It could have been worse

Written: 7 october 2012
Travel time: 21 september — 5 october 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
4.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 5.0
Amenities: 4.0
Four adults and two children (2 and 4 years old) went on vacation together
UIA liked the Boeing flight more than the Wind Rose Airbus - takeoff and landing were much easier. Transfer Pegast - no problem. Normal buses, air conditioning. Arrived at the hotel at 10 am - late for breakfast. Rooms were not given to us at once, even from 20 USD. in the passport - asked to wait until 12. We naturally went to sea. Things were left in the lobby or something remotely resembling a lobby - through the screen of a canteen proudly named a restaurant. There is no separate luggage storage room, so the luggage was left directly at the reception. They offered to change clothes in the hammam (you have to go downstairs to the basement). In general - after this locker room in the hammam we could not be delayed.
At 12 they gave me a room - clean, bright, everything is there (TV, air conditioning, refrigerator, safe, hairdryer, shower, toilet with a rope for draining  , a terrible locker without a roof, its doors resembling an elevator), everything works, and everything I've seen possibly from the day the hotel opened. I will make a reservation at once - the number is VERY small - they offered to put a crib for the younger one, but we couldn't find a place to stick it. The balcony is large enough: 4 plastic chairs (all different, a couple of days later one of the decay fell apart) and a plastic table. In general, we were ready for the worst, so we were not particularly worried.

There is a lot of food. But something is absolutely impossible (sausage, fried soy sticks, butter) - like any other hotel in Turkey. However, there was something to choose from - they did not go hungry, except for the beginning of October, when they stopped cooking at all and it seemed that they just released the refrigerator and no longer imported products.
List of edible for breakfast: boiled eggs, fried eggs, sometimes omelets (at the end of the holiday you could croak  ), cheese, vegetables (various), rolls, yogurt. Once in 14 days there were pancakes. Tea. Coffee as luck would have it - the coffee machine broke regularly. It was depressing that breakfast was served, possibly spring, and possibly the day before yesterday's french fries.
Edible for lunch: chicken - cooked only one of three types (fried, boiled or stewed), vegetables, cheeses, soup (one), fruit - two types in different combinations (watermelon, melon, grapes, apples, tangerines, plums, oranges sliced, peaches, grapefruit sliced).
Dinner. For dinner, basically served the same as for lunch, only added grill - chicken, vegetables, inedible soy sticks (proudly called "meat"), fish - very tasty, french fries, pasta, which is impossible (many spices) ). In addition, for dinner there were 2 cakes, which were disassembled in 5 minutes, several types of cakes and two types of fruit. A couple of times there was a turkey (tough even for adults).
The queue for meat dishes was lined up 5-10 minutes before the start of the distribution. And these dishes ended in 5-10 minutes after the start of distribution. However then, in 20-30 minutes, reported still.
Snack bar. There are no options: hamburger, spaghetti, french fries, vegetables, mayonnaise and ketchup.
Gö zleme: A VERY greedy woman makes flatbreads. He divides one flatbread into 4 portions and is still indignant that they do not give money. But if you cook for your own - then the portion is a whole cake. BBars (2 pcs. ). Normal beer. Normal cocktails and wine. There were no queues.
Personnel. This is the only thing that pulls this hotel.
The last chord was the presence of cat shit in the lobby on the day of our departure. And in 40 minutes, while we were waiting for the bus, it lay intact.

In conclusion, we can say that if you throw away all the negative moments, the rest was great. If you throw out all the positives - the rest was disappointing. And if you look at the picture as a whole - a good rest. The price does not match the quality a bit. The cost should be 10-15% lower (as in the normal Turkish "troika"). And in general, it is too early to give four stars to this hotel.
In total, our two children ate four portions - and asked for more. But to endure the queue once again was beyond our power.
It was gratifying that no one was poisoned by the food.
Contingent of vacationers. 99% - Russian tourists, all the rest - accidentally came from all over Europe (Slovenia, Germany, Ukraine, Moldova). As one Ukrainian said - "until I saw you - thinking everything - hit the rear of the enemy. " After a few hours of rest, her husband developed a phrase about vacationers: "All the greatness of Russian culture is known in the resorts of Turkey. "
Beach. Sometimes cleaned. It is strictly forbidden to pull up sunbeds to the water. Closer to the hotel sand, closer to the sea - pebbles. The sea is really gorgeous. The bottom is visible up to the buoys. Little fish bite a little (but it's even cool). The people on the beach a little, unlike the neighboring hotel, the truth sucks these people ungodly (bury a cigarette butt in pebbles - the least of the evils).
Room cleaning. Depending on the relationship with the cleaner, cleaning can be at a convenient time for you with plenty of shampoo, soap, toilet paper, towels, swans, flowers in a bottle of water (she tried - a vase in the hotel is not provided) or in children's daytime sleep three times in 14 days.
There is no children's animation. Miniclub: a house with air conditioning and a non-functioning TV, three tables, a few chairs. ALL!! ! Playground: slide and two swings. ALL!! ! From all the announced children's animation there is a mini-disco (from 21-00! To 21-20! ). Five songs are danced in the same sequence. ALL!!!
Swimming pool. One adult (the Germans called it a puddle) with a slide and one children's 1.5x1.5 meters without a canopy. My son's girlfriend (5 years old) spent three days swimming in an adult pool and spent three days in a room with vomiting and an ambulance call. According to the hotel manager, this is not an isolated case and in August people were taken away by ambulance en masse.

Bars (2 pcs. ). Normal beer. Normal cocktails and wine. There were no queues.
Personnel. This is the only thing that pulls this hotel.
The last chord was the presence of cat shit in the lobby on the day of our departure. And in 40 minutes, while we were waiting for the bus, it lay intact.
In conclusion, we can say that if you throw away all the negative moments, the rest was great. If you throw out all the positives - the rest was disappointing. And if you look at the picture as a whole - a good rest. The price does not match the quality a bit. The cost should be 10-15% lower (as in the normal Turkish "troika"). And in general, it is too early to give four stars to this hotel.
Translated automatically from Ukrainian. View original