Myself and my 11yr old daughter have just returned from the 5* Grida holiday village in Belek. We have just had our worst holiday ever, unfortunatly it was our first time in Turkey and im not sure yet we will go back.
Firstly id just like to say we have visited resorts in the past where we were they only English speaking guests and never had a problem, although we werent the only Englidh guests at this resort it was a problem. The whole resort was centred arond there Russian, German,Polish guests and we were treated with disregard. We were ignored at the bars nobody ever said hello, good morning any form of pleasantry. Smiles were never returned. Infact they looked straight through you. Our children were ignored. My daughter and her 2 friends were stood on the grille right at the edge of the pool dancing to the music and were told not to do that because they might wet the floor. Silly petty things like that were driving me insane.
The food all week was the same for lunch and dinner and was bland. The extra restaurants that had to be resrved were like gold dust. We eventually booked into the Italian only to find it shut just like most of the bars and buffets because of the rain.
So after 3 full days of rain we headed for the indoor pool, jaccussi and sauna this kept us sane for a few hours. The indoor pool was tiny but thats fair enough, only when there is 336 rooms full in the place that means not everyone is going to fit. I cant understand why everything just shuts down in the rain apart from two bars, one with only 1 barperson the other only staffed by 2. I doubt many people would have managed more than 3 or 4 drinks on an evening.
We found we werent welcome and had been placed in the wrong resort
It just seems that after reading some reports many places welcome their Engish guests wouldnt it be better to just sell us these resorts and not were we are not welcome.
When the sun shines you can have a good time here the waterslides were loved by everyone the beach was lovely and it did have a choice of 5 pools just dont expect to be made to feel welcome.
Anna
Why not try a resort like Bitez. It's a wonderful friendly small resort, and not at all biased. I'm sure you would like it there.
We have tried one of the large AI hotels, and didn't like it for the same reasons you didn't like the Grida.
Do try a different resort next year. But, do your homework first.
Marn.
I hope that you will give Turkey a second chance - don't let one hotel put you off a whole country that has so much to offer.
The polish and Russians tend to go for All in as they dont have much money to spend.
But that does not mean the should be allowed to be rude to other nationalities, i wonder is it just the language barrier.?
Any way give it another go, try Icmeler very family friendly we have recently been to Dalyan very nice, 20 mins from airport.
Been to belek six times now ,never found a problem with different nationalities , i find if i talk to people they will talk back ,even if it is just to say hello .
I dont think it will put me off Turkey but i think i would have to be in the more popular resorts. I really dont think i would go AI anywhere ever again though i felt a bit like a prisoner. Thanks again Anna.
But they were all very friendly and well mannered. It was the few british who let the side down and lacked social graces.
I have always found that the staff in most hotels are told not to talk to the guests untill they are spoken to first, once you speak to them they are the best people in the world ,especially if you are a returning guest ,they then treat you like family ,only today i had a phone call from the bell captain of the sun zeynep ,just to inquire how myself and my family were
Was in Belek in the summer and even though the hotel was mainly Russian, the reps and Russians went out their way to speak to us when they found out we were Scottish, (not knocking anyone else btw) as a lot of them had never met anyone from Scotland.
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