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The Lara Dinc Hotel is a very pleasant 3-star city hotel located in the resort area of Antalya - Lara. A modern seven-story pink building, the territory is small, but there is a cafe with an open veranda and a bar that offers food and drinks on the all inclusive system, a swimming pool with a children's section and a slide, sun loungers with umbrellas, WC are located nearby. In my opinion, the atmosphere is very cozy, homely and democratic, without pathos. The service staff is wonderful, everyone is friendly, attentive, although few people speak Russian, but the owner's wife Victoria speaks the language perfectly, you can contact her for any question.
On the first (by Turkish standards, “zero”) floor there is a round-the-clock reception, a stylish lobby with a bar (it didn’t work with us), the already mentioned cafe-dining room. There are 2 lifts.
A funny feature of one is that he periodically leaves for the basement floor to the utility rooms, where through the door open from the “wrong” side you can observe the smiling face of the maid. We used to exchange smiles with her, and the elevator took us to the right floor. I really liked the interior design of the hotel - clean, bright, modern, on the floors, where there are 8 rooms, pastoral paintings are hung. Free and pretty decent wi-fi throughout the hotel, including in the room.
We were offered room 503 on the 5th floor. It turned out to be very nice and cozy, very nice and stylish, decorated in neutral light beige and brown colors, clean, fresh, quite spacious and comfortable.
There was a standard set of modern furniture and appliances: a huge wardrobe, two beds pushed together, a couple of bedside tables, lamps, a table with a built-in freebar, two banquettes, a large mirror, a small TV with a couple of Russian channels, air conditioning, a telephone, and two glasses and an ashtray, the wall was decorated with a cheerful landscape from Turkish life. Linens are clean and white. Cleaning at 12 o'clock, daily, periodically change bedding and towels, bring new shampoos and soaps.
The bathroom, decorated with beige tiles, has new plumbing, including a bathtub with sliding curtains, another large mirror, a set of towels, soap and shampoo with a hotel label, and a hairdryer.
The room also had a small balcony overlooking the street, the distant mountains and the edge of the sea, as well as a couple of wicker chairs. Unfortunately, there was no clothes dryer.
There are double-glazed windows on the windows. It's about hearing.
Plastic windows practically do not let noise through, but if you sleep with an open balcony, you can hear the sounds of the nightlife of the resort town: the noise of cars and wildly revving scooters, midnight conversations of passing vacationers on a spree, melodies of Russian pop music and the joyful exclamations of football fans from the bar opposite, and, finally, the morning singing of the muezzin. Airplanes fly quite actively during daylight hours. Well, the walls of hotels of this class, as a rule, are “cardboard”. But, firstly, what do you want for such a price? And, secondly, for a person living in a large city without double-glazed windows and air conditioners, night sounds are familiar and do not interfere at all.
As I mentioned, the hotel operates on the "all inclusive" system. Schedule: breakfast: 8-10, lunch: 13-14, dinner 18.30-20.30. You can eat in a closed cafe or near the pool, where the bar is located, food is a buffet.
Once I took corn balls and flakes with milk, by the way, the latter is very tasty, although I usually don’t drink milk at all. There were always several types of fresh herbs (lettuce, dill, parsley, some other very tasty and juicy herb), however, every meal was supplemented with it. Several types of coffee, including chocolate, from a coffee machine, tea bags, sugar, as well as instant juices like "Jupi" - another childhood memory : ). In general, in my opinion, this is how a healthy and hearty breakfast should be, otherwise on ordinary weekdays in our frantic rhythm we always have to limit ourselves to yogurt or a bottle of Aktimel and a cup of coffee at work.
Lunches and dinners were almost the same. The food, of course, is not for gourmets, but it is quite possible to fill up.
Vegetable roast, boiled, stewed and baked vegetables: eggplant, peppers, peas, beans, tomatoes, potatoes, spinach, broccoli and carrots, Hawaiian mix, amazing tender corn in milk, pickles and pickled green tomatoes, canned champignons - healthy, satisfying , delicious. There were always fresh vegetables (peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes) in the form of salads, several types of greens, as well as at breakfast. As a rule, there were several main dishes: sausages in tomato sauce that I liked, nuggets, divine stuffed peppers, chicken, roast pork and peppers, soy cutlets (the taste is specific, but you can eat it). On Thursdays at the hotel - "fish day", for dinner they give fish, very good, fillet, with lemon. I (with some exceptions) do not like fish and eat it extremely rarely, but the second time, when they served boiled fish, I decided to try it, oddly enough, I liked it.
