We did not have time to read the reviews - and this was our main mistake! The travel agent recommended it as 4 * - but you need to remove the penalty for misinformation from such agents !! ! Doesn't even qualify for a 3! Also at the reception they asked for 20 dollars for a better room and 2 dollars. per day for the safe.
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We did not have time to read the reviews - and this was our main mistake! The travel agent recommended it as 4 * - but you need to remove the penalty for misinformation from such agents !! ! Doesn't even qualify for a 3! Also at the reception they asked for 20 dollars for a better room and 2 dollars. per day for the safe. The worst part is the cafeteria. . . No meat, no fish, - one soybean, miserable chicken hearts and navels sometimes, - the rest are soy cakes and, without fiction, just chopped tomatoes, cucumbers, herbs, even "kish-mouse" salads - sketched out everything horrible and filled with mayonnaise. Boiled eggs, if not taken apart in the morning, then by dinner they were served mixed with stewed tomatoes. Yes, fried eggplant. From sweets - no pastries, only all jelly embellished with different dyes. . Of fruits, only watermelon and unsweetened melon. And around are poor skinny cats and kittens. Vobschem and laughter and sin! It's all inclusive!! ! At the bar, beer is not bad, wine is such and such, sometimes you can find Brandy and Cola. At the reception, we encountered the fact that the administrator did not want to take the key from us for storage - he says "take it with you" and we were looking for each other with this key. . . No beach towels. The shower is good, hair dryer is hot. There is Hamam, but they say in Kemer itself it is much better for the same money. Well, there was no animation at all, there was not even a disco! The foyer is stuffy - no air conditioning in it, no ceiling fan! The corridors on the floors are also stuffy! In general, "the greed of the fraer ruined"! I think next year they will generally fly by with such savings on everything! They don’t understand what the Turks have done for themselves anti-advertising!
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I went with my family and were amazed at the attitude of the staff to visiting customers. Two bastards extort money from everyone who comes. On the bus, the guide said that the Turks like to receive "tips", including both the administration and the attendants. The room was not cleaned. The cleaning lady only mopped the floor by the door and washed the sinks.
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I went with my family and were amazed at the attitude of the staff to visiting customers. Two bastards extort money from everyone who comes. On the bus, the guide said that the Turks like to receive "tips", including both the administration and the attendants. The room was not cleaned. The cleaning lady only mopped the floor by the door and washed the sinks. "Cleaning" lasted 2 minutes. The hotel workers are very passive, indifferent and know very little Russian. I want to give everyone advice: never give any so-called "tip" to the Turks. They are very spoiled by the Russians, they like to get money and do not want to work. As for the animation: starting at 9 o'clock, two Russian girls are conducting the same program with the same songs that only psychiatric patients can listen to: bam-bam, aram-zazam, ghoul-ghoul, quack-quack. Well, as for the food, in general, it suited us. Everything worked properly, but the air conditioner was leaking, the buttons on the TV remote control were stuck. The attitude of these two managers towards vacationers is indifferent. They just either talk to each other or ask for a dollar. They do not hide their rudeness, they turn to everyone as you, they know Russian poorly, the pronunciation is no good. Know the value of your money. There are good people among the Turks, but in general they give the impression of ill-mannered, money-hungry, obsessive people, which cannot be said about the Chinese. I would recommend visiting China (Beidaihe). The Chinese are polite, punctual, they can talk with you on any topic (they even practice Russian among themselves).
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Dirty hotel (I have never seen such dirty and washed-out towels and pastel linen), completely unfriendly staff, constant extortion of money: for a room, safe, Internet (which, by the way, catches very badly). They cooked absolutely tasteless and monotonous, there were no fruits, there was only watermelon (and this is in Turkey and in the orange season !! ), ants in the rooms, an abundance of cats on the territory.
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Dirty hotel (I have never seen such dirty and washed-out towels and pastel linen), completely unfriendly staff, constant extortion of money: for a room, safe, Internet (which, by the way, catches very badly). They cooked absolutely tasteless and monotonous, there were no fruits, there was only watermelon (and this is in Turkey and in the orange season !! ), ants in the rooms, an abundance of cats on the territory....in a word, you can write a lot more bad things... Absolutely unfriendly staff, there is no animation! Brrr! an unpleasant experience ! ! of the pluses, only the proximity to the sea (there are always not enough sun loungers) and the sea itself ! !
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Rested in this hotel in August 2014, chose it because of the limited budget. Basically I liked everything. The location is chic, 1st line, beautiful nature, mountains, well-groomed territory, a pool with a waterfall, close to a shopping street, cafes with live music. Safe in the room is free, Wi-Fi in the lobby and in the restaurant is free.
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Rested in this hotel in August 2014, chose it because of the limited budget.
Basically I liked everything. The location is chic, 1st line, beautiful nature, mountains, well-groomed territory, a pool with a waterfall, close to a shopping street, cafes with live music.
Safe in the room is free, Wi-Fi in the lobby and in the restaurant is free.
I didn’t really like the food, they baked very tasty cookies for breakfast, but not enough, in 10 days I only got it once.
For dinner, they baked pancakes and fried meat or fish, but there were long queues. The rest of the menu is the same as in other hotels, but somehow not tasty.
Water is poured into the coolers from the tap and yuppies are also diluted on the beach, but the truth is no one was poisoned.
From the animation, I liked the Miss Hotel and Mr. Hotel contests.
I read in other reviews that the staff frankly extorts tips, nothing has changed in this regard, but only at the reception, the rooms are cleaned well and without tips.
I consider all the shortcomings described to be insignificant, you can relax in this hotel very well.
Basically I liked everything. The location is chic, 1st line, beautiful nature, mountains, well-groomed territory, a pool with a waterfall, close to a shopping street, cafes with live music.
Safe in the room is free, Wi-Fi in the lobby and in the restaurant is free.
I didn’t really like the food, they baked very tasty cookies for breakfast, but not enough, in 10 days I only got it once.
For dinner, they baked pancakes and fried meat or fish, but there were long queues. The rest of the menu is the same as in other hotels, but somehow not tasty.
Water is poured into the coolers from the tap and yuppies are also diluted on the beach, but the truth is no one was poisoned.
From the animation, I liked the Miss Hotel and Mr. Hotel contests.
I read in other reviews that the staff frankly extorts tips, nothing has changed in this regard, but only at the reception, the rooms are cleaned well and without tips.
