Очень хороший отдых Very good holiday

Tour operator - TUI.
Settlement. We arrived before 12. We were sent to walk around the territory and eat at the snack bar. Settled at 12. The girl at the reception is good and understands and speaks Russian. We asked for a second floor, and they gave it to us without any additional payments. Only the second floor they call the first, and the first - zero. The reception issues an electronic key card and a card for a beach towel. And you can go to your room.
Number. Everything is clean, neat, standard. Double comfortable bed. Bedside tables. Large mirror and cabinet underneath. Refrigerator for minibar, but absolutely not needed. They put only two bottles of water, and then not every day. But there is plenty of water on site, you can take as many bottles as you need without a mini-bar. In the hallway there is a large wardrobe. Different shelves in the closet, lots of space. Two dozen hangers hung in the closet. On one of the shelves were warm blankets and a spare pillow. There is also a small safe in the closet. We paid for the entire stay (at the rate of 1.5 euros per day) at the reception on the same day, they opened it and gave us a small piece of paper with instructions for use in Russian. What I found uncomfortable in the room was the shower and toilet. Inconvenient to use, cramped, the water in the shower did not drain normally into the drain, every time after bathing it stood on the floor until it was wiped off during cleaning. The door, when opened, rests against the toilet, so closely. There are no disposable showers. There is a dispenser near the washstand and a second dispenser in the shower room. The receptionist asked what was there? The answer is liquid soap. That's all: no gel, no shampoo, no slippers, take everything with you. The washbasin was very uncomfortable. A large marble container, and a small, short faucet, under which it is even difficult to wash your hands, as the water spills along the sides of the marble countertop, hardly getting into the drain. Therefore, as for the shower and toilet, there are many questions, but of course you can live with it. Everything else is quite normal. We never find fault with repairs and furniture, we don’t have such a habit. Everything is comfortable, clean, tidy and thank God. Large wide balcony. On the balcony there is a glass table with an ashtray and two plastic chairs. Drying in the form of three sliding tubes is screwed to the wall. Conveniently. Clothespins are not needed.

Cleaning. All perfectly. Change of towels daily. In addition to Monday, they have an ecological day when cleaning is carried out only in occupied rooms. On other days, there was no change of towels. Sometimes they were even left longer due to the fact that figurines of them were spun on the bed. By the end of the first week, our shower ran out of soap in the dispenser. They thought the next day they would see and top up. No, they came, there was cleaning, the dispenser was empty. The next day I hung a towel on the dispenser to pay attention. Came, no towels, but the dispenser is empty. On the third day, they brought a cleaner by the hand (since I didn’t understand Russian or English), and pointed to the dispenser. Refilled. Thanks))).
Territory and pool. Fine. Purely. The attendants are young guys who clean all day long. How lizards move throughout the territory: quickly, imperceptibly, clearly. Every half an hour, or even more often, they remove all the garbage near the sunbeds on the pool, clean the trash cans, remove all the dishes from the tables under the umbrellas. All paths, toilets (of which there are many on the territory) are constantly cleaned. In the evening, all sunbeds are washed. The pool is cleaned every evening with a water vacuum cleaner. The pool is always perfectly clean, not a single trash has ever floated. I didn't see any rubbish on the beach either. They clean everything with a tractor and clean everything with their hands. Everywhere is clean and tidy. There is a lot of greenery, landscape design is everywhere. For cats, houses and feeders are made on the territory, where only dry food is poured for them. No smell anywhere, no dirt, no debris.
Vacationers. Very international audience. Always listened to people's speech. According to personal observations, Russian speakers - 40 percent, at least a third. In general, a lot - this is Ukraine, and Russia, and Belarus, etc. There are a lot of Turks themselves. 20 percent. Well, the rest - from everywhere. Animators in competitions have always asked people to introduce themselves and name the country. So it was the impression that the whole of Europe. Especially many - Germany and England. "Tagil" was not seen either among ours or among foreigners. 90% of the contingent are young and middle-aged families with children. A small observation: 50% of foreigners read books!!! ! NOT electronic, but paper fiction - covers in English and German are visible on the sunbeds!! ! I have not seen a single book in Russian for 10 days. Here is the most reading nation))))
Sea and beach. There are simply no words! Extraordinarily large sandy beach. The width is 100 meters. The length is generally measured in kilometers. Though to the left, even to the right - no fences, no restrictions. On the territory of neighboring hotels, security does not let anywhere. But along the beach, if you wish, you can even walk to Side. The hotel beach is great. The beach has been awarded a blue flag. The sea is ideal: clean, even at a depth you can see the bottom, despite the fact that the bottom is sandy; always calm, at least we didn’t have waves for 10 days; warm. Not the same, of course, as in the pool, but there is generally fresh milk. But very nice!! ! The sea is deep almost as soon as you enter. Only two meters is not very deep for children to swim. But the sand is amazing. We walked along the beach to neighboring hotels, walked about 2 kilometers, and swam along the way. So such a good sandy entry into the sea as in this hotel is not everywhere. In neighboring hotels there are stone slabs in the sea underfoot, slippery, unpleasant. In this hotel, the sunset and the bottom are excellent. The beach is always clean. Sunbeds are all under a canopy in the shade. But you can pull them out a little in the sun. Some pulled them across the entire beach to the very shore of the sea. Although there are signs that this is not necessary. But the guards, in principle, did not make comments for this, so whoever wanted to pull, pulled. There are a LOT of sun loungers, it is impossible not to find a free place. From the pool to the beach - 50 meters, but the beach itself is very wide - another 100 meters along the beach to the sea.

