Food - don't count on seafood, they don't exist at all, the breakfast is meager, the most choice is in the evening, but I warn you - all the food is specific, for an amateur. Alcohol is terrible, no, only beer more or less, they don’t give any snacks for beer, in any of the declared bars. They never went to the bar-lobby (it was closed for the campaign), as well as the indoor pool, they also did not see it.
The animation is monotonous, I learned every contest and songs in a week! One salvation was a trip for 5 lira by bus to Alanya, of course it is interesting there, markets, shops, etc. In general, talking with people, we realized that in Alanya it was possible to go to a 3-star hotel with the same service and conditions as in Sunstar. I will not be back again, we will look for something better.
So, our review opens - an enchanting buffet. You should not wait for meat dishes and seafood, as they consider them delicacies and, therefore, no one will cook them for you on a buffet. You will find a huge number of salads from cucumbers, tomatoes, cabbage, carrots and onions - I had not seen such a number of variations with these products before “resting” in SunstarResort.
The so-called local "salads-delicacy" which are cooked in a special sauce - you can try if the body steadily perceives various filth and does not accompany it with a gag reflex. (Initially, I was surprised by the large amount of toilet paper in the room, but over time everything fell into place, it will really be very relevant, if you do not deny yourself various “sweets”).
As for the rest of the dishes that belong to the addition to the main course, they all have a pronounced sour or overly peppery taste. Of the meat dishes, you will see mainly chicken, perhaps a turkey, and you can consider yourself lucky if you manage to find pieces of meat in some incomprehensible stew. Sweets look very attractive, but really worth it - 10%, and there is a high probability that you simply won’t have time for them if you don’t know how they look in advance))).
Of the fruits, we saw watermelons, melons, apples and grapes - the set is not bad if you are on a desert island. We continue our review by stopping at the pool. The pool looks good, the water in it is clean, even just a mirror, but this is not surprising, because from such an amount of bleach, it simply cannot look different. The smell of bleach was felt even on the 5th floor, how people were around the pool during the day, remains a mystery to me.
The animators did not bother much in writing the program, every day the same music and the same competitions, from which on the third day of “rest” it starts to feel sick. In general, if you paint everything, then the famous book by Leo Tolstoy "War and Peace" will look like a brief description of the plot.
If, nevertheless, you are “lucky” and you buy a ticket to this hotel, do not take a room above the second floor, since the elevator has to wait for 5 minutes at best, it is easier to climb on foot. And if you have small children and they go to bed before 23:00, you will definitely need a room with a mountain view, because with a sea view they are unlikely to fall asleep before 23:00, it is at this time that the evening program ends, and there will always be “hidden talents” of karaoke, which, under normal circumstances, hardly anyone would give a microphone in their hands, but no matter how you say “all inclusive”, no one will take it away, and in addition they will also reward you with loud applause, sober hard to digest, in general, you won’t be able to fall asleep - we tried.
Summing up, I can say - if you are not picky about food, do not smell smells at all, easily tolerate external stimuli, then this hotel is simply created for you.
Beach: sun loungers with umbrellas, volleyball net, pier. Sand comes first, pebbles closer to the water. It is very, very unpleasant to enter without special shoes. Place for "entry" into the sea a few meters, carved out of stone. Therefore, almost everyone bathes in a pile. For comparison, they were on the beach in Alanya: sand, nearby palm trees, flowers, showers, toilets. There is simply nothing to see here, at the very least, thanks to at least the water is clean, transparent. For 10 days we took 2 excursions, had a little fun. The hotel itself is boring. No animators. In the morning, 10 minutes of water gymnastics, in the evening at 21 o'clock children's animation (every single day is the same), then some sluggish entertainment for adults (drunken karaoke, dance performance of local schoolchildren..... ) Nothing at all. From 21 to 23, strong drinks are served at the bar, but you can already have your own snack or buy it. And at the same time, the begging for tips begins. They pour a glass of $1 or $2, sort of as a joke, but you see someone is paying. And our friend came up for a drink, they told him: it was over. He gave money, they poured him. However, if you describe the situation with tips, it is very long. The Turks cash in on everything they can. Especially the tradition of paying the driver for paid excursions. . . Or lunch is included in the cost of the excursion, and drinks (even water) from $1. Nothing to do outside the hotel either. Shops with horse prices, designed for tourists. Look at nothing. Village in one word. In Alanya, for example, it’s interesting to walk along the street and there are a lot of shops, with normal prices, if it’s on sale, then it’s cheap, and not panties for $ 10 for tourists.
Generally a 3-4 star hotel. Rest here is better for pensioners. Quiet, calm. Ate, bought, slept. Again, poor vision, you can not see how badly removed. The bed linen was torn once, the beach towels we also once got stained and torn. By the end of the rest, balls of dust were rolling on the floor.
