This hotel is the only place of entertainment for the local population

Written: 29 march 2006
Travel time: 29 march — 5 april 2006
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For the first time in the mountains, we decided to start from Turkey, but we realized that we were mistaken. There were practically no complaints about the hotel itself, except that the agency forgot to warn us that this hotel is the only place of entertainment for the local population.
There is nothing to do in Erzurum itself, so the people are rushing here. Sauna, disco, etc. From the number of Turks in the pool and sauna ripples in the eyes. It's disgusting, for God's sake.
Service at the hotel and rooms at the level, however, was surprised by the lack of bathrobes and slippers (after all, this is 5 stars). There were no complaints about the food and service in the restaurant either. True, the dishes of the cold table for 7 days of rest were like a blueprint, they even stood in the same places.

Trails are a separate song. Leaving the hotel on Sunday morning, we beheld the bare ground, powdered with snow in places. I managed to ride a little higher in the mountains on the slopes of the Dedeman hotel, but there are a large number of stones, the lack of protective nets in dangerous areas and a crowd of Turks driving a plow who do not look around.
After 2 days it snowed and we nearly fell out of the windows laughing as we watched the hotel snowcat carefully scrape it off the training hill to the ground.
The upper slopes of the hotel are strewn with blocks of ice and stones, in our race 2 broken arms and one leg. And the number of skis killed is uncountable.
The gondola worked 3 out of seven days, on the last day we hung over the abyss for 30 minutes, due to the fact that something stuck in it. And on the same day, the cable flew off at the top chair, fortunately, there were no casualties.
Conclusions: going here is very good if you are going to drink, eat, walk without leaving the hotel. But if you want to ski - save your skis, health and life. We will not go to ski Turkey anymore.
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