I was there with my wife for one week stay during September 2010. It was organized by a Travel Agency in
Poland (one price for the flight, bus transfer, room - all inclusive). Our goal was to spend a week in a
nice surroundings, thinking about nothing else than leisure in excellent weather. And this week was
something what we dreamt of!
In fact this is not 5* hotel (3,5 or 4* rather) - but to tell the truth, most of the hotels in Turkey should have 1 or 2 stars less (if you compare them to hotels in continental Europe for example). So if you expect luxury, luxury, luxury... you can be disappointed. But in my opinion - I received what I expected.
The hotel is located in small city called Camuyva (around 40 km away from Antalya and 2 km away from
Kemer). In fact, most of the buildings at the seaside of this small city are hotels. It is around 300m
away from beach, but has own access to it, and you just need to cross small side street (almost not used
by any car). There is a perfect view on mountains as well. The hotel itself has around 200 rooms. Our
room was air-conditioned whole day (only with the card put in the locker), spacious and
clean, with one big bed, and one small bed (for 3rd person or a child). Every day we received bottled
water and clean towels.
The food - I was happy with it. Breakfast, lunch, dinner with many different dishes, salads, cakes. Some
of them were repeatable, but the main dishes were different almost everyday. The food area was very
clean, the waiters were very quickly, collecting the plates ;-).
The hotel pool is not very big, but enough, very clean. During the whole week, we didn't have any
problems find empty deckchairs around the pool or at the sea beach.
The beach is covered with stones, what in fact is the main disadvantage - but all hotels in this area
have the same problem, so you should go somewhere else if you don't like it. You can buy funny plastic shoes and walk to the beach and swim in them - so you don't have this problem then.
The animations was funny and interesting. The animators didn't push us to participate, but if you like -
you will like it.
Another disadvantage were the guests - the mayority of them are from Russia or former Russia republics
(Ukraine, Kazakhstan, etc.) - so most of the hotel employees speak only Turkish or Russian. It's hard to
find a person speaking English. But when they hear English language - they still try to help.
Nevertheless I can admit that Russian people were very simpatic, not loud neither drunk. And Russian
girls... whow ;-).
To sum it up - I can recommend this hotel to people who wants to spend a week in a nice atmosphere, with
very beautifull weather.
- Zena Hotel Camyuva
- Riva Zena