I consider all the shortcomings described to be insignificant, you can relax in this hotel very well.
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Sunland Beach was a disappointment. We rested in it as a family in September 2012 - everything was super, now it is clear that everything rested on the manager Sebastian and the animator Leventos. This year (September 2013) we decided to go to the same hotel. Of the good, only a large green area remained, the proximity of the beach (first line) and the cook.
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Sunland Beach was a disappointment. We rested in it as a family in September 2012 - everything was super, now it is clear that everything rested on the manager Sebastian and the animator Leventos. This year (September 2013) we decided to go to the same hotel. Of the good, only a large green area remained, the proximity of the beach (first line) and the cook. The cuisine is not varied, but quite decent and safe - no one was poisoned. Everything else is just chaos. The territory is dirty, in the pools that only does not swim, the stairs to the slides, probably, have not been cleaned since last year. The dishes are washed ugly, the plates through one with the remnants of smeared and dried food (at the same time they are in a pile of “clean”), the tables are wiped “in places”, I myself saw how the cleaner wiped the table - rubbed here, rubbed there, left two puddles on the table and left - sort of picked it up.
Napkins (please note - not tablecloths) are laid on the table only for dinner; forks, knives and spoons should definitely be wiped before use (and not because it is a “Russian tradition”, but simply disgusting). The waiters-cleaners (they do all the work - they carry the dishes, wash the dishes, and wash the floors ...) behave cheekily, only their cries are heard during the meal - they are talking to each other, the plates are almost pulled out from under the spoons of the guests - " finish”, they are talking about something laughing, the dishes are rattling .... In general, complete disrespect for vacationers. As an apotheosis - the absence of alcoholic beverages in the bar. Always available only third-rate beer and wine, which is impossible to drink - terrible sourness, heartburn begins after the first glass. Vodka (although I am an amateur, but I have tried all the drinks) happens more often, but it practically does not differ in taste from water, though they say in Turkey, in principle, vodka is bad.
Yes, God bless her, with vodka, but men quietly go berserk (soon they will go wild loudly) from the fact that there is practically no crayfish (at lunch it is “not yet”, and at dinner it is “not already”), it is not clear what kind of super scarce drink it is that ends up at the bar for an hour. By the way, the gin also ends around seven o'clock in the evening. In general - "all inclusive" only on paper. Separately, I want to say about the "animators", so to speak. These are 3 people: the first is a pet-like girl, who sits down at the tables with everyone who does not drive away, loving the microphone (mutters something in it and sings out of tune); the second daisy girl, roaming outside the hotel (probably shopping or gentlemen), late for scheduled events (such as a mini-disco - and the children are waiting! ); the third is a small cheeky, constantly screaming individual of Turkish nationality, all in tattoos.
All the work of this trinity is observed only in a terrible noise - either the first girl is having fun with someone and laughing at the whole restaurant, then one of them turns on the music so that I regret the absence of deafness, then the third starts running around the restaurant and howling to the guitar or just shout something (greetings to friends - Russian and Turkish, invitations to the show in the evening, etc. ). Minidiscos evoke only a feeling of pity for the presenters - three or four children are trampling around in a round dance, and a falling asleep animator. And this is after - what Leventos did last year - the pool was "boiling" during water aerobics, those who wanted to hardly fit in, there was a queue for volleyball, children hung on it all day, every mini-disco was like fireworks every evening a variety of shows!
In general, it is clear that the owners began to save on everything - from staff to napkins. In this regard, the hotel became BAD.
We live out in this, so to speak ... "hotel" with difficulty, with a feeling of disgust and wasted money.
I DO NOT RECOMMEND TO GO TO THE HOTEL SUNLEND BEACH.
Napkins (please note - not tablecloths) are laid on the table only for dinner; forks, knives and spoons should definitely be wiped before use (and not because it is a “Russian tradition”, but simply disgusting). The waiters-cleaners (they do all the work - they carry the dishes, wash the dishes, and wash the floors ...) behave cheekily, only their cries are heard during the meal - they are talking to each other, the plates are almost pulled out from under the spoons of the guests - " finish”, they are talking about something laughing, the dishes are rattling .... In general, complete disrespect for vacationers. As an apotheosis - the absence of alcoholic beverages in the bar. Always available only third-rate beer and wine, which is impossible to drink - terrible sourness, heartburn begins after the first glass. Vodka (although I am an amateur, but I have tried all the drinks) happens more often, but it practically does not differ in taste from water, though they say in Turkey, in principle, vodka is bad.
Yes, God bless her, with vodka, but men quietly go berserk (soon they will go wild loudly) from the fact that there is practically no crayfish (at lunch it is “not yet”, and at dinner it is “not already”), it is not clear what kind of super scarce drink it is that ends up at the bar for an hour. By the way, the gin also ends around seven o'clock in the evening. In general - "all inclusive" only on paper. Separately, I want to say about the "animators", so to speak. These are 3 people: the first is a pet-like girl, who sits down at the tables with everyone who does not drive away, loving the microphone (mutters something in it and sings out of tune); the second daisy girl, roaming outside the hotel (probably shopping or gentlemen), late for scheduled events (such as a mini-disco - and the children are waiting! ); the third is a small cheeky, constantly screaming individual of Turkish nationality, all in tattoos.
All the work of this trinity is observed only in a terrible noise - either the first girl is having fun with someone and laughing at the whole restaurant, then one of them turns on the music so that I regret the absence of deafness, then the third starts running around the restaurant and howling to the guitar or just shout something (greetings to friends - Russian and Turkish, invitations to the show in the evening, etc. ). Minidiscos evoke only a feeling of pity for the presenters - three or four children are trampling around in a round dance, and a falling asleep animator. And this is after - what Leventos did last year - the pool was "boiling" during water aerobics, those who wanted to hardly fit in, there was a queue for volleyball, children hung on it all day, every mini-disco was like fireworks every evening a variety of shows!
In general, it is clear that the owners began to save on everything - from staff to napkins. In this regard, the hotel became BAD.
We live out in this, so to speak ... "hotel" with difficulty, with a feeling of disgust and wasted money.
I DO NOT RECOMMEND TO GO TO THE HOTEL SUNLEND BEACH.
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The description and photos on the site do not match. They are a different hotel. What confuses people.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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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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The accommodation was one of the few downsides. We arrived at the hotel at about 15:00 with a tired from the road and half-asleep child, no one met us on the street. (In general, there is a booth to the right of the entrance, in which, apparently, a security guard should sit, only during the entire rest there was never anyone there, no control bracelet.
