid. Lunch is free and delicious. The captain is a "sea wolf", very active, prankster, very charismatic. Were at the market and at the waterfall itself. It’s true that you can’t climb to the waterfall: there is little space, crowded. It was cool on the spit between the sea and the Manavgat River. The river is colder by 10 degrees. It is separated from the sea by a spit of 50 meters. You can swim in fresh and salt water. It is enough to cross the braid. On the ship itself, they even gave us a belly dance. In general, there was no need to be bored and the guys at Captain 3 tried very hard. We even stopped in the open sea, showed the turtles and gave them the opportunity to swim. The captain made a joke: he started the engine and said “Bye” to everyone .
At the hotel we met two families: Muscovites and Petersburgers. Together with them, we independently traveled to the city of Side by minibus. They climbed the ancient ruins, which are two millennia old. We stayed at the market. In general, markets, shops, bazaars, we are tired to death. The Turks are willing to bargain (Turkish women, by the way, practically do not bargain at all). However, the prices are high. We bought magnets, T-shirts and sweets for our relatives.
Ali women are everywhere (during the excavations they somehow found a sculpture of a man with an erect penis the size of a man himself and began to multiply on everything: on magnets, key chains, mugs, etc. ) and everywhere there is an “eye from the evil eye”: concentric white and blue circles. The eyes and Ali Baba were already sickening.
While walking around Side, we saw hotels with no stars at all, with a puddle pool and 10 rooms. And to go from them to the sea you get sick. It was 300 meters from our hotel to the sea, and there it was like that in general... In general, you need to be careful with the choice of a hotel.
In general, my wife and I had the brightest and most romantic impressions. Not a bit spared neither money nor time. The next time we decided to go with our son and to the already explored hotel - Side Corolla.
We flew from Ulyanovsk by Pegasus through the Hot Tours agency. The Tez-tour was canceled immediately, as it flies from our city on the Tu-153, and this is simply unacceptable for me. I flew Carcasses to Spain. There is only one feeling: their condition is like that of the Ikarus, welded somewhere, patched somewhere... Fuck it, fuck it! We flew in a normal clean Boeing 737-500. To the credit of this airplane, I can say that it practically did not shake either back or forth. And there were no failures, and pulling the steering wheel towards you and back during takeoffs and landings, when you are either pressed into a chair, then thrown back. I suffered so much on our planes that even here I did not let go of the handle of the Boeing chair and could not bring my heart back to a normal rhythm.
I must say right away that only the most unpretentious tourists can fly from Ulyanovsk, because the attitude of the airport staff (more precisely, customs officers) towards those who arrived was simply boorish, and the state of the airport (to which there are not even signs on the roads and had to circle around the neighborhood in the dark) leaves much to be desired better: the small shabby little rooms into which 130 people were shoved did not have much to do with the words “Hello, Motherland! ”, pronounced with a happy intonation. There was only one intonation in this phrase: sadly critical. Especially after a trip on a dilapidated ZIL man carrier from the plane to the place of customs control.
I will make a reservation that upon departure, customs control was carried out quickly and professionally, quite decently and humanely. I was surprised by the control on arrival.
Of course, Antalya Airport (a technogenic giant made of steel and glass) cannot be compared with Ulyanovsk-Vostochny. There is only one problem at the Antalya airport: terribly high prices for everything. 0.33 bottle of mineral water costs 5 bucks. And we had 1 bucks left on the flight. And I was terribly thirsty. . .
The Pegasus Tourist did not disappoint at all. They sent us normally, they met us perfectly, they immediately put me on a bus with air conditioning, the girl Leah was constantly sitting in the hotel. She was always kind of frightened and sleepy On the way back, we were forcibly taken to some supermarket and the bus was traveling with ventilation, but without air conditioning.
