How we rested in Saritash

Written: 2 december 2007
Travel time: 3 — 10 october 2007
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
The hotel is approximately 10 minutes bus ride to the city centre. Buses run frequently, for local residents the fare is 75 kurush (0.75 lira), but tourists are not given change from a dollar. 1 $=1.2 Lira
If you walk from the hotel on foot along the embankment towards the center, then after 15 minutes all sorts of stalls (Market'y), local tourist offices already begin. There are several discos in the city, but we did not go to them.

The hotel area is very pretty. The hotel consists of three buildings. Building A is closest to the sea and the road, building C is the furthest, we lived in C.

Next to building C there are 2 tables for table tennis.
There is a large swimming pool (~20m long), nearby there is a children's paddling pool and a water slide. The slide works 2 times a day for an hour, but this time is enough for everyone. There is a sauna and a hairdresser, on request massage, peeling. We did not use these services.


There is a lot of greenery on the territory, date palms, hibiscus grow.
At night, some kind of plant smelled amazingly.

The rooms are cozy. Some have baths, some have showers. Large balcony in all rooms, usually 2 chairs and a table on the balcony. We lived in a room overlooking the street, the mountains and the sea. The air conditioner turns on by the hour, we went in the fall, when it was not hot, so we did not find it working. At night they opened the balcony, that was enough. The TV showed normally, 2 Russian channels. The lack of a refrigerator was a little disappointing.

The room was cleaned every day, tips were left 2 times, 1 dollar each. Soap, shampoos, shower caps, etc. appeared in the bathroom right there. The hotel is very clean, the paths are washed several times a day.

The staff speaks Russian, but not all. You can always explain. Bed linen in the room was changed 4 times during our 10 day stay.

On the territory there are 2 tables for table tennis, there is a volleyball net on the beach. There is no organized animation, except for the Turkish night.
The food was very delicious. From fruit served watermelons and melons. The meat is soy, we didn’t eat it, but the chicken was always for lunch and dinner, cooked very tasty. In the mornings, the chef fried pancakes in front of the restaurant. In the evening I sometimes made french fries, baked potatoes, or fried fish.

The sea is clean, the beach is made of small pebbles, similar to sand in size.
The entrance to the sea is convenient, along the edges of the bathing area there are stone slabs - a breakwater, the wave breaks against them and you can swim very comfortably even in a storm. There are sun loungers, but for $ 2.5 per day. We rolled on straw mats we had taken with us.

If you want to take excursion vouchers, I advise you to do this at local agencies, your tour operator has vouchers on average 2-3 times more expensive. For comparison, rafting costs $ 15, coral travel costs $ 55. And the range of services is the same.

If you want to go kayaking and not rafting, be sure to ask to write it on your tourist coupon, otherwise they will not give you a kayak.

I recommend to go on a yacht. If you can, find the yacht I Love You Baba in the port. That's what it's called. There is just a wonderful team, the captain is generally beyond praise. We regretted that we swam on the penultimate day, we should have been somewhere in the middle of the tour, we would have had time to ride a couple of times.

Once a week there is a bazaar, it moves around the city. The prices there are very democratic, you can bargain very well. Turkish delight and sweets are better to take there, and not in the city market in the center. In the city, about $ 11-12 per kg, at the market you can buy for 7. Coral Travel on the way to the airport delivers to the sweet factory, everything is sooo expensive there. Therefore, I advise you to stock up on sweets and souvenirs while you are relaxing.

If anyone has any more questions, please email me. I will answer everyone.
g-tail@yandex. en
Translated automatically from Russian. View original