Royal Asarlik Beach - FOREVER!!! Not a vacation, but a fairy tale ......

Written: 20 september 2006
Travel time: 20 — 27 september 2006
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
8 days spent at the hotel gave a lot of pleasant impressions and unforgettable emotions. The staff is very friendly and welcoming, always smiling and playful. They work hard and take good care of vacationers. Moreover, they do it not in tension, but in every possible way demonstrating that they are pleased with it.
The hotel opened last year. Its territory is not very big, but very well-groomed and tidy. Lots of greenery, flowers, huge palm trees, fountains and streams. Near the pool - small waterfalls. There are 3 swimming pools in the hotel. In 2 of them there are sections for children.
The sea in this resort is Aegean - very salty and calm. The water in it is completely transparent. You come in, waist-deep, and you see flocks of magnificent fish swimming past you. Those who dived with a mask managed to find a very valuable product in cosmetology - a scrubbing washcloth, which was sold in the markets of Bodrum from 10 to 30 euros, depending on the size. It's true, going into the sea is not very convenient. Before going knee-deep, I had to rub my feet a lot on a lot of stones laid on the shore.

The food at the hotel deserves special praise! The selection is just fantastic! The menu always has meat and fish, vegetables and grill, an abundance of fruits and sweets. I especially remember the baked tuna, about a meter in size, cooked in a thick layer of salt, resembling dough.
And in Royal Asarlik Beach there is an amazing SPA complex, where they offer all kinds of massages, scrubs, as well as a Turkish bath and sauna. The latter, by the way, were included in the cost of our tour. We really liked the sauna. In a bucket of water, which we splashed on the stones, the servants poured some wonderful oil, which left a pleasant aroma in the air and on our skin! By the way, an amazing floral aroma was also heard in the corridors of the hotel, but we never figured out where it still taken.
The rooms were cleaned daily, towels changed every two days. Sometimes hearts were laid out of them on the bed, carefully sprinkled with rose petals. Well, after that, how not to feel like a queen?
The location of the hotel is very convenient. A 30-minute drive from the new airport, 20 minutes from Bodrum (the hotel is located in the village of GUMBET).
By the way, it is in Bodrum that one of the seven wonders of the world is located - the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, called by the Romans the tomb of King Mausolus, who died in 352 BC. e.
One of the legends that has come down to us says that the widow of King Artemisia decided to build a magnificent tomb and thereby perpetuate the memory of her husband (according to another historical version, the construction of the tomb was started during the life of Mausolus, Artemisia only continued it).

The almost untouched mausoleum stood for approx. 1800 years in the middle of a deserted city until the 15th century, when it was dismantled by the crusaders, who reinforced it with plates of their stronghold on the Aegean Sea - the castle of St. Petra (modern Bodrum in Turkey). It was within the walls of the fortress and the surrounding houses that in 1857 the English archaeologist C. T. Newton discovered relief slabs from the basement of the tomb, statues of Mausolus and his wife Artemisia, and a colossal chariot that crowned the entire structure. All these details of the mausoleum are now kept in the British Museum in London and the Archaeological Museum in Istanbul.
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