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The accommodation was one of the few downsides. We arrived at the hotel at about 15:00 with a tired from the road and half-asleep child, no one met us on the street. (In general, there is a booth to the right of the entrance, in which, apparently, a security guard should sit, only during the entire rest there was never anyone there, no control bracelet. For comparison, in Zena across the road, the security guard was constantly spinning on the street and showed keen interest when I took pictures of their blue fountains with a tripod in the evening. ) I dragged the bags to the reception and went to the manager's office to talk about a more interesting room at the invitation of the manager. He offered $100 for a room with a balcony, arguing that our room was noisy, the windows faced the street, there was no safe (it all turned out to be nonsense). Seeing that I was not fooled, I went to show a “good” room with a sea view: there really was a balcony, but the view from it was into solid green bushes, and somewhere behind them the sea is probably hiding. In general, the last offer from the manager was almost $30 after me, which I again refused, then for another 10 minutes I fought back from the question of why I refused. A friend from the reception gave me the keys to a standard room and waved his hand towards the corridor, I had to look for a room and carry things myself, which, including trade, I didn’t really like, and I don’t like trade in essence, the arrival was ruined.
The room turned out to be a normally working air conditioner, a free safe (as it is written on the hotel website), a normal bathroom with a shower. We practically did not use the rest (TV, refrigerator, bedside tables), and we were usually in the room from 00:00 to 07:00, the rest of the time we just ran in for some of the things. For fans of refrigerators, I’ll say that the refrigerator only cools, it doesn’t freeze, you can’t put ice cream in it, but you can cool vodka, you just need patience : ). The room was cleaned daily by a Turkish woman, towels were changed, no complaints in this regard. The beds in the room were of medium size, on the last trip we decided not to take the child a separate bed (but in fact they brought and put something like an arena near the entrance to the room, which was replaced a day later with a full-fledged folding bed), but to sleep with my wife on one - it turned out to be not enough, the next night they moved two and put a third side by side. The windows of the room overlooked the sea, although you can hardly see it because of the trees (so if you are told about the excellent sea view from any VIP room, do not be fooled, our number 226 was geographically closest to the sea). The fact that the street was under the window did not bother, because. buses passed through it at most a couple of times during the evening, there was much more noise from local cicadas and discos in Zena.
Well, then the positive began: the sea, pools, water football, slides, food, beer. The road to the sea takes about 5 minutes, from the side of the street the hotel has a gate that is locked at night. On the way there are shops (leather, fruits, alcohol, knick-knacks), you can also pump up balls there (the animator Zeynap showed me the way there, who hardly speaks Russian, but speaks good English, I went further in the morning before the animators appeared, because . we usually climbed into the pool one of the first, and the balls were lowered with an enviable daily regularity). Right there on the way, almost fellow countryman Fedya makes orange juices for $ 1, distributes oranges to children for free (in general, the attitude of locals towards tourists was very pleasantly surprised, I don’t remember this since my trip to Abkhazia). The sea is clean, the entrance is on small pebbles, sunbeds and umbrellas with a margin, you can even drag them to the water itself, in the evening the guy returns them to their place without emotions and conversations. (In general, there were almost no prohibitions: food was taken from the restaurant if necessary, water was taken from the cooler for children, they rode down the slides as they wanted, they gave beer at the bar without question. ) There are volleyball courts on the beach, wooden flooring leads to the sea.
When the sea got bored, we returned to the hotel to the pool and beer. Sunbeds and umbrellas, located two meters from the pool, enough for everyone, beer too. Local waiters and bartenders tried to flirt with children and women, but somehow kindly, not intrusively. One even tried to feed me cookies from his hand during the afternoon snack, when the bulk had already been sorted out, I jokingly waved him towards a lonely bored woman of about 35 (in Russia you can do without jokes for such tricks), let him flirt with her. The same waiter taught us to say “dö rt bira” instead of “four beers” and “teş ekkü rler” instead of “thank you”, although by the end of the rest we were recognized in the bar from afar, knowing why we came and to what quantity. He has a separate respect for the local flavor and the basics of the Turkish language, what grievances there are! By the way, in the hotel and the surrounding shops there was a pretty good local Efes, a light, not very strong, but pleasant beer. It is difficult for them to get drunk (and there was no such goal), because. it is poured into small plastic cups (sometimes disposable), from the strength of 200 grams, you often have to go to the bar for an additive (like Russians drink a lot and do not get drunk, but the container itself is small). Some tourists had problems, because. they wanted to drink from glass goblets, but apparently this was not provided for in AI (only for a fee of about $1-2), it didn’t bother us: we can even drink from a bucket, over the edge, and then give another lecture... (with ) And we ourselves carried the cups to the bar, for which the waiters even said thanks, mutual respect. By the end of the holiday, I wanted a non-filtered drink, something dark for a change (they came with a beer company) and, of course, fish, which, to our great surprise, was not there, despite the proximity of the sea. You can buy chips, salted corn seeds, nuts, but with salted fish (ram, ancheus, etc. ) a bummer - all the merchants shrugged in amazement - bring it with you!
If we develop the theme of drinks, then it is necessary to mention local wine and vodka. The Turks have a tradition not to drink vodka like we do, but to dilute it with water to 10-15% strength. This is how they serve it in the bar, it’s impossible to drink, and they already have a similar “cocktail” in the bottle, at least distill it back. But… They have a local Raki vodka infused with aniseed root (the aftertaste of drugs familiar from childhood, it’s impossible to make a mistake, try it! ). Sometimes you could find it in a bar and ask not to dilute it, by the way, when diluted, it becomes cloudy due to a change in the concentration of anise oil : ), but it’s easier to walk to the nearest store and buy yourself a normal 45-degree sample for $15-20. They brought vodka with them, and the masseurs who saw our packages (we met and talked well during the rest) asked with horror if we would drink it : ). We assured them that it was a gift to take home with them.
