Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
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Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
7.0
Service:
7.0
Cleanliness:
6.0
Food:
7.0
Amenities:
8.0
A review of the Lykia World hotel will be presented through the prism of comparison with another Turkish hotel, since everything is understood in comparison.
So, in Turkey were not the first time. We rested in this hotel with a family consisting of two adults and two children, from 23.05. 2019 to 01.06. 2019 (10 days).
The night flight was hard for me, because with my height of 183 cm there is absolutely no legroom on the plane, in connection with this I didn’t even manage to sleep, but the plane and the airline back were different - the flight was more comfortable. This time, upon arrival in Turkey, we passed customs control very quickly and received our luggage.
The transfer from the airport to the hotel was 45 minutes, despite the fact that we were the first to be brought in (lucky, because this is not always the case) and there was no standard stop, which is very good, but the journey back was 2.5 hours, because we were picked up first, and then we stopped by four more hotels and, accordingly, according to the tradition of tour operators, stop at the store.
The hotel is located away from residential areas. On the way, looking out the window, there is nothing to catch the eye.
Upon arrival at the place, and this happened at 08.00 local time, we were met by the friendly hotel staff, who spoke excellent Russian. Documents were accepted very quickly and sent for breakfast. According to the regulations, check-in to the rooms takes place after 14.00, but we were told to come to the reception after 10.00.
At first, the restaurant confused us with its layout, I wanted to have breakfast on the street, but we didn’t immediately find seats there. There were not many people in the morning, which was very pleasing.
After breakfast we decided to take a walk around the area. The first impression is that it is very large, although in the last hotel it was also not small, but somehow it was more comfortable, more soulful or something. While walking, we can say that we lost access to the reception))).
The room was given in building 3 on the main (first) floor next to the lobby bar.
My wife liked it for its size and layout, the presence of a large balcony and access through the balcony to the pool.
Being under positive impressions, we quickly put on beach clothes and went to the sea with the whole family.
The road from the room to the sea through the hotel was 5 minutes (my children and I), past three bars and across the bridge over the pool. The sun loungers were almost all occupied, and how sad it would not sound, including towels that people leave on purpose when reserving their seats. I can’t say, but it’s quite possible that our fellow countrymen do this, because in the last hotel, and it was aimed mostly at the rest of Europeans, this was observed much less. Having settled down on one deck chair in the fourth, we went to taste the Mediterranean Sea after the Russian winter. The distance to the sea from the sunbeds is greater than in the previous hotel.
We can say that not a single hotel is visible on the horizon, but I would say that the equipped beach is not big, although there is where to turn around. Last year's vacation, it was the equipped beach that was longer and nicer. Perhaps this is the syndrome of the first day and sleepless flight. When entering the sea, there is a strip of pebbles, but then a flat sandy bottom. The water during this period of time is refreshing, but everyone bathes, young and old. The first two days were cloudy, but warm, the sea was calm. Then the wind rose, dispersed the clouds, it became clear and sunny, a wave appeared on the sea.
When they came for dinner, they were in shock, again compared to last year's hotel. Such emotions were from the surrounding people, the same as we are vacationers. At the entrance to the restaurant there was a queue, which looked very wild, as if there was not enough food or space.
Last year's hotel was focused on Europeans, it was mostly Germans and British who rested, they did not create a queue and generally always smiled and tried to talk if they were positively disposed towards them.
After a couple of days, the opinion was finally formed. Now I will try to state the main points without emotions, maybe this review will be useful to you when planning a vacation.
1. Flight
Flight to rest and back described above.
2. Transfer
The road from the airport to the hotel and back is set out at the beginning of the review.
3. Receptionist
The reception staff speaks Russian quite well. There is a separate table where a person sits, in our case they were immigrants from the CIS, who help resolve issues. They need to make applications or, for example, how can my wife take a book from the "library".
Issues are always resolved fairly quickly, and in the process of rest they are always interested in whether everything is fine and how they are resting.
