Dalyan and the turtle beach, (Marmaris, Turkey) - Location, Description, Outcome, Entertainment and Infrastructure. Useful tips and practical information from "Tourism subtleties".
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If you need immediately and the beach, and the rocky tombs, and the thermal sources, and the turtles to see, and in the healing mud to smear - then the fariance and the skipping beach will be fully suitable for you. You can go here from Marmaris both on the yacht and by bus. In this natural reserve, tourists arrive for the turtles of the carriage carriage, and for the sake of sulfur sources.
Carette Carette is a kind of leakage for tourists throughout the Mediterranean coast. If you are not in Turkey, but in Crete, you will still say you: here, see, this is the most famous place where the carts-carriate carriage eggs come off. In this case, every place is unique and unique. The whole focus is that there are a lot of such places.
In the haired, the turtle beach is a sandy spit isomethe. It is here that hundreds of sea turtles sail to postpone the eggs. One individual postpones up to 150 eggs from which units survive. Blue crabs and other predators on the coast are hunting on the baby. But on the adult turtle of fools to attack not: it is a huge mass of up to 50 kg.
If you need immediately and the beach, and the rocky tombs, and the thermal sources, and the turtles to see, and in the healing mud to smear - then the fariance and the skipping beach will be fully suitable for you. You can go here from Marmaris both on the yacht and by bus.
Sandy braid is big, because the turtles are where to turn around. But the turtles themselves - the spectacle is quite rare, they can be seen either in the waters of the river or in the sea. To go to the spit in the laying season, eggs will not work.
Traveling along the river to Dalyan
Interesting details is that from the Dallen River you can see the rocky tombs. They are cut in a sheer cliff at a huge height.
Previously it was considered: the higher the burial, the easier way the path to the sky. Therefore, people facilitated the way: climbing up the upset was much faster if you were buried in the rock. So that in the afterlife it was to sell, the graves put valuable things.
At this miracles of Falien and the Turtle Island are not exhausted: there are sulfur mineral springs near the reserve, and a mud bath.
Thermal sources are not only the hottest, but also the most radioactive in all of Turkey. They contain radon, but despite him, they are very helpful: there is almost no illness from which they would not cure.
At the end of the excursion to everyone offering mud baths - make a couple of funny photos for memory.
The Mediterranean Side Resort, located on the Green Cape, is famous for its ancient architectural monuments and magnificent sandy beaches. Founded by the Greeks, he is named after the symbol of the Goddess Artemis (Side - Grenade). Especially good beaches in the western part of the resort, so they are always crowded. Eastern are less in demand by tourists, but this is their advantage. In quality, they are inferior to Western, but rest on them is more comfortable due to the lack of a praise. We offer an overview of the best sandy beaches Side.
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Kamelya K Club & Aqua - Ultra All Inclusive - Kids Concept
On the territory there is a mini-club with video surveillance cameras, film chains and a variety of desktop games
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VONRESORT ELITE & AQUA - ULTRA ALL INCLUSIVE & KIDS CONCEPT 5 *
Civilized paradise on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea - so briefly can be described all the territory of the hotel "Elite" everything is included. It is located 12 km from the center of Side next to the beautiful sandy beach. Beautifully decorated, well-groomed space around the hotel buildings - a mini-town with all relevant attributes. Here it is interesting to spend many days without leaving outside. Cozy bright rooms, luxurious furnishings, top-level amenities create comfortable accommodation conditions.
An outdoor pool with a water park, an indoor pool, a spa with a variety of services enable to health. Guests are delighted with a sandy landscaped beach, a spacious pier with sun loungers, walking far away into the sea. Children here are Razdat: An extensive entertainment program does not let them bored. There is a swimming pool for the smallest, for the guys older, mini-club.
Courses on learning languages \u200b\u200bare organized, contests, various developing and sports games, creative classes are held. There are all care facilities for babies. The positive opinion was for the resorts about the staff of Vonresort Elite & Aqua, attentive, conscientious and polite. Guests are satisfied with tasty and abundant food, good service in restaurants. The discontent causes an annoying offer to take advantage of paid spa services. The overall assessment of the service is 8.9 points.
