Normally rested

Written: 2 june 2011
Travel time: 15 — 23 may 2011
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 7.0
We want to share our impressions about the rest, a real review from Naberezhnye Chelny.
They took a ticket back in March for three with a child of 15 years old, 67.000 rubles came out. We arrived at 24 degrees, in the evening of the same day it was 14 degrees, at the evening animation we froze to the bone on the concrete seats of the amphitheater.
During the rest in the sea we swam only 2 times, it was cold, and not only for us. Only a few people bathed, and only Russians. The water was 21 degrees, a bit cold for us, as it turned out. But this is not the fault of the hotel, we just decided for ourselves that we will not go again in May. We used to be in Turkey in August and June, I don’t know about others, but we got used to the water of 28 degrees.

We arrived on a morning flight, were at the hotel at 8 am on their own / minus 1 hour from Moscow /, handed over things to the reception, ate in the dining room for 2000 seats and went for a walk around the territory. A very large green area, a huge swimming pool with rolling depth from 2.05 to 0.45 in the children's section, where there are children's slides. The passages between the buildings are connected by canopies made in the form of arches / protection from the sun and rain, which happens, it turns out, often in May. We caught two rainy days. At 10 o'clock we returned to the reception, without any additional payments in the form of 10 and 20 dollars, we were given a room in building 1, number 1658 on the sixth floor. As it turned out, in May, the hotel is not occupied until the 20th, and maybe that's why they gave us a Family room / a two-story room with a balcony, two bathrooms, On the second floor there are two single beds, so that the room was designed for 4 people / You can ask or Building 1 or 3, on the sixth floor, all such rooms are in these buildings.
Mini bar. In the room in the bar found 2 to 0.33 Turkish beer, mineral 1.5 liters. sprite 0.5 cola 0.5 and 0.33 mineral water with gas. Such a set was updated every day as you drink. Safe in the room for free, very convenient, passports, money, gold stored there.
The animation team is cool, especially Murat, archery and rifle shooting every day. A lot of people are recorded up to 25 people, we shoot 3 times without interest and prizes.
Niko is shooting from a pistol and a rifle - an acrobat, gets up God knows what during the morning performance of the animators and the performance of the club dance at 10 o'clock. Out of all praise, the chief of animators Hussein, the prankster is still the one. But I do not advise you to go to the performances made by the animators themselves in the evening - rather weak. Better follow the program of the neighboring Top Kapi and go there every other day. We got to the Turkish night / on Mondays it happens in the Kremlin /, the Chinese circus in Top Kapi, the show of the Shaolin monks and the samba day, the Brazilian show with capuero and samba. Very spectacular hour-long shows in the amphitheatres.
During the Turkish night, merchants with tents will come to Red Square in the evening. In no case do not be fooled by very tempting prices, as it will seem to you compared to Duty free, from a perfumery seller. They sell very similar smelling fakes of all perfume brands. They pricked themselves, bought it, it is not visible in the dark, but in the light all sorts of dirt, small pieces of garbage and hairs float in bottles. Such "spirits" smell just like the originals, but only 20-30 minutes. In short, beware of fakes.

About ice cream. At the amphitheater there is a tent with ice cream, it is for money, a Turkish woman sells, so it's not like ice cream that is free in the cost of the tour. Free ice cream is given in Pasha. We, like many of the first two days, could not find. I explain in detail. Near the Zvezda bar, under St. Basil's Cathedral, if you stand facing the bar, there is a small staircase on the right / under the large one that leads to the second floor to the restaurant /, go along it and get to the Pasha restaurant on the left. There, on the counters of refrigerators, they give free ice cream from 16-00 to 18-00, you can also order Turkish coffee here, but you need to ask to be done at the counter, where you pour tea yourself and take all sorts of cookies and cakes for tea. The Pasha Ala Carte restaurant itself, by the way, is located right there, but on the street under a canopy. Ordering all restaurants on the same day of visiting in the morning from 9-00 by phone, but it is better to go to the information desk yourself, / near the large plasma in the main building.
About the dining room. They feed just to kill. Breakfast is really the same, even in some places the dishes on the racks do not change from day to day. For lunch and dinner, varied, 3-4 types of meat, always grilled fish, even a winter salad, which went away in summer. If you eat a little, at least try everything, you are guaranteed to recover by 3-5 kg. Checked. Of course, there is also honey in the combs in the morning for breakfast and strawberries a lot, but you have to stand in a long line for dinner for it.
In addition, peaches, bananas, two kinds of apples, oranges and some other incomprehensible orange fruit that tastes like persimmon, but does not knit in the mouth.
Freshly squeezed juice or concentrate, they didn’t understand / the waiters themselves say that it’s concentrate / but with partitions and orange pomace it happens only in the morning from a double transparent cooler. In the fact that there is a solid Yuppie standing next to it on 4 horns, but the cherry one is also okay, the child liked it.
If you want to buy different sweets as a gift, it is better to take the 103.105 or 206A bus from the hotel to the city to the Kundu Bazaar stop. On the side of residential buildings there are small shops. One of these (called the Market) sells Turkish delight (Turkish Delight) in boxes of 275 grams for $ 2, although the same box costs $ 7 at the hotel.

Gorki. There are 3 slides for adults and 3 for children in the Kremlin. We did not use the children's, so I can not say anything. And adult slides are interesting. There is even one with a bun for one person. The minus is the mode of operation. All slides are open from 11-12 and from 14-16. There are a lot of people at this time, so sometimes you have to stand in line. Top Kapi has its own small water park. There are 5 slides for adults and 3 for children. There is an artificial river and a pool with an artificial wave. The downside is the same uncomfortable mode of operation and seams on the slides that are sensitive to the body, which discourage all desire to ride them. We often went there. residents of the Kremlin can use the entire infrastructure of Top Kapi.
To summarize: if you go to relax, and not look for shortcomings, in the form of ongoing repairs in the rooms on the first floor in building 1, the presence of a large number of cats on the territory, the cleaning of the room is not clear at what time, / some wrote in the reviews that it was annoying /, but we got into the room only in the evening to change clothes, so the room was already cleaned, then we had a good rest and we wish you the same.
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