I liked the local wine less than Raki. In the bar, it is again diluted, I myself am engaged in winemaking, I took a sip and could not drink. In stores, you can buy a bottle for at least $10-15, but I still have a suspicion that this is actually a powder (wine from pomegranate, blackberries, etc. nonsense). Being in a restaurant on the way to the beach, they brought us 2 different bottles, like natural, local (unfortunately I did not write down the name), but a lot of acid. In their climate, grapes must ripen until the acid is completely converted into sugar, this is not the middle zone of Russia for you, so something is not completely clean here. French, Italian, Chilean or Abkhaz (Psou, Kono Sur, Cuve du Pape, Baron de Cresse, etc. ) are clearly better for comparable money, so I do not recommend local wine.
From non-alcoholic drinks there are fanta, sprite, cola, yupi - whatever you like. You can get good coffee from a coffee machine: I usually drink black at home, but here I somehow fell in love with milk; nearby you can get tea leaves and boiling water (there were no tea bags).
As for the food, there were pros and cons. The food is delicious, fresh, there is a variety of dishes for lunch and dinner, which cannot be said about breakfast: every morning the standard boiled potatoes, eggs, milk porridge or scrambled eggs with tomatoes (only there are much more tomatoes in it than eggs, probably a national feature : ), fresh tomatoes, cucumbers. Sausages are offered for this business (most likely soy and rather peppery, there were literally 1-2 times normal) and a kind of sausage of comparable quality, most likely I would not buy such a house. There was no cheese at all (apart from some kind of cheese, but this is an amateur, to which I do not belong), butter for sandwiches is more like margarine. However, every morning we gathered as a company for breakfast and with the words “Potato! ” (remember the gentlemen of fortune) went into battle, did not have to starve, ahead of football in the pool and the sea! Three types of dry flakes were collected for children, which could take them about half an hour (in general, from small children there is a lot of extra work for waiters, to which they are very positive).
According to Zadornov, the resourcefulness of the Russians is striking, two examples. Where can you find hot milk if you don't even have regular milk? Very simple: when preparing coffee with milk, the coffee machine first shoots the milk jet, and only then the coffee jet. If you arm yourself with two cups and patience, then by alternating them and repeating the process of making coffee, you can achieve what you want! Well, how to quickly move down the water slide? Put panties up your ass! Literally, the advice of a little girl, she says she works, the wife confirms, he himself moved out on his shoulder blades and heels. I understand if it's a thong, but if it's family? Here you have to think. . .
We digress, now from the positive in food: there were a lot of different jams, honey, which can be applied in unlimited quantities, some kind of our sour cream, a good portion of which can completely replace breakfast. For lunch and dinner, the variety is much greater: sweets appear (it remains a mystery to us why they could not be put up for breakfast), salads (by the way, they have a specific sour mayonnaise, because of which we were in vain afraid of eating salads like our Olivier for the first few days) , stewed potatoes with chicken, stewed vegetables, spaghetti, etc. In the evening, a couple of chefs come out to the “hungry” vacationers and cook something on an open fire: fries, stewed vegetables, hamburgers, pancakes, chicken fillet, some local cakes / sticks from stuffed dough and something similar to cottage cheese with greens, fish in batter. Every evening something different, you can take as much as you like, although sometimes you have to stand in line for this. Although this can be avoided if you arrive for dinner a little half an hour late : ) when the main hungry crowd subsides. Separately, I want to note the spices (especially the red pepper, which came just in time) and something very sharp, similar to the heads of young garlic (on closer examination, it turned out that these were small yellow peppers). Very spicy, after one such pepper aftertaste for the rest of the meal, use carefully, but it's worth it! Well, you can’t mention the soups for lunch and dinner - just super! Something seemed sour to someone, spicy to someone, someone does not like milk soups, but IMHO these are minor nitpicks - the soups were very even. Once there was a very tasty borscht, several times there was a red soup, to which you can add lemon, olives and something like sour cream lying nearby (actually like yogurt or some kind of sauce) to get something similar to Russian hodgepodge. Against this background, the lack of meat and cheese was not so critical: for several days we were going to explore in a restaurant outside the hotel to try local wine and lamb skewers. The main problem that prevented us from implementing our plans was once again not to overeat for dinner, one evening we almost succeeded, Fedya fried a very tasty ram, they brought us a hookah for $ 5 (the same thing costs $ 10 in the hotel), which we they smoked for a long time in a reclining position in a pavilion stylized as local traditions. Also in the hotel were fruits: watermelon, melons, apples, apricots. If desired, on the way to the beach, you can additionally buy figs, strawberries, cherries.
During the meal, the waiters cheerfully run around the restaurant and collect the dishes: watch out for the half-eaten, otherwise you may lose goodies ahead of time. Sometimes there were not enough napkins, sometimes there were no spoons for soup, sometimes there were no salt shakers on the table, but IMHO these little things are not a reason for a scandal. You can wait 5 minutes until the waiter brings a new portion of spoons (and they really work very quickly), you can go to the next table and politely ask for a salt shaker, or you can make a scandal - to each his own... (I was very pleased that there were no "golden youth" in the hotel ”, Apparently three stars are too small for them, and there were only a couple of scandals from voluminous aunts or uncles aged only a couple of times and, IMHO, completely unsubstantial, they were lucky to relax with normal, adequate fellow countrymen, for whom it’s not a shame in the face of the Turks. ) During the reception almost constantly a cook is on duty in the restaurant, eaten dishes are promptly replaced with similar ones, new dishes do not appear in the process.
Food does not happen around the clock: there is a clear distinction between breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. There are only soft drinks on the beach, no food or beer. Whether this is good or bad, I find it difficult to say, rather it is a feature of the hotel. There are times when after an intense match in the pool or skiing with a child you already want to eat, and wait about an hour before the next meal. On the other hand, upon arrival home there were no problems with digestion, because, with all due respect to the culinary art of my wife, at home I don’t eat so much and so spicy, the stomach could be offended, but no, a healthy separate (in time ) food and fresh air work wonders : ). For an afternoon snack, which takes place not in the main restaurant, but near the stage, you need to make it in time, because. the first trays of cookies are scattered by vacationers almost with a whistle, and the next one has to wait a little longer.