For garnish - several types of boiled friable rice seasoned with various herbs. There were also pasta in mayonnaise and sauces, but we did not try them, like mayonnaise salads.
Soups for lunch were served very peculiar, not very familiar to Russians. For a long time I could not decide to try it, looking at the appearance, but curiosity won out - I always dreamed of finding out what puree soup is. Surprising, but I liked it. One of the soups turned out to be on chicken broth, not very thick, with floating carrots and peppers, hearty and tasty, another time it was corn, I also tried tomato with beans and rice, also wonderful. I also noted very appetizing bread, though exclusively white, but always fresh and soft. There were always a variety of sauces, but we didn’t take them, there was already enough spicy.
In general, a distinctive feature of the hotel (and, perhaps, of the entire Turkish cuisine) is that all dishes contain quite a lot of oil, tomato sauce and seasonings, somewhat sugary, spicy and peppery, but you quickly get used to it.
For dessert at lunch and dinner, they offered juicy apples and delicious unsweetened melons, somehow they gave excellent ripe pomegranates, sometimes (after the "fish day") lemons appeared. For tea, you could take mousse or small cookies soaked in honey - very sugary, they took it once and did not master more than a piece (we are indifferent to sweets).
Lunch and dinner we usually supplemented with a glass of Efes beer, white or red wine - quite pleasant and not at all intoxicating drinks. After the beach, I took cocktails at the bar: gin with liquor and milk, a mix of cola and gin with ice - very tasty.
Of course, food is a purely individual matter.
For example, on the second day I began to seriously worry about my 42 kilograms, the hope of bringing them back safe and sound disappeared at a catastrophic rate. My husband also had enough food, he liked the dishes. True, both of us, unlike normal people, eat quite a bit. But many compatriots complained about the “monotony” and on the way from the beach they asked to stop the dolmush at the Migros market, from where they returned with full packages of food.
A little about the contingent of the hotel: mostly Russians and Iranians (or Turks), a few Germans, a nice couple of young Englishmen were also seen. There were a lot of people on different days, then only a few people. Among the Russians, aunts of pre-retirement age were in the lead, overly sociable and active, not burdened with good manners and everywhere feeling at home.
In general, before this trip, I was sure that all these stories about Russians abroad were just funny stories. Unfortunately, it turned out not. By the way, only compatriots went to the hotel beach. Iranians (or Turks) were not interested in beach holidays. They usually came in noisy groups, on weekends and preferred to hang out in the hotel bar in the evenings: hop-hop! And their beautiful and young wives, often in secular clothes, but with their heads necessarily covered with a scarf, smiled modestly and filmed their cheerful spouses on video.
The hotel rented a section of the Dido beach, where free dolmush went twice a day, travel time 5 minutes, flights: at 9.00 and 12.00, at 14.00 and 17.00. Sometimes the bus could leave earlier (however, unorganized Russians soon "organized" the driver, and, having learned from the bitter experience of returning for latecomers, he preferred to linger). When returning from the beach, it is better to focus on other vacationers.
If there are a lot of people, the dolmush makes two trips. On Saturday, the minibus made only a pre-lunch flight, on Sunday the driver had a day off.
The beach is good, located towards Kundu, well-maintained. Wooden flooring leads to the sea, there are free toilets, showers and changing rooms, sunbeds - white leatherette sofas with pedestals (for the first time such a luxury has been seen! ) in several rows, umbrellas. Food and drinks in the cafe, as well as tents - bungalows were for an additional fee. Quite clean, nice sand, gray, interspersed with very small pebbles - a kind of massage for the legs, but walking does not hurt, at least until the sand warms up to hot. Few people (especially in the morning), refreshing sea, pleasant bottom, however, it quickly becomes deep. In the distance, white yachts sway on blue waves, scooters ply, against the background of a cloudless sky, relief mountains in a haze look like pencil sketches.