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VONRESORT GOLDEN COAST & AQUA - KIDS CONCEPT-ALL INCLUSIVE 5 *
Like many resorts of the Resort network, Hotel Golden Coast & Aqua has a convenient area planning. Landscape "raisins", pleasing eyes, availability of water park (3 pools with 11 slides), 2 outdoor pools, a spa with different types of baths make your stay interesting here and useful. Vacationers are especially satisfied with a long sandy beach, which is carefully cleaned every morning. Like and sea with gentle descent, smooth bottom, comfortable pier and water sports.
Excellent conditions for children's leisure are created, every day gives them new impressions. A variety of master classes under the guidance of virtuoso instructors, puzzle games, culinary classes are fascinated by the guys of any age. Waterpark with slides, beach entertainment make them actively move. Kids can be left under the nanny supervision as needed. There are all the necessary accessories for very little kids. Like resort workers fast service in the restaurant, buffet menu for breakfast, fruit abundance.
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Sentido Turan Prince 5 *
If you want to distract from all problems on vacation, enjoy the sea and have fun against the background of beautiful views, then you should choose the Sentido Turan Prince 5 * hotel complex. Organizers of this hotel in the village. Cholakli designed everything so that each tourist felt a happy person for which the benefits of civilization were created. Stunningly beautiful design of the design of the surrounding area, with palm trees, original beads, lawns and flower beds admires guests.
"The best impressions, magnificent food, excellent service," excerpts from reviews of vacationers. The road to the beach is attached by trees whose crowns are protected from the sun. The wide sandy strip is equipped with a variety of slight shadow canopies, sun beds. No complaints about the arrangement and stylish interiors of rooms, with gorgeous marble bathrooms.
Entertainment programs for adults and children at altitude. According to parents, Sentido Turan is an ideal place for children's holidays. Waterpark, good animation, disco, club - the choice of leisure is diverse. There is a positive work of staff, quickly and promptly decisive problems. Those who were here 2nd times believe that the level of service did not decrease at all.
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It features a sandy beach, awarded blue flag, spa, swimming pool
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NOVUM GARDEN SIDE HOTEL 5 *
If you look at the top view of the Novum Garden Hotel, they will look like a fabulous town - so much here is pretty. Beautiful pools, located on different levels, bridges, terraces, exotic flora, picturesque residential buildings look magnificent. Reading feedback, you understand that the landing does not disappoint here.
The appearance fully corresponds to internal content. Many cozy corners for relaxation on green lawns in the shade of palm trees and banana trees. All infrastructure facilities are surrounded by a green array. Through panoramic windows of light, cozy rooms are visible by charming landscapes. The beach, located 200 m, pleases the pure sand, warm sea casure, excellent living conditions and entertainment. Despite the crowded, everyone has enough space, there are practically no queues.
Silent sliding elevators do not make themselves waiting for a long time, the daily cleaning of the rooms pleases the freshness and purity. Among the guests are a lot of Germans, famous lovers of cleanliness. No complaints for resorts for meals: a lot of meat, seafood, fish, fruits, vegetables. Like everyone uninterrupted drinking water, coffee, tea. Guests are satisfied with the entertainment program. Novum Garden is recommended as a good hotel.
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Nashira Resort & Aqua - Ultra All Inclusive 5 *
Surrounded by a green array that creates a unique microclimate is Nashira Hotel, which has its own beach. Its territory is aquake of 22 open pools, a water park with slides for adults and children. The hotel is located in a protected nature zone, a rich Mediterranean fauna. There is something to admire: tangerine and orange trees, palm trees, blooming shrubs, a variety of exotic birds. A wide beach is covered with large sand moving around the shore in pebbles.
The entrance to the sea is not gentle, but rather steep, on the bottom there are boulders - with small children there is uncomfortable here. Often there are strong waves, water is therefore not transparent. Reviews of the resort workers relative to the service sometimes directly opposite - one sing the diffilams, others are mercilessly criticized. Everyone likes the natural environment, design of the territory, the presence of a large number of pools. Many complaints about low quality cleaning in rooms due to lack of service personnel.
There are complaints to the organization of food - slow service in the main restaurant, queues, small portions, little seafood in the menu, poorly washed dishes, drinks from powders (June 2018). But there is also an opposite opinion: the nutrition is quite diverse, with a large assortment of dishes, cheeses, fruits. Towels changed every other day, the well-coordinated work of employees (October 2018) is felt. If you compare these judgments, we can conclude that there is a reaction to criticism, and the disadvantages are eliminated.
