visited Side at the end of July this year. We chose the Villa Side Residence 5 * hotel, guided by the information provided for tourists on various sites, including Turpravda. com (special thanks to the site). Photos brightly and colorfully attracted, a few reviews also did not bode well. Arriving in Antalya, we moved within an hour to the village of Kumkoy, where the hotel is located.
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visited Side at the end of July this year. We chose the Villa Side Residence 5 * hotel, guided by the information provided for tourists on various sites, including Turpravda. com (special thanks to the site). Photos brightly and colorfully attracted, a few reviews also did not bode well. Arriving in Antalya, we moved within an hour to the village of Kumkoy, where the hotel is located. The check-in was more than successful, we were not forced to wait at 14.00 and were taken to the room by 12, which was very handy, since the flight was at night and we were very tired. For this, I would like to say a special thank you to a wonderful person, Olga from St. Petersburg, who worked at the reception that day. We liked the room, the windows and the balcony overlooked the inner part of the hotel, where the turquoise pools were picturesquely located. At first, we did not imagine what it was fraught with, rejoicing that the windows did not overlook the opposite side, where the old cemetery was peacefully located (an unobtrusive reminder of the frailty of life). We began to experience all the delights of our room almost immediately. In the afternoon, exactly at 14.00 and until 16.00!! ! for some reason, the animators tried intensively to shout over each other into the microphone under three or four annoying compositions from the speakers at full power. And so EVERY DAY!! ! Neither closed windows nor earplugs can save you from this noise, so you can only sleep at lunchtime if you are deaf and dumb. Closer to dinner, grilled meat dishes begin to be prepared on the terrace. This is a separate test, I will report to you. The smell of burning fat! everything rises and tends to you in the room, so you can refuse to go to dinner at this stage. But whatever one may say, lunch is on schedule and this is what the hotel restaurant is like. This is a festival of colors and figures, plates and forks, rituals and expectations. But in order. Everything is cut and laid out very beautifully, desserts deserve special admiration, which are simply visible, invisible. The first reaction to such a variety is to try everything! It seems that the days are not enough to test everything. Then, slowly comes the realization that by and large there is nothing to eat. Here is such a paradox. The next stage is the search for edible and (most importantly) not traveled. I will not describe in detail all the delights of fish poisoning, but in recent days I had to limit myself to tea with sugar and crackers, which quickly dispersed, because, apparently, many had digestive problems, only everyone was modestly silent about this and tried to survive. I think that only new arrivals were embarrassed in front of the waiters for half-eaten food, and then not for long. In short, you can eat only if you have exceptional health and you do not feel sorry for him.
A separate pleasure, for which you actually fly to distant lands, is the sea. A tunnel goes to it (by the way, it was a good idea, it’s cool there and you can cool off in such a heat). A special car is on duty near the exit, which can deliver directly to the beach in a minute and can also pick it up back. It is only better to walk to the beach, using your natural legs and watch the swallows fly and the plants bloom. On the beach, you have at your disposal orderly rows of sun loungers with umbrellas. The sand is fine, clean, the order on the beach is strictly monitored. Excellent entry into the water, smooth, without algae and stones. Everything is perfect.
Now about the contingent. In the hotel with us, mostly tourists from Germany and England rested. Everyone came with their families, adorable kids, who behaved surprisingly calmly. Everyone rests the same way, only it remains strange that children are forced to share their parents' addiction to drag on a cigarette. Parents smoke often and a lot, children and other vacationers passively join. Terrible feeling.
Very long review, but the most interesting, as usual, at the end. On the 5th day I got burned (I stayed in the water for a long time and my shoulders burned). The result is temperature. The night passed in the struggle for normal body temperature. The degree was lowered, but the consequences were catastrophic. Toward evening of the next day, numerous traces of bedbug bites were found on the hands and soles of the feet. They turned red and severe itching was accompanied by hellish pain. CATASTROPHE!! ! The hotel is full of bed bugs!! ! (who was bitten by bedbugs, raise your hand, who was not bitten, pray that this never happens). The hands were unaesthetically covered with red bubbles, itchy something. Each step was given with such agony that I remembered the Little Mermaid, who changed her tail to human legs. I remembered the lines: "each step caused the little mermaid such pain, as if she were stepping on sharp knives and needles; but she patiently endured the pain and walked hand in hand with the prince easily, as if through air. " The prince was not around, so I tried to stoically transfer this victim to the doctor's office. By the way, the hotel is really huge and the number of vacationers requires the presence of a qualified doctor there around the clock. Unfortunately, I cannot say this. In a medical office (if you can call it that), a bored young man in headphones sits, indifferently and detachedly listening to your problem and referring to some always busy doctor who will come sometime later and maybe sympathize. So be prepared that in case of unforeseen situations, this hotel has a "help yourself and don't bother playing with a hundred" scheme.
