Internet and a safe as a gift, but we refused - one bathroom for five, long queues are possible! For a little "gratitude" received 2 standards overlooking the central pool and the sea! Checked in at 11:00 am and headed out to sea. During the day, of course, you can hear music in the room - animation by the pool, in the evening music from neighboring Amara, but we didn’t go to bed early, but we got up at 7-30 and went to have breakfast. The food, I would say, is traditional for Turkish hotels. From meat, more poultry, I didn’t have enough fried fish (I was like sea bass 3 times) and lamb (I really like cutlets from young Turkish lamb! ) A lot of vegetables, chic lentil soup, a large selection of pastries (baklava incl. ) Fruits? ?????????????? ? ordinary, but watermelon is always ripe and delicious! Local alcohol, normal - they liked to sit in the internet in the lobby, drink beer / cognac / whiskey. The road to the sea past the lake with ducks and fish. Every day they were fed with buns. Duck charm!
It takes 5-6 minutes to walk from the hotel exit to the beach, although there is where to warm up! The sea was mostly rough. Sunset - small pebbles, the bottom is not dense, the depth is already after 6-7 meters from the shore. Not perfect, but in the morning the water is clear, clean, it's just wonderful to swim to the buoys and admire the mountains, the sky and the sea! There are enough sunbeds, no one takes in advance. But the cleaner often does not clean them from yesterday's sand. 50m from the beach bar, drinks from 10 to 17. Snack from 12 to 16. Gizleme there. We often didn't go to the restaurant for lunch. After 12 always went to the spa in the hotel. We sat in the sauna, in the steam room, lay in the Turkish bath. The pool is not working and no one is repairing it. The condition of the showers is terrible, mold on the doors. For the spa, my rating is 2. But you can take a steam bath. After dinner at 21-30 in the amphitheater program, you can go from nothing to do, no more. In some hotels (we were in Turkey 8 times), the show programs were simply delightful, but not here.
The village of Titriyengol is quite small, there are a couple of streets with shops. To Side 7km, bus - 1 dollar per person. We went to see the Old City. I recommend the hotel!
Nam ponravilos nam est s chem sravnit.
Thank you, Aska prestij
The playground, as well as the water slides, barely hold on, we were afraid to send children to such entertainment.
There are only Russian tourists in the hotel. There are a lot of them. Only 10 percent are Ukrainians, Poles.
The animation for kids is great. The magician on Saturday is also super; )
The sea is divine. Super turquoise sea. Clean and warm. Plenty of sun loungers for everyone.
The hotel is very budget friendly. We paid very cheaply. Therefore, without any special claims, it is unpleasant that the whole family had stomach problems.
In general, the hotel is 4 stars, but if there was a separate rating and award for the staff, I would give 10 stars! The girls at the front desk are cool. We arrived early so we didn't have to wait until 2pm to check in. We were immediately found a room and settled with the children, no one asked for money for this service. The number itself is excellent, even the Ukrainian channel 5 showed. So we were not left without fresh news from the Motherland ; -)
The food is excellent too. Everything is delicious and varied. To those who write about long queues, these are the conditions in a pandemic. But I don't understand what it can be about if the hotel operates on an ultra all inclusive system and was fed 24 hours a day. Whoever was hungry there or who was prevented from resting by queues, then sit at home and cook food. Aska is a great hotel, but not a Rixos either. For his money he is worth it.
If you are planning to go on holiday, I recommend it. By the way, now you can buy fur and leather at a good discount. Photographers, by the way, work AGON! Tamerlan, persuasion manager, thanks to him, I admire my photos and mentally relive my days at the hotel)) Photos are obtained from their magic pens - masterpieces !! ! : -) THANKS everyone, it was cool, cool !! ! And peacocks run around the territory!
Aska Side Grand Prestige Hotel & SPA, we will be back!! !
We were pleased with the location of the room every day: silence, green trees and no extraneous sounds. I pay special attention to the high-quality soundproofing of the rooms (audibility is zero). On food, comments only for dinner - a very small assortment. But dinner and breakfast absolutely satisfied our needs and twice during the entire stay (a total of 7 days rested) there were gastronomic holidays in the main restaurant of the hotel, which could not but please!