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Kamelya Flya Hotel & Aqua - Ultra All Inclusive 5 *
Kamelya Fulya Resort Hotel Complex is not different as the "Eastern Fairy Tale" you won't call. A snow-white hotel building has a huge territory, in whose architecture is reflected oriental flavor. Many arbors under the canopy, terrace, pavilions with dome ornaments create a fabulous setting. Pomegranate, tangerine, orange trees, palm trees of different types, a lot of green geeks, bright flower lungs, blue pools mirrors - everything looks unusually picturesque.
Under the surroundings of stylish modern rooms, the arrangement and content of which none of the holidays complains. A long and wide sandy beach can accommodate hundreds of tourists, where everyone will feel free. At a high level, here is a leisure-entertainment program, a good conditions for outdoor activities have been created. Equipped 7 tennis courts, basketball court, football field, bowlingal hall, there is a fitness center. 6 open and indoor pools, water park and many water slides for children diversify the stay of tourists.
Picturesque looks like a water park with slides and children's pool. The rooms are very spacious, with huge windows, seating areas, soft carpeted floors on the floor, beds to become the royal lie. In general, the beauty of the decoration is the chip of the institution. However, the opinions of vacationers suggest that there are unpleasant problems for the external beauty, the hotel's portal service. There are claims to surface cleaning of rooms, to the use of air fresheners, insufficient training of bathrooms before settling new tenants.
There are subjective opinions on the low sanitary and hygienic condition of restaurant tables, dishes, cutlery. There are complaints of guests at the invasion of mosquitoes in the evening and at night, for the presence of ants in the rooms, the smell of sewage next to entertainment objects, etc. In general, the nutrition satisfies the requests of those living: a variety of menu, delicious dishes, a lot of fruits. Some complain about the insufficiency of the assortment of dishes for children. Middle score 4, 5 in the level of service level.
The season in Side begins from April and ends at the end of October. But in April-beginning of May, not everyone can swim in the water, the temperature of which is + 18-20 °. On sunbathing at a gentle sun is very pleasant, how to admire the surrounding nature and perform excursions in attractions. The heat begins here in June and lasts until September, which corresponds to the high tourist season.
Despite the sultry bake, the summer remains the main time of the year, when the coast of Side is clogged by crowds of holidaymakers. Help to carry the heat eucalyptus and pine forests. However, people with heart problems, breathing, with young children it is better to choose less hot months. The second half of May is quite a comfortable time when it is possible to plunge into the sea (+ 23 °) and warm up under the warm rays (+ 25-27 °) at midday.
Similar weather in October - you will not spend the whole day on the beach, and after 12.00 to 16.00 you can fully swim and sunbathe. All the delights of the velvet season are available from mid-September to early October. Day air temperature 31-33 °, water 28 °. Intensively decreases prices for accommodation, fruits and vegetables. Closer in the evening you can walk for a long time or ride on excursions.
The turtle island in Turkey is notable for the possibilities to relax and sunbathe on the coast of the Mediterranean Sea, admire the beautiful nature, swim in transparent water, to do diving, watch the turtles and even ride them.
Turtle Island (Turkey): Interesting Facts
The climate on the island is a comfortable, Mediterranean: winter is soft, and in the summer there is no suffocating heat.
This place nearby has a few names:
- Inverted island. The history of this name is related to the fact that the turtle eggs are postponed here. In addition, in its outlines, the island resembles a huge turtle, which "frozen" in the middle of the sea.
- Mouse Island. Previously, there was a lot of rodents in this place, because the sailors, trying to adjust to a beautiful island, attacked the reefs and lost their ships. The mice left the sinking ships and sailed to the shore, and after them themselves and the sailors themselves.
- Island of incorrect wives. According to legend, Turkish men "referred" here wives who changed them.
Telep Island
Note! Since 1996, the island of Cherepakh in Turkey is considered a reserve.
How to get
Location of a black beach on the map of Turkey: google.ru/maps
To get to it will be able to rent a car, or excursion boat along the Dalyan River (place of departure - Pier in the city center).
Turtle Beach (Turkey)
A turtle beach in Turkey is called a narrow strip of istuza, covered with sand and stretching 4.5 km (in this place the river flows into the Mediterranean Sea).