The bottom line of the story: the hotel is very pompous and pretentiously decorated, but behind this lies a cold calculation and lack of human conditions. The service staff behaves rudely, the presence of parasites indicates that sanitary standards are not observed, gastronomic conditions are not suitable for everyone. Responsibly I do not recommend.
A separate pleasure, for which you actually fly to distant lands, is the sea. A tunnel goes to it (by the way, it was a good idea, it’s cool there and you can cool off in such a heat). A special car is on duty near the exit, which can deliver directly to the beach in a minute and can also pick it up back. It is only better to walk to the beach, using your natural legs and watch the swallows fly and the plants bloom. On the beach, you have at your disposal orderly rows of sun loungers with umbrellas. The sand is fine, clean, the order on the beach is strictly monitored. Excellent entry into the water, smooth, without algae and stones. Everything is perfect.
Now about the contingent. In the hotel with us, mostly tourists from Germany and England rested. Everyone came with their families, adorable kids, who behaved surprisingly calmly. Everyone rests the same way, only it remains strange that children are forced to share their parents' addiction to drag on a cigarette. Parents smoke often and a lot, children and other vacationers passively join. Terrible feeling.
Very long review, but the most interesting, as usual, at the end. On the 5th day I got burned (I stayed in the water for a long time and my shoulders burned). The result is temperature. The night passed in the struggle for normal body temperature. The degree was lowered, but the consequences were catastrophic. Toward evening of the next day, numerous traces of bedbug bites were found on the hands and soles of the feet. They turned red and severe itching was accompanied by hellish pain. CATASTROPHE!! ! The hotel is full of bed bugs!! ! (who was bitten by bedbugs, raise your hand, who was not bitten, pray that this never happens). The hands were unaesthetically covered with red bubbles, itchy something. Each step was given with such agony that I remembered the Little Mermaid, who changed her tail to human legs. I remembered the lines: "each step caused the little mermaid such pain, as if she were stepping on sharp knives and needles; but she patiently endured the pain and walked hand in hand with the prince easily, as if through air. " The prince was not around, so I tried to stoically transfer this victim to the doctor's office. By the way, the hotel is really huge and the number of vacationers requires the presence of a qualified doctor there around the clock. Unfortunately, I cannot say this. In a medical office (if you can call it that), a bored young man in headphones sits, indifferently and detachedly listening to your problem and referring to some always busy doctor who will come sometime later and maybe sympathize. So be prepared that in case of unforeseen situations, this hotel has a "help yourself and don't bother playing with a hundred" scheme.
The bottom line of the story: the hotel is very pompous and pretentiously decorated, but behind this lies a cold calculation and lack of human conditions. The service staff behaves rudely, the presence of parasites indicates that sanitary standards are not observed, gastronomic conditions are not suitable for everyone. Responsibly I do not recommend.
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We got to this hotel by chance, for one day, due to the fact that there were no free rooms in our Grand pearl beach hotel, despite the fact that we bought tickets in advance, back in April. And there were no seats due to the fact that several flights of planes were delayed for several hours... In general, they brought us to Villa SIde Residen .
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We got to this hotel by chance, for one day, due to the fact that there were no free rooms in our Grand pearl beach hotel, despite the fact that we bought tickets in advance, back in April. And there were no seats due to the fact that several flights of planes were delayed for several hours... In general, they brought us to Villa SIde Residen . . they immediately said that the hotel was the best, although it was far from the sea. We just got into a fairy tale. . . A hall in purple velvet, a multi-meter golden chandelier, golden elevators with golden buttons, only foreigners, there were practically no Russians. A pleasant atmosphere in the bar on the 1st floor, there is no flea market in the restaurant, a great disco, my 9-year-old daughter had a great time with me))) The room is chic, among other things there are slippers, a razor with gel, a comb. In general, we were not even clouded by moving from one hotel to another, new impressions and sensations again . . ) I advise!
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