Отличный отель! Excellent hotel!

My husband and I traveled together, we have extensive experience in traveling abroad and accommodation, as everyone writes: "there is something to compare with. "
We wanted a hotel with a good beach, where you can always find sunbeds, even if you already overslept breakfast : ) The beach is really good, big, the sand is clean (of course, hotel guests are struggling with this, but the staff regularly collects garbage from bins and sand too ). There are really always free sunbeds at any time of the day (we were in July), the distance between you and the neighbors will please you - this is not an urban micro-beach, who, like us, loves personal space, will appreciate it.
We were settled not in the morning upon arrival, but at the appointed time at 14, the bracelets were put on immediately.

If you also arrive in the morning, do not try to sit in the lobby before checking in - in the spa on the 1st floor there are special rooms for boys / girls with a shower and lockers with a combination lock, called "change room" / "change room", here you can rinse after the road, change into a swimsuit and, importantly, leave extra things from your "hand luggage". Along with the bracelet, they give cards for towels, which you need to get and then change in the same spa center. Have breakfast and go to the beach.
The hotel is predominantly Germans, saw Czechs and Poles, the French. We are from Kyiv, we have never met compatriots, we have met Russians several times - all well-mannered adequate people, in general, there is definitely no Slavic tagil here, fortunately. But, since the hotel is family-run, there are almost no noisy adult entertainments either.
The food is excellent, sausages are not soy, I only eat fish - there was always a choice of several types of fish. Meat and poultry in a variety of variations.
Station with pasta, with pizza, VERY delicious soups, especially the signature Turkish lentil soup. Good cheeses, for the first time, except for any soft ones, we met an old hard parmesan-type cheese in a package hotel. Shrimps were also several times, though marinated, enough for everyone - not 3 things in hand, but take as much as you like. Sweets, as elsewhere in normal hotels in Turkey, are excellent. In the morning, during breakfast, they put a cooling container with a slightly diluted orange juice (you can feel the dilution, but just a little), it is constantly filled, there is also enough juice for everyone. Fruits - excellent watermelons, delicious melons and cherries, peaches, plums, bananas, oranges, grapefruits and something else, which the hands did not reach, the fruits also never ended. Waiters run around, quick, bring drinks. In the part of the restaurant, which is on the street, there is a smoking and non-smoking area.
By the way, the free drinks package includes a nice cocktail list - the mojito in the lobby was just delicious.

About the numbers. Ours went out to the main entrance to the hotel, but there is a real garden around, and on the horizon the Taurus Mountains generally look epic in a light haze. We talked with people who lived in a room overlooking the sea, and suddenly it turned out that they were unhappy, because the hot food court is located on the street just below their rooms, respectively, the set of aromas of different foods mixed in the air adds to the experience ...I would she said this: if you want a "quiet" balcony - better with a view of the garden, rooms with sea views overlook the pools and bars with constant noise and traffic. In the room, in addition to a mini-bar with cola-fantami-mineral water, there is a kettle and tea-coffee-sugar bags. Guest slippers available, no bathrobes. The mini-bar, by the way, is replenished, no need to remind.
Pools: the main contingent is the Germans, they are lovers of the pools, not the beach.
Everything around the pools was always packed, even the lawns around were filled with sunbeds. A cool children's pool for small ones, there are two slides - they worked on a schedule every day. By the way, if you are a fan of water slides, there is a water park with the same name behind the neighboring Nashir hotel, it takes a few minutes to walk along the beach (if facing the sea, then to the left). The entrance is paid, like the price is 45 euros per carcass (they give towels and something else), but we didn’t go ourselves, we only heard something from someone about prices. The water park is small, but there are enough slides, there are a couple of rather dumb ones (I would not climb, but my husband looked interested). On the left side of the hotel beach there is a tent where you can order various water activities - a banana, a tablet (more like a sofa), a parachute flight over the beach, maybe something else we did not recognize.
I can’t tell you almost anything about children’s animation, but since I met information on the Internet about a hotel puncture with animation for “Slavic” children, I will mention: we saw a Russian-speaking group of children with animator girls, once they sculpted different animals from the sand on the beach, and a couple of times they ran across the lawns as part of some competitions - the children were happy, yelling and making noise, as it should be for happy healthy children : ) I can’t say anything about playrooms and other children’s infrastructure.
At the reception you can change the currency, if you are going to Side, do not forget that you can pay for the entrance to the ancient amphitheater and the museum only in lira. Taxi 10-11 euros from the hotel to Side and the same amount back. Taxis can be found right outside the hotel gates, there are always a couple of cars on duty. It is also easy to return back, the taxi is full.

There are stands with fares everywhere from where you are to several main points, you don’t need to bargain with taxi drivers (fuuuuf ... ), the cars are branded - they are easy to distinguish.
You can ride a dolmush - a local minibus, the fare is cheaper - about a dollar per passenger (usually they give dollar bills for 1 dollar, in lira you can also, of course), but you need to walk 10-15 minutes from the hotel entrance to the highway, we are lazy, so went by taxi.
There are electric scooters at the entrance to the hotel, you can rent them and ride around the lake and through the surrounding coniferous forest - the air is fabulous. Management is easy, they do not go very fast, even pensioners coped.
Immediately behind the lake there is a promenade with shopping malls and cafes. There you can also rent bicycles directly from the rental automatic racks. This is if you are against solid sealing.
For myself, I found 2 minuses in the hotel:
1. Coffee from coffee machines is, of course, so-so ..
Who is a fan, I advise you to catch a boy with a kettle during breakfast, he pours brewed coffee, similar to coffee from a drip coffee maker (once I didn’t ask what was in the kettle, but there the same boy suddenly had tea : ) better to clarify).
2. In the evenings, people sit on the open terrace near the lobby bar and drink something, so for some reason the staff always wipes the tables with wet rags, sponges, after which you won’t put your hand on the table for 10 minutes, nor any things. A trifle, but somehow unpleasant.
Wi-fi catches everywhere - in the room, on the beach, etc. , a couple of times during dinner it slowed down a bit, but it still loaded the pages, probably depending on the load.
They took a hookah (10 euros, it seems), you can order it at the bar on the left side of the beach or on the lobby terrace. So: the hookah was incomparable! Very light and at the same time saturated (I am writing as a fan who has 2 hookahs at home). Highly recommend.

Note: to communicate with waiters and bartenders, at least minimal English is desirable, however, even without it, they will try to understand you to the best of their ability. There is a Russian-speaking girl Malika at the reception, but she was not there during our arrival and check-in. Perhaps they can call her in case of a language barrier, we did not have a need for this.

Have a good rest and happy travels!