On the beach, Izutu has booths, where you can change clothes, lounge chairs, umbrellas, toilets, showers, cafes. An occasion in the water is flat.
Rent an umbrella and two chaise lounges - 15 lir. *
Beach isometget
The rules of behavior on the beach:
- On the shore it is impossible to move on any vehicles, and along it - on the high-speed ships.
- In the high season on the shore it is forbidden to be from 8 pm to 8 am.
- You can not swim and install the beach inventory in places labeled by special signs.
Attractions nearby
The main attractions next to the beach is sulfur and mud baths.
Note! Local thermal sources are the most radioactive in all of Turkey. Radon contained in them cures almost all diseases.
What else to visit:
- inspect the ruins of the ancient city of Kaunos - Amphitheater, baths, temples, palaces;
- admire the ancient Lycombians cut down in the rocks.
On a note! With the onset of the darkness of the tomb spectaclely highlighted.
Excursion
Joined to excursions, tourists will first get acquainted with the city of Dalyan, after which it will take up the river to the valley of the same name to the valley, where they are swimming in mud baths. The duration of the excursion is 9 hours.
Lycian tombs
The final destination is a meeting with bugs listed in the Red Book. For "acquaintance" with them will be allocated 2 hours.
How to visit the beach yourself
It is more convenient to visit Dalyan to tourists living in Marmaris or Fethiye, since it is between two of these resorts. Get here will succeed in Dolmoshev.
In the quarter, it is advisable to rent a boat to go on the river to the inverting island and spend time on the beach, "sang" in therapeutic terms and mud.
Note!Having walked along the marina Dalyan, it is worth seeing to boats and bargain with their owners. Rent a small boat will cost a minimum of 50-70 lire / 1 people. *
Wishing to "hunt" on blue crabs (they are found in the river delta), it is advisable to contact this question to the owner of the boat: he will "break" with local fishermen, which organize fishing.
Not planning fishing can be chatted with local fishermen and get the freshest crabs from them.
The inverted island is a beautiful and unique place where tourists can swim, to get to touch the ancient civilizations, to retire against the background of the pristine nature.
* Prices are relevant for November 2018
From the sea and the surrounding sea bays, where "hosting" Caretta - Caretta "turtles can be visited on one of the few pleasure boys," prescribed "here, in several well-allized places near the shore. As a rule, each local hotel with pleasure organizes a similar journey to you; The price of a trip and at the hotel, and on the shore fixed - 40 Turkish lire per person. In the sea, they go, as a rule, at 11.00, return between 17 and 18 hours in the evening. Tour "To the Turtles" - hardly the best that you can offer you the village of Chirali; "The kit" will include bathing in the most beautiful (even on the scale of Turkey) bays, amazing purity and coloring water, picturesque wild cliffs and the freshest sea fish for lunch. So, forward, to the turtle!
Our pre-planned marine journey was delayed. At the appointed time, no one came. And we already between Sobody "branded disgrace" Turkish punctuality, violating our plans. But despite a decent storm, which always happens when the young moon appears (so explained later, the captain), we still went out into the sea.
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Splascing past the ships who did not released today, hidden from the storm for the cape:
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I managed to quickly regret this trip several times. Once our boat almost laid on his side.
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"NO PANIC, NO PANIC! IT is not Titanic, "the captain tried to joke, the ship's ship in a calm bay under the cliff cover. He felt confidently, and my question about the danger threatening was answered with a smile: "Since I'm here, it means everything is in order." He was quite delicately expressing in Russian (Brother's wife - Russian), was very friendly and all the work on the service of tourists, starting with the ship management and ending with the preparation of Lunch and treat guests, performed himself. With jokes, additives, ease and fun.
Holding blows from the side wave, we are hung in half moving from the nearby bay to the subsequent, dodging and running away from the storm waves.
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In the first bay, climbing on board after bathing in the sea, I noticed the place to the place, where I was 5 minutes ago, a huge turtle. The meeting was unexpected, besides me, no one reacted to the turtle, simply not noticing her. Only after my call to her husband, who shot the cliff on the nose of the ship, look at the miracle, the people pulled up and enthusiastically welcomed the "hostess" of the beach. The husband managed with the help of a tele-object "snatch" her face rising above the water.
