Нормальный отель, но мясо берите с собой :) Normal hotel, but take meat with you :)

We rested at the hotel from 06/05/11 to 06/15/11. The composition of the family is me, my wife and two children: girls 6 years old and almost 2 years old.
We arrived at the hotel around 2:00 pm. We drove from the airport for about 2.5 hours with one stop for 15 minutes, but this is normal - it was like a mini-excursion with stories about the area outside the window, the guides tried, besides, there were a lot of them - along the way they constantly picked up someone from the hotel guides.
At the reception, they immediately decided on the number, asked us to wait until the cleaning was over (15-30 minutes). Lunch was already over and we were offered to drink tea at the bar and wait for an afternoon snack until 16:00. This was somewhat alarming, because ALL the guides unanimously stated that small children should be fed upon arrival REGARDLESS of the time of dinner. Later, the fears were confirmed - the food there is really specific and you have to have time to grab a tasty treat, but more on that later.

I was very afraid about accommodation - a family of four, and a ticket DBL + СLD (and a postscript on the side + INF). I was afraid in vain - they gave me a room in block A (right above the reception), two rooms of 10 meters each, between them there is a bathroom and a corridor-entrance hall. In the room, in the first room, there is a double airfield bed, a double wardrobe, a dressing table, a bedside table under the telephone and air conditioning. Plastic window (opens) and access to the first balcony. The second room has two single beds, between them there is a bedside table, opposite the counter in which a small refrigerator is hidden and a 15-inch TV on it (two Russian channels - ORT and Vesti 24). The window is plastic (does not open), access to the second balcony (there are no clotheslines and paper clips - take it with you). What pleased me - WITHOUT questions, they immediately brought a folding crib for a child and a mattress. The child really liked the bed, he immediately knew that it was his. In general, there were no questions at all with the placement, there was even one extra bed left. Of the comments - the doors between the rooms and the toilet are ancient plywood and painted with brown floor paint. They spoil the whole view from a normal repair, they were probably left in the room due to the high cost of natural wood in Turkey, as a rarity. But they look like a shed somewhere in an old dacha, the locks are simple, without latches. Another little thing - a puddle near the shower. The reason is simple - the glass in the partition moved away from the wall and a gap formed. When you wash and splash on this gap, a puddle flows (the maid diligently wipes it daily), if you direct the shower to the opposite wall, the puddle does not flow. There were no more questions to the number at all. We decided not to change the number, because. everything more than suited and expected the worst. They got used to the "jambs" very quickly and did not pay attention to them already on the second day. The plumbing is new and very clean, the toilet locker is already shining white. The room is cleaned so that it seems that it is licked with the tongue. The maids speak only English, so you leave requests (if any) at the reception and they are passed on to them. It is enough for the maid to report the request to the number once and she passes it on to other maids (there are about 6 of them, they change after a few days). Such a request was not to touch the child’s bed (they brought a small pillow familiar to the child and children’s sheets, it was possible not to bring it). In general, there were no problems with the room and its service at all. Tipping was left a couple of times, it did not affect anything.
Hot water is available only in the shower. It comes from a tank on the roof, which is heated in the sun (almost all the surrounding hotels have a similar system). Is it clear now why hot water runs out quickly in the evening? There is no sun and there is nothing to heat - therefore cold water flows. By the way, useful advice for those who quickly burn in the sun - save yourself with hot water (shower or bath). The pain is brutal, but only once, but then it doesn’t hurt at all (the locals suggested). It is not recommended to drink water from the tap, it has a sour taste, so it cannot be said that “they pour into the boiler from the tap” - you will immediately feel it. Cold water in the bar in the counters - around the clock for free. There is a shop with bottled water.
The electricity in the room is turned on with a magnetic key on the key fob with the room key, the refrigerator is always on. The air conditioner works according to the schedule, it draws cold air (minimum temperature is 16 degrees).
There is almost always someone at the reception who speaks Russian. Upon check-in, they give a piece of paper that exhaustively answers all questions (see photo). All requests are responded to with lightning speed and are almost always resolved positively. You need to vacate the room before 12 noon, if the plane is late in the evening, then the room can be extended until 16-30 (later the maids leave) for 10 bucks per adult. They offer to remove the safe, but this is superfluous - a suitcase with a padlock completely replaces the safe.

