ince apartments icmeler - Review
You get what you pay for and pay for what you get!
Well as the title suggests this review will be about what you do and don't get for your money here at the Ince apartments.
Upon arrival you have to actually ask the people around the pool where to go. At which point you get directed to the bar. Which sounds like a joke but it's actually reception as well.
The barman then escorts you to your room.
The rooms are admittedly very clean, in fact excellent, and remain so throughout your stay. However the same cannot be said of the cleaners themselves. By that I mean the body odour emanating from them is apparent in our room long after they have vacated.
The view from our balcony, overlooking pool and bar area, was great and we were very pleased with its overall location.
The price of staying here is reflected in the price of air conditioning which at the time of writing this was a hefty £6 a day and with the additional cost of a safe (£15 made up on the spot) is a sizeable chunk from an already tight budget.
This would be a good point to just slip in a reminder to those who have never been to Turkey before that you need a crisp £10 note per person to enter the country.
Anyway returning to the apartments... We were left with a key and fob which you have to place in the slot on the wall for power. Obviously you seasoned travellers will not think twice about this simple act however we were never instructed on this little task.
In this day and age we all tend to have a plethora of electrical items which we bring on holiday but do we give any thought to charging them?
I suggest you do... You cannot leave the fob in the slot when you are out and about. They made double sure of this by glueing the metal ring so that the fob cannot be separated from the key!
This effectively means you need to bring a lot of adapters so that you can charge all your devices at once by plugging them into the most inconveniently located sockets throughout the apartment during the times you are in.
Watch out for the kettle it only switches off every blue moon.
If you do like a nice slice of toast or fancy something on toast in your self catering apartment, forget it. No grill and no toaster.
Towels...same old story...it started off okay and people came, put a towel down and used the bed. Then as more people came later in the week it got to the point where someone put towels out the night before and those who did have the decency to wait to the following day were putting them on first thing and then not turning up to use them until midday or later! This created an avalanche of early droppers so the beds filled up very early.
That said it did seem that enough beds were available for everyone, albeit not necessary where you might want them if you missed the early dawn stampede.
Pool....this was large enough and clean. However, and this is purely my opinion here, I am not sure enough (if much at all) chlorine was added to the pool. I have been in enough pools to know what is to much and about average. This seemed almost non existent to be honest.
Do not leave you air-bed out... May be a one off but when we went in along with most others, a couple of teenage lads thought it a good idea to dive bomb on a few of the airbeds left by the poolside. They burst them all and left one at the bottom of the pool. The thing is this should have been stopped by the staff.
Food....hit and miss...we ate here three times. Lunch seemed quite promising and the portions were rather large for lunch but no complaints about that.
Our second meal was a wrap and chips. The wrap was average at best but the chips were an abomination. So greasy, soggy and partially cooked it was impossible to eat. They were so limp they almost bent double under there own weight.
The last meal was a breakfast....iffy ... Far too much oil on the plate mainly from the eggs. Left the toast, if you can call it that, very soggy as well.
When eating around the bar area watch out for ants. Lots and lots of ants trooping across from one half of the bar area to their nest. Despite the area being washed down every so often ants are numerous and resilient !
The range of drinks is limited but adequate I suppose. However do not expect to be able to bring your own food or drink to consume around the pool as they frown upon this in this "self catering" apartment block and they do enforce it.
One would have thought in 40 plus temperatures that an ice cream would be on the list of treats available. Think again. We had to go out of the block to the shop and bring it back to our room to eat it.
Back in the room and after a good nights sleep....oh that's right we didn't get a good nights sleep. The beds are very uncomfortable. So much so that we ended up sleeping on a slightly less uncomfortable sofa bed using sheets from the single beds and making do.
This had its own issues not least of which was the width. Sardines springs to mind but still favourable to springs up ya jacksiee.
If you do choose to sleep in the actual beds you will find that the mattress has one sheet on and only a weave type cover for the top, which is rather rough.
Finally, it was not paranoia when I say this but because we spent less than some people around the bar we noticed a distinct lack of warmth towards us shall we say. This was noticed by others. The other reviews do say that they are really friendly and no doubt those reviewers spent far more money at the Ince than we did, hence the best bar man in town probably "earned" his title.
We paid a visit to another couple of apartments whist in Icmeler and the difference overall is staggering and all for a relatively small amount more.
Remember, most of the cost goes on flights not the accommodation. Most places are relatively cheap here even the more expensive ones.
In conclusion if you bear certain aspects in mind and you go in the knowledge this is a no frills apartment you will be fine.
Overall we had a wonderful relaxing time in a very nice clean apartment.
