Complete disappointment

Written: 13 september 2011
Travel time: 27 august — 7 september 2011
Your rating of this hotel:
5.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 6.0
Service: 5.0
Cleanliness: 5.0
Food: 5.0
Amenities: 5.0
It was the 18th vacation trip to Turkey (mainly Kemer), but the desired vacation did not work out. I never wrote reviews about hotels, but now I couldn’t stand it - there was no worse vacation. In order for some vacationers not to have the opinion that I go too far, I will list the hotels in which I rested. It is always 5* or HV1 (Cristal Flora, Renaissanse, Champion, Salima, Zigana, Amara Club, Ulusoy Holiday, Joy Kemeros Club, Club Phaselis, Sailors Beach, Simena Sun Club, Elize Resort, Marti Myra, Phaselis Rose, etc. These hotels are written by geographical location in Kemer, and not by level of service. ) Having carefully studied the reviews of La Mer Art, I concluded that the hotel would be at least as good as Salima, Ulusoy Holiday, Joy Kemeros Club. But from the first to the last day, only disappointment awaited us.
1. Settlement. We are vacationers with experience, so always a presentable vodka or a box of chocolates (male or female at the reception) + $ 20 in the passport. Do not blame us for this, because of the settlement, you can ruin your vacation. Settled in 20 min. Bungalow, 2nd floor, everything is on a good level. But at 23-00 everything turned into a nightmare - the bungalow was close to the disco and it was impossible to sleep until 4-00. This went on for three nights, then we were moved, although before that they had twice offered similar rooms but near the road (10 meters all night transport, jeeps, motorcycles).
2. The relocation added another minus - in the first bungalow there were no questions about cleaning the room (even patterns were made from the bedspread on the bed). But in the second - they didn’t even put the beds in order. (We left one dollar on the bed, on the 7th day we stopped doing this).

3. Beach. There is no worse beach in all of Kemer. 100 meters of old, rusty, concrete anti-tank barriers - on the shore behind them there are about 300 sunbeds and at 10-00 there are usually 20-25 sunbeds occupied there. But at the same time, 30 meters of open beach evoke nostalgia - like in Sochi or Yalta, there is nowhere for an apple to fall. In addition to this, the mattresses on the sunbeds are made of oilcloth (in the late 90s they disappeared from hotels). Dirty-sand-colored towels - dirt is not so noticeable after washing.
4. Nutrition. Our family is not gourmets, but food in UAI must be of a certain level, and 6 trays of second courses (2 of them rice and eggplant) are a mystery to the pioneers of relaxation. For 9 days, once for dinner (tour. evening) lamb and once fish like piranha on the grill. Even gozleme - everywhere usually a Turkish woman cooks them with at least 3 fillings, then every day there is only one, if you want with cheese, come tomorrow, with meat - the day after tomorrow.
5. Animation. They work according to the principle “We don’t touch you and you don’t touch us”. Bocha-kaput, shooting-kaput, even beach volleyball was not every day. I confirm darts and pool games were every day (but again minus - for 9 days three times belly dancing on surfing, there is not enough imagination for another). I’m silent about the kids club - our children are adults.
6. And be sure to find out why La Mer Art - UAI? You will never guess. (Imported drinks, free surfing, billiards, etc. are not there). I got the answer from the guest guide. There are three a la carte restaurants (Turkish, Italian and fish) and you have the opportunity to visit each of them by pre-registering on the computer at 9-00, but you have to queue at 8-00. This is UAI. Since there were 3 days of tour holidays ahead (Aug 28.29, 30), and on Wednesday there were 31 tours. evening I was advised to take a turn on Tuesday 30 Aug. Naturally, on Tuesday at 8-00 I was one of the first to the computer, closer to 9-00 another disappointment awaited us. Since the Italian and fish restaurants work alternately, the fish entry will be made on Thursday. And again "come tomorrow". We didn’t get into the fish one, but we really wanted to eat a piece of fried salmon or sea bass with a salad of crabs and mussels (according to the experience of other hotels).
7. The territory deserves a rating of 9 out of 10. As they say, neither add nor take away.

Conclusion - the hotel is intended for those who travel for the first time to Turkey. Subsequent hotels will seem like paradise.
I am responsible for every word. Laricom5
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