Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
6.0
Service:
7.0
Cleanliness:
8.0
Food:
7.0
Amenities:
6.0
I'll start by checking into a hotel.
We arrived at the hotel around 11:40. Of course, we were told to wait, because the settlement is not earlier than 14-00. We sat for about half an hour on the sofas near the reception and I decided to act. I went up to Alto (that was the name of the receptionist) and started asking questions: how could we settle in early, otherwise we are tired, we want to eat, etc. And of course not without a smile. Alto certainly made contact, but not very convincingly. In general, I went to the bags, took out 20 bucks, put it in some kind of advertising brochure and gave it to him with wishes to get a room with a sea view in the near future.
For some reason, it seems to me that you could safely give 10 and you would get the same result.
Half an hour later we were already settled in a room on the second floor overlooking the sea and in which, what happiness, nothing was broken.
The only BUT - in the room VERY stank of cigarettes. At first we thought that someone was smoking in other rooms of the hotel, and the central air-conditioning system distributes this stench to the rest of the rooms, but in fact, most likely, this stench was left over from previous guests who were evicted that day, because more this did not happen again.
Immediately after we put ourselves in order and laid out things, we went to a restaurant. Although it's hard to call it a restaurant. As for me, this is a Soviet canteen. The only difference is that here you put the food on the plate yourself. At first, the choice seemed simply fantastic, my eyes ran wide from all the variety, I wanted to try everything at once. For the first couple of days, we scooped up huge plates, on which a lot of things remained later. For the last couple of days, we didn’t have lunch at all, but between breakfasts and dinners we ate hamburgers, fries, guzleme (delicious flatbreads with different fillings), because it was simply impossible to eat Turkish food. For breakfast, you could take crunches with milk and often gave very tasty (sweet) grapefruits. The first few days we just ate them. For dinner, a barbecue was set up on the street, on which meat (chicken, beef, lamb) was cooked, once there was even river trout. MINUS: long queues. In addition to the grill, every evening they baked pancakes with all kinds of fillings on the street. In addition, the restaurant itself had a lot of other food. On the street near the pool there were some tables that were covered with tablecloths for dinner and served. We tried to sit there a couple of times after the first customers had already eaten, but for some reason the waiters drove us from there inside the restaurant, they simply were not even allowed to sit down. It was a little annoying, and given that we were familiar with the restaurant manager, there was a desire to drip.
2 more MINUS food in the restaurant: there was no seafood as such at all (except for 1 time river trout and pieces of fish in batter); once I came across a sour melon, and they also made jelly out of uneaten (and most likely also sour) watermelons, after which one could spend a day in the toilet.
Once I had a skirmish with a Turkish waitress when, after our disco until the morning and before going to Antalya, I tried to get water from the cooler into a bottle. She ran after me from the restaurant to the lounge bar and started snatching the bottle from her hands. Imagine for yourself: having slept for only 2 hours and with a hangover / dryer, a bottle of water is pulled out of your hands. I still behaved very decently with her.
Separate story with the waiters in the restaurant. There was one young waiter with an eternally dissatisfied, and sometimes even squeamish expression on his face. The rest of the waiters either smiled sweetly, or simply did their job without emotion. We even gave one the nickname "napkin maker", because he often laid out napkins and we constantly asked us to put not 1 piece, but at least 2 or 3. Later he himself laid out 3 napkins for us.
Regarding drinks, many have already written that they don’t give more than 2 glasses in one hand at a time.
Another "sick" topic - sun loungers. If you come to the beach or the pool later than 7-7:30 - you will not take a sunbed. This problem is created by our own compatriots (who are the majority in the hotel), occupying deck chairs by the pool and on the beach at the same time. Another nuance about the sunbeds on the beach: the Sultan (the person responsible for the sunbeds and cleanliness on the beach) simply does not take out the mattresses from the back room. When you ask why there are no mattresses, they answer that you have to go and take it yourself. I told our guide at the hotel about this, but the situation did not change.
Entrance to the sea: mostly rocky, you can easily skin your knees or cut your foot. Normal entrance to the sea on the right side. It is necessary to take a closer look at where the majority of vacationers enter and only go there.
