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Rooms:
4.0
Service:
4.0
Cleanliness:
3.0
Food:
4.0
Amenities:
4.0
We recently returned from Turkey and would like to share our impressions of our vacation. To begin with, I flew to Turkey for the first time, I took a ticket spontaneously, on the recommendation of friends, I turned to the ChipTop travel agency, which specializes in last-minute tours, and if before that other agencies told me that there were no flights from Moscow to Turkey for the next week in general, in this agency I was immediately offered many options for departure the next day. Therefore, we did not have to carefully choose a hotel, we took the cheapest one and rushed with the whole family. I will explain right away why I deliberately decided to take the cheapest hotel, realizing that it would not cause delight in me. Firstly, Turkey - the sea and the beach are the most important thing for children, secondly, great shopping at the end of the season, thirdly - we always take a lot of excursions and it doesn’t matter where I spend the night, because 4 stars is already an indicator that the room there will be a bed and a shower and I will not stay hungry.
The meeting side of Sunrise, all without delay, it took 2 hours to get to the hotel. The first impression of the hotel - sanatorium. They settled right away, liked the room, everything was clean, new furniture, only closer to the night they found that the bed linen was wrinkled, torn and everything was yellow spots; to my request to change our linen, I was politely answered that everything was changed before our arrival. I did not spoil my mood and gave up on it. For 9 days of rest, we changed linen 3 times and a towel every other day.
A hotel without luxury, everything is very modest, simple, a large monolithic 7-storey building with 2 elevators. There is a large plasma TV in the hall, opposite the bar, you can sit right at home, root for the football championship, burying your feet in the pillows on the sofa and drinking a cocktail.
The food is monotonous, canteen. For breakfast, they took donuts or pancakes; for lunch, several types of meat dishes (stewed heart, meatballs, sausages), chicken, fish such as fried capelin (for an amateur). In the evening, barbecue grilled chicken wings, sausages, vegetables. It seems that the choice of dishes is large, but already on the 3rd day you want vinaigrette, Olivier, dumplings and borscht. There are very few fruits: watermelon, melon, apples, plums and a couple of times grapes. Coffee from the vending machine 4 types - terrible. They didn’t even come to the dessert table after the first tasting, everything was made from the same dough and flavored, even my children refused to take the cake. In general, the food does not even pull on the four.
Animation is present, almost every evening Valiko invites vacationers to show time, holds a competition, such as "the best couple", there are very funny scenes, we watched these events with pleasure from our balcony on the 3rd floor. After the show, young people gathered in groups and left for Alanya for a disco, but the "pension" continued to hang out on the veranda closer to the bar.
In general, the contingent of vacationers is diverse, but everything is in the "economy class": there are mothers with children in their own circle and many young couples in love and grandmothers-"lighters" hang out, mostly Russians, but there were also Poles, Germans, Turks.
All excursions were taken from the guide, they definitely overpaid 20-50 dollars for each, but I have two children, I didn’t want to take risks. Although at the very end I realized that the excursions bought from the guide do not change the attitude of the Turks towards me, they do everything lazily, just to get rid of it, and the vaunted hospitality is only included by offering additional services for an additional fee. I liked the excursion to the Oceanarium, for 2 adults and 2 children they gave 210 dollars (a bit too much, but this program was not offered from the street). 1 hour watched the show in the dolphinarium, and then 4 hours in free flight, you want to sunbathe on the white sand, or rinse with the kids in the paddling pool. There are several water slides, but the most interesting thing is in the large pool with tropical fish: they give out a wetsuit and a mask with a snorkel and you can spend all the time "booty to the top" looking at the bottom imitating a flooded city with columns and ruined walls of the fortress, there are large statues and various structures . Flocks of colorful fish swim everywhere, which stick around you from all sides. There is also a pool with stingrays on the territory, the depth in it is 50-120 cm, and children and adults chase poor stingrays from one corner to another, you can even grab the largest ones and ride holding on to its "wings", and the guide half-jokingly speaks broken Russian language "no need to throw stingrays on land - they want to live. " For 5 euros, they offer to dive into the pool as a shark, get a pearl from the bottom and they will decorate it for you in a pendant. I recommend this trip to everyone.
