The rooms are large enough. Very nice sea view starting from the second floors…read more
Extremely bad suites are ##109-509, these are corner located.
101-501 are family triples.
We had very bad plumbing and extremely poor ventilation. If there is a choice choose the 5th floor, there is a beautiful view, this is actually a loft, the air conditioning works around the clock, and other floors have AC off-hours from 8 p.m. till 11 p.m. On the other hand there are only two elevators and worked normally only the right one.
Rooms on 2-3ths floors have large panoramic windows, so your privacy is optional. Other advantage of Sea View is also the eastern side, you will have beautiful sunrises and won't suffer from the hot in the afternoon.
The beach is located about 50 meters from the hotel restaurant, 100-150 meters from the hotel.
The sunbeds at the sea are periodically sold to strangers. You can come to the beach and there will be no free sun beds as they have been sold to someone and your hotel bracelet does not give you any advantages. It's not a fact that it will be every day just a matter of luck.
The straw sun umbrellas are rotten, leaky, not giving shadows, sunbeds there lot of them broken, dirty, chaotically scattered along the beach, cluttering the passage to the water. If you located on the border of the beach - there are white sunbeds some guy may come up with the opinion that it is his beach because he owns white sunbeds and yours are the blue ones and therefore you obliged to buy a drink from him.
Near the pool is simply trivial. In general with such a large hotel there is quite a bit of open usable territory.
Not always but at certain times be prepared for the fact that everyone will be on each other's heads.
Staff. Very friendly, fast, professional.
Room cleaning daily.
Hammam and fitness center above all praise. Perfect.
Animation 3 or 4 of them trying hard. Not bad.
Kitchen. Excellent. For this hotel a cook and the variety of food are just super. Drinks .... Well, they have good beer and a couple of good cocktails.
It is difficult to stay hungry, because in addition to breakfast, lunch and dinner, there are intermediate top-dressings in the form of delicious ice cream, sweets, chips, hamburgers and soups.
Transport
There are a lot of minibus taxis with a fixed price called Dolmush colored in white and orange. The price is 3 lira one way for 20 minutes trip. Operation time since 6 till 2 a.m.
The boat to Marmaris costs 15 lira, the last one goes to Marmaris at 20.00 You have to sail about 35 minutes.
The boat stops directly to the hotel pier named Pier 15, near the beach. Definitely worth a try. Return boat goes at 23.00 this is the last return. They run in both directions with a periodicity of 2-3 hours.
Internet
If you would like to connect hotel wifi you should pay 10 either 10 lire per day or 50 lira per week. Each floor has 2-3 routers to which as you change your location you need to connect. The Internet did not fall, but it was not fast either.
My Tip.
At the intersection of streets Kayabal cd. and 72 sk approx. 300m from the hotel and 50m to the left of the administrative center of Icmeler you can buy turkcell sim card for 75 lira or $ 22 sim.
Earthquake
July, 21st at 1.30 a.m. there was an earthquake with magnitude 6,3. We were at 5th floor in fact this is the 6th level. It was trembling very much, table lamps and cosmetics from the bathroom flew away. Some walls cracked.
After that night during our stay there were several shakes with sufficient regularity but with a smaller magnitude 3-4,5, which felt on last floor
My Tip: AFAD is the civil service of Turkey which is responsible for earthquakes. There is an AFAD website and there is AFAD app available at iOS / Google play.
Overall Impression
Icmeler favorably differs from Marmaris by a milder climate not so hot and stuffy, clean sea, tranquility, unobtrusiveness (that were strongly felt after trips to Marmaris) and very picturesque nature. This is kind a bohemian vacation that can be spoiled the by the little nuances that I mentioned above.
Remarks and wishes to hotel management.
You're doing quite well and your staff is close to be perfect but there are of course some things to be settled.
Earthquake warning. Please do something. The simple information about how to act in case of earthquakes will save a lot nerves. The seismo-registrator will solve the problem.
Beach. Please check your freelance personal who sales the places to the strangers. If you just came today at the beach you'd find 30% without your white bracelets.
