Sketches about a trip to Turkey

Written: 22 august 2013
Travel time: 25 july — 7 august 2013
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
Good afternoon to everyone. While there is time, I decided to write my review, or rather not even a review, but simply describe my trip to Turkey, Alanya district, Kirman Hotel Club Sidera (KIRMAN HOTELS CLUB SIDERA 5 *).
I will simply describe my trip, what I liked, what I didn’t. And you decide for yourself, since this is only my third trip to Turkey and there’s nothing special to compare with. Although the previous two trips were approximately to the same region (Jasmine Garden_now he called differently. and widely advertised-Club Insula).
How did our trip begin? The fact is that, due to medical indications, I cannot go on vacation alone, and my wife could not go with me and had to ask her son (he is 23 years old).

So, when we had already purchased a tour (it was a tour to the Ruby Hotel in approximately the same area). And we sat waiting for confirmation. We found out... THAT MANY HOTELS IN TURKEY DO NOT ALLOW SINGLE MEN OR MEN WITHOUT ACCOMPANYING WOMEN! men and they drink a lot. It turns out there is a whole list of such hotels! And we switched to the Sidera Club . .
It so happened that the ticket was purchased the last week before the trip. The price, of course, is huge - (76 thousand wooden ones, taking into account a 5% discount) The amount, however, included the payment of "gasoline" for the flight. Fly on Airbus -330. Voucher from Troika-Tour. Receiving party-Pegas Touristik.
Well, you need to talk about Vnukovo separately and not here. I won’t fly through Vnukovo anymore, I’d rather stay at home.
We got on the plane shorter, 2.40 in flight and we were in Alanya airport in Turkey. I met Pegasus as usual, excellent (no complaints). We were seated on buses and taken to the hotel . .
And here I am at the reception... the occupancy of the hotel at the time of our check-in was no more than 60-70 cents. from the nose of the green Baku) to change the room to a room with a sea view ?? ?....No, I refused... Well, probably in retaliation for not receiving baksheesh, he gave me a room on the 4th floor overlooking the road (No. 454). There is no number, then nothing. It turned out later that it has two minuses (this is in addition to the conder, of course). do not open the door to the balcony, one fig does not blow. And so everything is available. TV, refrigerator, soap, shampoos were brought every day as needed.
Now, separately about the conder (it is probably written about in every review). The central air conditioner... For a long time I could not understand how this beast works. And does it work? the shaitan-machine conder works like a fan (drives warm air). At night it usually turns on like a regular air conditioner. he blows past on the TV. .
Well, now about. . of course, about food. The hotel operates only on an all-inclusive basis. Has:
1 bar by the pool-10-00_24-00
2 Chardak bar (at the entrance to the beach) - actually worked 12-00.17-00
3Well, the restaurant (dining room) where everyone ate
4 I can't help but mention the lobby bar with its drinks in the building at the reception level.

The quality of the food is satisfactory. Once a dish called “Eggs with Milk”_ (actually it is an omelet only eggs or egg powder highly diluted with water) was bitter, either a rotten egg was missed or yesterday’s. First of all, we must remember that in Turkey the three most expensive product: 1-gasoline 2-cigarettes 3-meat.
And based on this, and evaluate the table and the chef (or rather the generosity of the owner of the hotel).
The principle of nutrition was this - albeit not so varied, but enough for everyone.
True, with the soup the chef is somehow not “you” - whatever you call it - under various names, actually soup with lentils. There were always fruits all day - cherries, apricots, peaches, apples, pears, grapes, oranges, watermelon (all day)
In general, there are no complaints about nutrition. Only here at least the restaurant is big. When in early August the hotel occupancy approached 90%, it got a little crowded.
And what do you want? 80% of vacationers are adults with children. One, two or even three. Dads and mothers of different ages, aunts and uncles, grandparents . . Therefore, it’s crowded. Something was constantly replenished. Well, sometimes I had to stand for five minutes . . But this is rare.
Drinks. "Juices" - these diluted concentrates (I saw them live once - in a plastic bag something like jam). Probably due to the fact that they were almost always diluted with warm water, even children were not very willing to drink. And they were too sweet. Coca, sprite, fanta, mineral water with and without gas, Efes beer. From 11-00 at the children's town they gave ice cream daily.
And of course, airan in Chardak - a bar that was prepared by a pretty young Turkish woman (five points to airan !!! )
In general, normal average food is not Astoria or National, but you can eat.
The beach... Well, what can I say, it’s big, there were enough sun loungers even for those who came at 11-00, a volleyball court. Umbrellas (here the umbrellas are small in size, in my opinion), mattresses are all available. what he is covered with.

I don’t know why it is written that the beach is sandy? Well, about 5-6 meters from the shore there is sand. I confirm this. But there is already a depth, sorry. In general, the beach itself is covered with small and medium pebbles, but a larger one begins in the sea from the edge. So you came up in flip flops, for example, to the sea. they took them off. and . . yes, it wasn’t there! Stones! So I strongly recommend. And the waves . . They are almost constant, although not so big. The thing is that the beach is backfilled so that already in the sea near the coast it has a small difference in height - 30 centimeters, probably, but this is enough to make a wave. Although the kids, on the contrary, are happy to the point of madness! Of course, for the kids in the hotel, the slides are true, as I understand them, they are turned on and off.
As for evening entertainment, alas, I can’t say anything. Due to the fact that I get up early at home and go to bed early, I didn’t change my schedule here - 22-00 and bye.
Now about where you can go shopping nearby... If you leave the hotel and go to the left, then after passing the bridge over the Alara River and probably another 500 meters you will see shops on the other side of the road. You can go through the underpass.
Well, if you go right, after 600 meters there will also be a mobile market on the other side. True, as I understand it, it happens not every day or leaves early at 3 in the afternoon? Were there once . . Well, if you want to enjoy the evening shopping-Something for you is a real bazaar (Alaraza bazaar-something like that). Small shops. open until late. located 1600 meters from the hotel if you go right. But the most important thing is that there is a FREE BUS GOING TO HIM! Honestly, honestly. I went myself. Reminds me of our new scheduled Liaz light green color . . At the top where the names of the final stops are - an inscription in Russian - FREE BOARDING. I don’t know - there was a schedule on the bus itself - but we never got this schedule from the guides or from the hotel servicemen (the bus runs along the hotels! ). Well, that's all of the sights.
Free trips - they take them to the same stores - As we went from Jasmine Garden four years ago to this "textile center" and now we have arrived there...
Excursions. The son went on a Quad safari from Pegasus - for the first time he was over the hill - the Pegasians intimidated the boy... I liked it and did not regret spending my father's money.
Would I go to this hotel again? You know, life is so short to go to one place twice. But my impressions are only positive (even despite the memories of rotten egg omelet). I do not regret that I got to this hotel.

Advice to the owner of the hotel, dear! Change the air conditioning system and install individual air conditioners, otherwise all the tourists will scatter. And can you put breakwaters? Well, to calm the waves. Yab put…
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