We rested in this hotel in the first half of September 2019. The hotel went like a lottery on a budget. And now for the latest truth. A big plus for the hotel is that it is close to the airport. But not as it says in the description of the hotel. At an average speed in the city, without traffic jams, we drove for 15-20 minutes.
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We rested in this hotel in the first half of September 2019. The hotel went like a lottery on a budget. And now for the latest truth.
A big plus for the hotel is that it is close to the airport. But not as it says in the description of the hotel. At an average speed in the city, without traffic jams, we drove for 15-20 minutes. We were taken to the hotel around noon. We were immediately warned that we had to wait until 14:00, supposedly while the rooms were being cleaned. But during these two hours of waiting, a phrase sounded like a joke to other new arrivals: a competition for the best room and the best view from the room. But it is clear that this was a hint of a surcharge. No one was going to pay extra, everyone sat and waited exactly until 14:00.
Lunch starts at 13:00, so during the waiting time it was already possible to analyze the so-called "restaurant", we went there and from what we saw immediately the handles dropped. There is simply nothing to eat. From past visits, even meager fours, where the tables seem to be bursting with food, and we say that the food is bad there, then there is nothing at all. Even the table itself with food is 2 meters +2 meters and another 1.5. How many varieties of food can you imagine for a seven-story building. Fruit country, but for 8 days of stay, even no fruit, only watermelon.
I will return to check in the room. Finally, they gave the long-awaited key, on the second floor, room 208. We went into the room immediately, we need to check everything for a malfunction. We immediately noticed the handle of the double-glazed window on the balcony, which dangled a lot. We took a picture on the phone and immediately went down to the reception and showed it. But for all the days no one came to repair. On the fifth day, they noticed an air conditioner leak, right on the bedside table and on the floor, they also went and said, and no one did anything either. And judging by the appearance of the plinth on the floor, this air conditioner has been flowing for a long time, but nothing has been repaired. Well, in general, I can’t say anything bad about the room. The room seems to be clean. The shower is ok too. View from the window to the courtyard of the hotel, the pool. I recommend! Because on the other side there is a view of the road, the noise of cars and the same high-rise buildings, nothing else of interest. There is no view of the sea from any direction, it is simply not visible.
The hotel is located inside the quarter, from all sides, in my opinion, residential high-rise buildings. We open our suitcases, put on swimsuits and run to the sea. We immediately find out that the hotel's beach is somewhere far away, the hotel's minibus takes it to the beach at 9:00, and from the beach at 12:00. There are two flights because at one time everyone does not fit into this bus. Then, after lunch, they are also driven at 14:00 and back at 17:00. But since it was Saturday, on Saturday afternoons and Sundays they don’t take to the beach. Okay... We reconciled ourselves and ran to the city beach, walking at an average pace to it for 10-15 minutes. We came to the beach, immediately catches the eye dirty sand with small pebbles. Along the sea, the length of this city beach is 100 meters, borders, beaches, probably other hotels. Like I said, very messy.
You immediately understand the contingent, everything. There are no sunbeds at all, not paid, not free. There is no shower or toilet. According to rumors, I heard that you can anchor on a nearby beach for money, but they didn’t find out how much it costs. There is not even a faucet with water to rinse your feet from the sand either. Stray dogs run along the beach. Your towels, things, bags are not an obstacle for them.
Finally, Monday came and we went, it seems, like to the beach of the hotel. But it feels like it's just a rented piece of land near someone's beach. Two rows of sunbeds that you can only use and not those that are in the photo of the description of the hotel, which are like in the form of a bed. They are present, but those who look after the beach will not let you in. Presumably for a surcharge they can allow. And so the beach is well-groomed, there are few people. All amenities are present. The bar is paid (the cheapest beer is 20 lire). And the watching Turk is constantly walking, digging, either you pushed the sun lounger far, or you put the umbrella wrong. It was stressful. You can't bring your own food or beer to the beach. Why dont know.
Let's go back to the hotel. For all the days of the stay, the food was monotonous, there was nothing to gasp from. There is not even a traditional scrambled egg for breakfast. Once there were fried sausages. And just boiled eggs. Three types of sausage, two types of cheese. And the rest, it feels like the same thing as lunch and dinner. There is a bar in the hotel. From alcohol: beer (like normal), vodka (27 degrees), raki vodka, white and red wine (for an amateur), cocktails. Juices (such as Jupi, from the machine), tea, coffee. Coffee can be disgusting, and they didn’t understand how they make it in the machine in different ways.
