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Hello! Let me tell you about my recent stay at the Sydney 2000 Hotel*** in Beldibi-3 (Kemer, Antalya). I am writing not to swear and be spiteful, but so that my experience will help others make an informed choice and protect themselves from minor but annoying troubles. Moreover, the overall impression of the rest in this hotel was generally favorable.
1. TOUR IN GENERAL. For starters, a piece of advice: when making a ticket, pay attention to the time of arrival in Antalya and the return flight home. For example, we had an arrival time of 21.30 in our air tickets. From the information on the Internet, I knew that dinner at this hotel ends at 22.00, and therefore I asked the agency where I took the ticket: how to make sure that we were fed upon arrival? The agent girl confidently answered me that we should immediately find the Odeon-Tours counter upon arrival and ask them to contact the hotel and ask them to leave us something to eat.
However, in fact it was like this: the Turk at the counter said that they do not provide such a service and that it is generally impossible, because there are many hotels and they simply do not have all the phone numbers. There was a faint hope that Sydney 2000 knew about the race and would leave something. But upon arrival at the hotel (and we got there only at half past one in the night, because the bus brought tourists to other hotels along the way), it turned out that no one was waiting for us with food. Therefore, the advice is this: eat and drink everything that is served on the plane and / or be prepared to fork out for dinner on the first evening in some cafe near the hotel.
Although, of course, the best thing is to try to pick up such a flight when buying a ticket so that you can have dinner upon arrival.
The same with the return flight. On the tickets, the departure time from Antalya was indicated as 08.00 am. But check-out from the hotel was scheduled for 03.50. This time I managed to order lunch boxes (dry rations) through the Reception.
But something else was unpleasant: on the ticket we had “11 nights”, however, in fact, late arrival at the hotel and very early departure from it were “ate” twice at midnight, so we actually spent 10 days and 10 nights in the hotel.
2. ROOMS IN THE HOTEL. At night, upon arrival, we were settled in room 102 on the ground floor. The room unpleasantly surprised us: the fungus was not only in the bathroom, but also in the bedroom, a strip of 20 centimeters along the baseboard. And under the balcony there was a mountain of empty 25-liter bottles of water. This seemed to us "not kosher" even for 3 stars. : -( We had to spend 2 nights in this room, and only then the manager Lyudmila transferred us to a room on the 3rd floor - quite decent and, one might even say, cozy.
3. BEACH and POOL. The beach is one of the undoubted advantages of the Sydney 2000 hotel.
Usually 3-star hotels are on 2 or 3 lines, often tourists have to go to the municipal beach, where there are no sunbeds or umbrellas, and this hotel has its own beach, albeit very small. You get off the hotel porch, walk literally 70-80 meters - and here it is, the sea! The beach is covered with small pebbles, so the water was almost always clean - unlike the sandy beaches of Alanya, where after the first 3-4 people enter the water, a water-sand suspension is formed.
There were enough sunbeds and umbrellas for everyone, and they were free. But you need to take care of the towels yourself: it is forbidden to take towels from the room to the beach. So, either you need to take it with you, or buy it at a local shop across the street.
The pool in Sydney is also small, 6 by 10 meters, with clear blue water, as it is regularly cleaned. But swimming in it is allowed only from 10.00 to 18.00. Why is unknown.
4. FOOD.
There were enough vegetables and fruits, every day for breakfast there were two types of cheese (very salty) and eggs in a different form, but from the more solid products there was only chicken and small fish (horse mackerel and some other local trifle). Soy dishes were served every other time. The finely chopped sausages and ham on the "counter" with cold snacks were also from soy. There was no meat at all - as they explained to us, it is very expensive in Turkey. And only on the last evening before departure, as by order, there was an open grill where they cooked lamb kebab. The kebab was very tasty, but they only gave one sausage per person. For lunch there were always pretty good puree soups, each time there were also sweets - 5-6 types. The general picture is this: we were not hungry, but we practically did not see dishes that could please a gourmet with their appearance and taste.
5. DRINKS.
On the first morning, going down for breakfast, I was delighted to see a cooler on which an orange, a grapefruit, an apple and some other fruits were painted, but inside, unfortunately, there were some odorless liquids with a taste of chemistry - such as the forgotten "Yuppie". There were no juices at all. The bar served beer, red and white dry wine, vodka, gin, brandy (everything is locally produced), but the bar worked on an all-inclusive basis only from 10.00 to 22.00. Later - only for real money. Tip for drinkers: stock up at Duty Free at Antalya Airport!
