Honeymoon July 2021

Written: 19 july 2021
Travel time: 10 — 18 june 2021
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For business travel
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 5.0
Amenities: 7.0
Wi-Fi paid (1 day - $2.5 days - $5.7 days - $8.15 days - $15) per device! If you ask very nicely at the reception, they will give you a second one. It will not be possible to distribute, they have an individual password system for one device with a distribution blocking. Catches well.
Immediately I say WiFi is paid throughout Kemer. There is no free anywhere. Free wifi signs are a lure for tourists. Neither in restaurants nor in shops, even when buying something, they will not give you access. (Access is possible only for those who have a Turkish SIM card)
Either roaming, or buy at the hotel, or a SIM card. There are three of them: Vodafone and two Turkish ones. The cost of a SIM card for 10 days is from $10 to $20. The Internet is limited on them.

So by the numbers.

We arrived at the hotel at 15:00 late for lunch. Immediately settled, when asked which room they said -1 floor. We immediately "No no! We have a honeymoon please a better room" The girls at the reception are good, got into position. They said there is another room but they are cleaning it now.
We went to the beach for a bite to eat ("the restaurant in quotation marks" from the hotel is located on the beach, I’ll say right away that it’s not popular, the food is so-so, the prices on the lira menu but take a dollar or more, I don’t advise).
Returned room cleaned decorated. They took a bottle of vodka to the reception in gratitude. They didn't expect. But vodka works wonders, let me tell you. In the evening they brought us a plate of fruit, glasses of alcohol. And generally remember who we are and from what number.
By cleanliness. A lot of writing that is dirty. It is not so with us. Left every day chocolate and sweets. They came - clean, changed towels, slippers, left flowers on the bed, cleaned on the balcony. Cleaning every day. Towels were changed every 2 days.
The room has an electric kettle, hair dryer, TV, not working table lamp, safe, mini-fridge, air conditioning (from +18 and above). The sun didn’t shine in our room at all, so it didn’t warm up when it was over forty degrees outside, we even turned off the air conditioner at all.

By floors.
I read the reviews before arriving at the hotel, listen to the people they all wrote correctly.
-1 floor basement (there are rooms overlooking the wall and the road on the street, rooms overlooking the courtyard, spa, massage, dining room, similar rooms)
0 floor (lobby, reception, rooms overlooking the street road)
1st and 2nd floor (they go in a circle you can see in the photo, we had the 1st floor. There is a sea view from the side of the road, into the courtyard of the mountain and from the side between the courtyard and the sea to the mountains - this is our room. )
PERSONALLY MY ADVICE ONLY MOUNTAIN VIEW! From the side of the road it is noisy dusty and dawn from the sea, the sun will shine in your room until 2 pm.

From the yard to the mountains super! But condolences basement, people will walk just by your balcony, plus until 23:00 the music by the pool is all "moving" in front of the windows. The 1st and 2nd floors are a little better, if the noise does not bother you, the view is super, the sun after 15 and before sunset behind the mountains.
Our room is NOT in the courtyard, on the side, the road is not heard, the courtyard too, the view of the mountains is beauty, the sun shone for 1 hour at sunset.
Loved the room and glad we got it. There are photos.
Animation.
No matter how I look at the courtyard in the evening, after dinner, 70% of tourists go shopping or hang out in the city. We were the same. In the evening the DJ plays mostly Russian music. During the time that there were some contests held twice, the pensioner said that in the evenings she stays by the pool.
Mosque next to the hotel. Do not be alarmed at 4:30 in the morning, a prayer begins through the loudspeaker, and then 5 more times a day, the last at 22:00.

Beach.
Here, of course, a bummer ...Everything is beautiful on the pictures of the site. Roll your lips guys. Yes, the beach is good, big, there will be enough space for everyone, even half is empty, which is without awnings and sun loungers. This beach is wild, so the locals said. There is no line of hotels right by the sea.
To the beach GO 400 m! And this is the first line.
It is not long, BUT this is not an underground passage, this is an exit from the hotel - crossing the road and then going down - and then through the courtyard of the restaurant near the beach.
The first time they went crazy, then they got used to the norms. I threw in the photo so that they understand the path.
Beach closer to the sea pebbles with sand further sand. Husband did not like the entry into the water. Buy special slippers for swimming and you will be fine! For many have hurt their feet. The water is clean, warm, fenced with buoys, sun loungers and I guarantee everyone will have enough, umbrellas canopies too, but there will be not enough mattresses.