Tez-Tour is everywhere in Turkey. At the airport, a sea of banners and flags of Tez-Tours. There are a lot of advertisements for the tour along the way. In general, one gets the impression of a large international company or Turkish. True, the staff there, as I saw, is local and does not speak Russian very well. In any case, apart from Tez and Pegasus, I saw only the Odeon Tour.
We arrived early in the morning. And there was one problem: check-in at the hotel began at 11 am. And we were already at the place at 9. Indeed, we were immediately tied with fluorescent orange bracelets, which gave us the right to use everything in the hotel for free.
According to reviews on the net, they read that you need to give 20 bucks so that the number is picked up better. In fact, they asked us for 50 bucks. We couldn't go for that! As a result, we hung around the hotel until eleven. But we liked the room they gave us. And he did not go out to the sea, but quite the opposite, which we really liked, since the rooms that overlooked the sea went to the places of evening programs (read - noise).
The hotel was very clean, the staff was friendly, the bed was always clean. One strained: central air conditioning. He worked from 14-30 (after lunch) to 20-00 and from 23-00 to 3-00. Everything would be fine, but in the morning we woke up in a terrible heat. So creepy that they went into the bath, turned on a cold shower and poured water on the walls of the bathroom to get cool air. With all this, early in the morning we were freezing But this was our fault, since we did not set the temperature regulator of the air conditioner normally. The rest of the time, the air conditioner was regularly noisy, but it drove warm stuffy air into the room...
Hotel "Side Corolla" 4 stars, if you do not find fault, just a fairy tale. Large and beautiful swimming pool, several shops, bars, restaurant, service, two Russian girls at the reception, cleanliness and comfort - everything is just fine. Of course, if you walk with a magnifying glass, measure seconds and want more, it's better not to come here. In principle, people will not like this anywhere. I can only say that we did not go to the water slides, as we were not sure of their smoothness and the depth of the pool where you slide down. There was no volleyball on the beach, at night it was impossible to swim either in the pool or in the sea. Well, the disco - sucks. It sucks so much that even my wife and I's tolerance and omnivorousness in music did not allow us to break away to the fullest
They feed very well. From 10 a. m. to 10 p. m. , at least fill up with beer, red and white wine, gin, whiskey, locally produced vodka, cola, sprite, fanta, mineral water and soft drinks like Jupi. Meals by the hour: breakfast, lunch and dinner in the form of a buffet. Breakfast is so-so. Lunch is excellent. Dinner is above all praise. A very colorful chef walked around the restaurant and supervised the workers.
There have always been watermelons and melons. They also gave grapes, apricots, cherries, nectarines, plums. I really liked the soups. There were sweets - heaps. And every day is different. And all with imagination. Turkish women sometimes sat on the street and cooked lavash with stuffing. At the same time, they sat at the restaurant in the hotel and at the bar on the beach. The sunbeds at the pool and on the beach were free.
The beach itself is quite clean, the sea is generally crystal clear when there are no waves. You go up to the neck - and you can see the bottom!
In general, the sea and the pool were warm, warm! And the sea is salty. So salty that the ears, eyes and nose were terribly torn, but then there was no cold or runny nose. And it was difficult to put a foot: it threw water to the surface.
My wife and I bought diving goggles and dived. It turned out like in the movie: under water, by the hand....Romance…
We saw many different fish. But the main thing: we saw large turtles (1-1.5 meters in diameter), which the locals call Kareta-Kareta. They were watched almost every day. A couple of times I dived in their direction. For the first time, I followed this huge turtle under water. The second time was almost at arm's length, she swam right under me. Impressions are amazing.
The weather was pleasing: 35-38 degrees, not a cloud. There was always a cool wind.
Nature is amazing. Around - high mountains, palm trees. On the territory of the hotel we saw a banana palm, pomegranate, tangerine, lemon tree.
