Отель нормальный, есть плюсы и минусы The hotel is ok, there are pros and cons

Finally matured to write a review about the hotel and the rest, all of a sudden someone will find my information useful, the pros and cons of the hotel in my opinion, and how we rested during the pandemic. The story will probably be long, who are too lazy to read, scroll on. So, we bought a tour 2 weeks before departure. Our operator was Coral Travel, the meeting party was Odeon Tours. For a tour for 4 (2 adults, 1 child - 5 years old, 2 children - 1.10, he went like an "infanta", only a boarding pass was paid for it, about 50-60 euros, we paid 139.000 for 12 days. The flight was from Sheremetyevo, there were few people at the airport, all the controls went very quickly and without problems, no one was particularly focused on masks, gloves, distance. On the plane, they filled out questionnaires for everyone. By the way, who doesn’t know, now they don’t feed on the plane, they offer only water Upon arrival, Odeon Tours met us, reached the hotel already in the evening around 20. They settled us right away, we didn’t have to wait.
1. Number
Our room was on the 2nd floor in the main building. The main negative - Near the elevator. At first they wanted to change, but they did not come to the reception in time and in the end they said that there were no rooms. In principle, this did not bother us much, but in the morning the elevator was like an alarm clock, people went to breakfast. The room itself is normal, not new. There is no clothes dryer on the balcony. I had to dry my clothes on chairs. Very small TV. again, all this is a trifle, but children watched TV. There was a safe - free of charge. There is also a refrigerator - replenished with water and mineral water. Cleaning in the room was more than decent. They asked to clean up before lunch, because. the children slept at lunchtime - without problems and surcharges. The condo worked perfectly, I make an emphasis, because. many complained that the air conditioner did not work well and it was very stuffy in the room. The room was overlooking the wall of a neighboring hotel, but it didn't matter, because. we only slept there.

Having thrown things into the room, we ran to have dinner, around 21... Somehow we managed to get food out of that. what is left, because The food in the restaurant has already been taken away. I didn't like the lack of time to eat. I rested in Turkey 7 times, the last 3 years in Side, there is something to compare. And in other hotels it was so that whenever you came, you could eat and no one was in a hurry to clean up the food.
2. Restaurant
The restaurant is located on the -2 floor, there are almost always queues for the elevator, both there and back. At the entrance, a man stands, measures the temperature with an electronic thermometer. Entrance is mandatory in a mask, without it they will not let you in. Children are allowed without a mask. In the first 4 days, the buffet was as always - the food was served by ourselves. but with gloves, they were given at the entrance to the restaurant. Then they put the staff, who already imposed himself and there was a feeling all the time. that I beg for food with the words "MORE", because I took food for the whole family, count, and imposed as "stolen". Queues formed, and now you are standing in a mask with plates and there is a queue at each table. By the time I got my food, all the tables were already occupied. We then shared who went to take food, who took a place. Basically, everyone ate on the veranda on the street, but if they didn’t have time to take a seat, they ate in the hall, but it was very stuffy there, because. All air conditioners in the hotel worked at a minimum. The food itself is quite the same. Breakfast is consistently the same. Of course, no one was left hungry, but in comparison with other hotels, the food is monotonous. but no one got hurt, this is a big plus. Drinks - delicious beer "Tuborg", wine - well... they drank sometimes. Whiskey husband said - eeee. like cognac, he sometimes drank tequila, the lobby bar had cocktails like Sex on the Beach. There was an a la carte restaurant, but we did not get there, we were told that there was nothing special. Also near the beach there was a restaurant with fast food, we went a couple of times, there my aunt baked delicious cakes, for which the queue is always like in the Mausoleum.
3. Beach

