Lonicera World - review of hotel with water park for children

Summer vacation for the last 4 years, that is, since our son celebrated his three-year anniversary, it means not only a relaxed pastime somewhere under palm trees, but also the opportunity to take a child who is always active and eager for new experiences. Our salvation more than once turned out to be the hotels of Turkey, ideally suited for family vacations, where we had already been three times before. This year they decided not to reinvent the wheel and go off the beaten track. True, the resort and hotel have chosen new ones for themselves: Alanya and Lonicera World Hotel.

Meeting and check-in

We got to the hotel by 11 am and were worried that before the check-in time stated at 14:00 we would have to wait in “traveling conditions”, but we were brought to the room immediately after registration. We talked with other tourists, many were forced to wait until the appointed time, even if they were with young children: it is worth being prepared for such a development of events. But there are pluses: even if the number is not ready, they offer a snack and immediately put on bracelets, which allows you to use the entire infrastructure of the complex.

Lonicera World entrance adorned with a colorful logo

Before arrival, I wrote to the hotel administration that I would like to move into building D - according to reviews, it is the most convenient. I reminded about this to the administrator, the Russian-speaking one, which will be a plus for many. I was assured that the wishes were taken into account and indeed settled in the building number D on the second floor overlooking the sea. They drove to the building by electric car - my son liked the trip and immediately set up for a fun holiday. An employee helped to raise the luggage, then conducted a tour by number, spoke about the operation of the air conditioner and equipment.

Location of the hotel Lonicera

They chose Alanya because of the sandy beaches and clear sea. In the center of the resort there were no decent club-type hotels, so we decided to stay on the option, which is located about 20 km from the center and a half hour drive from the airport. Lonicera World is located on the Fougla Peninsula, almost in a village in an area called Incekum.

There is no infrastructure around the hotel, only a small village where the staff lives. Civilization can be reached only by taxi, public transport does not go here, and it is not required, because everything you need is on the territory of the complex. Nearby is even a shopping center - quite large for such an area. It has everything from basic necessities to clothing and technology.

Immediately outside the territory there is a small elemental market where, at affordable prices, you can find fruits, beach products, Turkish sweets and souvenirs beloved by many: from magnets and T-shirts to hookahs and carpets. On Wednesdays, trade is much larger: from the neighboring villages a fair arrives here, where there are farm goods, national spices, handicrafts, clothes and a food market.

It takes 40 minutes to get to the center of Alanya from the hotel by taxi, it costs about $ 40 one way, depending on the taxi service. To save on one way roads, you can take a free tour of a tour operator: it involves shopping in lured stores, but no one bothers to get out at the first convenient opportunity, going about your business.

View from the fortress walls of Alanya

Territory Lonicera World

The hotel area is very large, well-groomed. There is not much greenery, so there are no shady zones or a park, in the heat you have to escape on the premises. Shrubs and trees grow around the perimeter and on the territory: it was nice to look at the blooming tangerine trees. From the remaining flowers came a unique aroma, I can imagine how beautiful they look when the fruits ripen.

On one common area there are hotel buildings of 4 * and 5 * categories, the territory and infrastructure are common. Despite the remoteness from civilization, you don’t feel at ease: the hotel capacity is 7,000 people. We rested in early June 2019, there were many vacationers.
The territory is divided into several zones by buildings, each has a large pool with sunbeds, bars. A separate area with a building near the water park: we recommend that you only settle with children: couples or lovers of a quiet holiday will be noisy.

Atmosphere and vacationers

The main contingent of hotel guests is families with children, couples. Unfortunately, free alcohol with some vacationers played wicked jokes: a couple of times they saw people in the main restaurant at dinner and at the bars during the day who were not literally upright.
There are many Russians, Europeans and Turks are also resting, there are very few Asians. In general, it is quite noisy due to the large number of children, so you can’t retire, enjoy a relaxing holiday. Sometimes in the restaurant, at the reception, at the bars, in the water park, spontaneous queues arise, quickly resolving. In general, you feel calm and safe, although the constant noise from the animation does not allow you to completely relax.

