We drove with a sanitary stop for about 2 hours with air conditioning.
Now about the hotel:
Among the advantages of the hotel I can note - the territory, the new hotel, the cleaning, the pier, the food for us was also excellent. We are not meat lovers, so we didn’t even look at how many meat dishes there were. The downside is that it is very difficult to get a place by the pool; you need to leave at 6:30 so that there are free seats.
Some of the guests lost their towels and they asked the guide to help them find them and not pay a fine, but he did not help them, arguing that they did not take the excursion from him. So be careful. Entry into the sea is a little better on the nearby beach.
We took excursions, there are a great many of them in Alanya, but we didn’t take long-distance ones due to age and fatigue. We went to the hammam (I really liked it, I recommend going on the first day), on a tour of Alanya with a funicular - indescribable beauty and on a yacht - you can swim in the open sea and be fed for lunch.
We didn’t risk excursions either, we booked them in the same place as the transfer - at the agency “Tours at Alik”, the prices for excursions were much lower than at the hotel, we compared them with the prices of our neighbors, which we bought from the guide.
Overall, we recommend the hotel, and it is quite possible to return here.
Meals are standard, as in other hotels
Rooms are clean, often cleaned.
Entrance to the sea is normal (sometimes worse).
The sea in April is cool, but clean enough. I can’t rate Pierce, because During our stay, they did not have time to collect it. Entering the sea to the left of the pier with a rocky bottom, I liked to go to the right, from the territory of the neighboring hotel Katya. Nobody interfered. The entire seashore of this region consists of stone slabs. I knew where I was going. Waves were almost always present. There were plenty of free sunbeds on the beach.
The outdoor pools are unheated and clean. Free sunbeds sometimes had to look. Checked out the indoor pool - a lot of space, warm, beautiful.
The food is decent. Local snacks are for everyone, everything on the grill is delicious, the choice of meat for hot dishes is sufficient. Many similar vegetable salads, I liked that they were not seasoned. Assorted sauces, pour according to your taste. The sweet table is excellent. Seafood for the week was not pampered. From fruits: apples, pears, oranges and grapefruits. Strawberries, bananas and figs are only exclusively in confectionery decorations, and if you can’t do without strawberries, buy them nearby at the market on Thursday or Monday (from 5 to 7 lira per kg, or for 1 dollar) and you will be happy! In the early days, the restaurant was very noisy and crowded, but then there were noticeably fewer vacationers. I think that in the high season it is not very comfortable there.
In addition to breakfast, lunch and dinner in the main restaurant, from 12 o'clock you can have a bite to eat on the beach and in the snack bar. The choice is smaller, but sufficient. On the L floor there is a small pastry shop, where cakes (simple) and local delicious cookies were exhibited from 12 o'clock.
The range of alcohol is wide, especially in the lobby bar and snack bar. Lots of cocktails, liqueurs, 3 types of wine, champagne, beer, cognac, vodka, rum, tequila, whiskey, etc. But, most likely all local production. On the beach only beer and soft drinks. Take-out drinks (on the beach and by the pool) are poured into decent unbreakable dishes, and not in ordinary transparent plastic cups, the machines have disposable paper cups for tea, juice and coffee. By the way, there are plenty of machines everywhere.
From 14:00 to 16:00 they opened a refrigerator with ice cream (7 types), it is located next to the hookah bar, by the indoor pool.
Animation was at the pool and on the beach (volleyball, exercise). In the evening, short dances for children and a program for adults: fire show, bingo, live music, Mr. Hotel. Monday - Turkish night. At dinner, a procession through the restaurant with drums, the removal of a large ice cream cake. At 21:30 national dances. I don’t know if there is a disco at the hotel, but the animators took those who wished every evening to the clubs. We didn't go.
The room suits us, we bought what we got, without a balcony, on the 7th floor overlooking the sea. Plumbing is all in working order, soap and water and drinks were regularly replenished, the room was cleaned. Safe at no extra cost.
Internet on the beach caught better than in the room.
Elevators (there are 4 of them) didn’t bother me much, I thought it would be worse. The start of the season is clean.
MF points are located on each floor (from -2 to R), decent, in terms of cleanliness, sometimes. On the beach, however, dumb.
Visited the bath complex a couple of times, liked it. Located on the -2 floor. Free from 9:00 to 11:00 and from 16:00 to 18:00. There are two steam rooms - dry and wet, hammam - large, three halls. Salt room for a fee.
Beach towels are also provided. At the reception, you need to take pre-cards and exchange them for towels at the SPA. No cash deposit was taken.
On the -1 floor there is a gym, a children's room, a play area. In the game room - billiards (40 minutes 20 lire or 4 euros), bowling (1 game 20 lire or 4 euros), game consoles.
No rudeness during the stay from the staff was not met, all polite.
Operator Anex Tour - everything is well organized both flight and transfer. Guide Christina in the hotel is pleasant, seasoned.
I will not undertake to recommend the hotel to others, since we are all different and compare with the experience of previous trips, but I myself would be happy to return for a good price.
A room for a family of 4 is 1 room with a 2-bed, 1-bed and a folding sofa. The toilet is not working, you can click on the big drain and watch the water run forever. The mini bar was replenished daily. The final of the World Cup was watched in Turkish : )
For lunch and dinner, everything is standard without any frills, but for 8 days it becomes very boring.
Pools and the sea: come after breakfast and find a free sunbed - from a number of fantastic. The pier is packed, near the children's pool - 4 sunbeds, near the adult - you can take it either at 6 am or 6 pm. If you borrow before breakfast and go to breakfast, the attendants steal towels. Finding it takes a lot of luck. Nowhere is it in Russian that it is forbidden to hold a towel for more than an hour. I understand that they make money on it.
In order to buy a child who does not yet know how to swim, but has already grown out of a paddling pool, you need to constantly be near the children's pool, into which the slides are also directed, and not only there is no place, but there is nowhere for the apple to fall.
The territory is so small that people walk side by side next to each other. Constantly have to wait for an elevator whose up button (on the restaurant floor) is either turned off or does not work (for 2 out of 3). Animations - out of 10 - 2. Entrance to the sea - stones. We went to the nearby beach. Compared to the same Q-premium (they are the same in form) - the difference is significant and Asia does not even pull on 4-ku.
The room is small, about 15 sq. m, which has one double bed, one single bed and a cot, there is no more space in the room! For four - it's just torment! There was no balcony in our room. When asked to give out a dryer or something like that, they laughed at us and said that in their hotel such a service is not great. Dryers things where possible! Plus, everyone was removed from under the stick and terribly, although they did not forget to pick up the tip. There were two pairs of slippers in the room, apparently one per person; ), towels were changed only after a reminder, and bed linen was changed once per check-in, I had to go to the reception to ask for toilet paper (it’s a shame to write about it, but that’s how it was ! ). Although the staff is very friendly, they always tried to fix problems. But it was necessary to speak English, Russian was immediately forgotten as soon as any claims appeared.
Animation for children is terrible, the child has never become interested, and there was nothing to be interested in... Animators for adults are much better!
The food is like everywhere in Turkey, a lot, but not very tasty, the most common. This baklava is delicious!
Rest upset unfortunately. I wanted to relax much better, because we have been waiting for this trip for so long!