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The captain said that a meeting with the turtles in this place is the usual matter. And indeed, the turtles appeared again, but at a distance. They accompanied our ships and a second time, when we, conquered by a special atmosphere and the beauty of these places, invited our friends who were resting nearby, in Beldibi.
The second and third bay with blue water, rocky shores, rocks, protruding from the water. The second bay was completely closed from the waves, with a pleasant glaze of water. I could not even believe that in some 100 meters from here the sea rages.
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Here, as it turned out later, the ship stopped in no coincidence. We moored to a small fishing boat. Family, including young children, fishery fishing, turned out to be relatives of our captain. She has already survived the storm in this place.
Looks like they are their fishing mill:
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It was interesting to observe the kids who were engaged in the housework and inventing entertainment in these conditions are not very comfortable for them.
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Turks, in whatever conditions they are not, love their children. Pope fisherman plays with a child:
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Solid Turkish dads, who flooded with us on the ship, was not enough to mess around with diapers, change the T-shirts, just play with the kids. They do it absolutely sincerely, unwittingly watch this pleasure gave me pleasure. At this time, the Muslim traditions of mothers in their traditional, fully closing the body of bathing suits descended along the ladder and bathed with everyone. In one family, one of three children is a teenager of 14 years old with Down syndrome. The child is absolutely adapted to life, sociable, brought up. It was seen that he liked to communicate with unfamiliar people. Those answered him reciprocating.
Guests on the ship were a bit. Half of them are Turks who have come to relax on the most beautiful Chiral Beach, the second half is the young guys from Ukraine. Young people, Turks - conflict, smiling, with pleasant manners.
The cost of the walk includes lunch, tea and fruit. Lunch satisfying and tasty, fresh fish and skillful cooked. Decent service could not but rejoice.
Waves in the evening subsided, it was much more comfortable to return.
The unconditional favorite of Chiralya sea walks, according to our deep conviction, is a snow-white motor-sailing Olympos Antic. Already on a completely calm sea, together with him, we once again went to the sea.
This time they asked us to pick us up first on board the ship. Thus, securing the bonus - the place on the stern and shooting the vessel unoccupied by tourists:
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The captain welcomes us:
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A completely different sea, lower air transparency than in the last exit.
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Other bay sequence. But the same is a professional and very pleasant team.
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This time, thanks to a calmer sea, the captain raised the sail, and we were good minutes of forty silently walked around the sea. The pleasure of the unraded to, especially since I watched the whole process for the first time:
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Looks like the pleasure of walking under the sail also receives the captain:
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A few days later, swimming in the morning in the sea near the "Antic Olympos" (so called the tourist boat), managed to observe how the same captain and his team woke up on their own ship. Dry Mikey teams that they changed several times in the day were awesome here. Labor daily and difficult - the weekend from the ship and the team does not happen in the season. The captain is personally responsible for the mooring of the ship:
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Three turtles in natural conditions of their habitat still managed to see, although it was not possible to remove. Too for a short time, they suddenly appeared, and at a considerable distance - even "TV" there were difficult for them.
(Continued: Walk around the city, which is not - Antique Olympos).
The other day, together with his wife and 4-year-old daughter, we returned from Turkey, where they rested for 2 weeks on the magnificent sandy coast of the Mediterranean Sea, near the city of Side. The place of stay was planned by us in advance, since it is CID that is considered the best vacation option for families with young children on Antalya shores.
First of all, I will note the impeccable organization of a trip from the side of both the tour operator of the TURSFER LLC and the TUI meeting. During the whole trip, we did not have a single misunderstanding or even the slightest lining associated with organizational moments, starting by tickets to the aircraft and ending with the transfer from the hotel to Antalya Airport on the day of departure. Here are the links to the official sites of these firms: Toursfera.ru and Tui.ru.
Hotel. Out out from the St. Petersburg airport Pulkovo-2 at 8 am, at 10.30 local time (the difference with Moscow -1 hour), we have already landed on the shores of Solar Turkey. Customs formalities were settled for a few minutes, and soon we met a guide with a TUI sign. Since the Motherland of Kemal Ataturk, we visited far from the first time, agricultural landscapes that opened from the bus window were well acquainted, and we were looking forward to the end of the watch travel from the airport to our hotel. Arriving in a five-star hotel SUNTOPIA PEGASOS WORLD 5 *Where we had to hold the next half months, I was amazed by the luxurious design of the territory and a calm favorable atmosphere, which the Turks create with their characteristic ease and grace. Wide green lawns, a grand outdoor pool, with small islands and with restaurants and bars placed on them, wooden bridges, water slides, tennis courts, smooth glade for mini-football, tables for ping pong and pleasure zones with palm alleys framing them.
