Sea of ​​sun and good mood

Written: 13 august 2009
Travel time: 26 july — 9 august 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
To all readers, good afternoon.

And again, dear friends, I continued my trips to the hotels of the Magic Life network, this time spending 2 weeks of legal vacation in the Turkish Sirene Imperial, flying in the already familiar (from previous trips to the hotels of this German network) atmosphere of an ongoing holiday and chronically good mood. Once again, it was very pleasant to make sure that the Magic Life chain does not change its principles: it doesn’t matter what country hotel you come to relax in - everywhere you meet high service and take home a lot of positive memories.

1. Hotel and territory
The hotel again pleased us with a huge and well-landscaped landscaped area with beautiful small pine trees, everything is very clean and well-groomed (all the photos that you saw on its website are true).

The hotel consists of an 8-storey main building ("0" floor - reception / lobby and 7 residential floors), as well as a Superior Room building and several 2-storey bungalows (Family Room), which are located on the "second line", closer to road. Descent / ascent to the rooms is carried out using 3 elevators, two of which have glass walls. The buildings are 2-storey, brick-colored, of pleasant architecture, built in the style of a bungalow without a hint of crowding. The hotel has 1 large pool for adults with 3 water slides (2 spiral and 1 straight with three grooves), 1 smaller pool (relax zone) plus 1 children's pool with 2 water slides (in the center - "octopus", and with edge - "elephant", for the smallest), 1 indoor pool on the "-1" floor. By the way, I want to immediately warn adults about riding from spiral slides in a large pool: one of them starts at the level of the 3rd floor, and the other - at the level of the 2nd.
So, from a higher slide, adults can ride absolutely calmly, but from a lower one, it is better not to move out, because of the danger of hitting the coccyx on the bottom of the pool (the shallowest place). Children can ride on any slide, this warning does not apply to them. And one more thing: if you go downhill for the first time - do not try to catch your hands / feet on the walls - you will scratch yourself on the side seams.
As before, the entire mass of vacationers is magically distributed in such a way that people do not interfere with each other at all, there is always enough space for everyone everywhere, which cannot but rejoice. As before, there is absolutely no need to rush to take places in the restaurant, on the beach and by the pool; whenever you come - always make yourself comfortable.
The hotel was very pleased with the relaxation zones: if you want to relax in general from everything, you can sit on a special green lawn, in the shade of a pine tree on a hammock or swing in the form of a month and take a nap under the murmur of a waterfall.
On the territory there are excellent tennis courts and tables for table tennis, good grounds for football, mini-football and basketball.
Near the amphitheater there is a paddock with rabbits, the kids are just indescribably delighted with carrots after dinner.

2. Rooms
It cannot be said about the standard rooms of the main building that they are large, rather they are quite spacious (the room can comfortably accommodate two adults, or quite calmly 2 adults + 1 child); all rooms ending in odd numbers (for example, 1265 - building 1, floor 2, room 65) have a sea view; all numbers ending in even - respectively, view of the garden.

All standard rooms have the same drawback - a tiny balcony, on which 2 people can only fit shoulder to shoulder. By the way, the Superior Room building differs in that the rooms have more spacious balconies, the dimensions of the room themselves are the same as in the standard one. The balcony has underfloor heating. The room has: TV, normal air conditioning, hairdryer and safe, non-alcoholic minibar - refrigerator (filled once a week for free - cola, fanta, sprite and mineral water), a normal bathroom. Rooms are cleaned daily, of high quality (all left and scattered things are neatly folded, towels and bath mats are changed every day).
I also consider it necessary to warn that all rooms with sea views also have a view of the concert venue next to the pool, where every evening, from 22 to 24 hours, live music is performed. And he speaks with all his heart, speaks loudly.
Thus, if you want to go to bed early, then most likely, instead of sleeping, you will have the opportunity to move your toes to the rhythms of some Guantenomero or Tutti Frutti. It will be noisy, in a word. Please consider this feature when placing. You don't have to worry about hearing between rooms - the isolation is very good and you won't hear your neighbors.

3. Beach and sea.
The beach is private, sandy - pebble, spacious, with a pier. Along the coast there are several rows of long awnings, under which there are sun loungers. Between awnings - wooden paths. There are always enough sun loungers for everyone who wants to sunbathe on the coast, I repeat once again that there is absolutely no need to get up early to take the coveted place under the sun. The beach has a bar and showers; For some reason, there are no changing cabins and toilets, the nearest toilet is at the Sofra restaurant.
Unfortunately, from the side of the beach, the hotel has disadvantages, namely:
- in the sun lounger area, the beach is sandy, and the sand is incredibly hot under the sun during the daytime! I'll tell you straight - beware of stepping, it will hurt! Parents! Attention!! ! Do not let the kids go without shoes in any case - I witnessed how the kids cried from burns.
- the sand in the lounge area is somewhat dirty - old cigarette butts and bottle caps are lying around in places; it cannot be said that it is very dirty and somehow annoying, but - nevertheless, it is strange to see ...


