Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
5.0
Service:
3.0
Cleanliness:
3.0
Food:
2.0
Amenities:
3.0
I will say right away to avoid comments that we are too spoiled and picky, that we have been in Turkey 18 times already, we have rested in all regions - in Kemer, Belek, Side, Alanya, Marmaris, Bodrum. So there really is something to compare. We started with expensive (relatively) fashionable hotels, but then we realized that everything is about the same everywhere, and it is often better to choose a good 4 * than a weak 5 *. So for the last few years we have been going 2-3 times a year to 4 * hotels. We love Turkey with all our heart. Good-natured, friendly people, climate, sea, Turkish cuisine. We always like everything, we are always satisfied, we do not pay attention to minor flaws, we come home really rested, ready, as they say, for new labor exploits.
Based on our experience, we trust reviews by 50%, because often upon arrival at the hotel, we saw that, to put it mildly, they were not true. Often a scandal is inflated from some insignificant trifle, people really sometimes come across too “arrogant”, and good things are not noticed at the same time. We ourselves have never written reviews before, it is very difficult for us to ruin a vacation, we are always positive. This happened 17 times. . .
But, as they say, even an old woman has a hole in her face... And so we ended up in Limoncello (we really got it! ). But let's go in order.
Firstly, the hotel, of course, is not 5 * either in terms of location, or in terms of territory, or in terms of the service provided, for such ridiculous money 5 * UAI does not happen. We were counting on the level of 4 *, but everything turned out to be "a little" worse...
So. . .
1. Settlement. I put a firm mark of 2.
We arrived at the hotel at 5:30 am.
Yes, we, as experienced tourists, know very well that check-out is at 12.00, check-in is at 14.00. This is a world practice, but... We often came to Turkey both at night and in the morning, and usually 10-20 dollars always solved the problem. In addition, 2 families drove in, and after 5 minutes 4-5 families left. They were able to clean the rooms for us only at 13.45, although the cleaners rustle already from 7.00 (by the way, shamelessly they start vacuuming in the common corridor at 7.30, I also want to sleep on vacation, but it’s so, little things). In short, after 8 hours of waiting, forcing us to still give 10 euros, settled.
2. Number. More or less. The furniture is not very old. View directly to the sea (which is not so important for us). The hair dryer in the bathroom was torn off with meat, the glass doors on the bathroom were broken, I had to hold it so that it did not fall off when closing, the TV sound was very quiet, although we don’t watch it on vacation. But, again, we haven’t paid attention to such small things for a long time, so we can put 4 points for the number.
- Cleaning. For 3 with a plus, as elsewhere in Turkey. They always left 1 dollar. True, they changed the linen regularly, even the swans were twisted out of towels for us a couple of times. We asked for a second blanket - they gave it without any problems.
3. Beach. For the beach - a solid rating of 2. The point is not that the beach is only 20 m wide, but that everything is very run down, dirty and no one is even trying to fix something. There are only 30 places under the canopy. The remaining 50 sunbeds stand in the open air. The entrance to the sea is terrible. The rock slab is slippery and ribbed. I saw how a man with a child in his arms went into the sea, slipped, fell, scared the child and got scared for the child himself. If you know how to swim, then it’s better to go from the pier along the stairs. It’s easier for me, I dived straight from the pier, it’s not high there, up to 2 meters.
Walk 700-800 meters to the beach (but for us this is more a plus than a minus. On the way to the beach, by the way, there is an inexpensive shop. There, for example, sweet pomegranates for $ 1 per kg). The bar on the beach doesn't even have beer (It's 5* UAI). Of the drinks, 2 types of chemical UPPI and shmurdyachny diluted coffee. From snacks, only one dish every day is a burger with a soy patty.
3-1. Sea. Overseas rating 5+. The sea in Turkey in September is always 5+. This is perhaps the only thing that Limoncello could not spoil us. The water is warm and clean (were 2 months ago 5 km in Caretta 4 *, for some reason there was a lot of garbage in the sea, although the hotel is a cut above in terms of service. But here, apparently, it still depends on the season and on the wind).
4. Territory. Grade - 3. Total area - 12.000 sq. m. I have never seen such small fives before. Dirty, not well maintained, which is nonsense for a Turkish hotel, I have not met a single gardener for all the time. There is only one bar on the territory, the assortment is the same as on the beach - none. True, there is beer, but it is bottled in 100 gr. plastic glasses. If you do not count the foam, then 70 grams are placed in a glass. The bartender is in a dirty tunic (like all the staff associated with the kitchen and products).
The pool seems to be normal, but we didn’t swim. We came to swim in the September sea, and I can splash around in bleach at home.