All this farm is harmoniously combined with low 4-storey hotel buildings, ideally inscribed in the colorful landscape design of the territory of the Pegasos World. It must be said that the numbers are directly overlooking the sea, there is not at all, since all the buildings are approximately 100-150 meters from the coast and are surrounded by thick green vegetation. However, it is unlikely to be called a minus, given the pleasant smell of freshness, impregnating air and fabulously beautiful landscapes, opening almost everywhere. On the second floor of the main building there is a restaurant, several shops, bars, telephone and the central hall in front of the entrance, decorated bright, spectacular and tastefully. Floor Below there are children's attractions worth 1.5 euros per token. In the evenings, in a convenient comfortable amphitheater, next to the main pool, are first the discos for children, and then entertainment activities for those who prefer not to sleep longer. The number in which we lived was spacious and cozy. Two rooms with three beds, a balcony, 2 common air conditioners, in my opinion a little weak, combined bathroom and a TV with one Russian channel. However, the daughter really liked cartoons in German and Turkish, and my wife and I were indifferent to the TV, therefore, with the placement of special inconveniences also did not experience.
Pools. The main outdoor pool is replete with all sorts of designer pieces in the form of fountains operating at a certain time of day, exquisite arches under ancient and several bathing zones, including children, where height from the surface of the water to the bottom is limited to 85 centimeters. There is a colorful wooden boat with small fountains and slides for the smallest.
30 meters from this place are equipped with two excellent slides for older children. Near the pool is a children's club, with green lawns and playgrounds. There, 6 days a week with children are engaged in animators. True, mainly the club is visited by children from 5-6 years.
On the left, behind him, there is another pool, with the 1st small and 3rd relatively large slides, using particular attention from families with children up to 3 years. In the main building there is also an indoor pool, the sun beds are free all the time, due to the fact that it is not widely popular with the hotel's guests.
Beach. The beachfront of the hotel is very impressive and includes 2 beach volleyball courts, 2 bars with excellent sea views and 2 point of water sports with relevant equipment and other services related to water entertainment. The width of the beach is about 50 meters, but the sun beds stretched into two slender lines and covered with the sun with a special awning, are placed on some distance from the water, so when the sun is scorched to reach it, you should wear slaps or overcome this distance running, so Heavily burning about hot sand. Directly by the sea, there is a narrow strip of fine pebbles, in the same water the bottom is sandy. During the game in the beach volleyball, the platforms are abundantly watered, so it is quite nice (especially closer to the evening) and painlessly. Those who wish have the opportunity to take towels for free at a special rental point immediately for the entire rest.
Communication and currency. You can call home right from the hotel, after purchasing a telephone card at the reception at a cost of only 5 euros. Payment is made here in any currency, including dollars, euros and Turkish lira. In general, in this regard, Turkey is a very convenient country. In specially designated places, even Russian rubles are accepted in the course of shopping tours. Using free internet using Wi-Fi, perhaps in the central lobby of the hotel, as well as 100 meters from it. You can wander around the World Wide Web within your room for 15 euros, paid immediately for all the vanity of stay.
Transport. Create from the hotel to the city of Side is more convenient and faster than a taxi, worth 10 euros or 13-15 dollars. A more economical option is a regular bus (about 2 euros), stopping on the right side when leaving the hotel, on the main road lying along the coast. On the left, the taxi parking is usually located. In addition, every day, exactly at 15.00, by the story of our guide, from Pegasos World, a free tourist bus is located, also next to the city, but we have never enjoyed it because of an uncomfortable shipment time. Taxi drivers and drivers know English well, so there are usually problems with a message, of course, with due knowledge of the international language. Travel time, from the hotel to Antique Side, takes about 15 minutes.
Food. Feed us at the hotel just great. Food here for every taste and in huge quantities, including meat, fish, fruit potatoes, all kinds of fruit, cheeses, vegetables, sweets and free ice cream. Juices, colas, phantas, wines, beers and other drinks are also in prosperity. By the way, the carriers of "beer belly" here were unusually many, and they represented mostly Russia and Ukraine. However, the system "all inclusive" is probably not predispose to exceptional slimness. In addition to traditional breakfasts, dinners and dinners, in different parts of the hotel, at certain time intervals, guests are offered hamburgers, pancakes and other goodies. There are several national restaurants, which takes place by appointment.
