Your rating of this hotel:
8.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms:
10.0
Service:
9.0
Cleanliness:
10.0
Food:
9.0
Amenities:
8.0
To begin with, I bought a ticket a month before departure, because there was a rush due to the May holidays and there was not much to choose from. It was not the first time abroad, and in particular in Turkey, and therefore I was absolutely calm until I started reading reviews of Russian tourists (I read about 150 and all negative ones)......... it was a nightmare, people wrote that everything is in a terrible state there, that they were almost starved, and in general that the hotel pulls no more than 3 *. But nevertheless, the vacation time was approaching (we rested from 29.04. -07.05. ) and there was hope that everything there was not as bad as it seems to someone. So it all happened, in fact, the hotel is very good.
And now in more detail:
1. SETTLEMENT.
We arrived at the hotel just in time for check-in to the rooms (check-in at 14.00), because. we were 4 people and paid for 2 standard rooms, we asked to be placed not far from each other, to which in response we received that there were free rooms in the first and last bungalows (and this is by no means close by), we were offered to live in a bungalow in the family room (two separate rooms with a shared bathroom) didn’t suit us either, there was no talk of settling in the main building, because repair work was in full swing there, in short, with an unaided eye it was clear that people want money, and Russians pay from $50 to $100 for a normal room, but don’t worry, they’ll give you a number anyway, but the question is which one overlooks the car park or somewhere above the kitchen, so you have to pay extra for such nuances. But we were more fortunate in this matter, after standing at the reception for about 30 minutes and persuading us to find two rooms nearby, we achieved our goal, the manager Mustafa came out and abruptly found two rooms nearby, while we paid a tip to the person who showed us to the room and nothing more dollar. So my advice is to drink properly so as not to overpay for it is not clear why.
2. ROOM and housekeeping.
The room was excellent (No. 2205) overlooking the small pool, the room was clean and everything worked, the mini-bar was full. As for cleaning, it’s true, they don’t clean very well, during our entire stay the towels were changed twice, the bed once, vacuumed twice, though once they twisted a swan from a towel on the bed strewn with flowers. And so every day they just made the bed. But for us, poor cleaning was not a tragedy, because. weren't particularly in the room.
3. RESTAURANT and food.
You won’t be hungry, that’s for sure. Everything was present at the buffet, starting from vegetables, greens and ending with all kinds of cakes and all sorts of sweets. There were three or four kinds of meat dishes (chicken, pork, veal, liver), but every day is different, every day was fish (trout, sardine, and a very deliciously cooked fillet of some kind of sea fish), side dishes also changed (several types of pasta, rice, potatoes (mashed potatoes, fries, baked, stewed), all kinds of vegetable stews), and besides all this, salads a lot of vegetables, various sauces, bakery products, apples, grapefruits, oranges and Maltese plums from fruits (small pears, someone called them that in a previous review. From drinks they offered crayfish (aniseed vodka), beer, white and red wine , coffee, tea, but at the expense of UPI it’s true, it’s better not to drink it (although it is present in all hotels in Turkey and Egypt). In the evening, the bars offered the same drinks, as well as cocktails (crayfish with juice, whiskey cola, gin -tonic), this is if you ask the bartender, but it’s better to ask, otherwise they won’t bother you know what. There are also three a la carte restaurants on site: fish, Turkish and barbecue, by appointment the day before the visit, but we only got into the fish one, because the other two did not work at the time of our stay.
I want to note that in the restaurant and bars the waiters cleaned very well, I did not have time to put a dirty plate, as it was immediately removed. The waiters, and indeed everyone, the cooks and bartenders and animators are very polite and always smiling.
With places it really strained a little if you didn’t come on time, you might not find where to sit, you had to wait, not always, but still it was.
4. BEACH.
The beach is sandy and pebbly, the entrance to the sea is really rocky, better swim on the right side, there are fewer stones. I can say one thing about the availability of sun loungers, there were enough of them, but I think so if the hotel is fully occupied, and its capacity is about 1500 people, then there will be a shortage of them. There is a bar on the beach with drinks and food.
5. POOL and water slides.
The pool is big and good, or rather there are two of them, connected by bridges, it is also better to take sun loungers and umbrellas in advance. There are three water slides, they work twice a day from 10.00-12.00 and 14.00-16.00.
