The elevator makes a terrible noise and doesn't always work. The electricity kept going out. If you want to drink coffee or juice, unfortunately you will not be able to do this at any time of the day, because water simply flows from the machine. Food in this hotel is a separate form of art: there are flies on all the food, the food is dirty, stained, and beaten. The food is very monotonous and not tasty. The worst thing was when our whole family got poisoned. Two days of rest were thrown into the abyss, because there was no strength to move, in the following days the smell of food makes you sick...The hotel area is unkempt, the pool is not cleaned, there is practically no animation, the bartenders seem to be doing you a favor when you ask for a drink or ice cream. . The staff is arrogant and unresponsive. Hotel guides pretend to listen to you and then do nothing. There is always a crowd of dissatisfied guests at the reception; the staff smiles and shrugs their shoulders.
We were saved only by the beauty of nature, the beautiful road to the beach and the breathtaking sea! We strongly do not recommend this hotel, take care of your health and nerves!! ! Shame on the hotel!
Regarding the dollar exchange rate, I’ll start with the fact that at the hotel they brought me 23-24 lira per dollar, the guide 25, in the exchanger 24, in the pharmacy they considered 25.5, the most profitable was in De Facto 26.3. They don’t take a hundred, they took the largest $ 50, but for a complete understanding, the store does not change, but only gives the right to pay for the purchase in foreign currency, and give the buyer change in local currency at a favorable rate. And then it’s up to you to decide whether to buy rags at once or break them into three purchases with the supposedly primary currency of $ 50, paid at different cash desks.
We took an excursion from the teztour to Kemer or Kemer 3 D, which includes Mount Olympus, a mosque, a boat trip with swimming and lunch at a fish farm. The price is very good $ 80, provided that the entrance ticket at the box office on the mountain is $ 45, on the street near Ginza or other travel agents, the price is 50-60 but the rise in a jeep or quadric. Mount Olympus is a super object, the scale of investments and the project itself is impressive. Take water with you, lay your ears and a windbreaker there in places it is windy.
In general, I liked the tour, the only negative was lunch at the fish farm, after which I rinsed all night. From edible only rice and pita bread, the rest is not sure. There were four of us, the one who ate pita bread and rice was lucky. The adoption of white coal helped, 4-5 tablets for an adult, it costs 100 lire a jar of 30 tablets.
Biggest cons, in my opinion.
1. Reception workers (more precisely, the worker we encountered during check-in). The first thing that kills "from the doorway" is the settlement, namely the unbridled arrogance and rudeness of the reception workers (extortion of a bribe in an extremely boorish form, I was going to give more, but after talking I gave only $ 10). All rooms in the hotel are exactly the same, all overlook one side - the pool, except for the 1st floor (there is no balcony), so regardless of gratitude, you will be settled in the same room. Rooms with a fresh renovation for a good solid three.
If the management replaces or teaches how to beat extortion baksheesh in a decent format, the reception staff, then the shock at the first meeting can be avoided.
2. Disgusting internet, it only works at a distance of 2-3 meters from the router at the reception in the lobby, it doesn’t even reach the dining room. Is it really impossible to create elementary conditions in the 21st century. Of course, it is better to buy your own SIM card, but in Tekerova it is not so easy to do, especially on the day of arrival.
3. Nutrition - on nutrition, all the reviews are 100% true, I have not seen the worst table even in deuces. Instead of meat, finely chopped chicken ventricles are stewed in various sauces, calling it chicken, cut in such a way that it is difficult to figure out right away.
Breakfast - more or less, scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, vegetables (not always the freshest), greens, cheeses, olives, sausage of the best quality for Turkish hotels (local cats agreed to gobble up), tea, coffee.
Lunch is worse, if you hesitate, or are late from a walk or excursion, you definitely won’t see the meat. For lunch, they cook chicken with peppers or tomatoes - the only edible dish + pasta, bulgur, sometimes rice, the same vegetables and herbs.
Dinner is just awful, chicken ventricles is the main dish, sometimes some vile, cheapest local small fish was fried on the grill (if you do not agree to eat ventricles or this stinky mud fish, you will have to burst pasta with herbs, and for dessert - watermelon , already wilted and almost not sweet).
In addition, as the hotel filled up, there were not enough tables, and this hotel was not even 50% full. Food problems may arise due to very hungry tourists who drag everything they could not swallow in the dining room to their rooms. As the hotel filled up, the water refrigerator disappeared from the lobby, and the quality of the food deteriorated in direct proportion to the number of such tourists.
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Hot water is available only during sunny hours and ends around 18-00, later you can only swim in cold water, again when the hotel is only half full. What happens at 100% load...
