Неплохой отель Good hotel

We rested with my wife and daughter (1 year 7 months) in June 2012. We were in Turkey for the first time, as well as on a beach holiday, before that we had been to Europe and Crimea. The hotel as a whole is normal, it feels like just a four: no obvious flaws, but a lot can be improved. In general, I’m unlikely to go to Turkey again, the pastime is extremely dull.
The territory of the hotel, although small, is very green and pleasant, there is where to take a walk. There is greenery outside, but these are not forests, but “trees in the desert”, you can’t walk there in the heat. The beach is normal, although the exit of the rock from the shore is certainly dumb, you can wind up with waves, so it’s better to go to the side. Walking to the beach mostly in the sun, a little annoying, but not critical. From the gates of the hotel to the sea there is a square with exchange offices (the exchange rate is normal), shops (there are many things, it is better to change bucks / euros into lira and pay everywhere with them) and cafes. I rented an old bicycle at the hotel for 2 euros, rode to the mouth of the Manavgat River - there is not much to see. But the city of Side is very interesting - both with ruins and streets (bus No. 11 goes there, back No. 10, stops at the gates of all hotels, costs a couple of lira; it takes 10-15 minutes, from the bus station to the city another 10 minutes on foot).
Feeding is dense and quite varied, but if you look, then some kind of garbage. God forbid 1-2 normal meat dishes, sometimes more. Confectionery almost entirely from jelly and honey, phew. The wine is very mediocre, but the beer was pleasant. In general, it is quite possible to eat all sorts of things and not get poisoned, but the pleasure from this is no more than from the canteen at work. Where is the a la carte restaurant?

There were mostly Germans of different ages, which is good, there are also enough of ours (thank God, without drunken companies "tagil rules"), a few Italians. The staff is well-mannered, they mostly speak German, at the reception they usually understand English and Russian, but some don’t even speak English (a couple of times I couldn’t even get a cocktail at the bar, this is of course a shock).
They settled us at one in the morning, of course they didn’t leave any dinner. The windows turned out to be on the road and the neighboring hotel, they have a stage right next to the road, i. e. under our windows. The next evening there was a megadiscach until 12 at night; in the morning they asked to be moved, they normally gave a room on the top floor with windows to the playground (I gave the receptionist 20 lire for this as a thank you, they didn’t give anything to anyone else). But even there you can hear the noise of neighboring animations, sometimes until one in the morning. I don’t understand at all how to live in window-to-window hotels.
Who cares which rooms to settle in, compiled a complete list of them. The system is as follows: rooms 10XX - 1st floor, 20XX - 2nd, 1XX - 3rd, 2XX - 4th, 3XX - 5th; 6XX, 7XX and 8XX - respectively, the 1st, 2nd and 3rd floors of the additional building. Windows on the road and the neighboring hotel: 1001-1005.2001-2007.101-119.201-219.301-313. Windows to the playground and additional building (quite quiet and green): 120-141 (at the same time, 128-141 go to the transformer, it makes noise), 227-248.322-334. Windows on the bar (animation may make noise in the evening): 220-226.314-321. Windows to the north (nothing wrong): 335-339.
In the room, everything is generally normal, except for the bath-shower, which is of course terrible, but tolerable. Of course, the widespread habit of the maids to make the bed every day and roll up the towels without changing them and the linen infuriated (it becomes unclear which towel they wiped themselves with, and which child, and which end to the feet lay the blanket).
The pool is not bad, there are no strength training equipment. The playground is very modest - although the main thing is that it is in the shade and by the pool. We met a monitor lizard and a bat on the territory, and a turtle behind the fence.

Separately, I would like to say about the Neva travel agency, through which we went there. Okay, that's just a disregard for tourists, constant, incl. indecent attempts to “suck in” something (including “technical stops” at the shops at the first hour of the night on the transfer). It’s also an outright, senseless lie: when you ask a guide where you can buy diapers here? – only in the hotel, nowhere else! Where to exchange money? - just me! But really, go outside the gates of the hotel - and everything is there and inexpensively. “You won’t get to the city, you need to make three transfers! ” - and there 10 minutes on an empty bus.