Отдых в Алании Holidays in Alanya

When looking for a tour, I specifically looked for a hotel in Alanya itself, and not in its vicinity. For several reasons, firstly: the city itself is simply interesting - cafes, entertainment, just new people, etc. , and secondly: a magnificent city beach. Unlike the suburbs, where the beaches are very reminiscent of the coast near Odessa, clay, stones and algae, here there is soft imported (Egyptian) sand and very friendly staff who have money from every sunbed and umbrella and, accordingly, are vitally interested that you go to his site. Entrance to the beach is free, money is taken for using a sunbed and an umbrella (9 YTL for two). And thirdly, there are very few of ours. They prefer to settle outside the city in 5 ***** reservations, a couple of years ago I myself got into one, ours begin to thump, pig, spoil the rest for themselves and others, demand immodest service for their modest money, forgetting one thing that prepaid vacation this is no longer a vacation. Your money has already been received and spent, and the task of the hotel is to save you as much as possible. However, I will not develop the topic, today it is not about that.
In Alanya, as in Paris, in principle, there are no 5-star hotels, they are not dragged along the territory. Hotel Mikador fully corresponds to its three stars. Very small rooms, but at the same time clean and tidy, recent renovation is visible. There is a tiny pool in the courtyard, it is clear that they did it not for relaxation, but for an asterisk and an excellent restaurant, half of which is in the hotel building and half on the terrace on the side is planted with plants and on top of the canopy. It is very pleasant to eat there. The food is modest, but it is cooked well, the abundance of vegetables and fruits pleases. We just overate on watermelons and melons.
The contingent of the hotel is quite wide, these are Germans, Poles, British, Czechs, Balts. There are very few of us, mostly Baltic Russians. What was very striking was that they behaved much more cultured than the native Balts, especially the Estonians, whose favorite entertainment was to grab a common tray in a restaurant and drag it to their table. But fortunately they did not make the weather and in general the hotel left a good impression. Attentive and helpful staff, only with the Russian language they have a bad time, or rather, just not at all, so if you choose this hotel it is desirable to know at least a little English or Deutsch. Once a week they arrange an evening show "Turkish Night" we really liked the show, it was done much better and better than those Turkish nights where they take them on excursions.

I'll do a little tour. Firstly, these "Turkish Nights". Rare bullshit. Firstly, the building of the caravanserai where the show takes place is not intended for this. A long narrow room, in the middle of the stage and to the right and left there are tables along the walls. It turns out that you can see the scene only from the first tables. Then you will only expel the breasts of the fourth person : ) Their buffet is terrible. There is little food and it is completely cold, there is no place on the tables to put plates. The staff is very rude, they have one task to sell you a cocktail for 10 euros per glass, they are so busy with this fascinating business that the rest of their duties are simply fucked up. The show itself is also nothing special. Folk dances, belly dance with the obligatory pulling of the audience onto the stage, Caucasian dances. Belly dances are professionally danced, but our Maruska dancers who are not able to move at all.
Another thing we didn't like was the water park. There are only 7 slides for adults, 4 of them are paid, i. е. they seem to be free, but in order to ride them you need to rent a circle that costs 5 bucks per person. This has never been thought of anywhere in my opinion.
I liked Alanya Boat tour very much. They take you on a boat for almost the whole day, take you to various interesting places with bathing, smearing with healing clay, they feed you lunch, which is grilled there, the team plays the role of animators and is very successful, in any case, we were not bored and all this for 25 USD per person. I will say, for example, that just having lunch in the city costs about $20 per nose.
And we were very impressed after the trip on ATVs. It's worth describing in more detail. When we were brought to the base, we were a little surprised that before putting us on the quad, the instructor first checked how we drive, and the most interesting thing is that this check was not a formality. There was a young German couple, he told the German woman that she had serious driving problems and put her on her boyfriend's motorcycle, returning them half the money, which is already something unthinkable for Turkey. Finally, we were put on impossibly broken ATVs, when we set off, I immediately drove into the front car. It turned out that my brakes did not work at all. The Turks checked, groaned and gave me another one no better. He began to slow down slightly after 7 meters after pressing the brake. I thought that it's okay, I'll just keep a little more distance and we drove off. There was still nothing in the city, although we had one mother with a child from Chelyabinsk, she fell into a ditch at the very first turn and the instructor (there were two of them - the father and his 10-year-old son, a young Schumacher) transplanted them to her. And then we went to the mountains. I thought that all Kick-Ass with a capital letter. A narrow, winding drozhka littered with stones, moving over which the motorcycle becomes at an angle, sharp hills and slopes, and all this against the backdrop of a steep cliff 70-80 meters high with broken brakes! I immediately remembered the text of the piece of paper that we signed before leaving, I didn’t read it carefully, but the general meaning was that in the event of my death, I ask you to blame Klava K. In all seriousness, I tell the sequence of jumping out of the ATV if we still fall into the abyss... In general, we survived. As a reward, we were taken to a wonderful place called Carabinery picnic - a section of a mountain river in a forest with small waterfalls, a blocked swimming bay, very cozy tables where you could relax and put your nerves in order. We drove back along a normal road, but still 2 more cars broke down, including the chain on mine. But oddly enough, all of our small group liked the trip VERY much, we shook hands with the instructor and his young hellish racer for a long time and parted ways with them as best friends.

Everything, there is still something to write, but there is no more strength to trample Claudia. If you have any questions, write, I do not promise, but I will try to answer.
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