Turkey has long been loved by our compatriots as a vacation destination. Therefore, in our article we want to talk about one of the hotels in the famous resort of Side. Sural Resort is only nine kilometers from this wonderful city.
Hotel Description
Sural Resort can be safely called a luxury hotel complex. It has an area of 60,000 square meters. The hotel is surrounded by a beautiful tropical garden. It consists of the main (main) building and eight residential buildings.
Sural Resort is located 55 kilometers from the international airport in Antalya, twelve kilometers from Manavnat and two kilometers from the village of Colakli. The complex has its own beach on the Pamphylian coast. And from the windows of the building offers a beautiful view of the Mediterranean Sea.
Rooms
Sural Resort offers its guests 365 very beautiful and comfortable rooms, equipped with a personal safe, refrigerator, TV and furniture. The apartments have bathrooms with toiletries, a hairdryer and all necessary cosmetics.
The hotel has roomsthe following categories:
- Standard room has an area of 27 square meters. It is equipped with a double bed (or two single beds). The apartments are designed for a maximum of two people.
- Standard triple room has an area of 27 square meters.
- Family apartments have a large area (36 square meters). They are equipped with four single beds or two double beds.
- Economy double apartment.
All rooms have balconies and air conditioning. Apartments are cleaned daily and linen is changed three times a week. This property is not pet friendly.
Food in the complex
Like many other hotels, Sural Resort (Turkey) operates on an all-inclusive basis. The main restaurant serves the best Turkish and Mediterranean cuisine. Buffet allows tourists to try a variety of food for lunch, breakfast and dinner.
Many guests of the complex love to visit the panoramic restaurant, which offers a beautiful view of the Mediterranean Sea.
The All Inclusive system allows tourists to take any alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks of local production, as well as ice cream (it is offered from two to that o'clock in the afternoon). Drinks of foreign production can be purchased by guests for a fee. In addition, the all-inclusive system offers sweets, snacks, and fast food to vacationers throughout the day. The main restaurant has a children's menu.
In the hotelthere are several bars: on the beach, by the pool, snack bar, disco bar, lobby bar. Guests of the complex can visit two a la carte restaurants that offer fish dishes and European cuisine.
Complex infrastructure
Sural Resort (Turkey) has one indoor and two outdoor pools, as well as a hotel children's pool. Nearby is a recreation area with free sun loungers, mattresses and umbrellas. Near the pool there are several bars, in the shade of which you can hide from the heat of the day and choose a cool cocktail.
For business people traveling on business, Sural Resort Hotel offers a comfortable conference room that can accommodate up to a thousand people. It is equipped with all the equipment necessary for negotiations. All organizational issues will be resolved by the hotel administration.
In addition, the complex has its own parking, dry cleaning, laundry, car rental, currency exchange, shops and luggage storage at the reception.
Children's holiday
Sural Resort Hotel positions itself as a family resort for families with children. This is noticeable even in the attitude of the staff towards the young guests of the hotel. In addition, the hotel has an entertainment club for children, a separate pool and slides. In the main restaurant, kids are offered a separate menu. At the request of vacationers, it is possible to provide baby cots (for children under two years old free of charge, for older children for 38 euros per day). If necessary, babysitting services can be ordered.
Sports & Entertainment
Sural Resort 5offers its guests windsurfing, water aerobics, banana and jet skiing, scuba diving, rowing, sailing, bowling, tennis, darts, billiards, basketball, table tennis, volleyball, fitness center.
Beach and sea
Sural Resort 5is located on the first line and has its own beach, which is no more than fifty meters away. The coast is clean and sandy. Along the sea there is a promenade along which it is very good to walk in the evenings. The beach of the hotel, like the entire coast of the resort, is gentle and comfortable. It has a gentle descent into the sea. On one side of the beach there are stones in the water, and on the other side there is a clean sandy bottom. There are several bars on the beach offering cocktails and soft drinks.
A little about the resort…
Sural Resort Hotel 5 refers to the famous resort of Side. The glorious past of the famous city is harmoniously combined with modern complexes and untouched natural beauty. All this attracts a huge number of tourists from all over the world. Some travelers go to see historical places, others go swimming in the clear sea and soak up the sun.