4. Number
We had a room in the 3rd category building ...It had 2 beds with an approximate width of 1.2 m, which, if necessary, the staff can move, 2 bedside tables, 2 small sofas, children slept on them, they also offered to bring a baby cot, but we refused , there was a small armchair with a footstool, a table, a chair, a coffee table, a TV. At the entrance to the room there is a zone in which there is a sink, toilet and bathroom. The bathroom has a bathtub, a shower head and a rain shower, which is supposed to be taken standing on the floor, which has a ladder to collect water. Doors to wet rooms are made of frosted glass (not transparent). There is also a small entrance hall with a built-in wardrobe with shelves and a bar with hangers.
From the room there is access to the balcony on which there are two chairs and a table. Through the balcony you can access the pool. The room, characteristic of hotels of this level, provides a central air conditioning system, a free safe and a daily replenished refrigerator (water, beer, soda water such as Pepsi and Fanta), as well as gel, shampoo, hair conditioner, hairdryer, bathrobes, slippers and a set towels. The peculiarity of our room from others of the same category was an increased area of about 5 m with panoramic windows and the presence of a second sofa. Finishing in soothing colors, but in some places the wallpaper leaves, you don’t need to pay attention to this.
There was also a flaw that could not be corrected. As I said earlier, a shower ladder was installed in the bathroom floor, but the floor was sloped from the ladder to the threshold, and water, at a certain amount, began to flow over the threshold, getting into the sink area and into the bathroom.
We were offered to change the room, but it turned out to be smaller and with the difference indicated above, so we refused and adapted to this inconvenience.
5. Room service
Upon check-in, the room could have been prepared better, namely the main complaint about the cleanliness of the floor, including on the balcony. After talking with the hotel representative, the room was cleaned. Cleaning is done daily, bed linen is changed, if I'm not mistaken, every two days, towels are changed daily.
6. Hotel area
The area of the hotel is very large, and if you take into account the golf courses, it is simply huge. We did not get around it during our entire stay. The main part is well-groomed, there is a lot of vegetation: mowed lawns, shrubs and trees, outside the hotel the oasis ends, since there is nothing in the neighborhood. During the stay, we met a hedgehog, lizards, one very large. When choosing a hotel, a large green area was one of the requirements.
If you forgot something at home or didn’t take it with you, then there are small shops that I haven’t been to, but I realized that you can buy textiles, personal hygiene products, sunscreen, jewelry, furs, children’s toys, there were even scooters and souvenirs. Wi-Fi is limited on site.
7. Pools
There are five main pools: two for adults, one of which passes through the main bridge leading to the beach, two for children, one for children and one indoors. There is also a swimming pool with water slides. And I won’t tell you how many pools are near the buildings in the form of a calm river, because I don’t know (see the map).
8. Sea
Sea Mediterranean. ))) During this period of time - clean, however, on the last day of our holiday, the wind changed, a small wave rose and rubbish washed ashore. If I saw this picture at the beginning of the holiday, I was very upset. The water is refreshing, the temperature is 20-22 degrees, but everyone bathes.
Entry into the water through a two-meter, and in some places up to four meters pebble strip. The bottom is flat and sandy. Fans of swimming in a mask in a fenced area probably have nothing to do, because there is nothing to catch on the eye, if only to see fry.
9. Beach
The beach is divided into two zones: paid and free. In the free one, there were two types of sun loungers, plastic and wicker on a metal frame. All sun loungers are located under a canopy, the main passages are made of wooden flooring. There are areas for people with limited mobility and part of the free beach for the 16+ category. From the sun loungers to the sea, the distance is 30-40 meters. At the beginning of the beach, there is an announcement that it is impossible to move sun loungers to the sea, because turtles can come ashore, lay eggs and hatch, however, some people try to move sun loungers to the sea, but the staff monitors this and makes them carry them back . It looks funny from the outside.