Pools at the Lonicera Hotel

The hotel offers 4 outdoor pools located in buildings, water park pools and 2 indoor pools: there will be no problems with the adoption of water procedures at any time of the year. The pools have an excellent cleaning system, plus hotel staff collect garbage. The water is always clean, clear, does not smell like bleach.

Waterpark Lonicera World is a real paradise for children of any age.

There were never any problems with sunbeds, neither at the main pool, nor at the water park. In the last bar, it seemed to us, the most delicious ice cream and freshly squeezed juices. Conveniently, there are almost always no queues. We often rested near the water park because of our son’s love for extreme sports: it seemed even more comfortable than the main pool, where the bar is always the place for drinks.

Swimming in pools is prohibited from 19:00, although the sun at this time is still high. Therefore, evening bathing is possible only at sea. By the pool, you can lie on sunbeds, but the atmosphere is not the same: there are staff walking around who collects sunbeds and starts cleaning the pool, and guests are already in evening dresses, rushing to dinner, to the bars.
The hotel has 2 indoor pools: one we went in the heat when we did not want to appear on the street. The pool is large, the water is clean, does not smell like bleach.

Entertainment and infrastructure

Since the hotel is far from civilization, the infrastructure for guests is fully developed.
We didn’t do it in the gym, but passed by and saw:

  • Treadmills;
  • exercise bikes;
  • ellipses
  • exercise machines for legs, back, press;
  • bench for the bar and the necessary "iron";
  • fitballs, yoga mats.

Sports enthusiasts will appreciate the volleyball court, soccer field, tennis court. Fans of a more relaxing holiday can play table tennis, billiards, darts. The net is stretched in the pool: you can play water polo by taking balls from the animators.

Indoor pool Lonicera World will save in cloudy weather

The spa has a sauna and hammam. The latter is simply a miracle: spacious, bright. I took a course of relaxing massage, I liked it. Very gentle hands of a masseuse, full relaxation: 3 times out of 5 fell asleep, woke up again born. She witnessed an unpleasant situation: at the reception of the spa complex a woman came with large-scale bruises in the buttocks and legs. It turned out that she was taking a course of corrective massage, after a couple of procedures there were unpleasant consequences: the massage was painful. It is clear that the massage profile implies similar consequences, but the woman was not warned about this, and, of course, unpleasant to rest with bruises on the body. With a scandal, she was returned the money for subsequent sessions, but during the negotiations the employees were quite aggressive. This spoiled the impression of customer focus: getting into this situation is not very pleasant.

Wi-Fi is available throughout the hotel, but the rooms are rather weak: enough for slow surfing, but the video refuses to load. About half of the rest in the rooms, the gadgets refused to connect to the network.

Animation and services for children

The main criterion for choosing a hotel is the opportunity to relax with children. Lonicera World Hotel did not disappoint. Just a wonderful hotel play area for young travelers of any age: inflatable slides, safe mats, a children's town, interesting small architectural forms. What is important is under a canopy, so even in the heat, the guys spend time comfortably.

The kids club has a lot of toys for entertainment, development. There is a room for watching cartoons and children's movies. Children from 3 years old can be left under the supervision of an educator for the whole day, to relax on their own. If the child is already independent, at least - he goes to the garden, is used to staying without parents - he will like it. The teachers are English-speaking, but they know the minimum set of words in Russian. Thanks to universal and understandable for all languages ​​games, even children who do not speak English will have an interesting time.

Of course, the main entertainment and, one might say, the residence of our son was a water park, where there are entertainment for children of any age. For the hotel, the water park is quite large: about 6 spiral pipes of different heights, 4 slides, including a gentle and low for kids, a pirate ship, fungi, several mini-pools.

Kids Club Lonicera World is waiting for children 3-14 years old

Conduct standard animated entertainment for free and conduct classes for drawing, do-it-yourself crafts, and dancing. In the evenings there is a mini-disco, it will be interesting mainly for preschool children: our 7-year-old was not impressed. Several times went to the mini-zoo: very exciting for those who are under 10-12 years old. Even adults are pleased to see the funny inhabitants of the zoo. There are few animals, all are friendly, funny, interesting: rabbits, peacocks, hens.

