There are simply not enough sun loungers for everyone, but we were lucky a couple of times, the three of us sat on the same sun lounger ...and this is only the most basic, the sea is clean, but shallow. There are simply NO pluses in this hotel, you can say the green area and the sea, but Turkey is full of places where you can relax for less money in better conditions.
By the way, the tour was provided by Anex, when we approached the year with questions, he was not interested in our problems, but only how to sell excursions .. .
There is no beach, just sun loungers that enter the sea, they thought, since the territory is small, then there will be enough space for everyone, but no, to take a sun lounger, you need to come no later than 8.00. everyone just leaves towels or something else and goes to fill up, eat or walk. In fact, the beach and pool are 30% full, and there is nowhere to sit. One day they even sunbathed on a bench...
In terms of food, you won’t be hungry, but there is no variety at all + queues, that is, it’s clearly not 5 stars, neither in food, nor in service, nor in animation, just beautiful nature, warm and clear sea and that’s it...
According to the number, they officially bought the service of settling in a better room, it didn’t save, a sagging mattress, cotton wool in the pillows, the drain is clogged.
If animation is important to someone, then there is an evening party for children, then the Turkish bacchanalia begins with strange contests, we didn’t go, but we heard everything, because. there is no soundproofing at all.
Conclusion - I don't recommend it.
For that kind of money, it's better to go to Egypt, if the heat doesn't bother you (they paid 26.500 for two for 6 nights).
The settlement went quickly. Pleased with the presence of Russian-speaking staff Guest relation (well done! Solve all issues).
Liked the variety of food. Green area. Animation.
Among the shortcomings are tired rooms and weak internet (only at the reception).
Very friendly and tolerant staff.
We flew to the Milas-Bodrum airport, so another 2 hours drove to the hotel. But this time flew by unnoticed, as the bus was very comfortable, the guide conducted an extensive tour along the road and told about everything that was possible. It was very interesting. Plus we made a stop at the beautiful Lake Bafa. The nature there is just incredible.
We arrived in the evening. They settled literally right away and took into account all our wishes (we wanted a closer room, so that it would not be far to walk, since the territory there is rather big).
As a result, we were given a room in the central 5-storey building on the 1st floor. There are a couple of steps to the pool, the sea and the restaurant from there. And we even got wifi there.
The rooms in this building are very good. Perhaps the bungalows will be worse.
Yes, indeed, plumbing is not the first freshness, but if you tune in positively and do not expect anything beyond luxury, then everything will be fine. The room itself is very cozy, comfortable beds, good bedding, blankets. Cleaned every day, but you need to hang a sign on the door "please clean my room". If you do not hang, then no one will break into you. All at will.
Nutrition.
Those who go for seafood, a huge selection of dishes, etc. , etc. , will definitely not like it here. The food is pretty simple. But still there are plenty to choose from. Very tasty every evening cooked on the grill. Every day something new. We got on fish, fish steaks, shawarma, minced meat on the grill, pasta. Also fried very tasty cakes with stuffing.
A very large selection of desserts, herbs, salads, cheeses. There are not many types of fruits, but there are.
From drinks coffee, tea, water, juices, soda, beer and all sorts of cocktails.
The only negative is that there is no oatmeal, pancakes, cheesecakes, cottage cheese, etc. for breakfast.
(everything that we used to eat). There is always only one porridge - rice. But a lot of baking.
We also went to a Mexican restaurant. We liked it, everything was delicious and unusual. Once every 7 days, one visit is available to either Italian, or fish, or Mexican restaurants.
But everything else about this hotel is excellent. The territory is all green, always fresh air, no heat. In the morning it can be a little cold to swim, but this is for each individual, I think. The sea is incredibly beautiful. The water is very clean and transparent. There is no strong depth, swimming is very comfortable.
Very beautiful view of the mountains. Lots of palms and pines.
The pool is large enough, the slides are cool. Not a whole water park, of course, but that's enough.
The staff are all very pleasant, smiling and trying to make the guest feel comfortable. Yes, no one speaks Russian, but these are the features of the entire Kusadasi region.
There are few in any hotel with Russian-speaking staff. But everyone speaks English.
At the expense of animation, everything is also quite good. Near the pool every day some kind of entertainment. Either darts, or water polo, or something else will come up. In the evening there is always a children's disco and then a program for adults. We once got on a comedy show. It was very interesting. Even without knowledge of Turkish.