Excursions. Due to the fact that we rested with a little child, the number of excursion routes was minimized by us. The priority was given to the "Pirate Yacht", inspect the ancient city with a visit to the leather, textile and jewelry factories, as well as traveling to the waterfall of Manavgat and a trip to the water park. Troy. Running forward, I will say that in all routes we were accompanied by Russian-speaking guides. We ordered a tour of the Pirate Yacht in the local city travel agency, and it cost us almost 3 times cheaper than the TUI company offered. That is, for three, we paid $ 50 instead of 140. The yacht trip provided for a saturated entertainment program for children, but in general did not cause delight. Several Turks moved by pirates, first decorated children with appropriate symbols, and then offered them to dance to the music, passing photographing and engaged in concomitant affairs.
Soon we arrived at Turtle IslandLocated at the place of signs of the River Manavgat to the Mediterranean Sea, where children, under the leadership of one of the "pirates", for 5! Found minutes widely advertised before this "treasure", in the form of small wrist bracelets and joined the parents who were gathering a little swim in the sea. After that, the team began to prepare lunch and after a half hours we finally sailed away from the island. During the return journey, I looked at a small dance show on a ship mast, performed by one of the local corsars, and a little flooded in the open sea. At the end of the route, for a certain number of euro, the passenger was asked to buy colorful professional photos with their children decorated in the best possible way. As a result, the impressions turned out to be quite blurred, and all the ever taken out traditional Russian freebies performed by the Turks, however, most children liked the trip, and this is the main thing.
3 days after the "pirate yacht", we went to Waterpark Troy.To see the dolphins show and enjoy visiting one of the most advertised water parks of Turkey. Troy is located on the territory of the 5-star Rixos Premium Hotel, in Belek. That is, in fact he is semi-known, but 2 additional stars received just for this unique water park. It occupies a relatively small territory in the presence of a pretty overall hill, therefore a feeling of cramped and some discomfort is created. We paid for the trip from TUI, because at the local travel agencies of the city of Side, the excursions in Troy did not find. She cost us $ 150. Two adults at 120+ children for 30. We arrived at about 10.30 am and all the sun beds were already busy, so things had to be left in the locker room. Huge hype and impressive turns on the slides initially caused a storm of indignation, which lied after a while, after a more dense acquaintance with the infrastructure of the park. At 11 o'clock, the show of Dolphins began, who also caused great interest among visitors who fully filling the indoor amphitheater in the local dolphinarium.
According to their own impressions, I will say that in general, Troy acquitted the expectations, appearing in the form in which I represented it. The only negative, it is a significant flaw in the ratio of occupied space and the number of places for comfortable accommodation. However, the water park is so unusual and interesting that it simply do not want to sunbathe on the sun bed. In addition to the famous Trojan horse having closed and open slides, shallow-water playgrounds, various grots, caves, waterfalls are equipped here. All buildings are decorated in an old Trojan style, and those who wish have the opportunity to take pictures in traditional for those years of Trojan armor, with a spear or sword. In general, this place is of great interest, both for children and adults. The most popular attraction of the Troy is a unique slide, ejecting rolling not down, and up under water pressure. Analog it is only in one water park of the world, in Dubai. In addition, there are amazing slides of Kamikadze, on which there are no queues, due to their steepness and the highest speed developed during the descent. In addition, they offer a wonderful view of the surroundings and the Mediterranean Sea. In the course of the process, professional photographers take pictures of visitors directly in water and apply them to souvenir plates and other items that can be bought when leaving the water park. As a result, visiting Troy brought us a lot of impressions, and even though not all of them were positive, I promised himself with the first opportunity to go back here next time.