Animation. I can't say that she doesn't exist. Those. It's there, but it's not very noticeable. At 11-30 Lena did water gymnastics every day, and at 16-00 - water aerobics. Plus there was water polo and shooting from a gun. On the evening of arrival, we managed to watch a half-hour show called "Turkish Night" from the balcony, the next evening we even saw competitions, and every evening at 22-00 a children's disco began : (.
About discos. We never got to the disco in the basement of the hotel, which supposedly started either at 12 or at one in the morning. The guys who visited there said that there was nothing to do there. Yes, and we had no particular desire to hang out in a stuffy, smoky closet with drunk girls. Near the hotel there was also a gloomy establishment called Disco Club, but when we saw it in daylight, the desire to go there was gone.
We went to a foam party on a yacht and also with animators from the Ozkaymak Incekum 5 * hotel in the neighboring village of Konakli to the Summer Garden disco.
For some reason, the foam party did not inspire me in the sense that when they started releasing foam, it stank of ordinary dishwashing detergents and I was simply "turned away". Although I really liked the atmosphere on the yacht, I didn’t really manage to dance normally because of the pitching. I also liked Lezginka from the guides of Anex Tour very much, that I couldn’t resist myself and went to dance : ))
Many thanks to the animators of the hotel Ozkaymak Incekum 5*!!!
Ronaldo, Sam, other girls and guys from this hotel - you are the Best!! ! A trip to the disco with you is the most powerful experience of the whole vacation!
Animators from Alaadin just smoke bamboo ((. sucks.
Hamam. We didn’t have time to check into the room when a “caller” from the hammam named Azis came up to us, made us an excursion to the hammam, while trying to knock us down for him for 45 bucks. We didn't give money right away. We approached our guide from Pegas Tourist Dima. This one asked for 43 bucks. In general, when we came to the hammam in the evening, we were eventually charged 30 bucks.
The whole procedure took about 2-2.5 hours and it was worth the money. We were delighted with all kinds of massages and just fluttered out of the hammam rested.
Other guests from our hotel went to the hammam in the village, where it cost either 15 or 20 bucks. Therefore, do not rush to pay money. Turks and non-Turks who work at the hotel, unfortunately, are trying to rip off money at every turn.
A very big negative about the animators - Lena, who led aqua aerobics, charged us 12 bucks allegedly for entering the Summer Garden disco, which is actually free, and bus transportation from Incekum too. Never pay money to animators for anything, they just put it in their pocket and swindle their own money.
There are also "stickers" in the hotel - they are trying to sell jewelry or leather products. They are very sticky to beginners, but if for the first time they are made to understand that you do not have money to buy expensive products, then they will not bother you every day.
All this in a wide variety and with lower prices can be purchased at the shopping center, which is through the underground passage from the hotel.
Everywhere you need to bargain. And if in one shop they don’t really want to discount the price, then just turn around and go to another.
The hotel itself has a shop where you can buy cigarettes, telephone cards, hygiene products. Don't rush to buy there. In the village there is a pharmacy, a telegraph office, where everything can be bought much cheaper, and it takes about 5 minutes to go there.
About excursions. Do not rush to rush to the excursions that tour operator guides offer you, and take the noodles off your ears after an informational meeting with them.
We decided to go on a supposedly gift (for 15 bucks) tour to Antalya with a boat trip and sightseeing. As Dima beautifully explained to us (as it turned out he was from Ukraine, if I meet, I’ll put in a pendel), that at the very end we will still go to the shopping center and by 4 o’clock in the afternoon we will be at home.
At 8 in the morning we left the hotel, around 10 we were in the port. An hour boat ride + 15 minutes swimming in the sea. Then they showed us some monuments from the windows of the bus and brought us to the dining room. And then a nightmare began: they began to drag us around incredibly expensive shopping centers, first to jewelry, then leather, and finally textiles. In each of them we had to hang around for at least an hour. At the same time, we were kicked out of the bus. When I first got into the first jewelry store, I immediately realized that this was a scam for suckers. Prices are simply cosmic.