It is also convenient to travel from the hotel to the city center of Kusadasi. 10 minutes by bus. It's very beautiful there. You can walk and go shopping. We went several times. We went to Ladies Beach. He is very big and beautiful.
We also went on an excursion to Pamukkale and Ephesus. If you are in Turkey, be sure! visit these places. Especially Ephesus. Very impressive.
We traveled across generations. Me, mom and grandma. And we all loved this hotel. There was something for everyone.
So we sincerely recommend this hotel to you, if you, like us, do not go for luxury, but simply for a pleasant relaxing holiday.
They settled us in a room on the second floor, although they saw that I was with small children and with a stroller. But I didn't want to fight anymore. We had ants in the bathroom. Saw a couple of cockroaches in the restaurant. The restaurant has the same food. From seafood - fish of the same variety. Instead of fresh - artificial drinks and gas. water. Room cleaning once in a while. Cleaners do not want to adapt to you, but they clean when they want. Once we changed the sheet with children's unwashed traces. There is almost no beach, entry into the sea on sharp stones. The waiters do not have time to clean the tables - dirty.
Pluses - a large green area with a variety of plants in a pine forest, near the sea, there are two slides in the pool, a playground, there are two pools - for children and for adults.
In general, if you are offered a cheap hotel, then go. If they demand like for 5 stars, then refuse and choose another one.
If we analyze last year's reviews, then, in fact, they are relevant this season as well.
I, perhaps, will pay more attention to what I missed myself when choosing.
As I mentioned above, first of all we chose by cost. Secondly, we liked the hotel from the photos - a very green well-groomed area - just the "green sea of u200bu200bthe taiga". Bungalows among the pines, water slides from somewhere in the crowns of trees, unity with nature… All this is true, but, as they say, there are nuances. Most of the bungalow rooms do not have any privacy (more details in the description of the photo), where the window is the front door, a common terrace with neighboring rooms, but everyone has their own table with chairs : )), i. e. in the morning, sorry, in shorts you will not go out for pulling : )).
Initially, we were settled in a similar room, besides, it was very dark and damp, where instead of a window there was a kind of "loophole". We asked to be relocated. We must pay tribute, there was no refusal, we were shown two more options.
As a result, we stopped in a five-story building.
Here, of course, the road makes itself felt, but the rooms themselves are much nicer, although somewhat shabby with time. For orientation when booking or checking in - are the room numbers four-digit 1001-500? . There are 12 rooms on each floor, on the last fifth there are fewer, instead of the missing side terraces with excellent views.
Our room was on the fourth floor, side. Views from the balcony directly to the amphitheater, to the right of the track, to the left a little sea behind the crowns of trees. Ordinary standard. Everything you needed was there, everything worked, nothing fell off ...Of course, cups of water in the refrigerator look sad and lonely, but they were! are replenished every other day. By the way, there are no problems with drinking water, 0.5 liter bottles are freely available in the refrigerator in restaurants and bars
Shampoos were not replenished by the maid, but we didn’t really need it. Towels changed on request (from the floor).
I was never interested in changing bed linen, but this time, at least once, they changed it, just at first the sheet was slightly torn, then it was gone : )). Safe for a fee (I don't remember the cost).
Now to the hotel life:
Administrators at the reception in Russian are not boom-boom, but a sympathetic Russian-speaking employee for working with guests Elena always comes to the rescue. In May, she had just taken up her position and did not know much about the services of the hotel herself, but she always tried to help and find out. Now, I'm probably more confident.
Upon check-in, cards are issued for towels, you need to get them at the SPA center, and exchange them for clean ones there. Spa services are not used, there is a sauna, very personal. As the administrators said (they speak Russian well), visiting the sauna is free until 18.00. And a gym is available.
About WiFi.
It's terrible, of course.
We knew, and we were ready for the fact that he was only in the lobby, well, next to him around, sometimes you grab. Damn, but with each new communication session, you must re-enter your login (room number) and password (passport number). It really kicks out! But there is also a benefit - I remembered the passport number : ))
About bars.