5. SPA. I put 4 with a minus. Minus for the fact that everything is very old, shabby and broken. The peeling was done so-so, but the Ethiopian chocolate massage was excellent, I enjoyed it. If you do at least one paid procedure, you can go to the sauna when and how much want. Although it is always included in 5 * UAI initially, but in this hotel everything is a little different. Well, since this is one of the few positive points of this hotel, every day we ran for half an hour to the SPA center, sit in the sauna.
6. Nutrition. SOLID ONE!! ! This is the biggest downside of this hotel. We love Turkish food very much, but here it was one big upset. The cooks at the hotel are armless, just a translation of products, meat and fish dishes are not fried, with blood. The quality of the products leaves much to be desired, he personally threw out suspicious, "smell" dishes several times. I personally heard about a dozen stories from people about poisoning. The family that drove with us on the same bus got hurt all together, fell out of vacation for two days. We are beaten tourists, we always have a first-aid kit with us, threw them medicines for poisoning at night, and in the morning, when local pharmacies opened, we went and bought them more different medicines, they themselves were not able to go out (and they were afraid to go far from the toilet, in order to avoid accidents).
There is no dishwasher in the restaurant, the dishes are washed by hand, with barely warm water, and they are washed only from above, from below fat and food residues remain. A very cool picture, you go into a restaurant, everyone stands and rubs plates with napkins and swears. The dishes are all chipped and cracked, from previous seasons, 7 or 8 sizes, different colors. A constant problem with forks, people take spoons or dessert forks instead of forks. In short, the kitchen is a complete ambush, we encountered this for the first time in Turkey. One thing saved us - drinking strong alcohol before eating. We brought two bottles with us and had to buy two at a local store. Expensive, of course, they have alcohol, but health is more expensive . I tried a couple of times for dinner to take free vodka, gin and whiskey (it's UAI) - shmurdyak is full, diluted exactly in half, i. e. maximum 20 degrees.
7. Service. No less than the kitchen killed the boorish attitude of the staff (not all, but the middle level, in particular the reception staff). When we were waiting for the settlement, we went to the toilet at the reception, and there....It’s cleaner at the rural bus station, it’s scary to approach this toilet, let alone sit on it. A woman (who later poisoned herself and whom we bought medicines for) made a remark to them, to which this receptionist, who identified himself as Ilyas, said: "Welcome to HELL! ".
At first I thought that he just decided to smooth everything over and turn it into a joke, I look at him, and he looks at us contemptuously and smirks. I just freaked out. So I wanted to punch him in the face, but, unfortunately, it is categorically not recommended to do this in Turkey, it has already been checked, it comes out very expensive.
Then this woman (Tamara from Ukraine) asks the second worker (name is Gennady):
- Would you sit on such a toilet yourself?
He doesn't even look at her and says:
- And I'm at home.
Then Ilyas retorted again:
- If you don't like something, complain to your Zelensky.
ALL. THE CURTAIN.
Here you go. What rating for the service to put - decide for yourself.
Later, the hotel employees themselves told me why all this was happening in the hotel (by the way, another plus of the hotel is that almost all the staff speak Russian).
In short, the owner of the hotel is some kind of party boss from Erdogan's party. Naturally, a very busy person is engaged in politics somewhere in the capital. The hotel is rented out. The lease is about to end. The money for the rooms has basically already been paid for. Therefore, everyone is fucked. The tenant, apparently, is not a very clean person (in the sense of morality). They have already calculated their profit, so they cut everything as much as possible. There is not even hot water in the hotel. I measured the water in the hot tap with a thermometer - +32. Such a summer water. It is still normal for an adult to wash, but how do people wash children?
So. OUTPUT:
- If you are only in the process of choosing a hotel - definitely refuse. Add 50-100 dollars. Go to some 4 *. This hotel is hardly 3* today.
- If you are with children - definitely a refusal, unsanitary conditions, there is no children's or dietary cuisine in this 5 * UAI, and you cannot pour 100 grams of vodka for a child for disinfection.
We are sociable people with elastic, and in the process of communication we came across several people who are completely satisfied with the hotel, but in the process of communication it turned out that they were in Turkey for the first time and had never been anywhere except Crimea before. Although, I think that now in the Crimea, probably, the service is not the same as it was 10 years ago. For such money, it is probably better to go to the Crimea than to Limoncello. Yes, and healthier.
If you have already “stumbled” and bought a ticket to Limoncello or get there by FORTUNA, then I will try to give you a couple of tips.
- In the US Army for female soldiers there is an interesting point in the instructions for behavior in extreme situations: if you are being raped and you have no way to prevent it, then just relax and have fun (I wonder if such an instruction really exists or is it a bike? ). So, you need to do the same here. Try to make the most of the pros (although there aren't many) and ignore the cons as much as possible.
Pros: sea, sun, walks in the evening (there is a whole block of shops, about 100), sauna, spa treatments. They offer many excursions (by the way, right in front of the hotel, all these excursions are half the price of the hotel guides).
