Good hotel in a mediocre location

Written: 17 september 2019
Travel time: 19 — 26 july 2019
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 8.0
We rested at the end of July with a 3-year-old child. The weather is comfortable - quite hot, but you can not use the cream.
The territory is very well-groomed, the staff is cultural, the service is unobtrusive.
The food is varied - every day something new from Turkish cuisine. On Sundays, there is a dance concert at dinner. The staff is on fire. They gave well-cooked tuna, excellent shawarma and generally meat dishes. Dinners for 5, lunch with breakfast for 4. The rooms are in good condition, no mold or defects, everything works properly.
Wi-Fi completely covers the territory of the hotel, the speed was pleasantly surprised.
There are two slides from which the child was delighted. None of the staff is watching them, because children of all ages ride, sometimes they collide, but there were no injuries.
The biggest minus is the sea and the beach.

At the end of July, the sea temperature is the same as in Odessa in the middle of May. It was hard even to force a child to go into the sea, but this had never happened before.
The beach. . . there are two of them. Both are urban.
One is a strip of sunbeds along the cafe, which are replaced by tables in the evening. In the evenings, people drink and eat right on the beach, garbage gets on the pebbles and into the sea. An incredible number of cats and dogs are fed with leftover food. Local dogs are a separate shock. Some mixture of Labrador and mongrel, the poop leaves human size. Constantly or sit down next to you or crawl under the sunbeds. In general, it is impossible to force yourself to go into ice-cold water with floating bags, leftover bread and other debris.
The second beach - sand and pebble - which is located behind the pier on the left, has become the only one for us. It's much cleaner and more comfortable here. Tables are not posted in the evening. But before 9 am, when the cafe workers clean up on the beach, it's better not to come anyway. During the night, the locals manage to throw mountains of garbage. We arrived at 9:30 and were among the first. Locals generally gather closer to 11-12, and at that time we were already walking to the pool, where we turned on the slides.
For using sunbeds on both beaches, you need to buy something in a cafe, or sit on a narrow strip of sand, where, by the way, there are umbrellas.
We went to Camel Beach. 30-40 minutes by minibus from the bus station. We went there with a transfer, back without a transfer, but in some villages it took even longer. The guide said that this is one of the best local beaches. It is noticeably cleaner, but very small. The water temperature is the same. The sand is the same gray-black as in the center of Bodrum. Camel riding is like a joke. 10 meters round trip for $5. You can’t feed camels, you can’t stroke them, you can’t get close.
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