On our arrival, a lobby bar and a snack bar were open, and pizza burgers and burgers were prepared there during the day. I don’t know how it is now, but with us the cook worked without gloves, we talked about this to Elena, I hope the situation has improved. Here, under an awning, feast events ordered by locals are sometimes held, on our arrival there was something like a graduation from a school or college, in any case, smart girls and young people with such voluminous bangs were sitting at the tables. The youth didn’t cause any discomfort, they just took pictures and roamed around the hotel back and forth, there was no alcohol and dancing to loud music, it’s not even interesting : ))
The range of drinks in the bars is standard, everything is locally produced: beer (by the way, not bad), wine, whiskey (once they froze in the rain - it went well), something else ...There are non-alcoholic sodas, but I don’t know about juices (our consumers of juices from we weren’t), even if they are, then, for sure, like UPI.
The bartenders are cheerful and kind, they remember preferences (or there were not so many people in the hotel). Trying to remember the names of drinks in Russian.
During lunch, dinner at the restaurant there is a bar where you yourself take a glass of your delicious.
About food.
Well, the standard expression “You won’t stay hungry” fits here.
In general, it’s hard to find fault with breakfast: eggs in various forms, sausages (there were, though shriveled, well, when they are warmed up again), traditionally there is no sausage in Turkey, cheeses, wonderful cherry tomatoes ...There are a lot of all kinds of rolls, but the impression was that this variety is exclusively for the kind of abundance - for the most part tasteless and stale.
Lunches and dinners in the format of minced meat with vegetables, minced vegetables, chicken with vegetables, vegetables with chicken, cutlets in a pan, grilled cutlets. Simple, the presentation is not joyful, often without dish signatures (go and make out whose meat is stewed in vegetables). Yes, it probably corresponds to the level of the hotel. To be fair, there was once quite tasty grilled chicken wings and twice grilled fish. Pies are also some ...not very, for myself I chose profiteroles as a harmful pleasure - of course, not a masterpiece, but in comparison with the rest, for my taste, the best.
And once the confectioner was just at his best, and there was just a riot of colors on the dessert table. But nothing attracted me.
Of fruits throughout the week were only apples and oranges. We diluted our fruit diet with local tangerines. There are several trees on the territory, but, I will tell you a secret, edible fruits are only on one : ))
The very beginning of the season, there are still few guests in the hotel, so there were no grandiose queues and battles for a piece of chicken. But in the first days (May 2.3) there were a lot of locals, and with teenagers, maybe some kind of gathering. Then yes, after the invasion of growing organisms, the food warmers instantly became empty)). And we were already tuned in to a half-starved existence, but then everyone left, and the hotel began to live a calm, measured life.
Ice cream was not served in our time, gozleme was not baked, the a la carte restaurant did not work
The main restaurant itself is nice.
Especially good is the veranda on the seashore with stunning views of the bay. Romantic!
About animation. Did not see. Maybe it was. But we were not in the hotel every day. There is a children's club, decorated children's faces ran through the territory : )). Mini disco was watched daily from the balcony.
About the beach.
He is not. There is a narrow strip with several sun loungers at the very edge of the water. All lying-tanning activities take place by the pool. At the entrance to the sea there are stones, but we did without slippers, then sand. A gradual increase in depth, and then it becomes sharply shallow and algae. And they tickle your knees ...In general, the place is not very comfortable for swimming, so, soak the little body near the shore : ))
And a few more useful things:
If you go to this hotel and like to sleep with the window open, take fumigators, repellents, etc. - there are mosquitoes (not clouds, of course), they cannot be absent in the forest.
You can change money at the reception.
Course, of course, lower than in the city, but not deadly. For example, in a hotel for a dollar they gave 5.4 lira, when in the city it was 5.6, for euros 6.2 (or 3, I don’t really remember) and 6.5, respectively. The lira is rapidly depreciating, by the end of our vacation in the exchangers for the euro they were already giving 6.8 lira
To the center of Kusadas 10 minutes by minibuses (dolmush) No. 6 and 7, stop on the opposite side of the hotel with a light wave of the hand, the fare is 2.75 lira. If the driver sees people leaving the hotel, he will signal and wait if necessary. To the bus station (otogar) 5 minutes - this is if you need to go to more distant directions. These minibuses also stop at the crossroads, where minibuses are based in other directions, to Ephesus and Selchuk, for example. This is the intersection of Andan Menderes Bulvari and Candan Tarhan Bulvari.