I give examples: a thin white gold ring with a small diamond - one and a half pieces of greenery. In Kyiv, I will buy this at least 2, or even 3 times cheaper. Further skin: a short green jacket (the only one with a more or less youthful design) 1420 c. u. I bought in Kyiv last year for 400 bucks with a better design. When we were taken to the last shopping center, people had already begun to resent and our guide Madina went back to the hotel. This s. . . ka said that no one will vote and we are going to textile according to the plan. Prices: T-shirts, which I would never have taken in Troyeshchyna for 30 UAH, they cost 37 and 74 euros there!!!! ! I just oh.....la! By the way, the people there still got towels for 30 euros, which cost us 90-120 UAH. also Turkey. As I understand it, they just had to spend money.
I bought a chic cotton towel with silk thread for 15 bucks in the Avsalara shopping center (near the hotel), and they gave me a bamboo towel for 5 euros.
In general, after textiles, we frankly quarreled with the guide.
After such "excursions", when everyone was simply exhausted by such shopping and even in such heat, the guide finally decided to give us a "surprise" - she offered to stop by the mosque in Manavgat (and this was the first day of Ramadan). At the same time, the majority voted against, but she counted so that it turned out that the majority was in favor and, of course, we drove to the mosque.
We returned to the hotel not at 16 as our guide Dima promised us, but at the beginning of the eighth. We only had enough strength to take a shower, go to a restaurant to eat and pass out.
One day out of seven was hopelessly lost.
After that, we didn’t want to hear about any more excursions with Pegas Touristik, but we generally went to the foam party with Anex.
And finally, some more minor nuances of the hotel:
there is no bar on the beach as such - there is a table with Jupi.
The towels in the room were changed 2 times, and only when I left a dollar, one towel in the bathroom was changed, and the second one on the balcony was left hanging dirty. The ashtray on the balcony was also not changed. We just put it on the table in the room the next day and only then changed it.
bed linen changed 1 time in 7 days.
There are a lot of children in the pool, despite the fact that there is also a children's pool and a pool with slides.
The hotel is predominantly family run. For those who come in two or three, there is nothing to do here. Boring.
We met guys from Russia, who later joined us on trips to discos, restaurants, shopping malls.
Otherwise, they would hang out together in a "handelika" called a disco bar or in a smoky basement with Turks.
Despite all these troubles, we had a really cool rest!!!
But I won't go to this hotel again.
We arrived at the hotel around 11:40. Of course, we were told to wait, because the settlement is not earlier than 14-00. We sat for about half an hour on the sofas near the reception and I decided to act. I went up to Alto (that was the name of the receptionist) and started asking questions: how could we settle in early, otherwise we are tired, we want to eat, etc. And of course not without a smile. Alto certainly made contact, but not very convincingly. In general, I went to the bags, took out 20 bucks, put it in some kind of advertising brochure and gave it to him with wishes to get a room with a sea view in the near future.
For some reason, it seems to me that you could safely give 10 and you would get the same result.
Half an hour later we were already settled in a room on the second floor overlooking the sea and in which, what happiness, nothing was broken.
The only BUT - in the room VERY stank of cigarettes. At first we thought that someone was smoking in other rooms of the hotel, and the central air-conditioning system distributes this stench to the rest of the rooms, but in fact, most likely, this stench was left over from previous guests who were evicted that day, because more this did not happen again.
Immediately after we put ourselves in order and laid out things, we went to a restaurant. Although it's hard to call it a restaurant. As for me, this is a Soviet canteen. The only difference is that here you put the food on the plate yourself. At first, the choice seemed simply fantastic, my eyes ran wide from all the variety, I wanted to try everything at once. For the first couple of days, we scooped up huge plates, on which a lot of things remained later. For the last couple of days, we didn’t have lunch at all, but between breakfasts and dinners we ate hamburgers, fries, guzleme (delicious flatbreads with different fillings), because it was simply impossible to eat Turkish food. For breakfast, you could take crunches with milk and often gave very tasty (sweet) grapefruits. The first few days we just ate them. For dinner, a barbecue was set up on the street, on which meat (chicken, beef, lamb) was cooked, once there was even river trout. MINUS: long queues. In addition to the grill, every evening they baked pancakes with all kinds of fillings on the street. In addition, the restaurant itself had a lot of other food. On the street near the pool there were some tables that were covered with tablecloths for dinner and served. We tried to sit there a couple of times after the first customers had already eaten, but for some reason the waiters drove us from there inside the restaurant, they simply were not even allowed to sit down. It was a little annoying, and given that we were familiar with the restaurant manager, there was a desire to drip.
