Elista Hotel & Spa

We booked an absolute beauty with both Turkbuku (north Bodrum coast) and the Elista Hotel & Spa. We didn't realise it at the time, but Bodrum is a huge place with a lot of places you wouldn’t want to end up in. But if you like car free promenades with incredible selection of restaurants, then we would really recommend Turkbuku. It's just a great little fishing village with everything you need in walking distance. We picked the Elista because it was good value for money and the placed looked pretty perfect on **********. When we stayed, we found out it was so much better, and it all started with the lovely family that runs the hotel and work pretty hard to keep you happy. Nothing was too much trouble for them, they were so kind to us and made the stay really great. We had a pool room suite which was fantastic in the afternoon to chill out. Our friends had a sea view suite and it's worth paying the extra as that's a great view with lovely sun loungers. Breakfast was an absolute delight with great coffee and fresh bread, fruits, meats and cheese. My favourite bit, was the sun deck and bar area on the shore line with easy access for safe swimming and a great selection of sun loungers. Service was amazing! Our one regret is we didn't try out the spa but our friends did and loved it. All in all, highly recommended, spotlessly cleaned every day and we will definitely go back. Tip: the hotel can arrange a car and driver to collect you from the airport. Plenty of metered yellow taxis in the town at great prices for trips to the city and they all seemed to speak excellent English as well as help with your Turkish.

I had an excellent stay. The staff were very helpful. The restaurant and the beach is amazing, a good place to relax. The rooms are very clean and the breakfast is perfect. I would definitely love to visit again.

I stayed at this resort with my family and it was a great experience! The beach area was very nice and we ordered a lot of food and mango smoothies from the bar and restaurant. The housekeeper Medina was super helpful and gave me clean towels and linens whenever I asked for them. Ali and Mr Barkin helped me with my room key and they were very nice. I also liked the little dogs :-)

Very nice hotel in a great location with a nice beach club. Very nice staff, fine authentic food. Bars, restaurants and shopping facilities nearby. A perfect hotel for holidays!

My family (2 adults & 4 teenagers) stayed at Elista hotel in Turkbuku and had a truly wonderful time! The hotel itself is really lovely, with a spacious dining & reception area where we had a large breakfast spread every morning with all kinds of cheeses, meats, bread, olives, jams, eggs and coffee/tea. I want to especially thank Mr. Barkin at reception who was always available when we had any questions or needs and was extremely helpful at all times. We had 2 people staying in each of 3 smaller rooms which were quite comfortable despite their size and cleaned daily by the great housekeeping staff who were always bringing us new towels and helped the kids a couple of times when they forgot their room keys (Medina of housekeeping was especially friendly and nice.) The hotel has a sparkling clean pool which the kids used every single day (sometimes more than the ocean). Right across from the hotel is Elista's bar and ocean deck where we spent every day lounging in chairs, ordering food and drinks and swimming in the beautiful Aegean waters (the kids loved the freshly made real fruit smoothies & person pizza's best!). In the evening the deck was turned into a beautiful dining area for dinner where the staff continued their great service. As we stayed at Elista for 10 days, we became very familiar with the friendly, hard-working staff. We want to thank Azad who was always on call at the beach deck, Fatih who worked tirelessly and always with a smile at the bar, and the servers led by Kerim who did a great job no matter how big the crowd got. You guys were great, thank you so much! We also had the chance to meet the hotel owners who were there every day making sure everything ran smoothly and were very down to earth and super friendly. In short, I would highly recommend Elista Hotel to anyone planning a trip to Bodrum and staying in Turkbuku. I hope you enjoy your stay as much as we did :-)

This was an absolutely amazing place to stay. First, the staff was the best **shout outs to Medina in house keeping, Azzad at the beach, Ali and Barkin at reception (who will go out of their way to help with everything)** The breakfast each morning was excellent and just really nice, it was fun to see all the little dishes of fresh foods brought out. The deck was great and well maintained and (who I realized later was the owner) was super helpful in finding enough places to accommodate our large group (half were locals or not staying at the hotel) Bodrum is a large area and it is hard to get to different areas, so this resort was located on a nice ***** with many things available including a pharmacy (Americans check this out many things are otc and cheap) My bed was small and the cover was scratchy but this was easily solved by Medina who brought us all an extra flat sheet to use under the blanket. My one suggestion would be to put spa menus in the rooms, I wanted to see what was available but never did, and also for the restaurant, figure put a nice vegan option for lunch and dinner aside from salad. And maybe stock soy milk.

Rooms small but the area around very nice nice beach

Incredible stay! Very hospitable, beautiful place. Lovely area with many shops and restaurant.

Amazing service highly recommend staying here