The hotel is dying

Written: 16 september 2012
Travel time: 8 — 14 september 2012
Your rating of this hotel:
3.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 3.0
Service: 3.0
Cleanliness: 3.0
Food: 5.0
Amenities: 4.0
I'll try to be objective. I will not advise "do not go to this hotel" - it's up to everyone to decide. But I will tell you how it was with us, what we saw, what we encountered.

We went in September 2012, together, a young couple.

Information about old rooms, broken furniture, mold on the ceiling, lack of bath towels for the first time, stains on towels, dirty floors in the restaurant, dirty tables in the restaurant, etc.....- it's all true. Unfortunately.

Read reviews about the hotel after booking. I don’t blame or blame anyone - they chose themselves. There was just a nuance - we made a reservation a day before departure and there was no special assortment. Hope for 5*.

TERRITORY:

Once upon a time, this hotel was clearly superb. On the second day of our stay, we went for a walk around the hotel. They walked almost the entire territory (only they did not reach the animals). The territory of the hotel (taking into account Forest and Country) is quite large.

There are a lot of all sorts of designer "chips", such as huge vegetables, centipedes, images of animals, intricate performances of ordinary things ...BUT, it's all completely abandoned and causes not so much admiration as a feeling of longing and sadness. About the same thing if you take a walk in some abandoned park here in Russia.

ROOM:

We lived in the Aqua part. Our room was on the first floor and next to the elevator. Not fun))) When we checked in, there were no towels. Fortunately, all plumbing worked, there was no fungus in the bathroom, there was water) Towels were brought only the next day, although we immediately pointed out their absence even upon check-in. The so-called bell-boy strongly promised that they would be brought in 15 minutes, and if they were not brought, call the reception. We didn't. Did not want. We immediately realized that this format of communication with the staff at the hotel does not roll. And they turned out to be right.

On the second day of stay, the first desire was to change the room, because.
the night passed under the noise of tourists plowing through the territory of the hotel. We met with the guide and he said that they were ready to move us the next day. We did not want another sleepless night and had to think. The male part of our small company found a cool way out in the current conditions. In the closet we found a large thick camel wool blanket. We applied it in the first place - we dressed the front door with it. They opened the door, put on a blanket and closed it. The gaps between the door and the door frame allow this quite well). The room itself is ordinary (in size), closer to a small one, but the bathroom and balcony are more like a children's tree house))) I won't talk about the quality - everything can be seen in the pictures. These are pictures taken in September 2012. This is what it looks like today.

It sounds funny, but we were lucky with the number!
) We talked with other tourists (it turned out that they sat down with us, got to know each other and began to share grief) and each time we were convinced that our room was still very personal! )))

RESTAURANT:


Dirty. In the truest sense of the word. This is very eye catching. Dirty floor. There, no one bothers about cleaning) Dirty, uncleaned tables stand in this form on duty. We quickly understood what was the reason for such jambs, including with towels - the number of staff is much less than required by the size of the hotel and the number of tourists. Waiters in the truest sense of the word do not cope, plus in the eyes there is a clear reluctance to do so.

The choice of food is so-so.

There is no traditional omelet for BREAKFAST (every day). He was once and he was prepared. There were often fried eggs. Cereal and jam are a good choice. There are three types of cheese, some cold cuts, tomatoes, cucumbers, olives, black olives.
Boiled eggs, sour Turkish sausages and some strange mixture that tastes like cheese with spicy spices, and looks like some loose lumps - in unlimited quantities every morning)) For me it was a joy - grilled tomatoes - I love them and they were every morning just as unlimited. There was only one yogurt.