Turkey. Belek. Waterpark Troy. View of the sea from the height of the slide "Kamikaze"
It was no less saturated with a trip to the ancient Side with a trip to the Manavgat waterfall, held in the penultimate day of our stay at the resort and we have passed only 15 dollars on three, although at its end, as after the "pirate yacht", hesitantly smoked freely. The city consists of two parts. Its main territory includes the ruins of the ancient Roman amphitheater, the temple of Apollo and public Roman toilets, stretching over several hundred meters along the main road at the entrance to the city. The rest consists of residential areas, coastal villas, hotels, restaurants and numerous souvenir shops. Our guide, with the original Turkish name Altan, was perfectly expressing in Russian, but told us about the main aspects of the historical past Side and bringing to the ruins of the amphitheater (even if the heat is +45 degrees), asked to return in 20 minutes to the bus, not even mentioning The temple of Apollo, located behind the amphitheater, on the coast itself. If we did not make an independent rider to the city on the 2nd day of our stay in Side, they would not even know about the existence of such a romantic and beautiful place during this sightseeing tour. This is me by the word, about the utility of independent walks.
After the sightseeing tour was completed, we went to the leather factory, where we were forced to see the defile and run through the sophisticated rooms with expensive leather products, the prices of which were overestimated 3 times, in honor of our arrival. Similar shopping operation, we were subject to visiting jewelry and textile factories. The main impressions were received from the trip to the waterfall on the River Manavgat, near the city of the same name. This place attracts, first of all, with its fabulous landscapes and purest air.
Since the river stems from high mountain peaks, its temperature in this part of the country is +13 degrees, which I felt on myself, deciding a little refreshing, hoping in it. The territory around the waterfall is a revived tourist center, with souvenir shops and shops where you can buy sweets, various robberies, magnets and more. There are also trays with goat milk ice cream, characterized by special taste and enjoyed tourist attention.
After the waterfall, we went to the central mosque of the city of Manavgat, admiring their dazzling white and traditional oriental luxury. For 20 minutes, that we were in the mosque, Altan told us about the peculiarities of the Muslim religion in Turkey and its differences from Sharia, professing in the countries of the Middle East. These differences turned out to be very significant, as well as the laws reigning in these neighboring states.
Upon completion of the trip, I once again became convinced that with the 4-year-old child to make such excursions extremely tedious and remaining until the departure of one and a half days we spent on site, the benefit of opportunities for a fascinating pastime.
Leisure and useful information. As for leisure, it is very diverse in Suntopia Pegasos World, and the choice of options is extremely wide. In the evenings with his wife and daughter, we regularly went to a children's disco, which was carried out by local animators, always very lively and interesting. Communication with the public occurs here in English, because, unlike most Turkish resorts of the Antalya coast, the main stake of tourists is not Russian, but the British, Germans and Scandinavians. However, the discos pass daily and the program is similar to the previous day, so already on the 3rd or 4th day you begin to understand what we are talking about, not even knowing English. During the daytime day, animators invite those who want to play mini-football, beach volleyball or take part in various massive fun. There are tennis courts and a basketball court.
The main contingent is children, so everything is spinning around them and for them, including the gaming sports already mentioned by me. Tourists, resting without children, will be boring here. However, this is only my personal opinion. Sun beds by the pools are performed first. At the same time, the process begins at 6 am. It all gets very early here, because breakfast starts from 7 hours. On the beach, most free places on the right side, if you stand face to the sea, volleyball playgrounds and water sports grounds. On the left, between the bars, the greatest accumulation of people and sun beds are always busy from early morning. The territory is very large and picturesque, so the people dispersed in different places and walk on it comfortably and nice, especially after dinner when heat falls. It starts to darken only in half a ninth evening.
Shopping. Shopping is best done in the ancient city of Side, on shopping streets near the amphitheater and in the local market, where a huge selection of clothing and souvenirs. You should not take anything in the shops offered by guides during excursions, because prices are registered there because of a significant percentage surcharge, which sellers are eliminating tour operators for the customer supplied. It is necessary to bargain on the market, since the measures of the Turks do not know, especially when they see tourists with the bracelets of five-stroke hotels. All sorts of inflatable mattresses, balls and other beachpart attributes are sold in the store near the restaurant. Prices are very affordable, so many tourists prefer to buy these things here, at the hotel, and not bring them with you from home. Also selling cream for sunburn and other goods.
As a place for a beach holiday, Pegasos World seems to me the perfect option, and Side, despite the pretty similar natural landscapes, compared with the same Kemer or Alania, is very attractive not only as a beach resort, but also enough in terms of sightseeing programs. Summing up, I will say that we have managed to rest, and Turkey, once again justified the highest expectations.
