Неплохой, но не «шикарный» как о нем пишут в рекламе :) Not bad, but not "chic" as they write about it in advertising :)

Hello! First of all, I want to say thank you to all those people who write reviews about hotels - friends, your information is very helpful! I chose the Alba Queen Hotel mainly based on reviews, and everything that was written about it was true, so I already knew roughly what to expect. In general, the hotel is normal - you can go. Travel time - from 06/04/2011 to 06/11/2011, paid $ 1945 for two (6 nights). The weather was great - the air was about 25-28 degrees, the water was about 20-22 degrees, not cold. We went with Coral Travel - they met us and sent us back to the airport normally, on time, no complaints. True, the guide girls (accompanying the bus to the hotel and the hotel guide) provide little information. For example, the hotel guide said that there are no exchange offices and pay phones nearby, and then we found out that there is (we had to walk a little), and there are also a lot of bazaars with clothes and little things. We did not notice food markets nearby - only cafes and small supermarkets. You can get to Side by minibus, it stops right outside the hotel - get out and go a little to the right, there is a stop. The cost is $ 2 per person one way, the minibus should say “Side”, on the way back - “Colakli” and a list of hotels, among which should be “Alba Resort”. If you want to look at the ancient ruins and visit the museum, you reach the final one, the ruins immediately begin there, go down the road, pass the museums and go to the embankment - there are a lot of shops and cafes.
UNPLEASANT MOMENTS. The first moment - on the second or third day I came out of the sea on the beach, and floated past me... pieces of shit (sorry, but you can’t throw out the words from the song). There are many families with children in the hotel - maybe some child could not resist, or maybe a dog - during my stay I counted 6 dogs, one of them was without a collar. A trifle - but nice... I see this for the first time in my life, neither in the Crimea, nor in Bulgaria, nor in Egypt, I have not seen this anywhere. The second point - beach and hotel towels - they sometimes have bright brown spots, very noticeable, remind you know what : ) It seems not fatal, but somehow not aesthetically pleasing, you must agree. The third point - we went on an excursion, left at 5:50 - the hotel does not provide lunch packages. In the main restaurant, they leave cheese, raw vegetables, bread and some salads left over from dinner for the night, and you can make yourself tea (the coffee machine did not work) - so we refreshed ourselves a little, but they didn’t give us anything with us. Water must be taken care of in advance - we grabbed water from our mini-bar in the room, but we were told that we could ask at the reception. True, on the last day of our stay, when we were standing with bags on the street, a girl from the hotel gave us packed cookies and water for the journey. The fourth point is air conditioning. They explained to us that they turn on the air conditioning by the hour: from 13:00 to 15:00, from 17:00 to 19:00, and from 21:00 until the morning. In fact, we managed to turn on the air conditioner only a couple of times, the rest of the time (even during the indicated hours) it simply did not work : ) Maybe something was wrong - but we didn’t swear anymore, we just left the balcony door open at night. Oh, by the way - grab a fumigator, mosquitoes get it.
BEACH. The beach is spacious, there are always enough sunbeds, even closer to the sea. From the exit from the hotel to the beginning of the beach, about 70 m. The entry into the sea is magnificent - however, closer to the Alba Royal beach, large flat stones come across at the bottom. Shallow, just above the knee somewhere at a distance of 30 meters from the shore, further to the waist, and 10 meters to the buoys is already a normal depth. By the way, I was told that you can use the beaches of all three hotels of the Alba chain - nothing like that. On the first day I settled down on the territory of Alba Royal beach, which borders on Alba Queen beach - a beach boy immediately jumped up and politely offered to move to the territory allotted to Alba Queen. The beach is wide - the rows of sun loungers occupy about 30 meters, and from the nearest row to the water to the beginning of the water - about 20 m. The beaches of Alba Queen and Alba Royal are fenced in the sea with buoys, so it is absolutely safe to swim - no boat or scooter will run over. The sand is generally clean, but there are cigarette butts. Water washes garbage ashore - bottle caps, cigarette butts, bags, etc. , they are not removed during the day - as I understand it, this garbage is collected only in the evening. On the beach of each hotel there is a volleyball net, a beach-boy invites everyone to play volleyball from about 10:30 to 11:30 and from 16:00 to 17:00. There is also a WATER SPORT section, where you can ride a scooter and fly on a parachute for a fee. On the beach there are 2 changing cabins, fresh water showers, one tea and coffee machine (plastic cups nearby). The beach bar is located from the edge of the beach (from the last row of sun loungers) at a distance of about 40-50 m, no more (earlier reviews wrote 200 m - I think this is an exaggeration), you need to climb up the path. The beach bar has drinks and cakes. In the same place, in the beach bar and a toilet (go into the beach bar, to the left of the bar there is a passage, on the left side are the doors to the toilets).

