Весьма неплохой отдых A very good holiday

Rested from May 22.2010 to June 03 - two adults and a child of 3 years. In general, it’s normal, the child then took toys “to Turkey, to the hotel” for a long time. A good beach and entry into the sea is solid sand, it is very important for children's recreation; in the first week, the sea was still a bit cold for me and the child - we used the indoor heated pool (it’s very convenient that part of this pool is indoors, and part is outdoors, because the smell of bleach in the room just kills! ), the lack of sun loungers is what by the pools, which was small on the beach - at 9 in the morning they came and calmly chose, after lunch on the beach it is already more difficult; the territory is large and beautiful (for someone it may be too big - it takes a long time to walk, but it’s just right for us! ), there are sunbeds and hammocks, including under the trees - right in the middle of the grove, we went to the houses on the “lakes” after dinner - to drink fresh juice and lie in a hammock at the bar (we saw squirrels twice!
), "lakes" around the territory - a separate song - walkways-bridges, sunbeds-hammocks, flowers-bushes - it's especially beautiful (it's really gorgeous to relax there, but in hotter weather, when we were there it was still a bit cold - and the water in pools - brrr, and the tiled floor adds vivacity, and it turns out far from the beach); the glass elevators in the main building really liked the child (especially the central one - with a dried rose under the glass part of the floor), inside the building it’s also pretty - full-length palm trees, other greens in sufficient quantities, from the side of the “lakes” in the fish restaurant (on the street) occasionally waterfalls were turned on (from the roof of the first floor, observed after dinner); taking into account the number of Russian-speaking vacationers (about 80%) - the staff knows Russian everywhere - on guest relations 1-2 Russian speakers, in all restaurants, in the SPA center, children's animators - 3-4 Russian speakers (from Russia and Kazakhstan, in my opinion), evening shows are also in Russian
. The food is tolerable (there is no ideal in nature), moderately varied, as always a large selection of sweets, chemical juice, in the main restaurant - fresh orange juice from 7 to 10 in the morning (although there should have been carrots as well) on the 4th day of stay they began to dilute (and at first - every 3-4 times, we complained about guest relations - they began to dilute it quite acceptable, in the bar on the “lakes” they make fresh juice in front of you, they don’t dilute it ! ! ); with fruit - miserable, despite the cherry season, there were no peaches at all, strawberries - 2 times (queue), unripe melons and watermelons from about May 27 (judging by the influx of people, this is the beginning of the season for them), usually all minced meat turns out to be heavily peppered (and our child does not chew meat in pieces yet ...); squid rings in batter - yum-yum, but the queue is behind them ... In our opinion, everything was always fresh, although on my birthday the fruits were brought to the room either unripe or rotten ... But they had nothing with wine!

(although in the canteen - once they tried it, they didn’t take it again! ). And the cake promised to the restaurant for dinner for the mentioned DR was generally squeezed ... In the lobby, in addition to alcohol, they regularly took milk for the child at night, and of my ulcer too. In a la carte restaurants (Turkish, fish, Italian) it is acceptable (except for Italian - not only was it served for a long time, so each change of dishes had to be demanded, they forgot about the ordered soup, meat appetizer - 3 thin to full transparency 5 cm circles in greenery, etc. ), we went to the fish market 2 times - we really liked it there.
I went to Side a couple of times for fruit.
If, as we do, you need medicines - also only in Side, and at a certain pharmacy, so that the pharmacist is at least English-speaking and sane - on two buses (from Sueno it only goes to the center of Side, but you need to go further along the coast towards Antalya, I got on foot, but far away ...) or take a taxi, the pharmacy is located opposite the Horus Paradise hotel, there is also a souvenir shop with a Russian saleswoman and reasonable prices.
A special song - Lunapark, the child was indescribably delighted - a Ferris wheel, train horses, they especially liked airplanes, for adults a parody of roller coasters, cars and a hammer is suitable; they tried to make it there, and to the children's disco, and to the evening show, as a result, the child regularly fell asleep in his arms during the show or on the way to the room ... Evening shows are generally interesting - especially the Turkish evening (do not go to local comedians - poor humor like cake in the face and spoiling the air), but we didn’t see everything.
Cleaning in the room, both with tips and without them, is mediocre and, despite the sign “cleaning until 12”, God forbid, after dinner it will still take place ... When we were on the floor, they began to change the screens in the bathroom - the new absolutely transparent option did not converge when closing center by 5 cm, as a result, each shower is a flood for the entire bathroom (it's good that it was on the penultimate day).
We never went to an adult water park because of a child, and children's slides for very young children are still a little traumatic (steep slippery steps).

Regarding shopping: the hotel is apparently considered to be of a very high level in the area - local sellers and "horseback riders" break impressive prices; the shops where Tez Tour takes for shopping have subdivisions on the territory of the hotel, but I don’t advise using their services - they are expensive and the quality is not ideal, with a jewelry one, it turned out to be an ambush: I ordered a bracelet made of white gold with a sapphire - they promised to do it in 5 days, with 100% prepaid, brought to the store at the hotel - brought to the room, began to look, and the sapphire was chipped! She took it back - “didn’t you drop it? ”, but since very little time has passed since the transition into my hands (we only had time to go to dinner), they undertook to replace it.
Then - a separate song: the next day they brought a replacement from the factory - a sapphire of the wrong color (pale blue instead of deep blue), the next day and another option - they brought it with the first stone (the chip was only polished so as not to scratch), the third day, in the evening - the last option (we flew away at night) - the stone was set asymmetrically ... In general, go outside the hotel, cross the road, catch a bus in Side (1 Euro or 1.5 dollars), come to the center, go to the amphitheater, on the way to the bay a whole bazaar town, where there are both representative offices of the same above-mentioned stores, as well as many of their other competitors, the main thing is not to forget to bargain!
But in general, if you do not get hung up on negative details, everything is quite worthy, the money was not spent in vain!