We found this funny/disturbing video on YouTube of a step aerobics class at the Hotel Melas. We're not quite sure which Hotel Melas it is but we have a feeling it's the one in Turkey.
However, if people doing step aerobics in bikinis and banana hammocks makes you ill, the TripAdvisor reviews on this place report several guests getting ill with diarrhea and dehydration. Yuck. Btw if you can bare it (heh, heh), this same YouTube user has a video of people doing the macarena...yup again in their bathing suits.
While we are on the topic of hotel room views today....
In this fast-paced superlative-chasing world of ours--best, fastest, wildest--we were recently pleasantly surprised to find a new-to-us hotel that claims to be a first. The Marmara Antalya, on the Mediterranean in Anatalya, Turkey, bills itself as the world's very first revolving hotel.
Talk about a room with a view. Make that multiple views. The Marmara Anatalya's "Revolving Loft" is a 24-room wing that rotates between two and 22 times every 24 hours. For those who prefer stationery digs, the hotel's 208-room main building sits perfectly still 24-7.
You know a reviewer didn't like a hotel when he starts his review out like this:
There is no idea on Earth so bad that it cannot be made significantly worse by the injection of very large sums of money.
Ouch. And it gets even worse. The hotel being scathed is the futuristic new Adam and Eve in Belek, Turkey, near Antalya. The dream of a Turkish photocopier-salesman-turned-millionaire, it sounds like it has a lot going for it: claiming to have the world's longest bar AND the world's longest swimming pool. But you should know that the longest doesn't always mean the best:
Yes, the 88m bar is the longest in the world; but if we're going to go for superlatives, how about a few more that don't appear in the badly spelt brochures: the world's slowest and most stupid barstaff (all men) ... the world's most stupid badly signed lift system, but also no stairs, anywhere, so you have to wait for the stupid lift; the world's most annoying traipse back, through almost half a mile of darkened purple terrible Seventies gay porn movie corridors, into whose walls you will stumble about 12 times on your way to get your book just to have something to do while you attempt to eat a horrid international breakfast.
It goes on and on, but perhaps enough has been said already. Suffice to say that the reviewer probably thinks we wouldn't be here if the real Adam and Eve had started out at this place.
When Karim Rashid, self proclaimed world changer, wearer of all white all the time, and now, hotelier, goes hotel shopping, we are guessing the Hillside Su is near the top of his list.
Hillside Su is an all-white design hotel on Turkey's southern Mediterranean coast. The hotel boasts cordless phones, a balcony with a sofa, a bar with "a range of booze", and mood lighting. Yup, that's right, when you check-in to Hillside Su you will be asked to choose between pink, white, or red mood lighting for your room. Oh, and each room is equipped with big giant mirrors on the wall. Whaa, Chicka, Whaa, Whaa.
Furthermore, the television in your room comes with a 24 hour channel showing the lobby, swimming pool, and deck areas. Hmmm. You don't think those hotel cameras are also behind those big in-room mirrors do you?
Wait, haven't we seen this set up before? Anyone remember Sliver? That terrible movie with Sharon Stone and the Baldwin who recently found religion.
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by juliana
You know a reviewer didn't like a hotel when he starts his review out like this:
