Guest User
November 19, 2024
Stayed here for 10 days with a friend on our first ever visit to Turkey. Definitely not a 5 star hotel as claimed, more like a 3 star. Fantastic pool and lobby is inviting but that’s about it for positive comments. The hotel is all inclusive but we ate out most days as the food in the hotel is awful. Breakfast consists of approx 50 odd different types of breads, salad, fried eggs, a few Turkish dishes and not much else. Lunch and dinner was not much better, lots of the labels on the foods were in front of the wrong dishes so you were never quite sure what you were getting. The location of the hotel is not great, a small village approx 5-10 mins from Antalya. There is a couple of restaurants within walking distance that were really good but otherwise it’s a taxi into Antalya for dinner which costs approx 12-15 euros. We went over to the private beach a couple of times but were put off when we had to pay for drinks at the hotels private beach bar as the all inclusive is not included there !!! Everyday the pool closes at 5pm and the staff physically come round and ask you to leave so they can clean up. At this point the restaurant doesn’t open until 6pm and the bar closes for an hour so there is nothing to do except go and sit in your room. Also for some weird reason the bar won’t serve cocktails between 6pm and 7pm. The games room consists of a pool table and a couple of arcades. The Turkish spa is fantastic and every guest gets a free 15 minute massage, but it’s all a ruse to get you in and then try to put the high pressure on to get you to book and pay for multiple massages. There is a shop in the lobby selling fake designer clothes and every time you walk through the lobby you are pressured into looking and the forceful salesman jump on you. I think once upon a time the hotel would have been very nice, but I think it’s just been run so badly that it’s just gone massively downhill over the years. How many 5 star hotels do you know that doesn’t even have a gym and the staff don’t wear uniform ?? I wouldn’t stay here again. Just in case you think maybe I just had a bad experience or maybe I’m exaggerating, we spoke to approx 20 people around the pool during our stay and every single person had the same opinion We actually checked out early and checked into another hotel closer to the airport for 2 nights rather than stay there any longer than we had to