The local representatives of Pegasus (Elvira, Alejandro == Alexander) did not inspire. During the check-in, they were not there at all, at the evening meeting from an hour and a half of communication, to which everyone was asked to come, including children, at 1:20 they talked about excursions that are many times more expensive at Pegasus than on the street at Ginza- or Rum -travel. They write like that there, without hesitation: whoever bought a tour at the hotel is a goof! : ) We sailed to Phaselis all day on the ROMA yacht for $15 per person and did not regret it at all, Pegasus has a similar pleasure for about $40. The dry result of the conversation with the Pegasus: do not fight with the Turks (we were not going to anyway), do not buy excursions outside the temple and give vouchers for activation. Do not waste your time: immediately give vouchers and go to rest. Pegasus practically do not interfere in the problems of vacationers. Wi-Fi does not log in - your problem (at least they said the password, sanland123, they would have told from Zena, which was caught across the road in my room, they would not have had a price). I myself am partly an admin, I can set up Wi-Fi and ping the glitch, although on the first evening there was a glitch on their side and I didn’t do much, and then it suddenly worked. Later, I set up Wi-Fi for a couple of vacationers, because. their appeals to the reception or to the Pegasus people remained unanswered. There was often a lot of noise during the settling of a new batch of newcomers - apparently the first day "impressed" not only me. In one of the cases, the child broke his chin great on the pool (the blood was most likely sewn up later), the mother came to Elvira with a request to help call a doctor, to which she rather sparingly reminded about the phone number in the insurance and pointed to the reception, the phone is there. The business of the Pegasus people is to sell excursions and activate vouchers, rescuing drowning people and solving everyday issues is not part of their duties, although it probably should be a little different. Perhaps not all hotel guides are like that and we were just unlucky.
When making purchases or traveling by bus (Antalya, Kemer, Phaselis, etc. ), it is better to pay in lira, and not in dollars or euros, it will be cheaper. We realized this after the driver on the bus gave us change with $100 lira - the prices around us went down sharply (for reference, $1 ~= 2 lira). The drivers on the buses, who do not speak Russian and English, turned out to be very honest: they could take our $10 and pretend “I don’t understand yours”, but they always gave change, and according to our rough estimates in our mind, the cost correlated with the mileage, well done, correlates with the general positive attitude of locals towards tourists! On buses, without fear, you can travel even along the entire coast, the main thing is not to pass the destination. When buying tobacco for a pipe (try to explain to the locals what you want, and not for a hookah - the key word is "tü tü n" - tobacco : ) from the last day, when there was already little finance, the store took the amount of dollars, lira and rubles without any problems , no problem with that.
About the animation: most likely it is really boring, as already noted in other reviews. I am writing “most likely” because for me animation is not the main attribute of recreation, especially since we came to rest with two families from different cities, we had not seen each other for a long time, we talked a lot, there was something to do. In the afternoon, there was water aerobics in the pool once, then the leader with dark hair disappeared somewhere and there was no aerobics for the next 10 days. In football on the water, to which the Turkish woman Zeynap campaigned every morning, we could figure it out ourselves: there are balls, we know where to swing, the goal is at hand. In the evening, for children, there is a round dance to the music; upon arrival, the child sings “aram zam zam” and repeats the movements. Entertainment for adults performed by a local animator of short stature with a black beard (whom we called Barmaley among ourselves, he would have had a mustache and watch Russian cartoons : ) to put it mildly, they were not impressed: it’s rather boring, he tries, sorry, to fart into the microphone, which often causes negative reaction, not laughter. The positive comes from him, he can jokingly fight with 15-year-old girls on foam accessories from the pool, like with swords, but he does not succeed in entertaining the crowd as a whole, by 23:00 the stage was usually already empty, for some then that would definitely be a downside. In addition to the animation, the water slides worked with varying success, during the 11 days of rest the pump managed to break down and repair twice, and I would like the slides to be more abrupt, although the child could not be dragged away from them. Sauna worked fine, were twice, were satisfied. I even managed to explain to local masseurs (good guys) how the Finnish dry steam room differs from the Russian steam room, why Russians don’t sit in the steam room for half an hour (a cold shower is nearby, but there wasn’t enough pool) and don’t drink vodka at the same time : ).
Upon check-out from the hotel, we were not offered to leave a review (for reference, it was at the first hour of the night), they did not look at the room and did not cut off the bracelets. Probably also a feature... A local Turk periodically spun in the hotel and commanded waiters until midnight, and in the evening he dined at a separate table with glassware near the pool and waiters fussing around - either the boss or the owner of the establishment. I suspect that a complaint about the manager's actions could be left directly to him, but somehow it was not up to it.
To sum it up: I enjoyed my stay. Good sea, good, although not very varied, food, excellent attitude of the hotel staff and surrounding Turks, pools, slides, sun, beer. Whoever came to rest will have a rest with a bang, whoever came to look for dirty dishes or pools with bleach will surely find them, like a pig in a well-known saying. Or invent. Have a good rest in a small cozy hotel on the Mediterranean coast!
The room turned out to be a normally working air conditioner, a free safe (as it is written on the hotel website), a normal bathroom with a shower. We practically did not use the rest (TV, refrigerator, bedside tables), and we were usually in the room from 00:00 to 07:00, the rest of the time we just ran in for some of the things. For fans of refrigerators, I’ll say that the refrigerator only cools, it doesn’t freeze, you can’t put ice cream in it, but you can cool vodka, you just need patience : ). The room was cleaned daily by a Turkish woman, towels were changed, no complaints in this regard. The beds in the room were of medium size, on the last trip we decided not to take the child a separate bed (but in fact they brought and put something like an arena near the entrance to the room, which was replaced a day later with a full-fledged folding bed), but to sleep with my wife on one - it turned out to be not enough, the next night they moved two and put a third side by side. The windows of the room overlooked the sea, although you can hardly see it because of the trees (so if you are told about the excellent sea view from any VIP room, do not be fooled, our number 226 was geographically closest to the sea). The fact that the street was under the window did not bother, because. buses passed through it at most a couple of times during the evening, there was much more noise from local cicadas and discos in Zena.
Well, then the positive began: the sea, pools, water football, slides, food, beer. The road to the sea takes about 5 minutes, from the side of the street the hotel has a gate that is locked at night. On the way there are shops (leather, fruits, alcohol, knick-knacks), you can also pump up balls there (the animator Zeynap showed me the way there, who hardly speaks Russian, but speaks good English, I went further in the morning before the animators appeared, because . we usually climbed into the pool one of the first, and the balls were lowered with an enviable daily regularity). Right there on the way, almost fellow countryman Fedya makes orange juices for $ 1, distributes oranges to children for free (in general, the attitude of locals towards tourists was very pleasantly surprised, I don’t remember this since my trip to Abkhazia). The sea is clean, the entrance is on small pebbles, sunbeds and umbrellas with a margin, you can even drag them to the water itself, in the evening the guy returns them to their place without emotions and conversations. (In general, there were almost no prohibitions: food was taken from the restaurant if necessary, water was taken from the cooler for children, they rode down the slides as they wanted, they gave beer at the bar without question. ) There are volleyball courts on the beach, wooden flooring leads to the sea.