In fact, Side is a very small city, but it has won the title of one of the busiest resorts in all of Turkey. In addition, it is a real open-air museum. Here are the main archaeological treasures of the country, which are carefully protected by local laws.
Among tourists, Side has gained immense popularity because of the beautiful sandybeaches located a little west of the town. There are always many tourists there. But in the east, the coast is always less crowded, here the rest is much more comfortable for those who do not like the hustle and bustle. Therefore, in addition to the town itself, the resort also includes such settlements as Kumkoy, Kyzylygach, Cholakly and Kizilot.
Sights of Side
Resting in Sural Resort 5(Side), you should definitely take advantage of this great opportunity and see all the most famous sights. As in ancient times, the old part of Side is located on a small part of the peninsula. The city is separated from the mainland by a moat and a wall. Oddly enough, many different objects have survived here to this day.
You can get to the archaeological complex through the well-preserved ancient main gate of the Hellenic period, from which the main street with columns goes. Unfortunately, it is from the colonnade that fragments have survived, reminiscent of its former beauty and grandeur. Further, this street leads to public baths, it is in their building that the museum is currently located. Behind it is an agora with the ruins of the temple of Tyche and Fortune, inside which there is a round room with twelve columns. In the old days, pirates used this place to trade slaves.
Of course, it's rather hard to imagine now, but the ancient ruins of the theater, where the gladiator fights took place, and the monumental gate were built in the second century. Once the theater could accommodate up to twenty thousand spectators, it is the largest such building in all of Pamphylia. Next to it isRoman antique temple of Dionysus, near the entrance to which a restored fountain flaunts.
Side also has three temples that have survived to this day, a fountain (an artificial grotto with a real spring) and an aqueduct.
Entertainment
Side, as a famous resort, can offer its guests a lot of entertainment. The city has a huge number of discos that are open until dawn. The most famous of them is "Oxid". Shoppers can visit jewelry, carpet and leather shops. The best merchants on Kolonnaya street. Here you can safely shop and are not afraid of fakes.
It will be no less interesting for tourists to visit the museum, located near the theater. In it you can see various architectural details and elements of Hellenistic times.
Vacationers should definitely go on an off-site excursion (or get there on their own) to the amazing Manavgat waterfall, and then try delicious and fresh dishes from the trout caught in the local river.
You can also take a taxi to Aspendos and admire the Roman amphitheater there. If your vacation falls in June or July, then you should definitely visit one of the performances of the annual Opera and Ballet Festival.
Sural Resort Hotel 5 reviews
While talking about one of the hotels in the famous Turkish resort in Side, I would like to turn to the reviews of tourists who have been here. Sural Resort 5(Turkey, Side), is not located in the center of the city itself, which is certainly very convenient for thosevacationers who seek to find a quiet and peaceful complex, where they do not have to stay awake because of loud music at night. Getting to the hotel will not be difficult by public transport, but you can also order a transfer. This service is available at the hotel.
The hotel is quite simple and clear, it is impossible to get confused in the internal corridors. There are a sufficient number of elevators, near which there are never queues. The territory of the Sural Resort (Side) is quite spacious and well-groomed, it is noticeable that it is well looked after. Lots of greenery: palm trees, shrubs, flowering plants. Many cats run around the territory, which children strive to feed.
The hotel staff is very friendly and efficient. They settle into the rooms quickly enough, even if you arrive late at night. The maids are very responsible for cleaning, the rooms are always clean. They try to service the apartments in the morning while you are on the beach.
The rooms themselves are quite spacious. They have everything you need and are in good working order. If the view from the balcony is important to you, then it is better to book rooms overlooking the sea or the pool. True, at the same time, you should be prepared for the fact that it will be quite noisy in the evening, since the main stage for evening animation is located exactly near the pool. But there are also advantages here. Everything is perfectly visible, even without leaving the room, but simply sitting comfortably on the balcony.
