Quite comfortable Seray

Written: 6 june 2018
Travel time: 29 may — 5 june 2018
Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 9.0
Cleanliness: 9.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 7.0
Settled immediately (before 12-00), had time for lunch. They gave me a 2-bedroom penthouse on the 5th floor overlooking Marmaris and the sea, so I won’t say anything bad about the hotel! I liked this hotel right away! I will just note some features and attach photographic materials. Please note that the concept of the hotel is constantly changing (more than once a season, so it is important to write reviews, and, well, read them too).
The first thing you should pay attention to is that the hotel is located as far as possible from the beach. And that will never change. Some write that you have to walk 40 minutes in the heat, but we walked longer. And after that, they always used local minibuses (dolmush) No. 2 and No. 3 for 2 lira from the nose (stop 5 minutes from the hotel, focus on the minaret of the mosque). You can catch dolmushi everywhere along their route, very responsive drivers. When you pay, be sure to say the name of the hotel - Seray Club and you can be taken higher, or rather, closer to the hotel. Everything here is very mountainous, and confusing, although very beautiful. In general, if you are not in the best physical shape (elderly, children, disabled people) you better not come here.
Although, the hotel takes you to the beach for free (2 times in the morning at 9 and 9-30 and one for lunch at 12-30, and one more at 14-00 to the beach). But, we only used this service once, because the bus is as crowded as in a tin can.

The hotel itself is very nice, the staff is polite, but English-speaking (although our British have been supplanted a long time ago). But, managers speak Russian, who is worse, who is better. There are only vacationers from the Russian Federation and Ukraine. Wristbands are not given upon check-in.
Cleaned up well. Of course, there is a difference when you leave a dollar or not, but it doesn't matter. They thought that, as in Egypt, they would not clean up before leaving, but they wanted to. There are no "do not disturb" signs. We wanted not to be disturbed, refused cleaning, so the manager immediately ran to find out what the problem was. So everything is serious, the guests are paid attention. And there are cameras all around, which I think is normal. Although, only ours were outrageous. Back at 3 in the morning and yelling can only they, the cheerful conquerors of Bar Street. The hotel makes a shuttle to the city at 21-30, but no one is lucky back, so someone comes back all night to sleep for a couple of hours and run for breakfast. So it's not quiet here. Music at the pool bar too late into the night. We were lucky with the room, so we could not hear, although the elevator was noisy (the wall of the back room was adjacent to the elevator shaft). One booth immediately broke down and was never fixed, so it was quieter. But, there is no soothing silence, life is seething.
There is no animation. Groups of young people entertain themselves by spending all day at the pool for beer and seeds and listening to something like turnip (I remember the song about the super-sexy guy who suffered from this). And in the evening most of the city have some fun!
Wi-Fi is good, but since everyone is sitting in it, there is not enough for everyone.

Food. There is no porridge in the morning. Only cereal. They don't cook scrambled eggs, only boiled eggs. It’s hard with meat, but there is chicken (in the form of vegetable goulash or meatballs). Once there were fish cakes. There were sausages, cats eat them, so it’s normal. There are many side dishes, a lot of cottage cheese in the form of snacks and various cheeses. There are few eggplants, but there were tasty peppers. Salads, arugula, cucumbers, tomatoes are. One kind of soup at lunchtime and in the evening. There are sweets too. From fruits - only watermelons. Didn't starve. It’s just that everyone is choking on the opening and immediately sweeping everything away, you have to calculate the time for the second takeaway of food. We were at dinner only 2 times, because it is not convenient to return to the hotel so far away, and had a snack in the city. I think for this hotel it is better to take not "all inclusive", but only breakfast and lunch. They drank gin from drinks, did not like the wine.
Water. They poured into their bottles from the beverage unit (there was a button for clean water). And so drinks such as juices (pineapple, orange, apple, cherry). They also bought water and iced tea in the city in large supermarkets (Migros, Shock, etc. - at the same time they changed money, paying in dollars, the exchange rate is better here than in exchange points. ). It seemed that bottled drinking water in Turkey is cheaper than in an independent one.
Beach. They take you to the embankment, where there are a lot of beaches. Some are hotel, some are at cafes, some are wild. Choose yourself. But, they bring you to a certain place, and at the beginning you stay here to get comfortable (since there are amenities nearby - a toilet, a shower). You pay for a sunbed and an umbrella by buying a drink (the cheapest one is 16 lire). Very closely. The wild beach is cheaper (closer to the port) - you don’t have to pay there (there are amenities), but there are no sunbeds and umbrellas. This is important, because the sun is very hot and you will burn out instantly, there is nowhere to hide. Need your own towels. The wild beach at the port is cleaner than the one we were originally on. On a paid beach and a film of fuel and garbage that blows away from yachts. In general, we went to a wild beach in Icmeler (3 lira from the nose on a dolmush), it is cleaner and less crowded. By the way, in past years, the hotel took vacationers exactly in the direction of Icmeler to Nirvana Beach, where there is excellent water, and all around, mountains and forests. But, the concept of the hotel has changed, and they don't carry people here anymore. Now Nirvana Beach is a wild beach without sunbeds and umbrellas (there is nowhere to hide from the sun), but there are some amenities - a toilet and a fountain with drinking water (they rinsed with a bottle there). It seems that the cafe is starting to work, and it will be possible to have a bite to eat. Maybe something will change - umbrellas are needed there. And at this stage, you can choose any beach in Marmaris - wild or paid.
Although, for the lazy or thrifty, there is a pool that doesn't smell like bleach. There is a section for kids and there is a slide, which is periodically turned on. And unlimited drinks. You don't have to leave the hotel.

In general, since before that we were in a three, we liked this four. The only drawback, as usual, is the hotel guests, noisy and not well-mannered. Everything else we liked, apparently lucky.
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