Отдых с ребёнком Vacation with a child

I flew, mother and son - 5 years old. We arrived in the morning - we were pleasantly surprised by the transfer - we were alone (tour operator Tui), and we were taken alone in a car with leather seats.
At the reception they said that the room would be ready in an hour and offered to go to have breakfast in a restaurant. That is, they settled us already at 11 o'clock - also a pleasant surprise - they were afraid that we would have to wait until 14. We did not give any money - we got a room on the fourth floor overlooking the fountain - the exit from the hotel. He arranged for us, mosquitoes did not reach us to the last - only a couple flew in the night before departure, but our friends who lived on the 1st floor suffered from them every night...
Food - we really liked it.

My son is very picky about food. He usually ate only pasta and french fries in hotels. Here - such a variety of meat and fish that there was always something that he could eat. There was also beef, and really tasty, lamb, chicken, turkey. Constantly - two kinds of fish.
They always cooked something very tasty on the grill, but I ate this - because it was usually seasoned. Behind the grill - there are two small, but very quickly passing queues.
Puree soups, my son does not like them, but I ate - such as everywhere in Turkey.
There are a lot of fruits - at first I ate watermelons and strawberries, then melons appeared, and towards the end of the rest - cherries. In addition, there were always apricots, peaches, nectarines, apples, bananas, oranges, peeled grapefruits (for breakfast) and some local small fruits that we did not eat.
Toward the end, watermelons were brought directly to the beach.
In the morning and in the afternoon there are jugs with juices - orange, apple, cherry. Orange - fresh, the son once asked about him: "Mom, am I eating it? " - at the bottom of the jug juice - very thick, with pulp.
The restaurant has a children's buffet - with small tables, funny children's plates with beautiful pictures, but the meat there, as usual in Turkish hotels, is not for children. That is, you can take a side dish and cucumber-tomatoes there, but it’s better to look for meat among the adult cuisine - something soft, stewed, for example, or fish - my child really liked it, practically without bones.
For breakfast there is rice milk porridge - they call it "rice with milk". The croissants are just amazing. In general, there are a lot of delicious pastries for breakfast. Well, yogurt, pancakes, fried eggs, scrambled eggs. We ate pancakes, spreading them with chocolate or with honey - it hangs right in the honeycombs.
Delicious cheeses - many varieties, cut in front of you. There are also several types of sausages, but we did not eat them.
Ice cream - also many types, there is always, except for breakfast. Son - just overeat.
Sometimes we had lunch in a snack - not far from the beach - very tasty grilled chicken with french fries. Opposite the snack is a tent with flat cakes with cheese-meat and ayran.

In the pool bar for an afternoon snack - baked potatoes in foil and all sorts of cookies, cakes, ice cream.
In the lobby from five in the evening - also cookies, cakes, sandwiches - until night.
I didn’t find food only from 10:30 (breakfast ends) to 12 (snack and Turkish pizza starts) - my son at that time, having just taken a swim, was terribly hungry. I collected cookies for him in advance at breakfast and others, in the lobby, the night before, bananas (at dinner, there were none for breakfast), apples - that was how I escaped.
A children's pool with a depth of 30 cm on one side and 50 cm on the other is not enough, of course. For a five-year-old child, it could be deeper. And deeper - this is already more than a meter - it was already deep for us.
I'm at 7 in the morning (and preferably at fifteen minutes to 7) - took sunbeds by the children's pool. Germans are settled nearby - in separate buildings, not in a common building. And they, sleepy, go out early in the morning right in their nightgown - they throw their towels on 4 sunbeds at once - and then there is nothing to catch.
But on the sea - there are always a lot of empty sunbeds, you can come at any time. Sunset - gently sloping, sand and small pebbles - throws a strip on the shore - does not bother at all. The son all the time ran his legs along the edge of the sea - he loves it very much.
After breakfast, we usually went first to the sea, then to the children's pool, then to lunch (from 13 to 14:30), then again to the sea or the pool. Dinner from 19:00 to 21:30. And you can come almost at any time - the food is not "ends".

We went shopping at the opened Terracity shopping center - it takes 10-15 minutes to go by city bus LC38, it seems to stop on the opposite side of the road as you leave the hotel. The price of the trip is a dollar or a little less than two Turkish liras. There in the Waikiki department - very affordable and high-quality children's - and not only - clothing. Jeans for a child - very good - were bought for 300 rubles, luminous sneakers - for 600 rubles. In the same place, in the basement - a supermarket - they bought sweets there - to bring treats to Russia.
And we bought souvenirs from Arkady from Rostov - next to the hotel - going down from the hotel, you just walk along the bridge to the right, there is also a swing for children.
On the tour we were in the dolphinarium - I liked it very much - everything happens right at your feet. Dolphins and a white whale jumped right into the area in front of us and spun at our feet! The white whale played ball with the audience. I was also impressed when the coach rode standing on dolphins. The only negative - a Turk with pretzels at the entrance to the dolphinarium - just puts this bagel in the child's hand, turns to his parents and says: "One dollar! "
Children's animation, as I understand it, is very good - I just went on vacation to be with the child, and didn’t send him anywhere, otherwise they baked cookies and pizza with different fillings with the children - then they could eat it all. Before the evening children's disco, the winners of the daytime competitions were awarded. Then everyone danced on the stage with four girls-animators, and ours, Russian - tall, with blond hair - the most cheerful, perky and groovy of them.
I was very rarely at adult animation - I usually put my son to bed.
Of the minuses for me - the Internet this year has become paid, and expensive - 25 euros per week or 3 euros per hour. It was important to me - even on vacation I can not do without it.
The contingent of vacationers was different - at first there were many Germans, and there were practically no Russians, the Russians arrived in June. At the reception there was usually either a charming Russian-speaking (I think, just Russian) girl or a man who understands Russian. Many waiters, having heard my English, also switched to Russian : -))
In general, everything was great! We had a great rest.