Super wonderful stay in Ganita

Written: 11 august 2009
Travel time: 30 july — 7 august 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 10.0
This year we rested in Ganita, a family of 3 people (my husband and I and a six-year-old daughter), last year we were also in Turkey, but in the four. There is something to compare. We are very satisfied with the rest, the only pity is that we were only 8 days. We purposefully booked a villa, and not the main building, because we decided that the child could sleep in silence during the day. As it turned out, we only spent the night in the house, during the day, when it was hot, we rested in the shade of trees or under umbrellas near the pool. The animators turned on calm music, slept well in the shade. If the music was too annoying, we went to the sauna, while our girl visited the hamam, basked on warm stones, and then all refreshed together in the same place in the indoor pool, because everything was included and everything was at the service of tourists. The hotel staff is very attentive and polite, one has only to thank in Turkish for some trifle, they will not forget it. When our Margarita said "thank you" in Turkish (tesshekur ederim), there were gifts and sweets right there. As for the check-in or the "gloomy" type of reception, as some who have visited Ganita write, these are all trifles. We knew that they would only check in from 2 pm, our villa was not yet ready, and we arrived at 11 am. We immediately changed into swimwear, left things at the reception in a special room and went to explore the territory of the hotel, especially since it is not small (60.000 sq. m), since lunch is only at 12.30, we decided to have a snack with cakes, which were baked right there on the territory of the hotel and washed it all down with delicious ayran. I really liked the main three meals a day, tasty, plentiful, varied, each of us found for ourselves what we like, some meat (chicken, beef, lamb, liver), some fish (trout, pike perch), some sweets, some fruits. Every day something new and tasty, we appreciated the cuisine, because my husband is a great craftsman in cooking dishes from meat and fish, many thanks to the chef. We even took a picture with him.
I want to express special admiration for the Turkish bath, it's something. It was correctly written in one of the reviews, the Turks will not go to the chopping block to the hamam, for them it is part of life. And since the hotel until this year was purely Muslim and for the first year it has been working for tourists from the CIS, the bathhouse there is purely Turkish, spacious, professional. Not just a bath, there is a whole SPA-Center!! ! And the people who work there are friendly and accommodating. We traditionally did peeling, foam massage, mask, general massage, then I also took 5 general massages at a discount. Now I feel great. Friends decided to do a massage for their daughter, she is 10 years old, so she fell asleep in the hands of a massage therapist. Parents think what to do, nothing, hamamshchiki transferred her to the rest room in the same place in the bath, there is relaxation music and aromatherapy, when the child had a good night's sleep, he was taken to his parents. These are the Turks-hamamshchiki !!!
Many people point out in the reviews the main drawback of the hotel - old furniture. There is such a thing, but I think this is not a shortcoming, but temporary circumstances that will be eliminated. Since the hotel had a new owner at the end of the last holiday season (October), he had only six months until April to remake the hotel for new tourists, it's clear that they did not have time to do everything. Where Tommy's shops and home textiles are now (those who have been there know) there was a pool bar, there were no shops, there was an island in the middle of a large pool, which was also removed. There have been many transformations in the area. But now the territory is well-groomed, beautiful, green, not like the neighboring hotels, where everything comes down to the building, the pool and the beach.

By the way, our two-level three-room suite (32C) was cleaned every day, they gave a bunch of towels, everything worked - 2 air conditioners, a refrigerator, a TV, nothing burned out or leaked.
About intestinal infection. Indeed, the hotel staff is forbidden to remember this at all. But my knowledge of Turkish allowed me to find out that in the first half of July there really was an infection and many vacationers and even animators suffered. There are many versions of why. The staff themselves believe that, nevertheless, in the pool water, which was poorly cleaned, many who swam in the pool did get caught. Now everything is in order in this regard, there is no infection, everyone is alive, healthy and happy, no one complained from the vacationers. We swam in the pool, sometimes even drinking water, but everything is fine. But very carefully you need to walk along the side of the pool, it is slippery, only in slippers. With us, Margarita slipped, fell, and filled a considerable bump.
Animation - I take it easy. Some like it, others don't. The fact is that animation in Turkey is monotonous everywhere - Miss and Mister contests, a fire show, comedy club, etc. All hotels are standard, last year it was the same. Walk in the evening along the beach or along the road past other hotels, you will see that the contests are similar, and the music on the mini-disco is the same, only in different languages ​ ​ - mostly Russian, in some places German. All the same, the animators try and give their best, not only in the evening, there are contests, games, water gymnastics all day long, my daughter went to the mini-club every day, painted, in the evening they held a drawing competition.
Our family really liked the rest in Ganita, everything was super, starting with the flight (we got there and back on time), ending with the excellent show "Turkish Night", which we went to Alarakhan with pleasure. Many pleasant impressions, clear warm sea (27-28 degrees), delicious food, attentive hardworking staff, entertainment, animation. As for the shortcomings about the rest in Ganita - you need to go there not for 8 days, but for 2 weeks. Before we had time to fly on a parachute and go on an excursion to Ephesus-Pammukale, and also visit the Troy super dance show. We hope to do so next year! We wish everyone a pleasant stay in Ganita, send greetings from tourists from Ukraine
Translated automatically from Russian. View original