Most tourists go to Turkey to relax in the popular tourist centers Antalya, Marmaris, Kemer, famous all over the world for their excellent service. We suggest you go to the relatively small, but no less famous town of Side, located 75 km from Antalya, to the newest Dream World Aqua 5 * hotel here.
Having arisen 300 years BC, Side has seen a lot in its long century. He had a chance to learn and a fabulous flowering, and complete collapse. Now it is a relatively calm resort town, in which gray-haired antiquity perfectly coexists with amazing modernity.
A vivid example of this is the Dream World Aqua hotel. It has been functioning a little over a year, so everything here sparkles with novelty and purity. Due to its stylish look, the hotel fits perfectly into the colorful view of the city. Designers and designers tried to create a real paradise for tourists here. Let's see what they did.
Location
Tourists have no consensus on the convenience of the Dream World Aqua 5 * location. Side is located on a small peninsula, washed on three sides by the Mediterranean Sea. It is 75 km from the main regional city of Antalya, and only 15 km from the popular Manavgat among tourists. Many people call Side a city-museum, because literally every corner here is covered with legends and recalls the glorious deeds of bygone days.
Here in such a wonderful place in 2015, hospitably opened the doors of Dream World Aqua 5 * for tourists. Its guests can quickly and easily reach all the main attractions, the market, shopping centers, since they are less than 6 km away. From this side, everyone likes the location of the hotel. But it’s about 800 meters from the coast, which some tourists have been complaining about. Another minus mentioned in the reviews is that there are no interesting natural objects around the hotel, only other hotels and the highway.
How to get there
The nearest airport from Dream World Aqua 5 * is near Antalya. Flights from many Russian cities are carried out here. On the highway, the distance to the hotel is a little over 60 km, which is not so much for modern comfortable transfers. But taking into account the fact that tourists are always brought to other hotels along the way, the travel time stretches for 1.5-2 hours.
Description
The full name of the hotel is Dream World Aqua Resort SPA 5 *. It is located on a solid area of 23,000 square meters. Since the hotel is new, its territory can not yet boast of a chic garden. Most of the trees here are still young, but landscape designers have tried to plant them in such a way as to beautifully distinguish between separate zones, and in the future to get cozy rest areas for people of all ages. But even now, curly-cut evergreen bushes and a sea of all kinds of flowers give the territory a pleasant look. Its main part is occupied by the water park and huge pools. There was also a place for a free car park, several bars, multiple sports grounds.
The hotel was built by one high-rise building in the Art Nouveau style. Its interior is striking in magnificence. The hotel lobby resembles a fabulous palace, its chandeliers, sofas, armchairs, decor of walls, floors and ceilings are so luxurious. The reception is open 24 hours a day, the staff speaks German and Turkish, knows English. Here, currency exchange, taxi call, design of sightseeing tours are carried out. At the reception you can order a doctor’s call, rent a car, wash your personal laundry, order a photo shoot, sign up for an a la carte restaurant, and solve current issues.
Infrastructure
In Dream World Aqua 5 * for a pleasant pastime of tourists everything is thought out to the last detail. Its rich infrastructure includes several bars and restaurants, a spa, a hairdresser, a small shop, an Internet cafe, facilities for playing sports and for entertaining children, a large conference room with a podium and all the latest audio and video equipment for up to 450 participants . If necessary, hotel staff help organize and conduct symposia, conferences, business meetings of any rank. For celebrations, special occasions, the hotel has a luxurious banquet hall. The hotel provides all the necessary staff for the service.
Rooms
The building of Dream World Aqua Hotel 5 * has 8 floors, which have 385 rooms. All of them in their design combine elements of modern and classical Turkish culture, which makes them unusually comfortable to stay and gives special sophistication. Along with this, the rooms are very bright, spacious and beautiful. Decor elements include large panels on the walls, unusual shaped lamps and art nouveau furniture. The feeling of spaciousness is added by panoramic windows overlooking the pool or the surrounding area.
The category of rooms is one - the standard, but they are one-room, designed for 2, maximum 3 people, and two-room family type, designed for 4, maximum 5 people. All the furniture, appliances and sanitary ware in the rooms are new, the sheets are snow-white, the towels are soft, of excellent quality. Change them daily.
Equipment: air conditioning (it works very quietly), a fridge with a small bar (there is water and drinks in it), a plasma TV with a large screen, a safe, internet (Wi-Fi), an electric kettle with dishes and tea and coffee sets, a telephone, fire detectors and smoke, plus a spacious balcony. The hygiene rooms have a shower, hairdryer, toilet bowl and washbasin. All cosmetics for showering are provided and replenished as needed.
