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Rest in the hotel "Pineapple" (Turkey) was a success! Rested from 09/28/2009 to 10/10/2009. The cost of the tour with a transfer is 730 dollars per person.
Road to Turkey
From Minsk, three of us (three young ladies) traveled by transfer bus to Moscow. We flew from Vnukovo to Antalya. Interestingly, there are two Duty Free shops in Vnukovo - one opposite the other. And, most interestingly, they differ both in the range of goods and in prices. For example, Martini in one was 8 euros, in the other - 11. The flight (3 hours) and the drive to Alanya (about 2 hours, maybe more - they took people to hotels) from the airport went fine.
About the hotel

It is located on the outskirts of the city. To the center on foot - 40 minutes. The hotel itself (environment) pleased. Neat, clean, beautiful. Settled on the 4th floor overlooking the sea. They did not check in immediately upon arrival (we arrived at 12.00 noon), so we had to leave things at the reception, and in the meantime we went for lunch. Settled in after lunch. The room was a delight too. Spacious, in addition to three beds, it also had a sofa. There are two Russian-language channels on TV, but we enjoyed watching both the Polish music channel and the Turkish one, on which they played old melodramas (the meaning is clear! ). Great shower in bath. Fen. On the balcony there is a table and chairs. But there is no iron in the hotel. You need to bring your travel iron! What is very nice - the gym during the day (there is a stapler, treadmill, abs bench (what I needed) and a sauna (from 5 to 7 pm) for free. Bought a full massage at the hotel a couple of times, best of all it is done by a Turkish woman (walks her feet on the back of the client. Session - 45 minutes, $ 17. If you take more massage sessions - they give a good discount and a face mask for free. A big minus of the hotel rooms is salt water in the tap. Washing is still normal, but to brush your teeth - you have to take an empty bottle and draw water in a restaurant or bar, since there is a boiler for this.
Nutrition
Vegetables - at least heaps. Tomatoes, beets, carrots, cucumbers, lettuce, lemons. They are available both fresh and in salads. From meat they gave a turkey. Pork, of course - no, because 1 kg of pork in Turkey costs $ 20. I didn't like soups. There was also a lot of soybeans, pasta, olives, olives, potatoes, rice, pastries, hard-boiled eggs and scrambled eggs for breakfast. The cheese is similar to feta. Delicious coffee, Ephesus beer, red wine. White wine is sour for me, I'm not a fan of it at all. From fruits - plums, apples, grapes, watermelons and melons. I constantly compared this restaurant with three restaurants located on the territory of the Grand Hotel, 4 * (Egypt, Hurghada), where I rested last summer. Yes, Turkey lost in food to Egypt, and in terms of its quality, quantity, and exoticism. But all this is tolerable. You won't die of hunger. During the day, you can also refresh yourself with stuffed tortillas (gü zmele), baked by a nice Turkish woman on site. I liked the stuffing potatoes more (I'm Belarusian! ). The bar on the ground floor also makes cocktails (I liked the rake with a sprite, a blue cocktail, it is with the addition of Malibu liqueur). In the beach bar you can choose from beer, sprite, mineral water, plain water, cola, jupi. Bartenders (including those on the beach) and waiters in the restaurant are efficient, polite, smiling.
Beach

The beach is sandy. There are enough sun loungers for everyone, and if not enough, you can lie down a couple of times on the sand. The hotel does not provide a beach towel, you need to bring your own or without problems, like us, you can buy in the city, a 20-minute walk towards the center. The entrance to the sea is not for children. Stones, sharp in places. After a couple of days of staying at the hotel, I bought shoes in the city on the street for $ 6 (similar to rubber Czech shoes). In them, I went rafting and swam in the sea near the hotel. In general, we were lucky with the weather, plus 28 air temperature, it rained for 5 minutes during 2 weeks of rest, the Mediterranean Sea is awesome, clean, beautiful, moderately salty. There is also a swimming pool on the territory of the hotel, the water there is cool, without a strong smell of bleach, diving there - right after the sauna - is a great pleasure.
Animation
The animation is normal, designed for Russian speakers, of which the hotel was 80-85% percent (the rest of the vacationers are Poles, Czechs, Slovaks, Turks, Dutch). The disco is for youth, but older Poles burned only in this way. It takes place at the hotel from 11 am to 2 am, and I was quite satisfied. And I love to dance! Fans of club creative discos can drive to the center of Alanya, or walk for 40-50 minutes, there are six discos in one place at once, for example, Robin Hood (the only name I remember). Was in everyone. But I didn’t like it there, some kind of madhouse with neon lights, and young people constantly go there “especially prepared”, with dots instead of pupils. They said that there is a good disco outside the city, called Sun Garden, it seems that those who went there liked it, but I didn’t get there, I didn’t have time. You need to go to the city to the disco prepared ("grind at the hotel bar"), otherwise you will pay 150 bucks for a bottle of champagne and a couple of cocktails at the disco.
Tours
Constantly in the hotel there were 2 TezTour guides - a Kyrgyz girl named Saltanat (clever, professional, will tell you everything, tell everything) and a Turk - a young man named Sharif (sheep).
I bought a Turkish bath from TezTour on the very first day (25 bucks), an incomparable pleasure, for 2 hours - a sauna, inhalation with menthol, washed with soap bags, spun on a marble table, did a full body massage, put a mask on my face, gave me apple tea .

