Мой отпуск в Турции My vacation in Turkey

My impressions of Apex Hotel***
Brought to the hotel from Antalya Airport around 12 o'clock Turkish time. Filled out the documents at the reception, ringed with a wrist bracelet (a distinctive belonging to the hotel, it's everywhere). Since their checkout time is at 12.00, check-in is after 14.00 (the rooms are being cleaned, it's everywhere). Things were left at the reception (there is no left-luggage office, there is a safe at the reception, 2 dollars a day), and sent to dine in a restaurant. Until 14.00 I went to the sea. After 14.00 settled. I had a single room, but the administrator immediately warned that one woman was coming in the evening, who would have nowhere to sit until the next day at 14.00, I didn’t argue, I assumed such a turn and was even glad, one somehow uncomfortable. And so it happened, they immediately made friends with the lady and then went everywhere together, and resettled her, as they said the next day, and did not add anyone else. The rooms are all standard (certainly not of a European level, but rather of an ordinary Soviet camp site), at least single, at least two. The room has air conditioning, TV, telephone, mirror, hair dryer, toilet, shower, balcony. View from the balcony to your own pool or from the other side to the pool of a neighboring hotel. The air conditioner and the light turn off automatically when you leave the room, it’s very reasonable, if you don’t turn off the air conditioner, you can suffocate, I left it overnight for the first day and just froze in the morning. I did not use the phone, paid. The TV didn’t work right away (you could have insisted that they fix it, but honestly I didn’t need it), my new friend insisted and they fixed it, there’s nothing to watch anyway (1 Russian channel), and there was no time. The water in the shower is hot only during the day, but this is also everywhere, because. in Turkey there is no piped hot water in principle, and all hotels and rooftop houses have large tanks that are heated by the sun. The room began to be cleaned every day, after which I hung up a sign so as not to disturb, and they fell behind, why clean it every day, is it really possible to clutter it up in a day to constantly clean it. Someone here wrote that they gave a tip to the maid to clean up, they would give me a dollar, I would clean both my own and the next one myself, the business is to clean up after myself. And in general, in principle, I am against any handouts, it is we Russians who have already taught the Turks to tip. For their work they receive, and no handouts. There were two bottles of shampoo on the first day, then I took it myself from the cart near the utility room, as needed. At the reception, the administrator is a Russian woman, but the rest understand everything in Russian. The main contingent of vacationers are Russians, Georgians, Azerbaijanis (which surprised me, they go from their own sea to the Turkish one), and the Turks themselves. Transfer from the airport to the hotel and back works well. What time they write in the information, so much they will arrive.
Buffet meals (this does not mean that everything that is there will have to be dumped on your plate if you do not want stomach problems), breakfast, lunch, dinner, and at 16.00 a small snack of your choice, such as cookies and buns. Soups are all pureed, not familiar to us, meat is mostly chicken, various vegetable side dishes, rice, pasta, potatoes. Salads (I would not recommend, who knows how long they had them, but it’s hot outside, if you want a salad, put different fresh vegetables on your plate, season with olive oil or sauces, they also have different ones, but you will be sure that everything is fresh ), various chopped vegetables are available. The fruits were different - watermelon, grapes, peaches, plums, melon, oranges (mostly everything for dinner). For some reason, for dinner they have a table much more plentiful than for dinner. For some reason there is no dairy, in the mornings they only put milk out and that's it. I don’t know how people who come with children do without dairy. And the rest of the food is spicy, of course, but that's just for my taste. Drinks, beer, wine, vodka, from 10.00 am to 22.00 pm during the day for free, there is a bar counter near the pool (expensive wine is of course paid), beer is worth a try, but wine is not very good. On the other side of the pool there is a hookah bar.

There is a pool for very little ones, and for adults, a slide - open until 18.00 in the evening. There is no more entertainment for children.
There is a Turkish bath on site, $ 20 with a massage (I didn’t go myself, I can’t say anything).
Beach - you leave the hotel to the left and 5-7 minutes walk along the path and already by the sea. The beach area is small, sun loungers, umbrellas for free. Our compatriots litter it a lot, because they are not used to bringing their garbage to the bin and throw it at their feet, a young Turk sometimes walks over it with a rake and cleans it up, but not always. Neighboring territories are much cleaner, but there are also foreign tourists there. The entrance to the sea from the hotel's beach area is actually not very convenient, as some kind of rock like a large slab comes right away, but no one swims from this place, everyone goes into the sea either to the right or left of this slab, there is ordinary sand both on the shore and in the sea. But if there are strong waves, then it is very convenient to enter from the left, since they break on this plate and there are no waves in this place.
Entertainment - for young people it may be in this hotel and it will be boring, there is no animation, only on Wednesdays "Turkish night", well, once again there was something there. But if you have the means, don't wait for someone to entertain you, go on excursions during the day. And in the morning and in the evening the sea. That's it. And stupidly lying on the beach all day is certainly boring. As for excursions, the hotel guide offers all excursions twice as expensive. Let's say a yacht trip in a hotel costs $40, I bought it for $18 across the road in the village of Konakli, and everyone else is the same. And if you took a ticket at a hotel, this does not mean at all that the whole yacht will be acceptable for a hotel for four people, on the same yacht they collect from all hotels, and you can be on the same yacht and everything at a different price, and so on everywhere. There are many different agencies in Konakli, I advise you to contact Larisa, a Russian woman, red-haired, pretty, friendly, married to a Turk Hasan Achyk, they have a joint agency, as you exit through the transition to Konakli, go a little to the right of the square, next to a shop with toys. You can even bargain. On rafting (of course, I didn’t risk rafting on a mountain river), but I really liked the jeep safari, it was fun and great, even though I was already 59. There were 15 cars, everything was filmed on a movie camera, then a disk could be ordered at will for $ 25 will be delivered directly to the hotel. In the evenings, you can do shopping, shops in Konakli are open until late at night, once my friend and I returned about an hour.

There is a mosque in Konakli, a mullah sings five times a day, then all the music in all hotels is turned off. The first wake-up call takes place at five o'clock in the morning. But you are in an Islamic country, so you need to respect the traditions of the local population. And if you are tired after excursions, then no mullah will wake you up.
Yes, and I advise you to take essential medicines with you, for indigestion, painkillers, aspirin, a band-aid, iodine or BF medical glue, since even small wounds heal poorly, sea water corrodes.