The beach has two lifeguard towers and a water sports stall. The paid zone consists of 10-15 pavilions located at a distance from each other. If I understood correctly, then individual service is provided in the gazebos, the cost of rent for a day is 50 euros, or if you live in a villa, then it is automatically assigned to you, but not a fact. The beach is sandy with a minimum percentage of pebbles. For all the time I have never seen it being sifted, maybe this is due to the turtles, in the last hotel the beach was cleaner.
10. Restaurant and service in it
The main restaurant is located on site and serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. You can also have a bite to eat at a bar near the beach and go to the Ala Carte restaurant by appointment (Turkish cuisine, Italian or fish). The food in the main restaurant is quite varied. There is a children's menu with local specifics.
For example, borscht or hodgepodge you will not find here. But we always found something to feed our children, because the main menu included stewed vegetables, fish and meat, fresh fruits and vegetables, for breakfast you can choose porridge or scrambled eggs.
In the evening, some of the dishes are cooked outside on an open fire. There is seafood for dinner. In the last hotel there was an author's cuisine - I did not see this here. The restaurant has a dress code in the evening. It's nice to see people following it. The restaurant consists of several halls, including 16+ and outdoor areas with and without a canopy. Each zone is served by a dedicated waiter who takes away dirty dishes and pours drinks if necessary, or maybe depending on how you ask him.
Most of the staff are friendly and smiling. In the last hotel, table setting was better, tablecloths were set for dinner with individual napkins, but this was not the case here.
In each zone there are high chairs with paper aprons, which you can take if necessary.
11. Bars
There are three main bars: lobby bar, pool bar and beach bar. Everywhere they make cocktails from local drinks, pour beer, sparkling water, juices, children's cocktails. The alcohol is local, but I saw how Smirnoff vodka was poured in the lobby bar, it also contains packaged juice.
12. Animation
The hotel organizes children's and adult animation. There is a mini-club where Russian-speaking staff works with your child, and in the evening there is a disco for children. Adults also have something to do: during the day, various sports events, in the evening after the children's disco - performances, there is live music next to the bar, and after the disco for adults. In general, the animation is at a decent level.
Outcome. Everything is relative. Definitely recommend this hotel for families with children.
The main thing is to positively tune in and enjoy the rest, and pay no attention to various little things.
So, in Turkey were not the first time. We rested in this hotel with a family consisting of two adults and two children, from 23.05. 2019 to 01.06. 2019 (10 days).
The night flight was hard for me, because with my height of 183 cm there is absolutely no legroom on the plane, in connection with this I didn’t even manage to sleep, but the plane and the airline back were different - the flight was more comfortable. This time, upon arrival in Turkey, we passed customs control very quickly and received our luggage.
The transfer from the airport to the hotel was 45 minutes, despite the fact that we were the first to be brought in (lucky, because this is not always the case) and there was no standard stop, which is very good, but the journey back was 2.5 hours, because we were picked up first, and then we stopped by four more hotels and, accordingly, according to the tradition of tour operators, stop at the store.
The hotel is located away from residential areas. On the way, looking out the window, there is nothing to catch the eye.
Upon arrival at the place, and this happened at 08.00 local time, we were met by the friendly hotel staff, who spoke excellent Russian. Documents were accepted very quickly and sent for breakfast. According to the regulations, check-in to the rooms takes place after 14.00, but we were told to come to the reception after 10.00.
At first, the restaurant confused us with its layout, I wanted to have breakfast on the street, but we didn’t immediately find seats there. There were not many people in the morning, which was very pleasing.
After breakfast we decided to take a walk around the area. The first impression is that it is very large, although in the last hotel it was also not small, but somehow it was more comfortable, more soulful or something. While walking, we can say that we lost access to the reception))).
The room was given in building 3 on the main (first) floor next to the lobby bar.
My wife liked it for its size and layout, the presence of a large balcony and access through the balcony to the pool.
Being under positive impressions, we quickly put on beach clothes and went to the sea with the whole family.