6. ANNIMATION.
The hotel has a team of animators, of course they are great, spinning all day long. worse, very boring, some not very interesting performances are held in the amphitheater, mainly designed for children, some uncle sang in the lobby of the main building, and then when the people in the hotel increased significantly (at the time of arrival, the hotel was occupied by 40 percent ) all this was carried out on the street. The disco began at 23.30 on the -1 floor in the main building, there really is a gas chamber, a lot of people and little space and air. So at the expense of animations it's a bit tight.
The only time on the last evening we were given a "Turkish Night" artists arrived, there was a belly dance, and an oriental market, we liked it.
7. SPA, gym, sauna.
On the first day of arrival, we visited the hammam (Turkish bath), I advise everyone, this is a procedure that includes peeling the whole body, a face mask, and a general aroma massage of the whole body, this pleasure costs $ 40, after the hammam the tan lies just perfectly. Very good sauna, but designed for a small number of people. The gym is also not big but with all the necessary exercise equipment, everything is in working order, except for one exercise machine. There is also an indoor pool, but unfortunately for some reason it is not heated.
8. EXCURSIONS.
They offer many different excursions. Personally, we were on a sightseeing tour of Side, it costs $ 15, minus this excursion stupid shopping in gold and leather centers, with super high prices, otherwise we took nothing to Hierapolis, to Manavgat and to the waterfall, lunch I was by the Manavgat River. Two years ago I was resting in Kemer, I went to the same panoramic view of Antalya, I liked it more, but it still depends on the guide. In general, I advise you to go to Kekovo, this is really interesting, but from Kemer closer and cheaper.
And now let me summarize. The hotel is basically good, with the exception of some nuances that you should not bother with, the main thing is to take positive and good mood with you on vacation. But for myself, I concluded that we should go to hotels with a smaller capacity of vacationers (we were at the beginning of the season, the hotel was not completely full, it's hard to imagine if it is 100% full, the staff will simply run out of steam and will not be in time, and there will also be a rush with a lack of umbrellas and sun loungers), and I will no longer go to a hotel where 90% of vacationers - Russians, our people really don’t know how to behave, I don’t even want to comment on it, before that I was in hotels where Germans, British and Italians mostly rested, a completely different mentality and behavior.
And the main thing is that I have never read reviews (except this time) and I won’t read again, because how many people, so many opinions, you can’t please everyone, so until you see everything from the inside you won’t know how it really is, but we rested well.
And now in more detail:
1. SETTLEMENT.
We arrived at the hotel just in time for check-in to the rooms (check-in at 14.00), because. we were 4 people and paid for 2 standard rooms, we asked to be placed not far from each other, to which in response we received that there were free rooms in the first and last bungalows (and this is by no means close by), we were offered to live in a bungalow in the family room (two separate rooms with a shared bathroom) didn’t suit us either, there was no talk of settling in the main building, because repair work was in full swing there, in short, with an unaided eye it was clear that people want money, and Russians pay from $50 to $100 for a normal room, but don’t worry, they’ll give you a number anyway, but the question is which one overlooks the car park or somewhere above the kitchen, so you have to pay extra for such nuances. But we were more fortunate in this matter, after standing at the reception for about 30 minutes and persuading us to find two rooms nearby, we achieved our goal, the manager Mustafa came out and abruptly found two rooms nearby, while we paid a tip to the person who showed us to the room and nothing more dollar. So my advice is to drink properly so as not to overpay for it is not clear why.
2. ROOM and housekeeping.
The room was excellent (No. 2205) overlooking the small pool, the room was clean and everything worked, the mini-bar was full. As for cleaning, it’s true, they don’t clean very well, during our entire stay the towels were changed twice, the bed once, vacuumed twice, though once they twisted a swan from a towel on the bed strewn with flowers. And so every day they just made the bed. But for us, poor cleaning was not a tragedy, because. weren't particularly in the room.