Funny little fish swim in the water, bite your legs if you stand still for a long time, although my husband assured me that they were just poking their noses. The water is clear, clean, and legs and fish - cannibals can be seen, jellyfish were not met. But on the other hand, they overcame the flies, annoying, also biting - and where did they come from here? Also among the living creatures were the ubiquitous Antalya dogs, pretending to be sunbeds with a masterly look, and charming rabbits, peacefully chewing grass near the locker rooms.
In the morning hours, only Russians, guests of our hotel, sunbathed on the beach. We talked quite noisily. Speakers were dragged to the bar a few times. At first they put on something Turkish and almost not annoying, and then they began to torment with monstrous Russian pop music. After dinner, despite the appearance of an outsider - "paid" people, it became calmer. In general, I appreciated the relative sparseness of this beach.
It was nice to swim, lie down, read a book and listen to the sound of the waves, walk along the coastal strip, and the photos turned out to be romantic.
Another feature of "Dido beach" is that the waves rise in the afternoon, it's quite fun to jump in them. The sea was warm, about + 22 degrees.
I was somewhat surprised by the policy of the beach staff, who selectively indicated exactly where to take the sunbeds. And before and after dinner, their opinion changed dramatically. And if before lunch it was possible to take sofas at the water's edge, then in the afternoon, when foreigners using the beach for a fee and other citizens buying food and drinks in cafes appeared, places far from the sea were offered to guests of the Lara Dinc Hotel. Well, as distant ones - the beaches in Lara are not wide, so in any case, the sunbeds were located close to the gentle surf, although some guests liked to argue with the beach boys. Strangely, food and water were not allowed on the beach.
Of course, they will not be searched at the entrance, but they will definitely make a remark. Moreover, in the first week, the beach boys did not pay attention to water bottles, but then their chef arrived - Russian, by the way, he turned out to be very strict (but we still took mineral water with us and drank secretly - we played spies : )).
Within walking distance from the hotel there is a Migros supermarket, souvenir shops, shops, a pharmacy, a cafe, a bus stop and a municipal beach. The Lara area is quite pleasant, pretty. You can walk to the Lower Duden waterfall or go to the neighboring hotels in the evening for a disco, just walk along the streets. It is also not difficult to get to the center of Antalya by public transport, visit the old town of Kaleichi, admire the miniature harbor of Marina, see the legendary Hadrian's Gate, the Saat Kulesi clock tower, slender minarets and mysterious mosques.
Overall, the hotel more than met expectations in all respects.
An excellent budget option for unpretentious tourists. So, in terms of price-quality ratio, Lara Dinc Hotel turned out to be on top.
On the first (by Turkish standards, “zero”) floor there is a round-the-clock reception, a stylish lobby with a bar (it didn’t work with us), the already mentioned cafe-dining room. There are 2 lifts.
A funny feature of one is that he periodically leaves for the basement floor to the utility rooms, where through the door open from the “wrong” side you can observe the smiling face of the maid. We used to exchange smiles with her, and the elevator took us to the right floor. I really liked the interior design of the hotel - clean, bright, modern, on the floors, where there are 8 rooms, pastoral paintings are hung. Free and pretty decent wi-fi throughout the hotel, including in the room.
We were offered room 503 on the 5th floor. It turned out to be very nice and cozy, very nice and stylish, decorated in neutral light beige and brown colors, clean, fresh, quite spacious and comfortable.
There was a standard set of modern furniture and appliances: a huge wardrobe, two beds pushed together, a couple of bedside tables, lamps, a table with a built-in freebar, two banquettes, a large mirror, a small TV with a couple of Russian channels, air conditioning, a telephone, and two glasses and an ashtray, the wall was decorated with a cheerful landscape from Turkish life. Linens are clean and white. Cleaning at 12 o'clock, daily, periodically change bedding and towels, bring new shampoos and soaps.
The bathroom, decorated with beige tiles, has new plumbing, including a bathtub with sliding curtains, another large mirror, a set of towels, soap and shampoo with a hotel label, and a hairdryer.
The room also had a small balcony overlooking the street, the distant mountains and the edge of the sea, as well as a couple of wicker chairs. Unfortunately, there was no clothes dryer.
There are double-glazed windows on the windows. It's about hearing.