The road from the room to the sea through the hotel was 5 minutes (my children and I), past three bars and across the bridge over the pool. The sun loungers were almost all occupied, and how sad it would not sound, including towels that people leave on purpose when reserving their seats. I can’t say, but it’s quite possible that our fellow countrymen do this, because in the last hotel, and it was aimed mostly at the rest of Europeans, this was observed much less. Having settled down on one deck chair in the fourth, we went to taste the Mediterranean Sea after the Russian winter. The distance to the sea from the sunbeds is greater than in the previous hotel.
We can say that not a single hotel is visible on the horizon, but I would say that the equipped beach is not big, although there is where to turn around. Last year's vacation, it was the equipped beach that was longer and nicer. Perhaps this is the syndrome of the first day and sleepless flight. When entering the sea, there is a strip of pebbles, but then a flat sandy bottom. The water during this period of time is refreshing, but everyone bathes, young and old. The first two days were cloudy, but warm, the sea was calm. Then the wind rose, dispersed the clouds, it became clear and sunny, a wave appeared on the sea.
When they came for dinner, they were in shock, again compared to last year's hotel. Such emotions were from the surrounding people, the same as we are vacationers. At the entrance to the restaurant there was a queue, which looked very wild, as if there was not enough food or space.
Last year's hotel was focused on Europeans, it was mostly Germans and British who rested, they did not create a queue and generally always smiled and tried to talk if they were positively disposed towards them.
After a couple of days, the opinion was finally formed. Now I will try to state the main points without emotions, maybe this review will be useful to you when planning a vacation.
1. Flight
Flight to rest and back described above.
2. Transfer
The road from the airport to the hotel and back is set out at the beginning of the review.
3. Receptionist
The reception staff speaks Russian quite well. There is a separate table where a person sits, in our case they were immigrants from the CIS, who help resolve issues. They need to make applications or, for example, how can my wife take a book from the "library".
Issues are always resolved fairly quickly, and in the process of rest they are always interested in whether everything is fine and how they are resting.
4. Number
We had a room in the 3rd category building ...It had 2 beds with an approximate width of 1.2 m, which, if necessary, the staff can move, 2 bedside tables, 2 small sofas, children slept on them, they also offered to bring a baby cot, but we refused , there was a small armchair with a footstool, a table, a chair, a coffee table, a TV. At the entrance to the room there is a zone in which there is a sink, toilet and bathroom. The bathroom has a bathtub, a shower head and a rain shower, which is supposed to be taken standing on the floor, which has a ladder to collect water. Doors to wet rooms are made of frosted glass (not transparent). There is also a small entrance hall with a built-in wardrobe with shelves and a bar with hangers.
From the room there is access to the balcony on which there are two chairs and a table. Through the balcony you can access the pool. The room, characteristic of hotels of this level, provides a central air conditioning system, a free safe and a daily replenished refrigerator (water, beer, soda water such as Pepsi and Fanta), as well as gel, shampoo, hair conditioner, hairdryer, bathrobes, slippers and a set towels. The peculiarity of our room from others of the same category was an increased area of about 5 m with panoramic windows and the presence of a second sofa. Finishing in soothing colors, but in some places the wallpaper leaves, you don’t need to pay attention to this.
There was also a flaw that could not be corrected. As I said earlier, a shower ladder was installed in the bathroom floor, but the floor was sloped from the ladder to the threshold, and water, at a certain amount, began to flow over the threshold, getting into the sink area and into the bathroom.
We were offered to change the room, but it turned out to be smaller and with the difference indicated above, so we refused and adapted to this inconvenience.
5. Room service
Upon check-in, the room could have been prepared better, namely the main complaint about the cleanliness of the floor, including on the balcony. After talking with the hotel representative, the room was cleaned. Cleaning is done daily, bed linen is changed, if I'm not mistaken, every two days, towels are changed daily.
6. Hotel area
The area of the hotel is very large, and if you take into account the golf courses, it is simply huge. We did not get around it during our entire stay. The main part is well-groomed, there is a lot of vegetation: mowed lawns, shrubs and trees, outside the hotel the oasis ends, since there is nothing in the neighborhood. During the stay, we met a hedgehog, lizards, one very large. When choosing a hotel, a large green area was one of the requirements.
