There is no question of any stars. SMILE is a large hostel with separate rooms, with bathrooms inside the rooms. There are NO refrigerators in the rooms. The safe costs $ 1 per day. Hot water is on schedule (from 11-17), as soon as the tanks on the roof are heated. 4G Internet catches perfectly. WIFI costs $20 for 14 days. 24-hour reception. They do not understand Russian, but they translate it with the help of an online translator. Room cleaning in a day. The rooms are clean, although they have lived.
Advantages of the hotel:
- Location. Very good location: 5-6 min walk to the beach. Fish market – 10-12 min walk. The center is a 10-minute walk away.
- The price is an extremely cheap hotel. For those who come not to sit in a closed area, but to constantly walk, walk, go on excursions – ideal!
- There is a restaurant next to the hotel (1 min.), it is DIVINELY cooked. The Turks themselves usually sit in it... I highly recommend it. (as you leave the hotel on the left, across the street).
- At 10 min. There are 40 different cafes and restaurants within reach of the hotel.
- I advise everyone to have lunch at the fish market (no matter how terrible it sounds). There are 5-6 cafes that cook for you from almost live fish. The price tag is very modest!
Minuses:
- the minus of the smile is the disco next to the hotel. He screams, so that with the windows closed, it seems that the speaker is in your room. Disco until 24.00 almost every evening.
- lack of hot water.
- renovation at the hotel (noise of punches)
- expensive WIFI
- breakfast
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Андрей
Level 8 Local Expert
October 16, 2023
The hotel is economy, there are not even chairs in the rooms, one bedside table, two beds.
There is also no table or chair on the balcony.
The refrigerator doesn't work. The air conditioner doesn't work, it's just blowing. Very noisy. The toilet sink is split. Everything is old.
A flophouse. Breakfasts can't be worse.
The staff does not respond to requests, comments, does not care about anything. IT SUCKS!!!!
I stayed at the hotel from 28.06.2021 to 09.07.2021. I arrived at the hotel at 09:30. Upon arrival at the reception, they were asked to leave their passport for registration and go to the restaurant for breakfast. The manager speaks English well, the rest of the staff is purely basic “Hello-Goodbye”, another maid spoke Russian well. The room was given an hour after arrival. The manager himself showed and checked what was working and what was not. The air conditioner did not work in the room (number 309 in the photo), the problem turned out to be in the batteries, they replaced it and everything is OK. The air conditioner, TV, sockets, hair dryer-everything worked.
Breakfast is served from 8:00 to 10:00. At 8:00, nothing is set yet, you need to wait until 8:15, by which time the buffet is completely filled. Made of meat, pink sausage.
Wi-Fi in the lobby is paid, $ 3 per day. I decided to connect to a local mobile operator-it turned out to be cheaper (it cost me 180 TL for 15 GB + calls, Turk Telecom).
The renovation of the hotel was in 2021. It can be seen that everything has been cosmetically patched up, the walls are freshly painted, the furniture is normal, not killed. Bed linen and towels 3 pcs. (for feet, bath and hands) are snow-white, everything is ironed. I saw that they were brought in bags from the laundry. The lack of a refrigerator killed me on the spot. If you needed a refrigerator, you could use a refrigerator with drinks on the ground floor, but this is an extreme, because it was always full of drinks for sale and you had to ask permission.
Positive. 4-6 minutes to the sea (1.5 blocks and on a gorgeous beach). There is an A-101 store in the building of the hotel itself, it has the most necessary products. I bought water in bottles of 8 liters each. I was carrying my own electric kettle. Half a block away is Ataturk Avenue and next to the bus stop. No. 1, if you want to go somewhere far away. The center of Alanya is close, you can walk and walk in 20 minutes. During the exit from the hotel, climbing higher towards the mountain, there is a market that is open on Tuesdays, you can buy fruits, seasonings, vegetables, fish cheaply (and fry there) but again -there is nowhere to store, there is no refrigerator. Near the hotel there are cafes, taxis, shops with adequate prices.
Minuses. The rooms are not cleaned at all! Neither I nor the neighbors have been cleaned in 2 weeks, not once. I heard from others that they caught the maids and asked them to wash them. A garbage bag, toilet paper, and a change of towels must be constantly requested. Garbage is not taken out, after collecting garbage and bottles in a bag, they took them to the corner to the stairs on their floor, by the evening a pile was gathering there. Both my neighbors and I had a bad drain in the washbasin, they thought it was clogged, in fact, the drain pipe was not thoughtfully removed. There were no problems with hot water, but the plumbing was so-so, it was difficult to adjust the desired flow and temperature of the water. Breakfast is monotonous, the same thing every day, eggs and cheese were not always left after 9:00, sometimes they were brought, but mostly it ended and not. I've seen flakes a couple of times. Coffee from the vending machine, and boiling water for tea is taken from there. After breakfast, the machine is turned off, but if you ask to turn it on for boiling water, it will turn on. The water in the basik does not always circulate, in the evening after bathing it was abundantly covered with bleach (dry, directly into the pool), but the water is clear. By evening, if it was crowded, the water was not “crystal clear".
The hotel is urban, my windows faced the road. At 7:00 I was woken up by garbage trucks that were rumbling garbage out of the tanks. At night until 2:00 on Hollywood Street, you can hear the whole city traffic if you sleep with an open balcony.
There is no private beach, there are no towels for sun loungers. You can book a sunbed with an umbrella on the beach for a day at the hotel. For private traders on the beach, it cost 45 lire., if you take it at the hotel, then 35 lire., they gave out a special check. The staff monitored the cleanliness of the hall, corridors, restaurant and territory, the hotel itself was generally clean, but the rooms were cleaned using the "self-service" system.
With young children, you need to look for another option. There were no tourists with small children at the hotel during my vacation. The guests were mostly Russians and Turks. My objective score is 3.5. It doesn't reach 4, but I can't put 3 either. When I booked the hotel, there were no reviews or photos at all, I bought a pig in a poke. I thought that everything would be much worse, in fact everything is quite decent, except for the refrigerator and the fact that they want money for everything.
A normal service for your money. The hotel staff is helpful, the maid Zaida speaks Russian. The room cleaning is good. The breakfast is without frills, there is a small selection, but we did not leave hungry. The hotel is urban, there are many places where you can have lunch, as well as supermarkets. The beach is nearby, about 300 m. The hotel is suitable for a budget holiday.
Convenient location and that's it. At best, a motel to spend the night in. The bathroom door was not closed in the room, the availability of hot water depends on the weather. There are no plates at breakfast all the time, and the food runs out instantly.
The most ordinary rooms. The sound insulation is weak. In the evening, you can hear Music from cafes. If you want to go to bed early, you need to ask for a room on the other side of the road. Breakfast is included, but consider it not. But the staff is polite, they always meet you halfway
In general, if you don't hang out at the hotel, then it's not bad.Minus the lack of free Internet and a bar with music until midnight on the street under the windows.The maid's wand is a lifesaver
just to spend the night, no more. And then if you're in the trash, there are two karaoke cafes nearby and you can hear everything. I do not recommend it