Holidays with a child 4 years old

Written: 2 september 2013
Travel time: 24 july — 4 august 2013
Your rating of this hotel:
6.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 6.0
Cleanliness: 6.0
Food: 6.0
Amenities: 6.0
We rested in the Sunland beach hotel for 3.11 days with a family with a child of 4 years old, a family with a child of 3 years old rested with us. We don't have a lot of travel experience. Last year they were in the top five of Egypt, according to reviews, not the best. I really wanted to see Turkey, and the climate for children is more suitable than the Egyptian one. The hotel was chosen based on reviews. And this three-ruble note is very much praised on this site. Yes, and Pegasus said that the three-ruble note is good, so we took a chance. Probably, we will not go to threes anymore 

Well, now about the hotel. It is definitely for extremely unpretentious tourists. Certainly better than in the Russian or Ukrainian south, but too much BUT.

Minuses. Many have already described them. I may repeat:
1. Extortion of money upon check-in. We were sold a room for 100 bucks, which was no different from the one offered for free, except for the presence of a balcony.

We thought that we didn’t need a balcony, another child, God forbid, would fall out, and took a free one, in which everything worked, everything was clean except for the colony of ants, which by the end of our vacation multiplied many times, and the child and I merrily beat them with slippers .
2. Lack of shampoo in the room. It's kind of a hoax. Soap was brought, shower gel hung in the shower, but there was no shampoo.
3. Poor breakfasts. The same thing every day and there are no cakes, but they would have gone very well with coffee in the morning. Lunch and dinner can still be praised if you close your eyes to the complete absence of animal meat (there was always chicken, sometimes fish). Our men yearned for meat so much that on the penultimate day they went to a restaurant outside the territories to eat lamb skewers.
My child, who has always been indifferent to cutlets, after a vacation, crushes pork cutlets on both cheeks, but does not want to see a chicken in the eye))) Speaking of food, I would still like to have at least something in the bar by the sea for a snack, the same apples, watermelons, and sandwiches.
4. Lack of animation. Here it is quite deplorable. When we arrived in the afternoon, water aerobics was held. Then the girl who saw her off left, and there was no more aerobics. Tried to play water football in the pool. There was volleyball on the beach. At least something, and that's it for the day. In the evening at 21.00, a children's disco for half an hour (very loud music for children, I think, and only one Russian song, all the rest are Italian and German, which is extremely unjustified in a hotel where 100% of Russian vacationers), and after the disco such rotten improvisation, that we stood for 10 minutes and left. They take out to Kemer to discos whoever wants.
5. Lack of a mini-club.
There is a cave with the inscription "mini-club", but it is abandoned.
6. Frequent breakdowns of water slides. Our child fell in love with skiing, but one of the two worked (orange), the white one was repaired after 8 days of our vacation. On the last day of rest, when we planned to ride to our heart's content, none of them worked. We were told the motor was broken.

7. Poor playground. Children do not play on it. The protruding nails in the swing, and all its untidy appearance, do not even attract children, who, unlike their parents, are not experienced in matters of cleanliness and aesthetics.
8. The waterfall in the main pool did not work even once in 11 days and a dry channel gapes behind the building, which supposedly should be filled with water. And the arbor, in which the Turkish women, according to legend, made cakes, is also empty.

Well, now about the pluses.
1. Nature: mountains and sea. The nature in Kemer is gorgeous, there's nothing to say. Lush vegetation, including on the hotel grounds.
The mountains fascinate, and the sea relaxes like nothing else in the world. For me, the Mediterranean Sea is a paradise compared to the Red Sea. It is insanely clean and not teeming with all sorts of fish and reptiles. I am afraid of all these living creatures and do not like it when someone touches me underwater. Everything here was to my liking.
2. Proximity to the sea and a large beach. To the sea 5 minutes and this is a HUGE plus, especially when relaxing with children. The beach strip is wide, there are a lot of sunbeds, there were absolutely always free ones. There are mattresses on the sunbeds, of course, no one collects them for sanitation like on the beaches of other hotels, but they are there and it's great. In Egypt, there were no mattresses in the top five in principle.
3. Room cleaning daily. No complaints here. They cleaned and changed towels if they were thrown on the floor. There were even flowers on the beds.
4. Pools are good. In the nursery, apparently, the water is updated daily, because in the morning it is icy.
5.
We had a good rest, did not close ourselves in the walls of the hotel, walked, went on our own buses to Kemer, Phaselis, sailed on a yacht, got acquainted with the local population and the vacation turned out to be unforgettable. But I will not recommend this hotel to my friends and next time I will choose among fives or fours.
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