Duja Didim

Aley animation team was amazing, she was great at pilates classes. Thank you great. Great hotel

When booking this hotel the reviews were not overly helpful so hoping this might help people if looking to book this hotel. Rooms We had a village suite room 4149. It was a fab room with two separate bedrooms and a huge bathroom with shower. Downside was it wasn’t a private balcony and was shared with another room although the room appeared to only be used for late checkouts so we pretty much had the balcony to ourselves most of the time. Air con was good. A little too cold in the twin bedroom but was welcome with the heat outside! Shower pressure also good. Sink water is an awful yellow/orange colour - so recommend brushing your teeth with bottled water!! Mini fridge is only topped up on day one. But after that we just got drinks from reception and bought them back for the fridge. Restaurants Main buffet restaurant is great for breakfast. Fresh omelettes and pancakes and so many pastries. We are early risers so getting to breakfast at 7/7.30 in the mornings was bliss as it was pretty empty until around 8.30ish. Lunch we tended to go to the snack bar for burgers / chips / wraps / pasta / pizza which was nice along with ice creams. We struggled with dinner. It’s every man for himself trying to get a table and the food choices are a little repetitive if you’re staying for two weeks but nice enough and plenty of choice if you can be bothered to queue and fight your way to the food options! You only get one à la carte choice which is poor as there are 4 to choose from. We went for the Italian but it was terrible. So rushed and didn’t feel special at all. Apparently the Asia restaurant is lovely but we couldn’t book it due to the one meal policy. Pool The main pool is freezing cold. We had to get up at 5.30am to get sunbeds for the four of us. But the entertainment / music and pool games were worth it for us getting up so early. The littler pools by the rooms are lovely and warm and nice if you want more of a chilled day, we also had a few late night swims at the little pools as well. The water park is fab. The blue and yellow slides are fast (be warned) but we had such a good time. We didn’t get beds in the water park as you had to queue from about 9.15 for when it opened at 10 so we just went there as and when we fancied and left our stuff by the main pool. Beach There was a lovely breeze at the beach and lots of sunbeds and shade. Beach is quite shingle and rocks into the sea so beach shoes deffo worth bringing. The water was so clear and calm and you can see lots of fish so recommend a snorkel. Also we always managed to get beds even at 8/9ish in the morning. Starbucks and waffles These are by the beach bar where the entertainment is in the evening. Lattes / iced coffees etc and the waffles with choc sauce were lovely and freshly cooked. The coffee at reception i personally preferred to the Starbucks and we used to get a nice coffee in the morning in takeaway cups to take to the pool or beach. Entertainment Evening entertainment was actually good. African acrobats / circus shows / Turkish dancers and the kids show was crazy and they threw out lots of inflatables into the crowd. Outside the resort There is a migra supermarket just left out of the hotel. It’s like a mini lidl and reasonably priced. We went into altinkum to eat on a few nights. Recommend My Eden and Pinocchios. We had chautibrand in both places and both come with a really awesome show when they serve it. Pinocchios was really fun with kids characters and dancing etc and a really big cocktail menu! Pinocchios picked us up and dropped us home from the hotel for free. The taxi to my Eden cost us 10 euro. We also went to the Aldente restaurant which is just to the right of the hotel beach for a full English one morning and a meal in the evening I had salon filet and kids had burgers and hubby had a t bone which was also lovely. We didn’t try the cabanas as they aren’t on the beach they are on a grassy area that overlooks the sea but they looked nice and were 50 euros to rent for the day. Overall we had a fab holiday. Apart from the sunbed situation and madness of the evening buffet we loved it the weather was beautiful. We had a few days of wind but it didn’t ruin the holiday and the entertainment team were all amazing.