SETTLEMENT. We arrived at the hotel at about 9:00 (the drive from the airport to the hotel is approximately 1 hour - 1 hour 20 minutes). We were told that the check-in after 12:00 and that we took a walk. At the same time, I got the impression that the Germans and Poles who arrived before 12:00 were settled immediately : ) I don’t know if this is considered “discrimination” or not, but technically the Turks are right, so we didn’t mind and waited as long as necessary. No bribes were given. At the reception there is a box with the inscription "tips", we put a tip there on the last day of departure. Maybe it was necessary to put it right after the settlement - I don’t know : ) One dollar was given to the employee who helped carry the bags to the reception desk, and to the one who reported to the room. We were waiting at the reception, and at 11:30 a man came up to us and said that our room was already ready.
RUSSIAN-SPEAKING STAFF. In the hotel, mostly employees speak German, at the reception a few people speak English, one person at the reception speaks pretty good Russian, and one young lady named Maria speaks Russian well - she is usually behind the counter to the left of the hotel entrance . In general, unlike the Egyptian hotel Dana Beach 5, where we visited, in the Turkish "Alba" the staff is adequate, unobtrusive, polite - no one was rude to us, no one looked from head to toe and no one stopped.
ROOM. As soon as we arrived, we asked for a room with a balcony. We were informed before check-in that our room would be "on the first floor". In English, as you know, “first floor” is the second floor, because the first one is “ground floor”, so we were calm. We were given room 2142, very close to the reception. When we entered, we found that the room... on the first floor : ) What they call a "balcony" is actually not really a balcony, but in fact a fenced terrace or a small verandah. But the structure looks like a balcony : ) We can't stand the first floor, so they immediately asked to move us - we were promised to do it the next day. Plus, it turned out that the balcony door does not close... There are no vents or a separate window. In general, we were disappointed, but in the morning we saw everything in a different light - our room overlooked a small garden - flowers, trees, grass, very romantic, the garden was surrounded by a low fence, behind which - the road. Cars sometimes passed along this road (mostly tourist buses) and people went to the beach from the neighboring Stone Palace hotel, it was quiet and very comfortable. No one saw us, because the plants in the garden were all closed. The next day they fixed the balcony door for us and, as we asked, they were going to move us. I asked what room they offer - it turned out to be on the 4th floor overlooking the pool... On reflection, we decided to stay in the old room, because it is very noisy in the pool area, and it is much nicer to see flowers and grass than sunbeds with vacationers. Our room was quite spacious, standard (the room, excluding the balcony and the bath, was approximately 4.5X3.5 m - two spacious beds, two bedside tables and an armchair were freely placed on one wall, not back to back - and even a distance of about 30 cm remained. In the room wall-mounted flat-screen TV, mini-bar (replenished free of charge every day with soft drinks), safe (paid - 3 lira or $ 2 per day). You must tell us that you want to use the safe immediately upon check-in. Balcony - approximately 3.5X1.5m The bathroom (bath, shower, toilet, sink, mirror, hairdryer, liquid soap, shampoo) is also not cramped. Our room was, as it were, in the same block with the neighboring room 2141 (at the same time, of course, each room has its own amenities) - first the entrance to the dressing room, then to my room. By the way, I looked out of the corner of my eye into room 2140 (separate, unpaired) - so it was much smaller than ours - only 2 beds and 1 bedside table fit on one wall. So we can say we were lucky : )
TERRITORY. The entire open-air area is actually just a pool. We had to walk right past the sunbeds. It was a little annoying at first, but then you got used to it. People walk along the palm alleys outside the hotel, along the paths that stretch between the beach and the hotels - it's very picturesque! True, mosquitoes gnaw at night - in my opinion, not far from the neighboring Alba Royale or a river or a swamp, frogs croaked quite distinctly : ) Near Alba Queen, neither a swamp nor a river was noticed. There is a spa in the hotel (hammam is free if you just “warm up”, if the procedures are all paid), billiards, bowling (for a fee), a lobby bar (free of charge), a pool bar (free of charge), a gym (free of charge). We didn't know about the rest.

FOOD. The food is great! I won’t list everything, but it’s simply unrealistic to visit this hotel and lose weight : ) If anyone is interested in fruits, there were a lot of them, both in the morning, afternoon and evening: strawberries, melons, apricots, watermelons, oranges, grapefruits, plums (hard green ), apples, and another interesting fruit, called something like “New World” (looks like a small orange apple, sometimes on a twig, inside 4 round bones, tastes very pleasant - not sour, not sweet). There are several “tip boxes” in the restaurant - separately for waiters and cooks, we left a tip a couple of times, the Turks were happy.
TOURS. Coral Travel offers to decide on excursions immediately, the next day after arrival, so take the money to meet with the guide. We chose a one-day excursion with the route Demre (the holy place where St. Nicholas was born) - Mirra - Kekovo - a boat trip with swimming in the sea. Cost - $ 75 per person, this amount included entrance fees and lunch. Duration - left the hotel at 5:50, arrived at 18:30. A small bus, there were 2 drivers who replaced each other and two guides - one Russian guide named Vera, and one Turkish Russian-speaking guide. In the morning there were 2 stops with a break of about 1 - 1.5 hours, both - near large supermarkets, where you could buy food and go to the toilet (toilets are free everywhere and relatively clean, which was very pleasing). On our return there were also 2 stops with toilets. The organization of the tour was excellent, the guide Vera is a very nice friendly girl, knowledgeable - she told a lot, answered any questions, in general it was very good and at a professional level.
If you have any questions - ask, I will answer. Have a nice holiday!