В защиту Вилла Соль In Defense of Villa Sol

I would like to make my modest contribution and tell you about this hotel and about the rest in general. It should be noted that this was my first trip abroad, so keep that in mind and don't judge too harshly. Vouchers were bought last-minute and at that time it was the cheapest offer among tours in Marmaris. Half board (breakfast + dinner).
Flight, transfer - everything is fine, except for the fact that we were fed on the plane for the last and, of course, the only time at 3-4 o'clock in the afternoon, and we could not get to the hotel in any way, because we stopped at some eatery on the way from Dalaman to Marmaris. As I understand it, this is a paid check-in, like a free tour of Marmaris, with taxiing into a leather store for an hour, a candy store (where they are 1.5-3 times more expensive than in other places) and a gold center. I must say that we didn’t want to buy any of this, so we quickly dumped after Icmeler, when they closed us in the leather center and the guide said, walk here for an hour... But first things first.
So, we got to the hotel late at night (in our time it was about one in the morning, and locally - 11 pm), because the bus transported all the tourists to the hotels and for some reason we were among the last : ( Hungry , tired and angry fell asleep, not really understanding what and how. But the next day we looked around and realized that we were in paradise : )

The hotel is old - yes, the furniture is soviet - like in our recreation centers, but the beds are with good mattresses and not sloppy, the room has an excellent air conditioner, with which we cooled our small room in a couple of minutes. We lived on the ground floor, the balcony looked out almost to the sea (it was to our right, everything is fine), our friends lived nearby (rooms 104 and 105), so we had fun there after dinner : ) Shower and toilet - everything is in okay, only from the shower cabin sometimes water leaked from below, but quickly dried up : ) There are also 2 bedside tables and a built-in wardrobe for clothes, one stool and a keyless safe in the closet (you had to pay for it at the reception, it seems 1 lira per day, but we didn't take it). On the balcony there is a plastic table and 2 chairs. The bedding is in good condition, only the blanket is a waffle sheet : ))) the only inconvenience with it is the cells all over the body after sleep : ))) There was a TV and a hair dryer. The telly is useless, they showed only 3 channels - all in Turkish, they watched only the music channel. They cleaned almost every day (in 12 days I didn’t notice any traces of cleaning a couple of times), if you want it to be the same for you, put 1 Turkish lira on the bed on the first day : ) Elderly women clean, everything is fine, clean, nothing did not disappear, only for a long time they asked for an ashtray on the balcony, but this is due to the language barrier. And our impromptu ashtrays from boxes from under the triangles of cheese disappeared every time after cleaning : )
The staff is good - all young guys who are blood relatives: ) all brothers, cousins, uncles, dads, etc. to each other. They are friendly, escort them to discos, collect everyone back on the bus, if necessary, they talk with too annoying Turks (there was a case with one of the Russian tourists).
The beach is small pebbles, there were not enough sunbeds for everyone, but then we scored and went to sunbathe by the pool, besides, the water in the sea is not very clean and not very warm (well, this is my personal opinion of squeamish and thermophilic). Once we went to Icmeler (on a dolmushka 1 TL per person) - there are fewer sands for people.
Food... breakfast - boiled eggs, sausage (terrible), bread, salad or cut vegetables, several types of olives, something like cottage cheese, cheese, 2-3 types of jams, oranges... something like a casserole was once. Dinner - hot - yummy from eggplant, tomatoes, peppers, potatoes, carrots and something else... well, in short, like a stew, only spicy... take care of your tummies : ), there was a watermelon, different soups - like mashed soup most often , different salads and olives: ), bread. We had all the drinks for a fee, but in the end we became impudent and asked the boys from the service staff to bring them for free : )
We dined with what we bought in Migros (this is a supermarket not far from the hotel), we mostly bought bread, cheese, kefir or yogurt. In the end, they began to buy some canned fish in tomato sauce : ))) The difficulty is that everything is written in Turkish, you can figure out what the hell is there ?? ? We had a small electric kettle with us (half a liter) and we drank coffee in the afternoon : ) - we also took coffee with us in bags. If anyone has it - be sure to take it, it will come in handy!

The hotel has 3 pools - one in front of the entrance... like a waterfall with a small grotto - you can swim right from the beach - the benefit of the beaches and the sea is 2 steps (in the literal sense) from the hotel, the second is behind the hotel, not very big, but enough, after 7 pm you can’t smoke, there are plenty of sunbeds, and the third pool is a small paddling pool for children next to the second pool.
In the evening from 9 o'clock (if I'm not mistaken) the show program starts in the restaurant downstairs. It is monotonous and therefore we all looked at it once, and then before the disco we just walked along the promenade. Music plays in the restaurant until 11-30, then everything is quiet, but at that time we were already at the disco : )
We went on such excursions - free of charge from the tour operator, the bays of the Aegean Islands and the "Turkish night". I wouldn’t go for a free one again, the only advantage is that they orientated around the city, drove to Icmeler, but then... these trips to the shops... read above. Aegean Islands (30 bucks) - it's cool, I advise everyone! We swam in 9 bays, very picturesque nature, visited the ruins of the monastery... and the impressions and pictures are unforgettable! Turkish night (free of charge to the Aegean Islands) - sucks - rolled around the bay of Marmaris from evening to night... until we howled and asked to moor at Icmeler... then we ran from there to the hotel, hurriedly gathered on Bar Street . The rest were rolled for a few more hours on the crown of the head... but they were fed free dinner.
Take excursions not from a tour operator, although they frighten you with the fact that they have your life and health insured, but they don’t have barkers on the street, all this is nonsense, and the savings are decent, because. prices from tour operators for excursions are inflated by 1.5-2 times. Girlfriends went to the hammam (like 10 bucks), they liked it.

In short, if you are young, the spirit of adventurism is not alien to you, there is a charge of optimism and a lot of friends - you will like everything in Villa Sol! Even Turkish families with small children rested in our hotel, and not for the first time. Of course, if you want increased comfort and silence, then you are not here. A hotel for young people, in the end we only stayed there to spend the night (from 3-4 am to 10-12 am, and because of this we stopped getting breakfast) and take a shower : )) This year we are going to Marmaris again if we get in Villa Sol - we will only be happy!