Осенний отдых в "Принцессе Фазелиса" Autumn holidays in "Princess Phaselis"

We stayed at the end of September - beginning of October 2012.
In general, I liked the rest. The hotel is one of the oldest on the coast, so a lot of greenery. Pleasing to the eye is not only a variety of flowers in the flower beds, but also numerous shrubs and trees. Palm trees, jacaranda, cycas, pine trees, araucaria, hibiscus grow on the territory, few fruit trees. True, tall trees sometimes block the view of the sea, but they give a lot of shade. The gates of the hotel overlook the main street of Tekirova. In the evening you can walk around the village. The hotel is the base of Anexa. Therefore, other tour operators do not sell tours to it. The contingent is only Russian speakers (in my opinion, about 50% Russia, 40% Ukraine, and a little Kazakhstan).
Territory. Beautiful, well-groomed. The main building stands in the center, perpendicular to the line of the beach, so almost all rooms have a side view of the sea. There are two outdoor pools and a third small one for children. Pools are located on both sides of the main building. The swimming pool with slides is opposite the main entrance to the hotel. The slides are quite small (they don’t pull on the water park for sure). A stone massif is built above the pool, from which a waterfall effectively flows down during the operation of the slides. The second pool is in the inner part of the hotel, all the animation takes place there, there is also a pool bar and the main restaurant on the right. On the other side of the pool, parallel to the main building, there is a two-story additional building. The territory is not to say that it is small (36.000 sq. m. ), but because of the “population density” per sq. meter seemed quite small. People, as in an anthill, and everywhere and always, respectively, queues are created and very noisy. Met and "tagil". There is a garden park and a playground. In the evenings for the kids, as elsewhere, there was a mini-disco.

Once a week, a "Turkish Night" is organized. The market came, the prices are very high. "Drivers" brought two camels. We approached one, stroked it, asked permission to take a picture. The owner of the camel nodded his head graciously. We took a couple of pictures, after which he demanded a fee from us for a photo shoot.
Free Wi-Fi in the reception area and in the lobby on the first floor, but it also catches on the second floor, although it often slows down.
Rooms. In the main building, the "standard" rooms are clean and bright. Predominantly the presence of white. Mirrors all over the wall. From the cracked amalgam in the corners, it is clear that the hotel is far from new, but the light leatherette upholstery of the headboard of the beds really enlivens the interior; carpet on the floor. The size of the room is not very big, not bad for two people. If the three of us, then it's cramped. Central air conditioning, not very powerful. The mini-bar was replenished daily with water and soda and a regular one and a half liter bottled.
In the additional building, the rooms are larger in size. But it would not hurt to make repairs and update the furniture there. It was there some kind of antediluvian, outdated and shabby, (or maybe the design has already been improved? ). Green spaces strongly shade the premises, because of this, the rooms on the ground floor are twilight and smell of dampness.
There are also apart rooms located at a distance from the main hotel, but I will write about them separately.

Beach and sea. The beach is not narrow, as in Kemer, but not wide, as, for example, in Sarigerme. In general, medium width. Sand interspersed with pebbles. At the entrance to the sea, the pebbles are quite large. It is more convenient to enter the water in aquashoes or along the paths to the pier, and then along the ladder. The pier is private, you can feed the fish from it. Numerous fry are just waiting for the next handout, gathering for a meal in whole flocks. There is a shower on the pier (although it is primitive, you can immediately wash off the salt. Very convenient). The water in the sea is unusually clean and transparent. The bottom is visible even at a depth of more than 2 meters. The water temperature in early October was 26 degrees. From the side of the sea, a very beautiful view of the city of Tahtali opens up, especially early in the morning, when it is illuminated by the rays of the barely awakened sun. The fabric umbrellas on the beach are large enough, there are paid boars. The loungers are closely pressed against each other. Mattresses don't always dry overnight. There is a bar on the beach where you can take beer and water, tea or coffee during the day. During the day they make hamburgers, all kinds of shawarma, pizza, gozleme is baked nearby. You have to queue for everything. At lunch, you can not go to the main restaurant, but have a bite on the beach, and not only hamburgers, you can take french fries, sausages, salads, there was also some kind of our dumplings with stuffing of unknown origin.
The restaurant is also crowded. You can find a table on the street only if you come to the beginning of dinner or at the very end of it, we dined on the 2nd floor, there were always empty seats. There are also tables for children.
Food and alcohol. For a budget five, the food is quite acceptable. Just a lot, all normal quality. There was always meat, chicken, fish (river trout and mackerel in various forms), there was a choice of children's and diet food; always several types of side dishes, salads, good mashed soups. Quite a varied sweet table. Of the fruits were black and green grapes, apples, pears, melon, watermelon. The melon and pears were slightly underripe, juicy, and lacking flavor. The black grapes were tasty, but they were quickly taken apart.
Various cocktails were mixed in the bars. Although the taste was very different from the original, it was drinkable. (Pina colada, for example, they looked more like a milkshake with the addition of a small portion of whiskey and pineapple syrup). Beer is normal, white wine is also okay, it was quickly taken apart in the restaurant, red was worse. In the Camellia Bar, all the parties took place in the evenings, the music thundered until 12 at night, then there was silence. In the basement there was a place for a night disco, I can’t say anything about it, we didn’t go. In the Captain-bar, stylized as a ship, (near the pool with slides) in the evenings you could sit with a cup of Turkish coffee. This is perhaps the only place in the hotel where it was calm and almost never crowded.
Summing up, we can say. In terms of price / quality ratio, the hotel fully corresponds to its economy-five category.