When the sea got bored, we returned to the hotel to the pool and beer. Sunbeds and umbrellas, located two meters from the pool, enough for everyone, beer too. Local waiters and bartenders tried to flirt with children and women, but somehow kindly, not intrusively. One even tried to feed me cookies from his hand during the afternoon snack, when the bulk had already been sorted out, I jokingly waved him towards a lonely bored woman of about 35 (in Russia you can do without jokes for such tricks), let him flirt with her. The same waiter taught us to say “dö rt bira” instead of “four beers” and “teş ekkü rler” instead of “thank you”, although by the end of the rest we were recognized in the bar from afar, knowing why we came and to what quantity. He has a separate respect for the local flavor and the basics of the Turkish language, what grievances there are! By the way, in the hotel and the surrounding shops there was a pretty good local Efes, a light, not very strong, but pleasant beer. It is difficult for them to get drunk (and there was no such goal), because. it is poured into small plastic cups (sometimes disposable), from the strength of 200 grams, you often have to go to the bar for an additive (like Russians drink a lot and do not get drunk, but the container itself is small). Some tourists had problems, because. they wanted to drink from glass goblets, but apparently this was not provided for in AI (only for a fee of about $1-2), it didn’t bother us: we can even drink from a bucket, over the edge, and then give another lecture... (with ) And we ourselves carried the cups to the bar, for which the waiters even said thanks, mutual respect. By the end of the holiday, I wanted a non-filtered drink, something dark for a change (they came with a beer company) and, of course, fish, which, to our great surprise, was not there, despite the proximity of the sea. You can buy chips, salted corn seeds, nuts, but with salted fish (ram, ancheus, etc. ) a bummer - all the merchants shrugged in amazement - bring it with you!
If we develop the theme of drinks, then it is necessary to mention local wine and vodka. The Turks have a tradition not to drink vodka like we do, but to dilute it with water to 10-15% strength. This is how they serve it in the bar, it’s impossible to drink, and they already have a similar “cocktail” in the bottle, at least distill it back. But… They have a local Raki vodka infused with aniseed root (the aftertaste of drugs familiar from childhood, it’s impossible to make a mistake, try it! ). Sometimes you could find it in a bar and ask not to dilute it, by the way, when diluted, it becomes cloudy due to a change in the concentration of anise oil : ), but it’s easier to walk to the nearest store and buy yourself a normal 45-degree sample for $15-20. They brought vodka with them, and the masseurs who saw our packages (we met and talked well during the rest) asked with horror if we would drink it : ). We assured them that it was a gift to take home with them.
I liked the local wine less than Raki. In the bar, it is again diluted, I myself am engaged in winemaking, I took a sip and could not drink. In stores, you can buy a bottle for at least $10-15, but I still have a suspicion that this is actually a powder (wine from pomegranate, blackberries, etc. nonsense). Being in a restaurant on the way to the beach, they brought us 2 different bottles, like natural, local (unfortunately I did not write down the name), but a lot of acid. In their climate, grapes must ripen until the acid is completely converted into sugar, this is not the middle zone of Russia for you, so something is not completely clean here. French, Italian, Chilean or Abkhaz (Psou, Kono Sur, Cuve du Pape, Baron de Cresse, etc. ) are clearly better for comparable money, so I do not recommend local wine.
From non-alcoholic drinks there are fanta, sprite, cola, yupi - whatever you like. You can get good coffee from a coffee machine: I usually drink black at home, but here I somehow fell in love with milk; nearby you can get tea leaves and boiling water (there were no tea bags).
As for the food, there were pros and cons. The food is delicious, fresh, there is a variety of dishes for lunch and dinner, which cannot be said about breakfast: every morning the standard boiled potatoes, eggs, milk porridge or scrambled eggs with tomatoes (only there are much more tomatoes in it than eggs, probably a national feature : ), fresh tomatoes, cucumbers. Sausages are offered for this business (most likely soy and rather peppery, there were literally 1-2 times normal) and a kind of sausage of comparable quality, most likely I would not buy such a house. There was no cheese at all (apart from some kind of cheese, but this is an amateur, to which I do not belong), butter for sandwiches is more like margarine. However, every morning we gathered as a company for breakfast and with the words “Potato! ” (remember the gentlemen of fortune) went into battle, did not have to starve, ahead of football in the pool and the sea! Three types of dry flakes were collected for children, which could take them about half an hour (in general, from small children there is a lot of extra work for waiters, to which they are very positive).
According to Zadornov, the resourcefulness of the Russians is striking, two examples. Where can you find hot milk if you don't even have regular milk? Very simple: when preparing coffee with milk, the coffee machine first shoots the milk jet, and only then the coffee jet. If you arm yourself with two cups and patience, then by alternating them and repeating the process of making coffee, you can achieve what you want! Well, how to quickly move down the water slide? Put panties up your ass! Literally, the advice of a little girl, she says she works, the wife confirms, he himself moved out on his shoulder blades and heels. I understand if it's a thong, but if it's family? Here you have to think. . .