Animators and entertainment. Adults, kids, kids. The animation is endless. For kids on the territory there is a whole town with its own snack bar, playground, with its own animators. For adults, daily entertainment: water polo, darts, archery, aerobics, water aerobics, etc. Daily evening show in the amphitheater and daily disco. Once on the beach there was a "beach party" with a fire show and a foam disco. It is not true when they say that there is no animation in Russian. Among the animators there is a guy and a girl from Ukraine, they speak all languages. The main animator who conducts all games and entertainment in the pool speaks all phrases in four languages: Turkish, German, English, Russian. No one anywhere infringes on either Ukrainians or Russians for their language. For some reason, our people constantly note in their reviews that the attitude towards Russian speakers is worse. Well, where do you see this in Turkey? They have smiles from ear to ear, all the staff. This is some kind of biased attitude of our tourists, who cheat themselves and go with this conviction with gloomy faces, maybe this is what attracts such an attitude to themselves. Not once, not a single waiter, not a single animator or receptionist changed his face when he heard Russian speech. Normal attitude to all, do not cheat.
Swimming pools and water park. Also great!! ! I have already written about the cleanliness and cleaning of the pool. The basin is divided into sectors according to depth. In one part of the pool there is a fountain, in the other - a children's shallow depth, in the third - animation is carried out, in the fourth - a calm deep zone where you can relax, etc. In the middle of the pool is an island with a bar and a Chinese restaurant. In addition to the main one, there is Malyshovsky, very shallow in depth, but with slides. Lots of loungers around the pool. You can find a place not occupied by towels at any time of the day. Water park - about ten slides. The slides are good, there are many circles, there is enough for everyone. There is a children's area with small slides. The only remark is that the steps are very slippery when climbing. Somewhere you can see the remains of rubber bands on the steps, which have all been torn off for a long time, but no one makes new ones. Children fly at speed barefoot on the stairs, no one fell in my presence, but it’s actually scary, because it’s very slippery, and very high too. Since the water park is open all day, there was no excitement, at any time you could come and quietly ride for both children and adults. There is a whole group of young guys in the water park keeping order. At the bottom of the slides, at the top of the slides, they stand, observe, regulate traffic, no chaos was observed. Also order.
Restaurants, bars, food. Everything is delicious, the choice is huge. It would be very interesting to hear from those who did not like the food what they eat and what dishes they specifically lacked. Well, the truth is, it’s really interesting, because your imagination is not enough to suggest what it could be, and in which hotels this is served)))). Of the 50 (at least) items of dishes, you can’t choose something to your liking, you have to try. The largest amount is, of course, vegetable dishes. In addition to fresh vegetables, there are a lot of Turkish vegetable dishes stuffed with rice and minced meat. Like our cabbage rolls, only they are served cold and absolutely any vegetable is stuffed: tomato, zucchini, pepper, blue ones, even apricots with minced meat, by the way, delicious. But the most delicious stuffed masterpiece is figs. And the figs were caramelized on the sweet table, also delicious. Lots of sauté ed vegetables, stews, etc. Lots of blue food. Grilled vegetables all the time. From meat: chicken, lamb, lamb, veal. Often for dinner - grilled meat. Always: pizza, shawarma, cheese cakes, french fries, fried potatoes in different types, rice with different seasonings, pasta of different types. Always fried fish of several kinds. Grilled red sturgeon was once and once was shrimp salad. Sweet table - a huge selection. Well, you can't list everything. For 10 days, all the dishes have not been tried. Two minuses that were significant for us: the lack of fruit and the lack of normal coffee. Everything, there were no more cons. Fruits - only apples and oranges. A couple of times plums, and a few times watermelon (not very sweet). For such a hotel, this is a minus. Well, coffee - ugly Jacobs from the machine. There were no teapots with brewed coffee familiar to us. And Turkish coffee in small cups was neither in the bars nor in the restaurant. It's a pity. As for other drinks, with them, as usual in such hotels: juices like UPI from the machine. Freshly squeezed orange juice could be bought with money. I do not remember how much it costs, did not buy. Alcohol in the main restaurant: white wine, rosé wine, red wine (you can drink), light beer (tasty) and that's it. Alcohol in the bar was not particularly interested, sort of like for a fee. There are several bars on the territory, one on the beach: fanta, cola, sprite, beer.
A la card restaurants. There are three of them: Turkish, Italian, Chinese. We were at two. You can only check in at the machine at the reception. The machine issues a ticket with the date and time. We were warned by the representative of the tour operator that one week, one restaurant. Since we were 11 days (that is almost two weeks), we enrolled in Chinese and Italian. But by the end of our stay, an announcement was posted on the automatic registrars that for the entire stay you can register only once, for the second time you have to pay 20 euros. We get it right. It makes no sense to sign up for a Turkish restaurant, since every Wednesday there is a Turkish dinner in the main restaurant. You will try a lot of really Turkish dishes. Between Chinese and Italian, it is difficult to advise, here who loves what. And there, and there we liked it. Everything is very tasty, plentiful and satisfying.

