Отличное место и отличный отель - подробный отзыв Great location and great hotel - detailed review

It is with great pleasure that I want to write a review from this hotel, but first I would like to say that I consider myself to be both people and tourists who believe that everything that happens around us depends only on us and we are responsible for everything that happens - i. e. if I arrived at the hotel at 3 o'clock in the morning with a one-year-old child and they do not check me in - I will not consider the hotel to be terrible - because there are international check-in rules from 14.00 and we must understand this when we arrive at night, and that places and the truth until 14.00 may not be and this is not the fault of the hotel.
My wife and I are 44 years old, the eldest son is 20 years old and my daughter is 10 years old - full of positive and energy, but quite objective and pragmatic. Travel experience around the world since 2004.

Length of stay: 23 July 2021 - 3 August 2021
Guests: 3 adults + 1 child 10 years old
Number: Deluxe Room one-room 40 sq. meters

We arrived at 10.45. Checked in at 13.00
Flight: Royal Flight - without delay at 06.20 from Sheremetyevo
Meeting at the airport: Sunmar (they flew from it) - quickly collected by bus and taken to the hotels
Airport to hotel: 25 minutes

Conclusion:
I definitely recommend the hotel for recreation - I liked everything, that's how we understood the organization of recreation here when choosing a hotel. For those with children with strollers - look again at the reviews and photos - as the hotel stands on a mountain and has 6 levels. Yes, there are two elevators between levels (not in buildings) but then there are still places where you will need to move up the stairs.
My opinion - the hotel is the best for families with children from 3 years old.

So let's go:
Weather
- The temperature is now 37-39 degrees - according to my feelings - it feels like 35 degrees. Humidity -0% -1% - stuffiness - NO. Constant wind from the sea - very comfortable.
I have never personally been to Bodrum (my wife was with children) - before that, Kemer, Alanya, Side and Here, the combination of heat, wind, humidity is very comfortable for me - there is no such standing heat and immobilized air
But yesterday it was 45 degrees - the Turks themselves said that this is something unusual. Today (01.08) the temperature is 38 degrees.
The nights are pleasant - we sleep with an open balcony. His door is on the floor of the wall - comfortable and pleasant. But the surf is quite audible and the cicadas are noisy all night, but we do not react to this noise. We sleep well.
Hotel and its territory
- The hotel is 8 km from Bodrum - it's 10 minutes by taxi or 20 minutes by local bus if there is no traffic jam at two traffic lights on the road. The first time we rode the city bus - the stop is right outside the hotel gate, but put your hands up for the bus to stop. You can pay by card on these buses. We drove back on the route - payment only in cash lira.
The cost is 5 lira per person. You arrive at the central station of Bodrum and you also leave it back.

Near the hotel No villages within walking distance (3-4 km) - no. You just need to go somewhere.
The hotel is located on a slope. The territory consists of 6 floors (terraces). To move between them - there are many passages along the stairs and there are also two towers (clearly visible in all the photos) - these are elevators. There are no queues or long standing. We walk 90% of the time.
The size is not large in length - along the main alley (3rd floor) - from the main restaurant to the exit from the territory of 400-600 meters.
Along the main terraced pool there is a 3-storey building - it only has Deluxe one-room and two-room rooms. We live in it on the third floor.
A little to the left (if you stand with your back to the sea), in the pines, there is a town of three and two storey bungalows - these are standard one and two room rooms
Interesting but true - there are no rooms overlooking the side of the road that runs along the border of the hotel. At the Deluxe building at All Sea & Pool View rooms without exception. In standard - not all rooms have a sea view, there are windows overlooking the walls of the bungalow on the contrary - but not straight into a dense one - up to 3 meters. But when you booked, you saw on all sites that the standard rooms are being sold either with or without a sea view.
If you go down from the reception floor, through the reception bar to the main alley, then to the left there will be a deluxe building (entering its third floor immediately), and to the right we go and pass by a popular place - a completely shaded bar with wooden chairs, sofas, tables - this Turkish coffee house - all in the shade, cool. There are always places.
Interesting, but true - it is here that Turkish cakes with cheese, herbs, potatoes are baked from 12.00 to 16.00 - there are 5 people in line. They bake quickly, as they already bring rolled up for baking. The woman only fries.
Some tables have sockets.
Everything is very delicious.

