Fun holidays in beautiful Side

Written: 2 september 2019
Travel time: 12 — 19 august 2019
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
10.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 10.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 7.0
Amenities: 10.0
First of all, pay attention to the excellent concept of the hotel: this is not all inclusive. Side Osmanli is not online, but private, so the feeling that you came to visit Turkish friends. There is no indifference here, the hotel serves several attentive, fast and friendly men who quickly help to solve any problems.

Our tour was purchased from the operator Tez Tour after a careful search for a budget option within walking distance from the sea. The cost was 250 euros for the flight, 7 nights and three meals a day. Compared to other options (Montenegro, Albania, Bulgaria), you can only buy flights and accommodation with this money. So in plus three meals.

I will say right away that meat is served once or twice in two days. Alcohol is also absent, but if you ask, they will treat you with a glass of wine. Boiling water, brewed tea, instant coffee, instant cocoa drink, milk powder, and disposable cups are always available in the dining room.

In addition to breakfast drinks, daily cuts of sausage and cheese, tomato-cucumbers, hard-boiled eggs, delicious dried black olives and pickled greens. Portion spreads: jam, nut, margarine, honey. A tray with liquid halva, it is called tahini. delicious fluffy bread slices. On the fourth day, dry breakfasts and milk appeared.

Lunch: first course, side dish (pasta or rice or bulgur), vegetable casserole or stewed eggplant, several types of salads from different vegetables. Plate with sour milk dressing. I personally really liked pickled hot peppers. Bread. Watermelon or melon for dessert. Dinner is like lunch.
Despite the fact that meat dishes are rarely served, we were full because the vegetable dishes are fresh and very tasty.

The hotel is on the most remote street, but it's just over 10 minutes from the sea. The building has three floors with four rooms.
Excellent sound insulation, if you close the windows, you can not hear the neighbors from below and from the side at all. We had two rooms, one with air conditioning, the other without. At 40 degrees noon, the fan in the room without air conditioning does not help, so be sure to warn the operator that you have been booked a cool room.

Number. The furniture is beautiful, the mattress was especially pleased, the back was comfortable. Wardrobe, refrigerator, TV, table. The bathroom has a hair dryer and liquid soap. Cold/hot water, but so hot that hot water wasn't turned on every day. The tile is new, clean, without mold. The plumbing worked without problems. Each room has a balcony (table, chairs), don't forget the clothesline for drying towels, it will be superfluous.

Towels, toilet paper - changed / issued on request, no one enters the room in your absence, does not touch anything. Household requests are quickly satisfied by the staff.

We brought our own beach towels.
On the territory there is a small pool, in the evening it is a pleasure to skimp. There are sun loungers near it, they fall into the Wi-Fi zone, so several guests spent the whole day on them with tablets.


Beach. Wide strip, clean sand. Sun beds 3$ or a drink (drinks are expensive on the beach, but it's still more profitable to take a drink than just pay for a seat). We walked to the sea across the road between the Oleander and Terrace hotels, then a little to the left towards Makara beach club. We left towels for lunch, returned after 16, everything was always in place. In general, to the beach Google gives 11 minutes on foot, it is. if you leave slowly, a maximum of 20 minutes, but it is very slow.

The sea is amazing, one hobby! ! ! Clean, transparent, fine.

On the way from the beach to the hotel, there are several shops with food, drinks, delicacies, the prices are moderate.

In the evening, the streets are filled with tourists, sellers in shops become more active, there are many posters for excursions.

We traveled by minibus for 4 lira ($1 = 5).
6 lira) per person to the ancient city in Side, I liked it very much, but there was not enough time to get around everything - it quickly got dark.

The other evening we went to see the mosque, it is about 1 km from the hotel.

In general, Side was pleasantly surprised, I would come here again. Everyone has their own impression about the tour and the hotel, our family had fun, we became friends with the owners, we communicated in fragments of Turkish and English, with the addition of emotions we understood each other perfectly.
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