So, Mal had a cold and now he had given it to me! I felt rough and could have just stayed in bed, not packing and getting ready to leave. We had breakfast, packed, went to the beach bar until it was time to leave out cases in the ‘unsecured’ room by reception. We didn’t bother filling in their questionnaire as there was only about half inch of space for comments, apart from ‘rubbish’ what could we put? Mal will put his thoughts on ‘Trip Advisor’. Kervansaray, Lara, Antalya……give it a miss.
I think our summing up of the hotel is that it is soul less, the lay out is such that there is no central socialising area. It is also shabby, all the varnish peeling off the balconies of both the rooms we have had, cracked glass everywhere, even in the lifts, none of it seemed as though it was being replaced. It’s a good thing it is dim lighting at night, it gives the impression of being smarter than it is. Some staff were very nice and others just couldn’t care less including one of the Managers. I felt this was because they had tip boxes rather than guests tipping individually, so they had no reason to be attentive. Cleaning was shoddy, we watched a cleaner using pool water with nothing else added to clean the pool surround and then swept it back in the pool.
I failed to mention that there was only a bottom sheet on beds, no top sheet, just something like a baby honeycomb blanket which if you laid on the bed for a siesta without removing this first; you woke up looking like a Shreddie! The skin just doesn’t ping back like it used to!
We ate lunch and then sat drinking coffee until our lift arrived to take us to Antalya airport. We arrived back at Ercan and it had been raining. In fact we were to find out later that they had hail stones the size of golf balls while we were away. We should be thankful we missed all that!
We were very glad to be home.