At the hotel there is a representative of one large car rental office. The price tag is reasonable. Moreover, in offices in Kusadasi themselves, the prices are the same. The booklet shows the cost for the mechanics (see photo).
While still at home, we wanted to rent a car on the Internet. But everything was offered with a pick-up at the airport, or with a transfer to a hotel for 20 euros, plus an advance payment, insurance with a deductible ...We decided that we would look around on the spot and figure it out. In the end, everything turned out well: no collateral and bank card data, insurance without a deductible, you only need rights and money, you can pay by card. It is our case: Opel Corsa automatic 2017. offered for 33 euros, gave 30 for 2 days. The cost of gasoline is 7.09-7.15 lira at various gas stations.
Everything seems to be..
I can’t recommend it directly with confidence, but, in general, there were positive emotions from the hotel. We are all different and each has its own importance. Study, prioritize, accept or not accept all sorts of nuances ...
Yes… If it’s crowded in the hotel, then there are abandoned territories nearby on both sides. On the left (if facing the sea), apparently, there was once a small hotel.
You can enter through the gate next to the slot machines. What gorgeous roses!
To the right is a large area. They look after her a little. Such a good park. Don't go too deep into buildings. A dog will bark there, uncles will come out and politely ask you to leave through the gate. They didn't let us back : )
All negatives can be dealt with.
But on the third day of rest, I ended up in the hospital for insurance with an intestinal virus.
Then, when communicating with vacationers, it turned out that this story is happening in almost every second issue !!!!
The hotel is certainly not 5 stars as Pegasus positions. Between 3 and 4.
Hotel pros:
- territory - pines, palm trees. purity
- food: uuuu, you can say normal. The only thing is that children have nothing to drink except water, hot chocolate and tea. Chemical juices and soda from vending machines do not count.
- swimming pool: ok. The slides are working.
Minuses:
- beach: it is not. a strip 2 sunbeds wide and 30 pieces long cannot be considered a beach. The sunbeds are all occupied by 7:00 am.
- sea: sand only at the very beginning, then algae and stones. The water is dirty, because these same algae come off and are carried to the entire surface to the very shore. There is a blue flag - it's a lie.
- rooms: old number of rooms, no one is repairing. We were settled immediately in room 303 on the first floor of a 2-storey building with a terrible musty smell, broken furniture, old terrible plumbing and fungus. Then they changed it to 225 (2nd floor) - better, but also not a fountain.
- cleaning: for a C grade, until I personally asked the maid, they did not give a fourth towel. The cleaning process itself: a dirty mop with bleach on all surfaces. Light bulbs burned out and no one thought to change. although they left a request at the reception.
- attitude towards guests: all do not care at all. Replacing the number - with a scandal.
- restaurant: an honest dining room with beaten dishes, dirty tablecloths and cutlery. There weren't enough seats for dinner.
- animation: miserable and the same
- Audience: Russians. Ukrainians, Belarusians
- location: close to Kusadasi, minibuses are inexpensive and frequent. BUT: to go to the city, you need to cross the highway with a very busy traffic.
- wi-fi: only at the reception and lobby
I DO NOT RECOMMEND.
ROOM: two-storey two-room. There are no doors, audibility as if you are a meter apart. Two bathrooms: on the first shower and toilet. The shower cabin was leaking, a constant swamp. Seats on the toilets "walked". On the second floor, the promised jacuzzi was the size of a baby bath and sunk into the floor. It didn’t work, but even if it did, it wouldn’t have occurred to me to get into this dirty, rusted miracle. On the first floor there are two separate beds, a pot-bellied TV. Of the Russian channels, only 1. On the second floor there is a double bed with an old sagging spring mattress (I haven’t seen such anywhere for a long time). The TV is flat, the screen is A4 and it is fixed in such a way that the images cannot be seen, only listened to. There is a safe in the room, a small black box 15X20X15, it costs 2 euros a knock, but it didn’t make sense for us to take it: neither a tablet nor a camera would fit there anyway. We got our own suitcase with a combination lock.
