The holiday season for hundreds of thousands of Russians is associated with relaxation in specialized hotels. What interests those tourists who have chosen a city like Antalya as a place for their future vacation ? Hotels, prices, resort features and more. Fortunately, it is not difficult for them to get advice on this matter. After all, compatriots regularly and with pleasure in the holiday season visit the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. In fact, they can serve as consultants for novice tourists.
By the way, it’s easy to get some information about the base prices for the tour of interest without leaving your apartment on the operator’s websites. There are relevant specialized calculators. The amount will be visually and promptly presented to the visitor to the site, you just need to indicate the hotel and the estimated time spent in it.
About the subject of the article
In this article we will tell readers about one of the options for relaxation. On the Mediterranean coast of the province of Antalya, there are about 275 worthy hotels. However, this time we will not look for hotels with a ten-year history and, accordingly, the largest number of reviews. World-class services to its guests are provided, for example, by the newly built Antalya Hotel, a five-star hotel of the latest generation. Judging by the positive reviews, even brand new hotels can be recommended not only to the stars and crescent who came to rest for the first time, but also experienced holiday-makers who sincerely consider Antalya an “all-Russian health resort”.
It should be recognized that currently Turkey’s SPA hotels dominate the resort competition. All the new "five-star" already in the project involve enhanced professional-grade spa facilities. The healing therapeutic effect of such procedures is obvious. In addition, people of middle and older age, replenished their supply of vitality during the rest, of course, in the next season will again seek to come to the “useful” hotel.
How much to pay for the rest
How much money should the admirers of the Turkish Mediterranean take with them? We will answer right away that it is generally difficult to determine the amount that a vacation in Antalya will require . It makes no sense to calculate prices. It all depends on the level of family consumption. In this case, it is desirable to distribute the funds, for example, for a family with two young children, you can use two or three thousand dollars on several card accounts. It is advisable to take 500-600 dollars and 12-15 thousand rubles in cash.
Meet: five-star hotel Aska Lara Resort & Spa (ex. Aska Lara Deluxe)
The hotel is a 20-minute drive from Antalya Airport. This is a completely new five-star hotel, which received its first visitors this year. The start was successful. In a single complex there are ten swimming pools (in two of them the water is heated), four restaurants with bookings by appointment (Turkish, Oriental, Italian cuisine), four fast food restaurants (buffet), spa, six bars, a mini club, children's and sports grounds.
Features
Built in the relatively calm "family" resort center of Lara, the most popular in the Mediterranean region of Antalya, the Aska Lara Deluxe 5 * hotel (now called differently) meets the highest five-star hotel business standards. The picturesque nature of Lara, decorated with waterfalls formed by a mountain river. The beach located here, bearing the name of the area where it is located (Lara), is one of the best in Turkey.
The architect's idea was to create a multivariate infrastructure Aska Lara Deluxe 5 *. The reviews suggest that those who prefer active gaming, and those who like a measured, calm pastime, and those who are interested in vibrant nightlife, come here. How was this done? In Turkey, the hotel business is of national importance, as well as reliable scientific and educational support.
Zoning
The hotel project involves the zoning of a rather impressive boarding house (62 thousand m 2 ) into two differently functional parts.
In the first, relatively small, is the main stylish, modern seven-story hotel building. It has a horseshoe-shaped architecture, i.e. the project involves two wings. Communication between the floors is carried out by seven elevators, four of which are panoramic. Each of the elevators has a capacity of up to thirteen people. The building itself is spacious and bright, in its public area there are restaurants, bars, spas, a well-equipped indoor heated pool, a specialized modern fitness room. Here, in a single complex, there are massage rooms, a fully functional Turkish bath - a hammam, a Russian bath, a sauna. Table tennis tables are equipped. Near the hotel there are paved terraces for walking, originally decorated by landscape designers.
The hotel is served by a well-coordinated team of professionals. According to reviews, most of them understand the Russian language. The staff of guest relations work well. Lara (hotel, Antalya) is serviced by employees around the clock, many of them are Russian-speaking. Attentive attitude towards hotel guests: all issues are immediately resolved. Reviews indicate that at the request of visitors, towels are replaced in a matter of minutes. Bed linens are always new and perfectly clean.
Water park area
The second zone of the Aska Lara Deluxe 5 * hotel is much larger in area, it is designed for a more dynamic, active vacation. It has a large, fully-featured Wet'n Wild water park. In fact, it can be called "three in one", because it combines three arrays. The first is equipped with high slides with a depth of about 135 cm, designed for adults and adolescents. The second - for less extreme adults and children of primary school age with slides 80 cm deep. The third array of small slides, up to 35 cm deep, is suitable for the smallest children and for people of age.
Also on the second platform of the Aska Lara Deluxe 5 * hotel there is a theme park with attractions, restaurants. All these objects smoothly pass into a fairly large hotel beach (the distance from it to the hotel is 350 meters).
Design of the public area of the building
The interior design of the hotel lobby zone is quite original, made with elements of modern style, mainly in white colors. However, not in monocrome, but with the shading of individual surfaces with brown, golden and pastel colors.
In some rooms, for example, in the lobby, in the indoor pool, the ceilings have double height, the interior is originally decorated. The floor is finished with brown and light pastel artificial stone, the furniture is made of good wood. Multilevel ceilings with original built-in lighting are made according to asymmetric modern patterns.
Where do vacationers live?
