Pros: slides, clean pools, large area, children's playground, good friendly cooks, nice beach with a bridge, hammam
If you want to spoil yourself these few days of a long-awaited vacation - choose this hotel. It's far from 5 stars. We bought into the good reviews and were very disappointed. . .
When checking in, a certain Mahmed tried to put us in an economy room (dark, small and without a balcony), and for a normal room to tear off 30 dollars. True, then the price dropped to 10. We did not agree and they gave us a quite decent spacious room overlooking the sea and the river.
The bed linen was changed in the room only on the 8th day. Towels too. (after $1 tea).
The beach is pebbly and relatively clean. There is a wooden pier with one (! ) stairs (covered with slippery algae). Umbrellas are very small in diameter, with the scorching sun together in the season it is impossible to fit (we were lucky that there were already few vacationers).
The food is just disgusting. In the morning cheese and sausage with weathered edges, yesterday's soup. Pancakes and scrambled eggs (each of the dishes - not every day! ) - undercooked, because even out of season there is a queue. Very limited selection of salads and desserts. There are no meat dishes, only chicken and turkey (mainly navels, hearts, etc. ). By the end of the holiday, I already wanted to cackle... All the dishes are very salty.
Dirty dishes were hardly removed from the tables from the middle of the dinner, it was difficult to find a clean table.
From fruits - watermelon, melon, apples EVERYTHING!
Nice snack bar near the beach. At least everything was fresh.
There was no whiskey or brandy in the bars, and tequila was offered without lemon and salt. In the lobby bar, the bartender was often frankly rude.
What hurt the most was that all the staff were not wearing masks. And when they poured beer or soup into a bowl, they put their fingers in it.
Animation didn't interest us. But the Russian pop music was very annoying, screaming from morning to evening.
I was pleased with the very clean and warm sea (which is clearly not the merit of the hotel) and the spa, which worked perfectly. The staff is attentive, polite, administrator Arslan is super positive, smiling, masseurs Gurjan and Nito are pros. Thank them very much!
Bottom line - for 4 * this hotel is quite suitable. BUT... we went to 5*!! !
Although our hotel was the very first on the list of transfers, we drove to it from Antalya Airport for 2 hours (95 km).
The hotel itself is located in the village of Okudzhalar.
!!! ACCOMMODATION!!!
We were settled in a family room (for 4) on the 3rd floor, 1350, the view was on the road! And it was a huge +, since we did not hear music from the hotel until night, only road noise. Elevators worked, on each side of the 1st, sometimes we had to wait for 3-5 minutes, so to speak, during peak hours. )
!!! ROOM!!!
Room Family room, we were in the 4th, 2 rooms, one double bed and two single beds.
Safe (paid). The Internet is free everywhere, but you can comfortably use only instant messengers, for correspondence, video communication is no longer pulling. The air conditioner worked great!
Cleaned normally, every day.
!!! LOCATION!!!
There is nowhere to walk near the hotel, except to walk 800 meters to the right side of the hotel - Soho bazar (we did not buy anything, since we did not see super favorable prices).
On the left side of the 200 meters from the hotel Mall of Aura.
Whoever wants to take a walk, a bus stops near the hotel (every 15 minutes), it says Alanya, Okucialar, etc. , sit on it, 50 minutes, and you are in the center of Alanya!
The price is 20 lira for two people one way (it's about 3 dollars).
You can go to the Port, the castle of Alanya, the dolphinarium (located 20 minutes drive from the hotel), a very huge bazaar. We went to the castle of Alanya (the price for the cable car is 32 lira per person one way), beautiful views of the city and Cleopatra beach.
We changed money at the reception, as it is cheaper to pay in lira.
!!! NUTRITION!!!
Depending on the filling of the hotel, sometimes there were decent lines for food. Sometimes people could not find a free table to have dinner.
You will not leave hungry, but there is not much variety.
It was possible to count on fingers the most delicious dishes that we managed to taste during our 11 days of stay.
Stuffed chicken.
Trout.
Dark fish (similar to meat).
Grilled turkey.
Cream cakes, were not every day.
Fruits are apples, pears, plums, watermelon, orange, melon, sometimes nectarine.
Of the drinks, more or less beer, vodka, local vodka "Rakia", and gin.
!!! ANIMATION!!!
There is a kids club for children.
In the morning from 10.30 - 12.00.
In the evening from 15.30 - 17.00.
At first, my daughter went there with pleasure, but then she got bored there.
In the evening for children mini disco (20.30), every day the same thing, reminiscent of groundhog day.
Animation for adults (22.00), was not every day, a couple of times it was even interesting.
Disco for adults Whiskey Cola, queen of the dance floor. . .
!!! SEA!!!
Very warm, clean.
We arrived on August 25 and the sea was more or less calm for 4 days, the rest 7 days with strong waves.
The shore is medium stones, then small ones, and again medium and large stones in the water (corals may be needed), the entry is sharp, a couple of meters and depth.
!!! STAFF!!!
The staff is welcoming, friendly, unobtrusive.
P. S. Pros: clear sea in a minute walk, clean beach, good sunbeds, friendly staff, normal rooms, in general, not a bad budget 5k, for your money. The only negative, there are few places for walking in the vicinity, when compared with the same Alanya, but in general they were satisfied with the rest.
We hope the review will be as useful as possible for you). We tried to write objectively and to the point.