Would we stay at the Ince again? Probably not for a few reasons but mainly because of the beds.
More pictures of the apartment and Icmeler will be sent direct to my facebook - johncsweet.co.uk
JCS
You get what you pay for and pay for what you get!
Well as the title suggests this review will be about what you do and don't get for your money here at the Ince apartments.
Upon arrival you have to actually ask the people around the pool where to go. At which point you get directed to the bar. Which sounds like a joke but it's actually reception as well.
The barman then escorts you to your room.
The view from our balcony, overlooking pool and bar area, was great and we were very pleased with its overall location.
The price of staying here is reflected in the price of air conditioning which at the time of writing this was a hefty £6 a day and with the additional cost of a safe (£15 made up on the spot) is a sizeable chunk from an already tight budget.
This would be a good point to just slip in a reminder to those who have never been to Turkey before that you need a crisp £10 note per person to enter the country.
Anyway returning to the apartments... We were left with a key and fob which you have to place in the slot on the wall for power. Obviously you seasoned travellers will not think twice about this simple act however we were never instructed on this little task.
In this day and age we all tend to have a plethora of electrical items which we bring on holiday but do we give any thought to charging them?
I suggest you do... You cannot leave the fob in the slot when you are out and about. They made double sure of this by glueing the metal ring so that the fob cannot be separated from the key!
This effectively means you need to bring a lot of adapters so that you can charge all your devices at once by plugging them into the most inconveniently located sockets throughout the apartment during the times you are in.
Watch out for the kettle it only switches off every blue moon.
If you do like a nice slice of toast or fancy something on toast in your self catering apartment, forget it. No grill and no toaster.
Towels...same old story...it started off okay and people came, put a towel down and used the bed. Then as more people came later in the week it got to the point where someone put towels out the night before and those who did have the decency to wait to the following day were putting them on first thing and then not turning up to use them until midday or later! This created an avalanche of early droppers so the beds filled up very early.
That said it did seem that enough beds were available for everyone, albeit not necessary where you might want them if you missed the early dawn stampede.
Pool....this was large enough and clean. However, and this is purely my opinion here, I am not sure enough (if much at all) chlorine was added to the pool. I have been in enough pools to know what is to much and about average. This seemed almost non existent to be honest.
Do not leave you air-bed out... May be a one off but when we went in along with most others, a couple of teenage lads thought it a good idea to dive bomb on a few of the airbeds left by the poolside. They burst them all and left one at the bottom of the pool. The thing is this should have been stopped by the staff.
Food....hit and miss...we ate here three times. Lunch seemed quite promising and the portions were rather large for lunch but no complaints about that.
Our second meal was a wrap and chips. The wrap was average at best but the chips were an abomination. So greasy, soggy and partially cooked it was impossible to eat. They were so limp they almost bent double under there own weight.
The last meal was a breakfast....iffy ... Far too much oil on the plate mainly from the eggs. Left the toast, if you can call it that, very soggy as well.
When eating around the bar area watch out for ants. Lots and lots of ants trooping across from one half of the bar area to their nest. Despite the area being washed down every so often ants are numerous and resilient !
The range of drinks is limited but adequate I suppose. However do not expect to be able to bring your own food or drink to consume around the pool as they frown upon this in this "self catering" apartment block and they do enforce it.
One would have thought in 40 plus temperatures that an ice cream would be on the list of treats available. Think again. We had to go out of the block to the shop and bring it back to our room to eat it.Back in the room and after a good nights sleep....oh that's right we didn't get a good nights sleep. The beds are very uncomfortable. So much so that we ended up sleeping on a slightly less uncomfortable sofa bed using sheets from the single beds and making do.
This had its own issues not least of which was the width. Sardines springs to mind but still favourable to springs up ya jacksiee.
Finally, it was not paranoia when I say this but because we spent less than some people around the bar we noticed a distinct lack of warmth towards us shall we say. This was noticed by others. The other reviews do say that they are really friendly and no doubt those reviewers spent far more money at the Ince than we did, hence the best bar man in town probably "earned" his title.
We paid a visit to another couple of apartments whist in Icmeler and the difference overall is staggering and all for a relatively small amount more.
Remember, most of the cost goes on flights not the accommodation. Most places are relatively cheap here even the more expensive ones.
In conclusion if you bear certain aspects in mind and you go in the knowledge this is a no frills apartment you will be fine.
Overall we had a wonderful relaxing time in a very nice clean apartment.
Would we stay at the Ince again? Probably not for a few reasons but mainly because of the beds.
More pictures of the apartment and Icmeler will be sent direct to my facebook - johncsweet.co.uk
JCS