Visitors are welcomed by 545 rooms of various types (Family Room, Standard Sea View, Standard Side Sea View, Standard Land View). A full rest is provided by the apartments of the Aska Lara Deluxe 5 * hotel. Guest reviews mark the wisdom of their equipment. Each room has a place for making tea, a minibar with refreshing soft drinks, good air conditioning, and a safe. Well-renovated, windows provide sound and heat insulation.
The bathroom is spacious enough, equipped with modern fixtures, a convenient large sink and a multifunctional shower. The walls of the bathroom are aesthetically finished with ceramics imitating gray marble.
Catering
The best criterion for evaluating nutrition are visitor reviews. This is an axiom! So, to find negative reviews about the kitchen of the hotel complex under consideration is quite difficult.
"Lara" (hotel, Antalya) with its organization of food for vacationers, perhaps, may surprise even seasoned businessmen. The fact is that in addition to a really wide assortment (even for ten days of stay you can’t try all the dishes), there is also a different style of cooking. Gourmets will find their favorite sharp halftones, while lovers of healthy food will find many dishes of the corresponding category. The range and quantity of all-inclusive fruits offered at Aska Lara Resort & Spa (the modern name of the hotel) are encouraging. These are oranges, apples, pears, grapes, medlar, nectarines, strawberries, bananas. Traditionally, there is a lot of meat food: from beef, lamb, veal, chicken, turkey, quail. Connoisseurs of seafood will also be satisfied. Regularly presented in the menu are both seafood (mussels, shrimp, squid), as well as quality cooked mullet, sea bass, red fish, etc.
Breakfast lunch dinner
Catering in Aska Lara Resort & Spa as much as possible meets the needs of vacationers. Breakfast here is from 7 00 to 10 30 , lunch is from 12 00 to 15 30 , and dinner is from 18 00 to 22 00 .
Morning meals (as, however, both daytime and evening) are carried out according to the principle of a buffet, which has already become a world standard. Therefore, the restaurant, which provides the main food for vacationers, has an appropriate design: a spacious buffet area is separated from several guest rooms. Thus, hotel guests choose food in one area of the restaurant, and their tables, respectively, are located in another (something this logistics resembles a "classic" dining room).
However, if you overslept breakfast or “bought” lunch, this does not mean that you will remain hungry. On the beach, in the water park, in the building of Aska Lara Resort itself, you will be offered a wide selection of sweets (to try everything at once you will have neither the strength nor the ability), assorted packaged juices, instant food. In addition, from 15 00 to 17 00 for the hotel guests are offered six to seven types of ice cream (optional: in a bowl or in a waffle cup). In the evening, near the pools, you can take grilled local culinary and smelling delicious meat and fish. The system of ordering food in the room also works.
In a word, if you are not without reason consider yourself a gourmet, then in this case you will be satisfied with your vacation at Aska Lara Resort & Spa. Guest reviews indicate the high qualifications of the cooks, about really tasty and healthy food.
Physiotherapy
Hotel guests, especially middle-aged and older ones, regularly visit the hotel spa. Here, visitors significantly restore their strength thanks to the warmth of the Turkish bath (hammam), baths with rose petals, therapeutic massage. With the help of steam, the airways are warmed up, muscles are relaxed, and diseases of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems of the body are prevented. In fact, the Turkish bath is a slightly modified ancient Roman one. Vacationers unanimously reiterate: "She must visit!"
Clients of the spa have the opportunity to choose the peeling appropriate to their tastes: from algae, fruit, coffee, saline, etc. By means of peeling, hotel cosmetologists achieve high-quality cleaning of skin pores, removal of dead cells, and impurities. Thus, the skin is rejuvenated. For effective fat burning spa-wraps are used : algae, hot, cold. Oxygen spa baths, hair spa, Vichy showers are also in demand. The effect of physiotherapy is greatly enhanced thanks to branded salon cosmetics.
Diving
Many vacationers at the hotel have a happy opportunity (of course, at an amateur level) to join in an exciting lesson - diving. Scuba diving, observing marine photographs and photographing them, searching at the bottom of archaeological finds - all this attracts people. It is easy for hotel guests to choose their favorite diving courses from the many offers. Among the courses popular in Antalya, there are oriented both for beginners (general rules for diving, breathing features, standard appropriate actions in various situations), and for people with diving experience (deep sea dives, boat dives , underwater shooting).
Mini club
The Aska Lara Deluxe 5 * hotel has a creative team of children's animators. Young girls and guys are able to communicate with small hotel customers, they know how to interest them. The mini-club uses different facilities: either it operates in the main building, then in different zones of the water park and on sports grounds specialized for different ages. Every day with children competitions, contests are held. And in the evening, diplomas are always solemnly awarded to the winners. For children, more fun mini-discos are organized with qualified DJs - animators.
The winning moment of the mini-club is the organization of kids' birthdays. The action takes place during a disco (sometimes in the Panorama bar, sometimes in other places). At the end, all the guests together sing a song for the little birthday boy, gifts are given to him.
Finally
Summing up the above, it should be noted that the Aska Lara Resort hotel can really be safely recommended for a wonderful holiday. It has created a universal and efficient infrastructure, and the staff is trained and attentive. However, for some reason, at the subconscious level, questions arise about the creation in the future of a fully competitive Black Sea Riviera ...
What is the Black Sea coast lagging behind in infrastructure so far as world class resorts? Obviously, in answering such questions, “inventing a bicycle” is not worth it. The answer has already been given by Turkey. Antalya hotels (“all inclusive” - the principle of their work), especially representatives of the latest generation, clearly demonstrate such promising opportunities.