As for beach holidays: in the first half of the day we were at the pool with a child, where he frolicked beautifully on mini slides and talked with Russian-speaking friends. The second half of the day was spent on the sea, a 5-minute walk from the hotel along the lake. In the evening we visited animation for children, which was held every evening in the hotel amphitheater. I was especially pleased with the ability of the animators to organize a large number of children and engage them in dancing, reciting poems, drawing and, most importantly, awarding prizes for the best achievements! ))
A little about the annoying: I took a photo of the child on the phone while swimming in the pool and flooded the camera (. However, we were rescued by the services of a photographer on site. We signed up for a convenient time for us and held a photo session, both on the beach and on the territory (in the garden) in different images (dresses) respectively. . . We received the photos on the same day, in the evening, in excellent quality and looking ahead, I will say that they were a great success in social networks among our friends)).
And you know, re-reading my review, I consider it too flattering, but all the staff and their attitude towards vacationers is worth talking about and writing only good things about them! Thanks to everyone who made our holiday wonderful (although we are resting in Turkey for the 8th time and there is something to compare with). For young couples with children and just those who want to spend their vacation comfortably - I advise you, you will not regret it!
The food is not bad, quite varied, fruits, fish every day, beer is not bad.
For children there are slides, a playground, a mini zoo, free ice cream (very tasty), but there is no ANIMATION, and there were a lot of children because the hotel is purely family (youth and families without children have nothing to do here, they will die of boredom), only in the evening in the amphitheater there was some entertainment.
The sea is a 5-minute walk from the hotel, sun loungers occupied in the evening, the entrance to the sea is not gentle, the depth is almost immediately. The territory is beautiful, green, large, well-groomed, near the "trembling" lake, shops, pharmacy. Elevators failed, often broke.
From excursions they took rafting 60 dollars. for 2 adults and a child of 8 years old, and did not regret it, a lot of fun, but the water is cold, mountainous. The staff is friendly, they know Russian poorly. This region is very beautiful, oriented to the European tourist, so the prices are mainly in euros.
The cleaners come every day, but I doubt it very much about cleaning, if you accidentally stumble upon them, you can force them to fill the refrigerator with what it’s supposed to, put soap accessories in the bath and clean up where it’s supposed to. The dishes in the dining room are dirty and need to be cleaned.
There is practically no animation, there is nothing to do at all in the evening, vacationers entertain themselves, apart from small performances after dinner, at the level of amateur performances of a peripheral recreation center.
The room is not bad, but again, the curtains are stained, there are stains on the chair......
The food, in my opinion, is normal, everything was enough for everyone, something delicious, something not very good, I was pleased with a large number of delicious cheeses, very tasty olives and olives, a lot of fresh vegetables and herbs. The coffee is disgusting, instant from the machine, but delicious teas in bags. The service staff, despite the fact that in general the guys are not bad, they are absolutely not competent in their work, it is felt that there is not enough strong leader.
Leaving for an early excursion, they asked to collect breakfast, took out two hot dog buns in which there was a leaf of the day before yesterday's salad, a slice of cucumber, a slice of tomato, and they even put a piece of sausage in one and it was appetizingly rewound with stretch! Even for 3 * it was too much....Three times they ordered a wake-up call to the room, of which only once they woke up on time, but this is also a question of the conscientiousness of the staff.
The hotel guide was completely incompetent in matters of interest to us, where to rent bicycles and how to get to Side, but shamelessly spent our time advertising their expensive excursions.
But all of the above did not spoil our vacation at all, since we are sane people and we understand that a hotel at the price of 3 * stars, and even not all, cannot provide 5 * service, so we were prepared in advance for various controversial situations.
Those basic criteria by which he got out justified themselves.
And now for the pros:
In our opinion, the location is excellent, the hotel is located in a forested area, between pine and eucalyptus trees, the air there is magical, plus the lack of infrastructure around it, makes this place really a resort, right on the shore of the lake around which there is a good promenade where you can ride in the evening bicycles that are rented on a small shopping promenade next to the hotel, but we don’t recommend buying anything there, everything is at least twice as expensive as in Side.
The sea is nearby, from the hotel gate, past the lake, immediately the beach, 5 minutes maximum, at a slow pace. very good, clean sunbeds were always enough, excellent canopy, there is a volleyball court, you can organize a game.
