Мой испорченный отдых.Продолжение.... My ruined holiday. Continued....

Hotel review in Turkey, Side, Grand Pearl Beach Resort.
It has been 10 days since we checked into the Grand Pearl Beach Resort 5*.
About the hotel…. continuation of previous review...
Nutrition. There is no meat for lunch, except for boiled chicken and dubious lamb cutlets. Fruit for lunch is rare, only for dinner. For dinner there is some kind of meat, and if today the chef gets rid of meat, then the next day, only fish is on the menu; or not fried, with blood liver, ; boiled chicken and stinky lamb. Meat-eaters - for you here a hungry rest is provided. Bars open during the day. Food is fast food, watermelons, melons. On the beach in the bar and in the bar near the pools - ice cream. All drinks in bars are diluted with water 50/50. You will not find vodka in its understanding as vodka here, beer is the same swill, diluted with water. In general, all alcoholic drinks are non-alcoholic. , and drinks are 5-7 degrees. The bar in the main restaurant diluted all the juices and Coca-Cola.

If the waiter does not have time to pour tomato juice into glasses, then you are lucky, and in front of you, he will pour you normal juice from a freshly opened package. And cola is poured from bottles into a large enclave, immediately “bodyated” with water, and then poured to people from the enclave’s faucet. For 2-3 days, the same food can be served, no variety, and, in order to hide the wretchedness of the dishes, they are placed in 2 rows of the same food, but in different places, such as a lot, a lot ....
Depending on the chef, the food is either peppered or unsalted. No one knows how to cook fish - a boiled mess, absolutely tasteless. The other day there was salmon! ! ! (the bear died in the forest ... ) The cook who spoiled this product should have his hands torn off! ! ! At the same time, rice is cooked very well, eat as much as you want, but remember that this product is not absorbed by the body at all. (ladies for you - they get fat from him)
Sweets: I don’t know where they got the cook from, but what he cooks can hardly be called cakes.
Cakes or baklava. Every Turkish housewife knows how to cook baklava and I don’t understand how you can spoil such a dish - it turns out you can - pour syrup up to your ears and the baklava floats and falls apart before your eyes. And then they serve yesterday's dried up, but reheated ...Cakes are a strange substance made from biscuit, jelly with whole grapes. I did not eat these researches of local hotel chefs, but my husband loves cakes and pastries very much. If last year our table was bursting with various sweets, then this year he took 2 types, 2 tiny pieces, which he picked with a fork and set aside. There has never been a single artistically decorated cake, which is a hallmark in every decent hotel, and every other day chefs surprise with their skill, sophistication and the extraordinary taste of cakes.
For beginners who came to Turkey for the first time, everything will be arranged - and they will enthusiastically write positive and enthusiastic reviews - they have not eaten or seen sweeter carrots ....But the main contingent is sophisticated people who come to Turkey not for the first time and they have something to compare with….

Service . The rooms are cleaned every day - there are no complaints about cleaning. Girls clean neatly, daily, without complaints. At the same time, there are no bathrobes, shampoos, cotton pads, cotton buds in the rooms, which provides for assigning a hotel 5 stars. The most important thing is that there are air conditioners in 13 rooms of this hotel, in the rest of the rooms it either does not work, or works every other time and this is in the heat from 32 to 40 degrees Celsius! Hypertensive patients, core patients - this is not your hotel ! ! !
I just saw a familiar picture at the reception - the woman was indignant - why the air conditioner did not work in the room! ?
She was told that a master would be sent to the room and he would repair the air conditioner, (we were told the same thing, and the master, whose hands grow out of jo .... , looked, shook his head and said that he was not being repaired .... ), it is not difficult to imagine how will this story with the repair of the air conditioner end ....
There are not enough waiters in the bars - they do not have time to clean the tables, there are long queues for drinks everywhere. The waiters do not serve - they do not serve drinks - they only clear the tables! ! ! You have to go to the bar for drinks. And this is a 5 star hotel! ! !
The pool has never been cleaned, there is sand at the bottom, 1 water sample was taken. (maybe they take it every day, but I saw only 1 time)
Separately, I want to talk about a tiny pool with large water slides. I don’t know who designed this pool, but it was designed without taking into account building codes and regulations. People fly out of the slides and their feet rest against the underwater steps, which rest against the edge of the pool.
There are a lot of injured people: mostly women, teenagers and men. Children do not fly that far ...My husband was lucky - he hurt his heel, he was limping for only 2 days. But we saw 4 people with decent injuries, people were limping with bandaged legs, broken knees, heels and shins. As a result, we rolled down the water slide 1 time, we decided not to risk it anymore. And crippled people will not be able to swim either in the pools or in the sea until the end of the holiday ....