5. The hotel does not have its own beach, although it is declared. In fact, the hotel is among the expensive ones that have their own beaches and the entrance to their territory is prohibited (there is security on the beach). Several of the same inexpensive hotels (Pinara CLUB, Armas Kaplan and Festival) tacitly divided the usual city beach and put sun loungers and awnings on it, they clean it by agreement, each hotel has its own bars. Naturally, the beach and sun loungers are not enough even for 2 Armasa nine-story buildings. For some reason, Armasa vacationers are extremely "colorful bazaar-village personalities", although there were also normal people who accidentally wormed their way into these ranks. Get ready to fight for a piece of the beach and a sun lounger.
It is not necessary to say that sun loungers are covered with towels, pareos and pebbles and disappear in an unknown direction, there are more than half of them.
Plus - this is the location of the hotel in the pine forest of the village of Tekirova, the road to the beach is not tiring and passes through a shady picturesque road among the pines. The water temperature in the sea in September was 28-30 degrees, the cleanest with clear blue water, but the sunset is like everywhere in the Kemer region, it is better to have slippers.
We rested together with my husband in July 2019. We rested loudly, we counted the days to leave there faster! The hotel is terrible "The rating of 4 stars it does not live up to, it has 2 stars a red star. It was the worst vacation in all our trips, and this is the opinion of all vacationers. The hotel is undergoing renovations, dirt is everywhere in the corridors, the windows are all whitewashed and streaked, the food is SIMPLE HORROR! For 7 days of our stay there was nothing except the legs of a BURNED mini chicken!! ! MEAT? NO. We fried sprat a couple of times? nothing that we are on the Mediterranean Sea?? ? French fries are so burnt that the stench is. Greenhouse tomatoes , bitter cucumbers, tasteless and white watermelons, GREEN melons, no sweets (puddings, like porridge) here is a sweetness for you, breakfasts are TERRIBLE.
The staff is all dirty! The staff walks in the same clothes throughout the week (personal clothes), while we are dragging garbage bags to the trash, when we return, they come up and collect plates from the table, the unsanitary conditions are complete. All 7 days of fasting, all vacationers walked in such horror that they didn’t even want to hear about this hotel. Vacationers told that they came up to talk with the hotel administrators, by the way, they had fun there every day (obviously something amused them, but not the atmosphere! ), that where is the declared 4, why there is no food, animation, to which they answered, that's all what you see now and don't expect more.
We tried to change the hotel, being there, NATURALLY, no one changed anything for us, answering that there were no places now in the season. 72.000 in 6 days - money thrown away! Not a foot more to Turkey, and this is for all my stays in Turkey, and I was 4 times the most spoiled vacation ((((In April, we rested in Cyprus in Ai-Anapa for 7 days, we gave 62.000 excellent holidays. We will write complaints just like that, we won’t leave this trip.
As for food - if you are not ready to eat bread all your vacation (it was soft and tasty) with tomatoes and cucumbers, then you are not here! From meat, only chicken, and overdried, there was never beef or lamb! The fish was turned on on the 4th day, and it was some kind of small sardine... Vacationers cursed every day about the quality of food, today they gave mackerel - a direct victory! Endless eggplants and zucchini, which is not eaten up, is simply rearranged on a cold table, smeared with some kind of sauce. For sweets - the same thing, these semolina puddings and something in honey. For breakfast - omelettes, eggs, there is always a queue for pancakes, but this is still tolerable. For dinner, if the fish is a wild line, there are not enough tables to sit down for dinner, so go look, then scrape food for yourself, then there is no tea, then the plates have run out everywhere....You need to have a great sense of humor and a good mood so as not to get upset with such disgusting food. Even in the Egyptian 4-ke, which were initially weaker than the Turkish ones, the food was many times better! The territory is very small, no, but around the pines and the air is divine! In general, I got so burned on this 4-ke after all the 5-k and 4+ visited that I will never go to Turkey again in the 4-k! ! This hotel deserves a maximum of 3 stars, due to the efforts of the lovely animators and chickens that walk around the territory. They must have eaten them!
A full-scale repair is underway, I repeat, not just a cosmetic repairman (they replaced the wallpaper and tinted the walls, replaced the tiles), but a complete one, the repair stage is such that at the moment the territory is in complete collapse, building materials are everywhere, heaps of earth, etc. , the entire hotel landscape gardens and pine trees all in cement. Real terms of completion of SUCH works, at least in a year!
We went to this wonderful French hotel several times, therefore, without hesitation, we bought a tour to this hotel from one of the well-known operators, in fact, after arrival, we faced the fact that supposedly the hotel did not have time to open, something was left unfinished, and so not in time for the season.
We were placed in another hotel, as it should be with a higher 5 * star, but you yourself understand that these 5 * are a scam, actually 4 *, we ourselves would never have chosen such a hotel!
As a result, we decided to take a walk and take a look at our favorite FESTIVAL ourselves, and oh, horror, it’s generally a nightmare, we started taking pictures, the guards who appeared from the ground immediately attacked us and forbade us to take pictures. We smiled and told that we bought a tour to this hotel, and we were settled in another. The security calmed down and we were very asked not to show photos to the tour agency!