At 5 * there is only the sea

Written: 23 august 2019
Travel time: 10 — 20 august 2019
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 4.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 5.0
Rested 2 adults and 1 child in mid-August 2019. This is our 2nd holiday in Turkey. The first was at the Alva Donna hotel in Kirish (Kemer), which is also 5* and UAI, but these are completely different 5* and UAI! Since the price of Alva this year "bite" was chosen easier and cheaper.

Settlement. We arrived at the hotel around 11.00 and we were immediately told that they would only check in after 14.00, but if ...! Since the flight was at night, I didn’t wait - I invested $ 20 in my passport and after 2 minutes we were already going up to the room with the promised sea view and ....the main pool, restaurant, animation zone, which yells until 24.00, but right under our balcony there was a bar where they like to drink and smoke, sitting on sofas until late at night.


Number. Tiny, in which 1 double and 1 single bed. But the plus is that it was just a bed, and not a folding bed, as it happens. In the room there is a shelf for shoes, a chair, a bedside table between the beds, a minibar (it cooled a little what is inside and heated what is outside : ) ), TV.
In the hallway there is a closet with a safe. I would call the bathroom a toilet with a mirror - so small. You cannot brush your teeth together at the same time, otherwise the 2nd one will sit on the toilet)). When checking in, the bathroom had a lotion in a tube (I didn’t dare to use it), 2 combs, 2 sets of 3 ear sticks, soap and 2 shower caps. Shampoo, aka shower gel, is a large bottle in a dispenser in the shower. The content has not been tested on itself.

The shower room in our room is a bathroom with plastic curtains. I always carry my hair dryer. There was in the bathroom, but it is a yellowed box with a hose and I didn’t even turn it on. There was an outlet in the bathroom next to the mirror. Air conditioning in the room was, but not split, but built-in (lattices in the wall). It cooled normally, but it seemed that it was on schedule. Since at certain periods of the day it did not give cold air, but simply buzzed. When checking into the minibar put 2 bottles of 0.33 Pepsi, 2 small juices and water 1.5.
In the future, only water is replenished every day. Balcony is normal. Drying on the balcony (take clothespins; ) ), 2 chairs and a hanging table.

The general condition of the room, as well as the hotel itself, is "tired" and even very - stains, chips, dirtiness and wear. You can stay 10 days. We were still lucky and got a more or less normal number, so we put up with the animation until 24.00 and did not change it. The sun in this part of the building (facing the main pool) from the 2nd half of the day. The room was stuffy, but the air conditioner and blackout curtains helped. Cleaned up every day. They tried, but it didn’t always work out ((. But when I left $ 5, they cleaned it so that I was already surprised and washed the bathroom with bleach so that my eyes burned from the smell for a couple of hours), and, of course, they laid out the crocodile figurine. Towels were changed every day Often tired with holes ((.


Free Internet. He is not here! ! ! Not in the lobby, not in the territory itself.
If you cannot send a message with a photo in the messenger, this is not the Internet. Yes, and text leave with difficulty. I made myself roaming and used it. You will be offered a paid one for $2/day or a SIM card for $25.

Territory. Green and beautiful. It is not very big - the length of the hotel + service part. The territory is monitored, watered, sheared and cleaned in a row. There is a place to sit in the shade and take a couple of nice photos.

Pools. There are 2 of them, or rather 2 places where there are pools. 1e - central, where the animation takes place. 2nd - on the other side of the 5-storey building. There are 2 slides in this pool - 1 on a spiral and 1 on a straight line. Slides worked from 10.00 to 12.00 and from 14.00 to 16.00. The rest of the time - just like a pool. There is no bar with drinks near the 2nd one, you need to bring it.

Bars. Didn't drink alcohol. Sorry, I can’t say for the quality, but it was definitely on tap in the bars. Beer was draft light Efes. Very light and always cold.
Nutrition. Do not expect frills - expensive varieties of fish, cheeses, etc. The food here is modest.
Vegetables / fruits are seasonal local, fish, meat and dishes from them are unpretentious. But you will not stay hungry, unless, of course, you are waiting for jamon, marbled beef and dorado.

Desserts for lunch and dinner. Water on the territory from the cooler or in the bar is carbonated. Juices for the child bought separately in the store. Those that the hotel was not allowed to drink - powder diluted in water. There is an abundance of cola and similar local production on tap, but we don’t drink such things at all and therefore did not need them. What I did not like: there was absolutely no children's cuisine, but there was only a dietary table of 5 items (boiled rice or mashed potatoes, and vegetables); yogurt and the like for breakfast from the "common cauldron" - large bowls, from which you need to draw yourself with a ladle - I did not dare to try,

Just either kick your feet or float away from the pier, or enjoy a free fish peel).

From personal experience. You can get to Kemer or Antalya on your own by bus # 8 (only carefully "8 express" goes to Antalya through Kemer, but just 8 only to Kemer). Everything is written on the plates. To Kemer 6 liras or 1.5 $ or €, to Antalya, it seems, 17 liras or in terms of $ / €. You can pay in lira and in foreign currency. Some change is given from the currency in lira, some in the same currency. The bus runs about once every 15 minutes. Stop right next to the hotel. Pay on exit. If in Kemer you say: "Kemer-center".

All sweets and even some of the souvenirs (tea, Turkish delight (ordinary, not fried for tourists), hazelnut nut paste without the addition of chocolate) were bought in ordinary chain supermarkets: Migros (near the hotel), 101, Millennium and SOK. The last three are located at the end of the main street and food prices are very normal. Googlemap help).
Look. We did not go on excursions from the operator - I do not like group races. On the beach they will offer a banana ride - $ 10, a parachute - $ 50 and 2m - $ 70, fishing, etc. but prices may vary.

Animation from 10.00 in the central part of the day near the main pool, in the evening a children's disco with the same songs and the same dances (Soku-soku, bachu-bachu). Evening show - as lucky. We were lucky 1 time))) for our guys ballrooms (worthy show), but otherwise so-so.

And in conclusion, I want to say that the hotel left a double feeling - on the one hand, the building itself is sad inside and the number of rooms that has exhausted the resource of the hotel, but on the other hand, it is a beautiful and well-groomed area, friendly staff (I'm not talking about the Anex tour guides now ) - the guys are waiters and bartenders, cleaners, lifeguards, cooks, animators. Thank you very much! They make this hotel at least a 4 * stretch.

This is a good hotel, considering that in Tekirova there are mostly only hotels of a higher class, which are much more expensive in price, but not declared 5 *, and not worth the money paid, because working and saving money for vacation you don’t want to go and see the devastation and dirt, look at the sea through the holes in the towels, track the history by the stains on the sofas in the lobby, eat from broken dishes, you don’t want to be pulled money from you for what you HAVE to do for the price you ALREADY paid! Once I happened to live in Nice in a similar hotel, but it was a cheap 3 *.
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