If you forgot something at home or didn’t take it with you, then there are small shops that I haven’t been to, but I realized that you can buy textiles, personal hygiene products, sunscreen, jewelry, furs, children’s toys, there were even scooters and souvenirs. Wi-Fi is limited on site.
7. Pools
There are five main pools: two for adults, one of which passes through the main bridge leading to the beach, two for children, one for children and one indoors. There is also a swimming pool with water slides. And I won’t tell you how many pools are near the buildings in the form of a calm river, because I don’t know (see the map).
8. Sea
Sea Mediterranean. ))) During this period of time - clean, however, on the last day of our holiday, the wind changed, a small wave rose and rubbish washed ashore. If I saw this picture at the beginning of the holiday, I was very upset. The water is refreshing, the temperature is 20-22 degrees, but everyone bathes.
Entry into the water through a two-meter, and in some places up to four meters pebble strip. The bottom is flat and sandy. Fans of swimming in a mask in a fenced area probably have nothing to do, because there is nothing to catch on the eye, if only to see fry.
9. Beach
The beach is divided into two zones: paid and free. In the free one, there were two types of sun loungers, plastic and wicker on a metal frame. All sun loungers are located under a canopy, the main passages are made of wooden flooring. There are areas for people with limited mobility and part of the free beach for the 16+ category. From the sun loungers to the sea, the distance is 30-40 meters. At the beginning of the beach, there is an announcement that it is impossible to move sun loungers to the sea, because turtles can come ashore, lay eggs and hatch, however, some people try to move sun loungers to the sea, but the staff monitors this and makes them carry them back . It looks funny from the outside.
The beach has two lifeguard towers and a water sports stall. The paid zone consists of 10-15 pavilions located at a distance from each other. If I understood correctly, then individual service is provided in the gazebos, the cost of rent for a day is 50 euros, or if you live in a villa, then it is automatically assigned to you, but not a fact. The beach is sandy with a minimum percentage of pebbles. For all the time I have never seen it being sifted, maybe this is due to the turtles, in the last hotel the beach was cleaner.
10. Restaurant and service in it
The main restaurant is located on site and serves breakfast, lunch and dinner. You can also have a bite to eat at a bar near the beach and go to the Ala Carte restaurant by appointment (Turkish cuisine, Italian or fish). The food in the main restaurant is quite varied. There is a children's menu with local specifics.
For example, borscht or hodgepodge you will not find here. But we always found something to feed our children, because the main menu included stewed vegetables, fish and meat, fresh fruits and vegetables, for breakfast you can choose porridge or scrambled eggs.
In the evening, some of the dishes are cooked outside on an open fire. There is seafood for dinner. In the last hotel there was an author's cuisine - I did not see this here. The restaurant has a dress code in the evening. It's nice to see people following it. The restaurant consists of several halls, including 16+ and outdoor areas with and without a canopy. Each zone is served by a dedicated waiter who takes away dirty dishes and pours drinks if necessary, or maybe depending on how you ask him.
Most of the staff are friendly and smiling. In the last hotel, table setting was better, tablecloths were set for dinner with individual napkins, but this was not the case here.
In each zone there are high chairs with paper aprons, which you can take if necessary.
11. Bars
There are three main bars: lobby bar, pool bar and beach bar. Everywhere they make cocktails from local drinks, pour beer, sparkling water, juices, children's cocktails. The alcohol is local, but I saw how Smirnoff vodka was poured in the lobby bar, it also contains packaged juice.
12. Animation
The hotel organizes children's and adult animation. There is a mini-club where Russian-speaking staff works with your child, and in the evening there is a disco for children. Adults also have something to do: during the day, various sports events, in the evening after the children's disco - performances, there is live music next to the bar, and after the disco for adults. In general, the animation is at a decent level.
Outcome. Everything is relative. Definitely recommend this hotel for families with children.
The main thing is to positively tune in and enjoy the rest, and pay no attention to various little things.
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