The next day they wanted to change the room again, but the previously offered room was already occupied, and they didn’t like the new one - it was far away/high, the side was sunny and the furniture was the same old, besides, people from the upper floors said that they also heard a party! . . And in our room the trees created shade; the air conditioning was not turned on. So we decided to stay.
(By the way, the furniture in the Annex building is even older. )
In general, I liked the holiday, the sea too, but it would be better to go in early September so that the sea was warmer. The beach is of course a bit crowded and dirty, in the summer I think it would be very crowded, you can take a walk on the beach of neighboring hotels. The mountains are beautiful. The excursions are also ok.
The food at the hotel was okay, there was plenty to choose from. But there are doubts about the quality of some products - the mackerel looks rotten. Oranges are often limp, peaches too. Apples, pears, plums, grapes are fine.
I saw a worm in the olives - I didn’t take it again) Some food from lunch can be seen at dinner, but every day there is something freshly cooked on the grill. Various types of meat, red and white fish, fire-cooked soup, puree soups, basic side dishes, vegetables, herbs, desserts, fruit snacks, etc.
- On the plus side: it is especially worth noting the efforts of the hotel staff - our room was cleaned regularly, although a tip was left only on the last day.
The event host is a talented guy. And in general, the adult animation team was sincere and tried very hard??? ? . The children's club is also ok, if you need to leave your child until 17, there is a paid excursion to the equestrian club from 15-17. We went several times only at activity until 16 to go to the sea.
- From the nuances: a woman who bakes gö zleme is a separate issue of an angry person - you need to see this??? ? And it’s better not to go to the hammam/sauna - it’s a different owner - the temperature is too low, they’re making it into a spa, but for a spa everything is too tattered..
the atmosphere of squalor, not relaxation...and if you refuse, they say “We are all closing, we can’t go to the hammam??? ? »
- I bought a Join up tour for 7 nights +1 on the road (departure at 03.00), which turned out to be +0, since the hotel had not been paid for and I was very surprised when the administrator called demanding to vacate the room the day before the night of departure. But in general, this is a nuance of the tour operator, not the hotel. The bracelets were not cut off, we stayed calmly on the hotel grounds until we left, had dinner, and fed the yard dog.
-The things were left in the luggage room. And here is a very interesting point. On the day of arrival, we left our suitcases, went to look around, and when I returned, I couldn’t open the large new suitcase using the code - the lock was broken. So, on the day of departure, having left my suitcases in the luggage room, I could not open the second suitcase - the lock did not respond. Even though before this, in the room, I could open and close it freely. The suitcases are new, branded.
And the assistant administrator was the same both at check-in and at check-out. . I don’t know whether it’s a coincidence or not, I’ll buy padlocks for my suitcases??? ?
Dirty Pigpen - STAY AWAY. Maximum boarding house 3*
I am there on 21.06. 2024 -01.07. 2024
Pros - and they really are): Large Green Territory. Several related locations. Lots of food, varied and everywhere - on the beach, by the pool. There is enough food for everyone. There’s no point in talking about quality in the all-inclusive – it’s just a nutritious mass everywhere, with a few exceptions. Animation is a classic mass entertainer.
Minuses:
Global – SOOO MANY PEOPLE, VERY MUCH, because of this, all the other disadvantages are growing. Neither the hotel nor the number of staff are able to cope with this number of tourists.
As a result, unsanitary conditions and multiple intestinal poisonings. Regarding us, in the end, due to an insured event with an IV in the clinic. So keep that in mind when traveling. It’s better to return the tour). All you can hear around you is nausea, vomiting, stomach pain.
The hoteliers themselves mentioned in the conversation that at least 3 people, on the recommendation of the clinic, were put on a diet within a couple of days. This is already a serious reason to THINK. Several times in a restaurant I heard Kazakhs asking their compatriot cooks how this happened, what was happening, why people ended up getting sick.
You can talk for a long time about whether you swallowed water in the pool, the sea, got drunk on sand, etc. But the bartenders take it with their hands and use mint and lemons for cocktails. Watermelons are also cut in really unsanitary conditions before our eyes
Rooms - on the Fourth day, with grief, we managed to catch the maid and change the towels. On the fifth day, having caused a scandal, we washed the floors and changed the bedding. At the same time, upon returning from the clinic, they started running quickly and asking me to wash, don’t wash, let’s clean it up))) Tin. In fact, it's already too late))))
On the hotel floors, trash cans are most often overflowing, dirty dishes are constantly standing around...