Wifi is free in the hotel but not very strong. The rooms generally either work or not. For some reason, the iPhone constantly asked for password authorization. There was no such thing on Android.
Airplanes take off and land very low over the roofs of houses around the clock, because the airport is close.
There are very few outlets near the hotel compared to other places where we rested, and I would say everything is a little expensive. So better find markets or bazaars.
A big plus for the hotel is that it is close to the airport. But not as it says in the description of the hotel. At an average speed in the city, without traffic jams, we drove for 15-20 minutes. We were taken to the hotel around noon. We were immediately warned that we had to wait until 14:00, supposedly while the rooms were being cleaned. But during these two hours of waiting, a phrase sounded like a joke to other new arrivals: a competition for the best room and the best view from the room. But it is clear that this was a hint of a surcharge. No one was going to pay extra, everyone sat and waited exactly until 14:00.
Lunch starts at 13:00, so during the waiting time it was already possible to analyze the so-called "restaurant", we went there and from what we saw immediately the handles dropped. There is simply nothing to eat. From past visits, even meager fours, where the tables seem to be bursting with food, and we say that the food is bad there, then there is nothing at all. Even the table itself with food is 2 meters +2 meters and another 1.5. How many varieties of food can you imagine for a seven-story building. Fruit country, but for 8 days of stay, even no fruit, only watermelon.
I will return to check in the room. Finally, they gave the long-awaited key, on the second floor, room 208. We went into the room immediately, we need to check everything for a malfunction. We immediately noticed the handle of the double-glazed window on the balcony, which dangled a lot. We took a picture on the phone and immediately went down to the reception and showed it. But for all the days no one came to repair. On the fifth day, they noticed an air conditioner leak, right on the bedside table and on the floor, they also went and said, and no one did anything either. And judging by the appearance of the plinth on the floor, this air conditioner has been flowing for a long time, but nothing has been repaired. Well, in general, I can’t say anything bad about the room. The room seems to be clean. The shower is ok too. View from the window to the courtyard of the hotel, the pool. I recommend! Because on the other side there is a view of the road, the noise of cars and the same high-rise buildings, nothing else of interest. There is no view of the sea from any direction, it is simply not visible.
The hotel is located inside the quarter, from all sides, in my opinion, residential high-rise buildings. We open our suitcases, put on swimsuits and run to the sea. We immediately find out that the hotel's beach is somewhere far away, the hotel's minibus takes it to the beach at 9:00, and from the beach at 12:00. There are two flights because at one time everyone does not fit into this bus. Then, after lunch, they are also driven at 14:00 and back at 17:00. But since it was Saturday, on Saturday afternoons and Sundays they don’t take to the beach. Okay... We reconciled ourselves and ran to the city beach, walking at an average pace to it for 10-15 minutes. We came to the beach, immediately catches the eye dirty sand with small pebbles. Along the sea, the length of this city beach is 100 meters, borders, beaches, probably other hotels. Like I said, very messy.
You immediately understand the contingent, everything. There are no sunbeds at all, not paid, not free. There is no shower or toilet. According to rumors, I heard that you can anchor on a nearby beach for money, but they didn’t find out how much it costs. There is not even a faucet with water to rinse your feet from the sand either. Stray dogs run along the beach. Your towels, things, bags are not an obstacle for them.
Finally, Monday came and we went, it seems, like to the beach of the hotel. But it feels like it's just a rented piece of land near someone's beach. Two rows of sunbeds that you can only use and not those that are in the photo of the description of the hotel, which are like in the form of a bed. They are present, but those who look after the beach will not let you in. Presumably for a surcharge they can allow. And so the beach is well-groomed, there are few people. All amenities are present. The bar is paid (the cheapest beer is 20 lire). And the watching Turk is constantly walking, digging, either you pushed the sun lounger far, or you put the umbrella wrong. It was stressful. You can't bring your own food or beer to the beach. Why dont know.
Let's go back to the hotel. For all the days of the stay, the food was monotonous, there was nothing to gasp from. There is not even a traditional scrambled egg for breakfast. Once there were fried sausages. And just boiled eggs. Three types of sausage, two types of cheese. And the rest, it feels like the same thing as lunch and dinner. There is a bar in the hotel. From alcohol: beer (like normal), vodka (27 degrees), raki vodka, white and red wine (for an amateur), cocktails. Juices (such as Jupi, from the machine), tea, coffee. Coffee can be disgusting, and they didn’t understand how they make it in the machine in different ways.
