ШАН МАРИН SHANG MARINE

The rest was a success, I liked the hotel, but it was boring! I will write as it is and in detail, maybe it will be useful to someone. Were alone with a 15-year-old daughter, from August 28 to September 10.2013.
We checked in quickly, it was evening, the end of dinner, room 201 - I didn’t like the balcony in the room - almost everyone can see you from their balconies and also from the corridor with an elevator. From the balcony you can see a small part of the pool. They wanted to change, they offered $ 10, they said there were no free rooms, apparently, they didn’t offer much...
There is WI-Fi, $ 10 for the entire stay, it works only at the reception, where you can’t sit for more than 10-15 minutes - mosquitoes will devour you! Mosquitoes were also in the room, I would have known - I would have taken a fumigator. The neighbors went to the pharmacy, there were only pills, but there was no fumigator.

The food was good, varied food. There were those who did not like the kitchen, but they were the first to stand in line before every meal. Pleased with 3-4 types of fruit every day (plums, oranges, apples / pears, sometimes watermelon and peaches). There were no traditional cakes, only cakes, there were no decorations of the dining room (carved watermelons and other figures) either. Not a restaurant, the dining room is small, the tables are "on top of each other". The dishes, in principle, are clean, and there was always enough for everyone, which is very important (there were no queues for dishes). Removed tables promptly. With small or picky children about food, there is nothing to do in this hotel, there is no children's kitchen, food (meat, meatballs) is often peppered, if only nuggets (not always), porridge and eggs in the morning, and fruits with cakes, children's tables / there are no chairs.
The room was cleaned every other day, for some reason in the evening, once I had to ask to be cleaned on the 3rd day, they forgot to leave the toilet paper, the cleaning was fast.
A very small area, both of the hotel and the beach, and even without animation - this is the biggest minus because of which I will not go to this hotel anymore. Once in 14 days of rest there was a 15-20-minute performance in the evening - "Fire Show", thanks for that too. Why the animators were in the hotel all day - I did not understand. Did you rest? Children's disco, consisting of 2 (3) songs was every other day - sometimes at 21, then at 22 o'clock! An animation scene the size of a toilet. Didn't go.
Beach. You need to go outside the hotel and walk along the path between the hotels, along which cars and motorcycles (employees) also drive, 3 minutes - not long, the beach is small, there are not enough sunbeds for everyone, many occupied the sunbeds and left. The "watcher" on the beach (he is also the head of drinks on the beach) could, if people did not have enough sunbeds, come up and take off a towel or any thing from someone else's sunbed, and offered people to take someone else's place, some did not agree. The sun loungers are right next to each other, and they can’t be rearranged, and there’s nowhere else to rearrange them, you can only move them a little (to sunbathe with your feet, for example, if you lie under an awning).
He swore and did not allow the sunbeds to be moved. He doesn't speak Russian and doesn't understand a word. At 18 o'clock, his working day ends and he began to collect mattresses from sunbeds, not very convenient - not everyone left the beach so early. It gets dark at 20 o'clock.
Towels are not provided. Minus.

Sea. There was no calm for 2 weeks. There were big, and very big, and not very big waves. But the waves are also great, though not boring. The beach and the entrance to the sea are sand and pebble, in short, stones. Many bathed in special shoes. One day (or rather, in the morning), the water in the sea was clear, we saw a lot of fish around, they even bit someone on the knees, and so unclear, but clean. Huge stones in the sea, not far from the shore. People stand on them, and some scratch their feet on them.
The plus was that no one on the beach bothered with any services - no massage, nothing. And, if someone walked along our beach and stopped, then our uncle-looking hissed at him, apparently, it’s not allowed! There was a rental near us - parachuting, bananas, cheesecakes on the sea...... We rode on parachutes, it costs $ 50 per person, $ 80 / 2 people, $ 100 / 3 people, they take pictures, but then the disk ( photos 6-10) sell for $ 40 - well, very expensive, not everyone buys! Would sell at least for 20 maximum - many would take!
On the beach, powdered juices are yellow and red, and water from a cooler. You can collect water from the cooler in your container. Plus.
A lot of people stay in this hotel, you think - Russians, and suddenly - Turkish speech... Many Turks with families, we thought we would speak Turkish soon.
Swimming pool. In the pool bar powdered juices - yellow and red, cola, sprite, water, alcohol, vending machines with tea, coffee (hot chocolate, cappuccino... ). Until 4 pm french fries and meatballs. from 16:30 to 17:30 - cookies. There are 2 slides in the pool - straight and twisted, small. Turned on not by the hour. Sometimes the music was turned on.
The sun loungers by the pool were ALWAYS occupied, from the evening, and they themselves went to the sea, who goes where! I don’t understand why they allow sunbeds, in a nearby hotel (five) it was banned and right, I think. People were cursing.
Across the road is a very convenient market, a closed shop. You need to cross the road on a very beautiful overhead bridge (you can take the elevator, you can take the stairs), or rather, the view from the bridge to the road is beautiful!

Excursions. With a guide, all excursions are 3-4 times more expensive, and different guides have different prices. Our (Prince of groups) price for an excursion on a yacht (by the way, superb!!! ) is $50, another guide has $35, and we bought across the road ("on the street") for $14 (later someone said, that I bought for $ 12), and everyone rode in the same bus and then on the same yacht !! ! We went on an excursion on a Pirate yacht, on a Jeep Safari, who are interested - write, I'll tell you more. And I'll give you a price quote. I liked everything very much! If it weren't for the excursions, then the hotel would have gone cold due to the lack of animation!
Sauna. I read a lot of reviews about the hotel before my trip. There were a lot of good reviews about the Turkish sauna in the hotel and about Mustafa, supposedly he is good, he does the best massage, even then I thought - isn’t Mustafa praising himself here..... in fact, Mustafa himself is a massage and does not, he calls people. . . went. of the promised 2 hours, 1 hour 40 minutes, of which 40 minutes lay just with a mask on my face. He, of course, catches new arrivals and explains that you need to visit the sauna with a massage on the first / second day of your stay, i. e. before sunburn, otherwise it will hurt later (exfoliate, scrub the skin... - in fact, they just rub the body with a hard mitten, wash it... ). It costs $25 per person. Later we found out that on the street you could buy for $15, and from a guide for $30-35, but not in a hotel, but about ten minutes away, but with a jacuzzi, a water park, an ice bath and much more, which is not we had, which we then told all the newcomers about. I won't buy this bait again.
Not far from the hotel there is a disco (the entrance is like a building) in the open air, the Summer Garden club, a minute's walk from the hotel, admission is free, but drinks are very expensive. It is very beautiful, cozy, there is an aquarium with a small shark at the entrance. The disco is open from 11 p. m.
If you go with a company, then very much nothing for that kind of money !!! ! We got 45 tr. for two for 14 days, with a flight from Moscow, including fuel surcharges.