Once again about three stars

Written: 1 june 2012
Travel time: 21 — 28 may 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 5.0
Amenities: 8.0
Giving a rating to the hotel, I chose for a long time between "it will roll with beer" or "a normal hotel... "
The purpose of visiting Turkey this year for us was to get to know the country, namely to visit Cappadocia, so the choice of the hotel did not really matter. The main criteria for buying a tour were reduced to an economical budget, a compact territory, and a place on the Antalya coast, which we have not been to in two decades. Since we have mastered the coast from Kemer to Alanya, we decided to choose a hotel outside Alanya in the town of Mahmutlar. The choice fell on the Green Peace Hotel (Green peace 3 *), the best offer was at Aneksov.
In this review, I would like to give a dry description of the hotel without emotions, in order for tourists to clearly understand whether they should go there. Reading various comments, you often come across phrases that there is nothing to do in Turkish triples, however, we specifically chose the triple (and this is the second time! ), because. Let me remind you once again that the purpose of visiting Turkey for us is excursions!

Almost all sites give an accurate description of the hotel. I'll just describe in detail. So, the hotel is located in the town of Mahmutlar on the first coastline on the main street, a 5-minute walk from the central square. The city began to be built about 15 years ago, the style is European, now multi-storey residential buildings are being built, mainly 9-11 storey buildings with their own territories, swimming pools and slides, closer to the mountains is the private sector, immersed in orchards. A highway runs along the coast of Mahmutlar, all hotels on the first line are connected to their own beaches by underground passages. The location of the hotel is excellent, there are a lot of shops, shops, travel agencies nearby, there is a post office and a market that comes on Saturdays, on the main street there are a lot of buses going to Alanya, which is no more than 20 minutes (fare from 1.25 to 2.5 tur. depending on the bus number) - there is a stop in front of the hotel.
The hotel area is compact and excellent: a nice garden with various trees, an alley of roses, shady areas, where to sit in the shade of trees, a playground for children, a mini zoo with ducks, geese, chickens and peacocks (1 male and 2 females), there is a darts , big chess, table tennis (with excellent rackets), I liked the pool consisting of 3 sections: for kids 35 cm deep, for children 85 cm deep, and a large adult from 1.35m to 2.20m. The pool has new sun loungers, mattresses and umbrellas. Very pleasing to the eye.
The hotel has been redecorated, everything is clean, the rooms are small standard with individual air conditioners. The bathroom has a hairdryer, soap and shampoos are laid out, but only toilet paper was replenished in a week (however, we did not ask for shampoos and we did not run out of them, we prefer our own). Minus - a shower with a curtain, which practically does not protect the bathroom from filling with water while taking a shower, but sticks to the body; it was in our bathroom that there was a problem with the toilet cistern - it constantly leaked, the staff unsuccessfully tried to eliminate the cause, but nothing came of it - well, there is no normal plumber capable of insulating a bad joint, they could regulate the flood only by completely switching the water supply to the toilet cistern. We just threw used towels on the floor so that the water was absorbed, and walked in shales. The rooms have individual air conditioners, the area of ​ ​ the room is small, but it is quite enough for 2 people to spend the night, we moved the beds ourselves, and someone had to arrange them. The TV catches a Russian channel. The view from the room didn’t matter much to us, our windows overlooked the main street, part of the garden and the mountains (the view was beautiful, the noise from the cars didn’t interfere, and on weekends the sounds of a street loudspeaker were heard - a real Turkish night without leaving the room, everything was silent after 23-00h). All rooms with balconies, on the balcony there is a plastic chair and a dryer. Rooms are cleaned daily and quite decent, figures are made from towels without a tip, but they don’t change linen and towels voluntarily - you need to ask, which we did (of course, towels are changed from the floor without asking). In May, there were quite cold nights - we had to look like a receptionist for blankets.
Both in the rooms and at the reception there are safes, the cost is $ 1 / day, a very reasonable price! At the reception there is wi-fi with a password.