Animation is also for adults: it begins immediately after the children's disco, but not too violently. After dinner, at about 21:00, the show begins - not very interesting, typical of all hotels: dances and songs to the soundtrack. Then the dances for adults began, which lasted until midnight. The music is played loudly, even in the remote building you can hear it with a closed balcony. Midnight - everyone turned off and there was silence, so they got enough sleep. They stayed a couple of times in the center of events until closing time, saw many vacationers with children. Judging by the conversations, sleeping in buildings located near the disco is problematic, so people preferred to wait out the time in the thick of things. By the way, music at discos is played, for the most part, Russian: from "Silver" to chanson.

They also do not recommend settling in buildings near the zoo: at night the cries of peacocks interfere. Surprisingly, these beautiful, beautiful birds make loud, sharp sounds, especially at night: it interferes with sleep, scares children.

Another warning about animation: hotel staff are actively offering to buy lottery tickets for hotel services. The ticket price is $ 3, the prizes promise good. In fact, the price does not match the quality: out of 8 tickets purchased, they won 3. One gave the right to receive a free registered woven bracelet, the second a free procedure in a beauty salon, the third - a discount on a parachute jump. In fact, they refused to weave a personalized bracelet: they wrote the name of the child on the finished paint. In the beauty salon, the coupon only agreed to wash their hair, the discount on a parachute was only a little more than 10%. In general, you should not spend money on the lottery: it is difficult to get real prizes.

There is animation for adults, in addition to the evening show. Mostly sports activities, I liked the classes on the steps: a professional friendly instructor, non-banal exercises, the ability to work out comfortably even with a minimum level of training. Every day they conduct classes on zumba - it looks funny, makes parts of the body dance to the beat of the music. Also here there are belly dancing, exercises.

Hotel food and restaurants

Dining at Lonicera World is an all-inclusive meal plan. The largest selection for all meals can be found in the main restaurant. In general, there are two of them: related to 4 * and 5 * systems. You can eat in both, and in the "five" there are always more people, and the diet is about the same as in

the four. The food cannot be called unusually tasty, but it is cooked with high quality. It seemed that the 4 * restaurant was even more delicious: many of the "five" came to eat here. In general, guests of the Quartet are not allowed to visit the restaurant of their neighbors. In fact, no one pays attention: they allow you to freely visit the restaurant of a more expensive hotel zone. The choice of dishes is slightly larger, there are no less queues.
We rested in June, and although the hotel was almost full, we did not observe any queues for delicious dishes. Of the minuses, there are too many air conditioners: it is cold after the heat of the day, especially the baby. The diet always contains meat dishes, seafood and fish - there are very few seafood, mostly in pasta:

  1. Slices of meat, cheese.
  2. Pickles, olives.
  3. Salads - not less than 5 types.
  4. Fresh vegetables and fruits.
  5. Desserts, pastries - more than 10 types.
  6. Fruits - cherries, strawberries, bananas, peaches, apricots, watermelons, melons, oranges, apples.
  7. Ice cream.
  8. Drinks - freshly squeezed juices, tea, coffee.
  9. Side dishes - 5-6 types.
  10. Flakes, snacks, sauces and more.
Lonicera World restaurants offer an assortment of fish, meat, and vegetable dishes

Porridge was served for breakfast: unsweetened, dairy, even buckwheat. For children - a special table. This is not to say that the food is healthy, but children like it: french fries, nuggets, burgers, pasta, soups, Brussels sprouts - all but the last (not surprisingly), the child ate for both cheeks. Served boiled fish and meat without spices: excellent for children and dieting adults.

Noticed that the ingredients that were present in the dishes at dinner, served in a modified form for breakfast. It is especially noticeable in baking: they offer to taste buns with olives, stewed tomatoes, beans, bell peppers.

