I used to travel around Europe and communicate with everyone in English. It turned out that in Turkey, as in this hotel, languages are bad enough. Of all the staff, only the hotel owner spoke Russian; everyone else communicated with gestures or through a translator via telephone. They don't speak English either, but that's not a problem. There is someone at the reception even at night (checked personally) and this is a plus. I got a room on the 1st floor, about 12m. Ordinary furniture, tiles, towels. There is a safe, the refrigerator does not understand how (does it work?). The air conditioner is well placed in the corner and the bed is in the middle. So he blows not on people lying on the bed, but cools the room. Respect for this. I read a review here that there was no electricity. In order for it to appear, you need to throw the room key fob into the thing next to the switch. You take out the key - de-energize the number. So many things are done. Breakfast at 8:30. It takes place near the pool (I did not swim in it myself, but the Turks swam). Breakfast is almost always the same: boiled egg, sliced cucumbers and tomatoes, olives, a piece of cheese, jams, tea, watermelon. The tea is excellent. Unlike our colored water, they drink real tea here. Eat watermelon and rolls as much as you like. for some reason they have some kind of watermelon cult here. It may seem that the breakfast is poor, but this is the case in many hotels in Turkey. Dinner at 19:00 (and it’s better not to be an hour or more late). For the first course there was puree soup (there was bean soup, something like rassolnik, something between borscht and rassolnik... often a lot of spices). For the second course, bulgur or pasta with meat, less often fish. Added to all this is hot pepper (almost everywhere it is served separately), vegetable salad and several other types of different salads. Pretty tasty. For dessert, watermelon. Wash it down with a bottle of cola (strange, why not tea?). The staff eats with the visitors (usually later) and everything is the same. They cleaned my place about once every 3 days. There were no problems with hot water. The only thing was to wait until it warmed up. It was inconvenient in that there was essentially nowhere to dry clothes in the room. It’s better to shop in stores near the white mosque (and the clock tower) - everything is more expensive in the shops on the avenue. It’s better to save money on the beach and buy corrals, because even if you find a beach with small pebbles, the entry into the sea will still be over large cobblestones (see photo). Be sure to use SPF - the sun turned out to be very strong.
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