We digress, now from the positive in food: there were a lot of different jams, honey, which can be applied in unlimited quantities, some kind of our sour cream, a good portion of which can completely replace breakfast. For lunch and dinner, the variety is much greater: sweets appear (it remains a mystery to us why they could not be put up for breakfast), salads (by the way, they have a specific sour mayonnaise, because of which we were in vain afraid of eating salads like our Olivier for the first few days) , stewed potatoes with chicken, stewed vegetables, spaghetti, etc. In the evening, a couple of chefs come out to the “hungry” vacationers and cook something on an open fire: fries, stewed vegetables, hamburgers, pancakes, chicken fillet, some local cakes / sticks from stuffed dough and something similar to cottage cheese with greens, fish in batter. Every evening something different, you can take as much as you like, although sometimes you have to stand in line for this. Although this can be avoided if you arrive for dinner a little half an hour late : ) when the main hungry crowd subsides. Separately, I want to note the spices (especially the red pepper, which came just in time) and something very sharp, similar to the heads of young garlic (on closer examination, it turned out that these were small yellow peppers). Very spicy, after one such pepper aftertaste for the rest of the meal, use carefully, but it's worth it! Well, you can’t mention the soups for lunch and dinner - just super! Something seemed sour to someone, spicy to someone, someone does not like milk soups, but IMHO these are minor nitpicks - the soups were very even. Once there was a very tasty borscht, several times there was a red soup, to which you can add lemon, olives and something like sour cream lying nearby (actually like yogurt or some kind of sauce) to get something similar to Russian hodgepodge. Against this background, the lack of meat and cheese was not so critical: for several days we were going to explore in a restaurant outside the hotel to try local wine and lamb skewers. The main problem that prevented us from implementing our plans was once again not to overeat for dinner, one evening we almost succeeded, Fedya fried a very tasty ram, they brought us a hookah for $ 5 (the same thing costs $ 10 in the hotel), which we they smoked for a long time in a reclining position in a pavilion stylized as local traditions. Also in the hotel were fruits: watermelon, melons, apples, apricots. If desired, on the way to the beach, you can additionally buy figs, strawberries, cherries.
During the meal, the waiters cheerfully run around the restaurant and collect the dishes: watch out for the half-eaten, otherwise you may lose goodies ahead of time. Sometimes there were not enough napkins, sometimes there were no spoons for soup, sometimes there were no salt shakers on the table, but IMHO these little things are not a reason for a scandal. You can wait 5 minutes until the waiter brings a new portion of spoons (and they really work very quickly), you can go to the next table and politely ask for a salt shaker, or you can make a scandal - to each his own... (I was very pleased that there were no "golden youth" in the hotel ”, Apparently three stars are too small for them, and there were only a couple of scandals from voluminous aunts or uncles aged only a couple of times and, IMHO, completely unsubstantial, they were lucky to relax with normal, adequate fellow countrymen, for whom it’s not a shame in the face of the Turks. ) During the reception almost constantly a cook is on duty in the restaurant, eaten dishes are promptly replaced with similar ones, new dishes do not appear in the process.
Food does not happen around the clock: there is a clear distinction between breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner. There are only soft drinks on the beach, no food or beer. Whether this is good or bad, I find it difficult to say, rather it is a feature of the hotel. There are times when after an intense match in the pool or skiing with a child you already want to eat, and wait about an hour before the next meal. On the other hand, upon arrival home there were no problems with digestion, because, with all due respect to the culinary art of my wife, at home I don’t eat so much and so spicy, the stomach could be offended, but no, a healthy separate (in time ) food and fresh air work wonders : ). For an afternoon snack, which takes place not in the main restaurant, but near the stage, you need to make it in time, because. the first trays of cookies are scattered by vacationers almost with a whistle, and the next one has to wait a little longer.
The local representatives of Pegasus (Elvira, Alejandro == Alexander) did not inspire. During the check-in, they were not there at all, at the evening meeting from an hour and a half of communication, to which everyone was asked to come, including children, at 1:20 they talked about excursions that are many times more expensive at Pegasus than on the street at Ginza- or Rum -travel. They write like that there, without hesitation: whoever bought a tour at the hotel is a goof! : ) We sailed to Phaselis all day on the ROMA yacht for $15 per person and did not regret it at all, Pegasus has a similar pleasure for about $40. The dry result of the conversation with the Pegasus: do not fight with the Turks (we were not going to anyway), do not buy excursions outside the temple and give vouchers for activation. Do not waste your time: immediately give vouchers and go to rest. Pegasus practically do not interfere in the problems of vacationers. Wi-Fi does not log in - your problem (at least they said the password, sanland123, they would have told from Zena, which was caught across the road in my room, they would not have had a price). I myself am partly an admin, I can set up Wi-Fi and ping the glitch, although on the first evening there was a glitch on their side and I didn’t do much, and then it suddenly worked. Later, I set up Wi-Fi for a couple of vacationers, because. their appeals to the reception or to the Pegasus people remained unanswered. There was often a lot of noise during the settling of a new batch of newcomers - apparently the first day "impressed" not only me. In one of the cases, the child broke his chin great on the pool (the blood was most likely sewn up later), the mother came to Elvira with a request to help call a doctor, to which she rather sparingly reminded about the phone number in the insurance and pointed to the reception, the phone is there. The business of the Pegasus people is to sell excursions and activate vouchers, rescuing drowning people and solving everyday issues is not part of their duties, although it probably should be a little different. Perhaps not all hotel guides are like that and we were just unlucky.
When making purchases or traveling by bus (Antalya, Kemer, Phaselis, etc. ), it is better to pay in lira, and not in dollars or euros, it will be cheaper. We realized this after the driver on the bus gave us change with $100 lira - the prices around us went down sharply (for reference, $1 ~= 2 lira). The drivers on the buses, who do not speak Russian and English, turned out to be very honest: they could take our $10 and pretend “I don’t understand yours”, but they always gave change, and according to our rough estimates in our mind, the cost correlated with the mileage, well done, correlates with the general positive attitude of locals towards tourists! On buses, without fear, you can travel even along the entire coast, the main thing is not to pass the destination. When buying tobacco for a pipe (try to explain to the locals what you want, and not for a hookah - the key word is "tü tü n" - tobacco : ) from the last day, when there was already little finance, the store took the amount of dollars, lira and rubles without any problems , no problem with that.
About the animation: most likely it is really boring, as already noted in other reviews. I am writing “most likely” because for me animation is not the main attribute of recreation, especially since we came to rest with two families from different cities, we had not seen each other for a long time, we talked a lot, there was something to do. In the afternoon, there was water aerobics in the pool once, then the leader with dark hair disappeared somewhere and there was no aerobics for the next 10 days. In football on the water, to which the Turkish woman Zeynap campaigned every morning, we could figure it out ourselves: there are balls, we know where to swing, the goal is at hand. In the evening, for children, there is a round dance to the music; upon arrival, the child sings “aram zam zam” and repeats the movements. Entertainment for adults performed by a local animator of short stature with a black beard (whom we called Barmaley among ourselves, he would have had a mustache and watch Russian cartoons : ) to put it mildly, they were not impressed: it’s rather boring, he tries, sorry, to fart into the microphone, which often causes negative reaction, not laughter. The positive comes from him, he can jokingly fight with 15-year-old girls on foam accessories from the pool, like with swords, but he does not succeed in entertaining the crowd as a whole, by 23:00 the stage was usually already empty, for some then that would definitely be a downside. In addition to the animation, the water slides worked with varying success, during the 11 days of rest the pump managed to break down and repair twice, and I would like the slides to be more abrupt, although the child could not be dragged away from them. Sauna worked fine, were twice, were satisfied. I even managed to explain to local masseurs (good guys) how the Finnish dry steam room differs from the Russian steam room, why Russians don’t sit in the steam room for half an hour (a cold shower is nearby, but there wasn’t enough pool) and don’t drink vodka at the same time : ).