The hotel includes free water sports: banana, water skiing, kayaks, catamarans. Water skiing - from the pier: come. write down the room number in your notebook, choose the size of the life jacket and skis, and - go ahead! Riding a banana - you will see a canopy next to the catamarans, the recording mechanism is the same. You can ride as many times as you like.
Catamarans and kayaks are always available free. Skydiving - 50 USD.

The entrance to the sea is gentle, in the morning it is almost always calm, the water is clear, the bottom is clearly visible. By noon, small waves begin. Along the edge of the surf is a strip of pebbles.

4. Animation.
There are many animators, I work very professionally, incendiary and fun from morning until late at night; you definitely won't be bored. As I already said, every evening on the spacious open area of ​ ​ the bar next to the pool, live music is played from 22:00 to 24:00, to which everyone is dancing, from 24:00 to 02:00 there is a disco on the "-1" floor of the main building.
From 20 to 21 - children's animation on the ground next to the large pool.
At 22:00, the show starts in the amphitheater, next to the relaxation pool. I draw your attention to the fact that the amphitheater is the only place in the hotel where there is ALWAYS a problem with good seats due to the amazing entertainment of the evening show.
The program is designed for 14 days, during which neither the numbers, nor the costumes, nor the scenery are repeated. Evening animation is a mixture of a professional musical with excellent chreographic preparation and a circus, so do not be late, come early to fully enjoy what you see.
From time to time, instead of the evening show, various incendiary events are held: a foam party on the beach, a disco in the pool, a reggae party, a karaoke party, etc.
For those who want to relax - free sauna and Turkish bath also on the "-1" floor from 09 to 19 hours daily.

5 Nutrition.
The food, as always, is top notch! Very tasty cuisine with a very large assortment of dishes for every taste!

In the morning, an unlimited amount of a vitamin cocktail - a mixture of freshly squeezed fruits (there are no separate freshly squeezed juices, for example, orange), for lunch and dinner - an unlimited number of 7 types of delicious ice cream. Each evening is dedicated to the cuisine of a country with a great variety of menus. and again cannot but please the absence of fuss and queues; a small minus is the system of serving drinks by waiters: if you order a drink to the waiter, he, of course, will bring it to you, but slowly, after 10-15 minutes. To speed up, you need a monetary unit, or you can take a drink yourself. But even with such lethargy of the waiters, there are no queues at the bar, which can be observed in other hotels. A very wonderful assortment of fruits and berries for every taste.
Bars on the territory are open until 20:00, bars on the dance floor - until 01:00, the bar in the main building is open around the clock. The variety of spirits is not bad, but everything is locally produced. The bar on the "0" floor - a good selection of cocktails for all tastes, natural coffee and tea. Cocktails are actively twisted in the bar next to the large pool.

6. SPA - center
I consider it necessary to say a few useful words about the SPA - center, which is on the "-1" floor. I recommend one employee of this center to everyone who is interested in massages and various healing procedures: his name is Erchin, he speaks excellent Russian, he has 2 serious advantages:
- for some reason he loves Russians (at the same time he cannot stand the Germans), and therefore he makes excellent discounts.
- does not stick to women (that is, does not try, as it were, to accidentally touch certain places or stick his hand somewhere), does the work thoughtfully and efficiently.

7. Excursions and trips
Upon arrival at the hotel, your tour operator will naturally try to take you on a tour of the local attractions. People! Believe me, Belek is not the place from where you can go, for example, to Pamukkale or visit the turtles. Why? See for yourself: the road from ML to, say, Pamukkale will take you 7 hours (and this is only one way, it will take 14 hours in total), you will stay there 2.5 - 3 hours, and the way back will completely erase all impressions. Just imagine: you leave at 06:00, return at about 22:00...The same story with a trip to the turtles. Believe that it is not worth it - to lose a day of excellent rest at the sea, and even pay for it.
You will also be offered a "free" tour to the gold/leather/textile/carpet centers by private taxi. Keep in mind that prices in these institutions are 250 - 300% higher than the true ones for the goods that you will be offered, and no one will make any tangible discounts.

eight.
Moral atmosphere in the hotel.

Gorgeous, after two days you feel at home. There is absolutely nothing negative about the staff. Vacationers are a cultural people, there is no noise / fights / scandals. The atmosphere is specific to Magic life: there are no gloomy and gloomy faces in the hotel, people are surrounded by a very warm atmosphere without any negativity or problems, the mood is always on top, from morning until late at night. During my 2 weeks stay at ML Sirene, the only unpleasant moment was a fat German woman jumping on my foot while playing volleyball. And - everything! The rest is only positive! And even those small minuses that I listed earlier did not in any way affect the excellent impression of a great vacation!

Finishing the review, I want to say one important thing: Magic Life has the only serious drawback - you get used to it very much ...After ML, you don’t want to go to other hotels at all, the rest is so good ...
I wish you all a pleasant and magical holiday,
Sincerely, Alexander

P. S. As always, I will be happy to answer any questions regarding the hotel, so if you have any, do not hesitate to ask.
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