Hotel Voyage Belek

Just returned home from my third trip to Voyage and want to share with you my impressions. First of all - I love Voyage and feel happy when I see something goes well there. Like most of things that go really well in this very warm friendly place! The hotel suggest wonderful rooms, food, friendly service and picturesque territory with sculptures that you will never forget. This is the place where people feel relaxed and really happy!
Thanks to the hotel stuff for one more wonderful vacations and hope so much to see you all again very soon!

Voyage is my favorite places to come again and again, and by that reason I take close everything that could be perfect (but is not at the current moment).
I want to focus on sport and entertainment animation. Because for me animation activities to great extent make the pleasure of vacations (or - disappointment).
Sport animation at Voyage was considered to be very strong in 2010. At least I have read emotional comments in internet when I choose where to spend September vacations. People marked rich programme and especially high professional level of sport animation. And that came absolutely true! Water gym, pilates, step, belly dance, yoga -all was on the highest professional level. There was always lots of people participating in all these sports. I can compare with number of people doing sports in other 5 stars hotel in Turkey (Rixos Lares, Titanic, Amara Marine, Amara Dolce Vita)) - really the number of people who did sports at Voyage was amazing!
The trip of January 2012 I expected to enjoy sports also remembering how it was nice.
Unfortunately I faced a disappointment with step aerobic at the very first day. Anya (animation sport team member) did the program. It seemed that the Anya does not know how in general aerobec program looks like. She stopped every minute to show next movement. So, the whole program was "stop-go, stop-go". Movements went apart with music totally. The lesson looked very strange and fully unprepared.
In a day I went for water gym. The guy greeted me with "Sorry, I am not a professional". After experience with Anya's lesson I did not wait for anything fruitful. Finally he saw that I alone wanted to do water gym and decided to cancel the lesson. This looked a total disaster for me and I did not try any other lessons till the last day when I spoke to Gulcin. Only then I learned that Gulcin is a professional sport teacher and heard professional judgment from her. I specially went to her water gym and - finally! I saw a real good professional lesson.

Dear Gulcin, I trust that you can manage to put sport lessons at Voyage on the good level - you look full of positive energy and you know how the lessons should go. My understanding is that poor lessons of animators who have no skills and no knowledge are to be stopped. Either animators learn or they should stay away from giving sports activities. Poor lessons spoil the image of Voyage as Hotel of High Sports Standards.


I do not want to say that lessons should be complicated. People have different sport skills and different level. So, step aerobic can be in very simple movements but of course with warming up and stretch, following the music and in non-stop regime.
It would be very nice if Vouage could arrange pilates lessons on daily basis in future. This simple and very useful exercises were very popular among different people. I saw how people improved their shape during only two weeks of pilates at Voyage in September 2010!

Some words about my most favorite lessons - belly dance. In my life I followed lots of belly dance lessons at many hotels. The very best lessons did Ganze at Voyage! She just danced simple dance following Turkish and Arabic music. No special learning of separate movements. It appeared that ladies in many countries practice belly dance at home and were happy to dance it at Vayage during activities. You can imagine - there were lots of spectators and fans making pictures and supporting dancers)) To my mind dancing with simple clear movements is the best scenario for the hotel lesson of belly dance.

The last what I would like to share is the animation work at discoes and live music evenings. Both Gulcin and Izzi danced with people, invited people to join the circle, motivated those who felt shy. Always when I started to dance I felt their company and encouraging. This is the best way that animation team can do for us in this time! I saw Gulcin and Izzi everywhere - before the evening show chatting with people and telling about evening programme, at the show, after the show dancing at live music. And finally both of them initiated fun at the night disco.
Dear Gulcin and Izzi, your energy and friendliness rise big respect!
Sorry, can not say anything about other animators team members (only a girl who worked with kids sometimes participated and was very friendly also) What other animation girls did in the evenings is a big mystery for me.
The very-very last comment is that night disco music was very nice! Please pass thanks to DJ!

As a resume - lots of thanks, best wishes of success to the wonderful organization!