Wifi is free in the hotel but not very strong. The rooms generally either work or not. For some reason, the iPhone constantly asked for password authorization. There was no such thing on Android.
Airplanes take off and land very low over the roofs of houses around the clock, because the airport is close.
There are very few outlets near the hotel compared to other places where we rested, and I would say everything is a little expensive. So better find markets or bazaars.
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Settled immediately, room 2hmest standard beautiful, cozy. Cleaning was excellent every day with the change of towels and sheets. The Internet is quite good, the food is monotonous, but tasty and very satisfying, the staff is polite. The beach is 7-10 minutes walk, on the way to the beach there is a migro market, 40 minutes walk from the hotel there is a waterfall, there is a park of sand sculptures on the shore, entrance per person is 7 dollars.
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Settled immediately, room 2hmest standard beautiful, cozy. Cleaning was excellent every day with the change of towels and sheets. The Internet is quite good, the food is monotonous, but tasty and very satisfying, the staff is polite. The beach is 7-10 minutes walk, on the way to the beach there is a migro market, 40 minutes walk from the hotel there is a waterfall, there is a park of sand sculptures on the shore, entrance per person is 7 dollars. You can go to the center of Antalya by bus kl08 in the shopping center terasiti, travel with cards that you can buy from the driver, there are two trips in one card. There are inexpensive clothing stores in terasity.
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The holiday went great. Polite staff works at the hotel, helping to quickly solve all the problems that have arisen. I liked the restaurant in the hotel building, very tasty food. Noise isolation is excellent. Wifi signal is good. I would like to separately thank Victoria and Yusuf! Lyudmila from Voronezh.
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The holiday went great. Polite staff works at the hotel, helping to quickly solve all the problems that have arisen. I liked the restaurant in the hotel building, very tasty food. Noise isolation is excellent. Wifi signal is good.
I would like to separately thank Victoria and Yusuf!
Lyudmila from Voronezh.
I would like to separately thank Victoria and Yusuf!
Lyudmila from Voronezh.
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From the first day of arrival there were problems with Wi-Fi. And so every day for 11 days. The staff and management are aware of this, but nothing is changing for the better. The public beach is not far, but without sunbeds, dirty, you can put a towel only on cigarette butts on the sand. Nearby - with sun loungers, paid.
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From the first day of arrival there were problems with Wi-Fi. And so every day for 11 days. The staff and management are aware of this, but nothing is changing for the better. The public beach is not far, but without sunbeds, dirty, you can put a towel only on cigarette butts on the sand. Nearby - with sun loungers, paid. I don’t know how much it costs for tourists, but the Turks paid 10 lira for a sunbed. It takes 5 minutes to get to the hotel beach by shuttle from the hotel or by public bus (travel -2.60 lira), but walk for about an hour in the heat, along the highway along the sea. Therefore, do not trust information about the beach on hotel description sites. The room was cleaned every day, sheets and towels changed every 3 days. The food is not very large assortment, but it is impossible to die of hunger. The staff is friendly and welcoming.
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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.
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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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The tour was taken as in the 3rd, but it turned out to be the 4th. A small city hotel, not far from the airport, 7-8 minutes to the city beach. walk, but 2 times a day guests are taken to Dido Beach (equipped serviced beach, excellent service, they didn’t pay for sunbeds and umbrellas, but don’t bring water and food with you).
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The tour was taken as in the 3rd, but it turned out to be the 4th. A small city hotel, not far from the airport, 7-8 minutes to the city beach. walk, but 2 times a day guests are taken to Dido Beach (equipped serviced beach, excellent service, they didn’t pay for sunbeds and umbrellas, but don’t bring water and food with you). Around the hotel are residential buildings, hotels, not far from the "Club Hotel SERA", a lot of shops where prices are low and in local currency. In the morning and afternoon, airplanes fly belly over the hotel, but at night the traffic stops and we slept absolutely fine. The soundproofing in the hotel is normal, everything works, the rooms were cleaned, linen and towels were changed every day, the staff does not speak Russian ("hello-bye" does not count), but everyone is very well-mannered and sympathetic. There were no problems. The food is monotonous, the choice is small, it doesn’t pull on a 4-ku, but there was enough meat. For families with children, except for the chairs in the restaurant and the section in the pool, there is nothing. I would like to note the absence of queues for food, a large number of seats in the restaurant, fresh products, excellent communication with the city, within a 10-15 minute reach there is where to take a walk. The hotel is very quiet. For some, what I have stated is not very attractive, but true. Assessing the conditions of rest from my bell tower, I will say "very good" and I want to return there next year.
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