Nutrition
Only on the system "All inclusive" offers permits in Dream World Aqua 5 *. The food reviews at the hotel are excellent. Almost all tourists note a wide variety of dishes, their good quality, fast work of waiters, cleanliness, pleasant atmosphere. The hotel's infrastructure has one central restaurant, which serves buffet breakfast, lunch and dinner.
The menu is very rich, each guest has the opportunity to make an acceptable choice. For breakfast there are a lot of dairy and vegetable products, cereals, sausages, cheeses, freshly prepared pancakes, pancakes, there are also scrambled eggs, chicken, meat, pastries. For lunch, soups, meat, fish, seafood (shrimp, squid, crabs, mussels), various side dishes, fruits are served. For dinner, a barbecue is often arranged. In addition to the main meals, guests can have a bite to eat in the cafe and in the snack bar, where pizza, sandwiches and ice cream are served.
Drinks on the Al system can be taken until 24-00, then everything is for the money. The hotel offers beer, wine, many cocktails, vodka, juices, Pepsi, sprite and other drinks. Upon request and by appointment once every 7 days, tourists can visit the a la carte restaurants, where they prepare themed dishes of Mexican, Oriental and European cuisines.
Service for children
Comfortably, without the slightest problem, tourists with children relax in Dream World Aqua Resort SPA 5 *. Reviews about organizing a stay with kids in this hotel are only favorable. Here on the territory there is a playground with slides, ladders, a swing and a carousel, there is a children's pool, a mini-club works in the building, where teachers are taught with children. They organize games for different ages, drawing, making crafts, music classes. Animators with kids conduct children's aerobics, mini-disco, shift competitions. But most of all, little tourists like to play in the children's section of the water park, where water slides and other attractions are installed for them.
In the rooms, upon request of parents, cots are provided, in the restaurant you can take highchairs, there are several dishes on the menu for kids.
Leisure at the hotel for adults
There are so many leisure facilities in Dream World Aqua 5 * that you can never leave its territory. The main highlight is a large water park with slides for rolling down one person or in pairs, with many pools and with the attraction "River". It is important that on each hill hotel employees are on duty, monitoring the safety of vacationers. In addition to the water park, the territory has a large outdoor and fairly spacious indoor pools, tennis courts, sports grounds, squash and darts, and the building has a billiard room.
Tourists are in great demand with a modern, exclusively designed spa, where you can relax and unwind in the hammam, sauna, bathhouse, undergo massage courses.
Entertainers are never discouraged animators. In the afternoon, they do aerobics, organize competitions in the pool and on the beach, give dance lessons, and in the evening show interesting shows, hold quizzes.
In addition to all these events, a disco is held every day for guests.
Sea
Without exception, tourists rely on a beach holiday, buying tours to Dream World Aqua 5 * (Turkey). Side, Antalya and other resorts are famous for their wonderful coast and well-groomed beaches. To reach the sea coast, guests of the hotel in question will either have to walk about 20 minutes to it, or drive in free shuttles provided by the hotel in 2-3 minutes. They go quite often - every quarter of an hour, but only until 17-00. This is perhaps the only inconvenience. The beach itself is pretty good, the sand on it is clean, sunbeds and umbrellas are free and in sufficient quantity. There is a bar on the beach where guests can take drinks and snacks for free. The weather in Side is very warm, you can swim in the sea from the end of April until the end of October, and in the summer months the temperature of the water, especially in shallow water, warms up above +26 degrees. It’s ideal to relax here with children, because the depth does not start right away, and there are no stones or other obstacles under your feet.
Additional Information
According to most tourists, it is precisely tourists with children and couples who are most comfortable in Dream World Aqua 5 * (Side). Side Center, where there are nightclubs, bars and other entertainment, is not far away, but you need to go to it. The main contingent of the hotel is elderly Germans, which leaves a mark on the whole atmosphere, but young people who are not interested in entertainment away from the hotel are also happy with everything. Those who like to learn new things can take tours to the city of Side, to the waterfalls of Manavgat, to the central water park and many others. Dry lunches are available on excursion days.
The hotel has rooms for people with health problems.
Check in officially - from 14-00, but in practice the numbers can be provided much earlier.
Check out - until 12-00.
Dream World Aqua 5 * (Side), reviews
This hotel in various travel agencies has a rating of 8.5 to 9 points out of 10, which is an excellent indicator. Advantages noted by tourists:
- everything is new, everything is clean and perfectly functioning;
- the presence in the territory of the water park;
- plentiful and varied food;
- funny animation;
- friendly staff;
- good wifi.
Marked Cons:
- there is no Russian-speaking staff;
- far away sea.