The hotel is good, but the location is not for everyone

Written: 22 october 2017
Travel time: 6 — 13 october 2017
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For business travel; For recreation with friends, for young people
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 7.0
Service: 8.0
Cleanliness: 8.0
Food: 8.0
Amenities: 8.0
On the way from the airport in the bus it was the 1st hotel, so I didn't have to wait at other hotels. Ural Airlines delayed the flight for an hour, but they immediately put on bracelets at the hotel and sent us to dinner, we barely had time. After that it was done.
The room on the 4th floor with a sea view turned out to be with a view of 2 bars, which did not allow me to fall asleep on the 1st night. Then they said that they called the police, and they did not make too much noise. Thanks for the tip on getting earplugs. WiFi in the room is available but slow.
The food is varied, it's hard to stay hungry. Although I saw how indignant those who are used to the 5-star menu. At 4 o'clock only cookies are taken out.

The beach next to the hotel was free, because one of the cafes was being renovated, and it's already October - it's easy to find a free area along the waterfront. Where it is free from sun loungers - you can settle down and swim. But the water is muddy, it is the center and the bottom is sandy-earth. Beautifully designed channels - storm sewers, which carried muddy waters after the rain.
Cross the road at the hotel and for 3.5 lira take an orange minibus (runs approximately every 5 minutes) in the direction of Icmeler, telling the driver: "Nirvana beach" - there is clean water, pine trees and a minimum of people, mostly Russians. "The beach is closed" means that it is free and wild, although the janitor walks around. He has a blue pontoon. Free toilet - above it. There, 2 free travelers set up a tent for the night, begging the police. Walk further from the beach or, for the same amount, immediately drive to Icmeler and wander around it. For 5.5 lira you can get from Marmaris to Turunc along a serpentine (ears lays). This is behind Icmeler, but the minibus is white and runs every 20-30 minutes. There the water is clear and the beach on the left side is deserted. Entry into the sea on the rocks, but it is enough to lie down right on the shore and swim over the rocks. Even animals are not allowed to bathe in the sea.
In the muddy water near the hotel, the fish are not visible, but in other places they are and are the same everywhere. Some complained that they bite calluses and wounds, I did not notice this, although I swam a lot with a mask.
If you walk from the hotel in the other direction to the square with a fountain and a clock tower, then to the left, through the intersection, behind McDonald's and Migros, the final stop of the minibus to Yalanchi-Bogaz (a deceptive strait) - the isthmus between the mainland and Paradise Island. From it, as in Turunc, a view of the open sea and the water is clear. But there is a wild place, a yacht club, for an amateur. I will not talk about the cave - I was ashamed to read the inscriptions "Smolensk, Kyiv, Yulia, etc. "

Thanks for the advice: I immediately bought a bottle of water, paid in dollars and got change at a good rate. It is to the left on the road from the hotel (towards Icmeler) to go 500 meters. There is a fountain, the Blue Port shopping center, in the building of which there is a large store a little further from the main entrance. Even further - Migros, and if you still walk a few hundred meters, then a large Migros and some kind of clothing department store. Next to the Blue Port exchanger Zenit Bank (Sberbank). I also changed money there, but a Russian couple came up and complained that 2 before that, the ATM only gave out banknotes of 100 lira.
In October it was cool at night under a thin blanket, it rained for 2 days.
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