I am not entirely sure how to write a review on this hotel. The hotel is generally ok, it’s certainly not not 5* as advertised (unless Turkey have lower standards) as it lacks certain important qualities and there are issues that I just don’t like and therefore I can’t give it more than 3 star review. The accommodation, staff, service and food in general are of good quality, the poached eggs at breakfast are wonderful. Our holiday didn’t begin with the greatest of starts though as a week before we travelled we were contacted by EasyJet to say the hotel that we had booked in Icmeler, months and months in advance, was closed for part of our stay due to a bank being built next door, we travelled 11-18 May and that hotel re-opened as it happens 15 May. This is our first ever visit to Turkey having holidayed mainly across most Greek islands, all of the canaries etc. We were moved to this hotel in Marmaris. We had no choice as EasyJet were completely inflexible, it was either go or lose all of the money we had paid. On looking at the hotel online, including Facebook posts of the hotel before we left, I was extremely apprehensive as all the videos people posted were of drunk people dancing by the pool, not the kind of adult only experience we were expecting. Even at the airport we got chatting to a couple behind us in the queue for the plane and they said Marmaris is the Blackpool of Turkey, which just filled us with dread. Upon arrival into Marmaris, this is exactly what we found, Blackpool (or even Benidorm) on steroid. We checked into the hotel, we were pleased to find our room spacious and comfortable, so no complaint there at all. It was now later into the afternoon so we ventured to the pool for a drink and something to eat, we thought we had the wrong hotel, the pool area is literally like something from an 18-30s holiday. It is absolutely packed, not a single sunbed fee to be seen, music is blaring from massive speakers on a big black hideous stage that looks like it’s been leftover from when this was a family hotel. The whole thing is not fitting for a supposedly 5* adult only hotel and it needs taking down and the area used for extra sunbeds with more spacing between them. As a non smoker who cannot abide anyone smoking anywhere near me, the thought of sitting on any one of those sunbeds, where you are almost sat on the person next to you, there is zero personal space, is simply not happening. Almost everyone is smoking cigarette after cigarette and you can’t get away from the smell and toxic fumes. This is also true if you sit anywhere inside as the whole building is surrounded by smoking areas, so even if you sit in the bar area or the patisserie, you inhale lungfuls of smoke that billow in through the open doors. So we thought we’d go the the pier instead for some peace and quiet, the pier is supposed to be non smoking too so we thought it would be a better location, which is certainly is and the views of the bay and mountains
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