TERRITORY: this is the only plus of the hotel. Centuries-old pines domed the hotel from the wind and heat. There are many 1- and 2-storey houses scattered throughout the territory. That's all about the pluses. The rooms of our category are two-story houses with separate entrances - they all stand along the highway, and noise day and night. In addition, they are located between the entrance and the staff zone: official cars constantly drive along the walking paths. Another minus: periodically a strong smell of burning, as if a garbage dump is burning nearby. Sometimes in the morning they got up completely broken with a sore head because of this burning. We complained to the reception both through the guide and ourselves, but they evasively answered that they were solving this problem, and we realized that no one needed this and this was a constant phenomenon. Everything upon arrival!! ! soaked in this stench
SERVICE: it is essentially non-existent! Dirt is everywhere! Dirty tables in the dining room (you can’t call it a restaurant), dirty tables and chairs at the bars, in the lobby, at the reception, dirt in the amphitheater where the animation takes place...
The staff speaks only Turkish for the most part. English will not save you. They don't know Russian.
I had a birthday while staying at the hotel - went unnoticed. Even in the simplest three-ruble notes, they even put a postcard and fruit in the room. There's nothing. Rubbish, but. . .
FOOD: More or less nimble waiter boys have appeared in the dining room for the last two days. Before that, remove the plates for the departed eaters so that you won’t be interrogated to sit down. They themselves cleaned, wiped tables, appliances with wet wipes... Moreover, they also looked for appliances, glasses themselves. Water bottled in 1.5 l bottles. This is the only plus. There is simply no range! You can eat in fact only for breakfast: it is standard, everything is fresh. For lunch and dinner, it’s standard: rice, pasta, french fries (dark overcooked) and something like a stew, where pieces of vegetables and “meat” 1x1 cm of 10 pieces will float in the liquid! Everything is cold! Everything is tasteless! Everything is fatty, peppered, often with sourness and rottenness! You can talk endlessly about food there: I have never seen such horror anywhere. One dish “boiled fish tails” is worth something. Literally: caudal fins and 2-3-4 cm tail, all boiled in a tray. Where the fish itself remains to be guessed... On the grill, meatballs were prepared, a couple of times fish, everything was floating in oil and very spicy. In principle, the products are of poor quality, as if the hotel had an agreement with some kind of base to buy up the delay. And then pepper it and fill it with oil (
BAR: nothing to drink, we tried wine, beer, and even gin. We decided not to poison ourselves, we didn’t drink anything. A couple of times we took beer at dinner - you can still have it. Even non-alcoholic and milkshakes for children are unsuitable for drinking: they are either made from “yupi” diluted twice as much, or just milk with syrup, and the milk itself is tasteless. The child did not drink anything either.
ANIMATION: we were primarily interested in children. Three times they took the child to a mini-disco and for five minutes she looked at all this and asked to leave. We still didn’t understand what was the matter, the set of songs is the same, the standard... Maybe it’s just too many children and didn’t go into the crowd? In general, this is the first hotel where our child refused to dance.
BEACH: the strip of the beach is really very narrow and our dad ran around to take sun loungers at seven in the morning. The sea is good, clean, the sunset is gentle, a couple of meters of pebbles, and then a fine, pleasant sand. The sun is not evil there, being in the shade, we didn’t even leave the sea from 12 to 15, no one got burned. By three o'clock in the afternoon the wind begins to rise and we left the sea at four o'clock.
GENERAL IMPRESSION: to say that we were horrified is to say nothing... For food, fruits, juice, milk and other things, we went to supermarkets to buy. Sometimes we ate there in cafes. I was upset by the fact that they only have fast food cafes, they didn’t find others. To go anywhere from the hotel you need to run across a highway with a high curb and a moat in the middle of the road. No sidewalks, no traffic lights. I still caught the infection on the last day (thank God I, not the children !!! ), rinsed all night before the flight and two more days at home. We caught an earthquake there on the 12th (we felt the tremors well) and a downpour with a thunderstorm on the 13th (I found it in the city, we were soaked to the skin). We went on an excursion on a yacht in the Aegean Sea - standard. The hotel smokes everywhere and everywhere, there are no restrictions. For us - non-smokers - it was excruciating. We came by the sea to breathe, but we breathe either someone else's smoke, or burning.
They also sell this hotel to us as 5 * (it was so in our voucher and when I bought it on the site it was), and it has long been a 4 for the Germans, according to rumors, there is no category at all, like HV-1 goes.
Contingent: mainly Ukraine. And a little bit of Russians, Belarusians, Poles, Germans.