Great budget holiday with kids

Written: 18 august 2021
Travel time: 8 — 15 august 2021
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 9.0
GREAT BUDGET HOLIDAY!
We stayed at the hotel for 1 week with children - 10 and 6 years old.
Arrived at Antalya airport at 6.30 am. We were taken to the hotel at 8:30. We quickly checked in and still had time for breakfast. Since the standard check-in time in Turkey is at 14:00, we changed clothes and left our things at the reception and went to the sea. The beach is literally 200 meters from the hotel through 2 roads. On the beach, the hotel has its own area with sun loungers and awnings. The sea is wonderful! The water was clean and clear throughout the rest. The bottom is a large pebble, it is not very convenient to enter with bare feet, so it is better to have aquashoes for this purpose. The beach has showers with fresh water.

After swimming to our heart's content, we went for lunch, after which we were taken to our room. When buying a tour, we were warned that we would have a standard room, i. e. with one double or joined beds and one extra bed. Therefore, the smaller child will sleep with us, which is not very convenient. For this purpose, we took an air mattress with us. However, it was not needed, as we were delivered a cot with a good mattress. Those. everyone had their own bed. The room is quite modest: in addition to the beds, it has an armchair, a bedside table, a dressing table, air conditioning, a refrigerator, a TV (not working), a balcony with 2 chairs, a bathroom with a shower, a washbasin and a toilet. However, we absolutely did not pay attention to such trifles as the modesty of the situation and the non-working TV, since we used the room primarily for sleeping.
The food in the hotel restaurant is quite varied. Since the cost of accommodation is budget, there is not as much variety in the choice of dishes as in 5-star hotels. The emphasis is on vegetables: tomatoes, cucumbers, cauliflower, broccoli, eggplant, potatoes. However, the menu of the restaurant has quite a lot of dishes for different tastes. In addition to numerous vegetable dishes, the menu quite often included: pancakes with cottage cheese, envelopes with filling, rice, bulgur, pasta, nuggets, sausage, chicken legs, various types of cheeses. 5 days out of 7 during our stay, fish was served for dinner (every day is different). From fruits - every day there was a watermelon and 1 melon. In addition, various Turkish sweets were always available. For breakfast there were always cereals with milk, scrambled eggs, boiled eggs, various natural jams, waffles, cookies... For lunch and dinner there were always first courses - Turkish soups, which were almost never repeated, and even borscht was served 1 time, which was cooked no worse than in Ukraine! And there were also various yogurts, sour cream (especially for our vacationers, since in principle there is no such dish in Turkish cuisine), various drinks (cola, fanta, sprite, tea, coffee, wine). There were practically no queues during meals. In general, the food at the hotel was at a high level! And it was simply unrealistic to die of hunger here. Even I, who am a vegetarian, ate to satiety and never felt hungry.
Since the main contingent of hotel visitors is the Russian-speaking population, almost all the staff in a larger or smaller area speaks Russian. The staff is polite and friendly. The territory of the hotel is quite large, green. The main resting place is a large 20-meter swimming pool with 2 slides and sun loungers near it and a lobby bar, where you could order various drinks unlimited from 10 am to 8 pm: cola, fanta, sprite, wine, beer, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, various types of cocktails. . . At 4 pm there was a coffee break in the bar with various sweets. From entertainment in the hotel - table tennis, volleyball, in the evenings - a disco, once a week with live music. Of the minuses, I would note the absence of the declared animation. However, the children found entertainment without it.
In general, the hotel deserves a rating of 5 on a 5-point scale.

Overall impression - everything is great! At the same time, comparing the cost of accommodation with other hotels of this class, RUZA BEACH HOTEL has many advantages!
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