General impression: based on the fact that the name of this hotel changed 3 times, it’s just that every two years a new owner buys it, squeezes everything out of it that is possible and immediately sells it, and so on until today. Not a single owner invests a dime in the hotel. Old torn towels (beach) there is not a single bathrobe in the room, the wicker chairs on the common balcony are full of holes, the lamps in the pools are turned out (it's scary to imagine what can happen if after 19 hours someone wants to swim !!
It is at this time that the lights in the pools are turned on. ). There are not enough umbrellas at the pools, sun loungers - not a single one has been purchased since the opening. Worn umbrellas are simply thrown away, and new ones are not purchased. In recent days, hotel staff have dragged sunbeds from the beach (they have red mattresses) - all the same, there are no poolside places during the day. Everywhere devastation, mismanagement. Dried palm trees - no one cares about them, flowers in vases on the railings of bridges in the pools - have dried up for a long time and look sadly at the vacationers. The pool itself in the middle along the bottom gives a crack - it will burst soon ....
The corridors of the hotel are carpeted along all the rooms - dirty, old, filthy and obviously not changed since the opening of the hotel, which gives the impression of a very worn housing stock ...In the hotel lobby, table lamps are not on every coffee table - they were supposed to be there, but, some were broken, but new ones were not purchased .....
In the first room in which we were first tried to settle, the table was broken. The room looks like Papa Carlo's closet. The wall was splashed with something, a mountain of garbage, (30 bottles in the closet, on the floor - everywhere .... ) the air conditioner did not work, from one window a view of the garbage, from the other to the amphitheater (you can imagine what kind of rest there will be in the evenings, when there at this time from 21 to 23 hours parties are held with rumbling music !! ! )

There are not enough sun loungers by the pools, I wrote about this earlier ...This is a mistake of the hotel staff. Every morning, at 6 am, vacationers throw hotel towels on sunbeds, thus taking up space. Other hotels are ok. Such maneuvers are monitored by a hotel employee. He collects all the towels and puts them in a basket by the pool, freeing the sunbeds ...and this quickly disciplines the vacationers. In many hotels, towels are rented for $ 10 - lost - pay.
In this hotel, towels are not worth a good word - this is an old rag that can hardly be called a towel, just a flaw, they are given free of charge and they are not a pity for vacationers - they are scattered wherever possible ...In another hotel, we observed the work of hotel staff - they collected towels from sun loungers (if there is no owner in the pool) were simply thrown into the pool ...rude, but effective ...
The hotel does not have a dress code. Our compatriots consider it normal to visit restaurants in bathing suits, shorts, in pareos for wet swimsuits, girls with loose long hair that climb into the plates of others, men with naked torsos ....In other hotels, employees meet guests right at the entrance to the restaurant and escort vacationers out in a soft, polite manner if they are dressed like they are going to the beach. This is the class of the hotel! ! !
By the way, the chef in other hotels immediately meets vacationers and everyone can express their opinion to him about the food he has prepared ...In other hotels, these are words of gratitude. At the Grand Pearl Beach Resort, few people want to say words of gratitude to the chef.
Animation is all the same. But in terms of entertainment, the hotel invites people from outside. This is the only good thing here! Did dance ensembles from Russia or Ukraine perform? ! , a group of synchronized girls - dancing in the pool ...The Russian-Ukrainian dance group - worked out perfectly, then something like a Hungarian dance ensemble - these worked poorly, although “pipol hawala” everything ....Girls-animators during the day work near the pools - entertain vacationers with dances, water aerobics. Animation works....All days except Sunday, they have a day off on this day ...People, get ready to listen to 3 songs for the whole rest, they will definitely blow your brain!

