неоднозначные впечатления) mixed feelings)

They took their parents abroad for the first time, so they chose the hotel carefully and for a long time, and settled on the Champion. We were 5 adults, took 2 rooms - standard and family. We flew with Coral, there are no comments to the tour operator, just like to the hotel guide - he did not touch us, it suited us completely. And his interest in us faded immediately after it became clear that we were not his clients on excursions). So, in order:
1. Settlement. It went fast and smoothly. We were taken to the hotel at about 3 pm (the hotel is one of the first on the transfer from the airport, which is convenient). At the reception there are permanent managers who speak Russian. Taking into account the timing of the trip (the end of the season, apparently, the hotel was not completely filled), we were settled within 10 minutes at no additional cost in the Sultan Khan building (numbers 251 and 258).
2. Numbers - standard (251) - regular number. you can’t play football, but you can turn around. small balcony, TV with several Russian channels, bathroom. Room 258 - family: 2 rooms, 1 with a double unkilled bed, the second in two single beds. 2 bathrooms. We lived in this room with my wife, in the second room my wife's mother. One could write for a long time about the fact that the rooms were cleaned poorly (more precisely, they were practically not cleaned, despite regular tips), but we did not come to sit in the room, so we paid little attention to this. There was no frank dirt - and good. An interesting fact - one day we were asked to fill out questionnaires on the quality of service, one of the items was room cleaning. Naturally, they wrote about unsatisfactory cleaning. the next day a live rose appeared on the bed and, as an unambiguous hint, a new clean profile). Several times the wife called the reception, asked to change the towels and add shampoos / gels. reacted quickly. But this is true, annoying little things that you don’t pay much attention to) The minibar is “filled” 1 time upon check-in - a plastic glass of water per person. the rest of the time it was empty.

3. Eating/drinking. Food - a solid C grade, definitely nothing more. Yes, no one was left hungry, but it really doesn’t pull on a five-star hotel. constantly available several dishes of chicken / turkey, for dinner something from beef / lamb. no grill parties or gala dinners on the beach. Once, instead of a gala dinner, they made local sushi - well, apparently they don’t know what sushi is, it sucks). The beer is quite good - Ephesus, a little diluted, but in moderation. Especially with my father, for comparison, I bought a bottle hilt. There are differences, but not much) Local strong alcoholic drinks - as the Turks themselves say - a liquid that kills cockroaches) If you drink, then only in cocktails so that you don’t feel alcohol) the cocktails were made not bad, their female part of the group drank). Bottled water can be taken in all bars in unlimited quantities. Were 2 times in the a la carte restaurant for a change you can try, but the quality of the dishes is not very different from the general food in the hotel.
4. Territory. Here, advertising and reviews do not lie - pine grove, orange / lime / tangerine trees are available in large quantities. Territory super.
5. Pools - there are only 4 of them - for relaxation (area without children, sunbeds were almost always free), the main one (it was already hard to find free sunbeds closer to dinner), for kids with a slide and for older children / adults, with 2 slides. The tile at the bottom of the main pool is chipped, so be careful - your feet cut everything with it and quite often.
6. The sea. . . Well, the sea is a separate and favorite topic. just for the sake of it and the pine grove, it would be worth returning to Champion, but, fortunately, there are many other places with the same and better conditions) The sea is clean, the entry is very large pebbles, the bottom is large stones, so I recommend corals, we went with piers. there are two of them - the left one, short, from the stairs just up to the neck, and the right one, more authentic, there is almost always a pleasure yacht of the hotel. In the sea, fish, like everywhere else in Kemer, like to do free peeling) but the fish come across different sizes, so sometimes larger individuals bite quite noticeably, sometimes to blood) though rarely). There are quite a lot of sun loungers on the beach, there was always enough for everyone, but the first row, of course, had to be occupied in the morning, usually there were hours before 9 places. Beach towels - at the reception they took on the first day on a deposit of $ 10 each. exchanged them on the way to the beach, but only from 13.30 to 15 hours. The check out deposit was returned.

7. Neighbors) According to the general impression, the main contingent of hotel guests are Europeans, 30 percent are Russian speakers. There are also Turks. The main thing is that there was no "Tagil", mostly couples with children, everything is quiet, calm, for a family vacation. We met there both the Germans and the British, everyone was friendly, they kept us company in sports games)
8. Animation. The animation team is diverse: 2 German girls, several Turks, Russians. Well done guys, with a meager inventory, they were constantly at work: they organized boccia / volleyball / water polo / archery and pneumatics / football and darts / water gymnastics and yoga during the day. In the evening in the amphitheater there is a program for children, then a small show for adults, mostly by the animators themselves. It was annoying, of course, that the announcement was in 3 languages ​ ​ in turn, but this is the specificity of multinational hotels) so they got used to it. After the show, there is a disco behind the main bar, but there were usually 10-15 people there) plus the animators themselves. I can't say that the animation is bad, because we entertained ourselves mostly by ourselves. . . well, with a little help from the animators)
9. Internet in the hotel is paid - 6 dollars per day. He catches at the reception well, in the main bar it's good, in the rooms - how lucky, the connection is bad.
General conclusion: the hotel is so-so, in comparison with the fives of Egypt with the same price level, of course, it clearly loses. Parents, since they are abroad for the first time, liked it, but we would not go to it a second time.