The hotel has great Wi-Fi, which is a rarity for Turkish hotels. Internet speedallows you to chat in your room with your scop relatives.
Food reviews
How is the food, according to tourists, in Sural Resort 5 ? Reviews of vacationers regarding food are very positive. All guests of the complex note the variety of dishes, there are not a small number of them. There is never a queue for food in the main restaurant. All trays are regularly replenished if they run out of something. The waiters are polite and eager to please the visitor. The only problem is being able to communicate with them, since few people speak Russian.
Tourists are offered a large selection of fruits: watermelons, peaches, grapes, apricots, plums. Soups are on the tables. All of them have the consistency of puree. Fans of modern dietary first courses will like them very much. Those who are accustomed to hearty and rich borscht have nothing to do in Turkey. Here they do not prepare such first courses as we are used to seeing them. Puree soups are a traditional dish of any hotel. In the preparation of meat dishes, sweets and pastries, it is difficult for Turks to find competitors. Everything is very tasty. Grilled fish deserves special praise. She's just amazing here. The buffet has a wide variety of salads and appetizers.
After lunch, ice cream is served at the hotel. It is for them that a queue is lined up every day (but no more than ten people). It's just amazing, tastier hard to find.
However, with all the variety of dishes, I would like to note their local flavor. All of them are very peppery, and are prepared with a lot of spices. Toit takes some getting used to. Children, as a rule, do not want to eat this. And food from the children's menu is not quite suitable for kids - sausages, pasta, pizza. Sometimes it's hard for kids to find something not peppery.
Turkish sweets are worthy of all kinds of praise, they are cooked here in huge quantities. They are all worth trying. But desserts in the European style are not very tasty, they are not even worth taking.
Overall impression of the hotel
Sural Resort Hotel 5 (Side) has its own beautiful beach. The entire coast of Side is famous for its fine and white sand, including our hotel. The coast in this place is flat and flat. And the sea is shallow and suitable for children. On the beach there are a sufficient number of sunbeds and umbrellas, there are always enough of them. The coast is always quite spacious and there is no huge crowd of vacationers. The sand is clean, it is very pleasant to relax in such an environment. On the shore there is a shower and toilet, as well as a bar. The beach of the hotel is very good for families. The sea water is amazingly warm. Both day and night its temperature does not fall below 28-30 degrees. There is simply no better place to stay with children.
Animators work great in the hotel. It definitely doesn't get boring here. Every day there are musical evenings with belly dancing, the program of the Turkish night is very interesting. During the daytime, animators invite you to participate in sports and entertainment games (basketball, volleyball, aqua aerobics). There is a good mini-club for children, the animation there is in German. However, there is a girl who knows Russian well. Children are played and entertained with games there. A special delightchildren cause slides in the pools, it is simply impossible to take them away from there. I would like to note that the hotel really has a huge number of children, probably at least a third of all guests. All the kids are very satisfied with the entertainment, they are busy with something interesting all day long.
In the evenings in the amphitheater you can watch a musical show, which is translated into several languages, including Russian. Animators work very well, it's never boring. Many representatives of Europe (Czechs, Germans) rest in the complex, there are also Russians and Ukrainians.
Next to the hotel there are several shops with all sorts of tourist goods. In addition, in the hotel itself there are shops with shorts, T-shirts for vacationers. But there are no large entertainment and shopping centers nearby. There is nothing interesting outside the complex, there is absolutely nowhere to walk. Therefore, you can wander in the evenings around the territory of the hotel itself.
There are two minibus stops near the hotel, there is public transport in two directions. One of the buses goes to Managavt and the other to Side. For shopping and in search of entertainment, it is better to go to Side. There you can see not only many historical sights, but also visit the best restaurants, wander through the quiet streets of the town, ride the rides in the water park.
Instead of afterword
Summing up the conversation, we can recommend Sural Resort 5 to tourists for a good holiday. Reviews of vacationers confirm worthylevel of this complex. The hotel is perfect for families with children for a relaxing and measured holiday. But for active youth and shoppers, it might be better to find a hotel that will be located in Side itself.