Restaurant - a lot of broken and chipped dishes. They come across wet, dirty, greasy. I ended up picking one up and stabbing it in the manager’s face. So look, wipe extra. For grilled scrambled eggs - Constantly Long Queues. There are not enough places for breakfast, and the additional terraces that are open for lunch and dinner are not open. They say it’s hot there, but you tourists will do just fine. So breakfast food is an additional quest. The quality of the food is a nutritious mass, but anything. The choice is large.
Although grilled turkey, chicken, salmon. There was sushi.
The beach is a trashy place. The worst and most densely populated on the entire Tekirova coast. There are plastic bottles, cigarette butts, labels, corks, corn, boxes of sandwiches and other food all around; dishes from the hotel, forks, glasses have been standing around for days. T, E In the evening no one cleans it at all. Towels of the sunbed reservation type can last for several days.
Walk further, and the city free with packs of bottles thrown in places, dirty in places by dogs, will be better and cleaner 50 meters of Armas beach. It's sad but that's how it is.
Overall a really disgusting place with poor quality service. Just avoid it. This is a dump, and it has up to 5 stars, as it is sold by tour operators like to the moon.
firstly, this is not a 5-star hotel, it is given out for a 5-star only in Russia, all tourists from other countries (Kazakhstan, Serbia, Bosnia) say that this hotel was sold to them as 4 stars, it is also very easy to believe - to do this, you just need to go to the official website of the Ministry of Tourism and Leisure of Turkey and see, you can also always determine this by the absence of a sign at the entrance of the hotel - if there is no sign with the name of the hotel and the stars, then something is wrong with the stardom - in This hotel does not have a sign at the entrance;
the rooms are old, the furniture and appliances are old, there is no electric kettle and tea-coffee set, the safe is paid, there is no toothpaste and brush, there is no razor, there are no bathrobes and slippers, but there are many things that should be in the 5-ke, room cleaning weak, they may not change towels, put water in the fridge, you need to remind each time separately, a separate feature of this hotel is a 3 in 1 product in the bathroom - gel, shampoo and conditioner in one bottle (dispenser), I believe that in fact in fact, it's just an ordinary cheap gel;
food - yes, there is a variety, but, moreover, I’m not a gourmet at all, the food is simply tasteless, as they say in the reviews - you won’t stay hungry, but you can eat in the factory canteen, or you can in a cafe or restaurant - feel the difference, but, here again, the feature of this hotel is a huge number of flies in the restaurant, both indoors and on the veranda, all dishes are covered with flies, especially open ones (salads, fruits, pastries), flies do not just let you eat in peace, not to mention the spread of viruses , bacteria and other filth, despite the assurances of the hotel staff - they simply don’t fight flies at all, for comparison, you can go to nearby hotels and see how it is;
the beach is not very big at all, again compare it with the nearby hotels, it is quite dirty, there are cigarette butts, pieces of paper, and so on, a lot of large pebbles that can be removed, like on neighboring beaches, but no, everything is as it is, it is, the entrance to the sea is not very comfortable, I am not a supporter of swimming in slippers, but in this case slippers would not be superfluous, it is difficult to get hurt to the point of blood, but it can be very painful to step on stones in the water, a bar on the beach - well, this is another feature of this hotel, because I guess it’s hard to call it a bar, in fact, this is a place where it smells very bad, where it’s dirty, where they just pour a variety of highly diluted liquids, yes, and they also give cheap fast food, but to sit at the tables, or at least to stand - there is no question, he took a soldering and a march to a deck chair - this is a 5-ka hotel;
Of course, you can write more and more, but I think it’s of little use, the inhabitants of Sochi and the Crimea cannot be persuaded, while others themselves understand everything and draw conclusions, and my conclusions are as follows:
pluses of the hotel - a fairly large green area, friendly mostly Russian-speaking staff;
cons of the hotel - almost everything else listed above;
the result - I never want to return to this hotel, and even for a low cost, self-esteem and health are higher
If you arrive at 14:00 and later on the day of arrival, then the check-in is fast. Minimum formalities. So, we arrived at 18:40, and at 19:00 we were already in the room. From this time, you need to take away the transition from the main building to the Anex building (5 minutes).
