Rest from 05/20/2024 to 06/22/2024. We had a rest together with my husband. Standard room, accommodation in block B, second floor. The windows of the room faced the road in front of the hotel, so with the balcony door open it was quite noisy from passing traffic, but most often they used air conditioning, so the balcony door was closed, the noise from the road did not bother. The room is spacious and bright. The room includes everything you need: two beds (double and single), two bedside tables, a spacious wardrobe, a long coffee table with drawers along the countertop, a large mirror, a mini fridge, a kettle, a TV, air conditioning. Combined bathroom. Toilet, shower, hair dryer. A spacious balcony.
All equipment is in good condition. Furniture, appliances and interior, of course, are not new, but for us it does not matter, because we spend very little time on vacation in the room. It is worth noting that the mattresses on the beds are comfortable. The room is cleaned daily, bed linen and towels are clean, hot water from the tap at any time of the day, there were no interruptions. The air conditioner also coped with the task without problems. Wi-Fi and in-room safe are chargeable. They were not interested in the cost. There was enough free wi-fi in the hotel lobby. Plus, one of the phones connected to free wi-fi from the balcony of our room. The signal, of course, was already weak. But in order to read the news and log in to social networks, it was enough. Water in individual cups was in the room only on the day of arrival. Then we bought bottled water ourselves.
The hotel has an elevator. But several times we came across the fact that the elevator closes the doors and does not go. But when you click on the floor from which you wanted to leave and on the door opening button, the elevator releases.
Kitchen. A large number of vegetables and herbs. Just sliced and in the form of salads. Grilled vegetables (eggplant, zucchini, tomatoes) were served daily. A variety of cheeses. Olives and olives with different fillers. For breakfast, eggs in different versions, baked tomatoes with cheese, puff pastry with cheese, cabbage or cottage cheese, sausage and sausages (tasteless, but there has always been a problem with this in Turkey), various cereals, balls (breakfast cereals), milk, jam.
It would be nice to diversify the side dishes for dinner (there was one at lunch). Almost every day there was rice for dinner, sometimes bulgur, once there was spaghetti and a couple of times potatoes. But this fact was compensated by various stewed vegetables. There were fish quite often. There was chicken every day, but it was also delicious, grilled. There was also a stew with vegetables. Liver with mushrooms.
Drinks. Tea (tastes like tea with an elephant from Soviet times), coffee (from a coffee machine, but tastes more like coffee from disposable bags). Cola, Sprite, Fanta. Orange, apple, cherry juices from the vending machine (similar to Zuko or Jupi, very sweet). From free alcohol: beer, raki, vodka, whiskey, gin, wine.
Yes, sometimes there were not quite clean plates, but it was not a problem to take another one, and give this one to the waiter.
The waiters work in two shifts. Everyone is friendly and helpful. But special thanks to the evening shift (Ahmed, Aprak and Mariam). They always helped to bring food to the table, friendly, empty dishes are immediately removed from the table. There was a situation where we needed to buy coffee as a gift, but we did not find it in the surrounding shops. In the evening, they asked the waitress where they could buy it. Ordered for us through a local online store. The next day they brought us an order, everything is honest, with a receipt.
I would also like to mention DJ Khan. There was always very pleasant music. There's a live performance on Saturday. As a gift for us, Khan performed a song in Russian, which is very pleasant.
There is a shop within a 1-minute walk from the hotel. Strawberries, cherries, peaches, nectarines, apricots were taken from this store. The prices are inexpensive. You can also take a beer to the beach there.
A hotel employee takes vacationers to the beach from 8 to 16 every two hours in an old minibus. At 18:10, he arrives at the beach for the last time of the day and takes vacationers to the hotel. It takes a maximum of 5 minutes to get to the beach. They did not walk themselves, but according to observations, people have already trodden paths along which the path on foot can be shortened.
The beach is equipped with sun beds with soft mattresses, umbrellas and small tables. There is a toilet, you can also change clothes in it. There is a lot of space there and it is quite clean.
