Rested well, but the food - horror!

Written: 4 august 2019
Travel time: 28 july — 3 august 2019
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 7.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 1.0
Amenities: 6.0
I bought a burning tour and chose a hotel based on tourist reviews. It was expensive for three stars, but the flight from Kharkiv did not have to spend time, nerves and money to fly from Boryspil. Arrived at the hotel with my sister at 7 am. The night did not sleep. The first impression of the hotel was terrible: after settling other tourists in luxury five-star hotels, "Dinara Garden" looked like a miserable chicken coop. They promised to settle until 12 o'clock. We were immediately sent for breakfast and I saw with my own eyes what is food in the hotel "three stars". It was horrible. I like to eat well, and here only cucumbers, tomatoes, olives and boiled eggs were edible for me. Looking ahead, I will say that this has been my main food all week. Terrible-looking sausage, summed up salads, mysterious sauces disappeared in the semifinals. There were also cereals and balls, amazing Turkish yogurt (actually: sour milk) in a five-liter bowl. All.
They poured coffee from a vending machine: "Barley Ear" compared to it - the food of the gods. And all this on a patient who did not sleep, tortured by moving / flying head! I shouted: "Why did I pay my big money ? ! We take our suitcases and go home! " If I sat down to write a review on the first day, it would be devastating. Then we walked a little Kemer, but could not walk. We returned to the hotel. We wanted to sleep deadly, we lay in the shade by the pool on deck chairs and slept there until we were pushed to the settlement. Settled only in the third of the proposed rooms. The first was on the third floor with high steps, and I have a sister after a broken leg (and we ourselves are not young virgins). The second went to the pool - noisily. No scandals or bribes were given, the owner calmly accepted the objection. Settled in room 103 on the ground floor, entrance from the hotel lobby.
Clean small room, freshly renovated, air conditioning works, TV too (4 Russian channels), but we do not watch it at home, turned on 2 times. Very comfortable beds. There is little furniture: a wardrobe, one (! ) For two bedside tables, a dressing table and a pouf. At first there were not enough textiles, towels and waffle sheets (cool thing, I wanted to buy one at home) for shelter were brought in the afternoon. In the bathroom, the owner decided to save on shower trays, so just a hole in the floor and a curtain. After taking a shower, the whole floor was in water, people went to the toilet in flip-flops. My big clean sister wiped the floor after the shower with a rag. In addition, the room is good for everyone. Wi-Fi in the rooms does not catch, to communicate with the world went to the hall. After sleeping, we went to the beach. It is 5-7 minutes from the hotel, along the sea line in five-star hotels, 155 beach. All guests of 3-4 stars converged there, many impressions about other hotels were heard.

A large pebble that in places turns into stone. A spectacle that painfully resembles a Kryvyi Rih quarry. Immediately bought special sneakers and bathed in them, without these shoes it hurts to go into the water on the stone. We always had enough sunbeds, places under the canopies too. The water is clean and warm. Mountains, sea, Kemer are wonderful! But back to the food. You can only eat normally for dinner. Here, under close supervision, you can get a piece of fish (was 2 times) or chicken leg or wing. Delicious rice is cooked, but, unfortunately, it is not every day. The rest is edible for me. For lunch, they fried something soy: nuggets, cutlets. Of the fruits, only watermelon for lunch and dinner. There are no desserts, small muffins floating in syrup were given several times, I tried them once and didn't take them again. I was sincerely glad that my sons and I did not come, they would not eat anything at all.
I do not recommend coming to this hotel with children: if they do not eat vegetables and greens, there will be nothing to feed them.
My sister and I found a wonderful confectionery, "Migros" and "Kurfur", and everything we lacked from food, bought there (including coffee : )).
A huge advantage of "Dinara" is its location in the heart of the city and at the same time on a quiet street near the park. In five minutes you reach the sea, the main street with shops and restaurants, the mosque and supermarkets. And this does not prevent you from sleeping peacefully at night in silence. Sad or pathetic Turkish songs are played in the hotel from morning till night, but they are turned off in the afternoon, and around eight in the evening, too. People in the hotel are not violent, alcohol is not served, there are no small children, you relax after an active day.
There is a swimming pool, but we never used it, we constantly went to the sea, so I can not say anything about it. Smells like chlorine, people splashed.
About the staff. Served by serious Turkish guys. Helped always and everywhere.
Women clean the rooms, the main mission is to drive a wet rag on the floor. I don't think they changed towels or linen in a week, they were clean anyway, we have no complaints.
In general, after a week spent at the Dinar, I will say that it has only one significant drawback: food. We had to spend extra on food. Pros: location, rest, normal room. We heard people complaining at the reception about the non-functioning air conditioner and TV, someone had a drain in their souls and water was standing at their ankles, but these horrors passed us by.
Our holiday was a success and I will definitely come to the fabulous Kemer again. But not three stars.
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