good stay, but the impression is twofold

Written: 10 july 2013
Travel time: 27 june — 10 july 2013
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: 9.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 7.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 6.0
The hotel is good, but of course with 5 * they obviously got excited, but a solid 4 * is a real assessment. The sea is gorgeous, clean, warm. The beach is large, clean and equipped. Use slippers, stones at the entrance to the sea, it is not comfortable and painful. The food is good, a large selection of all vegetables, fruits, meat, poultry, fish, side dishes, all in different forms, desserts. Not only drinks: soda and powdered "juices". Coffee from the machine, tea bags and teapots. But of course, any food for 2 weeks is boring.
Good animation for children, a large water park with entertainment programs, even adults participated. There will be something to do if you want to not just lie down, but move around.
The territory is large, well-groomed, beautiful.
We also liked the room, we lived in a family room of 2 rooms. 2 TV, 2 air conditioners, 2 showers. They give only 1 key card, if you want a second - for a fee.

In general, the holiday was a success and I recommend this hotel and resort for couples with children.
Now for what I didn't like:
Everything was like one big bazaar, where you are constantly bred for money. It interfered with rest.
I do not recommend:
1. A la carte restaurant. Paid (even for UALL) $ 7 per person.
We went only because it was my daughter's birthday, we wanted to celebrate in a restaurant on the beach, in a romantic setting and have a delicious dinner. We ordered a seafood dinner, but it didn't happen. From seafood there was only a saucer with squid rings and tiny shrimp with a marigold, mixed with vegetables in a combination of 1:10. For some reason, they served hot soup puree, which no one eats, even in their usual restaurant, and they brought it first, instead of cold appetizers. And everything else was from a regular dinner, only laid out on small plates, supposedly decorated. The children were brought "juice" from the powder and cola, well, but we, however, cognac. So we celebrated a birthday and had dinner with food from a common restaurant, but on the beach and for $ 7 per person. They left hungry and in a bad mood. Claims were made, but no one cheered up about this.
2. Guides will offer you "SPA center" OTTOMAN.

It looked like this: we paid for a package of services, then they brought us there. We were met by a Russian girl of a habalistic type and immediately began to impose on us extra. services. When we entered this "SPA center" I was speechless. In an environment of complete unsanitary conditions, in this public washroom, where there is no division into a husband. and wives. parts, all lie in a common heap on one round bench, and Turkish men in swimming trunks, without proper education, provide so-called SPA services. Namely: they do "pilling", i. e. they rub you with a bare washcloth over your sweaty body without any peeling agents, dirt from everyone and everything flies around, then some other foam massage, where they wave a pillowcase with foam and it flies from everywhere and on everyone, then some kind of masks on the face with one brush for everyone, supposedly a Thai girl, etc. As far as it was possible to breed, so many "services" will be provided. It all reminded me of some kind of terrible orgy. And I also took the children to the "SPA". Having looked at all this through the eyes of a civilized person, I took the children and run away. But they had the audacity to offer me to pay extra for the VIP appartment, where everything would be done for me "according to an individual plan. " Then there was a serious conversation with the guide, but the money was returned to me without a sound. In the SPA center at the hotel, I didn’t even bother to poke my head, because. I realized that they have everything put on stream and according to the same scheme.
3. Excursions: on request. But on all excursions again there is a divorce for big money. On excursions to DEMRE, they sell icons for big money, I think this is unreasonably expensive and blasphemous.
4. Shops are a circus. I will not describe in detail, but insanity reached the point that one seller names one price, and the second one immediately twice as much, then the third one comes - the "boss" and sets the final price, which is also not adequate. In addition to hostility and a desire to get out of there as soon as possible, this redneck did not cause anything else. We are being kept there for idiots. I think that any person knows the real allowable price for each product. In general, an endless bazaar and extortion of money. It's the knockout.
I didn’t like it all, I think that the trip to Turkey was the first and last time. Despite the fact that it is close and visas are not needed, the rest is good, and the sea is beautiful. You are the object of deception, and this is unpleasant and humiliating.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original