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Near the pool there is a bar with drinks, gozleme and fast food. The beach is very close, a minute from the pool. Sunbeds, umbrellas are all there. Beach towels were a bonus, replacement is free, change whenever you want. Of the minuses - everywhere in the description it is written that the beach is sandy and pebbly, but in reality it is pebbly, real pebbles. To enter the sea you need a special. shoes. For children, the entrance to the sea is not very comfortable, plus it is not very gentle, literally 2 meters and already deep. For those who can not swim a little uncomfortable. The sea is warm and comfortable. The hotel is not 5 * pulls, it could be upgraded. But in general, I liked everything.
Upon arrival, we were quickly given a room. The room is quite large, bright and clean. Cleaning was done every day, sheets were changed often during the week. The hairdryer worked in the room, the water was cold and hot, the air conditioning system worked perfectly, almost did not turn it off. There are no complaints about the number.
All is well with food. Starting with breakfast, then brunch, lunch and dinner, evening soup. In parallel to this, a snack bar worked on the territory, they prepared pizza, gozleme, ice cream.
There is plenty of food in the restaurant and bar, to eat and go on to rest is not a problem.
Waiters immediately clean dirty dishes and mountains of half-eaten food after vacationers. The staff at the entrance are friendly and welcoming.
I really liked the sea, the color is very beautiful. There are enough sun loungers and umbrellas for everyone. But only our wild tourists put towels to take a sun lounger, and they themselves go home.
Surprisingly, many people who come to the sea swim in the pools. Near the pool there are enough sun loungers and umbrellas for everyone. Again, there are a lot of savages who take their seats and leave. Not far from the pool there is a bar, gozleme and pizza, ice cream is served for lunch. The pools are cleaned and washed constantly.
The territory is compact, well-groomed, clean, green. The sea is very close.
Animation can be said that no, the evening is quiet and calm.
A guide from Teztur sits at the hotel, his name is Oksana. This is tin. Hamit, always dissatisfied, hates tourists. It sells excursions more expensive than around the corner. It was hot outside, and she sent us for a walk in the mountains in the sun, we suffered terribly. Her only goal is to make money. The second guide is Radik, a normal, calm guy.
We also went on a free shopping tour. HORROR. They brought you to the most expensive stores, where they process you from the very aisle, try to sell everything in a row, if you admit that you don’t plan to buy anything, the tone immediately changes and you are sent to the exit. It's definitely not worth going there.
The only negative of the hotel is vacationers, ill-mannered people. People scoop up food in huge portions, more than half of the natural food is then thrown away. It feels like many were not fed before the trip. Drink free alcohol as the last time.
We came to rest and had a great rest. They did not try to look for the shortcomings of the hotel and did not find them.
There is an interesting classification of rooms: there is a standard room and a room with a partial sea view, they are very different in class, but at a price of about 300 hryvnia difference. When choosing a tour, I paid more and got this number, and people at the place solved this issue and received much more amounts.
The weather during the whole time was excellent, once it rained in the evening. The sea seems cool at first, but then just super. Many have already written that the minus of the hotel is the river. During the rains in the mountains, it becomes muddy and all this is taken out to the coast, and since the hotel is the closest, the water was muddy for almost three quarters of our vacation. But there are 2 pools on the territory, so there are no problems with swimming. One pool next to the animation, music, water slides. The other is next to the snack bar.
The territory of the hotel is very large, well-groomed. Paths for strollers. The staff keeps it clean at all times. But this is not the case in the rooms. We drove into the room, there we didn’t even walk with a vacuum cleaner on the carpet, which was not done during our vacation. 3 days in a row they hung a tag with a request to clean the room, they cleaned it only on the third day. Tubes with gel, shampoo were not replenished, we had to look for a cleaner ourselves and take it from her.
For food: there were no delicacies, but the food was good and varied. Lots of vegetables, greens, snacks. Every day, fish, chicken, was a dietary table. We got to the Turkish night: musicians performed in the restaurant, a lot of delicious and new things were on the menu, and in the evening they gave a cake by the pool.
Staff: The staff is friendly and efficient. But bartenders sometimes allow themselves too much.
We went to the a la cart restaurant for Ottoman cuisine. Located on the beach, in the open air. Apparently very popular, because there were not enough places. The main tables and chairs are wooden, but we sat on plastic chairs and at a plastic table. Soup was served in a bowl with a chipped wall, as they waited a long time for food, they did not ask for a replacement. Lula-kebab was roasting before our eyes on the coals, but when the wind changed, all the smoke went at us, not very pleasant... The kebab was served last, we didn’t even finish it. At the request to bring ayran (it was issued at the hotel for free), they said that it was over. Dessert was not expected.
According to the animation: we went without children, so we were not particularly interested, but the mothers complained that the animation was the same type, every evening the same thing. For adults, they mostly arranged karaoke, they didn’t bother. In the afternoon, the animators also did not attract people very much, with the exception of Joni, a great guy, he always attracted everyone and touted. Darts, water polo, air shooting, water gymnastics, volleyball. . . About volleyball separately: HORRIBLE FIELD!!! ! stones instead of sand, stones were chosen for 4 days (those who wanted to play, not the staff), there was little sense, many broke their legs. The balls are old, the net is disgusting.
In general, the impression of the hotel is very positive. Cons can always be found if you look. Recommend for relaxation.