Firstly, this hotel was clean, the staff were all very friendly but not enough of them spoke English. The food was not worthy of all inclusive. Nothing was labelled so had no idea what many of the dishes were. Very limited menu, the same dishes were served up daily. If you want something that's on the menu, get there early cause when it's gone, it's not replenished. Breakfast consisted of things like potato wedges, fried vegetables, peppers, onions and others I didn''t recognise. There was nothing that Brits would recognise, no toast, sausage, beans, bacon etc. There were fried eggs available if you asked, boiled eggs were on offer every day. I got down to breakfast early one morning & saw the toaster was plugged in, that was a first, but the bread wasn't the kind I'd expect to have for breakfast. On that same morning, I saw 2 cereal options, some kind of oats & chocolate ball shapes. At every meal there was a salad bar & I was amazed at how many guests (from Russia, Germany, Poland & Romania) opted for that. The same desserts were offerred up each lunch time & teatime, still have no idea what they were as they were all shaped differently but were the same thing. There was always hot drinks available from a machine which was mainly coffee but also had hot chocolate, which I loved. There were pots of tea & tea bags available along with fruit juices, orange, apple, pineapple & cherry. The hotel location is awful; there is no nightlife nearby, no ammenities, shops, or cafes. The nightly 'entertainment' and I use that word lightly consisted of the things like the waiters, three of them, doing the Macarena followed by some traditional Turkish dancing. There was Karaoke a few nights & listening to that was like being stabbed in the eyes with hot needles. Furthermore, the 'entertainment' went on till about 11pm every night. Below our room there was a football pitch that was used religioulsy, till after midnight on most nights but apparently it's not owned by the hotel so no control over the schedule or noise from the players or the ref's whistle. Thankfully the room had blackout curtains so the floodlights weren't a problem. From our room, I could see the beach & the main road but as we weren't facing the main road/ beach we didn't have the traffic noise that went on all night, according to the one other British couple who were staying at the hotel & were at the front of the hotel. The nearest town is Alanya, it's convenient to get there on the local bus and doesn't take long, you can use your card to pay, it's about 25p to get there but be warned don't overrun your return bus stop or you could face a 2.5km walk back to the hotel, which we found to our cost in 34° temperatures. The bus does also get very crowded on the return journey, so beware of the close proximity of fellow passengers. On arrival at Antalya Airport on Sat 11 May 2024 at around 8pm local time we disembarked really quickly, got our luggage immediately, cleared, immigration & cus
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