3. RESTAURANT and food.
You won’t be hungry, that’s for sure. Everything was present at the buffet, starting from vegetables, greens and ending with all kinds of cakes and all sorts of sweets. There were three or four kinds of meat dishes (chicken, pork, veal, liver), but every day is different, every day was fish (trout, sardine, and a very deliciously cooked fillet of some kind of sea fish), side dishes also changed (several types of pasta, rice, potatoes (mashed potatoes, fries, baked, stewed), all kinds of vegetable stews), and besides all this, salads a lot of vegetables, various sauces, bakery products, apples, grapefruits, oranges and Maltese plums from fruits (small pears, someone called them that in a previous review. From drinks they offered crayfish (aniseed vodka), beer, white and red wine , coffee, tea, but at the expense of UPI it’s true, it’s better not to drink it (although it is present in all hotels in Turkey and Egypt). In the evening, the bars offered the same drinks, as well as cocktails (crayfish with juice, whiskey cola, gin -tonic), this is if you ask the bartender, but it’s better to ask, otherwise they won’t bother you know what. There are also three a la carte restaurants on site: fish, Turkish and barbecue, by appointment the day before the visit, but we only got into the fish one, because the other two did not work at the time of our stay.
I want to note that in the restaurant and bars the waiters cleaned very well, I did not have time to put a dirty plate, as it was immediately removed. The waiters, and indeed everyone, the cooks and bartenders and animators are very polite and always smiling.
With places it really strained a little if you didn’t come on time, you might not find where to sit, you had to wait, not always, but still it was.
4. BEACH.
The beach is sandy and pebbly, the entrance to the sea is really rocky, better swim on the right side, there are fewer stones. I can say one thing about the availability of sun loungers, there were enough of them, but I think so if the hotel is fully occupied, and its capacity is about 1500 people, then there will be a shortage of them. There is a bar on the beach with drinks and food.
5. POOL and water slides.
The pool is big and good, or rather there are two of them, connected by bridges, it is also better to take sun loungers and umbrellas in advance. There are three water slides, they work twice a day from 10.00-12.00 and 14.00-16.00.
6. ANNIMATION.
The hotel has a team of animators, of course they are great, spinning all day long. worse, very boring, some not very interesting performances are held in the amphitheater, mainly designed for children, some uncle sang in the lobby of the main building, and then when the people in the hotel increased significantly (at the time of arrival, the hotel was occupied by 40 percent ) all this was carried out on the street. The disco began at 23.30 on the -1 floor in the main building, there really is a gas chamber, a lot of people and little space and air. So at the expense of animations it's a bit tight.
The only time on the last evening we were given a "Turkish Night" artists arrived, there was a belly dance, and an oriental market, we liked it.
7. SPA, gym, sauna.
On the first day of arrival, we visited the hammam (Turkish bath), I advise everyone, this is a procedure that includes peeling the whole body, a face mask, and a general aroma massage of the whole body, this pleasure costs $ 40, after the hammam the tan lies just perfectly. Very good sauna, but designed for a small number of people. The gym is also not big but with all the necessary exercise equipment, everything is in working order, except for one exercise machine. There is also an indoor pool, but unfortunately for some reason it is not heated.
8. EXCURSIONS.
They offer many different excursions. Personally, we were on a sightseeing tour of Side, it costs $ 15, minus this excursion stupid shopping in gold and leather centers, with super high prices, otherwise we took nothing to Hierapolis, to Manavgat and to the waterfall, lunch I was by the Manavgat River. Two years ago I was resting in Kemer, I went to the same panoramic view of Antalya, I liked it more, but it still depends on the guide. In general, I advise you to go to Kekovo, this is really interesting, but from Kemer closer and cheaper.
And now let me summarize. The hotel is basically good, with the exception of some nuances that you should not bother with, the main thing is to take positive and good mood with you on vacation. But for myself, I concluded that we should go to hotels with a smaller capacity of vacationers (we were at the beginning of the season, the hotel was not completely full, it's hard to imagine if it is 100% full, the staff will simply run out of steam and will not be in time, and there will also be a rush with a lack of umbrellas and sun loungers), and I will no longer go to a hotel where 90% of vacationers - Russians, our people really don’t know how to behave, I don’t even want to comment on it, before that I was in hotels where Germans, British and Italians mostly rested, a completely different mentality and behavior.
And the main thing is that I have never read reviews (except this time) and I won’t read again, because how many people, so many opinions, you can’t please everyone, so until you see everything from the inside you won’t know how it really is, but we rested well.
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