Standard rooms are quite spacious: a double bed, a single bed, a sofa, an armchair, a huge mirror over a long table, the surface of which is stylized as a seashore. The flooring is tiles, you don’t really look like barefoot, but there are slippers from Armas for this (for some reason they weren’t given to us, we had to take them from the cleaning worker ourselves). The bathroom is also not cramped. It has room for a large bathroom. The dispenser with soap (it is also shampoo, because there was no separate shampoo) is located in two places: near the washbasin and directly above the bath. Hairdryer, shower caps, paper - all this, as it were, by default and of good quality.
Towels were changed three times during our stay (10 nights). The room is not the first freshness, but very clean. One thing is bad in it - the lack of soundproofing (this is the scourge of almost any hotel), until everyone around falls asleep, you won’t be able to sleep.
The hotel grounds are the best. Near each of the buildings there is a "spruce garden". It is simply impossible to breathe in them, the aromas are crazy. In the garden near the main building there is a playground with exercise equipment and tables with benches for 6 people. Near this garden there is an unused art object in the form of a small castle. Very good for photo shoots.
The food is on top: a huge selection of greens and fruits, several varieties of soft cheeses and only one - hard (something like cheddar). There is always some kind of fish, once there were crayfish. Traditionally, a large selection of sweets, which are impossible to get used to, are different every time. In the role of meat - chicken and turkey. You need to understand that in Turkey there is no pork familiar to us. For her, you need to choose hotels with ultra all inclusive. If three meals are not enough, then you still won’t stay hungry: there is a pool bar (pasta, french fries, doners), a snack bar and a beach bar (french fries).
Cons of the hotel:
1. Dirty beach. It is public, and the night audience does not have a special culture. The beach worker seems to be there, but he collects only large garbage, his hands do not reach the cigarette butts.
2. SPA-center. It has a separate owner. Unfriendly staff, especially if you just came to the hammam or sauna, and not for paid procedures. General dressing room. The temperature in the sauna is 80 (saunas start at 100), in the hamam about 40 (in other hotels 45-50).
In general, the hotel left a very pleasant impression. We can say that Armas is very normal. ))
Food - tasty, varied, no one was hungry. The sea - one would like to say - "the cleanest sea in the world! " ))) The hotel staff is polite and friendly. At our request, we were moved to quieter rooms overlooking the courtyard without any problems, we were met in all situations.
We visited the A la Carte fish restaurant, were satisfied with the skill of the chefs and friendly service. I also really liked the hammam.
In general, during the rest, we all had a great rest both in body and soul))) We enjoyed the wonderful nature of Tekirovo, gentle clean sea, warm sunny weather. We will definitely come to Armas Kaplan Paradise again!
Of the benefits - an incredibly green area (orange and lemon trees, ficuses, palm trees, etc. ), which is carefully looked after; picturesque road to the sea (350-400 meters along the road through a fragrant pine forest. You can walk for 6-7 minutes for pleasure or jump into a transfer that runs quite often); a good selection of dishes among which there is always something to your taste (decent cheeses for breakfast, desserts, all kinds of cakes, meat and fish dishes, fruits - mostly melons, watermelons, apples, grapes, 1 time - plums, apricots, peaches; high-quality ice cream at lunchtime and at dinner) poolside bar where you can have a bite to eat; wonderful transparent sea (+26) and a beach with enough sunbeds even at rush hour when fully loaded, you can take drinks from 10.00 to 18.00 (cola, fanta, sprite, beer, coffee) and snacks from 11.00 to 16.00 (burgers, fries ).
Of the minuses - the queue for food in the main restaurant (the staff at the distribution does not have time, but this is due to covid restrictions), it is difficult to find a free table (you can wander around the halls for up to 10 minutes in search of a free place, and then wait another 5-10 minutes until it will be removed, preserved); uncomfortable plastic beds; trash on the beach.
And a fat minus for the lack of information about the location of the Garden room without balcony category (we looked at several tour operator websites in advance, they didn’t find anything special in their description except for the absence of a balcony). It turned out on the spot that these rooms were not located in the buildings (main or annex), but in a one-story annex under the bar (basement), which can be mistaken for utility rooms. Inside, a good repair, but very humid and noisy (music rumbles, the legs of chairs and tables drive in the bar upstairs, past the window and door of the room (50 cm) vacationers run around the clock (path to the beach and to the bar).
It is impossible to replace the room in the high season, everything is busy.