5 times a day you will listen to the same music and the same songs ....Is the DJ a handicapped person, or what he puts as musical accompaniment is a license that this hotel could buy ... ? !
Population - mostly Russians rest in the hotel. There are Ukrainians; Kazakhs; Slovaks; a small proportion of Turks and Germans; Poles, British. Where few Germans speak for themselves! ! !
On the last day of rest, many Poles and Englishmen arrived. Poles, the only ones who behaved like stoned monkeys. The Russians this time did not live up to their cliché of unbridled, noisy and most boorish vacationers. The Russians behaved quite decently and no one shouted: “Tagil! ! ! and didn't piss in the pool. I will add about our Russians. Literally before departure, there was a large influx of tourists and I observed the following picture: A young Russian couple was ready to be settled in the cleaning room.
You will not believe it, but they were settled there, they agreed to such conditions. They brought them a bed and put it among rags, mops, an iron gurney with chemicals, etc. Well, how do you want the Russians to be treated after that? ! Put them in the toilet, everything is fine. On the one hand, Russian unpretentious customers are super! ! ! Fools on the run. On the other hand, well, why did you take vouchers to a 5 * hotel if you are ready to spend the night on a couch in the toilet? Well, buy yourself a ticket to a 3 * hotel and enjoy your vacation! ! It's a shame for us Russians.
I want to add about the discrimination in this hotel is Russians, Ukrainians and Kazakhs. Let's start with where they put our brother? ! This is 1 case, 6.7, 8 cases. In order: 1 building is the one that faces the amphitheater. What does it mean? And this is loud music all day and all evening until 23 o'clock. Rest, people, if you don't go crazy ....And.

The Russians are settled exactly closer to the amphitheater and with windows to the garbage heap, the windows to the pool are inhabited by the Poles (in all the buildings listed), this is, if we are talking about a standard room. 6.7, 8 buildings - on one side the windows overlook the stinky river - Russians, Ukrainians, Kazakhs settle there, on the other side the windows overlook the pool - the Poles go there, except for the 1st floor - this is a privilege of the Russians. And the first floor is on the same level with the pool, you can climb out of the balcony to the pool, which our youth did, but you can easily climb into your room and open your safe - goodbye your money ....You won't find any ends… Germans, British, Slovaks, Turks and French settle in buildings 2.3, 4.5 (this time there were none) This is the elite of the hotel. Sometimes Russians are also accommodated in these buildings, there are deluxe rooms and duplexes, again, do not flatter yourself - the windows will face the road. Not to the pool. This was clearly explained at the reception by the hotel employee.
Before departure, and the bus was supposed to arrive for us at 6.50, I, as a normal tourist, turned to the reception with a request to prepare breakfast for us, as they do in normal hotels, they prepare rations. They wrote me down, they said, oh, kay at 6 in the morning we are waiting for you at the reception. We arrive, we are directed to the main restaurant. The restaurant is full out. Cucumbers sliced ​ ​ tomatoes, lemons. This is to make us crap dear. I was indignant, there were 10 people in the restaurant: 2 families of Poles and 2 families of Russians. I walk around the hall and yell: there is nothing to eat! Bastards! Freaks! Jackals! They can’t meet like a human being, they can’t see them off! ! ! The husband is sitting at the table, waiting for something. I went to the kitchen for a showdown with the staff, there are 2 disabled Turks: we don’t know anything, we don’t understand anything (although I spoke with them in normal English), I left without salty slurping ...At this time, my husband in the hall calmly makes the table tea and bread- this goodness is enough ...and he hears how the Pole says: there is nothing to eat!
No, nothing to eat! Bastards! W-rod-ki! The husband laughed for a long time ...The Pole repeated what I had shouted out to the whole restaurant 2 minutes ago. He really liked the set of phrases, he agreed with me in the selected epithets ....
After breakfast, we began to wait for the bus and then we met a Russian family - we flew on the same flight - guys from Vologda. Share your opinion about the hotel. There was a sea of ​ ​ indignation! We were literally torn apart. But I especially liked what the woman told me. When checking into the hotel at the reception, the Turk told her: why are you going to Turkey and do not know the Turkish language! ?