Snack bar at the entrance to the beach, there are always drinks, water, and until 4 o'clock you can have a snack, vegetables, fruits, a hamburger.
The hotel has a beautiful green large area where there are artificial reservoirs, walking paths, hedgehogs run, two large pools, two for children, and one with a slide and one more in the Spa, closed, but all of them without heating sunbeds by the pool are also enough, always enough
Near the hotel there is a minibus stop to go to Side 7-10 minutes, to Manavgat 10-15min.
In a word, if you are traveling to Turkey, not just to eat, drink and sit in a room, but for the sea, impressions and learning about the history and culture of this unique country, then this hotel is an excellent budget option with good food and location, anyway, you, wandering on excursions, in the hotel will be swoops.
A must to visit Cappadocia!
I want to note the excellent organization of all Turkish travel companies.
Excursions were booked through a contact in the excursion group in Side. They paid after the fact, impeccable organization, reliable information.
So.
Hello. We rested from August 5 to August 13 inclusive (me, sister + 2 of her daughters 4 years old and 12 years old)
We arrived at night. From the airport we drove about 1.5 hours
At 2:30 we checked into the hotel, we asked for a room with a sea view and went to check in, when we arrived at it, we found one 2-bed and 1 single bed. We came to the reception with a request for an extra bed or a bunk bed, which we were told to come in the morning, because the Russian-speaking receptionist was stupid at that time. How is that? A married couple who flew with us to this hotel faced the same problem... we had to agree on this in Moscow, that we supposedly had a standard room and nothing could be done about it. Is this a normal answer? ? As a result, they brought a cot that ate the whole room. In the morning we found out that a bunk bed is for a fee, a sea view is a fee, a safe is a fee))) On August 6, my friend arrived, my sister agreed on a compliment (fruit and a bottle of wine) from the hotel to my room, and a cake for dinner (as it turned out, it is paid) For the first time I meet a 5-star hotel, where you have to pay for a cake . . They brought fruit, but there is no wine. Further, water slides. . Opening hours from 10 to 12 and from 14 to 17:00. They were turned off at 16:20/30, for what reason, we did not understand . . On the third day, we decided to check with a girl (office near the reception) named ISHIM, why is that? because we want to ride, and the water slides were an obligatory item when choosing a hotel! The manager began to rub that the water slides were closed, because in the chlorine pool (why the hell is it asked if the slides work until 17) The pool from the slides smoothly turned into a large pool, where at that time there were 50 people! I tried to explain to her that she was ill-informed about the fact that the pool was connected, to which she switched to YOU and began to threaten me that we would now be "thrown out of the hotel. " This is the first time I've encountered such rudeness. It's a paradox, but from the next day the slides worked until 18:00 and later . . ) Arriving the next day at the same "good office", we found another, adequate girl there. They wanted to ask about A la Carte, they were "pleasantly surprised" for 5 euros per person. They said about the slides and about the wine on my dr) The next day they brought fruit and wine again) It turns out that the system in this hotel is "Until you give a kick. "
There is nothing for breakfast, lunch is average - we saved ourselves with "afternoon snacks" by eating near bars . . Dinner is also so-so . . (by the way, there is no baby food there, although it is written that it supposedly is . . ) During the day they gave the pools and the sea waffles and cakes. The queue is 50 minutes! And the most important thing is that the waffles are either undercooked or burnt). Ice cream is paid! Once for dinner they gave it for free, as it turned out there was another at the hotel)))) My sister lost weight for the first time on vacation : ) Animation longing, twice there was a foam party, once interesting competitions in the amphitheater, all other days were stupid dances, which were boring to watch. Wi-Fi is only near the pool, all drinks are only near one main bar, in all others there is only beer and maybe wine. The sea is warm and clean, but the entrance is a little rocky. Departure from the hotel on the 13th. Check-out at 12 noon, bus at 19:00, the sister specified a couple of days before departure how much it would cost to extend the room for an hour, to which she was told 5 euros / hour, on the day of departure (she again turned to our guide Nasyr) is everything okay, is there any delays. . only then we found out that there was an "innovation in the hotel" and a room per hour already costs 20 euros!!!!! ! That is, we need to lay out 140 euros . . sorry for that? And who has that kind of money left at the end of the holiday? especially when you are counting on a completely different tariff!! ! We will never go there again and will not advise anyone.