We preferred to dine at the beach restaurant. The choice is about half less, but all the main positions are present, plus grilled dishes and excellent sea views.

In the evenings after dinner, many gather in the lobby. I was surprised by the unobtrusive way to stop the fun of the guests and send people to the rooms: at 22:00 they turn off the air conditioning. After 10-15 minutes, the stuffiness becomes so unbearable that guests start wandering around in numbers in search of saving coolness.

In the evenings, it is better to visit the bar on the territory of the Five: there are more drinks choice, including imported. Good cocktails are prepared throughout, including in the bars on the beach, by the pool.

Restaurant a la carte - fish: leaving a child with a nanny, one evening with her husband arranged a romantic evening. Prices, as you would expect, are about one and a half to two times higher than in Alanya: the usual practice of hotels. The waiters are gallant, quick, friendly, speak Russian. Chic selection of fish, seafood: octopus and lobster were ordered, the taste is great.

On the territory there were 6 bars serving drinks and snacks, 2 bars where you can have a snack from 14:00 until late in the evening: a great option for guests with children with the ability to get hungry at any time. The bars helped us more than once. Of the drinks in the bars - juices, cocktails, beer, water, soda. Local alcohol, foreign can be found in the bar of the five-star sector.

Beach: cleanliness, condition and arrangement

The beach is small, so near the end of our vacation, which fell in mid-June, it was quite crowded. Lovers of waves will not like the beach: there is a very gentle entry into the sea, there is never any unrest. Ideal for children: you can leave them splashing around the shore, not being afraid that an unexpected wave will wash away. There is a lot of sand, clean and soft, without debris and stones: Alania was chosen largely because of the sandy beaches and was not mistaken in this regard.In Kemer and Bodrum, where we had been before, stones were uncomfortable for our son, and we were always afraid that he would not hurt himself or stumble over them.

Lonicera World Beach Sunbeds

The hotel is designed for family vacations, there are a lot of children of different ages on the beach: they shout, make noise, create their own lawlessness for children, so you can’t relax in silence to the sound of the waves. There were not enough sunbeds even at the beginning of June, I had to take up towels when I left the beach for lunch, otherwise I could not find free ones. By the way, there were few such empty sun loungers with towels, so the issue of lack of sun loungers relates to the hotel, whose beach is not able to accommodate everyone. Sun beds are very close to each other: uncomfortable, noisy, not level 4 *. Surely at the height of the season, the beach is even denser, the number of sunbeds and the size of the territory are clearly not adapted to accommodate all hotel guests, so half will have to relax by the pools.

Review of rooms at Lonicera World

Before booking, there were reviews that in other buildings the rooms were already "tired": with frayed walls and poor showers. We were lucky: none of the above numbers gave us. The refined interior cannot be called; rather, modest minimalism. There is no design idea, the interior is discreet, but everything is functional.

Our room had a large double bed for my husband and I and a half for a child, mattresses and pillows are very comfortable, got enough sleep on them. The bedding is new, always clean and fresh.

What was in the room from the equipment:

  1. The hair dryer is very powerful, it dried both the head and, when urgently needed, clothes.
  2. Air conditioning - new and powerful, cooled quickly. True, they were often not used because the room temperature already almost always had a comfortable temperature.
  3. Refrigerator - it worked properly. Upon arrival, there was water and soft drinks in it. The first then replenished properly, but they forgot about soda.
  4. The kettle is fresh and boiling quickly. True, tea and coffee have never been brought to us.
  5. TV - worked properly, Russian channels were present.

We lived on the second floor, we had a small balcony. The view is simply marvelous: at sea and pool. In the evenings, after the son fell asleep, they liked to sit on the balcony with a pleasant drink and listen to the distant sound of the waves. Drunk noisy revelers rarely came into this part of the territory, so we felt quite secluded.

Modest Lonicera World Room

The rooms on the ground floor are more interesting: you can leave the room in a small courtyard with greenery. Since the building is remote from the main pedestrian traffic, a feeling of solitude is created: as if you are in your own courtyard. There is also a small pool, sun loungers, umbrellas - complete comfort. It’s the closest to go to the sea from here: just a couple of minutes.