They practically do not understand Russian at the reception, although the bulk of tourists are from the former Soviet Union (Moldova, Kazakhstan, Russia), a few Germans, even fewer Poles and Turks. We arrived at the hotel late at night around 24-00 hours, so the administrator on duty just shrugged - no, they say, where to drink. Fortunately, I understand that this simply cannot be, I turned to the hotel guests and after 2 minutes I found a cooler, though with cold water.
The territory of the hotel ends with access to the beach through an equipped tunnel, in the passage there is a cooler with water and drinks, a suitcase for a lifeguard. On our beach there is a lifeguard tower that constantly broadcasts about the possibility of swimming or dangerous waves. The beach is large, spacious, there are always enough sunbeds and tables, but the mattresses are old and there are fewer umbrellas than we would like, there are few trash cans, which is stressful for our person, because they litter without getting up from the sunbeds! The beach has a foot wash, indoor changing rooms and showers. By the end of May, the beach fight began to clean up on the beach, but he brings mattresses and umbrellas only for the Germans (there are very few burgers in the hotel), the rest did not grow up with his stepmother - they take all the equipment themselves. The beach is gray sand, there is a good volleyball court. Entry into the sea is pebble, but you can do without special slippers, although it is more convenient with them. The passage in the center between two natural plates of sufficient width, God forbid, hit the plates during the waves. There are water attractions near our beach. A huge beach strip, on one side you can see the mountain with the famous tower of Alanya, on the other, and I think the mountain on which the Utopia hotel is located is not closer.
The food at the hotel is more than modest, the level of the hotel is fully justified here (previously we were in the top three with the common infrastructure of the four - there is no comparison). You won't leave hungry, but the choice is very small, the men definitely don't have enough meat, they didn't cook fish during the week of their stay at the hotel. Breakfast is very modest. Lunches are rather weak, sometimes the main dish is only soy. We liked dinner. Every day the chef prepares different dishes from chicken, there was beef. Type meat dishes are superimposed in portions by the chef himself, but he is a good person and may well put as much as needed: I even asked for less, and my husband took a double chicken. The choice of fruits was limited to oranges, apples and green plums (you need to be able to eat it - an excellent snack for cancer (Turkish vodka) - cut in half, peeled and salted). From sweet, simple soaked cakes 2 at most 3 types and only in the evening, and mousse for lunch. Snack at the bar - cookies, cupcakes.
All drinks in the bar and restaurant are poured strictly into glass containers: glasses, glasses, which is very nice, no plastic reusable or underfilled portions!

But the energy savings are felt everywhere. For the first time we encountered this without finding boiling water at night, then we managed to visit the Turkish bath at the hotel, getting into the sauna with heating + 60 ° C, and after it on a cold stone, hot tea in the sauna could not be offered to us due to the lack of an electric kettle - only water or cold drinks! In the evening, there was always a lack of hot tea, people were sitting waiting for the only big thermos to boil? ! I somehow turned on the cooler myself - tired of waiting (they are constantly turned off), but the trouble is - tea in bags only through the bartender for issuance - assortment: simple black! There is no gozelme, no ayran, no Turkish coffee in the hotel. Turkish tea is made at the bar during the daytime.
There were children in the hotel, and not a little, what they were fed there, it’s a mystery to me personally, although the omnivorous baby will not disappear there!
The hotel chief wanted to change the animators, but for me they were such good guys, Anechka did exercises on the beach and aqua aerobics in the pool, took everyone to night discos, Dmitry entertained the kids and their parents. In the evening, the guys spent something in the amphitheater (he's tiny there), saw another Turkish animator girl - she played volleyball on the beach.
In general, the appearance of the hotel and the location create an excellent impression, if the hotel employees were more attentive to their duties, then the hotel could well take a decent place in ITS STAR!
Yesterday, upon arrival, I looked at prices for the summer of 2012. to this hotel: from Perm for a week more than 40 thousand - the price, in my opinion, is overpriced by at least a dozen !! ! For tourists, where tours to a hotel sell up to 30.000 rubles, it is quite possible to go to this hotel, turning a blind eye to the little things of the service.
There are questions - I will answer!
Translated automatically from Russian. View original