About ice cream. The tour operator warned us that ice cream is paid. But it turned out not. It was also free. At the exit to the beach there is a vending machine with three types of overhead ice cream. True, it is not very tasty, so, fruit water. But the kids are happy. And we also tried the paid one. Near the pool in two places for sale. One ball - 1 dollar. Here is paid very tasty, many kinds of different.
Promenade. Go outside the hotel, turn right, and walk for 15 minutes, a distance of about 1-2 km. A long street with shops, pharmacies, rental of gyroboards and all sorts of cars and motorcycles, a fountain and a large lake. Take a walk and buy souvenirs or Turkish things - that's it. By the way, in the hotel itself there are also outlets with things, jewelry, souvenirs. Don't rush to buy. The prices are overpriced. Back to the hotel always returned along the beach. So it goes even faster and in a straight line.
Excursions. Everything is as usual, the representative of the tour operator tells what wonderful tours they have and only they have, and how dangerous it is to buy them outside the hotel. At the same time breaking the double price. As usual, we went NOT from a tour operator, and did not regret it. The company "Baba Tour", the owner, he is also a Russian-speaking GREAT guide - Sasha Bely))))) Already there were reviews about him. Tour sales points are located along the boardwalk. They give brochures with descriptions of excursions and prices. We chose a yacht trip from the Manavgat River with access to the open sea, to the city of Side, with a visit to the Turtle Island, swimming in the open sea and a foam party for children. The price for adults is 20 dollars, for children 10. Total 30. The same tour with a tour operator would cost 55 dollars. Here also consider. And the tour is simply magnificent, including thanks to Sasha the guide, humorous, cheerful, talented, with a twinkle. Everything went off without a hitch. Even if you don’t take a tour, try to go to Side anyway. A wonderful town, bright, beautiful, with ancient ruins. The photos turn out amazing. There is a bus stop in front of the hotel. Travel from the hotel to Side = 1 dollar. Drive 10 minutes. To Manavgat - 15 minutes. We went to the Waikiki store, we thought it was a big mall. Disappointed, we have more choice. But Side is a beauty. Must go for sure!!!
That's all!

I recommend the hotel!! ! Vacation was great!