For LUNCH: greens, vegetables, olives, salads dressed with either yogurt or mayonnaise, and salads from everything: pasta, sausages and something else. Different of course. I honestly didn’t look too hard, because I immediately began to bypass. These white mixtures did not even arouse curiosity to pick and understand what it is. There was always rice for the main course. Always fried something like meatballs. They differed every day only in form. But it was all purchased, which was not hidden. In front of the cook lay these even, sometimes sticking to each other semi-finished products, which he diligently fried with smoke.
My husband didn't eat it at all. Too cardboard looking and taste. The meat was chicken, but not every day. And it was prepared with a lot of vegetables. I figured it out and concluded that it was probably more economical) I would not have believed the chef's conviction that this is the best way to cook chicken. Although in this hotel it was just that. I am good at cooking and I know the tricks, so some things immediately caught my eye. The fact is that this method of cooking allows you to improve the taste, and the quality of the products that are used there is sooooo average. The chicken that was being cooked was basically the back of it. To put it bluntly - chicken buttocks, and they are cheap, well, definitely much cheaper than thighs and breasts.


The soup was, of one kind, mashed potatoes.

And fruits - only watermelon every day. A day or two later, the melon also kept company. Sometimes there was only melon.
But the melon was already a generosity) Everything, there were no other fruits. Generally. Never! ) Choice of sweet more or less. But definitely not like in 5 *. There were no cakes or anything like that and never happens there. Only flat pies: either a biscuit soaked in syrup or shortbread something, still rounds, traditional hairies, brownies, profiteroles somehow were, puddings in portion molds. In general, sweets are perhaps the richest on the entire table.

For DINNER everything is the same as for lunch, but they also did something like shawarma, or rather, meat according to this principle, but there was always a huge queue. Not surprising. It was the only acceptable meat! ) Some stewed vegetables were also added. The fish in the hotel's diet for all the time was ONCE, for dinner. But there was an obvious reason for that.

We rested from the 8th to the 14th. So, on the 13th, some delegation, either from the administrative part of the hotel, or some kind of check, drove into the hotel. Because the staff has changed before our eyes.
The tables were quickly cleared. Oh, Gods, they washed the floor in the restaurant) Some aunt came out to the hot dishes. Like, keep track of the amount of food, so that if there is anything to bring supplements and wipe the table around, if one of the tourists misses and carries past the plate. I genuinely laughed at this. I wanted to go up to her and say: "Well, what are you? ! Why? ! This is superfluous. We are already so used to some kind of creative food mess! "...And it was on the evening of that day that the smell of real fish finally appeared in the Naturland Hotel )


SNACK on the beach. This is a standard move for those who do not want to go to lunch, but would like a bite to eat. They were hamburgers that they made themselves. There was bread, the boy was frying cutlets. There were tomatoes, lettuce, onions like. Also to this case there were salads of tomato + cucumber + something else and tomato + cucumber + cabbage, there was still cucumber in yogurt (served as a salad).
Due to the fact that it was impossible to chew the cabbage, the conclusion again suggests itself - cabbage from a large head and perhaps no longer young, as you know, it is cheaper.

THE DRINKS:

All utensils for drinks are plastic, with a volume of 0.2! Sometimes changed to cardboard. The quality of drinks ....Well, for example, ordinary cola and cola light differed in that one contained only cola, and the other was filled with water with gas, right in front of our eyes, from another faucet) Here is such a simple way. The wine was both red and white, but red was completely alcoholized grape juice, and white was sometimes normal. At the expense of alcohol in general, I can’t say more and some features. We only took wine for all this time and then, a couple of times, for "just like that")

You can also drink freshly squeezed orange juice there, but this is already for an extra charge. fee. The boy stands with oranges in the restaurant for all three meals, and in the beach bar from lunch to evening.

BEACH:

Dirty, very creepy!
I have never seen anything like this, even in the resorts of Russia. The sunbeds are broken through one (back). The coastline is quite narrow, everyone lies side by side)

Honestly, I had an absolute impression of the Black Sea coast, at not the best time.

AUDIENCE:

90% - Turks, the rest Russians, flashed either Poles or Czechs.

CONCLUSION:

This is about my 18th time in Turkey, so there is something to compare with. I was in different hotels, in different resorts. Therefore, I think that I can give a completely objective assessment. This hotel is the worst I have ever stayed in.

If you put it in three words, then Naturland = old, dirty, unkempt.

This is quite 3 *, maximum.

I somehow heard a phrase of one Russian woman aged there and I can say that it is to the point: this is an "abandoned sanatorium".

Good luck and wonderful trips with positive impressions! ! !
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