For a start I want to say that there is no hate at all at Lonicera City.
1. The food is terrible. I don't know how the people rated good the food.
We stayed for 7 days and the food was the same all days. Cooked curry chicken (very dry and chewy), cooked beef with vegetables - again very chewy, rice every day and pumpkin. For 7 days we had fish just one time. No sea food, no grilled meat/barbecue. Only boiled chewy meat with near no taste. Boiled sausages
The salad bar is excellent.
2. The table tennis is extremely poor. Broken tennis rockets, very cheap ball which did not bounce and the table is like these ones for kids. Me and my buddies play tennis very often and we were exited to play in the hotel - not worth it.
3. Our stay was all inclusive. And yes, we Bulgarians drink many beers. They give you bad looks if you go and order 5 beers for all guys on the table. They start to ask you how many people are on the table like you are lying. At the end of the day why you guys even care? I'm all inclusive and drinks are free. I can have as much as I like.
4. The beer is very watery of course. It's written Efes Pilsen but I had all the bottled beers in Alanya (Tuborg Gold, Efes Pilsen,...For a start I want to say that there is no hate at all at Lonicera City.
1. The food is terrible. I don't know how the people rated good the food.
We stayed for 7 days and the food was the same all days. Cooked curry chicken (very dry and chewy), cooked beef with vegetables - again very chewy, rice every day and pumpkin. For 7 days we had fish just one time. No sea food, no grilled meat/barbecue. Only boiled chewy meat with near no taste. Boiled sausages
The salad bar is excellent.
2. The table tennis is extremely poor. Broken tennis rockets, very cheap ball which did not bounce and the table is like these ones for kids. Me and my buddies play tennis very often and we were exited to play in the hotel - not worth it.
3. Our stay was all inclusive. And yes, we Bulgarians drink many beers. They give you bad looks if you go and order 5 beers for all guys on the table. They start to ask you how many people are on the table like you are lying. At the end of the day why you guys even care? I'm all inclusive and drinks are free. I can have as much as I like.
4. The beer is very watery of course. It's written Efes Pilsen but I had all the bottled beers in Alanya (Tuborg Gold, Efes Pilsen, Efes Malt, Bomonti) and not one tasted that watery.
They try to charge you even for the free cocktails at the bar. We had cocktails on the pool bar and the bartender said there are some free types of cocktails. The same day on the night bar the other bartender tried to sell them to me and when I told him they should be free he laughed and gave it for free. Not cool.
We paid for a Mojito - made with lemons, not lime, almost no rum for 10TL - not worth it.
5. BEWARE where you book your room. The hotel have 2 parts - old and reinovated. I'm not saying the old is bad but you might be disappointed on arrival. The new part have big balcons with newer baths and rooms.
6. The rooms are small. The toilet/bath smells very bad. I don't know where that smell comes from but its like a canal smell.
7. The pool is not bad. Nice comfortable sunbeds, but they are a low number. Not every day you can go to the pool because people leave their towels on the beds like they booked it for the whole day.
8. The hotel is Russian targeted. Full of russians and the food is prepared for them. I'm saying this cause I know what the russians eat. Not a singe hint that you are staying in Turkey. All the staff is from Kyrgyzstan, Uzbekistan etc.
9. The staff is not very cool. They never say you "Good morning" or something like this. They barely speak English. They think everyone is Russian at their hotel. So if you are not Russian I don't recommend going there.
10. You can get a ticket from the reception for sunbeds and umbrellas. It's paid but still it's comfortable to get it right from the reception. 25TL for 4 sunbeds and 2 umbrellas is a good price.
11. The location of the hotel is very good. 5-8 minutes walk to the beach, many shops near but it;s very very noisy cause it's near a boulevard with a lot of traffic.
12. Very clear hotel. The cleaning lady comes every day and does a great job
In other words - Not a bad hotel for a 3 stars but don't expect much. If you have option to not pay for food just to sleep it's the best choice. As I said the food is so bad that we ate real turkish food in restaurants.More
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