I don’t want to spoil the rest or mood for anyone, you need to see the pluses in everything. We rested very well. Thank you for this hotel and tour operator. We wish the hotel growth, and without feedback from visitors there will be nowhere to grow ????
Number:
They don't speak Russian at the reception at all. Upon arrival, we were laid on the third floor with a view of the construction site and the greenhouse. The mirror around the beds was very eye-catching. The first thing that caught our eye was a stain on the glass with smudges (most likely they sprayed it with glass cleaner and forgot to wipe it off) And the toilet seat was broken in the toilet. He was not a percentage of the toilet, but displaced.
We went down to the reception and through a translator on the phone asked to change the number. As we later learned from vacationers, to get a room with a sea view you need to pay $ 30 extra
For a long time the young man at the reception broke down to give us a burrow or not.
All the same, I changed our number, I think after I said that this is our first vacation in Turkey))
The new room was on the 7th floor, overlooking the mountains. The view is great, but the stains on the mirrors (and there are decently in the room) were everywhere.
The room has 3 beds (double and one and a half), air conditioning, two telephones (one by the toilet), a free safe, a TV (with 51 Russian channels), a refrigerator, a built-in wardrobe, four sockets, a kettle, a table and two chairs for the balcony, a bottle water and glasses, hangers in the closet, soap and shampoo gel in tubes screwed to the wall. Fan is very good. Only 4 towels, two large and two small.
The audibility in the rooms is very low. One night I didn’t sleep at all, guys, a foreigner, lived in the next room, they talked until 4 in the morning, they didn’t shout. It felt like they were talking right in my room.
About the shower:
The pressure on the 7th floor is gorgeous, just some kind of sharko shower! But because of this, the entire bathtub is in the water, since the shower cabin is just a shot partition about a meter wide.
Repair in the room as if in a hurry. The sheets and towels were very melted. The bedspreads are burnt, the sheets are with holes, and the towels are brought either with yellow spots, or normal.
About cleaning:
There are two switches at the door, one for sleeping in the room, the other for cleaning.
Cleaned up every day!
It doesn't even matter if you asked for it or not. But the cleaning itself is weird. Towels are changed if they are on the floor (they ask for this upon arrival), the dust has not been wiped more than once in a week, bed linen is changed every day, garbage is thrown out and a bottle of water is changed to a new one even if you haven’t finished it.
But the floor is washed badly, but every day. The feeling that a person with poor eyesight (no offense to anyone), but hair and sand from the street remain in the corners.
About wifi:
In our room 1704, it didn’t catch at all (it’s on the 7th floor), if you leave the room and stand at the door, it’s bad enough, but you can catch the net.
In the lobby, on the street in front of the hotel, at the pool, it catches well, but in the restaurant every other time.
Excellent catches on the transition (transition across the road from the hotel to the beach) excellent catches on the entire beach.
Restaurant:
The food is delicious! At first, everything was very salty for me, but not spicy. Then I got used to it. I had enough variety. True, for a week of rest, we didn’t see anything except chicken (a day later there was fish, but very fried) We love chicken, we were not embarrassed by the lack of another type of meat. In May (from 9-15) there were very few fruits.
They clean the restaurant well, never saw dirty dishes or chipped dishes.
Breakfast from 7:00 to 9:00, lunch from 12:30 to 14:00, dinner from 19:00 to 21:00
There are high chairs for children, but very few for a family run hotel. I saw three things. People with children just in strollers come to the restaurant and feed the kids in strollers.
About the bar:
The bar is open from 10:00 to 23:00 (beach and pool bar)
In the bar you can drink beer, gin, sparkling water (Turkish Fanta, Sprite and Pepsi - Cola), alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails, red and white wine only dry.
Somewhere in the afternoon on the side of the restaurant they will inflate free ice cream, the kids are delighted!
But on the beach there is nothing but drinks.
The beer at the pool and on the beach is different. On the beach it is strong, and on the pool it is soft and almost without bitterness, but it may just be that the bottling was like that during our vacation.
I did not like the wine at all, very sour. Just not mine.
My husband and I wanted to celebrate one event in our lives at 22:00 hours (after dinner) and since the bar closed at 23:00 we asked for 6 glasses of beer. We were refused, referring to the fact that only one glass is allowed in one hand. We didn't argue. Although Turks with Russian girls were sitting at the next table, the table was lined with glasses of different alcohol.
About services:
The hotel has a Hammam, an indoor pool, a gym, a kids club, a souvenir shop, a hairdresser, a clothing store, a paid photographer, a hookah $10.
We can’t say anything about the hammam, we haven’t been there.
