Awesome place for family vacation

Written: 22 july 2012
Travel time: 23 june — 7 july 2012
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
9.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 8.0
To all readers, good afternoon.

Yeah, friends, there is an indisputable truth in the world that vacation is a serious thing, on which the mood for the next at least six months depends; you need to prepare for a vacation and clearly understand where you are going, especially when you go on a trip with your family. This time I thought for a long time where to spend the legal 2 weeks in such a way that upon returning to personify the phrase "life is good", and the choice fell on the CLUB PHASELIS hotel. During my stay, I never regretted that I came here, the rest was excellent. As always, I will tell you in detail - what, where and how.

1. Hotel and territory
The hotel is located 40 kilometers from Antalya on the first line, it pleases with a large and well-groomed landscaped area with many pine trees (all the photos that you saw on its website are true).

Pines in Kemer are, of course, a separate topic altogether, because just imagine a stunning cocktail of fresh sea breeze and resin melting in the sun. How many times have been there - I can not stop admiring. The hotel consists of the main building Phaselis Hill and eighty two- and three-story cottages Club and Beach rooms. The hotel has 2 swimming pools for adults (one large, located in the center of the hotel next to the Phaselis bar", the second, smaller, located in the water slide complex) and 3 children's:
- the first (small) one adjoins the adult pool and has 2 small "elephant" type water slides for small children;
- the second (larger) is located across the path from the first and has a medium-sized water slide, respectively, for teenagers of 11 years old;
- the third pool is located next to the ship at the children's club.
A very decent zone of water slides for adults - located on the "peninsula" of the hotel's beach area next to the observation deck, has 3 good slides.
The hotel was very pleased with the relaxation zones: if you want to relax from everything in general, you can sit on a green lawn in the shade of a pine tree on a hammock or swing with pillows and a canopy and take a nap.
There are excellent tennis courts and table tennis tables on site.

2. Rooms
The four of us lived in the Phaselis Club family room, the room is very spacious - 2 beds were freely accommodated: one double and one single, as well as a comfortable sofa, so there was complete order with the free space and there was no need to stumble over each other. The room has: a TV, a normal new air conditioner, a hairdryer and a safe, a minibar - a refrigerator (filled daily for free - beer, cola, fanta, juice and mineral water), a normal combined bathroom with a good shower.
Room cleaning is daily, of high quality (all left and scattered things are neatly folded, towels and bath mats are changed every day, soap and bubble items are replenished regularly and in proper quantities). The rooms have a fairly spacious balcony with wicker furniture and a dryer. In general, the stay was very comfortable.
In February 2012, the entire hotel underwent a major overhaul of residential and non-residential stock, and very high quality, it is clear that no expense was spared. It was almost impossible to find fault with the room, so well renovated.

The only joke in the room, the purpose of which remained completely incomprehensible, is the wall between the room and the shower cabin of the bathroom, which is made in the form of a single-chamber double-glazed window, inside which there are horizontal blinds.
The joke is that, even if you adjust the blinds to full closure, you can still clearly see from the room what the person who is in the shower at that time is doing. In general, so as not to shock children, keep this nuance in mind : -)
Another oddity of the hotel is that the rooms are cleaned and the minibar is filled by different people, so it can happen that you come to the room from lunch - everything is cleaned, everything is clean - you get into the shower and at that moment there is a knock on the door and shouts "minibar! minibar! ", after which the door opens from the outside and a Turk enters with a basket full of Pepsi-Schmepsi. It's kind of strange...
You don't have to worry about the audibility between the rooms - the insulation is very good and you won't hear your neighbors, the double-glazed windows on the windows are also very decent.
Of course, take a fumigator with you, because despite the abundance of pine trees, mosquitoes appear.

3. Beach and sea.
The beach is private, protected from the entrance of unauthorized persons, sandy - pebble, spacious, consists of four parts:
- next to the cottages each rooms there is a beach where the seabed is sandy, flat and there are no stones. Expanse for children and those who care to see a flat bottom without the threat of hitting a stone. In the morning, on this part of the beach, orange towels are laid out on sun loungers - just for the convenience of vacationers. Near this part of the beach there is a small station where you can rent a scooter, canoe or catamaran, as well as learn how to windsurf.
- the second part of the beach starts next to the volleyball court and consists of a 50% plank flooring with two pontoons, and a 50% gentle entrance to the sea with boulders. The bottom is unpleasant, without coral shoes there is every chance of specifically peeling off your feet, so I advise you to swim there exclusively from pontoons.

Not far from the coast there are also 2 floating pontoons 4x4m, anchored, where you can sunbathe or look at the sea turtles that often appear next to them.
- the third part of the beach is located on the "peninsula" protruding into the sea, next to the complex of water slides, and is a concrete slab with stairs.
- and, finally, a small fourth part (Silent Beach) is located behind the water slides and an observation platform on a narrow piece of land next to the rocks, designed for a quiet holiday. The place is beautiful, but the bottom is rocky, which spoils it somewhat.
Along the coast there are several rows of sun loungers with awnings - umbrellas. An unpleasant detail is the habit of vacationers to "clog" sun loungers early in the morning at the sea and by the pools. Somehow recently I managed to wean myself from this, and here - on you ...
Although it was funny, of course, to watch how dirty beach towels were not handed over in the evening, but hung out to dry on the balconies in order to rush early in the morning and take their cherished place under the sun. It’s funny because we didn’t appear for breakfast before 9 o’clock, but after breakfast, we calmly took clean towels (by the way, there is only one pick-up point and is located at the entrance to the SPA center), went to the beach with a sandy bottom and always found 4 free sun loungers. Why did people have to take the above gestures - a gloomy mystery of the mysterious Russian soul ...
The beach has bars and showers, cabanas and toilets; the sand and pebbles in the lounge area are somewhat dirty - old cigarette butts and bottle caps are scattered in places; not to say that it is very dirty, but - nevertheless, there is a place to be ...

