Брио Brio

We are resting now in BaiaLara hotel. The ticket was purchased in Tez-tour. Departed from Tyumen at an inconvenient time, 3-50 local, flew 5 hours, flew to Antalya at 5-50 local, arrived at the hotel at about seven in the morning on July 23.2012. Check-in to the room according to the rules of the hotel after 14-00, respectively, seven hours after a sleepless night with two children, you need to spend somewhere... We immediately went to breakfast. We had two rooms with a sea view. They offered to check in at 10-00, the rooms were originally offered with a view of the road and the neighboring hotel, after a reminder that the sea view was paid, they offered two rooms with a sea view but at different ends of the hotel, in addition, one of them overlooked the terrace where people actively smoke and hang out until night, this option was also abandoned.
Then came the offer of two rooms side by side, one sea view 2-bed, the second to a neighboring hotel, 4-bed (it was necessary to have 2 and 3-bed). All rooms were originally offered only on the 2nd floor, as it turned out later, the only floor where there are no balconies. As a result, settled at 10-30 in the rooms. Mostly Bundes 29%, British 22%, Dutch 10%, Russians about 5% rest in the hotel. The food is normal, the choice for breakfast is even larger than in other similar hotels, in the bars the usual local chatter and, as it were, Efes beer. Quiet, not intrusive music plays in the dining room, two huge marine aquariums. Towels (beach) are changed all day until eight in the evening, the staff treat Russians normally, many speak Russian (except for cleaning). The beach is narrow, clean and long, from sunbeds to the sea, about fifty meters to cut along the sand. Accordingly, a piece of the sea is not large, the coast goes down quite sharply, so people really flounder at a distance of 10 meters from the coast and it can be crowded, but since it is mostly our compatriots who go to the sea, who are few, in general, it’s normal. The hotel has huge swimming pools around which are full of sunbeds and feeding is organized (from 13-30 to 16-00 they give ice cream) and, accordingly, the entire contingent is fried around them, there are not many children, young people, too, children 15-20 are hardly scraped on the minidisco, jumping for about 30 minutes under Aa ram zam zam and out, as there is nothing else to do. In other hotels where there were people, they mostly spent their time after dinner in street bars, but here everyone hangs out in the lobby bar (there is even a separate room for those who like to watch sports on TV). The beach bar has live music in the evenings.
We took an excursion to the dolphinarium and dinopark (dinosaurs), the children really liked it. Excursion for an adult $ 40 per child from 6-12 $ 30, children under 6 years free of charge. Swim with a dolphin $100. A professional photographer then offers photos + a plate with a photo + a disk (20-25 photos with a dolphin) for 240 euros, as a result, everything was bargained for $ 100. We paid for swimming with a dolphin at the hotel, and we were the first to pass in addition to 2 laps, the rest were on a first-come, first-served basis and 1 lap. We left the hotel at 13:00 and returned at 17:00.

We also took the “Wonders of Antalya” excursion to the Duden waterfalls in the national park, the norm is such an excursion, three waterfalls are a cave, they take 30 minutes between them. They are brought to a souvenir shop with horse prices. At lunch they give spicy barbecue for free, and drinks from $ 2 per bottle 0.33. The tour costs $45 for an adult and $35 for a child from 6-12 years old. We left the hotel at 8:00 am and returned at 3:40 pm.
In general, the advantages of the hotel: not far from the sea, many pools, no problems with water (always hot, cold with normal pressure), you can say excellent food (turkey, ducks, salmon all the time, cherries for dinner), a lot of fruit, ice cream without problems , normal staff, they constantly add shower gel, balms, tonics, etc. to the room . . There is wired Internet in the rooms, the password is given to the reception, the speed is about a megabit, although when I downloaded the update from EQ2 (about 200 Mb), access to the SOE servers was limited . Mini bar every day beer 2x0.33, fanta 2x0.33, cola 2x0.33, mineral water 2x0.33, water 2x0.5 + 1x1.5 l. . Constant change of beach towels is also very good. . There is a decent shopping center not far "Shoping Hall" things of quality standards and interest are 30-40% cheaper than in Russia, I was especially pleased with the range of sizes.
Of the minuses: a narrow beach, a rather sharp coast in the sea, there is no balcony on our floor, a mosquito will fly in at night (rarely), cleaning sometimes folds clean towels on the floor before putting them in the bathroom.
In general, you can go…