We went on a fishing trip touted by everyone, on a mountain river - one disappointment: no one caught a single fish, a playground - these are two wooden slides and a pair of swings. They fed fish soup from heads and tails, instead of fried lamb they served boiled, and then fried lamb, such as stew, and there was trout on the grill. Probably better was fishing on artificial lakes (? ), but we didn’t go there.
A Turkish bath (Hamam) is a different story, but being in Turkey and not visiting a Turkish bath is not logical. But it all comes down to the fact that the paid program includes a sauna, a steam room, a jacuzzi, a foam massage, a mud mask on the face and a massage with aroma oil, but in fact, a crowd of people go to exhaustion from the sauna to the steam room, only men wash (without much harassment ), then they are "bred" for a mud mask of the whole body for a fee, and the massage therapist begins to massage the feet and calves well, then an enhanced massage with lymphatic drainage or another type (Thai) is offered, and if the client refuses, then interest in the client disappears, they just smear oil and send you out. There was no feeling of cleansing, no relaxation. But that day it was raining and Hamam turned out to be a better alternative than just sitting in the room.
The staff at the hotel is not intrusive, smiles kindly, does not pretend to tip. We tried to exchange our vodka for Raki - they tactfully refused us, they are afraid of losing their job. The atmosphere is calm, different music plays all day long, in the evenings "Vladimirsky Central" is turned on 3 times. Water slides work by the hour, but most of the vacationers lie all day by the pool, so
And finally, what is Turkish shopping? Who said everything is cheap in Turkey? Lies. Only in the city of Istanbul in the wholesale market they buy high-quality and inexpensive goods, and in the resort area everything is offered at some unrealistic prices and slop quality. In Alanya, the bazaar is Cherkizon in its purest form. How much strength and patience do you need to bargain for every dollar, to the point of hoarseness? For the Turks, this is a national pastime - bargaining, but I, a simple Russian housewife, do not understand how you can set the initial price for jeans at $ 280, beat off 50% for half an hour, at the end agree to $ 110 and, as a result, bring things from Turkey that I could buy in Moscow for the same money with great comfort. And this lure - leather jackets for 100 euros (? ), And in the end for 400, and if you say - I don’t need a jacket for that kind of money, then you will hear so much abuse and resentment.
So, after weighing all the pros and cons, I decided that Turland is dropping out of my list of places where I want to return again.
The meeting side of Sunrise, all without delay, it took 2 hours to get to the hotel. The first impression of the hotel - sanatorium. They settled right away, liked the room, everything was clean, new furniture, only closer to the night they found that the bed linen was wrinkled, torn and everything was yellow spots; to my request to change our linen, I was politely answered that everything was changed before our arrival. I did not spoil my mood and gave up on it. For 9 days of rest, we changed linen 3 times and a towel every other day.
A hotel without luxury, everything is very modest, simple, a large monolithic 7-storey building with 2 elevators. There is a large plasma TV in the hall, opposite the bar, you can sit right at home, root for the football championship, burying your feet in the pillows on the sofa and drinking a cocktail.
The food is monotonous, canteen. For breakfast, they took donuts or pancakes; for lunch, several types of meat dishes (stewed heart, meatballs, sausages), chicken, fish such as fried capelin (for an amateur). In the evening, barbecue grilled chicken wings, sausages, vegetables. It seems that the choice of dishes is large, but already on the 3rd day you want vinaigrette, Olivier, dumplings and borscht. There are very few fruits: watermelon, melon, apples, plums and a couple of times grapes. Coffee from the vending machine 4 types - terrible. They didn’t even come to the dessert table after the first tasting, everything was made from the same dough and flavored, even my children refused to take the cake. In general, the food does not even pull on the four.
Animation is present, almost every evening Valiko invites vacationers to show time, holds a competition, such as "the best couple", there are very funny scenes, we watched these events with pleasure from our balcony on the 3rd floor. After the show, young people gathered in groups and left for Alanya for a disco, but the "pension" continued to hang out on the veranda closer to the bar.