Note to beer lovers: the local Efes beer is more expensive than, for example, Tuborg ($4 and $3, respectively).
6. ENTERTAINMENT. Even before the trip, I read on the Internet that the Sydney 2000 Hotel does not have a disco or animators. This is the absolute truth. But for me personally, these were serious pluses - I don’t like noise and din, especially on vacation.
During the 10 days that my wife and I spent at the hotel, we were, however, 3 times "pleased" with a performance called "Turkish Night" with invited artists. The quality of the choreography and vocal and musical accompaniment is at the level of a club homemade product of a very average hand, but many were happy about this as well. We were more pleased that every time during the "Turnocha" there was an open barbecue.
7. EXCURSIONS. A lot has already been written about this, I can only confirm: excursions with hotel guides are more than 2 times more expensive than in the local Maxwell tour agency across the street from the hotel. For example: an excursion to Mira - Kekova (the best there is), the hotel guide offered us $ 70 from the nose, while in Maxwell we took the same excursion for $ 25. Yes, the bus was smaller, the air conditioning in it was weaker, but this, in my opinion, is even better - there is less risk of catching a cold after the heat outside. We quite calmly reached the place and returned back.
True, when traveling from Maxwell in the town of Demre (ex-Lycian Worlds), I had to pay an additional $ 10 for the entrance to the Church of St. Nicholas of Myra, but this was only for those who wish (you can just walk around the city and drink beer). But even with this surcharge, the difference in price turned out to be 2-fold. By the way, about visiting the church: at the entrance to the territory of the temple there is a ticket office where you can buy an entrance ticket for 15 Turkish liras, i. e. , for about $8. So I advise those who are especially economical not to rush to give $ 10 to the guide, but upon arrival at the place, buy a ticket at the box office.
And one more thing: on excursions, all drinks, including water, are paid. For example, there was a refrigerator in our bus, and water from it cost $1 for two 0.5 liter bottles. For reference: in Beldibi for a dollar you can buy a 1.5-liter bottle of water. And in the town of Demre itself, you can buy a half-liter bottle of water in a store for 40 lire, that is, for a quarter of a dollar.
8. PURCHASES and PRICES.
I can only repeat: bargaining is not only possible, but necessary! Especially when buying leather and fur products. Keep in mind: if you are taken to the salon on a "voucher" from a guide, a commission for him / her is always included in the price of the goods. So bargain boldly and stubbornly! Illustration: when we were brought to the Kircilar Mondial salon in Antalya, for a men's sheepskin coat and a women's leather jacket, we were first rolled out the price of $ 2.600. However, after a 40-minute bargaining with hand-wringing and periodic running away of the seller, ostensibly to consult with the director, the price was brought down to $1.200. : -)))
But in general, every time, even after a successful bargain, I had an irresistible feeling that I was being shod…
Another illustration. Before departure from Antalya, on the way to the airport, everyone is sure to be brought in - even late at night! - to the so-called "Factory", where you can supposedly buy goods (sweets, spices, tea-coffee, wine, etc. small things) at a big discount. Don't get fooled!
For example: pomegranate wine (very tasty, by the way, I recommend! ) at this "Factory" costs $ 24, while in Beldibi, in a shop across the street - only $ 12.
And one more little touch. On the way to the tour, your bus will certainly stop at some cafe that has an agreement with your guide. So, an orange fresh juice was offered to us in such a cafe for $ 2. And when we arrived at the place, to the ancient amphitheater, there all the sellers had a fresh dollar. And so it is all around...
9. BATH, MASSAGE, etc. On the very first day, a guy named Murad from the neighboring hotel "Shumela Garden" approached us and began to aggressively invite us to the hammam with a massage. The price is $35. However, in the same "Maxwell" we were offered the same thing for $15. So the advice is one, but global: DO NOT HURRY TO PART WITH MONEY! Always try to find out if you can get the same thing much cheaper.
