Soviet hotel in capitalist Turkey.

Written: 6 october 2014
Travel time: 16 — 28 september 2014
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 4.0
Cleanliness: 4.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 4.0
We say Lukia, we think Lenin! We say World, we think Vladimir!
Inspired by the successes of China and the ideas of Marxism-Leninism, the management of the Lukia World Hotel is building a socialist island in bourgeois Turkey. Everything works in the hotel, obeying some inexplicable rules and the invisible will of the owner…
The hotel is located away from settlements and other hotels, the trip to Belek by taxi is 50 minutes and costs $ 100 with a return to the hotel. Therefore, guests who do not like the socialist paradise escape from here is not so easy.
As expected in the socialist model of the economy, money is practically not needed here - there is simply nothing to spend it on. The range of shops located in the hotel is meager and does not exceed the range of the now closed Cherkizovsky market. Restaurants of the Alacarte system are not interesting because free food is enough, and they are not expensive $ 15 per person.

Paid entertainment includes water rides: parachute, banana ride, jet ski, etc.

Hotel
The architecture of the hotel resembles the architecture of Soviet scientific institutes. Large halls with high ceilings, twisting stairs, marble floors, straight lines, many stupid corridors leading to nowhere. I didn’t even go to some because I was afraid not to go back. The pluses include comfortable rooms and a huge number of toilets located in the central buildings of the hotel.

Settlement
So that vacationers immediately understand where they are, for the first time in many years of travel experience, at the reception they reminded me of the international rule - “Check in at 2 pm! ". God forbid you arrive at night or early in the morning, you will stay until 14, until you are given the keys! Although, while I was arriving at the hotel, it seemed to me that the hotel was filled with a maximum of 30%.

Staff
The hotel staff is an international of Turks, Kazakhs, Russians and Ukrainians. In general, everything is fine, especially the waiters from the restaurant, who run around like bees, trying in every possible way to please the guests.

The cultural program
Practically every evening in the local Theater they show a performance where the peoples of the world demonstrate cultural achievements. In general, the performances are very interesting and should not be missed.
Animators at the hotel are infected with sleeping sickness. Their only task is to hold the event. They are not interested in how it will be held and how many people will come to it. If in other hotels animators run and jump, inviting people to events, and in the evening they put on a performance in the theater, these sit in a bar, drive around in electric cars and wait for the end of the working day, they have found peace here, which was so lacking in their homeland.
The guests themselves have to run after the animators to find out where and what will be held, the schedule issued at the reception is incorrect.

Restaurant

The food in the main restaurant Rapsody Restoran, the name probably bears the name of the communism fighter against the oppression of Turkish workers, is generally very good, and the assortment of dishes changes slightly from day to day. The only problem is that on September 23 my girlfriend got poisoned, and on September 25 I got poisoned. After that, I had to take medicine for several days, eat only watermelons and drink tea. But I am sure that the hotel staff are not to blame for everything, the pests of the Trotskyists entrenched in the hotel are to blame.

Holodomor
So that the future builders of socialism are ready for difficulties, the restaurants in the 5 * hotel work in such a way that "hungry hours" are formed. From 11-12 and from 16-19, when no restaurant is open.
Given that families go to the hotel, this measure is very correct - “Let them get used to life's difficulties and malnutrition from childhood! How do children live in Africa? »

You give the sea
Tourists who first came to Lykia Beach are in a slight shock - you will not find such dirty sand on the beach even near Moscow lakes. Throughout the beach in the sand are stones, branches, cigarette butts, broken glass, spare parts from sunbeds. Walking without shoes is very dangerous.

Golf
There is a bourgeois abbreviation in the name of the hotel, inherited from the former French colonial tenants of the hotel of some kind of “Golf Resort”, the French fled in 2013. There are indeed golf courses near the hotel, but fortunately for vacationers, bourgeois amusements that corrupt society were not available for all 13 days of our stay. The wise management of the hotel stopped this disgrace during the season under the plausible pretext “On renovation! ".

hardening
In order to instill fortitude and strength of character in the future builders of socialism, the water in the pools is really very cold in the morning it is simply impossible to swim. When communicating with one of the mothers, she complained that on the very first day their child caught a cold.

Not allowed
There is very little entertainment and in general the hotel is boring.

For example, water slides operate on a schedule of 2 hours before lunch and 2 hours after lunch, at which time there are a lot of people around the pool with slides. At least you can keep yourself busy with something, but after the slides are turned off, the people scatter. This place can't be called a swimming pool either. For some reason they made it very small, and you can’t swim here - you moved down the hill and get out of the paddling pool faster, otherwise those who drive down the hill will crush you.

P. S. If you dreamed of going to Cuba. You don't have to do this - the socialist paradise Lykia World is waiting for you just a 3-hour flight from Moscow.
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