Friendly Alanya

15 April 2017 Travel time: with 01 April 2017 on 09 April 2017
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The decision to go to our favorite Turkey came suddenly (I always want to go there, but sometimes circumstances do not allow). Monitor prices since December and early March, the Annex has a lot of interesting offers for April (unexpectedly cheap for us) Well, first thought to go to a hotel, well, while "scratching the back of the head" offer he ran out. Well, as all the Slavs were angry not for fun and out of anger made a paradoxical (for himself) decision to go, but not where I wanted -and in Alanya. The hotel was chosen to be close to the beach and attractions. Stopped at the city Xperia Grand Bali - the second line, without territory, near the beach of Cleopatra - reviews of him everywhere were positive.

Then, as always, a flight (Azurair company, with such chic and stylish stewardesses in perfect blue and red uniforms, who portrayed Snow Maidens or fairies or Hogwarts students - they fed us!


The menu consisted of an omelette with bacon, sandwiches with butter and puffs with apples, tea and coffee with cream (and this was the first surprise). The transfer is not tiring at all, in a comfortable minibus, listening to interesting stories of an Annex-tour employee, we did not notice how we got to Alanya. Although the trip lasted more than two hours. In Alanya we had a second surprise: our paid hotel Xperia Grand Bali met us with dark windows and closed doors and our guide took us to the hotel Xperia Saray Beach - on the first line, on the famous beach of Cleopatra. Interestingly, the Annex Tour tours it sells much more expensive than the Xperia Grand Bali. In Alanya there is another hotel Xperia Kandelor on the third line. All three hotels are owned by the same owner.

Since we arrived at the hotel late, we missed dinner (as Arthur, a receptionist, told us with great pleasure) and planned to have a snack in one of the many street cafes, but an employee of the Annex Tour and his hotel guide Ramis Aliyev ) man) went to the owner of the hotel (who is daily at the hotel) and agreed. to feed us, which was a surprise and a pleasant surprise for us. The dinner was wonderful and rich. The fourth surprise was the number. We paid for a standard large room with one double and one bunk bed, and accommodated us in a huge two-room room on the third floor overlooking the Touch Premier Hotel and SPA (all days admired the horse sculptures on its facade), two plasma panels and two minibars (replenished daily with two bottles of water).

The room had an electric kettle, cups, daily replenishment of tea, coffee and cream. sugar. It was so wonderful to go out on the French balcony early in the morning, holding a cup of coffee with cream and tasting coffee with small sips to admire the mountains in a gentle morning haze and watch the most interesting street life: , old European tourists are walking with trekking poles. The design of the room is very nice, everything is new, clean, neat. Cleaned honestly, towels were changed daily, bed every three days. Beds with orthopedic mattresses, comfortable pillows and very light and warm blankets. Air conditioners did not turn on, it was warm.

The contingent of tourists - Russians, Germans, British, Turks (almost half of the vacationers), Iranians, Serbs, Baltics (of all stripes) and the only representatives of Ukraine - your humble servant with his family.


Severus Snape's students work on the food in the kitchen, all the dishes are flavored with magic potions and whisper spells, so all the dishes are extremely tasty. Breakfast lunch dinner-association (delicious sausage (with pistachios)) omelets, grilled vegetables, beef, lamb, fish, turkey, soups served three times a day (almost not repeated, all the time prepared different) side dishes for every taste, to please all vacationers. Desserts and fruit are also plentiful: there were strawberries and grapes, pomegranates, oranges, pears, apples. , which are not really whiskey or cognac at all, but something not tasty. .

The beach is the famous beach of Cleopatra with pure golden sand and clear aquamarine sea, in which we swam every day, despite the "icy" water whose temperature was 17-18 degrees. (Russians bathed with us and Latvians only sunbathed for two days, others just sunbathed) The weather was extremely comfortable during the day 20-25 degrees warm, cool in the evening. put on jackets.

One day, April 8, there was heavy rain with hail-southerners staying at the hotel. Alanya is a beautiful, clean, extremely cozy town, surrounded by high mountains on one side and the sea on the other. A town with wide boulevards and picturesque promenades that stretch for many kilometers and which are so nice to walk. admiring the blue surface of the sea and inhaling the scent of flowering orange trees (which for some reason smell like jasmine), mixed with the scent of flowers and the sea.

Oh, the magnificent promenades in Alanya along Cleopatra Beach - palm trees and orange trees, fountains, statues, cozy swings and benches in shady corners, playgrounds, many sports equipment and cat houses and their inhabitants - imposing, feet and soft mutter something about their own. Yalta, only ten times better.

People are cheerful and friendly, friendly, some know a little Russian and it was so much fun to chat with people in a terrible mixture of English, Russian and Turkish. And all the school teachers of English were mentioned, who turned out to have taught me well in the Soviet school, because from the depths of my memory came seemingly completely forgotten English words, rules of grammar and expressions. Shopping in Alanya is nice, fun (exciting bargaining process) and cheap. Prices for everything are set in euros, but easily converted into dollars and lira.


There are many exchange offices and banks throughout the city. The course is fixed and the same. They accept Russian rubles with pleasure, but they look at the hryvnia with surprise, we see the currency is unfamiliar to Turks. Prices for clothes and all kinds of fruits, vegetables and sweets on the market are cheap (strawberries cost 3.

5 lira or 1 dollar) The bazaar comes to Alanya on Tuesdays and Fridays and is located near the bus station. We went to the bazaar, bought sweets - fresh onions (30 lira per kilogram), peshmanya (3 evergreen rubles 500 gr. ), Halva (2.5 dollars per kilogram), small bananas from 2 to 7 lira per kilogram were tested. in vain we believed the enthusiastic reviews and bought them. In stores, a lot of sales, bought for ridiculous money sneakers, winter sweaters. If desired, you could completely update the wardrobe (and cheaper than ours in Zhytomyr).

About excursions-were on a jeep safari (17 dollars per person), a yacht tour lasting 5 hours-55 dollars for 4 people (includes food and soft drinks, and a foam party, a show with fishing, jumping off a rock animator- and it's out of season! ) We went to the cave House (rented a car at a travel agency-20 dollars). . They took me, waited, took me back.

The cave is very beautiful big but it is difficult to walk (up and down the slippery stairs) - high humidity and it is difficult to breathe. there are chairs-take some bedding. Do not believe that from the river House-tea you can easily climb to the cave House-road all the way up (young people will cope, but middle-aged people, hardly) Views from the observation deck near the cave are stunning. You can go up to the fortress (dominates the whole city) from the cave Damlatash for 15 lira for taxi-views are also great.

Not surprisingly, there was a desire to return here more than once, in this beautiful town with one of the best beaches in Turkey.

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