Side Palm d'or Hotel

The food, breakfast was almost not prepared. There is no animation organization, no rest facility as you know. Music and cafe closes at 10 o'clock. There is nothing for children. Everyone watches the children on their phones in the evening, as if it is a nursing home. It is not a 4-star hotel segment, they enter the pool with tank tops, drunks run wild, we only have one holiday a year, I wish we hadn't come across it. Is it that much of a burden to put a trash can and an ashtray next to the sun loungers? The only good thing is the smiling and affectionate staff, except for the manager.

The hotel is located in a fairly quiet place. Mostly Turkish families come here, so you can hear Turkish speech here more often. Lots of children. No animation in the evening. Turkish music plays in the pool. The food is also Turkish. During our 9 days of stay, we had fish for dinner twice. For lunch - chicken, meat, some fried sausages. For lunch and dinner, there is always one type of soup. A huge number of sauces, but they are an acquired taste (yogurt dressings, tomato). Desserts are mostly monotonous - cakes made of semolina or some kind of cereal, in different colors. Fresh vegetables, stewed. Rice, noodles, potatoes. Fruit - 2 types for lunch and dinner. The bar offers free cola, fanta, sprite and some alcoholic drinks (we didn't take them). The cook often comes out into the hall and asks if everything is to your liking. You can also often see the owner of the hotel - in the lobby, in the dining room or near the pool. The lobby is divided into several parts, each with an air conditioner, but only the one in the reception area works, and you need to turn it on yourself. In general, the administrators are unhurried, but they help with any question. They speak English and Turkish. It is difficult to see Russians in the pool. Mostly Turkish families swim. The room was cleaned every day, but the towels were not changed. The first few days the maid made swans out of them for us) the beach is not far, through an underground passage. Sun loungers are paid (not all beaches allow it, you need to negotiate, but here they already understand Russian well). We went to coppa beach once - did not like it. Firstly, the wrong time - from 9-30 to 16-00. That is, lunch is skipped. And at such a time you can simply get sunburned, the sun does not spare here. Plus, at coppa beach they will come to you every hour and ask if you want to buy something from the bar. In general, it seemed tiring and intrusive to us) a transfer takes you to and from this beach. The hotel itself is conveniently located - not far from the main road, so you can take buses and get to Antik Side. Nearby is a market with pharmacies, souvenir and grocery stores.

Well, let's start from the beginning!!! I stayed at this hotel in 2022 and it was pretty good in terms of price-quality, but over the past year it has changed a lot and not for the better 👎👎👎. I'll try to tell you briefly on the matter) I was there for 22 days this year and only 4 days the air conditioner worked in the lobby 👎👎👎 there was nothing to breathe, and if you consider that many guests sit there because you can only get internet there and that's barely, barely even that 😱😱😱. The curtains and chairs in the room have holes 😱😱😱 . The owner saves on everything 😡 At the bar, drinks are poured into disposable plastic cups for water and it doesn't matter if you take beer, wine, whiskey, crayfish..., imagine that when you buy cocktails for money, they also pour them into the same glasses 👎👎👎😱 the straws are cut in half 😰 and those weren't enough, how is that possible???👎😡. The menu is terrible, there is nothing to eat👎👎 Soy goulash is just a nightmare in a hotel that is declared as 4 * and it was so that this is the only choice of allegedly meat👎👎👎 there were not enough salads for everyone😰 . Lunch started at 12:30 and if you come at 13:30 out of 5 salads you can only see 1 and that at the bottom😡😡😡. The staff does not speak Russian, one manager is good, but the second only sits with the owner and supervises Russian-speaking guests😡 the attitude is terrible from the owner and the second manager 👎👎👎 . Only Turkish music (I have nothing against it), but they are not the only ones relaxing there👎👎👎 There is no animation at all 😡👎 And so that you understand how they treat guests, a small example. During the time I was there, 3 Russians had their birthdays (including me), and we didn’t receive any compliments from the hotel, nor did we even hear any verbal ones, but when a Turkish guest had his birthday, they presented him with a cake with candles, which speaks volumes about how they treated us👎👎 The hotel is terrible, you shouldn’t go there, honestly, I don’t recommend it to anyone 😡😱👎👎👎 This is not a 4*, but a 1 and doesn’t even have any stars!!!

So, in order. We arrived early, at 8 am. Keep in mind that if you are carrying non-standard cargo, such as a stroller or scooter, you will need to pick it up somewhere else, not on the luggage belt. A transfer picked us up and brought us to the hotel. Taking into account stopping at two other hotels along the way, the travel time was 1.5 hours. In general, we were at the hotel at 10.40. There they gave us bracelets, immediately gave us the key to the room and we checked into the room. They have lunch at 12.30, so we were able to eat only after 12.30. The hotel itself is small. Of course, when it was new, it could definitely be called a 4-star hotel. But now, when everyone is already tired, it barely reaches 4 stars. The Internet is free only at the reception. But the speed, the speed... It's just a mockery: for 2023, a speed of 0.4 Mbps is nothing at all. It is impossible to talk on Viber. It is difficult to talk on Wattsapp. I hope the hotel owners will read the review and fix this shortcoming. You can buy paid Internet, it will work in the room, the cost is 10 € for 7 days. At the reception, the registrar speaks only Turkish and English. We were lucky that our hotel guide was there at the time of our check-in, there was one small misunderstanding, but he explained in Turkish what we wanted, everything was quickly resolved. It would have taken longer to explain. The staff also does not speak Russian. But they are very friendly and try very hard to help with everything. After a few days, the staff already began to greet in Russian and say thank you and please. Perhaps by the end of the season they will start speaking Russian at all. The hotel is currently half empty. According to a separate guide, the occupancy rate at the beginning of June was 10%, a week later there were twice as many people. By the end of the holiday, it seemed that the hotel was only half full. About 60% of the hotel guests are Russian, about 30% are Turks and the rest look like Germans. The restaurant and the exit to the pool are located on the 0 floor (the Z button in the elevator). The food in the restaurant is not varied, the choice is not large. But everything is deliciously prepared. You will not remain hungry. Of the desserts, there are only semolina and honey cakes. A few days later, sponge cakes began to appear, very tasty. There are also puddings. Of the meat, chicken, turkey and a still unknown meat. There are vegetables, of the fruits, apples, oranges, sometimes apricots, nectarines. For dinner they give watermelon, once there was strawberries, and so strawberries and cherries were seen only as decoration on cakes. In general, as soon as there are more people in the hotel, so more varied food appears. On June 7, there was an abundance of fruit: watermelon, melon, peaches, cherries, grapes, strawberries. And that was it, the abundance was over. It turned out that it was a Turkish night. Every day they give you a bottle of water in your room. Free of charge. They clean the room every day, every day they lay out the beauty of the blankets. The distance to the sea is 600 meters. It takes 7-8 minutes to walk with children. In the place where there is a busy road, there is an underground passage. Very convenient, considering how the Turks "drive" according to their own rules. From the hotel, if you go out and go around the hotel on the left,

The rooms were clean, the food was very good both in terms of variety and taste, and the fact that the hotel owner came and ate in the dining hall gave me more confidence. Mr. Serkan at the bar is a very caring and relevant friend, the staff was very friendly (the man at the reception Except for the staff - I didn't mind that too much because we didn't have anything to do after registering at the hotel. The day we left, my car's battery was dead. It was nice that the hotel owner left his breakfast without any hesitation, took out his car and gave me a battery boost. (You know, you can shop at the market, but you can attend your funeral. You'll never see such attention in a 5-star hotel. They won't even look at you after you leave the hotel. I would also like to thank the owner of the hotel for that.