2 more MINUS food in the restaurant: there was no seafood as such at all (except for 1 time river trout and pieces of fish in batter); once I came across a sour melon, and they also made jelly out of uneaten (and most likely also sour) watermelons, after which one could spend a day in the toilet.
Once I had a skirmish with a Turkish waitress when, after our disco until the morning and before going to Antalya, I tried to get water from the cooler into a bottle. She ran after me from the restaurant to the lounge bar and started snatching the bottle from her hands. Imagine for yourself: having slept for only 2 hours and with a hangover / dryer, a bottle of water is pulled out of your hands. I still behaved very decently with her.
Separate story with the waiters in the restaurant. There was one young waiter with an eternally dissatisfied, and sometimes even squeamish expression on his face. The rest of the waiters either smiled sweetly, or simply did their job without emotion. We even gave one the nickname "napkin maker", because he often laid out napkins and we constantly asked us to put not 1 piece, but at least 2 or 3. Later he himself laid out 3 napkins for us.
Regarding drinks, many have already written that they don’t give more than 2 glasses in one hand at a time.
Another "sick" topic - sun loungers. If you come to the beach or the pool later than 7-7:30 - you will not take a sunbed. This problem is created by our own compatriots (who are the majority in the hotel), occupying deck chairs by the pool and on the beach at the same time. Another nuance about the sunbeds on the beach: the Sultan (the person responsible for the sunbeds and cleanliness on the beach) simply does not take out the mattresses from the back room. When you ask why there are no mattresses, they answer that you have to go and take it yourself. I told our guide at the hotel about this, but the situation did not change.
Entrance to the sea: mostly rocky, you can easily skin your knees or cut your foot. Normal entrance to the sea on the right side. It is necessary to take a closer look at where the majority of vacationers enter and only go there.
Animation. I can't say that she doesn't exist. Those. It's there, but it's not very noticeable. At 11-30 Lena did water gymnastics every day, and at 16-00 - water aerobics. Plus there was water polo and shooting from a gun. On the evening of arrival, we managed to watch a half-hour show called "Turkish Night" from the balcony, the next evening we even saw competitions, and every evening at 22-00 a children's disco began : (.
About discos. We never got to the disco in the basement of the hotel, which supposedly started either at 12 or at one in the morning. The guys who visited there said that there was nothing to do there. Yes, and we had no particular desire to hang out in a stuffy, smoky closet with drunk girls. Near the hotel there was also a gloomy establishment called Disco Club, but when we saw it in daylight, the desire to go there was gone.
We went to a foam party on a yacht and also with animators from the Ozkaymak Incekum 5 * hotel in the neighboring village of Konakli to the Summer Garden disco.
For some reason, the foam party did not inspire me in the sense that when they started releasing foam, it stank of ordinary dishwashing detergents and I was simply "turned away". Although I really liked the atmosphere on the yacht, I didn’t really manage to dance normally because of the pitching. I also liked Lezginka from the guides of Anex Tour very much, that I couldn’t resist myself and went to dance : ))
Many thanks to the animators of the hotel Ozkaymak Incekum 5*!!!
Ronaldo, Sam, other girls and guys from this hotel - you are the Best!! ! A trip to the disco with you is the most powerful experience of the whole vacation!
Animators from Alaadin just smoke bamboo ((. sucks.
Hamam. We didn’t have time to check into the room when a “caller” from the hammam named Azis came up to us, made us an excursion to the hammam, while trying to knock us down for him for 45 bucks. We didn't give money right away. We approached our guide from Pegas Tourist Dima. This one asked for 43 bucks. In general, when we came to the hammam in the evening, we were eventually charged 30 bucks.
The whole procedure took about 2-2.5 hours and it was worth the money. We were delighted with all kinds of massages and just fluttered out of the hammam rested.
Other guests from our hotel went to the hammam in the village, where it cost either 15 or 20 bucks. Therefore, do not rush to pay money. Turks and non-Turks who work at the hotel, unfortunately, are trying to rip off money at every turn.