Plastic windows practically do not let noise through, but if you sleep with an open balcony, you can hear the sounds of the nightlife of the resort town: the noise of cars and wildly revving scooters, midnight conversations of passing vacationers on a spree, melodies of Russian pop music and the joyful exclamations of football fans from the bar opposite, and, finally, the morning singing of the muezzin. Airplanes fly quite actively during daylight hours. Well, the walls of hotels of this class, as a rule, are “cardboard”. But, firstly, what do you want for such a price? And, secondly, for a person living in a large city without double-glazed windows and air conditioners, night sounds are familiar and do not interfere at all.
As I mentioned, the hotel operates on the "all inclusive" system. Schedule: breakfast: 8-10, lunch: 13-14, dinner 18.30-20.30. You can eat in a closed cafe or near the pool, where the bar is located, food is a buffet.
Once I took corn balls and flakes with milk, by the way, the latter is very tasty, although I usually don’t drink milk at all. There were always several types of fresh herbs (lettuce, dill, parsley, some other very tasty and juicy herb), however, every meal was supplemented with it. Several types of coffee, including chocolate, from a coffee machine, tea bags, sugar, as well as instant juices like "Jupi" - another childhood memory : ). In general, in my opinion, this is how a healthy and hearty breakfast should be, otherwise on ordinary weekdays in our frantic rhythm we always have to limit ourselves to yogurt or a bottle of Aktimel and a cup of coffee at work.
Lunches and dinners were almost the same. The food, of course, is not for gourmets, but it is quite possible to fill up.
Vegetable roast, boiled, stewed and baked vegetables: eggplant, peppers, peas, beans, tomatoes, potatoes, spinach, broccoli and carrots, Hawaiian mix, amazing tender corn in milk, pickles and pickled green tomatoes, canned champignons - healthy, satisfying , delicious. There were always fresh vegetables (peppers, cucumbers, tomatoes) in the form of salads, several types of greens, as well as at breakfast. As a rule, there were several main dishes: sausages in tomato sauce that I liked, nuggets, divine stuffed peppers, chicken, roast pork and peppers, soy cutlets (the taste is specific, but you can eat it). On Thursdays at the hotel - "fish day", for dinner they give fish, very good, fillet, with lemon. I (with some exceptions) do not like fish and eat it extremely rarely, but the second time, when they served boiled fish, I decided to try it, oddly enough, I liked it.
For garnish - several types of boiled friable rice seasoned with various herbs. There were also pasta in mayonnaise and sauces, but we did not try them, like mayonnaise salads.
Soups for lunch were served very peculiar, not very familiar to Russians. For a long time I could not decide to try it, looking at the appearance, but curiosity won out - I always dreamed of finding out what puree soup is. Surprising, but I liked it. One of the soups turned out to be on chicken broth, not very thick, with floating carrots and peppers, hearty and tasty, another time it was corn, I also tried tomato with beans and rice, also wonderful. I also noted very appetizing bread, though exclusively white, but always fresh and soft. There were always a variety of sauces, but we didn’t take them, there was already enough spicy.
In general, a distinctive feature of the hotel (and, perhaps, of the entire Turkish cuisine) is that all dishes contain quite a lot of oil, tomato sauce and seasonings, somewhat sugary, spicy and peppery, but you quickly get used to it.
For dessert at lunch and dinner, they offered juicy apples and delicious unsweetened melons, somehow they gave excellent ripe pomegranates, sometimes (after the "fish day") lemons appeared. For tea, you could take mousse or small cookies soaked in honey - very sugary, they took it once and did not master more than a piece (we are indifferent to sweets).
Lunch and dinner we usually supplemented with a glass of Efes beer, white or red wine - quite pleasant and not at all intoxicating drinks. After the beach, I took cocktails at the bar: gin with liquor and milk, a mix of cola and gin with ice - very tasty.
Of course, food is a purely individual matter.
For example, on the second day I began to seriously worry about my 42 kilograms, the hope of bringing them back safe and sound disappeared at a catastrophic rate. My husband also had enough food, he liked the dishes. True, both of us, unlike normal people, eat quite a bit. But many compatriots complained about the “monotony” and on the way from the beach they asked to stop the dolmush at the Migros market, from where they returned with full packages of food.
A little about the contingent of the hotel: mostly Russians and Iranians (or Turks), a few Germans, a nice couple of young Englishmen were also seen. There were a lot of people on different days, then only a few people. Among the Russians, aunts of pre-retirement age were in the lead, overly sociable and active, not burdened with good manners and everywhere feeling at home.