In general, the contingent of vacationers is diverse, but everything is in the "economy class": there are mothers with children in their own circle and many young couples in love and grandmothers-"lighters" hang out, mostly Russians, but there were also Poles, Germans, Turks.
All excursions were taken from the guide, they definitely overpaid 20-50 dollars for each, but I have two children, I didn’t want to take risks. Although at the very end I realized that the excursions bought from the guide do not change the attitude of the Turks towards me, they do everything lazily, just to get rid of it, and the vaunted hospitality is only included by offering additional services for an additional fee. I liked the excursion to the Oceanarium, for 2 adults and 2 children they gave 210 dollars (a bit too much, but this program was not offered from the street). 1 hour watched the show in the dolphinarium, and then 4 hours in free flight, you want to sunbathe on the white sand, or rinse with the kids in the paddling pool. There are several water slides, but the most interesting thing is in the large pool with tropical fish: they give out a wetsuit and a mask with a snorkel and you can spend all the time "booty to the top" looking at the bottom imitating a flooded city with columns and ruined walls of the fortress, there are large statues and various structures . Flocks of colorful fish swim everywhere, which stick around you from all sides. There is also a pool with stingrays on the territory, the depth in it is 50-120 cm, and children and adults chase poor stingrays from one corner to another, you can even grab the largest ones and ride holding on to its "wings", and the guide half-jokingly speaks broken Russian language "no need to throw stingrays on land - they want to live. " For 5 euros, they offer to dive into the pool as a shark, get a pearl from the bottom and they will decorate it for you in a pendant. I recommend this trip to everyone.
We went on a fishing trip touted by everyone, on a mountain river - one disappointment: no one caught a single fish, a playground - these are two wooden slides and a pair of swings. They fed fish soup from heads and tails, instead of fried lamb they served boiled, and then fried lamb, such as stew, and there was trout on the grill. Probably better was fishing on artificial lakes (? ), but we didn’t go there.
A Turkish bath (Hamam) is a different story, but being in Turkey and not visiting a Turkish bath is not logical. But it all comes down to the fact that the paid program includes a sauna, a steam room, a jacuzzi, a foam massage, a mud mask on the face and a massage with aroma oil, but in fact, a crowd of people go to exhaustion from the sauna to the steam room, only men wash (without much harassment ), then they are "bred" for a mud mask of the whole body for a fee, and the massage therapist begins to massage the feet and calves well, then an enhanced massage with lymphatic drainage or another type (Thai) is offered, and if the client refuses, then interest in the client disappears, they just smear oil and send you out. There was no feeling of cleansing, no relaxation. But that day it was raining and Hamam turned out to be a better alternative than just sitting in the room.
The staff at the hotel is not intrusive, smiles kindly, does not pretend to tip. We tried to exchange our vodka for Raki - they tactfully refused us, they are afraid of losing their job. The atmosphere is calm, different music plays all day long, in the evenings "Vladimirsky Central" is turned on 3 times. Water slides work by the hour, but most of the vacationers lie all day by the pool, so
And finally, what is Turkish shopping? Who said everything is cheap in Turkey? Lies. Only in the city of Istanbul in the wholesale market they buy high-quality and inexpensive goods, and in the resort area everything is offered at some unrealistic prices and slop quality. In Alanya, the bazaar is Cherkizon in its purest form. How much strength and patience do you need to bargain for every dollar, to the point of hoarseness? For the Turks, this is a national pastime - bargaining, but I, a simple Russian housewife, do not understand how you can set the initial price for jeans at $ 280, beat off 50% for half an hour, at the end agree to $ 110 and, as a result, bring things from Turkey that I could buy in Moscow for the same money with great comfort. And this lure - leather jackets for 100 euros (? ), And in the end for 400, and if you say - I don’t need a jacket for that kind of money, then you will hear so much abuse and resentment.
So, after weighing all the pros and cons, I decided that Turland is dropping out of my list of places where I want to return again.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original
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