4. Animation.

There are many animators, they do something all day long: the sports part of the team holds various competitions: archery or air rifle shooting, volleyball and so on. The other part entertains vacationers by the pool with various dances, competitions and exercises. There is an excellent children's club - a large wooden ship was built right on the coast, next to which the club itself is located, as well as children's playgrounds.
Minus animation - there is no schedule of events. The daily program is announced by the girl by the pool once at around 11 o'clock, if you don't hear - you won't know where what will happen.
The evening show is shameful nonsense if performed by the animators, with the exception, perhaps, of the children's program. Fortunately, external artists come to the hotel: live music, a Chinese circus, an oriental bazaar with camels and belly dancing, and so on. The entertainment program is designed for a week, i. e.
, having arrived for 2 weeks you will see the same thing 2 times.
For those who want to relax - free saunas and a Turkish bath from 10 to 19 hours daily.
What is positive about the hotel - just great for a family holiday: the children will always be in your sight and will be busy with something fun and harmless.

5 Food.
Food at a very good level, the kitchen with a very large assortment of dishes for every taste! In the mornings, orange juice reconstituted from the concentrate is poured in the bar of the main restaurant (if you're lucky, you will get not very diluted), for dinner - an unlimited number of several types of very tasty ice cream. 1.5 liters are placed on each table. drinking water and a bottle of wine (red by default, but you can ask for white - they will bring it). Everyone takes their own drinks at the bar. A very large assortment of fruits for every taste.
In general, it is difficult to make any claims about nutrition, even people who are picky about food will find something tasty for themselves.
The restaurant has a very good children's table, as well as a dietary table.

You can eat at the hotel almost around the clock, but in different places. During the day, delicious cakes with meat / cheese / potatoes are baked near the pool, hamburgers and various sandwiches are made near the beach, and ice cream is served. It was also funny to watch our “aunts” wrapping pastries in a napkin at breakfast in a restaurant : -) One almost tore her bag, stuffing a stack of rolls and a bottle of water into it ...The question is, well, what hungry region did you come from, cordial? Well, won't they feed you here?
Cold bottled water is available at any hotel bar in unlimited quantities, you can also ask for bottled beer.
The service is pleasant and unobtrusive (which, you see, is far from typical for Turkey), always with a smile, the staff understands Russian. Bars on the territory are open until 18:00, the central bar - until 01:00. The variety of spirits is not bad, but everything is locally produced. Good selection of cocktails for all tastes, make a lovely "Mojito". Granulated coffee, tea bags.

6. SPA - center
Quite good, comfortable. The building also has a fairly spacious gym. As always, there is a wide range of different massages to choose from.

7. Excursions and trips
A standard set of excursions, I won’t dwell on it too much.
Also in the shops next to the reception you will be offered a "free" tour to the gold/leather/textile/carpet centers by private taxi. Keep in mind that the prices in these institutions are 250 - 300% higher than the true ones for the goods that you will be offered, and no one will make any tangible discounts.
We went to the Argos gold center in Kemer (they knew it was bullshit, but my wife really wanted to look after the bracelet), the result was expected - for an inflated bracelet weighing about 9 grams, they asked for 1200 USD, taking into account all possible discounts.

8. Moral atmosphere in the hotel.
The atmosphere is calm and relaxing, vacationers are mostly cultural people, there is no noise / fights / scandals. Everyone finds entertainment to their liking, there is where people of different ages have fun. By the way, the hotel has a wonderful disco, the area of ​ ​ ​ ​ which is taken out from the housing stock behind the reception, so that the music does not bother anyone.


9. Another point that I would like to dwell on is the remoteness of the hotel from shopping places. There is nothing decent nearby within walking distance, except for one store about 100 meters from the entrance to the hotel, which sells standard souvenir junk. If you want to go shopping, you need to take a taxi at the entrance to the hotel.
It costs 10 USD to get to the village of Gyuynuk (of course, the same amount back), to Kemer - 25 USD. If you are not particularly interested in shopping, then all the small necessities (souvenirs, cigarettes, etc. ) can be purchased at the hotel store, the prices there are quite normal.

Concluding the review, I want to say that, given the "load" in the form of two children 4 and 10 years old, who always need something, the hotel was perfect for a good rest without negativity and tantrums, two weeks flew by in one breath of positive and good mood . I recommend the hotel from the bottom of my heart, I myself will probably return someday.

I wish you all a pleasant and magical holiday,
Sincerely, Alexander

P. S. As always, I will be happy to answer any questions regarding the hotel, so if you have any, do not hesitate to ask.
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