Sea Gull at the end of the season

Written: 4 august 2008
Travel time: 5 — 12 october 2007
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
7.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 9.0
Amenities: 8.0
We rested in Chaika (someone else does not know that the name of the hotel is translated like this? ) from October 10 to 21. It was the end of the season, the Turks were already slowly winding down, some hotels in the neighborhood were already completely closed.

So, in order.

Unfortunately, we did not manage to get into the new building: it was closed for the winter a couple of days after our arrival, guests were settled only in the old building. Service was prompt upon arrival, no delays. I invested $10 in my passport - they returned it to me: they say, you forgot to take money out of your passport. : ) But they gave us a room above the kitchen - all day we were pleased with the sounds of washing dishes. The next day we got tired of it, and we went to ask for another room, but the porter - a fat mustachioed man, a rather mischievous person - said that now only the same room on the floor below was free. We refused such an exchange, but the next day we came with the same request for another shift, much more friendly.
We were first shown the same room in the other wing of the building overlooking the neighboring hotel, then a slightly larger one overlooking the mountains, and finally, after a series of mutual smiles, we were offered a corner Family Room with two balconies and three beds, at no extra charge. We, of course, agreed to it.
In general, the rooms are quite small, and the bathrooms are simply cramped. But we didn’t come to sit in the room, so it didn’t bother us. Worse, the beds are all single beds. We moved them, but still the two of them are not very comfortable - they move apart. ; )

The territory is small, but green and cozy. There are three swimming pools, two outside and one in the basement. The restaurant is spacious, the food is varied and in large quantities - there was always enough, even despite the Russians, who put mountains of goodies on the table that they are not able to stuff into themselves, and then leave behind a dozen bitten cakes.
: ) Another typical Russian entertainment is to discuss "oh, how badly our asses are being licked here - although it's better than a year ago at the XXX hotel, but still so far from ideal! "...So we tried to come to the restaurant is early, while the disgruntled fat aunts have not yet managed to crawl out of the rooms. Okay, enough about dragons - I was talking about food, and it is exceptionally tasty there, there was not enough willpower to refuse the supplement, and then I had to "repent of sins" in the gym.
Locally produced alcohol - not great, two types of table wine and five or six types of spirits, we mostly took gin and tonic or by itself. Non-alcoholic drinks - yupi-type lemonades, tea, coffee, milk. The bar baked pies twice a day, but not many, they were instantly swept away.

We left $1 for the maids in the room once every two days, and flowers or swans folded from towels, and a couple of times even fresh flowers, were invariably waiting for us.

The beach is spacious and comfortable.

Formally, it is forbidden to bring food and drinks from the restaurant / bar to the beach, but in fact the ban applies to glassware. In plastic - as much as you want. Once every half an hour, a waiter comes down to the beach and collects empty glasses. There are changing cabins and showers on the beach.
The animation was excellent at first, but by the middle of our stay it was almost completely turned off - the end of the season. Moreover, they dismantled both piers - they took away the furniture, removed the boards of the platform. That's a huge minus for Chaika. Was it really that hard to wait a week before the last tourists left? And Mustafa personally is a big plus for fishing from the pier and for the ability to deal with drunken Russians.

Like everything about the hotel. Now about "related services".
Host, Anex Tour, rating "excellent". The guide was polite and not intrusive, and when the services of a doctor from the insurance company were needed, he arrived quickly, did everything right and did not take a penny.
And why the doctor was needed - a little lower.

We took excursions from street firms, of which there are many. At first we took several excursions from the company right in front of the hotel, we were satisfied, but for the third time the bus did not come for us - about a dozen tourists waited in vain for a couple of hours near the office of the company, whose representative appeared only after lunch. Well, the day was not lost, we went to Antalya and walked there ourselves. Then we took excursions from neighbors. Including Demre-Myru-Kekovo. Yes, an interesting excursion, although a difficult road. But after the church of Nicholas, we were taken to have lunch in a restaurant where, according to experts, all tourists are taken, regardless of whether they came with a host operator or a street company. Our guide took the group to the hall, and she went to a small cafe in the neighborhood, we should think about the reasons ...But it turned out this: drinks are paid, and in order for tourists to buy them more actively - all the food is peppered.
By evening, my girlfriend had a stomach ache, and at night it got really bad, and I had to call a doctor - injections, a dropper, and we had to spend almost the whole next day in the room.


Also from the "environment" it is impossible not to mention a married couple selling orange and pomegranate juices five hundred meters from the hotel, every day they went to them - orange juice $ 1 per glass, and in the hotel - $ 3. We highly recommend going "to the waterfall" - maps are everywhere in Beldibi pasted on poles, along the way you will see a lot of interesting things. Just leave right after breakfast, it's a full day walking tour.

Summing up,
the hotel - a four with a slight minus, the host side - a solid five, next time we ourselves will choose a hotel with staff who do not speak Russian.
Translated automatically from Russian. View original