Отличный отель, но вокруг нет цивилизации Great hotel, but there is no civilization around

The hotel is very good, large area, green. We arrived at 6pm and were seated quickly. The hotel is built in such a way that all rooms face the sea or the side of the building, that is, from any room you will see the sea, from the side of the road - corridors inside the hotel. Very interesting architecture - round corridors, balconies. The hotel is self-sufficient - if you do not need markets, shopping, then this is a wonderful place to relax. The resort is rather European - there are many Turks, Bulgarians, there are British, Poles. During our stay there were few Ukrainians and Russians. Very groovy animators, lead the program in Turkish, dubbed in English and Russian. If there is no basic knowledge of English, it will be hard - at the reception, only one boy speaks Russian. Outside the hotel there is nowhere to go especially - around the holiday village. But there are always minibuses to the city of Didim. We went to the central Altinkum embankment - by minibus number 6, fare 3 lira. At the stop in the opposite direction, a "special man" seats passengers in the right minibuses. so don't get lost. We also went to look at the ruins of the temple of Apollo - with landings. There are a lot of English pensioners in the city. you can always ask for directions, and the Turks themselves are friendly, they will drop you off where you need to. Shopping is more difficult - there is a market, Otogar, it works only on Saturdays. We went to Didim Altinkum Shopping center - near the Altinkum beach and to the LC Waikiki clothing store, the prices are good (change money for lira, it will be cheaper), you can buy sweets in ordinary supermarkets, and much cheaper than in the bazaar, for example, in Kemer . We also took an excursion to Ephesus, I recommend it.
The food is varied, everything is very tasty and beautiful.
Of the minuses: the sea is very shallow - knee-deep, waist-deep, again knee-deep and chest-deep. But it warms up faster. The beach is not wide, sandy. You can take sun loungers on the terrace, you can on the sand itself. The bar on the beach didn't work, you had to go to the snack bar or the pool bar. The meal schedule says that they bake cakes from 10-30 to 17-00, but this house was closed.

In general, we are very pleased with the rest, we saw a completely different Turkey.