10. INTERNET. This hotel is a weak spot.
The information on the site promises tourists free Wi-Fi, and it really is and is really free. That's just the coverage area - within a radius of 6 meters from the router, i. e. from the reception. Therefore, every time to get into email. e-mail or I-no, I had to go to the lobby and sit there on a chair. Whereas the Wi-Fi of the hotels on the right (Sumela Garden) and on the left (Sea Gull) confidently covered the entire territory of our hotel, including the beach, but the entrance, of course, was password-protected. : -((
1. TOUR IN GENERAL. For starters, a piece of advice: when making a ticket, pay attention to the time of arrival in Antalya and the return flight home. For example, we had an arrival time of 21.30 in our air tickets. From the information on the Internet, I knew that dinner at this hotel ends at 22.00, and therefore I asked the agency where I took the ticket: how to make sure that we were fed upon arrival? The agent girl confidently answered me that we should immediately find the Odeon-Tours counter upon arrival and ask them to contact the hotel and ask them to leave us something to eat.
However, in fact it was like this: the Turk at the counter said that they do not provide such a service and that it is generally impossible, because there are many hotels and they simply do not have all the phone numbers. There was a faint hope that Sydney 2000 knew about the race and would leave something. But upon arrival at the hotel (and we got there only at half past one in the night, because the bus brought tourists to other hotels along the way), it turned out that no one was waiting for us with food. Therefore, the advice is this: eat and drink everything that is served on the plane and / or be prepared to fork out for dinner on the first evening in some cafe near the hotel.
Although, of course, the best thing is to try to pick up such a flight when buying a ticket so that you can have dinner upon arrival.
The same with the return flight. On the tickets, the departure time from Antalya was indicated as 08.00 am. But check-out from the hotel was scheduled for 03.50. This time I managed to order lunch boxes (dry rations) through the Reception.
But something else was unpleasant: on the ticket we had “11 nights”, however, in fact, late arrival at the hotel and very early departure from it were “ate” twice at midnight, so we actually spent 10 days and 10 nights in the hotel.
2. ROOMS IN THE HOTEL. At night, upon arrival, we were settled in room 102 on the ground floor. The room unpleasantly surprised us: the fungus was not only in the bathroom, but also in the bedroom, a strip of 20 centimeters along the baseboard. And under the balcony there was a mountain of empty 25-liter bottles of water. This seemed to us "not kosher" even for 3 stars. : -( We had to spend 2 nights in this room, and only then the manager Lyudmila transferred us to a room on the 3rd floor - quite decent and, one might even say, cozy.
3. BEACH and POOL. The beach is one of the undoubted advantages of the Sydney 2000 hotel.
Usually 3-star hotels are on 2 or 3 lines, often tourists have to go to the municipal beach, where there are no sunbeds or umbrellas, and this hotel has its own beach, albeit very small. You get off the hotel porch, walk literally 70-80 meters - and here it is, the sea! The beach is covered with small pebbles, so the water was almost always clean - unlike the sandy beaches of Alanya, where after the first 3-4 people enter the water, a water-sand suspension is formed.
There were enough sunbeds and umbrellas for everyone, and they were free. But you need to take care of the towels yourself: it is forbidden to take towels from the room to the beach. So, either you need to take it with you, or buy it at a local shop across the street.
The pool in Sydney is also small, 6 by 10 meters, with clear blue water, as it is regularly cleaned. But swimming in it is allowed only from 10.00 to 18.00. Why is unknown.
4. FOOD.
There were enough vegetables and fruits, every day for breakfast there were two types of cheese (very salty) and eggs in a different form, but from the more solid products there was only chicken and small fish (horse mackerel and some other local trifle). Soy dishes were served every other time. The finely chopped sausages and ham on the "counter" with cold snacks were also from soy. There was no meat at all - as they explained to us, it is very expensive in Turkey. And only on the last evening before departure, as by order, there was an open grill where they cooked lamb kebab. The kebab was very tasty, but they only gave one sausage per person. For lunch there were always pretty good puree soups, each time there were also sweets - 5-6 types. The general picture is this: we were not hungry, but we practically did not see dishes that could please a gourmet with their appearance and taste.
5. DRINKS.
On the first morning, going down for breakfast, I was delighted to see a cooler on which an orange, a grapefruit, an apple and some other fruits were painted, but inside, unfortunately, there were some odorless liquids with a taste of chemistry - such as the forgotten "Yuppie". There were no juices at all. The bar served beer, red and white dry wine, vodka, gin, brandy (everything is locally produced), but the bar worked on an all-inclusive basis only from 10.00 to 22.00. Later - only for real money. Tip for drinkers: stock up at Duty Free at Antalya Airport!