There is a small shell rock with small pebbles near the shore, when you step into it, your feet fall through and it's hard to go in and out. But then there is a smooth and sandy bottom.
On the beach, you can take water from the cooler, juices and coffee for free. We brought food and drinks to the beach with us. No comments were made to us about this. Although last year, we were vacationing at another hotel, and a beach employee made comments if they brought something with them, insisted that we should buy from them.
We were satisfied with the rest. Nice 3* hotel.
The sea is very far away, it is inconvenient to ride a scooter to the sea, since the road is very bad. The staff always stares intently, without taking their eyes off. The shower was broken, the batteries in all the remotes were gnawed and did not work. All the time I have to go down and solve some problems, the sheets are old and worn out. The food is terrible, old, the same for several days in a row, only with different sauces. The new food is not very tasty and not fresh, and the desserts seem to have been made a week ago. Baking is promised in the schedule from 16 to 17 o'clock, but in fact it turns out to be a plate on the far table with stale, tasteless small buns in the amount of 5 pieces. In general, it's a complete trash, I haven't seen this anywhere else. Of the advantages, it is worth noting that towels are changed every day, and the floor in the room is cleaned. There is a tubbed tent with a shower on the beach, which is inconvenient. There are vending machines with coffee and juices, which do not always work. According to the schedule, a person should be there until 18 o'clock, but leaves at 15 and closes the vending machines. The umbrellas above the sun beds are rusty, old, and always fall down. The plastic cups near the vending machines are in very poor condition.
From July 16 to July 30, my family "rested" at the Side legend hotel.
Let's look at all the cons and pros, and everyone will decide for themselves whether it is worth visiting this hotel.
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1. The food is monotonous, it gets boring in two weeks. There are no cereals, no cottage cheese, no yoghurts, no normal butter for breakfast. You can't even call it margarine, some kind of kombizhir. There are always pasta, rice and vegetables for lunch. 1 type of meat, if you're lucky. In 2 weeks of staying at this hotel, we have never been served fish. Salads are all of the same type - vegetable, only cut in different ways. For dinner, the same as for lunch. It is impossible to drink juices, they are very vigorous, most likely powdered, they have to be diluted with water. The coffee machines are not working. The whole family had an upset stomach after a week of such food, they had to go to eat in neighboring cafes.
2. The air conditioner wasn't working in the room, it was just blowing like a fan. Because of this, they moved 5 times.
3. The bus schedule is inconvenient: in 10, 12, 14, 16, 18. 2 An hour on the beach is not enough! The bus itself is very small, and there are a lot of people, the air conditioners in the bus also do not work, respectively, it is unbearable heat.
4. The beach is VERY dirty, cigarette butts, papers, beer bottles, etc. are lying everywhere. Children can cut their feet.Umbrellas have to be put up by themselves, and there are few of them. This should be handled by the duty officer. But instead, he loafs around the beach, pesters everyone, and also asks for 7 euros for the installation of umbrellas, although this is his job! It seems to me that I have never seen a more stupid person in my life, just a primate without a shish in his head.
5. The elevator broke down very often. We went to complain to the reception, but they shrugged their shoulders, and when the elevator was fixed, I got stuck. The light turned off and I had to stand in total darkness for 5 minutes, the call button did not work. As a result, after 10 minutes the elevator went.
6. There is no Wi-Fi, at the reception they offer to connect premium, 3 euros per day. This is expensive, considering that Wi-Fi is only on site, and it catches no everywhere.
And of course there are a lot of shortcomings, for example: there are no glasses with a handle, and it is unclear how to take hot drinks, a pool that is not cleaned, but simply thrown with bleach, because of this it stings the whole body, corrodes the face, etc.
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1. The room was clean, cleaned every day.
2. The bus driver was not late, arrived on schedule.
Probably, these are all advantages.
In general, I think the hotel is bad. It doesn't exactly pull 4 stars, apparently all the reviews are purchased. I do not recommend it for family visits!!!!