We go further along the main alley and find ourselves in the main bar area with tables and chairs, where many people gather after dinner. It is here that dances and evening programs take place.
Immediately after the territory of the main bar, the second pool begins (three times smaller than the main one). The area around it is lined with white stone and it bakes very strongly in the heat. We have never bathed or sat in it.
The territory of this pool smoothly transitions into the territory of the main restaurant - its street places and after 20 meters the entrance to the main restaurant.
Interesting, but true - it is from the "shore" of this second pool that the bungalows of standard rooms are perfectly visible, and if you pay attention, there is a railing right above this pool - this is the third small pool located already on the 4th floor of the bungalow.
Between the border of the main bar and the second restaurant - to the right, the first tower is a lighthouse lift for descending to the sea.
Further along the alley, immediately after the pizza bar on the left, there is a zone of paid VIP houses with sunbeds - the cost is from 80 euros - they did not use.
Further to the right immediately another small bar.
Interesting but true - many people think that this last small bar serves only VIP houses, but it is not - it serves everyone and there are no people at all. If you want a little peace and solitude, this is a great place. And only here beer is poured into 0.5 glasses : )
Further along this alley there will be an Ala carte restaurant and the territory will end.
Pools
- Three - (1) the main and the largest - in all the photos it is (2) at the entrance to the main restaurant (3) is small above the second.
At the end of the main pool is a bar.
All animation programs are held in the area of ​ ​ the main pool in the part closer to the bar.
The number of sunbeds is many, they occupy the entire area between the pool and the Deluxe building.
But unfortunately the answer to one of the main questions is whether there are enough places, the answer is not enough.

But the reason is not that there are few sunbeds, but rather banal and old - people take places from the early morning and do not come, because they still take places parallel to the sea.
At 06.00 in the morning 30% is already occupied, by 09.00 in the morning all places will be occupied, but there will not be many people on them. During the day, everything is always busy, but at 30-40 percent of the employed there is no one during the day. Do we take places, yes we do, there is no other way yet.
For drinks you need to go to the bar, no one takes orders on sunbeds.
Sea
- Incredibly warm and transparent - always 24 hours and 7 days. The wind is always from the sea - there are no algae and something like that
It is almost always calm until 14.00, then the wind begins to increase and the waves begin. By 17.00 almost all the waves are noticeable. We have been here for the 8th day already - twice after 16.00 we raised the red flag forbidding swimming - but you can’t stop anyone - many people like to ride the waves.
Beach and coastal area in general
- Located a little perpendicular to the coast - The line where the immediate exit to the sea-100 meters is not great. Far away there is still a part - which does not immediately have access to the shore - metro 20 from it The beach itself is sand
The entrance to the sea and the bottom are small round pebbles. For the most part there are no cobblestones - but there is closer to the coast. Whether it is necessary to take rubber slippers - it's up to you, we are all in them - it's better for us to enter the sea on pebbles.
Most sunbeds are mesh, the condition is normal, there are plastic ones.
The entrance is gentle and gradual. My height is 176 cm - after 20 meters the depth is already up to my neck.
In general, the structure of the coastal zone is the beach itself, then along the coast the first long wooden pontoon on the water is 20 meters from the coast and the entrance to it is only through the beach. Between the beach and this pontoon is a place for marine entertainment (parachutes, boats, etc. ). There are no separate descents into the sea from this pontoon - only through the beach.

In the center of the coastal zone is the main square pontoon and the central beach bar.
From the central pontoon - two descents into the water into the open sea - a large area is fenced with buoys and the second towards the beach.
If you look at the beach bar - on the left there will be another pontoon village - it stands close to the shore - from it at the very beginning there is also a descent immediately into the sea.
From all pontoons - descents immediately into the depths.
It is interesting, but true - the line of the beach, the coast, the first pontoon and the square pontoon form a kind of bay with an entry into it five meters long. So - in this bay before lunch, it’s usually completely calm - it’s just beautiful, but as I wrote above, the wind always starts to increase from 14.00 - and waves also rise in this bay and by 16.00 there can be just such a turbulence - waves from the sea and from the coast reflected - lovers of waves - welcome - they did not bother us.
Places on the beach - unfortunately you have to take. I wrote that it also occupies at 06.00 - but already 20 percent are occupied - there will definitely not be any places by 08.00. During the day, also 30% are occupied, but empty.
Food
- Generally good quality, no complaints. Breakfast is more of the same. Lunches and Dinner - large selection of dishes and chicken, fish meat, cold appetizers.
Dinner - great selection of food. Something is always fried on the street - I have never seen kebabs on skewers in hotels, for example. At the end of the restaurant inside, there is a place - so they give something special - or huge pieces of lamb or fried quail, etc. A large selection of stewed vegetables with anything you can. They also try to cook some national dishes every day - for example, there were Pelmeni or Burrito twisted. Cabbage rolls and stuffed peppers, dolma - just excellent. There are always whole fish carcasses.
I think the selection and variety of food is good.
Fruits - watermelons, melons, nectarines, green and black grapes, plums, red and green apples.

