turkish notes

Written: 3 may 2009
Travel time: 25 april — 2 may 2009
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 8.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 8.0
Rested from 25.04 to 02.05. 09. The hotel fulfills its 4 *. The food is of high quality - the choice of greens, meat, desserts is enough not to become boring for a standard week of rest. The staff, for the most part, is welcoming and friendly - they understand Russian, you know a little English or Deutsch without problems, no outright rudeness inherent in some Egyptian hotels was noticed (with the exception of one interesting moment: ) they left 1 dollar for the cleaning lady in the room with in the morning, they came to the room at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon - there is no dollar, as well as the cleaning itself. A silent scene and a stupor - the money is collected by numbers - the work is not visible; neighing for 5 minutes, after 10 he began to worry, check things, you never know what. After 20 minutes, there was a knock on the door, - the Clear Turkish Sun came down and unobtrusively so interested: "Remove? " Yasen h. . Why would I lay out the "grandmothers" in the room in plain sight. But she worked honestly, - she really didn’t twist the “swan”, but changed the towels, the bed completely. There is a standard safe in the room, but a laptop with a "SLR" camera, of course, does not fit, and you pay 3 euros per day for it, like a toad crushes. The rooms are not large (17 m), but not in a strained. The view from the north side on the right is a piece of the sea, on the left is a piece of mountains, and in the center is a "wonderful" Turkish wasteland (the hotel is the first one at the entrance to Kemer), but sitting on the balcony it is not visible. The frequency of the mullah's cries from the neighboring mosque is striking in its constancy and surprise, and only the 2nd click of the switched off megaphone brings peace to the poor Slavic soul at 5 am (although on the 4th day of stay, the brain still spares itself and turns off on its own for the required period of time, at such an early hour ) Rooms on the south side, resting their windows directly on the windows of the twin hotel "Rose" located at arm's length (actually 5 meters). But if you do not bother, then everything is OK! we go first of all across the sea, which is really quite good in this place: Finely pebbly beach smoothly descends into the water, after 3 meters already up to the neck. The water is very clean, the visibility is not less than 15 meters, although the depth at 300 meters from the beach is not more than 8 meters. The water temperature is about 20 degrees, the Germans do not swim, they huddle close to the pool, -das ist es calt - it's cold. Ours on the drum, on a hundred of local raki and forward. From the hotel building to the beach 150 meters, along the way there are 2 bars, where there is a very adequate cold beer and other drinks and a good snack bar (fries, hamburgers, greens, fruits). Animation for the whole week of stay, I did not see, maybe not the season. Regarding spa treatments, there is a large sauna, Turkish bath, relaxation room. It's free from 9 am to 8 pm. Massage in combination with a Turkish bath is about 40 euros, in neighboring hotels they will give you 15 euros. There is no gym, you don’t have to work on vacation. The only thing that works is the treadmill. The hotel is located, as I said at the very beginning of Kemer, at the exit opposite the market (1.5 liters of water-1 dollar) further along the way to the center, no more than 15 minutes walk, a lot of shops, sellers are intrusive, but compared to Sharm they are more Europeanized, not so badass. You need to bargain, but they won’t go below a certain bar, no, no. Regarding excursions, the city is naturally cheaper. . Rafting cost 20 dollars against 60 from the Tez tour, although no one gave helmets, and we didn’t really take a steam bath, but I remembered the eyes of a German woman in a helmet, who dodged a tree tilted from the shore with unchildish speed, I remembered well (descent speed up to 30 km / hour). Rafting is a cool thing, although everything looks much cooler on the video, but a flask with cognac is useful for anyone, since a bottle of vodka at dinner cost 30 evergreen bucks (I never saw the Turkish lira, I don’t understand it for them: ). By the way, upon departure to your homeland, it makes sense to go to Duty free, there were attractive discounts for some perfumes and strong drinks, but God forbid you open a sealed package and drink some of the desired moisture before boarding the plane, then tryndets utterly. In front of my eyes, a Turkish customs officer at the final check threw out an open liter bottle of not at all cheap whiskey, bought 12 minutes ago in an ill-fated duty-free store, and x. . to whom, that you will prove 15 minutes before departure. In general, good rest gentlemen.
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