Here I will sing deferambs, because the sea and the beach are unreal. The sea is very cool, clean, warm, we got high. The beach is normal: beds, towels, of course, everything was enough in the first days, until tourists arrived and here it became fun. After breakfast you come to the beach, but there are no places. Well, that's it, well, that's not a single sunbed. People had to lie on towels on the sand. Not critical of course, but this is Turkey, all inclusive, and not the resorts of the Krasnodar Territory. But I turn a blind eye to this, because. the sea and the sun blocked all unpleasant thoughts. The entrance to the sea is gentle and sandy, not a single pebble. For kids, it's just perfect. Wide strip of beach. A lot of children with their parents built sand castles and played. swam with children to the buoys, you can see the bottom, the sea is clean. By the way, no one wore a mask on the beach or the hotel territory and there were no distances at all. Everyone set up their beds as they were comfortable.
4. Hotel area
The territory is not small, there is where to walk. Grow pomegranates, oranges, some herbs, from which the aroma of mmmm, especially in the evening. Many pools, but we are not fans, were not at all. There are adult and children's slides, cool. We've taken the kids a few times and everyone loves it. Not all adult slides worked, but those that were quite extreme. There is a kids club, but I'm not sure if it worked, we didn't go. 1 time I saw how aerobics was in the sea, maybe it took place in the pool. There was also a bungee on which you roll through the entire hotel, but it is PAYABLE. Our son rode, he was impressed. The big plus of this hotel is the presence of promed. This is a walking path along the waterfront. The promenade is between the hotel and the beach. In the evening we often walked, there are cafes, restaurants, ice cream....By the way, the hotel gave ice cream for free from 15 to 16, it seems, at the time when the children are sleeping. Never ate. If you leave the hotel, you find yourself on the street, where there are also many cafes, shops, ATMs, they sell excursions. You can walk to the city of Manavgat, but we failed. We were just walking.
5. Infrastructure
Of course, as in any 5 * hotel there is a hammam, sauna, indoor pool, paid massage. I won’t give a review - we didn’t go. There are shops: leather, furs, bags, sweets, all sorts of necessary gizmos - such as sand toys, flip flops, circles. there are slot machines downstairs, they worked in the evenings. Photo services - we took a family photo shoot, a rip-off. They lure you in by any means, and then they tear up the price tag. The price of one photo is 7 dollars. The beach offers water activities - parachute, banana, scooter, bun. But the price tag bites, definitely more expensive than our previous trips to Turkey. but oddly enough people rode.
6. Entertainment.

The animation was. . . We thought that there would be no fun because of the covid, but there was still something. Mini disco every day at 20-30. The shows themselves were so-so, dancers and tricksters came several times (on bikes, roller skates and skateboards). And so - Mr. and Mrs. of the hotel, sketches, something like guess the melody. We didn't always go. There was no foam party, live music, too, as in many other hotels, however, as well as discos for adults. But we didn’t suffer because of this, I’m just writing to those who expect to hang out - it won’t work out much.
The hotel guide offered excursions. We initially decided that we would not go anywhere, because. a small child, it will be difficult with him. But he was very persistent and infuriated with the words: "Why don't you go anywhere at all? Pirozhkovo-bakery rest? " For the sake of interest, they asked about excursions on the street, usually it is always cheaper there, but not this time. In my opinion, it was even cheaper to take from a tour operator and more comfortable.
WHAT I DID NOT LIKE, IN BRIEF
1. Paid Internet. Where in 5 * was a paid Internet? The lobby has always been free. Here, at the entrance, 256 or something megabytes and that's it, then 1 hour - $ 1.3 hours -....$, 1 day -....$, well, etc. I don't remember the exact numbers. Many bought local sims.
2. On the penultimate evening before departure, it turned out that our flight had been changed and we were leaving early in the morning, leaving the hotel at night. Went to reception and asked for a lunchbox. WHAT? Launch Box? No, they didn’t hear... They are not there from the word at all. And in the restaurant, the food is removed early, so we didn’t have time for the children to take anything at least for breakfast, but they don’t feed on the plane. With the last money we bought a sandwich for the airports.
3. I did not like the guide Odeon Tours, who drove us to the airport - boorish. At night, many children are sleeping, and she is so rude "I said put on masks, I'm not going to joke with you here. I'll stop the bus if anyone has masks. " So if CORAL TRAVEL or ONE TOURS read the reviews, choose the staff more carefully, it's just unpleasant.

As a result, 2 days out of 12 just flew out for us, because. We arrived at 20:00 and left at 3:00. Of course, no one will return any money, even if you stayed at the hotel for only 2-3 hours at night. It still pays for the whole day. And as our manager later told me, "these are charters, unfortunately, this happens. " There were questionnaires again on the plane, and then we handed them in at the airport. There we ticked the box that we were required to pass tests for covid within 3 days, which we did.
In general, we had a good rest, the hotel has both pluses and minuses, however, like everywhere else. We did not focus on them and tried to enjoy the sea and the sun.