Desserts and pastries - for every taste.
At breakfast - freshly squeezed orange juice is made.
Packaged juices - did not like.
Service and places
The peak load of the restaurant is an hour or an hour and a half after opening. I didn’t see queues of people standing and waiting for a table, but they themselves walked around waiting for 5-7 minutes a couple of times.
If you come to the opening - there will be places both inside and on the terrace. Despite the fact that the windows are open in the restaurant, the air conditioning still works - it's cool.
Drinks during the meal - the waiters will bring with pleasure, wait 5 minutes. But we ourselves went to the bar inside the restaurant - it's faster for us.
How they impose food - everyone imposes cooks, you can’t take anything yourself. Everything is set fairly quickly. There is no feeling of crowds and pandemonium at the distribution. Of course there are queues - 5-7 people, but the speed of the return of dishes is high. You just say what to put in, and then they put it in. There are no restrictions.
The drinks
- As in a restaurant and in bars, everything is the same. Local production. They make cocktails.
There is salty ayran from bottles - just super
Children's food - there is no special food.
Water - bottled throughout the hotel in the bars. Fanta, Sprite, Cola - everything is there.
Tables are prepared by waiters -quickly. I did not feel any discrimination - someone wrote that the Turks were served faster and more politely. I will say this - as you are so to you.
In the Kebab bar, they give burgers, shawarma, spaghetti, salads, fries.
Mini club
Located in the center of the slope - just below the shops. There is a pool - from 10 cm to 30 cm deep. There are sunbeds and they are with pillows. Half of the club area is in the shade. You have to go down to the sea.
There is working from 10.00-12.00 and from 14.00-16.00 - my child no longer walks. I can’t say about the quality, but I haven’t seen many children in it.

Read reviews - that there is a smell of rubber. The answer is yes there is, it smells like a coating. Not much, but it smells.
Interesting, but true - the territory of the club is available at any time. If you need privacy or just silence, this is a great place. Shade, soft sunbeds and you can take a dip.
30 - not super loud, but we live as far away as possible, but we can hear it too. From 23.30 - silence.
Children's animation - in the amphitheater. The program is standard.
Vacationers
- 40% - Turks and Arabs, 30% - Ukrainians, 20% - Eastern and Western Europe, 10% - Russian. I didn't see any conflicts. 70% vacation with children of different ages. Drunk or rowdy - did not see.
Rooms and housekeeping
- Everything is standard. No complaints. Air conditioning turned on during the day - works great and quiet.
We have Deluxe - corresponds to the photo and description. The main bed - 240 cm - you will not immediately find a wife at night : ) - just huge. Large sofa - spin son 180 cm tall - excellent. The bed was set for my daughter 170 cm - excellent.
There is a Nespresso coffee machine - capsules included, there is a kettle - tea bags. In the fridge water, cola, fanta, sprite every day.
Service staff
- Generally responsive, ready to help. But few people speak English, only basic words.
Aquapark
There are four slides. Open 10.00-12.00 and 14.00-16.00. The hills are not high. There are not many people.
There is great. Docha and we every day for hours drove for a change.

My recommendations for the hotel
1. Put in each bar - a menu of drinks that are available for order. Now they are not.
2. Pull the awning over the tennis table. He stands to the left of the main pool bar, between the bar and the wall. Most of the day it is in the sun. Or put some tables in the room to the right of the gym under the main pool - it's huge and empty and cool.

3. Figure out how to deal with taking up poolside seats and not using them. I'm sure there is a best practice - how to organize it. An example from me: I met in one hotel - they simply didn’t allow to leave things and towels on the sunbeds without people until 09.00 - if the vacationers left things, then the servants took them from them and gave them to the reception, and if you want to sit with things on the sunbeds until 09.00.
00 am - sit at least from the night, but in this case you can only take one sunbed - always in this hotel there were places on sunbeds, although it was not small.
4. Repair showers on the beach - one far (statue with a shell) button must always be held by hand so that water flows. Two that are closer to the yarn - put shower heads, now the pressure is blowing you off your feet.
5. Collect all the left things around the hotel and hand them over at the reception - I haven't seen so many left things on the beach, by the pool and in other places : )
6. Tidy up the supply of steam in the hammam - not hot at all and not warm to sweat unfortunately.

We wish you all a great positive holiday.
Pavel, Natalia, Matvey and Milana (Moscow)