Upon check-out from the hotel, we were not offered to leave a review (for reference, it was at the first hour of the night), they did not look at the room and did not cut off the bracelets. Probably also a feature... A local Turk periodically spun in the hotel and commanded waiters until midnight, and in the evening he dined at a separate table with glassware near the pool and waiters fussing around - either the boss or the owner of the establishment. I suspect that a complaint about the manager's actions could be left directly to him, but somehow it was not up to it.
To sum it up: I enjoyed my stay. Good sea, good, although not very varied, food, excellent attitude of the hotel staff and surrounding Turks, pools, slides, sun, beer. Whoever came to rest will have a rest with a bang, whoever came to look for dirty dishes or pools with bleach will surely find them, like a pig in a well-known saying. Or invent. Have a good rest in a small cozy hotel on the Mediterranean coast!
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I stayed at this hotel at the end of June / beginning of July 2013. The vacation did not start in the best way, when the arrival was delayed by more than half a day, as a result, I went to the hotel itself at 23h. Tired, angry and hungry. And as it turned out, no one was waiting for me, the reception was empty, only the waiter was sitting at the counter, who did not speak Russian at all (hello to the representatives of Pegasus, who left their tourist alone).
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I stayed at this hotel at the end of June / beginning of July 2013. The vacation did not start in the best way, when the arrival was delayed by more than half a day, as a result, I went to the hotel itself at 23h. Tired, angry and hungry. And as it turned out, no one was waiting for me, the reception was empty, only the waiter was sitting at the counter, who did not speak Russian at all (hello to the representatives of Pegasus, who left their tourist alone). I had to wait another half an hour, gathering all my willpower into a fist, until the right person appeared at his workplace. Instead of the standard room I paid for, he offered me an improved one, they bargained for $ 50 for ten days, which I never regretted in the future. My recommendation to future tourists, do not spare pennies by paying for a ticket at the base, do not save money by paying extra, it is better to take a room on the 2nd / 3rd floor further away in the left wing. And the view from the window is gorgeous on the hotel pool and the sea. And the music, the dining room, the passing road under the windows will not disturb. To the credit of the hotel staff, even at midnight they managed to feed me, albeit with the remnants of dinner, but it’s still nice that I didn’t go to bed hungry. With reviews for 2012-13. posted on this site I agree completely, even with criticism. I will not repeat. Everyone decides for himself to smile at his troubles or spoil his mood over trifles. The only note is the animation. Animators Oxy and Katya honestly try, but all their activities resemble provincial amateur performances based on improvisation. The owner of the hotel allocates money for this type of recreation to a minimum. Not off!! ! On excursions. He dismissed the Pegasus representatives as leeches offering tours for absolutely bullish money. Raced with GINZA. I am very satisfied, each sightseeing tour is at least two (! ) times cheaper. Outcome. This hotel is ideal for people who are not spoiled by high quality service or who are on holiday abroad for the first time. And also for people who want to save money. About any 3 * +, as positioned by this hotel "Pegasus" is out of the question. Simple as a rake "treshka". It is better not to go to this hotel with small children due to poor animation, lack of a large area for walking and water slides that are always inactive. Huge pluses of this hotel: 1st (! ) Line, well-groomed beautiful green area, the presence of a decent beach with free sunbeds, an excellent pool.
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Rested from 27.06 to 08.07 2013. the hotel is small, there are no two restaurants here, as it is written above, there is also a tennis court and billiards. inside, more or less repairs, beds, and dada not beds, but mattresses on some kind of supports, very uncomfortable, you lie and feel how the springs crunch under you.
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Rested from 27.06 to 08.07 2013. the hotel is small, there are no two restaurants here, as it is written above, there is also a tennis court and billiards. inside, more or less repairs, beds, and dada not beds, but mattresses on some kind of supports, very uncomfortable, you lie and feel how the springs crunch under you. at the reception there are very arrogant faces, you can’t say otherwise. they demand money upon check-in, mostly they start bargaining for a family from 100 bucks, or initially I bought a ticket for three. , where on the reservation to the hotel it was written double plus 1 child offered a room with two single beds on the first floor near the hall, I was indignant, showing the reservation sheet at the hotel, he pretended that he did not understand what kind of paper and what was written there, then as it turned out, he understands everything perfectly and speaks Russian no worse than us. in general, they gave us a room on the second floor with a double bed and a single bed next to it, not a folding bed. after a long indignation, they bargained from 80 to 30 bucks. on the balcony, the ants are small and not biting, but it’s only necessary to kill at least a crumb of something edible in the room, they immediately smell and clearly see the two-way movement of the ants to this crumb, it’s not pleasant and they climbed onto the bed. plumbing and condo worked. places in the restaurant are catastrophically not enough, on the floor there are an average of 30-33 rooms, each family with one or two children, at least 100 people per floor, 3 floors. The restaurant is designed for 150-170 people. maximum. they waited for some to eat and walked over the soul, everyone is waiting for the tables to be free. very close to the sea. there are no free sun loungers at 9. there is no fish in the restaurant, a couple of times they gave fried small herring fillet and with bones. no meat, only chicken. for breakfast boiled eggs, soy sausage, cereal with milk. There was no baking except white bread. no oil either. we were disappointed, for that kind of money in Egypt you can have a better rest. if you go on a yacht, take everything with you, right down to the water, if in Egypt drinks and lunch are free on a yacht, then in Turkey only a modest lunch, water 0.5 3 bucks. and, accordingly, cola, beer, etc. even more expensive. the hotel is not worth the money. animation is very weak. the main animator is good, but the two girls katerina and zhenya are already getting drunk, the children’s disco was spent in an almost unconscious state on autopilot, you tell her, she doesn’t hear you like a robot, she holds on with all her might, in the morning at 11 she crawls out sleepy and swollen , and so every day....
Review from — vOtpusk.ru
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