Не так страшн Симена, как ее малюют :)))) Simena is not so scary as she is painted :))))

Good day everyone!
I rested with my family (I am a husband and a son of 10 months) from May 5 to May 17.2013.
I bought a tour to this hotel out of stupidity, paid during the day for early booking : ) and then I realized that I mixed up the hotels. I read the reviews and was horribly disappointed.
I will say that everything that is written about the hotel is true, but not everything is so bad. I think that for 1500 ye for 12 days it's not bad. Previously, in Turkey, I rested in the Kemer Resort, Ottium and Royal Palm Resort hotels, the hotels are not the best, but an order of magnitude better than Simena, but also more expensive.

I'll start in order. We were brought to the hotel by the very last at about 10 a. m. , we drove for a long time for almost two hours, although it was only 65 km to go : ( We were met at the reception, everyone (who read the reviews) known Baki. I asked to be settled as soon as possible, closer to the main building and better, gave 20 cu Bucky with the widest smile said: 5 minutes, go have breakfast, come and we will settle in. WE went for a bite to eat, returned and Bucky showed us the first building across the road, villa 607, room 617. Impressions from the room were not so hot. The furniture was old (worn, burnt with a cigarette butt, etc. ), the carpet was dirty : ( I was afraid to put the child on the floor for the first few days, but then they cleaned the room and it became much cleaner. the room is large, everything is in order, everything was working, there was a nuance with the water heater, but it was fixed the next day, and on the last day of our stay, a barrel was installed on the roof, so I think there should be no problems with hot water in the future. double bed room, minibar (replenished almost every day, although it is stated every two days), a large closet, TV, balcony.
The room is spacious, but empty, if you change the furniture there, it would be much better.
More about food.
When we arrived, there were not many people in the hotel, breakfast was very poor. To my surprise, they didn’t cook scrambled eggs, omelets, pancakes : ( There were a million different buns, vegetables, salads, cheeses, sausages, boiled eggs, potatoes (rarely: stewed or peasant-style), sometimes scrambled eggs or scrambled eggs with sausage, cooked in advance, already cooled and windy, oatmeal with milk. Also Jupi drinks, supposedly orange juice, but it was painfully sweet, at first I thought that my husband brought it yupi, and then I look at the pulp floating, orange pits (apparently diluted). and coffee.
Lunches were richer, but dinners were full of abundance. Always several types of meat, chicken, beef, turkey, fish. All this is in the form of goulashiki, beef stroganoff, grilled, in the form of rolls, in the form of lula-kubabs, cutlets. Rice, some kind of wheat-type porridge (my husband really liked it) pasta, potatoes: mashed potatoes, fries, in a country style and in the form of croquettes for a side dish. Vegetables are plentiful. Of the fruits there have always been: green and red apples are very tasty, pears (at the beginning they were very tasty), kiwi, oranges, bananas, grapefruits, quince, some fruits, I don’t know their names, and green plums. 1 time they gave apricots and peaches, but we did not have time to take them.
There was no dietary table, it appeared when the hotel was replenished with a guard of tourists. Fried eggs, omelettes and pancakes, meat and fish on the grill, as well as huge queues for everything appeared in the place with the diet table.

We lived according to the child’s schedule, and if we didn’t go to dinner at seven, then we could completely forget about dinner, because. at 8 he already wanted to sleep. And if, in the first days, when we arrived at 7, we could freely choose a place where to sit down, calmly walk around to choose food, then with the arrival of a bunch of people, everything changed. 15 minutes before the opening, a line was already lining up on both sides of the restaurant entrance, a line to the barbecue, which did not disappear. And although food was served constantly throughout the dinner, people still came in advance. When it turned out to come to dinner after 8 - everything was easier.
Of the pluses of food, these are the most awesome cakes that granny cooks. She cooks them during the day in a snack bar and in the evening at dinner. By the way, there is also a queue for her : ) If you give her a dollar, she will generously give you almost the whole cake, and not 2-3 pieces. Also enjoyed the ice cream. It was also given twice a day from 15-30 to 17 near the Lounge bar and for dinner. There was also boiled corn : )
There is nothing special in the beach bar and snack bar : ( not tasty french fries and hamburgers with fried sausage.
Now let's move on to free places on the beach and by the pool.
In the first half of our vacation, there were plenty of places, there were few people in the hotel - there were a lot of free places. BUT when the hotel was already full, it happened to come to the beach and see that there was not a single free sunbed. By the way - the road to the sea did not bother at all. On the contrary, with pleasure we walked with the child back and forth during the day and in the evening.
The same applies to the pool near the main building. Right next to our villa, as well as nearby villas, there is a swimming pool, it was filled with water 2 days after our arrival and a bar was opened a week later. There are few places, but there are always free ones. So who doesn't like to walk far or likes tranquility - one could sit there.
I also want to add that the audibility in the villas is very good. The acoustics in the hall are such that any Philharmonic will envy. You can hear not only steps and conversations, but even flushing water in the toilet in the next room. On the night before departure (from 16 to 17), the neighbors staged some kind of brawl. They threw something heavy against the wall. People from room 627, are you okay????
Not far from the hotel there is a sea of ​ ​ shops, a pharmacy, minimarkets. Anything you want you can buy. Strawberries were 2-4 dollars, cherries from 5 to 8 dollars.

My summary is this: for the money we paid - a normal holiday. Certainly not 5 stars, but not as bad as I expected after reading the reviews. I would not recommend this hotel to anyone, I myself would not go again, but if you have already bought a ticket, do not despair. it's not that bad : )