In general, everything is great with the service (staff) (except for the cooks), the waiters know their business clearly, the glasses and empty dishes are cleaned very quickly, the maids clean everything to the fullest (they even wash the umbrella stands near the pool), the dishes are clean, the glasses are glass. I want to say right away - do not leave in a conspicuous place things that the maids can perceive as a gift tip (perfume, lipstick, money). Put everything in a box, since there are a lot of them. Returning an item that was taken as a gift is possible, but troublesome. Rooms are cleaned daily and at about the same time. If you lose something on the territory - contact the handymen, NOTHING is lost - even small hairpins. They collect everything and put it in a special box. Zhenya in the middle of the night found a buckle-Yuroshka from shoes for 3 minutes, the main thing is to explain how "it" looks.
There is free WiFi at the reception (54 megabits1 megabits). The key is written on a piece of paper at the reception desk. Sometimes it cuts off for a short time. All Russians (strange, but only Russians, I have never seen either Poles or Kazakhs) sit with laptops and communicate via Skype. Normally goes even with video. If you call Russia from a phone, it is better to buy a local phone card and call from payphones (they are easy to find).
Food. I say right away - forget the word "meat". What they call this word there is soybeans in half with bread and tinted in a characteristic color. THERE IS NO MEAT. Even in dumplings, this gruel is only the size of a pea. A few days later, I generally stopped taking these delights in the form of dumplings or “meat” with vegetables. And in general, the word “take” is inappropriate there - they put exactly as much “meat” on your plate as the cook deems necessary. This is a Turk who seems to have studied at the Soviet technical school of public nutrition - he has the appropriate manners: “I'm in charge here, this is my kitchen, if you don't like it, get out of here. ” All this is expressed in his physiognomy. It was unpleasant, very unpleasant, so I didn’t particularly rush for his delights, I tried to snatch hot potatoes (rounds) or pasta, since they were ALWAYS. The queue for him is huge. More precisely, not to him, but for hot. Such an interesting limited "ALL INCLUSIVE".
Now about what is. More precisely about what you can and should eat.

For breakfast - the most popular is yogurt (kefir in their language) with jam. And sandwiches with soy sausage and cheese (it's good if it's not local salty, but classic). Well, even tea coffee with buns and cakes without restrictions. This kefir is poured into a large plate and there is a ladle, pour yourself as much as you need, go to the plates with jam and fill the top with whatever you like (apricot, unidentified type of fig, apple, type of cherry and there is also honey). There is a lot of kefir, there is always and you can take your time. Sometimes they make thin pancakes. They give out in portions - one pancake in one plate. You come with three plates - the cook frowns, but pours. Towards the end, he cleared the chip and “had mercy” (so as not to dirty the plates), began to pour, at his personal request, two pancakes per plate. Especially towards the end of breakfast, when the flow of people dried up and a supply of pancakes began to form. There is a vat of milk and cereals such as dry rings and oatmeal, if the child eats, then it is also normal. Occasionally there are eggs and smoked chopped sausages in sauce - everything goes away very quickly and with a bang.
Dinner. Soup is always available. One is a little spicy (with tomato paste), the second is “dietary”. Usually something from grated cabbage or peas and something else so green. In my opinion - edible, but tasteless. For little kids, that's it. The Infante burst on both cheeks. Once there was chicken noodles with potatoes and chicken. Laugh with a bang. They didn't do it anymore. The second is handed out in portions. Pieces depending on the discretion of the cook. Moreover, the girls poured larger and tastier pieces. Garnish (rice, pasta, potatoes) can be poured as much as you like, BUT only after standing in line for hot (all are given out in one place). I already wrote about “meat”, a couple of times there was bony fish and small pieces of chicken. Everything is fried and cooked very well (it looks like under pressure in an autoclave). From the tasty - they quickly swept away the salad of tomato cucumbers, eggplant zucchini, salad with sausage (if you didn’t finish it in the morning), compote from local apples (like our canned canned apricots in their own juice), sweets.
Dinner. Gathers the largest number of people. Fruit for dinner. Every day new ones (watermelons, oranges, strawberries, apricots). They are swept away in the first half hour (watermelons and oranges are cut further). A long queue for hot - "meat" sauce OR fish OR chicken OR something from vegetables stuffed with something from vegetables (most often) and a side dish - potatoes (sometimes in their uniforms in foil), pasta with ketchup, rice. The tomato cucumber salad leaves quickly, leaving only tomatoes and cucumbers cut into rings (they are always in bulk). Cakes are all the same type - dough or fruit rings and whipped cream on top. The patterns are just different. On some cakes - fruits (apples, oranges, rarely strawberries). Tasty local "sherbets" - a jelly-like mass of different colors. They come in rosettes or large bowls.
On nutrition, the conclusion is this - "onion, cucumber in the stomach is not a tenant. " Therefore, a solid trio. You won't leave hungry, and you won't go hungry either. In principle, there was not enough fishing excursion (it is called “lamb on a spit” or “boar on a spit”). I think they understood the essence already - there is not enough MEAT. When I was driving back, on the plane I ate a portion of meat with a bang. Yes, and at home the second day I eat sausage. It is hard in general for a Russian person without natural meat products.

