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Written: 13 october 2009
Travel time: 26 september — 8 october 2009
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 6.0
SUN STAR BEACH OTEL 4star
Just arrived, rest time 26.09. 09-08.10. 09
The distance from the airport is 150 km. Travel time 3-3.5 hours, return from the hotel in 5 hours. Tour operator Tez - the transfer is organized for 5-everything is clear, on the way there is an interesting story of the transferman.
Check-in to the hotel took 5 minutes plus the traditional $20.2 buildings between them is a small pool next to it is a bar. : floors not counting the reception (there is a “restaurant” in fact, see below) There are 20 rooms on the floor, the first 4 overlook the neighboring house, the last 3 overlook the road, the rest to the park and the cemetery (if you don’t know about it, you won’t guess ). Numbering next ХY № X-building number, Y-floor further № room.

The hotel itself is quite new, but clearly does not pull up to the 4 SG stated in the title. I will try to be objective and unemotional. The room is small (which is not critical, but we spend most of our time outside). The bathroom is combined, there is liquid soap from hygiene items, but if you want to take a shower, you will have to take it (gel) into your palm, then open the booth to adjust the water and then wash yourself if you don’t spill the soap ! ! But in dignity. there is a telephone (4 stars!! ) In the room, if you want to drink the stored alcoholic drinks, there is nowhere to do it - there is no table provided, there is only 1 bedside table and a shelf under the mirror, while there is nowhere to throw out the garbage LOSTER NO (4 stars !! ). You can sit on the balcony (2 plastic chairs and a table), but you will have to turn off the air conditioner. the outdoor unit regularly drives warm air to the balcony. It should be noted that the air conditioner is quite noisy, the external unit is clearly audible in the room and the relays constantly click in the internal one. Cleaning is more or less - tips do not change anything.
"Restaurant" is in quotation marks. it's just a diner. Waiters - cleaners from the tables, clean promptly, while clean appliances are not laid out, you have to look for them on the tables. Tablecloths are stained. The bar in the dining room is almost always a queue. If you are a lover of tee tea, you will have to drink it and there are “buckets” packaged, but its supply is not replenished, while the bucket taste, texture and color is natural chifir. Teacups 50% broken, no teaspoons, i. e. no, in principle - instead of them, plastic sticks (4 stars!!! ) There are three feline representatives in the dining room. Finely chopped meat and cutlets were tested on them - they refused to eat. Fish, chicken, liver passed the test. For lovers of breakfast - every day breakfasts are full of Javu (boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, salt and spice bases, fried soy sausage). Instead of a cook at the distribution, he can calmly have a scourge fight (didn't wash his hands? ), instead of a bartender - an animator. It is impossible to understand which of the staff is not even badges (I'm not talking about uniforms). There are 3 coolers (in the dining room. Fruits are almost all green. Small flies were found in some salads, larger ones just fly around the canteen. The menu is meager, there is little for children, except for cake they are worthy of praise. Yesterday is today in a salad!
Beach (BEACH) is another overkill in the name and it's not about the inconvenient entrance. This is compensated by the purchase of beach slippers (we definitely need to buy in Moscow in a sportmaster, you can find it on the internet - search for “corral slippers”). The beach is not cleaned during the day, the dirt is bulls and stray dogs. The beach is PUBLIC (or wild), which is confirmed by the inscription on the "bar". Hotel only sunbeds and umbrellas. Free only local Pepsi Sprite and UPI. BEER-3 euros! Mattresses for a fee. Beach boy sells places to all outsiders who come to the beach. Fencing, security, no lifeguards (4 stars!! ) The shower is dirty, never cleaned, it's dirty! The foot wash near the crossing is arranged in such a way that it is constantly clogged, and it is cleaned just like the beach and all the muddy water flows into the transition. Dogs on the beach rest in the shade of umbrellas and sun loungers. After the end of the bar, the beachboy begins to clean the deck chair, while he can easily drag yours away! By the way, there are no beach towels (4 stars!! ).
The animation is as constant as the breakfasts.

The guests are Russian-Germans 50-50, many Germans or from the GDR or "Soviet" speak Russian well, to say that the hotel is focused on the Germans cannot be too low a level of service, it seems that the management does not monitor the quality of service, and managers are not visible (in "German 4 it was heaven and earth)
The hotel guide Teza-Pasha appeared at the hotel, but there was no clear time for attending the meeting. Excursions and Teza did not take - in street agencies two times cheaper. We took a trip from Pasha to the textile center - they came for us 40 minutes later, after we bought T-shirts, they did not wait for the transfer to the hotel, we went on our own in a dolmush. Traveling by dolmush is quite comfortable (those who ride Gazelle minibuses - dolmush is a VIP class) Travel is 2lira or 1.25 euros or 2 dollars.
The city is pleasant, not Turkish at all. Lots of Europeans. Turks are not picky. Three or four banks are open until 17-18 hours. Lots of ATMs. About 5 stores with fixed prices, cash desks, they (and some shops) accept credit cards.
On Saturday, next to the main square (900m to the left, when viewed from the sea, along the main streets of Barbados) is a market. at the time of stay, peaches 2-2.5 lira, grapes-2, pomegranate-2. On Tuesday the market is on the opposite side of this street. There are clothes on the market, the assortment is richer than in stores, prices are sometimes higher - you have to bargain, the Turks are clingy. In general, store prices in Mahmutlar are lower than in Alanya. Turkish sweets Mahmutlar-$1, Alanya1.5.
Sea-fresh milk, sunsets and mountains are awesome, the sun too.
In general, the hotel could not spoil the sea, mountains, sun, but this is not his merit. And the hotel is for very unpretentious tourists and does not pull more than 3, I advise you to choose better hotels for yourself so that you don’t feel sorry for the money spent !! !
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