How do you like this approach to a Russian tourist? ! This is fine? ! We pay them grandmas, feed this Turk, his owner, all his relatives, and in order to rest in a filthy hotel for 10-14 days, do we still have to learn Turkish? ! How absurd can this be? ! Only Russians make such demands!
It would never occur to any Turk to give such a German or an Englishman! ! ! It's a shame for the Russians and bitter.
-Internet - de facto it is, but de jure it is not. What does it mean? Everything is simple. The Internet seems to be there, but you can send a letter by email once every 3 days (if you're lucky), you can talk on Skype, but not always, and at the same time half of the words disappear, the video is generally unrealistic to turn on. In general, those who like to sit in chats, relax, you won’t be able to do it here, there is no Internet in the normal sense of the word. Especially young people suffer from the lack of the Internet ...
Beach. Well planned, beautiful, sandy. The entrance is a sandy long spit gradually leaving to the depth - a paradise for children. 100 meters is shallow water. Plenty of sun loungers for everyone. The waves are small, up to a meter in height and even then rarely. The sea is warm, clear in the morning, cloudy in the evening. On the beach there is a small playground, a bar, a tent where they make gozleme - Turkish cakes with various fillings.
They came to the sea in the morning - dirty sunbeds are all in the sand - no one cleans them - they only clean the path from the flooring - they sweep with a brush.
On the one hand, they didn’t make the flooring for the shower room, and people have to walk on hot sand, and then get stuck in the sand again to get to the flooring. The sand from the sea to the sunbeds is really dirty, I read this earlier in the reviews of vacationers. Cigarette butts, apple cores, plastic glasses, etc. , there is plenty of garbage and it is not removed. At the same time, they rake along the sand far behind the sun loungers, where people don’t walk ...Of course, the dirt is the work of the vacationers themselves, but you need to clean it up! ! ! In other hotels, several people walk on the beach all day and sift the sand! ! ! Here I saw one lazy Turk sweeping the wooden deck leading to the sea.

I asked him to clean the sunbed, he called the manager in a white shirt to clean it, and the manager ordered him to do it, as a result, this one, who simply swept the sunbed with a whisk. Here is such an uncomplicated service! First I swept the path, then the sunbed ..... I had to take a bottle of water from the bar and wash it myself ..... , it didn’t fall apart, but the hotel is 5 *! Where is the 5*? ! And who assigned this category to this hotel? ! !
Shopping - in this regard, I have little to share. I was only interested in knitwear. I have a large family with many children and the purchase of T-shirts, sweaters, sweaters, shorts, towels, etc. was of most interest to me. I advise women to ask immediately upon arrival to take you to the Dieckmann Knitting Center. Everyone who rests in the Side area, a part of Alanya, knows this store. And this is not my first visit. There are always good prices, a wide range of things.
As a rule, a trip to this center is free ...By the time the trip takes, depending on the number of people that the driver collects on the way to the shopping center from other hotels, we got 40 minutes.
There is also a market. If you leave the hotel, then to the left after passing along the road for 1 km, there is a large market. The prices are different. But I asked the price of one T-shirt - in Diekman it costs 8 euros, and on the market 28 euros. We just walked around and did not buy anything in the market ....
On the day of departure, all tourists are taken to a new candy store. Tour operators assure on the day of arrival that you don’t need to buy sweets elsewhere and in advance, they are supposedly not fresh there (what will they have? ! They have a shelf life of six months ? ! ) - buy everything at the sweets factory. We arrived at this factory - prices are 2-3 times more expensive than in a regular store - do not fall for this trick - this is a scam for suckers.