A very big negative about the animators - Lena, who led aqua aerobics, charged us 12 bucks allegedly for entering the Summer Garden disco, which is actually free, and bus transportation from Incekum too. Never pay money to animators for anything, they just put it in their pocket and swindle their own money.
There are also "stickers" in the hotel - they are trying to sell jewelry or leather products. They are very sticky to beginners, but if for the first time they are made to understand that you do not have money to buy expensive products, then they will not bother you every day.
All this in a wide variety and with lower prices can be purchased at the shopping center, which is through the underground passage from the hotel.
Everywhere you need to bargain. And if in one shop they don’t really want to discount the price, then just turn around and go to another.
The hotel itself has a shop where you can buy cigarettes, telephone cards, hygiene products. Don't rush to buy there. In the village there is a pharmacy, a telegraph office, where everything can be bought much cheaper, and it takes about 5 minutes to go there.
About excursions. Do not rush to rush to the excursions that tour operator guides offer you, and take the noodles off your ears after an informational meeting with them.
We decided to go on a supposedly gift (for 15 bucks) tour to Antalya with a boat trip and sightseeing. As Dima beautifully explained to us (as it turned out he was from Ukraine, if I meet, I’ll put in a pendel), that at the very end we will still go to the shopping center and by 4 o’clock in the afternoon we will be at home.
At 8 in the morning we left the hotel, around 10 we were in the port. An hour boat ride + 15 minutes swimming in the sea. Then they showed us some monuments from the windows of the bus and brought us to the dining room. And then a nightmare began: they began to drag us around incredibly expensive shopping centers, first to jewelry, then leather, and finally textiles. In each of them we had to hang around for at least an hour. At the same time, we were kicked out of the bus. When I first got into the first jewelry store, I immediately realized that this was a scam for suckers. Prices are simply cosmic.
I give examples: a thin white gold ring with a small diamond - one and a half pieces of greenery. In Kyiv, I will buy this at least 2, or even 3 times cheaper. Further skin: a short green jacket (the only one with a more or less youthful design) 1420 c. u. I bought in Kyiv last year for 400 bucks with a better design. When we were taken to the last shopping center, people had already begun to resent and our guide Madina went back to the hotel. This s. . . ka said that no one will vote and we are going to textile according to the plan. Prices: T-shirts, which I would never have taken in Troyeshchyna for 30 UAH, they cost 37 and 74 euros there!!!! ! I just oh.....la! By the way, the people there still got towels for 30 euros, which cost us 90-120 UAH. also Turkey. As I understand it, they just had to spend money.
I bought a chic cotton towel with silk thread for 15 bucks in the Avsalara shopping center (near the hotel), and they gave me a bamboo towel for 5 euros.
In general, after textiles, we frankly quarreled with the guide.
After such "excursions", when everyone was simply exhausted by such shopping and even in such heat, the guide finally decided to give us a "surprise" - she offered to stop by the mosque in Manavgat (and this was the first day of Ramadan). At the same time, the majority voted against, but she counted so that it turned out that the majority was in favor and, of course, we drove to the mosque.
We returned to the hotel not at 16 as our guide Dima promised us, but at the beginning of the eighth. We only had enough strength to take a shower, go to a restaurant to eat and pass out.
One day out of seven was hopelessly lost.
After that, we didn’t want to hear about any more excursions with Pegas Touristik, but we generally went to the foam party with Anex.
And finally, some more minor nuances of the hotel:
there is no bar on the beach as such - there is a table with Jupi.
The towels in the room were changed 2 times, and only when I left a dollar, one towel in the bathroom was changed, and the second one on the balcony was left hanging dirty. The ashtray on the balcony was also not changed. We just put it on the table in the room the next day and only then changed it.
bed linen changed 1 time in 7 days.
There are a lot of children in the pool, despite the fact that there is also a children's pool and a pool with slides.
The hotel is predominantly family run. For those who come in two or three, there is nothing to do here. Boring.
We met guys from Russia, who later joined us on trips to discos, restaurants, shopping malls.
Otherwise, they would hang out together in a "handelika" called a disco bar or in a smoky basement with Turks.
Despite all these troubles, we had a really cool rest!!!
But I won't go to this hotel again.
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