It is strange that at the reception they DO NOT say anything about the fact that beach towels can be taken in the hammam for free and that from 9:00 to 16:00 the same hammam and indoor pool can be visited by any guest for free.
For us as "newbies" this information would be very useful. And so we learned all this from people.
I really didn’t like the obsessive young man working in the hotel’s hammam. He visited us for three days and offered the services of a spa complex. And first for $35 per person, then for $30 and on the third day for $25. After our smile changed to dryness, the young man stopped following us. But every time I saw my husband and I, he said “how do you guys relax who feel sorry for $ 25 for a hammam ?! ”
Not much fun to be honest. . .
The rest of the staff is very nice, smiling and polite ????????
Animation :
It is almost there)) In the afternoon it happened that they played darts at the pool, nothing more. At 20:00 they are playing with the children somewhere, we were without a child, so I can’t say whether it’s interesting for the children or not. And from 21:30 in the "amphitheater" the show begins, we liked it with my husband (I'm 27, my husband is 29 years old).
The animator, a very charismatic man, interacts well with people. Once there was a lottery ($2 one ticket)
We almost won, praised one number))) the prizes were worthy.
On Sunday the market came to the hotel, do not buy perfume from them. Not original, but worth as the original)))
About the hotel area:
The area is not big. Entrance to the hotel from the side of the mountains, the view around as in the village. Everywhere greenhouses and cows walk.
Hotel on the first line.
There are three swimming pools on the territory, a large one, a small one with a slide and a children's one with a children's slide. There is a good playground. The entire area of the playground is rubberized. To the side of the playground is a small petting zoo, where there are chickens, roosters, and rabbits. Rabbits roam the very small green area of the hotel.
There are toilets and changing rooms outside. The lock in the women's toilet on the street is broken, I got stuck in it twice. Once I opened it myself (twisted it in different directions, back and forth and somehow the door opened), the second time I had to call for help. I don't go to this toilet anymore.
There is a stage or as it is called here "amphitheater" where evening animation takes place. Right behind the amphitheater there is a gate to the highway and an elevated passage to the beach. As a mother, I didn’t like that there was a post at the gate, but no one was sitting at this post. Yes, this gate is open 24 hours. That is, in theory, anyone can enter from the road. We did not see any security in the hotels. But there were no cases of theft or strangers either. There are many cameras around the hotel. Maybe this is enough. . ?
About the beach:
There is a bar on the beach, as I wrote above, sunbeds (by the way, it’s more convenient than sunbeds on the pool), though there are a lot of broken sunbeds . .
The beach is sandy, but closer to the sea there are small stones. It was comfortable for me to walk without special shoes. Yes, and all the children ran barefoot.
There is something from the type of pier or pontoon where the sunbeds are also.
There is a toilet and shower, many flowers that are looked after.
The entrance to the water is carved to the right of the pontoon. Swim only there or from this pontoon up the stairs to the sea. Since there are stones on the sides and from strong waves, you can get hurt. The husband, out of ignorance, slightly injured his leg, talked to a woman on the beach, her husband was hurt more severely.
Our rating for the overall impression of the hotel is 6 out of 10, for cleanliness 5 out of 10 (and this is not only from the room, but in general about the whole cleanliness of the hotel), for the staff 8 out of 10, for food 9 out of 10
And so about the hotel itself: I arrived ok. 16:00 and settled quickly. The room had a mountain view. By the way, it's a very nice view. The room was clean, I didn't look in the corners and under the bed (I didn't come for that). Towels and bedding changed every day, cleaned every day. Wi-Fi was always throughout, only on the beach there was often no Internet or weak. The staff was English and Turkish speaking, but it didn't bother me.
The beach is big. I was at the end of the season and was rarely on the beach. At the same time, we walked a lot around Alanya, went on excursions. Arrived at the hotel happy and tired.
The food was good. Lots of fish, and I love fish. Mackerel was generally a bomb)). There were queues at the counters, well, that's normal. I traveled a lot, and also worked in large hotels, the same thing.
The area is not big. I saw animation for children and adults. I also saw a disco by the pool. But she didn't go.
I liked the presence of a sauna, and visiting at a certain time was free. It was convenient when returning from the beach in the evening to warm up). I took a hammam, not the first time, I also liked it very much.
Of all, I did not like the behavior of Russian tourists. I am writing this as a tourist and as a hotel worker. It's just awful. There are normal people who relax, have fun and are very positive. But in general (60-70 percent) they are boors and behave like kings. I crossed paths with tourists from Europe (you can add Belarusians and Ukrainians here), Africa and Asia, everything is fine. If you come to another country, please respect the customs and rules of that country. You are not at home.
In general, the holiday is excellent. !! !