In general, before this trip, I was sure that all these stories about Russians abroad were just funny stories. Unfortunately, it turned out not. By the way, only compatriots went to the hotel beach. Iranians (or Turks) were not interested in beach holidays. They usually came in noisy groups, on weekends and preferred to hang out in the hotel bar in the evenings: hop-hop! And their beautiful and young wives, often in secular clothes, but with their heads necessarily covered with a scarf, smiled modestly and filmed their cheerful spouses on video.
The hotel rented a section of the Dido beach, where free dolmush went twice a day, travel time 5 minutes, flights: at 9.00 and 12.00, at 14.00 and 17.00. Sometimes the bus could leave earlier (however, unorganized Russians soon "organized" the driver, and, having learned from the bitter experience of returning for latecomers, he preferred to linger). When returning from the beach, it is better to focus on other vacationers.
If there are a lot of people, the dolmush makes two trips. On Saturday, the minibus made only a pre-lunch flight, on Sunday the driver had a day off.
The beach is good, located towards Kundu, well-maintained. Wooden flooring leads to the sea, there are free toilets, showers and changing rooms, sunbeds - white leatherette sofas with pedestals (for the first time such a luxury has been seen! ) in several rows, umbrellas. Food and drinks in the cafe, as well as tents - bungalows were for an additional fee. Quite clean, nice sand, gray, interspersed with very small pebbles - a kind of massage for the legs, but walking does not hurt, at least until the sand warms up to hot. Few people (especially in the morning), refreshing sea, pleasant bottom, however, it quickly becomes deep. In the distance, white yachts sway on blue waves, scooters ply, against the background of a cloudless sky, relief mountains in a haze look like pencil sketches.
Funny little fish swim in the water, bite your legs if you stand still for a long time, although my husband assured me that they were just poking their noses. The water is clear, clean, and legs and fish - cannibals can be seen, jellyfish were not met. But on the other hand, they overcame the flies, annoying, also biting - and where did they come from here? Also among the living creatures were the ubiquitous Antalya dogs, pretending to be sunbeds with a masterly look, and charming rabbits, peacefully chewing grass near the locker rooms.
In the morning hours, only Russians, guests of our hotel, sunbathed on the beach. We talked quite noisily. Speakers were dragged to the bar a few times. At first they put on something Turkish and almost not annoying, and then they began to torment with monstrous Russian pop music. After dinner, despite the appearance of an outsider - "paid" people, it became calmer. In general, I appreciated the relative sparseness of this beach.
It was nice to swim, lie down, read a book and listen to the sound of the waves, walk along the coastal strip, and the photos turned out to be romantic.
Another feature of "Dido beach" is that the waves rise in the afternoon, it's quite fun to jump in them. The sea was warm, about + 22 degrees.
I was somewhat surprised by the policy of the beach staff, who selectively indicated exactly where to take the sunbeds. And before and after dinner, their opinion changed dramatically. And if before lunch it was possible to take sofas at the water's edge, then in the afternoon, when foreigners using the beach for a fee and other citizens buying food and drinks in cafes appeared, places far from the sea were offered to guests of the Lara Dinc Hotel. Well, as distant ones - the beaches in Lara are not wide, so in any case, the sunbeds were located close to the gentle surf, although some guests liked to argue with the beach boys. Strangely, food and water were not allowed on the beach.
Of course, they will not be searched at the entrance, but they will definitely make a remark. Moreover, in the first week, the beach boys did not pay attention to water bottles, but then their chef arrived - Russian, by the way, he turned out to be very strict (but we still took mineral water with us and drank secretly - we played spies : )).
Within walking distance from the hotel there is a Migros supermarket, souvenir shops, shops, a pharmacy, a cafe, a bus stop and a municipal beach. The Lara area is quite pleasant, pretty. You can walk to the Lower Duden waterfall or go to the neighboring hotels in the evening for a disco, just walk along the streets. It is also not difficult to get to the center of Antalya by public transport, visit the old town of Kaleichi, admire the miniature harbor of Marina, see the legendary Hadrian's Gate, the Saat Kulesi clock tower, slender minarets and mysterious mosques.
Overall, the hotel more than met expectations in all respects.
An excellent budget option for unpretentious tourists. So, in terms of price-quality ratio, Lara Dinc Hotel turned out to be on top.
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