We walked further to the city, 40 minutes on foot from Elamir, the hotels immediately with access to the beach there are completely pebbles, the water is crystal clearer than from a tap, so those who want the Maldives take hotels further from Seven Seas to the center of Kemer. Again, I am attaching a photo of the beach and how to get there.
On the beach there are 2 changing cabins, 4 showers.

There are services on the beach: banana rides $15 per person, parasailing from a yacht $60 per person. As well as darts, riding a scooter and so on.

Food.
They fed relatively normally, it seems that no one was poisoned, look for the schedule and price tags in the photo.
Breakfast is poor to be honest, because by dinner after the sea is already wildly hungry. Mostly salads, various muesli, cereals, waffles, milk, yoghurts, honey, nutella, soup, pancakes or donuts or scrambled eggs, oranges or apples alternate, dried fruits, potatoes, garnish.
Better lunch: soup, rice, potatoes, salads, vegetables, fruits (apples, pears, melon, watermelon, plum grapes, grapefruit alternate), meat (grilled cutlets are often very spicy meat is impossible to eat, meat balls, chicken is always delicious)

Dinner is the richest: meat, very tasty fish, soup, rice, sometimes delicious pilaf, potatoes, salads, fruits, vegetables, rot...
Sweet is not tasty to me personally, everything that I took in the trash, except for the berry dessert in the Kremlin, and a chocolate biscuit. Bring sweets with you in short.
From bread, who cannot live without it - only buns and butter. Crackers for soup.
My husband and I are not particularly eaters, so we were fine. But many were not enough, so in the comments you will find that they are fed poorly.
The bar is also present both on the beach and in the hotel, alcohol is free, I have not tried to say anything, I can not drink.
The coffee in the machine is vile, tea, Water in disposable cups is packed, not bottles.

Services.
Recognized for a hammam massage - $ 15-20 per person. In hotel. Other prices in the photo.

City.
To the center of Kemer for shopping went on foot 20 minutes. Market shops...
To the embankment where Burger King and McDonald's, from the hotel 40 minutes one way.

Transport.
There is a bus stop right outside the hotel to the center, I will take you in 5 minutes, the price is 4.5 lira. Or taxi $10-15.

Shopping.

There are two Waikiki, one is 15 minutes from the hotel, the other is 25 minutes behind the central ring. Lots of other famous brands. Prices are lower!
For example, in Ukraine I bought coats for $18, two weeks later they arrived here, they cost $11 at the rate of the lira!
Price tags in stores are double. The consultant explain, the price that is higher is if you pay at the checkout in dollars or euros, the one that is lower is if the lira or a bank card.
We paid with a bank card, it’s very profitable, convenient, no commission and everything is at the rate, and not like every store sets its own rate if you pay in cash. Change only in Lira! Restaurants cafes and more. Ask for a menu in Turkish, everything is in lira and the prices are lower than in the English menu in dollars.
From the picture you will understand what you are ordering, if you ask the waiter.
Lots of Russian speaking staff. No one speaks English, we have not met such people.
In shops magnets spices souvenirs towels you can bargain.
It is better to take souvenirs closer to the center to the ring where the prices are lower.
For example, they took two towels in a layout not far from the hotel for $15, they bought the same ones in the city for $10.
In the center there is a supermarket "M Migros" is not bad enough and the prices are even lower than those of a vegetable retailer in the city, because in lira.

Rent a Car.
We didn’t take it, but we met guys who took a Turkish electric moped.
They did not return the money, they said that something was damaged, although this is not so. And according to the guys, they were not alone. In short, be careful, they are very foolish in this area.

FROM THE MINUSES. At 12:00, as expected, the room was vacated, the transfer was at 19:20. We managed to have lunch and a little dinner, all the time we were waiting in the lobby where it was NERIALLY stuffy, the air conditioners were all turned off, it was hot throughout the hotel except for the rooms themselves.


In general, the hotel is small and cozy, there are not many people, you even remember them by their faces. A quiet relaxing holiday for those who do not need noisy parties until one in the morning. Will we return to it again? - Probably the answer is no. If we are again in Kemer, we will choose something else.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original