- If you swim badly and plan to enter from the shore, then it is better to take a special one. slippers.
- Medicines in Turkey are expensive, though there are no fakes. So at least take the basics with you.
- Be sure to take strong alcohol. In this hotel it's really a matter of security (well, for fun again).
And most importantly - TAKE A GOOD MOOD WITH YOU.
Based on our experience, we trust reviews by 50%, because often upon arrival at the hotel, we saw that, to put it mildly, they were not true. Often a scandal is inflated from some insignificant trifle, people really sometimes come across too “arrogant”, and good things are not noticed at the same time. We ourselves have never written reviews before, it is very difficult for us to ruin a vacation, we are always positive. This happened 17 times. . .
But, as they say, even an old woman has a hole in her face... And so we ended up in Limoncello (we really got it! ). But let's go in order.
Firstly, the hotel, of course, is not 5 * either in terms of location, or in terms of territory, or in terms of the service provided, for such ridiculous money 5 * UAI does not happen. We were counting on the level of 4 *, but everything turned out to be "a little" worse...
So. . .
1. Settlement. I put a firm mark of 2.
We arrived at the hotel at 5:30 am.
Yes, we, as experienced tourists, know very well that check-out is at 12.00, check-in is at 14.00. This is a world practice, but... We often came to Turkey both at night and in the morning, and usually 10-20 dollars always solved the problem. In addition, 2 families drove in, and after 5 minutes 4-5 families left. They were able to clean the rooms for us only at 13.45, although the cleaners rustle already from 7.00 (by the way, shamelessly they start vacuuming in the common corridor at 7.30, I also want to sleep on vacation, but it’s so, little things). In short, after 8 hours of waiting, forcing us to still give 10 euros, settled.
2. Number. More or less. The furniture is not very old. View directly to the sea (which is not so important for us). The hair dryer in the bathroom was torn off with meat, the glass doors on the bathroom were broken, I had to hold it so that it did not fall off when closing, the TV sound was very quiet, although we don’t watch it on vacation. But, again, we haven’t paid attention to such small things for a long time, so we can put 4 points for the number.
- Cleaning. For 3 with a plus, as elsewhere in Turkey. They always left 1 dollar. True, they changed the linen regularly, even the swans were twisted out of towels for us a couple of times. We asked for a second blanket - they gave it without any problems.
3. Beach. For the beach - a solid rating of 2. The point is not that the beach is only 20 m wide, but that everything is very run down, dirty and no one is even trying to fix something. There are only 30 places under the canopy. The remaining 50 sunbeds stand in the open air. The entrance to the sea is terrible. The rock slab is slippery and ribbed. I saw how a man with a child in his arms went into the sea, slipped, fell, scared the child and got scared for the child himself. If you know how to swim, then it’s better to go from the pier along the stairs. It’s easier for me, I dived straight from the pier, it’s not high there, up to 2 meters.
Walk 700-800 meters to the beach (but for us this is more a plus than a minus. On the way to the beach, by the way, there is an inexpensive shop. There, for example, sweet pomegranates for $ 1 per kg). The bar on the beach doesn't even have beer (It's 5* UAI). Of the drinks, 2 types of chemical UPPI and shmurdyachny diluted coffee. From snacks, only one dish every day is a burger with a soy patty.
3-1. Sea. Overseas rating 5+. The sea in Turkey in September is always 5+. This is perhaps the only thing that Limoncello could not spoil us. The water is warm and clean (were 2 months ago 5 km in Caretta 4 *, for some reason there was a lot of garbage in the sea, although the hotel is a cut above in terms of service. But here, apparently, it still depends on the season and on the wind).
4. Territory. Grade - 3. Total area - 12.000 sq. m. I have never seen such small fives before. Dirty, not well maintained, which is nonsense for a Turkish hotel, I have not met a single gardener for all the time. There is only one bar on the territory, the assortment is the same as on the beach - none. True, there is beer, but it is bottled in 100 gr. plastic glasses. If you do not count the foam, then 70 grams are placed in a glass. The bartender is in a dirty tunic (like all the staff associated with the kitchen and products).
The pool seems to be normal, but we didn’t swim. We came to swim in the September sea, and I can splash around in bleach at home.
5. SPA. I put 4 with a minus. Minus for the fact that everything is very old, shabby and broken. The peeling was done so-so, but the Ethiopian chocolate massage was excellent, I enjoyed it. If you do at least one paid procedure, you can go to the sauna when and how much want. Although it is always included in 5 * UAI initially, but in this hotel everything is a little different. Well, since this is one of the few positive points of this hotel, every day we ran for half an hour to the SPA center, sit in the sauna.
