a swimming pool, a mini-water park and a private area of the purest sandy beach.
They also entertain the guests on a fantastic scale. For example, an amphitheater with live music is open all summer. You can’t imagine a holiday without sports — six tennis courts and a fitness room are at your disposal. If desired, you can rent a pleasure yacht — the pier allows you to dock even a large vessel.
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Ic Hotels Santai Family Resort
Belek has long been advertised as an ideal golf resort, so hotels like Ic Hotels Santai Family Resort tried to build around sports fields. Today, not only those who like to wave a stick come here — this is a club area for connoisseurs of fashionable service. Only the central pool with a zoned depth is worthy of attention — everything is done for the safety of vacationers.
Guests have unlimited access to the beach, including the rental of towels and sun loungers. The surcharge is only for the daily rental of gazebos. Summer leisure activities are organized throughout the territory — discos, live music, choreography, acrobatic performances and parties in traditional Turkish style. The main restaurant offers a UAI concept, the rest are on the menu, some work around the clock.
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Pgs Hotels Fortezza Beach Resort
For many years, the concept of a “youth family hotel” has been something incongruous for resort Turkey, but Pgs Hotels Fortezza Beach Resort destroys a long-standing stereotype. Two-storey villas for parents with kids here are quite adjacent to the main building, aimed at the party crowd. And if you remember that everything is located in the vicinity of Marmaris, then a quality vacation is guaranteed.
The sea can be restless here, so guests will be offered to buy aquashouses — this is the only disadvantage of living. The beach is sandy and pebbly with several piers, they also act as breakwaters. The key advantage is that All Inclusive is implemented to the maximum. You do not need to pay extra for food and soft drinks. There is a mini—game club for children, and a free hammam for adults.
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Pine Beach Belek
If you have been looking for a spacious family hotel in Belek with an aquapark and a gentle beach for a long time, Pine Beach will be a discovery. It also lives up to its name — the complex is built in the middle of a relict pine forest, which creates a unique microclimate with healing air. According to the technical equipment, the territory will please any sophisticated guest — five stars are fully justified.
The sandy strip with a length of almost 600 meters is the pride of the hotel. The deck chairs are set up so that it is as comfortable as possible under the canopies. If you get tired of splashing in the sea, go to the water park, where there are five water attractions that are safe even for small children. Five meals a day with morning and evening snacks are organized by the main restaurant. There are bars for every taste, plus three a la carte restaurants of different cuisines.
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Spice Hotel & Spa
Another grandiose Belek hotel Palace, adjacent to another legendary place — the Royal Montgomery Golf Club. Spice Hotel & Spa is included in the most popular hotels in Turkey among the ultra luxury segment, where they will fulfill any whim — from the sandy beach to round-the-clock animation.
You can have breakfast, lunch or dinner in one of four hotels to choose from, which represent world cuisine. Entertainment options include a free cinema with Dolby sound, an open—air disco every evening and Russian-speaking animators. Business meetings are also held — 12 conference rooms are available all year round.
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Starlight Resort Hotel
Next to Side there is the picturesque village of Kyzyl-gach, which in recent years has earned fame as one of the places of club recreation. Starlight Resort Hotel is not an HV hotel in the usual sense, it has a main building with 7 floors, but it is much more interesting to move into local two-storey bungalows. There are 18 of them, together they form a full-fledged area with a developed five-star infrastructure.
There are 9 restaurants on the territory, four of them are available for selection according to the Ultra All Inclusive system, the rest are a la carte. There are three children’s clubs, all strictly divided by age, there is even a hobby center for teenagers under 17 years old. Well, while the kids are busy with their favorite things, adults can have fun at the disco, listen to live music, and after sunset go to the nightclub built here.
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Ulusoy Kemer Holiday Club
The main building of the Ulusoy Kemer Holiday Club, built in the style of an Ottoman fortress, is a real decoration of the Kemer surroundings. However, guests are not offered to live in it, but to rate one of the 465 rooms in cozy two- or three-storey buildings. After all, the Holiday Village format finds its audience. The complex is officially included in the directions of Turkish ecotourism for supporting the “green” territory.
Ulusoy Kemer Holiday Club beach is impressive — a wide sandy and pebble strip is equipped in the best traditions of fashionable hotels. There is enough free space between the rows of sun loungers for everyone, sunshades are deployed on request. If this does not seem enough, you can sunbathe right on the T-shaped pier, which is moored by pleasure yachts and speedboats with bananas.
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Selectum Family Resort Side
There is one of the most spacious Turkish hotels with more than 1,000 rooms in the town of Kyzyl-gach, which is next to Side. Selectum Family Resort put the word “Family” on the signboard for a reason — parents with young children are considered priority guests. Single men without a stamp in their passport are being infringed again — they will have to choose a less conservative place for a solo trip.
In the reviews, Selectum Family Resort was nicknamed the hotel of seven pools — the water spaces are organized in such a way that there is free passage from every corner of the residential buildings. The SPA is also present, and a gift awaits guests here — a sauna next to the indoor pool and one hammam are included in the price. The water park is impressive — 14 water slides with a safe children’s area.
Useful information for tourists
Now you know where to book hotels in Turkey, and how they may differ. Let’s talk about the utilitarian things that tourists have to deal with every day, and what you should be prepared for if you have already bought a ticket to the resort:
- Check-in in all Turkish hotels takes place according to international rules — daily from 12:00 to 14:00. If you arrive early in the morning and with a 100% guarantee you want to check in without waiting in the lobby on suitcases, book a room a day earlier. In this case, they will have time to prepare it for your arrival.
- Check-out from the rooms, respectively, before noon. Do not delay, in the morning find out if there are any debts for paid services, check the integrity of the mini-bars, look into the safe, if there are any valuables left with documents. If the return flight is late, extend the luggage room.
- As for additional services, there is one piece of advice — it is worth paying in cash in lira in banknotes, there is not always a change from large denominations at the reception. It is also not worth hoping that MIR cards will be accepted somewhere, for 2024 it is easier to get a debit card from some local bank.
- Tipping in Turkish hotels is a way to earn loyalty points. It is customary to thank the maids for cleaning the room, porters and other staff with a 1 USD banknote, no more. In addition, there is often a piggy bank or an ordinary glass jar with the inscription TIPS at the reception desk, here at your discretion.
- Even a 5* hotel has its own daily routine, study the rules in advance to avoid unpleasant conversations with the administrator. For example, if the lights out is set at 22:00, after that time you can not make noise in the room, turn on loud music, TV, etc. Similarly, about the opening hours of bars and restaurants.
- Be careful with the Adult Only category — some hotels do not allow check-in for single single men. This is a long-standing practice in Turkey in order to protect family guests from unnecessary attention. A stamp in the couple’s passports is the best protection against such questions when checking in.
- Food cannot be taken outside restaurants and bar areas. This is a general safety rule for most hotels, not only Turkish ones. An attempt to bring groceries or drinks from supermarkets into the room often ends in an unpleasant conversation. If All Inclusive is there, do not disrupt the order.
- Before traveling, carefully study Google maps and the surrounding area. 4* hotels have beaches “across the street”, you should be extremely careful. If there is no All Inclusive concept, take a closer look at the nearest cafes where you will have lunch or dinner, study the average price tag.
- Finally, do not forget about the generally accepted norms of behavior in a Muslim country. No mini bikinis or revealing clothes outside the pool. The same applies to topless tanning – it is prohibited on official beaches.