The animation was pretty good. First of all, I was pleased with the lighter guy named Kimo. He is half Tunisian, half Italian. With a wide smile, always groovy and active, he tried to stir up the visitors of the hotel almost all day. In the evening, when he appeared on a children's or adult program, he was always the main battery. His famous "Catastrophe! " passed into his nickname among tourists. I liked that they are working with children. Evening mini-disco in German, Spanish, French, Turkish was repeated every evening. The songs are a little boring, but the children came off with pleasure. And the language barrier was not a problem. “A ram-zam-zam”, “Chuki-chuki”, “Kleine papagai”, “Veo-veo”, “Ay um e music man” and our acquaintances “We dance boogie-woogie, turning in a circle” (in French ) and “Dance of the Little Ducklings” (in French) - even adults were turned on. A cool song in German at the end of the children calmed down and prepared for bed. After that, time was given to put the children to bed before the evening adult program. From the adult program there were: Mr. Corolla, belly dance, fakir show (Kimo walked on glass, swallowed fire, lay on nails), synchronized swimming (6 Russian girls in the illuminated pool - performed well), etc. Quite decent and fun.
In general, Side has long been considered a German resort. Therefore, most sellers in shops, hotel workers speak more German. At first we doubted whether it was worth going to a German hotel, but then we realized that it was worth it. The attitude towards people there is normal, and the group of tourists is such that you won’t worry that the Germans will get drunk on vodka and will stagger drunk around the hotel.
In Corolla there were 60 percent Germans, 30 percent Russians, and 10 percent everyone else, including the Turks themselves and even representatives of the Netherlands.
The German-speaking nature of the hotel led to funny cases: I went up to the reception to take the key, I told the girl: dry-dry-zibn. And she told me in pure Russian: “Zibn is six or seven? I'm constantly confused!
Safes in the hotel are paid. But we took for peace of mind. It cost us 500 rubles for about 10 days. TV channels were Polish, Italian, English, German, French, Turkish. From Russians - sports and culture. The first channel was on, but all in cubes and without sound.
The girl Leah from Pegasus suggested many tours. True, their prices were quite high. “Around the corner” there are many travel agencies that offer the same trips cheaper. We took a trip to Manavgat Falls for 20 bucks per person from Said. Tovarisch told all sorts of stories in pure Russian in such incendiary language that we could not resist.
I liked the trip. True, the group was German. And on the ship, all the booze is paid. Lunch is free and delicious. The captain is a "sea wolf", very active, prankster, very charismatic. Were at the market and at the waterfall itself. It’s true that you can’t climb to the waterfall: there is little space, crowded. It was cool on the spit between the sea and the Manavgat River. The river is colder by 10 degrees. It is separated from the sea by a spit of 50 meters. You can swim in fresh and salt water. It is enough to cross the braid. On the ship itself, they even gave us a belly dance. In general, there was no need to be bored and the guys at Captain 3 tried very hard. We even stopped in the open sea, showed the turtles and gave them the opportunity to swim. The captain made a joke: he started the engine and said “Bye” to everyone .
At the hotel we met two families: Muscovites and Petersburgers. Together with them, we independently traveled to the city of Side by minibus. They climbed the ancient ruins, which are two millennia old. We stayed at the market. In general, markets, shops, bazaars, we are tired to death. The Turks are willing to bargain (Turkish women, by the way, practically do not bargain at all). However, the prices are high. We bought magnets, T-shirts and sweets for our relatives.
Ali women are everywhere (during the excavations they somehow found a sculpture of a man with an erect penis the size of a man himself and began to multiply on everything: on magnets, key chains, mugs, etc. ) and everywhere there is an “eye from the evil eye”: concentric white and blue circles. The eyes and Ali Baba were already sickening.
While walking around Side, we saw hotels with no stars at all, with a puddle pool and 10 rooms. And to go from them to the sea you get sick. It was 300 meters from our hotel to the sea, and there it was like that in general... In general, you need to be careful with the choice of a hotel.
In general, my wife and I had the brightest and most romantic impressions. Not a bit spared neither money nor time. The next time we decided to go with our son and to the already explored hotel - Side Corolla.
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