Again, they bought a sightseeing tour of Alanya from TezTour (40 bucks). It lasted from morning until 5 pm. They showed me the fortress, the caves, took me to the store, where everything is 5 bucks on the 2nd floor - (there is a non-standard product - small sizes, almost imperceptible minor defects, having cast a superficial glance at these goods, I didn’t buy anything there that day, the second time when I arrived there, I bought a couple of shirts, pants and shorts), went for a ride on a yacht (there was both animation and a foam disco). I swam in the sea with great pleasure. At lunch, we fed (drinks for a fee) at the Caravan Saray restaurant, where evening shows are held. The photos from this tour turned out great.
On the street I bought rafting - rafting on a mountain river (25 dollars, they said that in some places they sell rafting for 15 bucks). Rafted not in a kayak, where 2 people sit, but on a raft (there were 8 of us with an instructor). Five times I swam in a cold mountain river, a couple of times the instructor, jokingly, threw me overboard. Jumped off a small rock into a river. I would not call this excursion extreme, but I got great pleasure from the surrounding nature, and from the company, and from the sight of wet, confused, but courageous people sitting on kayaks. I liked it very much! The cost of the tour included lunch (drinks are paid, for example, beer 0.3 l - 3 bucks). I bought 2 photos from rafting - 5 bucks each, expensive, but the same memory! It is unrealistic to take your camera, drinks on the raft, you will only lose or spoil the thing. Although, I saw some guys flasks of alcohol, getting into the raft, shoved into swimming trunks. To me, this is suicide!
Also on the street - a 20-minute walk towards the center, Pasha bought an excursion to Pamukal for 25 bucks from a Russian-speaking Kyrgyz. I paid separately for a 40-minute swim in the Red Waters - a source of hot and cold mineral water (something around 10-15 bucks), entrance to the territory of the Cleopatra pool (I think 15 bucks), swimming in the Cleopatra pool (in mineral water) (bucks 17). Prices are approximate, because It's been a month, you can't remember all the little things. The tour is long, almost a day. To Pamukkale - 400 km, and back the same. But she flew by quickly. There were Russians, Estonians, Poles on the bus, only three of them did not understand Russian well. There were two guides on the bus - a Russian-speaking, talkative Moldavian Victoria and a Turkish guy. Pamukale itself is a beautiful area where mineral waters enriched with calcium flow out of the ground, which, settling on the rocks, form a white coating. Photos from Pamukkale: the feeling is like winter in the middle of summer. The same excursion included a trip to onyx and textile shops, in the latter I bought a bath towel made of bamboo fibers for 20 and a hand towel for 10 bucks. Bamboo is worth it.
About Turkey, Turks and vacationers

The climate in Turkey is very suitable for recreation. Ticket prices are affordable. The attitude of Turks towards Russian-speakers is outwardly generally normal. I would say how you treat them, the same attitude will be towards you. For lovers of outdoor activities - there is something to see in this country. For lovers of love adventures, Turkey is expanse. Knowledgeable women say that Turkish men are sharpened to give women pleasure. I don't know, I didn't check it myself. Some of our girls simply drown in black Turkish eyes, fall ill with Turkey - coming there year after year, and several times a year.
In short, whoever is looking for something will find it in Turkey.
In one of the stores, bargaining for a warm cool bike with a hood and a beautiful T-shirt for jeans, in response to the seller's flirtations ("I love you"), I said that I love Russian men, and I simply admire Turkish men. After these words, the bargain ended on my terms. For this small compliment from the purchase, I received a good discount, "thank you very much" and "come again. " So, smile, compliment and don't feel sorry for the hotel staff and tour drivers tip. One dollar will be enough.
From my trip, I brought new impressions, a bunch of new clothes, beautiful jewelry, towels (bath - 4-5 bucks, for hands - 1.5 bucks), terry bathrobes (12 dollars each). I was afraid to buy gold and silver. I bought groceries for home at the "Alanium" shopping center on the ground floor, it is located behind the hotel, about 20 minutes walk, if you walk towards the mountains). It is more profitable to pay in Analium with lira. I bought coffee there (in bags of 100g, finely ground, very tasty), black tea (packed in 1 kg), a lot of spices (in bags, very thermonuclear), halva (vanilla, chocolate, pistachio with nuts, unusually tasty). My friends also bought olive oil, olive soap (4 liras - 4 pieces), Turkish vodka (15 liras) and wine (4 euros), hookahs and accessories for them. Leather jackets and sheepskin coats are expensive in Alanya and Side, the prices are no different from our market prices. Very expensive cigarettes (several times more expensive than ours), so it's cheaper for smokers to bring their own from home. Very tasty ice cream in Turkey (it costs 1-2 Turkish lira). There are many exchange offices in the city (1 dollar - 1.45 Turkish lira, you can also change Russian rubles there). The cost of a bus trip around the city is 1 lira. I liked taking the bus to the city and walking back to the hotel, or vice versa.
Way home

We left at 8 in the morning, having had time to have breakfast. At the airport, having weighed the luggage, they paid for the overload (the norm is 20 kg, 1 kg of overload is $ 8). I realized that the overload had to be taken in personal luggage, since it was not weighed. Turkish duty free is very large, but I no longer had the money to buy something there. In Vnukovo we were waiting for a transfer bus to Minsk for 9 hours, but we knew about it, by agreeing to a transfer, we saved about $170. We arrived home quickly.
In general, the memories of the rest in the "Pineapple" were good. Pleasant memories from meeting Allochka from St. Petersburg, Sergey Kozlov from Yekaterinburg and Arkasha Lapkin from Moscow. Hello to you all! You are real!
Of course, there were minor negative moments, but they are all connected with the peculiarities of the behavior of our compatriots, their rudeness, arrogance and stupidity.
Victoria.