6. Nutrition. SOLID ONE!! ! This is the biggest downside of this hotel. We love Turkish food very much, but here it was one big upset. The cooks at the hotel are armless, just a translation of products, meat and fish dishes are not fried, with blood. The quality of the products leaves much to be desired, he personally threw out suspicious, "smell" dishes several times. I personally heard about a dozen stories from people about poisoning. The family that drove with us on the same bus got hurt all together, fell out of vacation for two days. We are beaten tourists, we always have a first-aid kit with us, threw them medicines for poisoning at night, and in the morning, when local pharmacies opened, we went and bought them more different medicines, they themselves were not able to go out (and they were afraid to go far from the toilet, in order to avoid accidents).
There is no dishwasher in the restaurant, the dishes are washed by hand, with barely warm water, and they are washed only from above, from below fat and food residues remain. A very cool picture, you go into a restaurant, everyone stands and rubs plates with napkins and swears. The dishes are all chipped and cracked, from previous seasons, 7 or 8 sizes, different colors. A constant problem with forks, people take spoons or dessert forks instead of forks. In short, the kitchen is a complete ambush, we encountered this for the first time in Turkey. One thing saved us - drinking strong alcohol before eating. We brought two bottles with us and had to buy two at a local store. Expensive, of course, they have alcohol, but health is more expensive . I tried a couple of times for dinner to take free vodka, gin and whiskey (it's UAI) - shmurdyak is full, diluted exactly in half, i. e. maximum 20 degrees.
7. Service. No less than the kitchen killed the boorish attitude of the staff (not all, but the middle level, in particular the reception staff). When we were waiting for the settlement, we went to the toilet at the reception, and there....It’s cleaner at the rural bus station, it’s scary to approach this toilet, let alone sit on it. A woman (who later poisoned herself and whom we bought medicines for) made a remark to them, to which this receptionist, who identified himself as Ilyas, said: "Welcome to HELL! ".
At first I thought that he just decided to smooth everything over and turn it into a joke, I look at him, and he looks at us contemptuously and smirks. I just freaked out. So I wanted to punch him in the face, but, unfortunately, it is categorically not recommended to do this in Turkey, it has already been checked, it comes out very expensive.
Then this woman (Tamara from Ukraine) asks the second worker (name is Gennady):
- Would you sit on such a toilet yourself?
He doesn't even look at her and says:
- And I'm at home.
Then Ilyas retorted again:
- If you don't like something, complain to your Zelensky.
ALL. THE CURTAIN.
Here you go. What rating for the service to put - decide for yourself.
Later, the hotel employees themselves told me why all this was happening in the hotel (by the way, another plus of the hotel is that almost all the staff speak Russian).
In short, the owner of the hotel is some kind of party boss from Erdogan's party. Naturally, a very busy person is engaged in politics somewhere in the capital. The hotel is rented out. The lease is about to end. The money for the rooms has basically already been paid for. Therefore, everyone is fucked. The tenant, apparently, is not a very clean person (in the sense of morality). They have already calculated their profit, so they cut everything as much as possible. There is not even hot water in the hotel. I measured the water in the hot tap with a thermometer - +32. Such a summer water. It is still normal for an adult to wash, but how do people wash children?
So. OUTPUT:
- If you are only in the process of choosing a hotel - definitely refuse. Add 50-100 dollars. Go to some 4 *. This hotel is hardly 3* today.
- If you are with children - definitely a refusal, unsanitary conditions, there is no children's or dietary cuisine in this 5 * UAI, and you cannot pour 100 grams of vodka for a child for disinfection.
We are sociable people with elastic, and in the process of communication we came across several people who are completely satisfied with the hotel, but in the process of communication it turned out that they were in Turkey for the first time and had never been anywhere except Crimea before. Although, I think that now in the Crimea, probably, the service is not the same as it was 10 years ago. For such money, it is probably better to go to the Crimea than to Limoncello. Yes, and healthier.
If you have already “stumbled” and bought a ticket to Limoncello or get there by FORTUNA, then I will try to give you a couple of tips.
- In the US Army for female soldiers there is an interesting point in the instructions for behavior in extreme situations: if you are being raped and you have no way to prevent it, then just relax and have fun (I wonder if such an instruction really exists or is it a bike? ). So, you need to do the same here. Try to make the most of the pros (although there aren't many) and ignore the cons as much as possible.
Pros: sea, sun, walks in the evening (there is a whole block of shops, about 100), sauna, spa treatments. They offer many excursions (by the way, right in front of the hotel, all these excursions are half the price of the hotel guides).
- If you swim badly and plan to enter from the shore, then it is better to take a special one. slippers.
- Medicines in Turkey are expensive, though there are no fakes. So at least take the basics with you.
- Be sure to take strong alcohol. In this hotel it's really a matter of security (well, for fun again).
And most importantly - TAKE A GOOD MOOD WITH YOU.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original
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