Further. . . About the bar. . . I didn't drink, but according to the story of the regulars there, they won't let you get drunk. The bartender stops and just stops pouring. Beer hits harder than wine. Beer with a bitter aftertaste, similar to Czech. I saw only one Pole drunk, how he managed to get drunk - history is silent.
The composition of the vacationers is Russian, Kazakhs, a few Poles, very few German speakers. The Kazakhs are taken there by the trade union (by vouchers). According to rumors, they pay with barter - vodka. Kazakhs and Poles come and go in groups. Russians - in small portions of several people. The Poles communicate only among themselves, to all questions “I don’t understand” and aside. Kazakhs are open and willing to make contact.
Free sunbeds and mattresses on the beach and by the pool, bring your own towels. It is forbidden to take from the room. On the beach there is a booth with water and juices (better than "invite", but clearly unnatural). Sunbeds are usually enough for everyone, the only "rush hour" around 10-30. When the "morning" people have not yet left, and the "daytime" people are already beginning to approach. Let me explain - there are those who do not like the heat and come to the beach early when it's cool, and there are those who sleep after discos and come to the beach closer to dinner. It was here that a traffic jam arose once, when the mattresses ran out. The next day, the number of mattresses was increased. Volleyball is held on the beach when there is a team. The caretaker of the beach, a menacing lifeguard (actually a kind-hearted person) also participates in the matches. The ball is normal.
The lifeguard generally watches everything very carefully so that no one drowns, and if there are any questions, he comes up and tries to explain that “it’s not worth climbing there. ” If the waves are strong, they put up a red flag on the beach (“swimming is prohibited”). Strong waves appear out of nowhere and also disappear. If there was a storm far in the sea, then no one will swim for 4 days - it knocks down with a wave. Entry into the water is not very good - in calm weather, the bottom is overgrown with algae and becomes slippery, and in a storm - big waves knock you off your feet. With strong waves, everyone sits on the shore and bathes in puddles on the stove. The water is very salty (compared to the Black Sea). Beach - sand from small pebbles (1-3 mm in diameter). Sunbeds are far enough from the water, it is forbidden to bring closer.

There are few animals in the sea. Near the shore there are 5-6 species of fish, which usually swim in schools. If you stand facing the hotel, then on the left border of the beach there are rapana shells (right on the stones at a depth of up to the neck). It is very rare to meet a stingray (very dangerous) and an octopus (I saw it personally once, a couple swam up - small, 30 cm in total, immediately fled into the sea). They say that there are turtles and starfish, but no one has seen them, even on yacht excursions.
To get to the beach, you need to cross the road. More precisely 2 roads with one-way traffic. The average density of cars is 2-3 per km of road, the flow rate is about 90 km / h, from afar they start blinking with high beams. The driver is always right with respect to the pedestrian. There are few cars - gasoline costs 100 rubles, diesel and gas are slightly cheaper. Not far from the beach, they began to build an underpass - they dug a pit with an excavator near the road from the side of the neighboring beach and slowly poked around (not heard or seen, do not interfere at all).
Animation. Of course, there is… Nominally… For adults. Sometimes they even show shows, and quite interesting ones. And so basically the same type of contests for adults in the style of "pass the card with your lips to another and don't drop it. " Every day there is a children's "animation" from 21-10 to 21-40 - several dances and a characteristic "Children, children, train... train... choo choo choo... ". Every day like a blueprint. Animators are young Turks and their assistants from Kazakhstan, constantly flowing from hotel to hotel (this kind of freebie travel). Moreover, the assistants very often do not understand what is happening at all, and the main one has to poke at them so that they turn on the right music.
Children MUST be handled by two young Turkish women who DO NOT speak Russian (only Turkish) and generally work for the first time. I wonder who will entrust their children to them at all? The most they can do is turn on "Tom and Jerry" in Turkish. And it's stupid to smile in response to questions. In general, there is NO ANIMATION in the normal sense of the word. Especially for children. There are "classes with tourists from 21-00 to 23-00". Therefore, we are engaged with children ourselves. (For the "advanced" - Katya quit).

Not far from the hotel there are shops - clothes, manufactured goods, fruits (on trays), twice (Tuesday and Saturday from 10-00 to 19-00) there is a huge bazaar. Near the mosque and banana groves. There are orange trees (oranges are already ripe). Prices for fruits and vegetables are very low (strawberries $2 per 1kg, melon about $0.5-1 per kg, green tea $1 per bunch). Meat is expensive - at least $ 15 per kilo.
Yes, and one more thing - local blondes are not allowed to pass. They try to show signs of attention, treat them with candy, bananas, etc. So girls - repaint urgently. In what color - decide for yourself : ).
In general, the hotel corresponds to the money paid for it. If even with meat at least a little better, it would be wonderful in general.