Note to beer lovers: the local Efes beer is more expensive than, for example, Tuborg ($4 and $3, respectively).
6. ENTERTAINMENT. Even before the trip, I read on the Internet that the Sydney 2000 Hotel does not have a disco or animators. This is the absolute truth. But for me personally, these were serious pluses - I don’t like noise and din, especially on vacation.
During the 10 days that my wife and I spent at the hotel, we were, however, 3 times "pleased" with a performance called "Turkish Night" with invited artists. The quality of the choreography and vocal and musical accompaniment is at the level of a club homemade product of a very average hand, but many were happy about this as well. We were more pleased that every time during the "Turnocha" there was an open barbecue.
7. EXCURSIONS. A lot has already been written about this, I can only confirm: excursions with hotel guides are more than 2 times more expensive than in the local Maxwell tour agency across the street from the hotel. For example: an excursion to Mira - Kekova (the best there is), the hotel guide offered us $ 70 from the nose, while in Maxwell we took the same excursion for $ 25. Yes, the bus was smaller, the air conditioning in it was weaker, but this, in my opinion, is even better - there is less risk of catching a cold after the heat outside. We quite calmly reached the place and returned back.
True, when traveling from Maxwell in the town of Demre (ex-Lycian Worlds), I had to pay an additional $ 10 for the entrance to the Church of St. Nicholas of Myra, but this was only for those who wish (you can just walk around the city and drink beer). But even with this surcharge, the difference in price turned out to be 2-fold. By the way, about visiting the church: at the entrance to the territory of the temple there is a ticket office where you can buy an entrance ticket for 15 Turkish liras, i. e. , for about $8. So I advise those who are especially economical not to rush to give $ 10 to the guide, but upon arrival at the place, buy a ticket at the box office.
And one more thing: on excursions, all drinks, including water, are paid. For example, there was a refrigerator in our bus, and water from it cost $1 for two 0.5 liter bottles. For reference: in Beldibi for a dollar you can buy a 1.5-liter bottle of water. And in the town of Demre itself, you can buy a half-liter bottle of water in a store for 40 lire, that is, for a quarter of a dollar.
8. PURCHASES and PRICES.
I can only repeat: bargaining is not only possible, but necessary! Especially when buying leather and fur products. Keep in mind: if you are taken to the salon on a "voucher" from a guide, a commission for him / her is always included in the price of the goods. So bargain boldly and stubbornly! Illustration: when we were brought to the Kircilar Mondial salon in Antalya, for a men's sheepskin coat and a women's leather jacket, we were first rolled out the price of $ 2.600. However, after a 40-minute bargaining with hand-wringing and periodic running away of the seller, ostensibly to consult with the director, the price was brought down to $1.200. : -)))
But in general, every time, even after a successful bargain, I had an irresistible feeling that I was being shod…
Another illustration. Before departure from Antalya, on the way to the airport, everyone is sure to be brought in - even late at night! - to the so-called "Factory", where you can supposedly buy goods (sweets, spices, tea-coffee, wine, etc. small things) at a big discount. Don't get fooled!
For example: pomegranate wine (very tasty, by the way, I recommend! ) at this "Factory" costs $ 24, while in Beldibi, in a shop across the street - only $ 12.
And one more little touch. On the way to the tour, your bus will certainly stop at some cafe that has an agreement with your guide. So, an orange fresh juice was offered to us in such a cafe for $ 2. And when we arrived at the place, to the ancient amphitheater, there all the sellers had a fresh dollar. And so it is all around...
9. BATH, MASSAGE, etc. On the very first day, a guy named Murad from the neighboring hotel "Shumela Garden" approached us and began to aggressively invite us to the hammam with a massage. The price is $35. However, in the same "Maxwell" we were offered the same thing for $15. So the advice is one, but global: DO NOT HURRY TO PART WITH MONEY! Always try to find out if you can get the same thing much cheaper.
10. INTERNET. This hotel is a weak spot.
The information on the site promises tourists free Wi-Fi, and it really is and is really free. That's just the coverage area - within a radius of 6 meters from the router, i. e. from the reception. Therefore, every time to get into email. e-mail or I-no, I had to go to the lobby and sit there on a chair. Whereas the Wi-Fi of the hotels on the right (Sumela Garden) and on the left (Sea Gull) confidently covered the entire territory of our hotel, including the beach, but the entrance, of course, was password-protected. : -((
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