In conclusion of the above, the likelihood that this hotel will be resold again next year is very high and it will change its name again and do not believe that this is being done in order to obtain tax benefits - the hotel is simply worn out into the trash. The price in this hotel does not correspond to the actual services provided and the quality of the declared hotel - as a 5 star hotel! And tour operators, such as TezTour, will continue to sell vouchers to this hotel, although they know very well that this hotel is falling apart before our eyes ...We traveled only with this operator for 8 years. Sorry, disappointed! We will change the tour operator. It is enough to bring discomfort to clients once, spoil the rest and the client leaves. In any case, we do not step on the same rake 2 times ...Goodbye TezTour!

I would like to write about the safety in this hotel. The hotel is fenced on one side, but there is no fence on the other side, right next to the children's pool. .
Immediately behind the hotel buildings there is a dirt road and a river. Here the river is fenced, and the territory of the hotel is not. Cars drive along this dirt road and local residents go to the sea - I saw it myself ....And then there are children playing nearby, swimming in the pool. And the parents came to rest, relax and control on their part is limited. In a world full of freaks, pedophiles and maniacs, this hotel is a gold mine. The only thing that is there is a small string of shrubs, 60 cm high, this "landing" of 10 meters surrounds the children's pool and immediately exits to the road. There are no security guards anywhere. Children aged 8-12 are left to their own devices. They have nothing to do and they are just hooligans. Near the children's pool there are plaster figurines of animals: a deer, a horse, a sheep...Where should children put their energy? !

And there are somewhere in the evening they actively break these figures - they broke off the horns of a deer, pulled 1 hoof of a horse out of the ground and actively continued to break sculptures, until I shouted from above that their parents-boys would immediately run away to pay for such entertainment. But in the morning I looked at the poor figures - the horse's croup was cracked, the antlers of the deer were broken off, etc. vandalism on the face. Of course, this is a matter of educating their parents, but where are the guards called to keep order? ! In the hotel itself in the corridors, of course, there are video cameras. But - given that the light in the corridors is not everywhere, near some doors it is completely dark and the hotel is at the stage of complete collapse - where is the guarantee that these cameras work? ! There is no sense from them. Thus, access to the hotel is free. Come in - who wants to - take what you want - entrance yard. I read a review that people's safe was robbed, no wonder.
Any more or less familiar person with hotel safes will be able to open it in half a minute. And getting into the room will not leave any difficulty. Especially in the evening, when you can see who has lights on in their rooms, and who doesn’t, just during parties in the amphitheater…. And in case of theft, if you want to be indignant, if you want to call the genzharmerie, call the embassy, ​ ​ there will be no sense. The hotel staff will cover for their people, the police need to quietly hush up the case. And the attitude of our state towards our Russian citizens who are in trouble abroad wants to leave the best, there is no need to build any illusions about their help. And as a rule, thefts occur on the last day of the stay of vacationers - a direct connection with the hotel staff can be easily traced.
Now about the electrical safety of the hotel.
Earlier, I wrote about twisted lamps in the pools, about not insulated wires in the fountain at the entrance to the hotel. All this suggests the complete mismanagement of the administration of this hotel. And the fact that there is no light in the corridors in some places indicates either burnt out light bulbs (and this is a stone in the garden of the owner and the hotel administration), or a serious fire hazard. And considering that the lion's share of the walls are made of drywall, it will be fun to blaze ....Vacationers who are going to go to this hotel - be careful, take care of yourself and your children - do not relax! Better yet, change the hotel to hotels in Alanya, Antalya and Kemer….