But everything is not so rosy: it’s good that we chose this particular building, in others things are not so good. We met a family from Moscow, they lived in Building B. We visited them and were surprised: the room was one and a half times smaller than ours, with a very small window. The room is frankly old: shabby furniture, chips on the tiles, some stains on the walls, dim light - does not pull at all 4 *. Although they had a one-year-old child with them, they did not provide a crib, but settled in a room with two single beds. The bathroom is small: only one person comfortably fits, and the dimensions really do not correspond to a hotel of this category, about 60/60 cm. As they told us, they refused to change the room, and at the reception staff suddenly ceased to understand Russian. Subsequently, they changed the room to the same category, but in building F on the ground floor. There was a double bed, and they were provided with a cot for the baby. Prior to that, they gave very unpleasant feedback: they said that other buildings were intended for the Germans, who were a priority.

Also, judging by the stories of other vacationers, very good rooms in the "green" building above the restaurant. Good repair, enough space and a very beautiful view of the sea and palm trees. The only thing is noisy both in the afternoon and in the evening, therefore it is worth settling here for those who are tolerant of issues of silence.

We also learned that in the main building there are several rooms with a kitchen: convenient for relaxing with toddlers and children with special eating habits. The only negative is that these rooms do not have balconies, so lovers of evenings in the fresh air will have to choose.

Although the hotel underwent a complete renovation in 2011, there is still work to do: for example, the elevator did not work during our stay. Noise isolation between the rooms is good, but in the evenings you can hear noise from a disco, and in the morning prayer - it interfered with a comfortable sleep.

Housekeeping

There are no complaints about cleaning - they cleaned every day, changing bed linen and a full set of towels. But shower gels and other hygiene items were sometimes forgotten to supplement. By the way, they are not in separate bottles, but replenished in dispensers. Since we did not take shampoos and other things with us, hoping for a hotel service, sometimes this caused problems. The suspiciousness and the fact that dispensers have remained half empty since the eviction of past guests forced us to practically not use the proposed means: we bought our own at the mall.

Reception, service and friendliness of staff

The hotel staff is very friendly, responds to all requests promptly, no conflicts were observed. But they are definitely not trying to solve absolutely all issues and satisfy the vagaries of the hotel. There were more than once witnesses of situations when for any request of a tourist - there are busy sun loungers on the beach, not enough towels or something else - there was one answer: no one complained before. We also heard several times how the animators sang obscene words into the microphone during the disco, apparently which tourists taught them. Nothing critical, but the child blushed suspiciously and was embarrassed every time he heard this: certainly it would have been better without such color.

We had no problems with using the infrastructure: conflicts, disputes, misunderstandings were avoided. Once for the rest, the card for opening the room stopped working - they turned to the reception for a replacement. They could not immediately transcode it: they waited 2 hours until the situation resolved. Thanks to the presence of two cards, the inconvenience was minimal, but if this happens in a person in a single room, the situation can cause a negative.

Lonicera World staff, from the restaurant to the reception, friendly

To summarize: Lonicera World's hotel experience has been mixed. On the one hand, we were lucky: a good room, a beautiful large territory, quality food, a water park and entertainment for the child. On the other - not always attentive staff, outdated rooms in most buildings and remoteness from the center of Alanya. In general, the hotel corresponds to the price / quality ratio. Especially if you take into account the current dollar exchange rate: the quality of service and infrastructure of the hotel has remained the same, and the rate has grown significantly, so many remain dissatisfied with the service for prices comparable to holidays in Europe or even the Caribbean. With a child it’s worth going here. The son was delighted with everything: slides in the water park, the zoo, food, free ice cream, the beach, water activities and animation. Also a definite plus, important for ensuring the safety of children, is the beach: a clear sea, the absence of strangers, a gentle sunset and always warm water. If next time we want to go on a relaxing holiday with a child again, this hotel will definitely be on the list. But for a couple or alone, I would recommend other options.

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